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When schools succeed at creating \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61775/how-important-was-your-favorite-teacher-to-your-success-researchers-have-done-the-math\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a sense of belonging\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, they can be a comforting routine for students or a safe place where they feel socially connected. Stevenson offered advice for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61186/what-parents-need-to-know-about-their-teens-mental-health\">parents looking to support their kids’ mental health\u003c/a> over the summer and equip them with the tools to embrace joy, conquer challenges and flourish.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>More free time doesn’t have to mean more screen time\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With more free time on their hands, it’s easy for kids to get sucked into endless hours of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/59094/does-my-kid-have-a-tech-addiction\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">screen usage\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, especially because kids are also using their devices to connect with friends that they’re no longer seeing at school everyday. An advisory from the U.S. Surgeon General \u003ca href=\"https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/news/juvjust/us-surgeon-general-issues-advisory-social-media-and-youth-mental-health\">recently warned\u003c/a> that “frequent social media use can contribute to poor mental health.” One study cited in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/sg-youth-mental-health-social-media-advisory.pdf\">advisory \u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">found that adolescents who spent over three hours per day on social media were twice as likely to have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/60788/3-reasons-why-seattle-schools-are-suing-big-tech-over-a-youth-mental-health-crisis\">negative mental health outcomes\u003c/a>, such as depression and anxiety symptoms. “Not all young people are good at setting their own boundaries and they might need you to be the bad guy,” said Stevenson.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first thing parents can do to limit screen time is to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/60436/when-parents-practice-good-screen-habits-it-rubs-off-on-the-whole-family\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">lead by example with their own devices\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. “They’re going to do what we do, not what we tell them to do,” added Stevenson. By modeling moderation and offering alternatives that get kids moving and exploring, parents can make a well-rounded summer seem more attainable. Summer is an opportunity to be present with one another as a family, said Stevenson. “Have technology-free times together or meals together — moments where there isn’t a screen that’s interfering with your ability to connect,” she suggested. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additionally, parents can give their children a screen time budget. “They get to decide how they want to use the amount of screen time that they have,” said Stevenson. “That gives them some autonomy and choice.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>The power of a summer schedule\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maintaining a routine during the summer can be a powerful tool for supporting children’s mental health, and parents can play a crucial role in establishing and reinforcing this structure. Stevenson encouraged parents to proactively determine a schedule with kids, including \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/60543/what-parents-need-to-monitor-about-teens-sleep-beyond-the-hour-count\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">bedtimes and wake-up times\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. “There’s great freedom in the summer to allow us to go to our natural circadian rhythms. 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Creating a daily schedule that includes dedicated time for physical activity, reading, hobbies and socializing can provide a sense of stability and purpose.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Just because school’s out doesn’t mean learning stops. In fact, it’s the best time to learn because you have the sole choice over what you get to be curious, pursue or inquire about,” she added. Outside of the hustle and bustle of the school year, parents can encourage kids to think about how they’re contributing to their community, which can look like setting the table each night, visiting older relatives or volunteering locally. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Open communication can help parents recognize warning signs\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It can be difficult to identify signs that a kid is struggling with mental health, especially if they are older. Although resources with lists of warning signs exist, they can often read like teenagers being teenagers, Stevenson said. “They’re emotional. They’re volatile. They’re withdrawn. They like to sleep all day.” Instead of scrutinizing every potential symptom, Stevenson suggested parents keep an eye on significant changes in behavior, mood, eating and sleep habits. “Trust that you know your kid,” she said. “You know what their baseline is.” Additionally, parents can establish a daily check-in with their child, such as a text asking how they’re doing or a designated time in the evening to share highs and lows from the day.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If parents notice warning signs of poor mental health, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61186/what-parents-need-to-know-about-their-teens-mental-health\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">open and honest communication\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is vital. Engaging in supportive conversations with their child, expressing concern and actively listening without judgment can create a safe space for them to share their feelings. “Listen and stay in that moment and just let them express themselves. Show them that you can hold very difficult feelings,” said Stevenson. If parents feel out of their depth, they can seek professional help from a pediatrician, therapist or counselor. “Summer can present a lot of great opportunities for intensive mental health support or starting with a therapist,” she added.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Knowledge is power when it comes to school-year fear\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the beginning of the summer, going back to school may be the farthest thing from kids’ minds. But as the school start date gets closer, parents might start to see anxiety levels rise, said Stevenson. “Anytime you’re going to have \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/58462/how-to-help-anxious-students-re-adjust-to-social-settings\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a transition or there’s an unknown\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, there’s going to be an increase in worry. And if you’re already predisposed or struggling with anxiety, it’s going to exacerbate the challenges that you’re facing,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Parents can work with kids to find out as much information about the next school year as possible in order to dispel any fear of the future. This is especially helpful when kids are starting at a new school either because of a grade change or a recent move. Parents may encourage students to visit school and see where their classes will be or talk to their friends to see if they will be in the same classes. “As much information as they can have about what their day is going to look like and who they’re going to be with is really helpful,” said Stevenson. Additionally, parents can identify any orientation programs that the school may provide.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kids’ mental health needs persist past the end of the school year and through the summer. Embracing this opportunity to reset and focus on mental well-being can set the stage for a fulfilling summer experience and confident start to the new school year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"While many kids look forward to summer break, it can also be a time when signs of anxiety and depression go unnoticed. Screen time limits and open communication can help.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1687663688,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":1327},"headData":{"title":"4 parenting priorities to prevent mental health 'summer slide' | KQED","description":"While many kids look forward to summer break, it can also be a time when signs of emotional distress go unnoticed. Screen time limits and open communication can help.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialDescription":"While many kids look forward to summer break, it can also be a time when signs of emotional distress go unnoticed. Screen time limits and open communication can help.","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"4 parenting priorities to prevent mental health 'summer slide'","datePublished":"2023-06-26T02:00:21.000Z","dateModified":"2023-06-25T03:28:08.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/mindshift/61888/4-parenting-priorities-to-prevent-mental-health-summer-slide","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With school on break, along with all the homework, tests and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/59625/three-reasons-teens-need-later-school-start-times\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">early start times\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that come with it, parents often assume that young people’s stress and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61186/what-parents-need-to-know-about-their-teens-mental-health\">anxiety\u003c/a> will take a pause as well. However, that’s not always the case, especially as the novelty of summer dwindles. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Without the daily structure of school and extracurricular activities, kids may struggle with boredom or restlessness. “Summer for many of us can feel like this nebulous thing because it is just this endless free time. Additionally, the pressure to make the most of the summer break and fear of missing out on experiences can contribute to feelings of anxiety. That ambiguity spikes a lot of fear and concern,” said Miriam Stevenson, who is an executive director at \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.caresolace.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Care Solace\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a company that helps schools connect families with mental health services. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Previously she worked as the director of student services for health and wellness in the Palo Alto Unified School District.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stevenson said that while Care Solace receives fewer summertime referrals, it’s not because there is less need. It’s because students aren’t at school with extra adult eyes and ears to check in on them. “There’s one less node in our safety net,” she said. When schools succeed at creating \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61775/how-important-was-your-favorite-teacher-to-your-success-researchers-have-done-the-math\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a sense of belonging\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, they can be a comforting routine for students or a safe place where they feel socially connected. Stevenson offered advice for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61186/what-parents-need-to-know-about-their-teens-mental-health\">parents looking to support their kids’ mental health\u003c/a> over the summer and equip them with the tools to embrace joy, conquer challenges and flourish.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>More free time doesn’t have to mean more screen time\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With more free time on their hands, it’s easy for kids to get sucked into endless hours of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/59094/does-my-kid-have-a-tech-addiction\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">screen usage\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, especially because kids are also using their devices to connect with friends that they’re no longer seeing at school everyday. An advisory from the U.S. Surgeon General \u003ca href=\"https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/news/juvjust/us-surgeon-general-issues-advisory-social-media-and-youth-mental-health\">recently warned\u003c/a> that “frequent social media use can contribute to poor mental health.” One study cited in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/sg-youth-mental-health-social-media-advisory.pdf\">advisory \u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">found that adolescents who spent over three hours per day on social media were twice as likely to have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/60788/3-reasons-why-seattle-schools-are-suing-big-tech-over-a-youth-mental-health-crisis\">negative mental health outcomes\u003c/a>, such as depression and anxiety symptoms. “Not all young people are good at setting their own boundaries and they might need you to be the bad guy,” said Stevenson.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first thing parents can do to limit screen time is to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/60436/when-parents-practice-good-screen-habits-it-rubs-off-on-the-whole-family\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">lead by example with their own devices\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. “They’re going to do what we do, not what we tell them to do,” added Stevenson. By modeling moderation and offering alternatives that get kids moving and exploring, parents can make a well-rounded summer seem more attainable. Summer is an opportunity to be present with one another as a family, said Stevenson. “Have technology-free times together or meals together — moments where there isn’t a screen that’s interfering with your ability to connect,” she suggested. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additionally, parents can give their children a screen time budget. “They get to decide how they want to use the amount of screen time that they have,” said Stevenson. “That gives them some autonomy and choice.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>The power of a summer schedule\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maintaining a routine during the summer can be a powerful tool for supporting children’s mental health, and parents can play a crucial role in establishing and reinforcing this structure. Stevenson encouraged parents to proactively determine a schedule with kids, including \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/60543/what-parents-need-to-monitor-about-teens-sleep-beyond-the-hour-count\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">bedtimes and wake-up times\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. “There’s great freedom in the summer to allow us to go to our natural circadian rhythms. And unfortunately, as lovely as that might be, it’s going to make waking up early harder when they come back [to school],” said Stevenson. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/sleep/about_sleep/sleep_hygiene.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Consistent sleep patterns\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> can improve sleep health, which is closely \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/13792?autologincheck=redirected\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">linked to children’s mental health and wellbeing\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. “If you don’t have morning routines or evening routines as a family, the summer is a good time to experiment,” Stevenson said. Creating a daily schedule that includes dedicated time for physical activity, reading, hobbies and socializing can provide a sense of stability and purpose.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Just because school’s out doesn’t mean learning stops. In fact, it’s the best time to learn because you have the sole choice over what you get to be curious, pursue or inquire about,” she added. Outside of the hustle and bustle of the school year, parents can encourage kids to think about how they’re contributing to their community, which can look like setting the table each night, visiting older relatives or volunteering locally. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Open communication can help parents recognize warning signs\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It can be difficult to identify signs that a kid is struggling with mental health, especially if they are older. Although resources with lists of warning signs exist, they can often read like teenagers being teenagers, Stevenson said. “They’re emotional. They’re volatile. They’re withdrawn. They like to sleep all day.” Instead of scrutinizing every potential symptom, Stevenson suggested parents keep an eye on significant changes in behavior, mood, eating and sleep habits. “Trust that you know your kid,” she said. “You know what their baseline is.” Additionally, parents can establish a daily check-in with their child, such as a text asking how they’re doing or a designated time in the evening to share highs and lows from the day.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If parents notice warning signs of poor mental health, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61186/what-parents-need-to-know-about-their-teens-mental-health\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">open and honest communication\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is vital. Engaging in supportive conversations with their child, expressing concern and actively listening without judgment can create a safe space for them to share their feelings. “Listen and stay in that moment and just let them express themselves. Show them that you can hold very difficult feelings,” said Stevenson. If parents feel out of their depth, they can seek professional help from a pediatrician, therapist or counselor. “Summer can present a lot of great opportunities for intensive mental health support or starting with a therapist,” she added.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Knowledge is power when it comes to school-year fear\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the beginning of the summer, going back to school may be the farthest thing from kids’ minds. But as the school start date gets closer, parents might start to see anxiety levels rise, said Stevenson. “Anytime you’re going to have \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/58462/how-to-help-anxious-students-re-adjust-to-social-settings\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a transition or there’s an unknown\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, there’s going to be an increase in worry. And if you’re already predisposed or struggling with anxiety, it’s going to exacerbate the challenges that you’re facing,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Parents can work with kids to find out as much information about the next school year as possible in order to dispel any fear of the future. This is especially helpful when kids are starting at a new school either because of a grade change or a recent move. Parents may encourage students to visit school and see where their classes will be or talk to their friends to see if they will be in the same classes. “As much information as they can have about what their day is going to look like and who they’re going to be with is really helpful,” said Stevenson. Additionally, parents can identify any orientation programs that the school may provide.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kids’ mental health needs persist past the end of the school year and through the summer. Embracing this opportunity to reset and focus on mental well-being can set the stage for a fulfilling summer experience and confident start to the new school year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/61888/4-parenting-priorities-to-prevent-mental-health-summer-slide","authors":["11721"],"categories":["mindshift_21445","mindshift_20729","mindshift_21280","mindshift_21385","mindshift_20697"],"tags":["mindshift_21093","mindshift_20811","mindshift_20589","mindshift_21070","mindshift_21100","mindshift_20865","mindshift_20568","mindshift_290","mindshift_20816","mindshift_634","mindshift_21083","mindshift_514","mindshift_21159","mindshift_1038"],"featImg":"mindshift_61890","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_51555":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_51555","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"51555","score":null,"sort":[1530858063000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"applying-the-power-of-stories-to-excite-students-about-science","title":"Applying the Power of Stories to Excite Students About Science","publishDate":1530858063,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>Ed Kang loved science growing up and ended up earning a Ph.D. in neuroscience. But he left academia to teach high school over 10 years ago, believing one of the reasons students at neighborhood schools (non-magnet) in Chicago dislike science is that they don’t have teachers who are passionate about the subject. While teaching at a high-poverty school on Chicago’s South Side, Kang met his future wife, Amy Schwartzbach-Kang, an English teacher. Amy grew up in a family full of scientists, but found the subject dull, rote and uninspiring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so many cool things you can do [with science],” Amy said, “and I always wondered if you approached it differently, if someone like me would want to be involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One year, Amy and Ed taught the same group of high school students and decided to experiment with an interdisciplinary unit. In her English class, Amy taught “Chew on This,” a book about fast food and its influence on kids. While the students discussed nutrition science and how it related to their lives, Ed was teaching them in science class about macromolecules in food and how the body absorbs proteins and carbohydrates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we were able to do that type of learning we realized it was really helpful, so we were interested in doing more things like that,” Amy said. They noticed that students who were often checked out in class paid more attention, bringing up things they’d learned in science during the English discussion, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the schedule and structure of traditional high school makes those types of collaborations difficult. Many teachers and administrators are overwhelmingly focused on test scores because of the consequences of poor performance. The type of inventive, cross-disciplinary teaching Amy and Ed wanted to do didn’t seem to fit into those priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>STARTING THE LABORATORY\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like so many teachers around the country, Amy and Ed started a side hustle, although rather than working for someone else in another field, they wanted the freedom to teach how they believed kids learn best. At \u003ca href=\"https://www.thelaboratorychi.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Laboratory\u003c/a>, Amy and Ed used their unique strengths to develop a science camp based on the stories kids love. Their first creation immersed kids in the world of Harry Potter, weaving in science and engineering along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_51556\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-51556\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp1-e1530297826104.jpg\" alt=\"Students learn survival skills during the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Zombie Apocalypse camp.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1188\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students learn survival skills during the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Zombie Apocalypse camp.\u003cbr>They use math, calculating and measuring to make their own soap. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Amy Schwartzbach-Kang/The Laboratory)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Everything we do, they feel like they’re immersed in the word,” Amy said. “We really try to make them feel like they’re a character in the book and then we use the science and math to support what they’re doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On day one of camp, kids between the ages of 8 and 12 enter The Laboratory through a brick wall -- like wizarding students on their way to the Hogwarts train. They don wizarding robes, are sorted into houses, and spend the first day designing their wands and using circuits to make them light up. They even learn spells based in Latin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our philosophy is that we’re trying to attract those who could really care less about science and chemistry, but they really love these books,” Kang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students are often attracted to the camp for the immersive world and creative play, but stay for the science. As the week progresses they talk about genetics and try to breed their own \u003ca href=\"http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Pygmy_Puff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pygmy Puffs\u003c/a>, like the Weasley twins. Or they are given engineering wizarding challenges to solve in teams, like to design a net to catch an array of Harry Potter creatures -- each a different size and with different magical abilities -- falling from an established height.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re given these scenarios based on the world that they’re going to use engineering to problem-solve,” Amy said. While the two teachers prefer to let the kids tinker, they try to lay out some basic steps so the frustration point isn’t too high. This is supposed to be fun -- and educational -- after all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took me a long time to embrace this way of teaching,” Ed said. “I’m starting to realize, especially when parents embraced it, that this is actually a great way of teaching.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even now, Ed has a tendency to put too much content into his demonstrations. But that’s where his wife provides a good balance, reminding him to let the story lead and to get students working with their hands sooner rather than later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pair started with Harry Potter camp and soon began expanding into Choose Your Own Zombie Apocalypse camp, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Jackson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Percy Jackson\u003c/a> camp and others. As demand grew, Ed decided to quit his teaching job and work on designing experiences for the camp full time. Amy still teaches high school, but finds The Laboratory work essential for her sanity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_51558\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-51558\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2.jpg\" alt='During \"On Training Your Dragon\" camp, students learn about the Vikings and the science behind dragons and magical species. They used Newton’s laws of motion and design-thinking to create a better Viking boat, testing it out in racing challenges against other clans.