Charlesbridge Classroom

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Supplement your curriculum with complimentary videos
from Charlesbridge authors and illustrators,
plus free downloadable educator guides and activity sheets.

Featured Video

Dive in to real life animal rescue with TURTLES HEADING HOME! This compelling photo-illustrated story follows volunteers who rescue stranded sea turtles on the beaches of Cape Cod, rehabilitate them, and release them back to safe waters.

Meet the authors, a turtle rescue volunteer, and a sea turtle field technician with the Mass Audubon Society and get the inside scoop on their amazing work.

"An inspiring success story for animal-rescue advocates."—Kirkus Reviews

Pre-K & Elementary

Science

Baby Loves Science storytimes with Ruth Spiro!

Make your own nature book with
You're Invited to a Moth Ball author
Loree Griffin Burns

Explore space with Daring Dozen author Suzanne Slade

Michelle Schaub presents
Dream Big, Little Scientists

Jodi Wheeler-Toppen presents
This Is a Book to Read with a Worm

Laura Purdie Salas presents
Snowman - Cold = Puddle

Sports science with Super Gear author Jennifer Swanson

Melissa Stewart presents
No Monkeys, No Chocolate

Author Elizabeth Rusch presents
Mario and the Hole in the Sky

Illustrator Teresa Martínez presents
Mario y el agujero en el cielo

David Harrison presents
Now You See Them, Now You Don't

High Tide for Horseshoe Crabs author Lisa Kahn Schnell talks crab science!

The art of High Tide for Horseshoe Crabs with Lisa Kahn Schnell

Deep-sea science with Flying Deep author Michelle Cusolito

Heather L. Montgomery presents
Bugs Don't Hug

Bugs Don't Hug author Heather L. Montgomery leads a writing activity

Carrie L. Pearson presents
Stretch to the Sun

Connie Van Hoven presents
Rare and Blue

Go birding with Sneed B. Collard III, author of Beaks!

Math

Irene Latham presents Nine

Irene Latham plays
Beethoven's Ninth

JaNay Brown-Wood presents
Grandma's Tiny House

Social Studies & Cultures

Traci Sorell presents

We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga

JaNay Brown-Wood presents
Imani's Moon

Lesléa Newman presents
Welcoming Elijah

Traci Sorell presents

We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga

Make flan with Adriana Hernández Bergstrom, author of Abuelita and I Make Flan

Lesléa Newman presents
Welcoming Elijah

Language Arts

Michelle Schaub
presents Finding Treasure

Laura Purdie Salas presents
Snowman - Cold = Puddle

Irene Latham presents Nine

Eileen Meyer presents

The Superlative A. Lincoln

Karen Jo Shapiro shares poetry from Because I Could Not Stop My Bike

Julie Danneberg shares
First Year Jitters letter-writing inspiration

Art & Music

Build a puppet theater with author
David Hyde Costello! (part one)

Build a puppet theater with author

David Hyde Costello! (part two)

Build a puppet theater with author

David Hyde Costello! (part three)

Marc Tyler Nobleman presents

Bill the Boy Wonder

The inside scoop on picture book illustration with Dave Szalay

Draw a bird with Barroux, illustrator of Counting Kindness

Follow along as Lorian Tu draws Mia, the Sunshine Squad's star athlete from Chicken Soup for the Soul KIDS

Watch as Lorian Tu edits a drawing of Sophie and Mia

Social-Emotional Learning & Life Skills

Catherine Urdahl presents
Polka-Dot Fixes Kindergarten

Make a welcome box with Hollis Kurman, author of
Counting Kindness

Mary Hogan Wilcox presents
We're Going on a Pumpkin Hunt

Stuart Murphy presents
Scrubba Dub, Carlos!

Learn the Scrubba Dub Song!

Kelly Carey presents
How Long Is Forever?

History

Eileen Meyer presents
The Superlative A. Lincoln

Marc Tyler Nobleman presents
Bill the Boy Wonder

Suzanne Slade presents
The Inventor's Secret

Cynthia Grady presents
Write to Me

Middle School

Language Arts

Abby Cooper presents
Friend or Fiction

Patricia Hruby Powell presents
Struttin' With Some Barbecue

History & Social Studies

Tami Charles presents
Like Vanessa

Patricia Hruby Powell presents
Struttin' With Some Barbecue

Science

Pamela S. Turner presents How to Build a Human

What's the difference between a hominid and a hominin?

If we evolved from apes, how come some of us remained apes?

How do we know if our ancient ancestors walked upright?

The Makapansgat Pebble

High School

History & Social Studies

Lynn Curlee presents
The Great Nijinsky

Tami Charles presents
Becoming Beatriz

Social-Emotional Learning

Karol Ruth Silverstein introduces her Schneider-Award-winning novel Cursed

Karol Ruth Silverstein discusses growing up with arthritis

Karol Ruth Silverstein discusses story beginnings

Lynn Curlee presents
The Great Nijinsky

Michael Currinder presents
Running Full Tilt

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