Educators
Here’s a one-stop shop where you can find free extension activities for my books. To invite me to your school, click here for info.
No Brain the Same
- Book trailer (YouTube)
- Series Activity Kit
- No Brain Like Mine art printable. Instructions linked separately here.
- Conversation with the editors (YouTube)
Tomatoes on Trial
- Book trailer (YouTube)
- Audiobook
- Mock Trial Toolkit for Classrooms
- Plant Parts Logic Puzzle (Illinois Agriculture in the Classroom)
- Specialty Crop Self Portrait (Illinois Agriculture in the Classroom)
- “What Are Taxes and Tariffs?” | NPR’s “But Why?” podcast for kids
- How tomatoes are grown outdoors in California (YouTube)
- How tomatoes are grown in greenhouses (YouTube)
Outdoor Farm, Indoor Farm
- Book trailer (YouTube)
- Activity Kit: Simple Hydroponic Garden activity and Word Search, Crossword, Vocab, and Pen Pal printables
- Wheat harvest on Author Lindsay Metcalf’s family farm (YouTube)
- Lettuce production in the Salinas Valley (YouTube)
- BrightFarms virtual field trip (Vimeo)
- AeroFarms 360-degree tour (YouTube)
- Interactive, Up-close Look at a Combine (American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture)
- Farm Pinterest Board
- Poetry and Nonfiction: How Does That Work? (Nonfiction Fest)
- How I got the idea (Nerdy Book Club)
No World Too Big
- Activity Kit
- Video interview with the editors (minute 22:54)
- Compost Activities for Kids video
- Greenhouse Effect Experiment video
- “What’s in Your Trashcan” drawing worksheet
- “What’s in Your Trashcan” pie chart worksheet
- Conduct an Energy Audit of Your School
- Earth Day/Poetry Month Activity Calendar
- My reading of “A Recipe for Earth” on The Children’s Book Podcast
- Keila Dawson’s reading of her poem “No World Too Big” on The Children’s Book Podcast
