4 Books That Make Kids Think
Take your kids from readers to leaders with books that teach them how to ask questions and think critically! These books inspire thinking rather than memorizing, and help children to connect ideas to actions.
Tag: Orca Footprints
Guest Post: Design Like Nature authors share a biomimicry experiment you can try at home!
In this guest post, Design Like Nature authors Megan Clendenan and Kim Ryall Woolcock share the story of their own biomimicry experiment: creating compostable packaging out of banana peels!
Q&A with Michelle Mulder: Community-building during COVID-19
Michelle Mulder is the author of several books in the Orca Footprints series, including Home Sweet Neighborhood: Changing the World One Block at a Time. Since people started taking COVID-19 precautions such as distancing, she’s noticed a surging interest in topics she loves to write about, like cycling, community-building and …
Author Feature: Ann Eriksson
We’re all connected to the ocean, and the ocean to us. The ocean provides half the oxygen we breathe; it feeds us, creates our weather and provides us with water. But we haven’t been as kind to the ocean in return. The problems are many: pollution, overfishing, rising seas and …
Author Feature: Michelle Mulder
Going Wild: Helping Nature Thrive in Cities: “Going wild.” We don’t see it as a good thing. And why would we? For most of our time on earth, humanity has been running from lions and other wilderness dangers. We’ve worked hard to make our local landscapes as safe and convenient …
World Water Day Reading List
World Water Day is on March 22. Did you know the United Nations estimates that 2.1 billion people live without safe water at home? And according to the Global Water Institute, 700 million people worldwide could be displaced by intense water scarcity by 2030. These statistics may be overwhelming, but …