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1187\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-160x95.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-800x475.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-768x456.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-1020x605.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-1200x712.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-1180x700.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-960x570.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-240x142.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-375x223.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-520x309.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">During \"On Training Your Dragon\" camp, students learn about the Vikings and the science behind dragons and magical species. They used Newton’s laws of motion and design thinking to create a better Viking boat, testing it out in racing challenges against other clans. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Amy Schwartzbach-Kang/The Laboratory)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was getting very burnt out, but this has invigorated me and has helped me see again why I’m doing what I’m doing,” she said. She’s even trying to bring some of what works so well at The Laboratory back to her classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year she worked with students who have special needs, co-teaching in a trigonometry class. She’s constantly trying to relate the material back to the real world and encourages students to rewrite the backstory of their “story problems” into something more interesting. It’s a small step, but she’s seeing it make a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really do want to bring this into the classroom because most of the kids who come to our camp have the means to come to our camp,” Ed said. “You don’t really need to have a Ph.D. to have these lessons. It’s the idea of integrating science within your curriculum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, using stories to get kids excited about everything from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/39949/could-storytelling-be-the-secret-sauce-to-stem-education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">computer coding\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/48289/a-literacy-based-strategy-to-help-teachers-integrate-science-skills\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">engineering\u003c/a> is gaining popularity with educators around the country. Amy and Ed hope some of that creativity will reach the disadvantaged kids Amy still teaches in Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SPREADING THIS IDEA TO CHICAGO SCHOOLS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of The Laboratory’s best ambassadors to the schools are the kids and parents who have participated during spring, summer and winter breaks. Erica Smith’s son, Whitman, attended Harry Potter camp several summers ago and loved it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_51559\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-51559\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4.jpg\" alt=\"Amy and Ed curate a specific collection of books for each camp: fiction, graphic novels, picture books, non-fiction of varying levels. Reading has become one of the most popular activities at this science camp.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1188\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-160x95.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-800x475.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-768x456.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-1020x606.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-1200x713.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-1180x701.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-960x570.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-240x143.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-375x223.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-520x309.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amy and Ed curate a specific collection of books for each camp: fiction, graphic novels, picture books, nonfiction of varying levels. Reading has become one of the most popular activities at this science camp. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Amy Schwartzbach-Kang/The Laboratory)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He talked about it for weeks; he told all of his teachers about it,” Smith said. When he told his art teacher about the projects he’d done, she got excited, too, eventually writing a grant to integrate science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEAM) within the K-8 curriculum schoolwide. She then used some of the money to fund a field trip to The Laboratory for the whole class. Erica Smith went along as a parent chaperone and was impressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ed Kang designed an experience tailored to the curriculum Whitman’s class was studying about the pilgrims. He explained to the students how the Mayflower wasn’t a well-designed ship and actually had to head back to port for repairs when it set off. He described some of the physics behind seaworthy boats, and tasked them with designing a better model, using only limited supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were a lot of different iterations because it reinforced that STEAM/maker mindset that they’ve been learning at school about the evolution of your design,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith is a biochemist and is familiar with the traditional ways of teaching science because she lived it. She doesn’t think that model capitalizes on young students' natural curiosity and energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the reality is that students remember experiences,” Smith said. “They retain what they learn through experience much better than what they retain through lecture and note taking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s been true for her son, Whitman, who acknowledges he likes science and does well in science classes, too. But even years after the Harry Potter camp, he remembers mixing chemicals to make dragon fire and using blow torches to make his own galleons (the money from Harry Potter).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think school’s learning system is pretty good, but I think if we incorporated more of that hands-on learning it would make it: a) more understandable, and b) we learn more,” Whitman said. He’s a kid with an active imagination and love for fantasy, as well as an interest in science, and he thought blending the two was a great idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ed Kang hopes that as more educators focus on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nextgenscience.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Next Generation Science Standards\u003c/a>, which emphasize the engineering, problem-solving and thinking skills embedded in the experiences he creates, that more teachers will want to partner with him. He’d love to help coach other teachers so that they can bring this teaching approach to kids from every socioeconomic background in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really difficult for me to think about adding art, all this imagination, and literature into my lessons,” Kang admitted. “I never thought that should drive science.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he can’t deny that his passion for science wasn’t enough to interest the kids he worked with in traditional classrooms. They weren’t doing that much better, they still tuned him out, and no matter how interesting he thought his examples were, they didn’t. His experiences designing for The Laboratory have made him a convert to the power of storytelling to draw students into science. And he stresses that teachers can take small steps toward this kind of interdisciplinary learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The science knowledge is not the most important part here,” Kang emphasizes to elementary school teachers who may not have his background. “We’re trying to get teachers to understand they don’t have to be ginormous experiments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many opportunities for interdisciplinary learning exist in elementary school classrooms that aren’t nearly as involved or elaborate as what The Laboratory does. Teachers just need a little more space and time, and a little less test score pressure, to tap into their inventive sides.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"By exploring the science in stories kids love, these Chicago teachers are creating an interdisciplinary learning experience that's working with students. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1530858165,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":35,"wordCount":1847},"headData":{"title":"Applying the Power of Stories to Excite Students About Science | KQED","description":"By exploring the science in stories kids love, these Chicago teachers are creating an interdisciplinary learning experience that's working with students. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Applying the Power of Stories to Excite Students About Science","datePublished":"2018-07-06T06:21:03.000Z","dateModified":"2018-07-06T06:22:45.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"51555 https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=51555","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2018/07/05/applying-the-power-of-stories-to-excite-students-about-science/","disqusTitle":"Applying the Power of Stories to Excite Students About Science","path":"/mindshift/51555/applying-the-power-of-stories-to-excite-students-about-science","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Ed Kang loved science growing up and ended up earning a Ph.D. in neuroscience. But he left academia to teach high school over 10 years ago, believing one of the reasons students at neighborhood schools (non-magnet) in Chicago dislike science is that they don’t have teachers who are passionate about the subject. While teaching at a high-poverty school on Chicago’s South Side, Kang met his future wife, Amy Schwartzbach-Kang, an English teacher. Amy grew up in a family full of scientists, but found the subject dull, rote and uninspiring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so many cool things you can do [with science],” Amy said, “and I always wondered if you approached it differently, if someone like me would want to be involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One year, Amy and Ed taught the same group of high school students and decided to experiment with an interdisciplinary unit. In her English class, Amy taught “Chew on This,” a book about fast food and its influence on kids. While the students discussed nutrition science and how it related to their lives, Ed was teaching them in science class about macromolecules in food and how the body absorbs proteins and carbohydrates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we were able to do that type of learning we realized it was really helpful, so we were interested in doing more things like that,” Amy said. They noticed that students who were often checked out in class paid more attention, bringing up things they’d learned in science during the English discussion, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the schedule and structure of traditional high school makes those types of collaborations difficult. Many teachers and administrators are overwhelmingly focused on test scores because of the consequences of poor performance. The type of inventive, cross-disciplinary teaching Amy and Ed wanted to do didn’t seem to fit into those priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>STARTING THE LABORATORY\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like so many teachers around the country, Amy and Ed started a side hustle, although rather than working for someone else in another field, they wanted the freedom to teach how they believed kids learn best. At \u003ca href=\"https://www.thelaboratorychi.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Laboratory\u003c/a>, Amy and Ed used their unique strengths to develop a science camp based on the stories kids love. Their first creation immersed kids in the world of Harry Potter, weaving in science and engineering along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_51556\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-51556\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp1-e1530297826104.jpg\" alt=\"Students learn survival skills during the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Zombie Apocalypse camp.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1188\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students learn survival skills during the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Zombie Apocalypse camp.\u003cbr>They use math, calculating and measuring to make their own soap. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Amy Schwartzbach-Kang/The Laboratory)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Everything we do, they feel like they’re immersed in the word,” Amy said. “We really try to make them feel like they’re a character in the book and then we use the science and math to support what they’re doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On day one of camp, kids between the ages of 8 and 12 enter The Laboratory through a brick wall -- like wizarding students on their way to the Hogwarts train. They don wizarding robes, are sorted into houses, and spend the first day designing their wands and using circuits to make them light up. They even learn spells based in Latin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our philosophy is that we’re trying to attract those who could really care less about science and chemistry, but they really love these books,” Kang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students are often attracted to the camp for the immersive world and creative play, but stay for the science. As the week progresses they talk about genetics and try to breed their own \u003ca href=\"http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Pygmy_Puff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pygmy Puffs\u003c/a>, like the Weasley twins. Or they are given engineering wizarding challenges to solve in teams, like to design a net to catch an array of Harry Potter creatures -- each a different size and with different magical abilities -- falling from an established height.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re given these scenarios based on the world that they’re going to use engineering to problem-solve,” Amy said. While the two teachers prefer to let the kids tinker, they try to lay out some basic steps so the frustration point isn’t too high. This is supposed to be fun -- and educational -- after all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took me a long time to embrace this way of teaching,” Ed said. “I’m starting to realize, especially when parents embraced it, that this is actually a great way of teaching.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even now, Ed has a tendency to put too much content into his demonstrations. But that’s where his wife provides a good balance, reminding him to let the story lead and to get students working with their hands sooner rather than later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pair started with Harry Potter camp and soon began expanding into Choose Your Own Zombie Apocalypse camp, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Jackson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Percy Jackson\u003c/a> camp and others. As demand grew, Ed decided to quit his teaching job and work on designing experiences for the camp full time. Amy still teaches high school, but finds The Laboratory work essential for her sanity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_51558\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-51558\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2.jpg\" alt='During \"On Training Your Dragon\" camp, students learn about the Vikings and the science behind dragons and magical species. They used Newton’s laws of motion and design-thinking to create a better Viking boat, testing it out in racing challenges against other clans.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1187\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-160x95.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-800x475.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-768x456.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-1020x605.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-1200x712.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-1180x700.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-960x570.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-240x142.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-375x223.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp2-520x309.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">During \"On Training Your Dragon\" camp, students learn about the Vikings and the science behind dragons and magical species. They used Newton’s laws of motion and design thinking to create a better Viking boat, testing it out in racing challenges against other clans. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Amy Schwartzbach-Kang/The Laboratory)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was getting very burnt out, but this has invigorated me and has helped me see again why I’m doing what I’m doing,” she said. She’s even trying to bring some of what works so well at The Laboratory back to her classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year she worked with students who have special needs, co-teaching in a trigonometry class. She’s constantly trying to relate the material back to the real world and encourages students to rewrite the backstory of their “story problems” into something more interesting. It’s a small step, but she’s seeing it make a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really do want to bring this into the classroom because most of the kids who come to our camp have the means to come to our camp,” Ed said. “You don’t really need to have a Ph.D. to have these lessons. It’s the idea of integrating science within your curriculum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, using stories to get kids excited about everything from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/39949/could-storytelling-be-the-secret-sauce-to-stem-education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">computer coding\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/48289/a-literacy-based-strategy-to-help-teachers-integrate-science-skills\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">engineering\u003c/a> is gaining popularity with educators around the country. Amy and Ed hope some of that creativity will reach the disadvantaged kids Amy still teaches in Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SPREADING THIS IDEA TO CHICAGO SCHOOLS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of The Laboratory’s best ambassadors to the schools are the kids and parents who have participated during spring, summer and winter breaks. Erica Smith’s son, Whitman, attended Harry Potter camp several summers ago and loved it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_51559\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-51559\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4.jpg\" alt=\"Amy and Ed curate a specific collection of books for each camp: fiction, graphic novels, picture books, non-fiction of varying levels. Reading has become one of the most popular activities at this science camp.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1188\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-160x95.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-800x475.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-768x456.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-1020x606.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-1200x713.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-1180x701.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-960x570.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-240x143.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-375x223.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/06/Labcamp4-520x309.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amy and Ed curate a specific collection of books for each camp: fiction, graphic novels, picture books, nonfiction of varying levels. Reading has become one of the most popular activities at this science camp. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Amy Schwartzbach-Kang/The Laboratory)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He talked about it for weeks; he told all of his teachers about it,” Smith said. When he told his art teacher about the projects he’d done, she got excited, too, eventually writing a grant to integrate science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEAM) within the K-8 curriculum schoolwide. She then used some of the money to fund a field trip to The Laboratory for the whole class. Erica Smith went along as a parent chaperone and was impressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ed Kang designed an experience tailored to the curriculum Whitman’s class was studying about the pilgrims. He explained to the students how the Mayflower wasn’t a well-designed ship and actually had to head back to port for repairs when it set off. He described some of the physics behind seaworthy boats, and tasked them with designing a better model, using only limited supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were a lot of different iterations because it reinforced that STEAM/maker mindset that they’ve been learning at school about the evolution of your design,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith is a biochemist and is familiar with the traditional ways of teaching science because she lived it. She doesn’t think that model capitalizes on young students' natural curiosity and energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the reality is that students remember experiences,” Smith said. “They retain what they learn through experience much better than what they retain through lecture and note taking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s been true for her son, Whitman, who acknowledges he likes science and does well in science classes, too. But even years after the Harry Potter camp, he remembers mixing chemicals to make dragon fire and using blow torches to make his own galleons (the money from Harry Potter).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think school’s learning system is pretty good, but I think if we incorporated more of that hands-on learning it would make it: a) more understandable, and b) we learn more,” Whitman said. He’s a kid with an active imagination and love for fantasy, as well as an interest in science, and he thought blending the two was a great idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ed Kang hopes that as more educators focus on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nextgenscience.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Next Generation Science Standards\u003c/a>, which emphasize the engineering, problem-solving and thinking skills embedded in the experiences he creates, that more teachers will want to partner with him. He’d love to help coach other teachers so that they can bring this teaching approach to kids from every socioeconomic background in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really difficult for me to think about adding art, all this imagination, and literature into my lessons,” Kang admitted. “I never thought that should drive science.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he can’t deny that his passion for science wasn’t enough to interest the kids he worked with in traditional classrooms. They weren’t doing that much better, they still tuned him out, and no matter how interesting he thought his examples were, they didn’t. His experiences designing for The Laboratory have made him a convert to the power of storytelling to draw students into science. And he stresses that teachers can take small steps toward this kind of interdisciplinary learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The science knowledge is not the most important part here,” Kang emphasizes to elementary school teachers who may not have his background. “We’re trying to get teachers to understand they don’t have to be ginormous experiments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many opportunities for interdisciplinary learning exist in elementary school classrooms that aren’t nearly as involved or elaborate as what The Laboratory does. Teachers just need a little more space and time, and a little less test score pressure, to tap into their inventive sides.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/51555/applying-the-power-of-stories-to-excite-students-about-science","authors":["234"],"categories":["mindshift_20697"],"tags":["mindshift_20784","mindshift_1040","mindshift_21088","mindshift_20564","mindshift_20946","mindshift_20947","mindshift_391","mindshift_21083"],"featImg":"mindshift_51557","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_42464":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_42464","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"42464","score":null,"sort":[1447144099000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-can-we-harness-the-power-of-learning-beyond-the-school-day","title":"How Can We Harness the Power of Learning Beyond the School Day?","publishDate":1447144099,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>Discussions of learning tend to focus on what happens in schools, but many students are learning lots of important skills outside of school through extracurriculars like sports, music, art, politics or any other passion. Often students don’t get recognition for the learning they pursue on their own, and many times they don’t even see their passion as learning at all. The \u003ca href=\"https://chicagocityoflearning.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago City of Learning\u003c/a> project is trying to meet that need by helping connect youth to resources that support their interests and provide validation for the hard work that goes into learning outside the academic setting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chicago City of Learning started in 2013, growing out of a prolonged teachers strike that prompted the city to think about how it could connect its youth to non-school constructive activities that they might be able to get credit for later. At that time, city official realized there was no centralized place for youth to discover opportunities related to their interests and no way for the city to keep track of the hundreds of organizations offering programming. Chicago City of Learning was born as a mayor’s initiative, but was soon taken over by partner organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the first time we had a centralized database where someone could come and search for a program connected to their interests,” said Sybil Madison-Boyd, learning pathways program director for the \u003ca href=\"http://digitalyouthnetwork.