The Flip Book is designed to allow users to type and illustrate tabbed flip books up to ten pages long. Students and teachers can use the flip book for taking notes while reading, making picture books, collecting facts, or creating question and answer booklets.
Flip Book
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The "1984" Macintosh commercial aired today during Super Bowl XVIII.
3 - 12
Calendar Activity
| Historical Figure & Event
Original advertisements are created after students review advertising techniques they've studied.
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The RMS Titanic sank on this day in 1912.
3 - 12
Calendar Activity
| Historical Figure & Event
Students use the Internet Workshop model to explore web links about the Titanic disaster.
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Celebrate National Library Week!
K - 12
Calendar Activity
| Literacy-Related Event
Students learn more about libraries as part of National Library Week.
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Today is D.E.A.R. Day!
K - 12
Calendar Activity
| Holiday & School Celebration
April 12 is known as D.E.A.R Day! D.E.A.R. stands for "Drop Everything and Read," a national month-long celebration of reading designed to remind folks of all ages to make reading a priority activity in their lives.
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Today, the American Library Association announces its annual book award winners.
3 - 12
Calendar Activity
| Literacy-Related Event
Students research different awards given by the ALA and do an activity based on one of the awards.
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The Natural World as Inspiration: An Outdoor Art Show
K - 6
Children incorporate materials from outdoors with paints or crayons to create pieces of art to display on their clotheslines, fences, or porches for a neighborhood art show.
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The first English printer, William Caxton, was born on this day in 1422.
3 - 8
Calendar Activity
| Historical Figure & Event
Students consider how the printing press affects their world by completing a printing inventory, comparing lists, and developing a "super" list of all printed materials that they interact with.