WELCOME TO THE CHARLESBRIDGE CLASSROOM!

Supplement your curriculum with complimentary videos
from Charlesbridge authors and illustrators,
plus free downloadable educator guides and activity sheets.

Featured Video

Celebrate the traditional Cherokee value of gratitude all year round with Traci Sorell's award-winning We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga! Especially suitable for a new and improved curriculum take on Thanksgiving. 
★ "A gracious, warm, and loving celebration of community and gratitude."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
★ ". . . underscores the importance of traditions and carrying on a Cherokee way of life while simultaneously incorporating modernity and challenging dated media images of Indigenous people."—Horn Book, starred review
★ "This informative and authentic introduction to a thriving ancestral and ceremonial way of life is perfect for holiday and family sharing."—School Library Journal, starred review
★ "An elegant representation of this concept, We Are Grateful has the ability to resonate with any reader. . ."—Shelf Awareness, starred review

Pre-K & Elementary

Science
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Baby Loves Science storytimes with Ruth Spiro!
Make your own nature book with
You're Invited to a Moth Ball author
Loree Griffin Burns
Explore space with Daring Dozen author Suzanne Slade
Michelle Schaub presents
Dream Big, Little Scientists
Jodi Wheeler-Toppen presents
This Is a Book to Read with a Worm
Laura Purdie Salas presents
Snowman - Cold = Puddle
Sports science with Super Gear author Jennifer Swanson
Melissa Stewart presents 
No Monkeys, No Chocolate
Author Elizabeth Rusch presents 
Mario and the Hole in the Sky
Illustrator Teresa Martínez presents
Mario y el agujero en el cielo
David Harrison presents
Now You See Them, Now You Don't
High Tide for Horseshoe Crabs author Lisa Kahn Schnell talks crab science!
The art of High Tide for Horseshoe Crabs with Lisa Kahn Schnell
Deep-sea science with Flying Deep author Michelle Cusolito
Heather L. Montgomery presents
Bugs Don't Hug
Bugs Don't Hug author Heather L. Montgomery leads a writing activity
Carrie L. Pearson presents
Stretch to the Sun
Connie Van Hoven presents
Rare and Blue
Go birding with Sneed B. Collard III, author of Beaks!
Math
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Irene Latham presents Nine

Irene Latham plays
Beethoven's Ninth
JaNay Brown-Wood presents
Grandma's Tiny House
Social Studies & Cultures
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Traci Sorell presents

We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga

JaNay Brown-Wood presents
Imani's Moon
Lesléa Newman presents
Welcoming Elijah

Traci Sorell presents

We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga

Make flan with Adriana Hernández Bergstrom, author of Abuelita and I Make Flan
Lesléa Newman presents
Welcoming Elijah
Language Arts
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Michelle Schaub
presents Finding Treasure

Laura Purdie Salas presents
Snowman - Cold = Puddle

Irene Latham presents Nine

Eileen Meyer presents

The Superlative A. Lincoln

Karen Jo Shapiro shares poetry from Because I Could Not Stop My Bike
Julie Danneberg shares
First Year Jitters letter-writing inspiration 
Art & Music
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Build a puppet theater with author
David Hyde Costello! (part one)

Build a puppet theater with author

David Hyde Costello! (part two)

Build a puppet theater with author

David Hyde Costello! (part three)

Marc Tyler Nobleman presents

Bill the Boy Wonder

The inside scoop on picture book illustration with Dave Szalay

Draw a bird with Barroux, illustrator of Counting Kindness

Follow along as Lorian Tu draws Mia, the Sunshine Squad's star athlete from Chicken Soup for the Soul KIDS

Watch as Lorian Tu edits a drawing of Sophie and Mia

Social-Emotional Learning & Life Skills
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Catherine Urdahl presents 
Polka-Dot Fixes Kindergarten

Make a welcome box with Hollis Kurman, author of
Counting Kindness
Mary Hogan Wilcox presents
We're Going on a Pumpkin Hunt

Stuart Murphy presents
Scrubba Dub, Carlos!

Learn the Scrubba Dub Song!
Kelly Carey presents
How Long Is Forever?
History
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Eileen Meyer presents
The Superlative A. Lincoln

Marc Tyler Nobleman presents
Bill the Boy Wonder

Suzanne Slade presents 
The Inventor's Secret

Cynthia Grady presents 
Write to Me

Middle School

Language Arts
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Abby Cooper presents 
Friend or Fiction

Patricia Hruby Powell presents
Struttin' With Some Barbecue

History & Social Studies
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Tami Charles presents
Like Vanessa

Patricia Hruby Powell presents
Struttin' With Some Barbecue

Science
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Pamela S. Turner presents How to Build a Human

What's the difference between a hominid and a hominin?

If we evolved from apes, how come some of us remained apes?

How do we know if our ancient ancestors walked upright?

The Makapansgat Pebble

High School

History & Social Studies
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Lynn Curlee presents
The Great Nijinsky

Tami Charles presents
Becoming Beatriz

Social-Emotional Learning
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Karol Ruth Silverstein introduces her Schneider-Award-winning novel Cursed

Karol Ruth Silverstein discusses growing up with arthritis

Karol Ruth Silverstein discusses story beginnings

Lynn Curlee presents
The Great Nijinsky

Michael Currinder presents
Running Full Tilt