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Explore, Learn, Create: Your Guide to the Lerner Maker Lab Database

Welcome to the Lerner Maker Lab, your digital gateway to hands-on learning and creative exploration. This unique database is akin to a virtual makerspace, brimming with diverse projects ranging from cooking and crafting to intriguing chemistry experiments. As with all Lerner Publishing Group offerings, our content is meticulously crafted with our readers in mind, offering […]Read more

Introducing Our New Database: Lerner Maker Lab

By Kris Tomes, Senior Digital Product Manager This January, we launched a brand new database of hands-on projects, experiments, crafts, and recipes for makers of varying skill levels! Lerner Maker Lab is our new offering for grades 2-5, with over 500 projects and growing. Each easy-to-follow project guides readers with step-by-step instructions and images. Lerner Maker Lab […]Read more

Coding Is Definitely a Literacy

This week, SLJ shared in an opinion column that Coding Is a Literacy. “School librarians are especially pivotal in coding literacy because, as with any other language, the age of acquisition for any language matters. Librarians are uniquely placed in schools with students from their early years, long before children have access to computer science […]Read more

Video: Be a Maker Author Katey Howes

By Carol Hinz, Editorial Director of Millbrook Press and Carolrhoda Books Who can be a maker? We all can! Author Katey Howes shares more about her wonderful new picture book Be a Maker in this video clip.Read more

A Colorful Spring with Crayola®

By Jenny Krueger, Publishing Director, School/Library The snow has finally melted in Minneapolis (after a mid-April blizzard) and it’s starting to feel like spring!Read more

Taking Learning Off the Page with Science Buddies

By Kate Schefer, Digital Products Coordinator Working in the Digital department at Lerner most often means ensuring that all of our frontlist titles are available in digital formats, so readers can access them anywhere, anytime, and on any device. But we also work hard to find ways to innovate within the digital space, to reach […]Read more

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Makerspace Roundup

By Sara E. Hoffmann, School & Library Series Managing Editor January 17 is a red-letter day in the world of STEAM! It’s Ben Franklin Day and Kid Inventors’ Day. Libraries can celebrate these occasions today—and all year through!—by encouraging kids to try their hand at their own inventing and/or creative projects, whether those projects be […]Read more

Guest Post: Allyssa Loya

Our guest blogger today is elementary librarian Allyssa Loya, who teaches in the Rockwall (Texas) ISD. A true technology enthusiast, she is also the author of Lerner’s new series Disney Coding Adventures. On Monday, September 24, she presented a fantastic SLJ-hosted webinar called No Fear Coding: How to Start a Coding Club and Why It […]Read more

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