What teachers say

My students enjoyed all of the mini lessons, but ... they think ... "Material World" and "Packaging: What a Waste!" will stick with them for many years to come... It was extremely helpful that one of the students' father ...is manager of a grocery store. He could ... describe all of the excess packaging that is used just to get the cereal boxes to the store.--Laura Reed, Resource Specialist and Teacher, 4th-5th grades, Cedar Rapids Community School District, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

A Venn diagram, a CRISS strategy, is an effective tool to illustrate differences and similarities between counties in the Material World book ... In addition ... our high school religious education teacher ... was thrilled with the possibility of using [Material World] with her social justice curriculum.--Kathy Stipe, 6th grade, Kuemper Catholic School, Carroll, Iowa