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Youth Network\u003c/a>. Madison-Boyd has been actively involved in launching the program and helping it grow in response to feedback from youth and the organizations themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It was more of you as an individual going out there, finding something you like, and doing it and exploring it.'\u003ccite>Hope Jernigan, Youth Advisory Council member\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At first the program focused on the summer months, when kids are out of school and looking for opportunities to fill their time. Now that the program is more mature and has seen some success, the database has proven to be a powerful way for the city to catalog participating organizations, the programs they offer and the geographic diversity of that programming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often a kid will be connected to an organization that does one specific thing, say, visual arts instruction, but if the kid decides he’s interested in music, that organization might not know where to send him. Now both adults and students can search the Chicago City of Learning website by interest, neighborhood or category.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can begin to see neighborhoods that don’t have any programs,” Madison-Boyd said. Or, maybe a neighborhood has sports programming, but nothing in the arts or sciences. With a centralized network of programs, the city is beginning to see where it needs to do more work and how left out some communities have been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The digital network has also shared feedback and search data with program providers to help them craft programming that appeals to changing student interests. Madison-Boyd says coding and music programs are always popular, and recently fashion opportunities have been in high demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another big part of the City of Learning project has been to help students get recognition for the passions they pursue outside of school. The MacArthur Foundation got involved in the project and recommended \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/03/25/how-mozillas-open-badges-may-work-in-the-real-world/\" target=\"_blank\">digital badges\u003c/a>, one of its \u003ca href=\"https://www.macfound.org/programs/digital-badges/\" target=\"_blank\">areas of investment\u003c/a>. Youth can develop digital portfolios, called “digital backpacks” by Chicago City of Learning, that represent their personalities, interests and achievements beyond school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve helped partner organizations to design badges to articulate the knowledge and skills the kids have developed,” Madison-Boyd said. And she and her colleagues solicited feedback from a youth council representing a diverse group of student interests, ethnicities and geography.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>YOUTH FEEDBACK\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They really want to know how the badges related to jobs and college,” Madison-Boyd said. Youth are often balancing the desire to pursue their passions with summer jobs and other commitments. They weren’t interested in badges that didn’t mean anything to anyone else. If badges aren’t taken seriously, most youth said they’d rather take a job and earn some money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_42468\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-42468\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/10/CCOL2-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Sample badges.\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/10/CCOL2-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/10/CCOL2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/10/CCOL2-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/10/CCOL2-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/10/CCOL2-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sample badges. \u003ccite>(Michelle Lytle/Courtesy of Chicago City of Learning)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The idea of a badge has tons of potential,” said Hope Jernigan, now a sophomore at University of Illinois, Chicago and a former member of the Youth Advisory Council. She and her fellow students held focus groups with their peers to collect feedback on the City of Learning program and offer recommendations on how to improve it. Badges were a big part of that feedback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jernigan said her own experiences with the programming offered through City of Learning was excellent. Over the winter she participated in several programs, including an Art Institute of Chicago program where she got to pick a work of art she liked, write about it and share it on Tumblr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was more of you as an individual going out there, finding something you like, and doing it and exploring it,” Jernigan said. “I liked that platform and dynamic of learning, rather than the classroom where someone’s telling you what to do.” She felt the program inspired her own creativity and voice, something she didn’t often experience in more formal academic settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jernigan said badges have the potential to bridge the gap between extracurricular activities like those offered through the City of Learning network and the in-school learning that students are compelled to do daily. She’d like to be able to come back from an experience and present a “critical thinking badge” to her teacher, but she says the system is not set up right now to support that kind of collaboration and validation of learning outside the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MAKING IT COUNT\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While badges and digital portfolios are far from mainstream, Sybil Madison-Boyd says the program is trying to strengthen its relationship to Chicago Public Schools and its teachers. She’d like to see teachers using badges as a way of learning more about student passions and leveraging that knowledge to strengthen relationships and individualize classroom learning. This year Chicago City of Learning is trying to elevate the idea of the “digital backpack” as a meaningful representation of learning that school administrators and employers take seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/HgLLq7ybDtc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All 400,000 CPS students have Chicago City of Learning accounts waiting for them, but only about 60,000 accounts are active. Madison-Boyd sees buy-in from teachers as a crucial way to engage students and raise the program’s profile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chicago City of Learning team is also trying to use feedback to improve other aspects of the program. They’re highly aware that the resource they are offering is only available online, which brings up the access issues that plague all tech-based solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d always been concerned about the fact that the primary communication mechanism that we have is the website,” Madison-Boyd said. “We’ve always been trying to think of ways for kids and families who cannot easily connect to get connected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To begin addressing this problem, City of Learning ran a mobile van with 30 laptops and Wi-Fi, which visited locations on the south and west sides of Chicago where there weren’t a lot of opportunities for design, making and coding. The van offered a curriculum loosely focused around computational thinking and engaged a cohort of youth at each location. Once a day for five weeks, the same kids showed up to mess around with computer programming, prototype projects and fix things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_42467\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 5760px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-42467\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/10/CCOL3.jpg\" alt=\"The mobile vans used in the summer of 2015 to bring computational thinking programming to neighborhoods without access.\" width=\"5760\" height=\"3240\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/10/CCOL3.jpg 5760w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/10/CCOL3-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/10/CCOL3-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/10/CCOL3-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/10/CCOL3-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/10/CCOL3-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5760px) 100vw, 5760px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mobile vans used in the summer of 2015 to bring computational thinking programming to neighborhoods without access. \u003ccite>(Michelle Lytle/Courtesy Chicago City of Learning)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Youth love the van coming to where they are,” said Amy Eshleman, who manages the Mobile Van Initiative. “That’s been really important to address the opportunity gap in Chicago.” The van also traveled to different street fairs, farmers markets and other public events to provide a fun way for youth to learn about Chicago City of Learning and all the opportunities found there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so important that we’re popping up in places where kids are hanging out and then hopefully activating them to Chicago City of Learning as a resource for things they really like to do,” Madison-Boyd said. The long-term question is whether users signed up in this fashion remain actively engaged with the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chicago City of Learning has engaged 90,410 youth over its two years of existence, enough proof to engender similar programs in Dallas, Washington, D.C. and Pittsburgh. Now the initiative, largely sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation, is getting even bigger with the launch of \u003ca href=\"https://www.lrng.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Cities of LRNG\u003c/a>, a program and platform to connect young people to experiences all over the country.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Several cities are working to link educational opportunities offered by organizations, museums and schools through digital badges that represent all of a student's skills.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1447144354,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://www.youtube.com/embed/HgLLq7ybDtc"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1509},"headData":{"title":"How Can We Harness the Power of Learning Beyond the School Day? | KQED","description":"Several cities are working to link educational opportunities offered by organizations, museums and schools through digital badges that represent all of a student's skills.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"How Can We Harness the Power of Learning Beyond the School Day?","datePublished":"2015-11-10T08:28:19.000Z","dateModified":"2015-11-10T08:32:34.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"42464 http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=42464","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/11/10/how-can-we-harness-the-power-of-learning-beyond-the-school-day/","disqusTitle":"How Can We Harness the Power of Learning Beyond the School Day?","path":"/mindshift/42464/how-can-we-harness-the-power-of-learning-beyond-the-school-day","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Discussions of learning tend to focus on what happens in schools, but many students are learning lots of important skills outside of school through extracurriculars like sports, music, art, politics or any other passion. Often students don’t get recognition for the learning they pursue on their own, and many times they don’t even see their passion as learning at all. The \u003ca href=\"https://chicagocityoflearning.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago City of Learning\u003c/a> project is trying to meet that need by helping connect youth to resources that support their interests and provide validation for the hard work that goes into learning outside the academic setting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chicago City of Learning started in 2013, growing out of a prolonged teachers strike that prompted the city to think about how it could connect its youth to non-school constructive activities that they might be able to get credit for later. At that time, city official realized there was no centralized place for youth to discover opportunities related to their interests and no way for the city to keep track of the hundreds of organizations offering programming. Chicago City of Learning was born as a mayor’s initiative, but was soon taken over by partner organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the first time we had a centralized database where someone could come and search for a program connected to their interests,” said Sybil Madison-Boyd, learning pathways program director for the \u003ca href=\"http://digitalyouthnetwork.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Youth Network\u003c/a>. Madison-Boyd has been actively involved in launching the program and helping it grow in response to feedback from youth and the organizations themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It was more of you as an individual going out there, finding something you like, and doing it and exploring it.'\u003ccite>Hope Jernigan, Youth Advisory Council member\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At first the program focused on the summer months, when kids are out of school and looking for opportunities to fill their time. Now that the program is more mature and has seen some success, the database has proven to be a powerful way for the city to catalog participating organizations, the programs they offer and the geographic diversity of that programming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often a kid will be connected to an organization that does one specific thing, say, visual arts instruction, but if the kid decides he’s interested in music, that organization might not know where to send him. Now both adults and students can search the Chicago City of Learning website by interest, neighborhood or category.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can begin to see neighborhoods that don’t have any programs,” Madison-Boyd said. Or, maybe a neighborhood has sports programming, but nothing in the arts or sciences. With a centralized network of programs, the city is beginning to see where it needs to do more work and how left out some communities have been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The digital network has also shared feedback and search data with program providers to help them craft programming that appeals to changing student interests. Madison-Boyd says coding and music programs are always popular, and recently fashion opportunities have been in high demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another big part of the City of Learning project has been to help students get recognition for the passions they pursue outside of school. The MacArthur Foundation got involved in the project and recommended \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/03/25/how-mozillas-open-badges-may-work-in-the-real-world/\" target=\"_blank\">digital badges\u003c/a>, one of its \u003ca href=\"https://www.macfound.org/programs/digital-badges/\" target=\"_blank\">areas of investment\u003c/a>. Youth can develop digital portfolios, called “digital backpacks” by Chicago City of Learning, that represent their personalities, interests and achievements beyond school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve helped partner organizations to design badges to articulate the knowledge and skills the kids have developed,” Madison-Boyd said. And she and her colleagues solicited feedback from a youth council representing a diverse group of student interests, ethnicities and geography.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>YOUTH FEEDBACK\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They really want to know how the badges related to jobs and college,” Madison-Boyd said. Youth are often balancing the desire to pursue their passions with summer jobs and other commitments. They weren’t interested in badges that didn’t mean anything to anyone else. If badges aren’t taken seriously, most youth said they’d rather take a job and earn some money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_42468\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-42468\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/10/CCOL2-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Sample badges.\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/10/CCOL2-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/10/CCOL2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/10/CCOL2-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/10/CCOL2-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/10/CCOL2-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sample badges. \u003ccite>(Michelle Lytle/Courtesy of Chicago City of Learning)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The idea of a badge has tons of potential,” said Hope Jernigan, now a sophomore at University of Illinois, Chicago and a former member of the Youth Advisory Council. She and her fellow students held focus groups with their peers to collect feedback on the City of Learning program and offer recommendations on how to improve it. Badges were a big part of that feedback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jernigan said her own experiences with the programming offered through City of Learning was excellent. Over the winter she participated in several programs, including an Art Institute of Chicago program where she got to pick a work of art she liked, write about it and share it on Tumblr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was more of you as an individual going out there, finding something you like, and doing it and exploring it,” Jernigan said. “I liked that platform and dynamic of learning, rather than the classroom where someone’s telling you what to do.” She felt the program inspired her own creativity and voice, something she didn’t often experience in more formal academic settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jernigan said badges have the potential to bridge the gap between extracurricular activities like those offered through the City of Learning network and the in-school learning that students are compelled to do daily. She’d like to be able to come back from an experience and present a “critical thinking badge” to her teacher, but she says the system is not set up right now to support that kind of collaboration and validation of learning outside the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MAKING IT COUNT\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While badges and digital portfolios are far from mainstream, Sybil Madison-Boyd says the program is trying to strengthen its relationship to Chicago Public Schools and its teachers. She’d like to see teachers using badges as a way of learning more about student passions and leveraging that knowledge to strengthen relationships and individualize classroom learning. This year Chicago City of Learning is trying to elevate the idea of the “digital backpack” as a meaningful representation of learning that school administrators and employers take seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/HgLLq7ybDtc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All 400,000 CPS students have Chicago City of Learning accounts waiting for them, but only about 60,000 accounts are active. Madison-Boyd sees buy-in from teachers as a crucial way to engage students and raise the program’s profile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chicago City of Learning team is also trying to use feedback to improve other aspects of the program. They’re highly aware that the resource they are offering is only available online, which brings up the access issues that plague all tech-based solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d always been concerned about the fact that the primary communication mechanism that we have is the website,” Madison-Boyd said. “We’ve always been trying to think of ways for kids and families who cannot easily connect to get connected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To begin addressing this problem, City of Learning ran a mobile van with 30 laptops and Wi-Fi, which visited locations on the south and west sides of Chicago where there weren’t a lot of opportunities for design, making and coding. The van offered a curriculum loosely focused around computational thinking and engaged a cohort of youth at each location. Once a day for five weeks, the same kids showed up to mess around with computer programming, prototype projects and fix things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_42467\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 5760px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-42467\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/10/CCOL3.jpg\" alt=\"The mobile vans used in the summer of 2015 to bring computational thinking programming to neighborhoods without access.\" width=\"5760\" height=\"3240\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/10/CCOL3.jpg 5760w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/10/CCOL3-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/10/CCOL3-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/10/CCOL3-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/10/CCOL3-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/10/CCOL3-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5760px) 100vw, 5760px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mobile vans used in the summer of 2015 to bring computational thinking programming to neighborhoods without access. \u003ccite>(Michelle Lytle/Courtesy Chicago City of Learning)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Youth love the van coming to where they are,” said Amy Eshleman, who manages the Mobile Van Initiative. “That’s been really important to address the opportunity gap in Chicago.” The van also traveled to different street fairs, farmers markets and other public events to provide a fun way for youth to learn about Chicago City of Learning and all the opportunities found there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so important that we’re popping up in places where kids are hanging out and then hopefully activating them to Chicago City of Learning as a resource for things they really like to do,” Madison-Boyd said. The long-term question is whether users signed up in this fashion remain actively engaged with the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chicago City of Learning has engaged 90,410 youth over its two years of existence, enough proof to engender similar programs in Dallas, Washington, D.C. and Pittsburgh. Now the initiative, largely sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation, is getting even bigger with the launch of \u003ca href=\"https://www.lrng.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Cities of LRNG\u003c/a>, a program and platform to connect young people to experiences all over the country.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/42464/how-can-we-harness-the-power-of-learning-beyond-the-school-day","authors":["234"],"categories":["mindshift_192","mindshift_20697"],"tags":["mindshift_20928","mindshift_775","mindshift_20929","mindshift_20784","mindshift_1040"],"featImg":"mindshift_42466","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_41419":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_41419","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"41419","score":null,"sort":[1438288240000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"teens-demonstrate-engineering-mettle-with-pasta-bridge-competition","title":"Teens Show Off Engineering Mettle With Pasta Bridge Competition","publishDate":1438288240,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>Imagine having to build a bridge — a strong bridge — out of nothing but epoxy and spaghetti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, hard. Just ask one of the 160 high schoolers who recently finished \u003ca href=\"http://engineering.jhu.edu/ei/\">Engineering Innovation\u003c/a>, a rigorous, monthlong summer camp run by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and a handful of other cities. They didn't just have to imagine it; they had to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students come from all over the world to get what is, for many, their first real taste of engineering in the classroom. The idea behind the program is simple: Give students a chance to explore complex ideas using remarkably simple tools.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"They've heard of engineering, but in high school they know almost nothing.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Example: Measure the distance between two spires on the Hopkins campus using nothing but a few measuring sticks, string and tape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students also have to design a mousetrap out of nothing but paper, glue and rubber bands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the grand finale — the last big test for students — is the spaghetti bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Shatter\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm so scared right now,\" says Bidyut Mani, 16, playfully cringing as his team begins adding weight to their bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the last day of camp, and Bidyut's team, Penne For Your Thoughts?, sits onstage in a campus auditorium surrounded by classmates and parents. Bidyut's on edge because students here are graded, and those who finish the month with at least a B-average earn three Johns Hopkins engineering credits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"FMa19v2pAPxj1wQLDqah9QS68WutDquk\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Bidyut's bridge — named Bridget, naturally — easily holds the minimum 6.5 pounds, he and his teammates cheer as if they've just won the competition. But for them, it's only beginning. Every team is expected to keep adding weight until this happens ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Rules\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bridges can weigh no more than half a pound and have to be made of spaghetti or other solid, cylindrical pastas — like capellini or vermicelli.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No ziti, people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Too tall (over 10 inches) and points will be deducted. Ditto a bridge's weight. Anything over that half-pound and judges impose a stiff penalty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Onstage, teams set their bridges over a 20-inch gap, hang a chain from the middle and begin ever-so-gently attaching weights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can tell how well a bridge is built not just by the weight it holds, but by how it breaks. A weaker bridge will quickly bend, then collapse. A strong bridge will hold firm until it shatters, making this amazing sound:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why the Mission: Impastable?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They've heard of engineering, but in high school they know almost nothing,\" says retired professor Michael Karweit. He designed the camp's curriculum, hoping to give promising high schoolers with an interest in engineering a chance to \"get dirty, so to speak.