My wife and I attended an upbeat 350 rally in Boston with our one-year-old son. Before heading over, I noticed the little guy was wearing his "Bowdoin Polar Bears" t-shirt, so I put a strip of duct tape over "Bowdoin" and Sharpied in "Save the" instead. Voila! He was ready...

Sprinkle a few of the Earth Day seeds below into the fertile garden that is your classroom. With the help of your students, tend to these ideas, and watch them grow! Here are six activities that my fourth grade classroom at The Park School in Brookline, MA has been working...

As part of election coverage at The Park School in Brookline, MA, fifth graders completed an online survey hosted by author Susan Goodman. In their survey answers, the kids expressed concern about taxes, jobs, immigration, and health care. More than anything else, these kids want the Obama...

My 4th grade class made YouTube videos to spread our catalog canceling project to others in hopes that more schools and scouts will join us. We made the videos as we canceled unwanted sales catalogs for 30 days to save trees, water, energy, and climate. Our school canceled over...

Ho! Ho! Ho! Many don't realize it, but we have a demented, over-caffeinated Santa with a wicked grin and dirty boots frantically traversing the United States delivering a 70-mile tall stack of sales catalogs to our mailboxes ... each day. That's millions upon millions of glossy Land's End, Williams-Sonoma, and...

You know those annoying sales catalogs that show up a little too often in your overcrowded mailbox? The ones that go straight into the recycling bin? At The Park School in Brookline, MA, where I teach fourth grade, these catalogs were a problem. We were receiving over thirty per day....