FREE Master Classes in Nature Writing With Top Journalists and Authors Now Offered on Zoom
Pandemic University has put together a free 5-lesson masterclass on journalism and writing with a focus on nature and environmentalism.
Pandemic University has put together a free 5-lesson masterclass on journalism and writing with a focus on nature and environmentalism.
Yale is offering its 'happiness course' hosted by Dr. Laurie Santos for free to some high school students-and they'll get college credits.
In a small school in Tasmania, the Zayed Future Energy Hub has saved $44,000 by using solar panels, 3x glazed windows, and pedal power.
Want to learn how to write in Python or Open Source? This 16-bit role-playing game will teach you how with fun.
Flickering screens can help kids with reading and writing difficulties, according to a new study from the University of Gothenburg.
A TV presenter and nature enthusiast, Helen Skelton, has a list of creative ideas for making family fun outdoors in nature this summer.
Words With Friends is collaborating with the Scripps National Spelling Bee to present an 8-day takeover before the 2021 finals on July 8.
Scientists discover that the resting brain repeatedly replays compressed memories of what was just practiced
A Berkeley student from Zimbabwe took a computer science major back home and turned it into free coding classes for at-risk youth.
The Rychner family of Farmington, Minnesota had little interaction with the elderly man living next door for nearly a decade. All that change last year when the family's 3-year-old son, Emmett, struck up an unlikely friendship with the 89-year-old Erling Kindem over a shared love of tomatoes and lawn tractors.
Jeff Balek was born blind, but that hasn't stopped him from pursuing one of his favorite past-times – teaching children who can see how to read. With no transportation of his own, getting to the program is a labor of love, but Balek says volunteering through the YMCA in Charlotte, NC to help children overcome their reading barriers has enriched his life in ways he never imagined.
A 99-year-old woman was finally awarded her college diploma at a special graduation ceremony after a $5 diploma fee prevented her from receiving it 75 years ago.
Educators say 80 percent of learning depends on a child's ability to see a blackboard or read a book, but some children in the United States never get the glasses they need, including 40,000 children in Los Angeles alone. Statistics show up to 15 percent of all children in elementary school need glasses. The solution is clear for a group called Vision to Learn. Their bus-clinic provides free eye exams and glasses to students in low-income communities.
Bray served in World War II. He was at Normandy on D-Day and has two Purple Hearts. Today, the soldier in him still refuses to surrender. I want to read one book, he says. I don't care if it's about Mickey Mouse. I want to read one book before I die.
A 10-year-old girl was experimenting with a molecule-building set in her Montessori school when she created an unusual-looking specimen. Clara Lazen randomly arranged a unique combination of oxygen, nitrogen and carbon atoms, with the result being a molecule her teacher had never seen before. Intrigued, he photographed it and sent it to a chemistry professor at Humboldt State University in California, who discovered that not only was Lazen's molecule unique, it had the potential to store energy.
In light of recent studies saying that kids perform better without the burden of homework, this Florida county has done away with it altogether.
The "Tough Topics" poster has been lauded as an ingenious solution for people who might be too uncomfortable to seek accurate information on harsh subjects.
The subtle characteristics of the Dyslexie font have been shown to help dyslexics read faster and make fewer spelling errors.
While messing around and building things on his deck one day, Todd Bol took a dollhouse-size structure and turned it into a free community library that would have global impact. He started a movement called Little Free Library, a nonprofit that seeks to place small book exchange boxes in neighborhoods around the world. The idea has taken off, growing from 100 libraries in 2011 to 6,000 libraries in 2013.
On Saturday, hundreds of cultural institutions across America will be celebrating Museum Day with free admission.
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