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_41420\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/spaghetti-diptych_custom-2e1ddf2e44fd1d98d0e1d1284c8bb6c2f78920a0.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-41420\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/spaghetti-diptych_custom-2e1ddf2e44fd1d98d0e1d1284c8bb6c2f78920a0.jpg\" alt=\"High school students in the Johns Hopkins University summer program, Engineering Innovation, compete in an annual spaghetti bridge-building competition. Above: The A'hunna Key-Lows push their bridge to the limit. Below: The Key-Lows' winning bridge shatters — but only after holding 53 pounds.\" width=\"3000\" height=\"4022\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/spaghetti-diptych_custom-2e1ddf2e44fd1d98d0e1d1284c8bb6c2f78920a0.jpg 3000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/spaghetti-diptych_custom-2e1ddf2e44fd1d98d0e1d1284c8bb6c2f78920a0-400x536.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/spaghetti-diptych_custom-2e1ddf2e44fd1d98d0e1d1284c8bb6c2f78920a0-800x1073.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/spaghetti-diptych_custom-2e1ddf2e44fd1d98d0e1d1284c8bb6c2f78920a0-1440x1931.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/spaghetti-diptych_custom-2e1ddf2e44fd1d98d0e1d1284c8bb6c2f78920a0-1180x1582.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/spaghetti-diptych_custom-2e1ddf2e44fd1d98d0e1d1284c8bb6c2f78920a0-960x1287.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3000px) 100vw, 3000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">High school students in the Johns Hopkins University summer program, Engineering Innovation, compete in an annual spaghetti bridge-building competition. \u003cstrong>Above:\u003c/strong> The A'hunna Key-Lows push their bridge to the limit. \u003cstrong>Below:\u003c/strong> The Key-Lows' winning bridge shatters — but only after holding 53 pounds. \u003ccite>(Lydia Thompson/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And that's exactly what campers were doing the day before the competition, in the last frantic minutes of the allotted bridge-building time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're barely 1 gram under weight,\" says Bidyut, feeling more relaxed after a trip to the scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the workroom, Amelia Hawley, 17, wears bright green goggles. She's been sanding extra epoxy off her bridge. But it, too, came in underweight, so her team is debating some late add-ons to strengthen it. With one problem:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The epoxy takes 24 hours to dry and cure,\" Amelia says. \"And so we only have \u003cem>not\u003c/em> 24 hours before the actual competition.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the deadline, everyone seems to be having fun, tweaking their bridges and their team names. Turns out, teens love their pasta puns:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before revealing who won, a few pasta bridge-building basics:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First: The engineering equivalent of a safe bet, in this case, was the half wagon wheel. It's strong, with all of its supports focused on the center of the bridge where the weights were hung. Keep in mind, this is a terrible design for an actual bridge that will need to support weight equally across its length.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second rule of bridge club: Triangles = strength.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Third: Some crafty students glued spaghetti strands together into hollow tubes — for the sections of bridge that would be compressed by the added weight. Because strength, in that case, comes from diameter not solidity, and keeping the tubes hollow saved weight that teams could use elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, whose pasta masterwork ultimately won the day?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mani's Penne For Your Thoughts? did well, holding 15 pounds. While Hawley's team — Foxy Epoxy — tied for third place with a whopping 26 pounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the winner, from Team A'hunna Key-Lows (A Hundred Kilos, get it?), held a mind-bending (but not bridge-bending) 53 pounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spaghetti and teenagers ... it's amazing what they can do under pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Teaching+Students+To+Use+Their+Noodles&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\" alt=\"\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A summer program at Johns Hopkins University puts high schoolers' ingenuity to the test — building bridges out of nothing but spaghetti and glue.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1438357089,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":34,"wordCount":850},"headData":{"title":"Teens Show Off Engineering Mettle With Pasta Bridge Competition | KQED","description":"A summer program at Johns Hopkins University puts high schoolers' ingenuity to the test — building bridges out of nothing but spaghetti and glue.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Teens Show Off Engineering Mettle With Pasta Bridge Competition","datePublished":"2015-07-30T20:30:40.000Z","dateModified":"2015-07-31T15:38:09.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"41419 http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=41419","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/07/30/teens-demonstrate-engineering-mettle-with-pasta-bridge-competition/","disqusTitle":"Teens Show Off Engineering Mettle With Pasta Bridge Competition","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/07/29/425058097/teaching-students-to-use-their-noodles\">Cory Turner, NPR\u003c/a>","nprStoryId":"425058097","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=425058097&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/07/29/425058097/teaching-students-to-use-their-noodles?ft=nprml&f=425058097","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Wed, 29 Jul 2015 19:56:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Wed, 29 Jul 2015 13:33:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Wed, 29 Jul 2015 18:59:37 -0400","nprAudio":"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2015/07/20150729_atc_teaching_students_to_use_their_noodles.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1013&d=223&p=2&story=425058097&t=progseg&e=427418753&seg=11&ft=nprml&f=425058097","nprAudioM3u":"http://api.npr.org/m3u/1427464746-09dd25.m3u?orgId=1&topicId=1013&d=223&p=2&story=425058097&t=progseg&e=427418753&seg=11&ft=nprml&f=425058097","path":"/mindshift/41419/teens-demonstrate-engineering-mettle-with-pasta-bridge-competition","audioUrl":"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2015/07/20150729_atc_teaching_students_to_use_their_noodles.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1013&d=223&p=2&story=425058097&t=progseg&e=427418753&seg=11&ft=nprml&f=425058097","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Imagine having to build a bridge — a strong bridge — out of nothing but epoxy and spaghetti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, hard. Just ask one of the 160 high schoolers who recently finished \u003ca href=\"http://engineering.jhu.edu/ei/\">Engineering Innovation\u003c/a>, a rigorous, monthlong summer camp run by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and a handful of other cities. They didn't just have to imagine it; they had to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students come from all over the world to get what is, for many, their first real taste of engineering in the classroom. The idea behind the program is simple: Give students a chance to explore complex ideas using remarkably simple tools.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"They've heard of engineering, but in high school they know almost nothing.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Example: Measure the distance between two spires on the Hopkins campus using nothing but a few measuring sticks, string and tape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students also have to design a mousetrap out of nothing but paper, glue and rubber bands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the grand finale — the last big test for students — is the spaghetti bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Shatter\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm so scared right now,\" says Bidyut Mani, 16, playfully cringing as his team begins adding weight to their bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the last day of camp, and Bidyut's team, Penne For Your Thoughts?, sits onstage in a campus auditorium surrounded by classmates and parents. Bidyut's on edge because students here are graded, and those who finish the month with at least a B-average earn three Johns Hopkins engineering credits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Bidyut's bridge — named Bridget, naturally — easily holds the minimum 6.5 pounds, he and his teammates cheer as if they've just won the competition. But for them, it's only beginning. Every team is expected to keep adding weight until this happens ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Rules\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bridges can weigh no more than half a pound and have to be made of spaghetti or other solid, cylindrical pastas — like capellini or vermicelli.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No ziti, people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Too tall (over 10 inches) and points will be deducted. Ditto a bridge's weight. Anything over that half-pound and judges impose a stiff penalty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Onstage, teams set their bridges over a 20-inch gap, hang a chain from the middle and begin ever-so-gently attaching weights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can tell how well a bridge is built not just by the weight it holds, but by how it breaks. A weaker bridge will quickly bend, then collapse. A strong bridge will hold firm until it shatters, making this amazing sound:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why the Mission: Impastable?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They've heard of engineering, but in high school they know almost nothing,\" says retired professor Michael Karweit. He designed the camp's curriculum, hoping to give promising high schoolers with an interest in engineering a chance to \"get dirty, so to speak.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_41420\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/spaghetti-diptych_custom-2e1ddf2e44fd1d98d0e1d1284c8bb6c2f78920a0.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-41420\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/spaghetti-diptych_custom-2e1ddf2e44fd1d98d0e1d1284c8bb6c2f78920a0.jpg\" alt=\"High school students in the Johns Hopkins University summer program, Engineering Innovation, compete in an annual spaghetti bridge-building competition. Above: The A'hunna Key-Lows push their bridge to the limit. Below: The Key-Lows' winning bridge shatters — but only after holding 53 pounds.\" width=\"3000\" height=\"4022\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/spaghetti-diptych_custom-2e1ddf2e44fd1d98d0e1d1284c8bb6c2f78920a0.jpg 3000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/spaghetti-diptych_custom-2e1ddf2e44fd1d98d0e1d1284c8bb6c2f78920a0-400x536.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/spaghetti-diptych_custom-2e1ddf2e44fd1d98d0e1d1284c8bb6c2f78920a0-800x1073.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/spaghetti-diptych_custom-2e1ddf2e44fd1d98d0e1d1284c8bb6c2f78920a0-1440x1931.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/spaghetti-diptych_custom-2e1ddf2e44fd1d98d0e1d1284c8bb6c2f78920a0-1180x1582.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/spaghetti-diptych_custom-2e1ddf2e44fd1d98d0e1d1284c8bb6c2f78920a0-960x1287.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3000px) 100vw, 3000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">High school students in the Johns Hopkins University summer program, Engineering Innovation, compete in an annual spaghetti bridge-building competition. \u003cstrong>Above:\u003c/strong> The A'hunna Key-Lows push their bridge to the limit. \u003cstrong>Below:\u003c/strong> The Key-Lows' winning bridge shatters — but only after holding 53 pounds. \u003ccite>(Lydia Thompson/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And that's exactly what campers were doing the day before the competition, in the last frantic minutes of the allotted bridge-building time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're barely 1 gram under weight,\" says Bidyut, feeling more relaxed after a trip to the scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the workroom, Amelia Hawley, 17, wears bright green goggles. She's been sanding extra epoxy off her bridge. But it, too, came in underweight, so her team is debating some late add-ons to strengthen it. With one problem:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The epoxy takes 24 hours to dry and cure,\" Amelia says. \"And so we only have \u003cem>not\u003c/em> 24 hours before the actual competition.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the deadline, everyone seems to be having fun, tweaking their bridges and their team names. Turns out, teens love their pasta puns:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before revealing who won, a few pasta bridge-building basics:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First: The engineering equivalent of a safe bet, in this case, was the half wagon wheel. It's strong, with all of its supports focused on the center of the bridge where the weights were hung. Keep in mind, this is a terrible design for an actual bridge that will need to support weight equally across its length.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second rule of bridge club: Triangles = strength.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Third: Some crafty students glued spaghetti strands together into hollow tubes — for the sections of bridge that would be compressed by the added weight. Because strength, in that case, comes from diameter not solidity, and keeping the tubes hollow saved weight that teams could use elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, whose pasta masterwork ultimately won the day?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mani's Penne For Your Thoughts? did well, holding 15 pounds. While Hawley's team — Foxy Epoxy — tied for third place with a whopping 26 pounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the winner, from Team A'hunna Key-Lows (A Hundred Kilos, get it?), held a mind-bending (but not bridge-bending) 53 pounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spaghetti and teenagers ... it's amazing what they can do under pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Teaching+Students+To+Use+Their+Noodles&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\" alt=\"\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/41419/teens-demonstrate-engineering-mettle-with-pasta-bridge-competition","authors":["byline_mindshift_41419"],"categories":["mindshift_20697","mindshift_193","mindshift_20874"],"tags":["mindshift_20797","mindshift_47","mindshift_889","mindshift_1038"],"featImg":"mindshift_41423","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_36097":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_36097","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"36097","score":null,"sort":[1402153242000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"25-ideas-to-diversify-reading-lists-this-summer","title":"25 Books That Diversify Kids' Reading Lists This Summer","publishDate":1402153242,"format":"aside","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_36131\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-36131\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2014/06/rubyswish_interior_2_custom-17275749f26375c2a24db3c02d03d97a847904e3-s40-c85-e1402097117962.jpg\" alt=\" 'Ruby in Ruby's Wish' is a determined protagonist any boy or girl can learn from. \" width=\"640\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2014/06/rubyswish_interior_2_custom-17275749f26375c2a24db3c02d03d97a847904e3-s40-c85-e1402097117962.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2014/06/rubyswish_interior_2_custom-17275749f26375c2a24db3c02d03d97a847904e3-s40-c85-e1402097117962-400x235.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2014/06/rubyswish_interior_2_custom-17275749f26375c2a24db3c02d03d97a847904e3-s40-c85-e1402097117962-320x188.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruby in Ruby's Wish is a determined protagonist any boy or girl can learn from.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/06/05/318539208/a-diverse-summerreading-list-for-kids\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>By Aly Seidel, NPR\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In children's books, it can be easier to find talking pandas than characters of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only \u003ca href=\"http://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/books/choiceintro13.asp\">six percent of children's books \u003c/a>published in 2012 featured diverse characters. Last Saturday, the first ever \u003ca href=\"http://www.thebookcon.com/\" target=\"_blank\">BookCon\u003c/a> in New York city came under severe scrutiny for featuring all-white speakers (and one Grumpy Cat). NPR's Bilal Qureshi \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/06/02/318098926/-weneeddiversebooks-campaign-comes-to-inaugural-bookcon\" target=\"_blank\">reported \u003c/a>on the controversy and the resulting hashtag campaign, #\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23WeNeedDiverseBooks&src=typd\" target=\"_blank\">WeNeedDiverseBooks\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We asked around the NPR headquarters, checked out our library and compiled a list of books with authors hailing from around the world, including Korea, India and the South Dakota Sioux reservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These books tackle themes like international adoption, bi-racial families and cultural history, to name a few. Not all of the authors are minorities, but every book features a protagonist of color that children can point to and say, \"That's me!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Boy Who Didn't Believe in Spring \u003c/em>by Lucille Clifton\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King Shabazz gets tired of everyone telling him that \"spring is right around the corner,\" so he and his friend Tony start turning street corners to chase this elusive spring — after putting their caps on backwards to show they mean business! \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/books/titles/319090369/the-boy-who-didnt-believe-in-spring\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 3-5)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Bravo, Chico Canta! Bravo! \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>by Pat Mora and Libby Martinez\u003c/strong>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A multilingual mouse and his family live upstairs in an old theater. They love to go to the plays and shout \"Bravo!\" when the curtain falls. But when Gato-Gato, the theater cat, finds them, Chico Canta must use his gift for languages to save his family. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"npr.org/books/titles/319091660/bravo-chico-canta-bravo\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 4-7)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Bringing Asha Home \u003c/em>by \u003cstrong>Uma Krishnaswami\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arun can't wait for his little sister to come home — she's been adopted all the way from India. But India is far away and Asha's adoption frustratingly takes nearly a year. While waiting for their newest addition, Arun and his family find ways to welcome Asha into their hearts, even if she isn't in their home. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"npr.org/books/titles/319102075/bringing-asha-home\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 4-9)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Brush of the Gods \u003c/em>by Lenore Look\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Brush of the Gods\" is about Wu Daozi, a famous seventh-century Chinese artist. The author imagines Wu Daozi as a young man trying to learn calligraphy, but when he sits down to write, he creates beautiful paintings instead! An imaginative tale that thoughtfully brings life to one of China's master painters. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/books/titles/265722065/brush-of-the-gods\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 4-8)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The Christmas Coat\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: \u003cem>Memories of My Sioux Childhood \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As winter comes to Virginia's reservation, she can't wait for the charity boxes from the East, full of coats for the winter. However, her parents expect her to put other people's needs before her own and she is devastated when her classmate takes the rabbit fur coat that Virginia wanted. This is a story about selflessness and the spirit of Christmas. Winner of the American Indian Youth Literature Award. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/books/titles/319093537/the-christmas-coat-memories-of-my-sioux-childhood\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 5+)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"e034149a400ac1f4c82c43e0121f1797\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Come on, Rain! \u003c/em>by Karen Hesse\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Summers in the city aren't always easy, and a blistering heat wave has settled in. When a storm finally rolls in to cool everyone down, Tess and her friends celebrate in the streets with swimsuits and no umbrellas. Any kid can relate to this easy read with beautiful illustrations. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/books/titles/319094215/come-on-rain\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 4-8)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Corduroy \u003c/em>by Don Freeman\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>Race is incidental to this beloved 1968 tale about a stuffed bear and the girl who loves him. One ofSchool Library Journal's \"Top 100 Picture Books\" of all time (2012) and the National Education Association's \"Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children.\"\u003cem> (Find the book \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/books/titles/319094452/corduroy\">here.\u003c/a> Ages 2-5)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Dumpling Soup\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong> by Jama Kim Rattigan\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This New Year's Eve, Marisa finally gets to help her family make the traditional meal, but she worries nobody will like her oddly-shaped dumplings. Each page has illustrations with lots of activity and feel-good themes. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/books/titles/319094787/dumpling-soup\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 4-8)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The Fortune-Tellers\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong> by Lloyd Alexander\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Set in Cameroon, the story follows a poor carpenter as he becomes a fortune teller who can't read fortunes. Both parents and children will laugh: children at the absurdity of the situation and parents at the crafty humor that goes over children's heads. You can spend more time looking at the complex, detailed illustrations than actually reading the book. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"npr.org/books/titles/319095377/the-fortune-tellers\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 3-5)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses\u003c/em> by Paul Goble\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A young Native American girl has an almost sacred connection to the horses in her tribe. One day, an angry storm scares the horses while she dreams and they stampede, carrying her away. A story about community and identity, the art is stunning and poetic. Winner of the Caldecott Medal.\u003cem> \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"npr.org/books/titles/319095594/the-girl-who-loved-wild-horses\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 5-8)\u003c/em>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Grandfather's Journey \u003c/em>by Allen Say\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The author's grandfather travels to America and falls in love with the beauty of the country. He settles down in California and raises a family, but he feels homesick for Japan. However, when he moves back to Japan, he aches for America. It's an emotional tale with detailed and profound illustrations. Winner of Caldecott Medal. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"npr.org/books/titles/319095683/grandfathers-journey\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 4-8)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Hello, Goodbye Window \u003c/em>by Norton Juster\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kitchen window is this young girl's favorite place. It's where she checks the weather, says goodnight to the stars and — most importantly — where she first says hello to her Nanna and Poppy when she visits. The creative illustrations makes this a hit for grandchildren everywhere. Winner of the Caldecott Medal. (\u003cem>Find the book \u003ca href=\"npr.org/books/titles/319095862/the-hello-goodbye-window\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 4+)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>How My Family Came to Be: Daddy, Papa and Me \u003c/em>by Andrew Aldrich\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An African-American boy tells the story of how he was adopted by a white, gay couple. Humor and cartoon-like illustrations keep the mood light, while underlining the point that love is what brings family together. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"npr.org/books/titles/319096068/how-my-family-came-to-be-daddy-papa-and-me\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 4+)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>I'm in Charge of Celebrations \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>by Byrd Baylor\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This story centers around a young Native American girl who creates her own celebrations, not just the ones school closes for. In one year, she created 108 celebrations for nature, herself and everything in between. \u003cem>\u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"npr.org/books/titles/319096609/im-in-charge-of-celebrations\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 6-9)\u003c/em>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003cem>Life Doesn't Frighten Me \u003c/em>\u003c/em>by Maya Angelou; edited by Sara Jane Boyers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Words: a poem by Angelou. Pictures: Jean-Michel Basquiat. The whole: sublime. Also includes brief biographies of each artist. