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Carmella Van Vleet

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Resources

Nothing Is Little

"You Gotta Meet Mr. Pierce!"

"You Gotta Meet Mr. Pierce!"

Reading Guide


Activities Guide


5 Minute (give-or-take!) Literacy Boosters to do with Students 


Locard's Exchange Principle and Books


See if you can solve Crime Scene #1


See if you can solve Crime Scene #2



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"You Gotta Meet Mr. Pierce!"

"You Gotta Meet Mr. Pierce!"

"You Gotta Meet Mr. Pierce!"

Activities Guide


Short introduction video on Mr. Pierce


Short introduction video on Mr. Pierce (w/ multiple photos)


Mr. Pierce's granddaughter showing one of his preaching sticks

(on PBS Antique Road Show)


Elijah Pierce: Sermons in Wood (1980)

[Note for teachers and parents: Please be aware this 27-minute film includes outdated/offensive language and recounts of slavery and racism. But I've included it because it gives you an opportunity to hear Mr. Pierce's stories in his own voice and watch him work.]



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Eliza Bing Is (Not) A Star

Eliza Bing Is (Not) A Big, Fat Quitter

Eliza Bing Is (Not) A Big, Fat Quitter

Educator's Guide


Drama Games for Kids (from Beat by Beat Press)




read an excerpt

Eliza Bing Is (Not) A Big, Fat Quitter

Eliza Bing Is (Not) A Big, Fat Quitter

Eliza Bing Is (Not) A Big, Fat Quitter

Educator's Guide


Choose to Read Ohio Toolkit


Book Trailer from the Lunch Bunch Book Club students of Clearwater Elementary School (Thanks, friends! I love it.)

read an excerpt

To the Stars!

Eliza Bing Is (Not) A Big, Fat Quitter

To the Stars!

Educator's Guide


Disrupters, Daredevils, and Artist: Women Who Changed the World


Women in Space


Space play dough recipe





Look inside

Aviation: Cool Women Who Fly

Aviation: Cool Women Who Fly

Aviation: Cool Women Who Fly

Women In Aviation International

The Ninety-Nines

The Whirly Girls

Association for Women in Aviation Maintenance

Girls in Science series

#MGGetsReal (website)

Aviation: Cool Women Who Fly

Aviation: Cool Women Who Fly

#MGGetsReal is a collective effort of five authors to create a list of books about tough topics that middle grade readers face every day. 

Check out the list

Pictures

Left to right: Jennifer Mack-Watkins (illustrator of You Gotta Meet Mr. Pierce), me, Chiquita Mullins Lee (co-author of You Gotta Meet Mr. Pierce) 

Jennifer, Chiquita, and me on the steps of the Columbus Museum of Art after we got a private tour of Elijah Pierce's art (even the stuff not on display)! 





The "real life Eliza" when she was nine and a white belt.

Me and the "real life Eliza" (my daughter) after we got our 3rd degree black belts.





Me and Judy Blume backstage at her 80th birthday event in New York, February 2018.

Opportunity and photo from the amazing Debbie Ridpath Ohi!

My office. 

Videos and news

Dr. Sullivan makes history again!


On June 7th, 2020, Dr. Sullivan became the first woman to dive to Challenger Deep (the lowest known point in the ocean). 


Click on the link below to read more. 


https://westatlanticmedia.net/2020/06/08/astronauts-historic-journey-to-the-deep/

Kathy Sullivan's EVA and the mission landing

CBS news coverage of Kathy Sullivan's first mission launch on Oct. 5, 1984

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