Label: Teachers And Librarians

December 1, 2009

FAQS about speaking:

* Honorarium TBA, plus airfare, hotel and meals, three presentations in one school.

* No extra travel charge for schools within 90 minute driving distance.

*  Your school can cut the cost in half by inviting another school in your area to share in Seymour’s visit. I’ll then do ONE large assembly program at each school, one school in the morning and another school in the afternoon.

* For schools which include overnight hotel stays, Seymour can add an evening program for the entire community for a small additional fee.

* Contact Seymour directly:  simon@seymoursimon.com
or HarperCollins School and Library Promotion:  tony.hirt@harpercollins.com

October 21, 2009

October 21, 2009

October 21, 2009

September 1, 2009

I’ll be speaking and signing books in the Hazelwood School District in St. Louis on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 20, 21. I’ll also be speaking and signing books in schools in Dallas for a full week from November 2-6. I’ll post my complete Fall schedule soon. If your school is interested in a visit, send an email. 

July 21, 2009

I’ve been reading your comments this morning, and I see a number of classes are wondering how they can get me to come to their school.

Your teacher (or PTO) can write to my publisher to request a school visit. Or you can just write to me: seymour@seymoursimon.com. I hope to see you soon! 

July 15, 2009

Climate change, the energy crisis,  global pandemics, nuclear proliferation-many of the most urgent problems of the twenty-first century require science-based solutions. Yet Americans are paying less and less attention to scientists. For every five hours of cable news, less than a minute is devoted to science; the number of newspapers with weekly science sections has shrunken by two-thirds over the past several decades. Just 18 percent of Americans personally know a scientist to begin with, and exceedingly few can name a living scientist role model.

This is excerpted from the new book UNSCIENTIFIC AMERICA, written by Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum.

The disconnect between the scientific community and mainstream American culture grows wider every day.

We all need to think about our own attitudes toward science and what we’re teaching our children. 

May 31, 2009

  1. Dolphins are the "wonder of the animal kingdom." Take a tour of a dolphin’s body to find out what makes them so wonderful.

    a. Teeth: A dolphin’s teeth are not for chewing, but how do they help in food gathering? Some scientists think that the teeth are spaced in a way to help dolphins analyze sound waves.

    b. The melon: The melon is used in echolocation to focus sound waves the dolphin gives off.

      c. Dorsal fin: As distinctive as a person’s face. Used by scientists to identify individual dolphins.

    d.  Eyes: Special glands to protect their eyes from ocean water.

      e. Skin: Many nerve endings in skin helps explain why tame dolphins like to be stroked.

    f. Blowhole: Like a person’s nostril.  Blowhole allows a dolphin to breathe while swimming at top speed.

  2. What makes Dolphins so smart?

    a. Brains: large size, second only to human in ratio of brain size to body size.

    b.  Communication: Dolphins communicate by sounds. Listen to a recording of a "conversation" to hear the squeaks and whistles.

      c. Dolphins make choices and learn quickly.

  3.  What are some amazing dolphin facts? What other facts do you know?

          a. Using sonar, a dolphin can find a single marble dropped into the end of a 70 foot pool.

    b. A mother dolphin will stay with a calf for two to three years.

      c. The killer whale (Orca) is really the largest dolphin, not a whale.

    d. Dolphins can mimic a human whistle.

      e. Baby dolphins "babble" like human children.

      f. Dolphins were once land animals and evolved into sea animals.  Their front legs became fins for steering although they still have a land mammal’s finger-like bones.
 

March 31, 2009

Meet the Author -  Seymour Simon 

February 16, 2009

Recently, Liz Nealon and I have been giving talks and workshops about digital literacy to teacher and librarian groups such as the Wisconsin State Reading Association. This article in the New York Times is written from a librarian’s point of view. I would appreciate feedback. Tell me what you doing or what you would like to do to teach digital literacy in your own class or library.

Email Seymour Simon and tell him what you think and what you’ve been doing in your school about this important topic 

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