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"npr.org/books/titles/319097556/life-doesnt-frighten-me\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 2-8)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>by Monica Brown\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marisol no combina — Marisol doesn't match. From her polka dot shirt and striped pants, down to her brown skin and red hair, Marisol is an assertive protagonist that likes her mismatched world. The book includes colorful illustrations and the text is in English and Spanish. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/books/titles/250736604/marisol-mcdonald-doesnt-match-marisol-mcdonald-no-combina\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 4-8)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>My Name is Yoon \u003c/em>by Helen Recorvits\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poor Yoon. In Korean, her written name looks like dancing figures, but in English, they're flat on the page. Her distaste for her English name is mirrored by her distaste for America, a place she barely understands. The story follows Yoon as she tries to find her name and sense of belonging. Winner of the Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award and an American Library Association's Notable Children's Book. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"npr.org/books/titles/319098583/my-name-is-yoon\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 4-8)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Niño Wrestles the World \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>by Yuyi Morales\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This exciting, action-packed book focuses on Niño, an energetic young wrestler who only has one thing to fear — his sisters. With colorful illustrations, punchy typefaces and Spanish phrases throughout, this is a fun book for boys and girls alike. Just don't read it right before bed — no child can be expected to keep still after reading this exciting tale. Winner of the Pura Belpré award for illustrations. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"npr.org/books/titles/319098935/ni-o-wrestles-the-world\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 4-8)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Ruby's Wish \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>by Shirin Yim Bridges\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruby is determined to go to university, just like her brothers. But in turn-of-the-century China, this is an unprecedented move. This story reveals Ruby's tenacity, passion and dedication as she finds her way towards an education. Winner of \u003cem>Publishers Weekly\u003c/em> Best Children's Book and winner of the Ezra Jack Keats Award. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"npr.org/books/titles/319099414/rubys-wish\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 5-8)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Snowy Day \u003c/em>by Ezra Jack Keats\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This classic picture book, published in 1963, was the first to feature a young black hero--no overt racial themes, just a small boy enjoying his urban neighborhood. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/books/titles/138111855/the-snowy-day\" target=\"_blank\">here.\u003c/a> Ages 0-5)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Tomás and the Library Lady \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>by Pat Mora\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on the life story of Tomás Rivera, the son of Mexican migrant workers who grew up to become a chancellor in the University of California system, this story about the love of reading has illustrations reminiscent of Diego Rivera's murals. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"npr.org/books/titles/319100645/tomas-and-the-library-lady\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 2-6)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Storyteller's Candle \u003c/em>by Lucia Gonzalez\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's 1929 and New York City is a cold place for cousins Hildamar and Santiago. They try to adjust, but fiercely miss Puerto Rico until their local librarian shows them community can be found anywhere. Written in both English and Spanish, this is a sweet story about finding where you belong. Winner of the Pura Belpré Award. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"npr.org/books/titles/319100858/the-storytellers-candle-la-velita-de-los-cuentos\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 6+)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Umbrella \u003c/em>by Taro Yashima\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Momo can't wait for a rainy day so she can debut her birthday presents — red rain boots and an umbrella. It's a colorful book with striking illustrations that will have kids checking the weather every morning. A Caldecott Honor book\u003cem>. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"0140502408\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 4+)\u003c/em>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>When the Shadbush Blooms \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>by Carla Messinger and Suzan\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>Katz\u003c/strong>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Lenni Lenape girl spends her time imagining how her grandmother was a young girl too, doing all of the things she does now. The story takes place \"today and yesterday\", focusing on the customs that keep a family connected to each other. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/books/titles/138275469/when-the-shadbush-blooms\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 3-7)\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Yo! Yes? \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>by Chris Raschka\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This book shows how friendships can form in less than 35 words. Two boys meet on the street and communicate in short, one- to two-word sentences. Readers must focus on the watercolor illustrations to fully understand the interactions. A Caldecott Honor book and an American Library Association's Notable Children's Book. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"npr.org/books/titles/319101737/yo-yes\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 4+)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is by no means a comprehensive list. A search of the #\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?src=typd&q=weneeddiversebooks\" target=\"_blank\">WeNeedDiverseBooks \u003c/a>and #\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=diversifyyourshelves&src=typd\" target=\"_blank\">DiversifyYourShelves \u003c/a>hashtag brought up some wonderful ideas, while our friends at \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2014/06/03/318471482/diverse-summer-reading-picks-for-kids\" target=\"_blank\">Tell Me More \u003c/a>featured guests with even more recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201403241000\" target=\"_blank\">Forum program discussed\u003c/a> other great diverse children's books too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/06/05/318539208/a-diverse-summerreading-list-for-kids\" target=\"_blank\">This post\u003c/a> originally appeared on NPR. Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In children's books, it can be easier to find talking pandas than characters of color. Here are 25 books with minority characters and authors to help diversify summer reading.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1417826479,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":59,"wordCount":1829},"headData":{"title":"25 Books That Diversify Kids' Reading Lists This Summer | KQED","description":"In children's books, it can be easier to find talking pandas than characters of color. 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Last Saturday, the first ever \u003ca href=\"http://www.thebookcon.com/\" target=\"_blank\">BookCon\u003c/a> in New York city came under severe scrutiny for featuring all-white speakers (and one Grumpy Cat). NPR's Bilal Qureshi \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/06/02/318098926/-weneeddiversebooks-campaign-comes-to-inaugural-bookcon\" target=\"_blank\">reported \u003c/a>on the controversy and the resulting hashtag campaign, #\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23WeNeedDiverseBooks&src=typd\" target=\"_blank\">WeNeedDiverseBooks\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We asked around the NPR headquarters, checked out our library and compiled a list of books with authors hailing from around the world, including Korea, India and the South Dakota Sioux reservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These books tackle themes like international adoption, bi-racial families and cultural history, to name a few. Not all of the authors are minorities, but every book features a protagonist of color that children can point to and say, \"That's me!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Boy Who Didn't Believe in Spring \u003c/em>by Lucille Clifton\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King Shabazz gets tired of everyone telling him that \"spring is right around the corner,\" so he and his friend Tony start turning street corners to chase this elusive spring — after putting their caps on backwards to show they mean business! \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/books/titles/319090369/the-boy-who-didnt-believe-in-spring\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 3-5)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Bravo, Chico Canta! Bravo! \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>by Pat Mora and Libby Martinez\u003c/strong>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A multilingual mouse and his family live upstairs in an old theater. They love to go to the plays and shout \"Bravo!\" when the curtain falls. But when Gato-Gato, the theater cat, finds them, Chico Canta must use his gift for languages to save his family. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"npr.org/books/titles/319091660/bravo-chico-canta-bravo\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 4-7)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Bringing Asha Home \u003c/em>by \u003cstrong>Uma Krishnaswami\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arun can't wait for his little sister to come home — she's been adopted all the way from India. But India is far away and Asha's adoption frustratingly takes nearly a year. While waiting for their newest addition, Arun and his family find ways to welcome Asha into their hearts, even if she isn't in their home. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"npr.org/books/titles/319102075/bringing-asha-home\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 4-9)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Brush of the Gods \u003c/em>by Lenore Look\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Brush of the Gods\" is about Wu Daozi, a famous seventh-century Chinese artist. The author imagines Wu Daozi as a young man trying to learn calligraphy, but when he sits down to write, he creates beautiful paintings instead! An imaginative tale that thoughtfully brings life to one of China's master painters. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/books/titles/265722065/brush-of-the-gods\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 4-8)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The Christmas Coat\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: \u003cem>Memories of My Sioux Childhood \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As winter comes to Virginia's reservation, she can't wait for the charity boxes from the East, full of coats for the winter. However, her parents expect her to put other people's needs before her own and she is devastated when her classmate takes the rabbit fur coat that Virginia wanted. This is a story about selflessness and the spirit of Christmas. Winner of the American Indian Youth Literature Award. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/books/titles/319093537/the-christmas-coat-memories-of-my-sioux-childhood\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 5+)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Come on, Rain! \u003c/em>by Karen Hesse\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Summers in the city aren't always easy, and a blistering heat wave has settled in. When a storm finally rolls in to cool everyone down, Tess and her friends celebrate in the streets with swimsuits and no umbrellas. Any kid can relate to this easy read with beautiful illustrations. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/books/titles/319094215/come-on-rain\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 4-8)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Corduroy \u003c/em>by Don Freeman\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>Race is incidental to this beloved 1968 tale about a stuffed bear and the girl who loves him. One ofSchool Library Journal's \"Top 100 Picture Books\" of all time (2012) and the National Education Association's \"Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children.\"\u003cem> (Find the book \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/books/titles/319094452/corduroy\">here.\u003c/a> Ages 2-5)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Dumpling Soup\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong> by Jama Kim Rattigan\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This New Year's Eve, Marisa finally gets to help her family make the traditional meal, but she worries nobody will like her oddly-shaped dumplings. Each page has illustrations with lots of activity and feel-good themes. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/books/titles/319094787/dumpling-soup\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 4-8)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The Fortune-Tellers\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong> by Lloyd Alexander\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Set in Cameroon, the story follows a poor carpenter as he becomes a fortune teller who can't read fortunes. Both parents and children will laugh: children at the absurdity of the situation and parents at the crafty humor that goes over children's heads. You can spend more time looking at the complex, detailed illustrations than actually reading the book. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"npr.org/books/titles/319095377/the-fortune-tellers\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 3-5)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses\u003c/em> by Paul Goble\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A young Native American girl has an almost sacred connection to the horses in her tribe. One day, an angry storm scares the horses while she dreams and they stampede, carrying her away. A story about community and identity, the art is stunning and poetic. Winner of the Caldecott Medal.\u003cem> \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"npr.org/books/titles/319095594/the-girl-who-loved-wild-horses\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 5-8)\u003c/em>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Grandfather's Journey \u003c/em>by Allen Say\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The author's grandfather travels to America and falls in love with the beauty of the country. He settles down in California and raises a family, but he feels homesick for Japan. However, when he moves back to Japan, he aches for America. It's an emotional tale with detailed and profound illustrations. Winner of Caldecott Medal. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"npr.org/books/titles/319095683/grandfathers-journey\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 4-8)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Hello, Goodbye Window \u003c/em>by Norton Juster\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kitchen window is this young girl's favorite place. It's where she checks the weather, says goodnight to the stars and — most importantly — where she first says hello to her Nanna and Poppy when she visits. The creative illustrations makes this a hit for grandchildren everywhere. Winner of the Caldecott Medal. (\u003cem>Find the book \u003ca href=\"npr.org/books/titles/319095862/the-hello-goodbye-window\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 4+)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>How My Family Came to Be: Daddy, Papa and Me \u003c/em>by Andrew Aldrich\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An African-American boy tells the story of how he was adopted by a white, gay couple. Humor and cartoon-like illustrations keep the mood light, while underlining the point that love is what brings family together. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"npr.org/books/titles/319096068/how-my-family-came-to-be-daddy-papa-and-me\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 4+)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>I'm in Charge of Celebrations \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>by Byrd Baylor\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This story centers around a young Native American girl who creates her own celebrations, not just the ones school closes for. In one year, she created 108 celebrations for nature, herself and everything in between. \u003cem>\u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"npr.org/books/titles/319096609/im-in-charge-of-celebrations\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 6-9)\u003c/em>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003cem>Life Doesn't Frighten Me \u003c/em>\u003c/em>by Maya Angelou; edited by Sara Jane Boyers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Words: a poem by Angelou. Pictures: Jean-Michel Basquiat. The whole: sublime. Also includes brief biographies of each artist. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"npr.org/books/titles/319097556/life-doesnt-frighten-me\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 2-8)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>by Monica Brown\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marisol no combina — Marisol doesn't match. From her polka dot shirt and striped pants, down to her brown skin and red hair, Marisol is an assertive protagonist that likes her mismatched world. The book includes colorful illustrations and the text is in English and Spanish. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/books/titles/250736604/marisol-mcdonald-doesnt-match-marisol-mcdonald-no-combina\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 4-8)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>My Name is Yoon \u003c/em>by Helen Recorvits\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poor Yoon. In Korean, her written name looks like dancing figures, but in English, they're flat on the page. Her distaste for her English name is mirrored by her distaste for America, a place she barely understands. The story follows Yoon as she tries to find her name and sense of belonging. Winner of the Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award and an American Library Association's Notable Children's Book. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"npr.org/books/titles/319098583/my-name-is-yoon\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 4-8)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Niño Wrestles the World \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>by Yuyi Morales\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This exciting, action-packed book focuses on Niño, an energetic young wrestler who only has one thing to fear — his sisters. With colorful illustrations, punchy typefaces and Spanish phrases throughout, this is a fun book for boys and girls alike. Just don't read it right before bed — no child can be expected to keep still after reading this exciting tale. Winner of the Pura Belpré award for illustrations. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"npr.org/books/titles/319098935/ni-o-wrestles-the-world\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 4-8)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Ruby's Wish \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>by Shirin Yim Bridges\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruby is determined to go to university, just like her brothers. But in turn-of-the-century China, this is an unprecedented move. This story reveals Ruby's tenacity, passion and dedication as she finds her way towards an education. Winner of \u003cem>Publishers Weekly\u003c/em> Best Children's Book and winner of the Ezra Jack Keats Award. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"npr.org/books/titles/319099414/rubys-wish\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 5-8)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Snowy Day \u003c/em>by Ezra Jack Keats\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This classic picture book, published in 1963, was the first to feature a young black hero--no overt racial themes, just a small boy enjoying his urban neighborhood. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/books/titles/138111855/the-snowy-day\" target=\"_blank\">here.\u003c/a> Ages 0-5)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Tomás and the Library Lady \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>by Pat Mora\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on the life story of Tomás Rivera, the son of Mexican migrant workers who grew up to become a chancellor in the University of California system, this story about the love of reading has illustrations reminiscent of Diego Rivera's murals. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"npr.org/books/titles/319100645/tomas-and-the-library-lady\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 2-6)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Storyteller's Candle \u003c/em>by Lucia Gonzalez\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's 1929 and New York City is a cold place for cousins Hildamar and Santiago. They try to adjust, but fiercely miss Puerto Rico until their local librarian shows them community can be found anywhere. Written in both English and Spanish, this is a sweet story about finding where you belong. Winner of the Pura Belpré Award. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"npr.org/books/titles/319100858/the-storytellers-candle-la-velita-de-los-cuentos\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 6+)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Umbrella \u003c/em>by Taro Yashima\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Momo can't wait for a rainy day so she can debut her birthday presents — red rain boots and an umbrella. It's a colorful book with striking illustrations that will have kids checking the weather every morning. A Caldecott Honor book\u003cem>. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"0140502408\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 4+)\u003c/em>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>When the Shadbush Blooms \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>by Carla Messinger and Suzan\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>Katz\u003c/strong>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Lenni Lenape girl spends her time imagining how her grandmother was a young girl too, doing all of the things she does now. The story takes place \"today and yesterday\", focusing on the customs that keep a family connected to each other. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/books/titles/138275469/when-the-shadbush-blooms\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 3-7)\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Yo! Yes? \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>by Chris Raschka\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This book shows how friendships can form in less than 35 words. Two boys meet on the street and communicate in short, one- to two-word sentences. Readers must focus on the watercolor illustrations to fully understand the interactions. A Caldecott Honor book and an American Library Association's Notable Children's Book. \u003cem>(Find the book \u003ca href=\"npr.org/books/titles/319101737/yo-yes\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>. Ages 4+)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is by no means a comprehensive list. A search of the #\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?src=typd&q=weneeddiversebooks\" target=\"_blank\">WeNeedDiverseBooks \u003c/a>and #\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=diversifyyourshelves&src=typd\" target=\"_blank\">DiversifyYourShelves \u003c/a>hashtag brought up some wonderful ideas, while our friends at \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2014/06/03/318471482/diverse-summer-reading-picks-for-kids\" target=\"_blank\">Tell Me More \u003c/a>featured guests with even more recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201403241000\" target=\"_blank\">Forum program discussed\u003c/a> other great diverse children's books too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/06/05/318539208/a-diverse-summerreading-list-for-kids\" target=\"_blank\">This post\u003c/a> originally appeared on NPR. Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/36097/25-ideas-to-diversify-reading-lists-this-summer","authors":["byline_mindshift_36097"],"categories":["mindshift_20697","mindshift_20515"],"tags":["mindshift_1040","mindshift_550","mindshift_634"],"featImg":"mindshift_36098","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_29756":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_29756","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"29756","score":null,"sort":[1373637643000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-to-get-kids-hooked-on-nonfiction-books-this-summer","title":"How to Get Kids Hooked on Nonfiction Books This Summer","publishDate":1373637643,"format":"aside","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_29950\" class=\"wp-caption left\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-29950\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2013/07/157716329.jpg\" alt=\"157716329\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2013/07/157716329.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2013/07/157716329-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2013/07/157716329-320x180.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"> \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"dropcap-serif\">The long hot days of summer are the perfect time for kids to hone their knowledge of the wizard world, King Arthur’s court or the magical land of Narnia. And while many \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/06/ready-set-read-summer-fiction-ideas-for-kids-of-all-ages/\">summer reading lists\u003c/a> are sent home with the hope that students will bone up on fiction during the dog days, reading nonfiction can be just as beneficial -- and just as exciting -- as a great novel. And though some kids might balk at choosing to read a “science” book for summer fun, children’s author Vicki Cobb says that’s only because they haven’t been exposed to the right books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">In an effort to put more high-quality nonfiction into students’ hands, Cobb has created the \u003ca href=\"http://inkthinktank.com/\">iNK Think Tank\u003c/a>, an organization of award-winning children’s authors who write Common Core-aligned nonfiction books for kids of all ages. (During the school year, iNK will even bring the authors to classrooms, via videoconference, to discuss their books directly with students.) For summer science reading, Cobb wants students to know about true stories that contain both captivating stories \u003cem>and\u003c/em> science themes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“There are many science books that are narratives and biographies that are fascinating,” Cobb said. “Tanya Stone’s \u003cem>Almost Astronauts\u003c/em> tells the story of the first women who trained along with the men for the Mercury program, but never got to fly. And Deborah Heiligman’s \u003cem>Charles and Emma\u003c/em> tells the love story between Charles Darwin and his wife Emma, who was deeply religious. Darwin dragged his feet in publishing \u003cem>Origin of the Species\u003c/em> because he had to write it so that it wouldn’t offend his wife’s religious beliefs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cobb notes that great nonfiction writers employ the same literary devices as fiction writers, with a definitive advantage: every word is true. “There is no invented dialogue or sugar-coating by anthropomorphizing subject matter. But literary devices, including poetry, foreshadowing, irony, and metaphor, are all present.