Transform your home library into a cozy retreat with these expert decor tips. From comfortable seating to soft lighting, create the perfect reading sanctuary.

This amazing drawbridge challenge was inspired by a real-life event! My husband and I were vacationing in South Carolina and drove out to visit an island. As we started across a bridge we were suddenly stopped and then watched as the bridge swung open. It was a drawbridge! Instead of opening in the center,

This post is part of a series about building a Canvas course from scratch. If you’d like to follow along on the journey by getting posts sent straight to your inbox, sign up below and never miss a Canvas post! What’s a Page? In a previous post I talked about Modules. Think of modules like...

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I recently shared out the output of a day-long collaboration workshop with my design team at Adobe. Over the day we filled up the whiteboard many times over, and papered the wall with post-its. I…

At first glance, the complexity of my FREE Library Lesson Planner can be daunting compared to other lesson plan templates. Let me take you step-by-step through each section so you’ll understa…

When we let students know that reading is worthwhile, it creates a chain reaction of learning. Here are 25 strategies for fostering a reading culture.

Collaborative art is easy, right!? Put a beret on, give some kids some paint brushes, let them have at it, voilà! Wrong! Dead, wrong! Organising a group of adults or children to create a cohesive a…

Do you have a little one who loves tools? This free printable tool book is a great preschool early reader and coloring book of tools!

We are getting geared up for learning about 2D and 3D shapes in my classroom! Let's keep this low-prep, rigorous, and FUN! These activities are from my NO-PREP Shapes Printables and also my Common Core Math Centers Bundle. Here are a few examples from these packets! And a few centers from my Common Core Math Centers... Download them HERE!

Let your kids build characters from the Leo Lionni book Pezzettino out of Duplo or Lego bricks with this simple activity. Great spatial, visual discrimination, and fine motor learning for preschoolers or kindergarten children.

Keeping students engaged before and after breaks can sometimes be a challenge. Are you looking for an engaging whodunnit to captivate your students at the beginning of the year? Then look no further! Thousands of teachers have used these mysteries for back to school activities, engaging students b...

Children’s librarians tirelessly go through the shelves day in and day out to reorganize the books kids carelessly pull out and shove back in at some other totally random spot. I cannot imagine how frustrating it must be! The school gives kids paint sticks to mark where they removed the book so it can be returned to the same spot if necessary, but not every kid grabs one and sooner or later they’ll all have to be able to figure out the books’ rightful place – including my son. Before he got started with the library-inspired activity I made, we read a sweet book about library puppets (used during story time) that come to life when the lights go out. It put us in the mood for our own imaginary trip to the library. When the story was finished, I gave my son some laminated “books” I’d made. On several were written the author’s names with a fine-tip dry-erase marker; the rest had card catalog numbers. Download a 2-page PDF of these book spines here. I asked my son which were fiction and which were non-fiction books. He wasn’t sure. I explained that at the library, fiction books were shelved alphabetically by the author's last name. Non-fiction books were shelved by card catalog numbers. He promptly sorted the books into two piles – those with authors (fiction) and those with numbers (non-fiction). Now I told him to put them in order. He looked at the card catalog numbers on the non-fiction books, and put the book with the smallest numbers first and the largest numbers at the end of our imaginary shelf. He alphabetized the fiction books by the first (and sometimes second) letter of the author’s last name. Books with numbers like 145.21 and 110.4 tripped him up a bit. I explained that you focus first on the digits in front of the decimal. “Which number is smaller: 145 or 110?” That was easy for him. My son beamed with pride when all the books were reshelved in the right order! Maybe he’s a future librarian.

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So some of you know that I was asked to add first and second graders to my STEM lab rotations. Y'all I know nothing about those age groups so I have relied on friends to get me going. My daughter also encourages me since she taught first grade a year or so ago. First graders

I'm sharing creative ways to use Stretchy Bands in the classroom. In fact, I know you can stretch learning with Stretchy Bands.

Kids will have so much fun creating monsters with this free printable mix 'n' match Build A Monster craft.

Bookcases are always beautiful, because they’re full of books. But this post is devoted to bookshelves that are especially beautiful, and the shelves that are so pretty and unique that they almost steal the show from the volumes themselves. Here are nine gorgeous built-in bookcases to inspire your next renovation — or just inspire a little dreaming.

Like our homes, our libraries need tidying up as well. This post offers suggestions and advice for how you can tidy up your library and make it awesome.

Learning about insect anatomy is turned into a memorable lesson when using LEGO bricks to build and label all the different parts that make up insects!

This is a library of perfboard and single-sided PCB effect layouts for guitar and bass for pedal building enthusiasts.

There's nothing quite like being in your own home. But sometimes, when there are others around, you just need to find someplace that you can escape to.

Ever wonder how rockets work? Kids do. Try out this science for kids and show them in an exciting, hands-on experiment. What will happen?

These following directions drawing activity ideas will teach kids to listen carefully to instructions and interpret them.

This just got traced by Aion and he was kind enough to share the schematic along with a cool tracing journal on his blog. As to what the SS-3 is, it's like a beefed up Cornish G-2, which is his take on the Distortion+. The original uses 2, single op amps, but for the sake of space and simplicity I've used a single dual op amp. It'll be tight, but it should fit in a 1590B. Like all Cornish pedals, it's designed with buffered bypass so the FSw labels on the layout refer to a DPDT footswitch. If wiring for true bypass, ignore those labels (and the 51k and 91Ω resistors at the bottom right corner of the board). But if you want to build it like the original, wire the in/out jacks to the in/out pads, one side of a DPDT footswitch to the FSw pads, and the other side for the on/off LED indicator.

Haven't done a tremolo in a while, so let's remedy that with the original 4-transistor Colorsound Tremolo (the re-issue is the 3-transistor version). Originals used 2SC945 transistors (BCE pinout), but I've laid this out for more common NPN transistors with CBE pinout. You might want to use a C100k pot for the Speed control. Here's the schematic for reference.