The Kid Should See This  • February 20, 2025

🦁 WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEK:

Ostrich chicks navigate the Kalahari Desert for their first drink of water ➜

👩🏻‍💻 I’m working on a few TKSST projects in earnest this week, but I've also run into a lot of interesting news. Explore plastic ice, blob-headed catfish, and more. Plus, this week’s videos include K-12 video lessons about New Orleans jazz funerals. 🎺

🧊 A weird ice that may form on alien planets has finally been observed - Science News

📚 USBBY’s Outstanding International Books list - SLJ

💈 Barbershop Books offers free books and trains barbers to become reading role models in nearly 60 cities. Watch this video about one of my favorite non-profits. - NBCU Academy

⛰️ 27 new species recorded in Peru: “Among the most surprising new finds were an ‘exceedingly rare amphibious mouse,’ a ‘narrow-mouthed frog’ and a ‘bizarre ‘blob-headed’ fish…’” - Smithsonian Magazine

🌿 Pangolins are ecosystem engineers - Mongabay

💻 How K–12 Schools Approach Teaching Digital Citizenship: “Digital citizenship lessons are spread across multiple subjects, such as social studies and math, just as writing occurs across multiple classes.” EdTech links to Orange Unified’s Digital Citizenship Curriculum and Lessons and…

🤖 FETC 2025: Ways To Bring AI into your K–12 District - EdTech

🏛️ What might happen if the Education Department were closed? - The Hechinger Report

🧮 FROM TODAY’S TRUSTED PARTNER

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