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet iNK Think Tank’s efforts to increase children’s nonfiction diets are in sharp contrast to what kids are consuming: according to a\u003ca href=\"http://kff.org/other/event/generation-m2-media-in-the-lives-of/\"> 2010 study\u003c/a> by the Kaiser Family Foundation, children spend about four minutes a day reading nonfiction, and Publisher’s Weekly reported that, last year, kids bought \u003ca href=\"http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/financial-reporting/article/53112-industry-sales-pegged-at-27-2-billion.html\">four times more fiction than nonfiction\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cobb says kids don’t read as much nonfiction because teachers and parents don’t know where to find the good stuff - a large reason why she started iNK. And, after getting good books to parents and teachers, Cobb says it’s important to realize that some science books need to be read differently than plopping down with a novel. For example, in one middle-school book about sound, \u003ca href=\"http://educationupdate.com/vickicobb/2012/12/reading-to-think-like-a-scientist.html\">“Bangs and Twangs,” \u003c/a>Cobb encourages readers to stop periodically and try out certain concepts, from making noise with their bodies to producing sound with household objects. “Science is not about passive reading,” she writes. “It’s all about active involvement. In other words, following this book models the behavior of scientists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"lcp_catlist aside half left cats-by-2\">\n\u003ch2 class=\"feat-title\">More Summer Learning Ideas\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>[catlist categorypage=\"yes\" numberposts=\"5\" thumbnail=\"yes\" excludeposts=\"this\" class=\"\" title_tag=\"h3\" title_class=\"post-title\" thumbnail_class=\"thumbnail\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Consuming true stories might also be beneficial to kids’ academic growth. Reading nonfiction builds students’ background knowledge, which is essential to reading comprehension, according to CitizenshipFirst Executive Director (and former Core Knowledge Communications Director) Robert Pondiscio. So much nonfiction is included in the Common Core State Standards, he said, in part because “building knowledge \u003cem>is\u003c/em> building literacy.” Comprehension requires that the reader know something about what she’s reading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Speakers and readers assume a shared body of vocabulary and background knowledge. When there are gaps in knowledge and vocabulary, comprehension breaks down,” Pondiscio said. “In short, lots of nonfiction means lots of background knowledge. And that enhances kids' abilities to make correct inferences and contextualize accurately when they read.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Pondiscio and Cobb mention that one benefit of reading nonfiction is that it helps kids look outward, not inward, and science-based nonfiction is a great way to learn about the world. Pondiscio said kids might perceive nonfiction as not quite as exciting as fiction because humans are “hardwired for narrative,” but that the history of civilization and progress, from history to science and technology, is a true story but also a grand narrative, “and we should teach it that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what should young scientists read this summer? Cobb has included a list of iNK Think Tank’s \u003ca href=\"http://inkthinktank.com/ink-thinkers\">favorite science books\u003c/a> below (including her own) -- science biographies and narratives, plus some books full of experiments. Cobb suggests finding books that connect experiments with what kids already know about life and nature - otherwise they might incur what she calls “the ‘so what?’ factor.” Good science activity books ask questions, Cobb said, and give procedures for open-ended discovery, “so that the thinking child can continue the quest afterwards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Grades K-3\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Rah, Rah, Radishes!\u003c/em> by April Sayre\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>I Get Wet,\u003c/em> by Vicki Cobb\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>The Beetle Book\u003c/em>, by Steve Jenkins\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>If You Hopped Like a Frog,\u003c/em> by David M. Schwartz\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>From Caterpillar to Butterfly,\u003c/em> by Deborah Heiligman\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>Will It Blow? Become a Volcano Detective at Mount St. Helens\u003c/em>, by Elizabeth Rusch\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>All in Just One Cookie\u003c/em>, by Susan Goodman\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>Grades 4-8\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>Lizards,\u003c/em> by Sneed B. Collard III\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>The Frog Scientist\u003c/em>, by Pamela Turner\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>Bug Shots: The Good, the Bad and the Bugly,\u003c/em> by Alexandr Siy’s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>A Life in the Wild: George Shaller’s Struggle to Save the Last Great Beasts\u003c/em>, by Pamela Turner\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>Genius: A Photobiography of Albert Einstein\u003c/em>, by Marfé Ferguson Delano\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>A Whale Biologist at Work\u003c/em>, by Sneed Collard\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith\u003c/em>, by Deborah Heiligman\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>For the Birds: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson\u003c/em>, by Peggy Thomas\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning\u003c/em>, by Rosalyn Schanzer,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>Marie Curie: a Photographic Story of a Life\u003c/em>, by Vicki Cobb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Some books combine Science with Social Studies:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>Almost Astronauts: 13 Women who Dared to Dream\u003c/em>, by Tanya Lee Stone\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>The Buffalo and the Indians,\u003c/em> by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>What Darwin Saw: The Journey That Changed the World\u003c/em>, by Rosalyn Schanzer\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>Everglades Forever: Restoring American’s Great Wetland\u003c/em>, by Trish Marx,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>Monteverde: Science and Scientists in a Costa Rican Cloud Forest\u003c/em>, by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>Grades 9-12:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Good examples of books suitable for high school readers as well as middle school students:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>Biodiversity\u003c/em>, by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>Cars on Mars: Roving the Red Planet\u003c/em>, by Alexandra Siy\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>The Head Bone’s Connected to the Neck Bone: The Weird, Wacky and Wonderful X-ray\u003c/em>, by Carla McClafferty\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon\u003c/em>, by Steve Sheinkin.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The long hot days of summer are the perfect time for kids to hone their knowledge of the wizard world, King Arthur’s court or the magical land of Narnia. And while many summer reading lists are sent home with the hope that students will bone up on fiction during the dog days, reading nonfiction can be just as beneficial -- and just as exciting -- as a great novel. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1403136950,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":1169},"headData":{"title":"How to Get Kids Hooked on Nonfiction Books This Summer | KQED","description":"The long hot days of summer are the perfect time for kids to hone their knowledge of the wizard world, King Arthur’s court or the magical land of Narnia. And while many summer reading lists are sent home with the hope that students will bone up on fiction during the dog days, reading nonfiction can be just as beneficial -- and just as exciting -- as a great novel. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"How to Get Kids Hooked on Nonfiction Books This Summer","datePublished":"2013-07-12T14:00:43.000Z","dateModified":"2014-06-19T00:15:50.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"29756 http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=29756","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/07/12/how-to-get-kids-hooked-on-nonfiction-books-this-summer/","disqusTitle":"How to Get Kids Hooked on Nonfiction Books This Summer","path":"/mindshift/29756/how-to-get-kids-hooked-on-nonfiction-books-this-summer","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_29950\" class=\"wp-caption left\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-29950\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2013/07/157716329.jpg\" alt=\"157716329\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2013/07/157716329.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2013/07/157716329-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2013/07/157716329-320x180.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"> \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"dropcap-serif\">The long hot days of summer are the perfect time for kids to hone their knowledge of the wizard world, King Arthur’s court or the magical land of Narnia. And while many \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/06/ready-set-read-summer-fiction-ideas-for-kids-of-all-ages/\">summer reading lists\u003c/a> are sent home with the hope that students will bone up on fiction during the dog days, reading nonfiction can be just as beneficial -- and just as exciting -- as a great novel. And though some kids might balk at choosing to read a “science” book for summer fun, children’s author Vicki Cobb says that’s only because they haven’t been exposed to the right books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">In an effort to put more high-quality nonfiction into students’ hands, Cobb has created the \u003ca href=\"http://inkthinktank.com/\">iNK Think Tank\u003c/a>, an organization of award-winning children’s authors who write Common Core-aligned nonfiction books for kids of all ages. (During the school year, iNK will even bring the authors to classrooms, via videoconference, to discuss their books directly with students.) For summer science reading, Cobb wants students to know about true stories that contain both captivating stories \u003cem>and\u003c/em> science themes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“There are many science books that are narratives and biographies that are fascinating,” Cobb said. “Tanya Stone’s \u003cem>Almost Astronauts\u003c/em> tells the story of the first women who trained along with the men for the Mercury program, but never got to fly. And Deborah Heiligman’s \u003cem>Charles and Emma\u003c/em> tells the love story between Charles Darwin and his wife Emma, who was deeply religious. Darwin dragged his feet in publishing \u003cem>Origin of the Species\u003c/em> because he had to write it so that it wouldn’t offend his wife’s religious beliefs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cobb notes that great nonfiction writers employ the same literary devices as fiction writers, with a definitive advantage: every word is true. “There is no invented dialogue or sugar-coating by anthropomorphizing subject matter. But literary devices, including poetry, foreshadowing, irony, and metaphor, are all present.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet iNK Think Tank’s efforts to increase children’s nonfiction diets are in sharp contrast to what kids are consuming: according to a\u003ca href=\"http://kff.org/other/event/generation-m2-media-in-the-lives-of/\"> 2010 study\u003c/a> by the Kaiser Family Foundation, children spend about four minutes a day reading nonfiction, and Publisher’s Weekly reported that, last year, kids bought \u003ca href=\"http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/financial-reporting/article/53112-industry-sales-pegged-at-27-2-billion.html\">four times more fiction than nonfiction\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cobb says kids don’t read as much nonfiction because teachers and parents don’t know where to find the good stuff - a large reason why she started iNK. And, after getting good books to parents and teachers, Cobb says it’s important to realize that some science books need to be read differently than plopping down with a novel. For example, in one middle-school book about sound, \u003ca href=\"http://educationupdate.com/vickicobb/2012/12/reading-to-think-like-a-scientist.html\">“Bangs and Twangs,” \u003c/a>Cobb encourages readers to stop periodically and try out certain concepts, from making noise with their bodies to producing sound with household objects. “Science is not about passive reading,” she writes. “It’s all about active involvement. In other words, following this book models the behavior of scientists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"lcp_catlist aside half left cats-by-2\">\n\u003ch2 class=\"feat-title\">More Summer Learning Ideas\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>[catlist categorypage=\"yes\" numberposts=\"5\" thumbnail=\"yes\" excludeposts=\"this\" class=\"\" title_tag=\"h3\" title_class=\"post-title\" thumbnail_class=\"thumbnail\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Consuming true stories might also be beneficial to kids’ academic growth. Reading nonfiction builds students’ background knowledge, which is essential to reading comprehension, according to CitizenshipFirst Executive Director (and former Core Knowledge Communications Director) Robert Pondiscio. So much nonfiction is included in the Common Core State Standards, he said, in part because “building knowledge \u003cem>is\u003c/em> building literacy.” Comprehension requires that the reader know something about what she’s reading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Speakers and readers assume a shared body of vocabulary and background knowledge. When there are gaps in knowledge and vocabulary, comprehension breaks down,” Pondiscio said. “In short, lots of nonfiction means lots of background knowledge. And that enhances kids' abilities to make correct inferences and contextualize accurately when they read.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Pondiscio and Cobb mention that one benefit of reading nonfiction is that it helps kids look outward, not inward, and science-based nonfiction is a great way to learn about the world. Pondiscio said kids might perceive nonfiction as not quite as exciting as fiction because humans are “hardwired for narrative,” but that the history of civilization and progress, from history to science and technology, is a true story but also a grand narrative, “and we should teach it that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what should young scientists read this summer? Cobb has included a list of iNK Think Tank’s \u003ca href=\"http://inkthinktank.com/ink-thinkers\">favorite science books\u003c/a> below (including her own) -- science biographies and narratives, plus some books full of experiments. Cobb suggests finding books that connect experiments with what kids already know about life and nature - otherwise they might incur what she calls “the ‘so what?’ factor.” Good science activity books ask questions, Cobb said, and give procedures for open-ended discovery, “so that the thinking child can continue the quest afterwards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Grades K-3\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Rah, Rah, Radishes!\u003c/em> by April Sayre\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>I Get Wet,\u003c/em> by Vicki Cobb\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>The Beetle Book\u003c/em>, by Steve Jenkins\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>If You Hopped Like a Frog,\u003c/em> by David M. Schwartz\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>From Caterpillar to Butterfly,\u003c/em> by Deborah Heiligman\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>Will It Blow? Become a Volcano Detective at Mount St. Helens\u003c/em>, by Elizabeth Rusch\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>All in Just One Cookie\u003c/em>, by Susan Goodman\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>Grades 4-8\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>Lizards,\u003c/em> by Sneed B. Collard III\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>The Frog Scientist\u003c/em>, by Pamela Turner\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>Bug Shots: The Good, the Bad and the Bugly,\u003c/em> by Alexandr Siy’s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>A Life in the Wild: George Shaller’s Struggle to Save the Last Great Beasts\u003c/em>, by Pamela Turner\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>Genius: A Photobiography of Albert Einstein\u003c/em>, by Marfé Ferguson Delano\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>A Whale Biologist at Work\u003c/em>, by Sneed Collard\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith\u003c/em>, by Deborah Heiligman\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>For the Birds: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson\u003c/em>, by Peggy Thomas\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning\u003c/em>, by Rosalyn Schanzer,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>Marie Curie: a Photographic Story of a Life\u003c/em>, by Vicki Cobb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Some books combine Science with Social Studies:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>Almost Astronauts: 13 Women who Dared to Dream\u003c/em>, by Tanya Lee Stone\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>The Buffalo and the Indians,\u003c/em> by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>What Darwin Saw: The Journey That Changed the World\u003c/em>, by Rosalyn Schanzer\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>Everglades Forever: Restoring American’s Great Wetland\u003c/em>, by Trish Marx,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>Monteverde: Science and Scientists in a Costa Rican Cloud Forest\u003c/em>, by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>Grades 9-12:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Good examples of books suitable for high school readers as well as middle school students:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>Biodiversity\u003c/em>, by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>Cars on Mars: Roving the Red Planet\u003c/em>, by Alexandra Siy\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>The Head Bone’s Connected to the Neck Bone: The Weird, Wacky and Wonderful X-ray\u003c/em>, by Carla McClafferty\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon\u003c/em>, by Steve Sheinkin.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/29756/how-to-get-kids-hooked-on-nonfiction-books-this-summer","authors":["4445"],"categories":["mindshift_20697","mindshift_20515"],"tags":["mindshift_1040","mindshift_120","mindshift_550","mindshift_514"],"label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_29247":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_29247","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"29247","score":null,"sort":[1371231036000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"ready-set-read-summer-fiction-ideas-for-kids-of-all-ages","title":"Ready, Set, Read! Summer Fiction Ideas for Kids of All Ages","publishDate":1371231036,"format":"aside","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_29446\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-29446\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2013/06/reading.jpg\" alt=\"reading\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2013/06/reading.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2013/06/reading-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2013/06/reading-320x180.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"> \" credit=\"Getty\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"dropcap-serif\">Prevent \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/07/74-creative-ways-to-stop-summer-brain-drain/\">summer brain drain\u003c/a>: that’s the reason many backpacks -- most likely laying in the same places they were joyfully dropped on the last day of school -- contain a rumpled, but hopefully not forgotten, summer reading list from school. Teachers and experts have long suggested that \u003ca href=\"http://www.rif.org/us/literacy-resources/articles/keeping-kids-off-the-summer-slide.htm\">reading over summer break\u003c/a> helps kids from losing everything they’ve learned over the school year. And new research shows that reading fiction especially might do more than serve kids academically - it may even make them better people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Educator and author Jessica Lahey’s summer reading list for her seventh and eighth graders is packed with books that the teenagers will find “interesting but challenging.” One of Lahey’s summer favorites for eighth graders is Harper Lee’s classic \u003cem>To Kill a Mockingbird\u003c/em>, both for the stretch it gives kids in complexity and vocabulary as well as supplementing the \"easy\" summer reading they may do on their own. She also wants to prepare them to think about “bigger issues raised by the books” -- in this case the virtues and failings of the rich, complex characters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lahey has students write about the book when they get back to school in the fall, and wants them to choose a character and explore their virtues and faults, using examples from the text. “For example, Scout's sense of fierce sense of loyalty toward her family and her lack of temperance,” Lahey said. “As seen when she attacks Walter Cunningham on the playground because she felt he got her in trouble with the teacher.” While Lahey says her students study \u003cem>To Kill a Mockingbird\u003c/em> as part of a character education curriculum, she admits that the book makes great summer reading because its plot draws in teenagers, and the characters are faced with complex moral decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reading high-quality fiction may serve a larger purpose than preparing students for college and tests. Several recent studies show that reading great literature makes individuals more empathetic and more able to understand the world from another’s perspective, writes Annie Murphy Paul in \u003ca href=\"http://ideas.time.com/2013/06/03/why-we-should-read-literature/\">“Reading Literature Makes Us Smarter and Nicer.”\u003c/a> The results of the two studies Paul cites in the article, performed by Canadian psychologists Raymond Mar and Keith Oatley, were similar when applied to children: Raymond Mar’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0885201409000835\">study on preschoolers\u003c/a> showed that, even when controlled for age, gender, vocabulary and parent income, young children who were read more stories developed a stronger “theory of mind,” or the ability to imagine the beliefs and intentions of another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"lcp_catlist aside half left cats-by-2\">\n\u003ch2 class=\"feat-title\">More Summer Learning Ideas\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>[catlist categorypage=\"yes\" numberposts=\"5\" thumbnail=\"yes\" excludeposts=\"this\" class=\"\" title_tag=\"h3\" title_class=\"post-title\" thumbnail_class=\"thumbnail\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Increasing empathy isn’t the only way fiction makes us better; in a \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> article on how the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/the-neuroscience-of-your-brain-on-fiction.html?pagewanted=all\">brain processes fiction\u003c/a>, Paul breaks down research that shows human brains don’t really distinguish between fictional situations and real ones. “The brain, it seems, does not make much of a distinction between reading about an experience and encountering it in real life,” Paul writes, “in each case, the same neurological regions are stimulated.” For instance, when researcher Véronique Boulenger of the Laboratory of Language Dynamics in France had study participants read “Paulo kicked the ball,” brain scans revealed activity in the motor cortex region of the brain, which is responsible for body movements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the psychologists, fiction creates a vivid real-life simulation in which humans get to experience the world through another’s thoughts and feelings. While even more research points to ways the brain “feels” fiction -- from \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/the-neuroscience-of-your-brain-on-fiction.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0\">experiencing sensory details\u003c/a> like smell to freely experiencing characters’ deep emotions as if they were our own -- Paul writes \u003ca href=\"http://anniemurphypaul.com/2013/01/how-great-books-work-their-effects-on-us/\">on her blog\u003c/a> how it may feel for fiction to work magic on our brains: “Who hasn’t felt, at the end of a truly great novel, a little exhausted and wrung out—as if, as [William] Styron says, we’ve been living several other lives in addition to our own?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rising fifth grader Hart Wilkinson of Nashville, Tennessee, agrees, adding that a great story makes her feel as if what happens to the character also happens to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes, when something sad is about to happen [in a book], I get really sad, sometimes I feel like I’m about to cry,” she said. “Sometimes I’m so into the book, I feel like I’m the person. I don’t even notice that I’m doing it - it’s like real life, but on paper.