Flack's exciting, mind-stretching activities illuminate a rich, interdisciplinary field of study. Investigating inventions of the past and the present, funny inventions, and inventions we may see in the future provides a natural springboard to creative thinking. Recommended books, films, organizations, and other learning resources are noted throughout the text. Grades 7-9 (adaptable for many grades).

With the vision that children can learn well and achieve excellence if provided with opportunity and challenge, Flack offers exciting ideas and strategies to identify and develop the unique talents found in each one. These strategies employ the library media specialist and teacher as allies in the talent development process, and they promote the concept of basic skills beyond literacy and numeracy into goal setting, time management, library research, creative and critical thinking, and problem solving. The activities are designed to promote literacy, integrated learning, diversity, and...

Here are a wealth of ideas, resources, and teaching techniques that promote multiple intelligences, techniques, and problem- and product-based learning. Flack uses fairy tales to provide a common theme to a variety of effective teaching strategies and engaging activities, such as making books, writing and editing newspapers, and creating a classroom museum. Drawing on Bloom's Taxonomy and the work of such experts as Gardner, Maslow, and Kohlberg, he places special emphases on learning process, literacy, thinking skills, integrated learning, diversity, and academic excellence.