For Teachers
School Visits
Elizabeth Rusch loves teaching, inspiring and mentoring students about writing and about the topics she has grown to love, including: volcanoes, art exploration, and youth activism. Click button below to learn more about Liz’s school visits.
Classroom Materials
For the Love of Music
A link to a standards-based, teacher-approved curriculum guide for elementary and middle school students. This guide includes creative art projects, hands-on musical games, and engaging history lessons. It features lessons on mapping the Mozart's musical tour of Europe, writing timelines of Maria Anna Mozart's life as if she had been alive today, linking primary source letters written by the Mozart family and friends to scenes in For the Love of Music, and more.
A Day with No Crayons
A link to great information about crayons and some fun found-art and recycled crayon activities.
Generation Fix
General and chapter-by-chapter discussion questions. Perfect for service-learning schools!
Link to resources and information for teenagers in trouble
Dr. Janet Allen’s Plugged into Nonfiction Readers Guide
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The Planet Hunter
Link to some cool astronomy websites including NASA and the Hubble Space Telescope and check out some cool solar system related activities.
Will It Blow?
A link to great resources abou
t Mount St. Helens and other volcanoes.