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilkinson combs her library shelves once a week in summer, choosing stories she thinks she’ll like by an exciting or colorful cover. Then she hauls her stash home and plops into her front-porch hammock, or gets under her covers at the end of the day to read. Nowhere to be, no homework or lessons to run off to, Wilkinson says that she loves to read fiction all summer “because it’s so much fun to figure out an adventure without my feet getting tired, to just read in a hammock but still have an adventure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why does fiction whisk us away during the long, leisurely days of summer? “I think we read fiction in the summertime because we want to allow our minds to travel (whether we actually go anywhere or not),” Paul said. “Given a little more time and freedom than usual, we want to use it to get lost, to leave workaday concerns behind. Nonfiction can do that too, of course, but there's something about fiction that takes us away, even if we're just sitting in our backyards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Reading Suggestions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles children’s librarian and NPR contributor \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2013/05/31/177930647/mara-alpert-s-favorite-books-for-kids\">Mara Alpert\u003c/a> and Scarborough, Maine children’s librarian Louise Capizzo offer titles for kids of all ages rich in sensory details, with great characters who will take kids on summer adventures “without their feet getting tired.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">KINDERGARTEN - GRADE 3, chosen by Mara Alpert\u003c/span>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Bad Kitty Gets a Bath\u003c/em> \u003c/strong>by Nick Bruel\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Even the most mundane activity can be the seeds for an exciting and/or funny and/or terrifying tale, as is the case with Bad Kitty and her bath (which is definitely exciting AND funny AND a little terrifying as well). The entire experience of Kitty’s bath is described in great detail (with accompanying illustrations that will have ‘em rolling in the aisles). Kids will look at chores and everyday events in a whole new way. First in a very funny series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Awesome Dawson\u003c/em> \u003c/strong>by Chris Gall\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Young Dawson's motto is “Everything Can Be Used Again!” This “Hero To Toys Everywhere” has been recycling... well, everything to make his creations since babyhood. In his secret he prepares to make a new body for his robot friend Mooey. Unfortunately, his mom wants him to do his chores. Hey, what better way to use his talents then to build a robot to do the chores for him! Until, of course, it runs amok… Dawson makes recycling look awesome, indeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Ralph Tells a Story\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> by Abby Hanlon\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\"Stories are everywhere!\" insists Ralph's teacher, but this kid has the worst case of writer's block in the history of the world. He’s got nothing to write because NOTHING ever happens to him. Even when he learns that his classmate Daisy has written a bunch of stories about things that have happened to Ralph, he doesn’t believe it. Then he remembers the inchworm in the park, and with the help of his friends, Ralph discovers the joy of crafting personal stories. The creative and collaborative process, laid out neatly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Cooking with Henry and Elliebelly\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> by Carolyn Parkhurst\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Inspiration can come from anywhere – in this case, the world of reality television. Five-year-old Henry and his little sister pretend to be TV chefs, creating a fantastic concoction, complete with commercials, technical difficulties, creative differences, and a mom who stands back and lets it all happen (then provides snack at the end). A yummy reminder of the fun of pretend play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Clementine, by Sara Pennypacker\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> illustrated by Marla Frazee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Make room, Ramona Quimby and Junie B. Jones. Clementine charges onto the scene with the story of an absolutely disastrous week. Second-grader Clementine was just trying to be helpful when she cut off all of Margaret’s hair. And when she assisted in coloring what was left with a red marker. And when she cut off her own hair in solidarity. And… well, Clementine’s mind works in strange and mysterious ways, but she always makes a certain mad sense. She’s a feisty, creative soul, and kids will enjoy getting to know her.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>GRADES 4 -8, chosen by Mara Alpert\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Strange Case of Origami Yoda\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> by Tom Angleberger\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">A group of sixth-grade kids, friends and enemies alike, try to work out the mystery behind Dwight’s Origami Yoda. Dwight is definitely the class oddball, prone to all kinds of unusual behavior, and this year he starts wandering around with a little Yoda figure made out of origami, which he claims gives advice and answers questions just as well as the real Yoda. And to everyone’s amazement, it seems to be true! Each kid offers their own take on the situation, including illustrations (plus food stains, commentary by other kids, and more). The first book in a series that continues to be just as strong as it explores creativity, differences, belief, what makes a piece of really good advice, and does it truly matter where in comes from, and the importance of friendship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Hold Fast\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> by Blue Balliett\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Early Pearl, her little brother, and her parents share a one-room studio in a not-so-great neighborhood in Chicago, but it is a home rich with library books, imagination, and love. Then her father disappears, their home is destroyed, and the three remaining Pearls find themselves in a homeless shelter, learning survival skills they could never have dreamed they’d need. Early is a smart, resourceful, creative, and loving girl, who rises to the challenge of this new life, and of figuring out what really happened to her father, with fierce determination. The poetry of Langston Hughes, the glory that is the Chicago Public Library, and importance of reading play a major role is this ultimately optimistic tale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Larklight\u003c/em>, or \u003cem>The Revenge of the White Spiders!\u003c/em> or \u003cem>To Saturn’s Rings and Back! A Rousing Tale of Dauntless Pluck in the Farthest Reaches of Space\u003c/em> by Philip Reeve, illustrated by David Wyatt.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Just look at that title. ‘nuff said. In a Victorian era that never happened, Art Mumby and his annoying older sister Myrtle share a rambling old mansion that travels through space with their dad. When he is kidnapped during an attack of space spiders, Art and Myrtle hook up with a band of youthful space pirates to try and save him, and the universe. Oh, and to figure out what happened to their mother. This is world-building at its finest, told in a rousing, Saturday-Afternoon-Matinee style, complete with weird aliens, mad scientists, the beginnings of a romance for young Myrtle, and the opportunity to save the entire universe. Huzzah! First book in a series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>City of Fire\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> by Laurence Yep\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">In an alternate 1941 universe where magic and technology exist more or less comfortably side-by-side, 12-year-old Scirye, a princess with a miniature griffin, gather around her an unlikely group of allies (including a motherly dragon who happens to be an assassin, an orphaned boy who happens to be the assassins target, a shape-changing trickster, and a Hawaiian goddess) begins a quest to avenge the death of her older sister and the loss of some of her family’s greatest treasures. World-building, interesting characters you want to learn more about, breathless adventure, and a determined and intelligent heroine, make this trilogy-opener a winner.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>GRADES 9-12, chosen by Louise Capizzo\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“These are books that I love and still think about from time to time,” said Capizzo of her teen selections. “Do you ever have that feeling of sadness after reading a wonderful book, a book that kept your interest; a book that had you racing through chores or rushing home so you could get back to your characters. And you didn't want to finish the book too quickly, because then the story would be over. When that happens to me, I feel a bit sad because I will never be able to experience this book for the first time ever again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>One Whole and Perfect Day\u003c/em> \u003c/strong>by Judith Clarke\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">With all the chaos from her family as they prepare for her grandfather’s eightieth birthday, Lily’s wish is to have just one whole and perfect day. Set in Australia, many threads come together in this thoroughly engaging novel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Finding Somewhere\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> by Joseph Monniger\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Hattie and her friend Delores kidnap a horse slated to be put down because of age. The three embark on a road trip across America and find many surprises, but most importantly the power of friendship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Thief\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> by Megan Turner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">One of the best books I have ever read. Set in fully imagined medieval land, Gen, a thief, has one chance to save himself from life imprisonment by stealing Hamiathes’s Gift. Yet, things are not what they seem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Eleanor and Park\u003c/em> \u003c/strong>by Rainbow Rowell\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Two high-school misfits find love and friendship in this warmly told story that takes place in 1966 over the course of one year. Their path to romance is gentle, sweet, believable, and some scenes – how Park strokes Eleanor’s hand – will leave readers breathless. Achingly beautiful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Ship Breaker\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> by Paolo Bacigalupi\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Set in New Orleans in a futuristic world, Nailer works by scavenging copper wire from beached tankers. When he finds a luxurious clipper ship with a survivor aboard, Nailer must decide whether to sell her or help her. Gripping. Exciting, with plenty of action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Eagle of the Ninth\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> by Rosemary Sutcliff\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Set in Britain under Roman rule. Marcus Flavius Aquila, a Roman soldier, sets off beyond Hadrian’s Wall; a land ruled by native tribes, to discover what happened to the First Cohort of the Ninth Legion that was commanded by his father. Historical fiction at its best.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Reading high-quality fiction may serve a larger purpose than preparing students for college and tests. Several recent studies show that reading great literature makes individuals more empathetic. Here's a great list of fiction books for kids of all ages, recommended by those who know best -- librarians. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1403136982,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":2481},"headData":{"title":"Ready, Set, Read! Summer Fiction Ideas for Kids of All Ages | KQED","description":"Reading high-quality fiction may serve a larger purpose than preparing students for college and tests. Several recent studies show that reading great literature makes individuals more empathetic. 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Summer Fiction Ideas for Kids of All Ages","path":"/mindshift/29247/ready-set-read-summer-fiction-ideas-for-kids-of-all-ages","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_29446\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-29446\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2013/06/reading.jpg\" alt=\"reading\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2013/06/reading.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2013/06/reading-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2013/06/reading-320x180.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"> \" credit=\"Getty\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"dropcap-serif\">Prevent \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/07/74-creative-ways-to-stop-summer-brain-drain/\">summer brain drain\u003c/a>: that’s the reason many backpacks -- most likely laying in the same places they were joyfully dropped on the last day of school -- contain a rumpled, but hopefully not forgotten, summer reading list from school. Teachers and experts have long suggested that \u003ca href=\"http://www.rif.org/us/literacy-resources/articles/keeping-kids-off-the-summer-slide.htm\">reading over summer break\u003c/a> helps kids from losing everything they’ve learned over the school year. And new research shows that reading fiction especially might do more than serve kids academically - it may even make them better people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Educator and author Jessica Lahey’s summer reading list for her seventh and eighth graders is packed with books that the teenagers will find “interesting but challenging.” One of Lahey’s summer favorites for eighth graders is Harper Lee’s classic \u003cem>To Kill a Mockingbird\u003c/em>, both for the stretch it gives kids in complexity and vocabulary as well as supplementing the \"easy\" summer reading they may do on their own. She also wants to prepare them to think about “bigger issues raised by the books” -- in this case the virtues and failings of the rich, complex characters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lahey has students write about the book when they get back to school in the fall, and wants them to choose a character and explore their virtues and faults, using examples from the text. “For example, Scout's sense of fierce sense of loyalty toward her family and her lack of temperance,” Lahey said. “As seen when she attacks Walter Cunningham on the playground because she felt he got her in trouble with the teacher.” While Lahey says her students study \u003cem>To Kill a Mockingbird\u003c/em> as part of a character education curriculum, she admits that the book makes great summer reading because its plot draws in teenagers, and the characters are faced with complex moral decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reading high-quality fiction may serve a larger purpose than preparing students for college and tests. Several recent studies show that reading great literature makes individuals more empathetic and more able to understand the world from another’s perspective, writes Annie Murphy Paul in \u003ca href=\"http://ideas.time.com/2013/06/03/why-we-should-read-literature/\">“Reading Literature Makes Us Smarter and Nicer.”\u003c/a> The results of the two studies Paul cites in the article, performed by Canadian psychologists Raymond Mar and Keith Oatley, were similar when applied to children: Raymond Mar’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0885201409000835\">study on preschoolers\u003c/a> showed that, even when controlled for age, gender, vocabulary and parent income, young children who were read more stories developed a stronger “theory of mind,” or the ability to imagine the beliefs and intentions of another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"lcp_catlist aside half left cats-by-2\">\n\u003ch2 class=\"feat-title\">More Summer Learning Ideas\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>[catlist categorypage=\"yes\" numberposts=\"5\" thumbnail=\"yes\" excludeposts=\"this\" class=\"\" title_tag=\"h3\" title_class=\"post-title\" thumbnail_class=\"thumbnail\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Increasing empathy isn’t the only way fiction makes us better; in a \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> article on how the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/the-neuroscience-of-your-brain-on-fiction.html?pagewanted=all\">brain processes fiction\u003c/a>, Paul breaks down research that shows human brains don’t really distinguish between fictional situations and real ones. “The brain, it seems, does not make much of a distinction between reading about an experience and encountering it in real life,” Paul writes, “in each case, the same neurological regions are stimulated.” For instance, when researcher Véronique Boulenger of the Laboratory of Language Dynamics in France had study participants read “Paulo kicked the ball,” brain scans revealed activity in the motor cortex region of the brain, which is responsible for body movements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the psychologists, fiction creates a vivid real-life simulation in which humans get to experience the world through another’s thoughts and feelings. While even more research points to ways the brain “feels” fiction -- from \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/the-neuroscience-of-your-brain-on-fiction.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0\">experiencing sensory details\u003c/a> like smell to freely experiencing characters’ deep emotions as if they were our own -- Paul writes \u003ca href=\"http://anniemurphypaul.com/2013/01/how-great-books-work-their-effects-on-us/\">on her blog\u003c/a> how it may feel for fiction to work magic on our brains: “Who hasn’t felt, at the end of a truly great novel, a little exhausted and wrung out—as if, as [William] Styron says, we’ve been living several other lives in addition to our own?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rising fifth grader Hart Wilkinson of Nashville, Tennessee, agrees, adding that a great story makes her feel as if what happens to the character also happens to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes, when something sad is about to happen [in a book], I get really sad, sometimes I feel like I’m about to cry,” she said. “Sometimes I’m so into the book, I feel like I’m the person. I don’t even notice that I’m doing it - it’s like real life, but on paper.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilkinson combs her library shelves once a week in summer, choosing stories she thinks she’ll like by an exciting or colorful cover. Then she hauls her stash home and plops into her front-porch hammock, or gets under her covers at the end of the day to read. Nowhere to be, no homework or lessons to run off to, Wilkinson says that she loves to read fiction all summer “because it’s so much fun to figure out an adventure without my feet getting tired, to just read in a hammock but still have an adventure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why does fiction whisk us away during the long, leisurely days of summer? “I think we read fiction in the summertime because we want to allow our minds to travel (whether we actually go anywhere or not),” Paul said. “Given a little more time and freedom than usual, we want to use it to get lost, to leave workaday concerns behind. Nonfiction can do that too, of course, but there's something about fiction that takes us away, even if we're just sitting in our backyards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Reading Suggestions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles children’s librarian and NPR contributor \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2013/05/31/177930647/mara-alpert-s-favorite-books-for-kids\">Mara Alpert\u003c/a> and Scarborough, Maine children’s librarian Louise Capizzo offer titles for kids of all ages rich in sensory details, with great characters who will take kids on summer adventures “without their feet getting tired.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">KINDERGARTEN - GRADE 3, chosen by Mara Alpert\u003c/span>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Bad Kitty Gets a Bath\u003c/em> \u003c/strong>by Nick Bruel\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Even the most mundane activity can be the seeds for an exciting and/or funny and/or terrifying tale, as is the case with Bad Kitty and her bath (which is definitely exciting AND funny AND a little terrifying as well). The entire experience of Kitty’s bath is described in great detail (with accompanying illustrations that will have ‘em rolling in the aisles). Kids will look at chores and everyday events in a whole new way. First in a very funny series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Awesome Dawson\u003c/em> \u003c/strong>by Chris Gall\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Young Dawson's motto is “Everything Can Be Used Again!” This “Hero To Toys Everywhere” has been recycling... well, everything to make his creations since babyhood. In his secret he prepares to make a new body for his robot friend Mooey. Unfortunately, his mom wants him to do his chores. Hey, what better way to use his talents then to build a robot to do the chores for him! Until, of course, it runs amok… Dawson makes recycling look awesome, indeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Ralph Tells a Story\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> by Abby Hanlon\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\"Stories are everywhere!\" insists Ralph's teacher, but this kid has the worst case of writer's block in the history of the world. He’s got nothing to write because NOTHING ever happens to him. Even when he learns that his classmate Daisy has written a bunch of stories about things that have happened to Ralph, he doesn’t believe it. Then he remembers the inchworm in the park, and with the help of his friends, Ralph discovers the joy of crafting personal stories. The creative and collaborative process, laid out neatly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Cooking with Henry and Elliebelly\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> by Carolyn Parkhurst\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Inspiration can come from anywhere – in this case, the world of reality television. Five-year-old Henry and his little sister pretend to be TV chefs, creating a fantastic concoction, complete with commercials, technical difficulties, creative differences, and a mom who stands back and lets it all happen (then provides snack at the end). A yummy reminder of the fun of pretend play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Clementine, by Sara Pennypacker\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> illustrated by Marla Frazee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Make room, Ramona Quimby and Junie B. Jones. Clementine charges onto the scene with the story of an absolutely disastrous week. Second-grader Clementine was just trying to be helpful when she cut off all of Margaret’s hair. And when she assisted in coloring what was left with a red marker. And when she cut off her own hair in solidarity. And… well, Clementine’s mind works in strange and mysterious ways, but she always makes a certain mad sense. She’s a feisty, creative soul, and kids will enjoy getting to know her.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>GRADES 4 -8, chosen by Mara Alpert\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Strange Case of Origami Yoda\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> by Tom Angleberger\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">A group of sixth-grade kids, friends and enemies alike, try to work out the mystery behind Dwight’s Origami Yoda. Dwight is definitely the class oddball, prone to all kinds of unusual behavior, and this year he starts wandering around with a little Yoda figure made out of origami, which he claims gives advice and answers questions just as well as the real Yoda. And to everyone’s amazement, it seems to be true! Each kid offers their own take on the situation, including illustrations (plus food stains, commentary by other kids, and more). The first book in a series that continues to be just as strong as it explores creativity, differences, belief, what makes a piece of really good advice, and does it truly matter where in comes from, and the importance of friendship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Hold Fast\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> by Blue Balliett\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Early Pearl, her little brother, and her parents share a one-room studio in a not-so-great neighborhood in Chicago, but it is a home rich with library books, imagination, and love. Then her father disappears, their home is destroyed, and the three remaining Pearls find themselves in a homeless shelter, learning survival skills they could never have dreamed they’d need. Early is a smart, resourceful, creative, and loving girl, who rises to the challenge of this new life, and of figuring out what really happened to her father, with fierce determination. The poetry of Langston Hughes, the glory that is the Chicago Public Library, and importance of reading play a major role is this ultimately optimistic tale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Larklight\u003c/em>, or \u003cem>The Revenge of the White Spiders!\u003c/em> or \u003cem>To Saturn’s Rings and Back! A Rousing Tale of Dauntless Pluck in the Farthest Reaches of Space\u003c/em> by Philip Reeve, illustrated by David Wyatt.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Just look at that title. ‘nuff said. In a Victorian era that never happened, Art Mumby and his annoying older sister Myrtle share a rambling old mansion that travels through space with their dad. When he is kidnapped during an attack of space spiders, Art and Myrtle hook up with a band of youthful space pirates to try and save him, and the universe. Oh, and to figure out what happened to their mother. This is world-building at its finest, told in a rousing, Saturday-Afternoon-Matinee style, complete with weird aliens, mad scientists, the beginnings of a romance for young Myrtle, and the opportunity to save the entire universe. Huzzah! First book in a series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>City of Fire\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> by Laurence Yep\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">In an alternate 1941 universe where magic and technology exist more or less comfortably side-by-side, 12-year-old Scirye, a princess with a miniature griffin, gather around her an unlikely group of allies (including a motherly dragon who happens to be an assassin, an orphaned boy who happens to be the assassins target, a shape-changing trickster, and a Hawaiian goddess) begins a quest to avenge the death of her older sister and the loss of some of her family’s greatest treasures. World-building, interesting characters you want to learn more about, breathless adventure, and a determined and intelligent heroine, make this trilogy-opener a winner.