Burlington Free Press Article

I ran into my neighbor this weekend, and was surprised to learn that he’d seen an article about me in Saturday’s newspaper.  The article was about my recent visit to the Saint Francis Xavier school in Winooski, VT.  After speaking to several classes, the librarian showed me a number of different projects that the students had done, based on my books.  Here’s a picture of a wonderful coral reef diagram that one class made.  The assembly of the reef was directed entirely by the students — they assembled it using the information they learned in Coral Reefs and other sources:

Coral Reef Wall Diagram

And here’s another project that they did.  It’s a doorway that’s been transformed into a redwood trunk.  Each of the green redwood needles was contributed by a different student, and on each is written a fact about redwoods that that student learned from Redwoods or another source.  That’s an origami flying squirrel, hanging from the ceiling, too.

Redwood Doorway