NMF announces winners of the 2008 Green Earth Book Award
   The winner in the Children Fiction category is Winston of Churchill: One Bear’s Battle Against Global Warming, written by Jean Davies Okimoto and illustrated by Jeremiah Trammell; the winner in the Young Adult Fiction category is The Light-Bearer’s Daughter, written by O. R. Melling; and the winner in the Nonfiction category is The Down to Earth Guide to Global Warming, written by Laurie David and Cambria Gordon. Visit Green Earth for information about the award winning books.

Collect Six Tons of Paper
   A Flippin, Ark. high school's science club saved 100 trees in less than a week, reports Joanne Bratton for the Baxter (Ark.) Bulletin. The club started a five-day recycling competition in an effort to keep their community beautiful and eliminate landfill waste, resulting in the accumulation of six tons of paper. By continuing to recycle, the students hope to inspire their community to follow suit. "If you leave it for someone else to do, they'll leave it for someone else to do," said Dwan Garrison, science club sponsor. Read more

FactHound Safari Contest
   Get involved in science and research. Each month three clues and a photograph with an amazing African animal will be postesed on the contest eb site. Students use clues to undertake researse and fill in the missing information and all those with correct answers are entered into a deawing to win books for theior school. Safari.

Grants for Music Education
   The Music Is Revolution Foundation administers a grant program for activities designed by teachers to implement, support and/or improve their ability to provide quality music education for their students. Funds may be used for supplies, materials, equipment, transportation for a field trip and/or to bring a performer or musical group to the school. Maximum Award: $500. Deadline: April 15, 2008. Apply

Grants for Athletics for Young Women
   Women's Sports Foundation GoGirlGo! Grants provide financial assistance to sports/physical activity programs seeking to add new or expand program participation opportunities for an under-served population of girls, particularly economically disadvantaged girls and/or girls from populations with high incidences of health-risk behaviors. Average Award: $5,700. Eligibility: School, amateur, community and/or nonprofit organization whose program members are female, enrolled in 9th through 12th grade and residents of the United States. Deadline: May 9, 2008. More details.

Books Across America
   The National Education Association's Books Across America Library Books Awards Program enables public school libraries serving economically disadvantaged students to purchase books. Maximum Award: $1,000. Eligibility: Practicing pre-kindergarten through grade12 school librarians, teachers, or education support professionals in a U.S. public school in which at least 70 percent of the students are eligible for the free or reduced-price lunch program. Deadline: November 7, 2008. Learn more.

Free Teaching Resource
   Recently the U.S. Department of Education launched a new and improved version of the much acclaimed web site, Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE). FREE provides educators with lesson plans, primary documents, science visualizations, math challenges, literary works, paintings, music manuscripts and many other vital classroom resources. The tool also combines important educational elements culled from the Library of Congress, Smithsonian, National Science Foundation, NASA, National Archives and other federal agencies. Free Teaching Resources