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>GRADES 9-12, chosen by Louise Capizzo\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“These are books that I love and still think about from time to time,” said Capizzo of her teen selections. “Do you ever have that feeling of sadness after reading a wonderful book, a book that kept your interest; a book that had you racing through chores or rushing home so you could get back to your characters. And you didn't want to finish the book too quickly, because then the story would be over. When that happens to me, I feel a bit sad because I will never be able to experience this book for the first time ever again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>One Whole and Perfect Day\u003c/em> \u003c/strong>by Judith Clarke\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">With all the chaos from her family as they prepare for her grandfather’s eightieth birthday, Lily’s wish is to have just one whole and perfect day. Set in Australia, many threads come together in this thoroughly engaging novel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Finding Somewhere\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> by Joseph Monniger\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Hattie and her friend Delores kidnap a horse slated to be put down because of age. The three embark on a road trip across America and find many surprises, but most importantly the power of friendship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Thief\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> by Megan Turner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">One of the best books I have ever read. Set in fully imagined medieval land, Gen, a thief, has one chance to save himself from life imprisonment by stealing Hamiathes’s Gift. Yet, things are not what they seem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Eleanor and Park\u003c/em> \u003c/strong>by Rainbow Rowell\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Two high-school misfits find love and friendship in this warmly told story that takes place in 1966 over the course of one year. Their path to romance is gentle, sweet, believable, and some scenes – how Park strokes Eleanor’s hand – will leave readers breathless. 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This year's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/feature/summer-learning-series-2/\">Summer Learning Series\u003c/a> features \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/06/10-awesome-outdoor-summer-learning-ideas/\">10 Awesome Outdoor Learning Ideas\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/06/keep-learning-and-making-10-fun-indoor-summer-projects/\">10 Fun Indoor Learning Projects, \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/06/four-ways-to-prepare-for-college-this-summer/\">Four Ways to Prepare for College This Summer\u003c/a>, and to round out the numbered lists, this \u003ca href=\"http://www.accreditedonlinecolleges.com/blog/2011/50-creative-ways-to-fight-the-summer-slide/\">collection\u003c/a> from Accredited Online Colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>READING AND WRITING\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003col>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>Keeping up with reading and writing skills over the summer is key to maintaining learning throughout the year — so pay special attention to these creative learning activities.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.literatureyoungadultfiction.com/10-tips-to-creating-an-awesome-book-club/\">Create a book club\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Make reading social with a summer book club for kids\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.amestrib.com/articles/2011/06/01/ames_tribune/news/doc4de64bbd20f7c421864061.txt\">Keep a journal\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Encourage kids to stay sharp in their writing by keeping a journal, discussing summer activities and more.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/8146912/ns/today-parenting/t/stanch-your-kids-summer-learning-loss/\">Find summer writing camps\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Older kids can check out summer writing camps, often available through local newspapers.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scholastic.com/resources/article/three-ways-to-prevent-summer-slide\">Read throughout the day\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Offer reading opportunities morning, noon, and night, with the newspaper, websites, books, magazines, and more.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nanascorner.com/2010/07/18/grandparents-and-grandchildren-together-summer-learning-fun-part-1/\">Write a comic strip\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Develop creativity, writing, and humor with a fun comic strip.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.rif.org/us/literacy-resources/articles/what-can-families-do-to-keep-children-reading-during-the-summer.htm\">Read books about summer activities\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Before heading to the beach or a baseball game, pick \u003c!--more-->out a book that discusses the activity.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/8146912/ns/today-parenting/t/stanch-your-kids-summer-learning-loss/\">Email friends and family\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Have kids write to friends and family over email to keep in touch while also keeping up with their writing practice.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.reading.org/General/Publications/ReadingToday/RTy_June_2010/RTY_10Jun_summer_slide.aspx\">Encourage reading in bed, even if it pushes bedtimes\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Allow your children to read in bed, even allowing them to stay up later as long as they are reading.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.readingrockets.org/article/23428\">Start a blog\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Create a blog for your child to update over the summer, and share it with family and friends.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mauifamilymagazine.com/2011/05/30/summer-learning-fun/\">Read everywhere\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Read street signs, billboards, and anything else you can find while you’re on the go this summer.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://northborough.patch.com/articles/ways-to-avoid-the-summer-slide\">Designate a family reading time\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Create a time when your whole family reads, individually or as a group.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.literatureyoungadultfiction.com/5-reasons-why-you-should-read-with-a-buddy/\">Buddy up\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Pick out books for your kids to read together with their friends for fun and a shared experience.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://family.go.com/parenting/pkg-learning/article-62812-pow--using-comic-books-to-get-kids-reading-t/\">Pick up comic books\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Build a renewed interest in reading with comic books this summer.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/parenting&id=7465154\">Read aloud each day\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Even if it’s poolside, listen to your child read aloud every day.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scholastic.com/summerreading\">Summer reading camp\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Scholastic offers a Summer Challenge, a virtual reading camp that engages kids in competitive reading over the summer.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>PLACES TO GO\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Going out and getting active is a great way to have fun and learn this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.king5.com/video/featured-videos/Parent-to-Parent-Avoiding-Summer-Slide-123643309.html\">Go to a baseball game\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Discuss strategy and scores while taking in a baseball game.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.whatshappeningincarboncounty.com/sections/community/1620-dont-let-summer-slide-happen-to-your-child.html\">Visit museums\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Museums often have summer programs for kids, so stop by and check out what they have to offer.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.king5.com/video/featured-videos/Parent-to-Parent-Avoiding-Summer-Slide-123643309.html\">Go out to eat\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Do menu math at a restaurant, asking kids how much food they can afford with a certain amount of money.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.greatschools.org/students/summer-activities/68-summer-learning-activities-that-are-practically-free.gs\">Go on tours\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Whether it’s a chocolate factory or a glassblowing studio, take advantage of tours so kids can learn how everyday items are made.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.parenthacks.com/2011/06/how-to-combat-summertime-brain-drain.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+parenthacks+%28Parent+Hacks%29&utm_content=Google+Reader\">Camping\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Camping offers an excellent opportunity for discussing nature and the world around you.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/07/15/earlyshow/living/studyhall/main709369.shtml\">State and national parks\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Parks offer a multitude of learning opportunities, and fun family experiences as well.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.jhu.edu/news/home07/jun07/summtips.html\">Visit the zoo\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Take a family field trip to the zoo to see the animals and learn about animal life.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>AT HOME\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Try these ideas on summer days when you’re sticking around the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/8146912/ns/today-parenting/t/stanch-your-kids-summer-learning-loss/\">Get crafty\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Adopt a daily craft activity to do as a family every day.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca 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href=\"http://www.jhu.edu/news/home07/jun07/summtips.html\">Track daily temperatures\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Fight the summer slide while tracking the summer heat wave by tracking the temperature each day with your kids.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.freshbrain.org/activity/personal-emissions-calculator\">Calculate your family’s emissions\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Use the EPA personal emissions calculator to discover your emissions as a family, and discuss how you can improve.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ehow.com/plan-kids-garden/\">Plant a garden\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Teach kids about nutrition and growth with a summer garden.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://northborough.patch.com/articles/ways-to-avoid-the-summer-slide\">Count money when playing Monopoly\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: A family game time with Monopoly can turn into a math lesson when kids act as the banker.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>WEBSITES\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Use these websites to have fun learning this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kidsoffthecouch.com/\">Kids Off the Couch\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Get a weekly newsletter with great ideas for getting kids out and learning for the summer and throughout the year.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.storylineonline.net/\">Storyline Online\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Visit Storyline Online to watch videos of actors reading children’s books out loud.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/students/idealabs/amazing_collections.html\">Smithsonian Kids Collecting\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Kids can start a collection over the summer with the Smithsonian’s program.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.thinkfinity.org/summer-learning-kids-activities\">Thinkfinity\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Thinkfinity has fun games and learning activities for year round learning.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>ACTIVITIES\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>These are just a handful of the fun learning activities you can try this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/07/15/earlyshow/living/studyhall/main709369.shtml\">Make grocery store visits educational\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Think about the grocery store as a great place to practice math skills, and bring that same idea home to the kitchen, too.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Build-a-Robot---The-BeetleBot/\">Build a robot\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Find cool and kid-friendly robot projects to take on over the summer.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.reading.org/General/Publications/ReadingToday/RTy_June_2010/RTY_10Jun_summer_slide.aspx\">Create a picture journal\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Keep your child engaged and thinking about the activities you’re doing this summer by using a camera and notebook to create a picture journal.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.greatschools.org/students/summer-activities/68-summer-learning-activities-that-are-practically-free.gs\">Create a puppet theater\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Make puppets with outgrown gloves from the winter, and create a story for kids to act out.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"../2011/06/preventing-the-summer-slide-with-diy-tech-and-science-projects/\">Citizen scientist\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Turn kids into citizen scientists this summer, putting them to work as scientific researchers in projects over the summer.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.freshbrain.org/explore/gaming\">Build your own game\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Check out projects that allow you to build a game over the summer.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://northborough.patch.com/articles/ways-to-avoid-the-summer-slide\">Play car games\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Play ABC games during long car trips.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.tutorfi.com/LearningStylesandTechniques/funsummerlearning\">Map out your trip\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Involve your children in vacation planning by helping them create a map for your trip.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"../2011/06/preventing-the-summer-slide-with-diy-tech-and-science-projects/\">Programming\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Using programs like Scratch and Kodu, even young children can get started on programming over the summer.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.amestrib.com/articles/2011/06/01/ames_tribune/news/doc4de64bbd20f7c421864061.txt\">Finish schoolbooks\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Often, school books like math journals aren’t completed by the end of the year-put them to good use and finish them over the summer.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.amestrib.com/articles/2011/06/01/ames_tribune/news/doc4de64bbd20f7c421864061.txt\">Do art projects\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Practice drawing, take pictures, or sculpt together, and discuss the meaning of art while you’re doing it.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ymca.net/\">Visit the YMCA\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Find a great YMCA summer program for your kids to enjoy.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/putting-an-end-to-the-summer-slide/1107979\">Public library incentive programs\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Public libraries often have interactive programs for students over the summer, typically with incentives like pizza or tickets to sporting events.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.guampdn.com/article/20110528/LIFESTYLE/105280322/Stave-off-summer-slide-Camps-can-keep-kids-physically-mentally-active\">Summer camp\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: From web design summer camps to ones that promote healthy eating and exercise, summer camps can keep kids active mentally and physically.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/putting-an-end-to-the-summer-slide/1107979\">Summer school\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Many school districts have programs targeted to students who need to learn over the summer, so find out if there’s one in your area.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.growingyourbaby.com/2011/06/02/avoid-scholastic-losses-fight-the-summer-slide/\">Day camp\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Camp doesn’t have to be a 6-week sleepover affair to be effective-check out day camps for summer learning activities, too.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>[ad 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This year's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/feature/summer-learning-series-2/\">Summer Learning Series\u003c/a> features \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/06/10-awesome-outdoor-summer-learning-ideas/\">10 Awesome Outdoor Learning Ideas\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/06/keep-learning-and-making-10-fun-indoor-summer-projects/\">10 Fun Indoor Learning Projects, \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/06/four-ways-to-prepare-for-college-this-summer/\">Four Ways to Prepare for College This Summer\u003c/a>, and to round out the numbered lists, this \u003ca href=\"http://www.accreditedonlinecolleges.com/blog/2011/50-creative-ways-to-fight-the-summer-slide/\">collection\u003c/a> from Accredited Online Colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>READING AND WRITING\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003col>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>Keeping up with reading and writing skills over the summer is key to maintaining learning throughout the year — so pay special attention to these creative learning activities.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.literatureyoungadultfiction.com/10-tips-to-creating-an-awesome-book-club/\">Create a book club\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Make reading social with a summer book club for kids\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.amestrib.com/articles/2011/06/01/ames_tribune/news/doc4de64bbd20f7c421864061.txt\">Keep a journal\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Encourage kids to stay sharp in their writing by keeping a journal, discussing summer activities and more.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/8146912/ns/today-parenting/t/stanch-your-kids-summer-learning-loss/\">Find summer writing camps\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Older kids can check out summer writing camps, often available through local newspapers.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scholastic.com/resources/article/three-ways-to-prevent-summer-slide\">Read throughout the day\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Offer reading opportunities morning, noon, and night, with the newspaper, websites, books, magazines, and more.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nanascorner.com/2010/07/18/grandparents-and-grandchildren-together-summer-learning-fun-part-1/\">Write a comic strip\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Develop creativity, writing, and humor with a fun comic strip.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.rif.org/us/literacy-resources/articles/what-can-families-do-to-keep-children-reading-during-the-summer.htm\">Read books about summer activities\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Before heading to the beach or a baseball game, pick \u003c!--more-->out a book that discusses the activity.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/8146912/ns/today-parenting/t/stanch-your-kids-summer-learning-loss/\">Email friends and family\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Have kids write to friends and family over email to keep in touch while also keeping up with their writing practice.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.reading.org/General/Publications/ReadingToday/RTy_June_2010/RTY_10Jun_summer_slide.aspx\">Encourage reading in bed, even if it pushes bedtimes\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Allow your children to read in bed, even allowing them to stay up later as long as they are reading.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.readingrockets.org/article/23428\">Start a blog\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Create a blog for your child to update over the summer, and share it with family and friends.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mauifamilymagazine.com/2011/05/30/summer-learning-fun/\">Read everywhere\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Read street signs, billboards, and anything else you can find while you’re on the go this summer.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://northborough.patch.com/articles/ways-to-avoid-the-summer-slide\">Designate a family reading time\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Create a time when your whole family reads, individually or as a group.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.literatureyoungadultfiction.com/5-reasons-why-you-should-read-with-a-buddy/\">Buddy up\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Pick out books for your kids to read together with their friends for fun and a shared experience.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://family.go.com/parenting/pkg-learning/article-62812-pow--using-comic-books-to-get-kids-reading-t/\">Pick up comic books\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Build a renewed interest in reading with comic books this summer.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/parenting&id=7465154\">Read aloud each day\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Even if it’s poolside, listen to your child read 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and check out what they have to offer.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.king5.com/video/featured-videos/Parent-to-Parent-Avoiding-Summer-Slide-123643309.html\">Go out to eat\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Do menu math at a restaurant, asking kids how much food they can afford with a certain amount of money.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.greatschools.org/students/summer-activities/68-summer-learning-activities-that-are-practically-free.gs\">Go on tours\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Whether it’s a chocolate factory or a glassblowing studio, take advantage of tours so kids can learn how everyday items are made.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.parenthacks.com/2011/06/how-to-combat-summertime-brain-drain.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+parenthacks+%28Parent+Hacks%29&utm_content=Google+Reader\">Camping\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Camping offers an excellent opportunity for discussing nature and the world around you.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/07/15/earlyshow/living/studyhall/main709369.shtml\">State and national parks\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Parks offer a multitude of learning opportunities, and fun family experiences as well.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.jhu.edu/news/home07/jun07/summtips.html\">Visit the zoo\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Take a family field trip to the zoo to see the animals and learn about animal life.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>AT HOME\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Try these ideas on summer days when you’re sticking around the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/8146912/ns/today-parenting/t/stanch-your-kids-summer-learning-loss/\">Get crafty\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Adopt a daily craft activity to do as a family every day.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.parenthacks.com/2011/06/how-to-combat-summertime-brain-drain.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+parenthacks+%28Parent+Hacks%29&utm_content=Google+Reader\">Build a treehouse\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Combine outside fun with construction by building a backyard treehouse, remembering to discuss measurement (and safety) as you go.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nanascorner.com/2010/07/18/grandparents-and-grandchildren-together-summer-learning-fun-part-1/\">Create a lemonade stand\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: The classic lemonade stand offers many lessons in math and business.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.whatshappeningincarboncounty.com/sections/community/1620-dont-let-summer-slide-happen-to-your-child.html\">Play board games\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Board games build thinking skills and are a fun way for kids to play and learn over the summer.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.jhu.edu/news/home07/jun07/summtips.html\">Track daily temperatures\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Fight the summer slide while tracking the summer heat wave by tracking the temperature each day with your kids.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.freshbrain.org/activity/personal-emissions-calculator\">Calculate your family’s emissions\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Use the EPA personal emissions calculator to discover your emissions as a family, and discuss how you can improve.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ehow.com/plan-kids-garden/\">Plant a garden\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Teach kids about nutrition and growth with a summer garden.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://northborough.patch.com/articles/ways-to-avoid-the-summer-slide\">Count money when playing Monopoly\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: A family game time with Monopoly can turn into a math lesson when kids act as the banker.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>WEBSITES\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Use these websites to have fun learning this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kidsoffthecouch.com/\">Kids Off the Couch\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Get a weekly newsletter with great ideas for getting kids out and learning for the summer and throughout the year.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.storylineonline.net/\">Storyline Online\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Visit Storyline Online to watch videos of actors reading children’s books out loud.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/students/idealabs/amazing_collections.html\">Smithsonian Kids Collecting\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Kids can start a collection over the summer with the Smithsonian’s program.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca 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