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1. 'Auks, Rocks and the Odd Dinosaur.'

Author

Thomson, Peggy

Abstract

The winner of the 1986 Boston Globe-Horn Book award for nonfiction discusses her work. (FL)

Published
1987

2. Getting Psyched Up at Round Meadow

Author

Thomson, Peggy

Abstract

A mountain park program for sixth-graders from Washington, D. C., is not only instructive but seems to kindle renewed zest for learning. (Editor)

Published
1974

3. An Ounce of Intervention

Author

Thomson, Peggy

Abstract

An experimental program in Maryland intervenes into the education of learning disabled children while they are still in kindergarten. (Editor)

Published
1974

4. A TV Series Starring Science.

Author

Thomson, Peggy

Abstract

The Children's Television Workshop "3-2-1 Contact" project is a series of documentary programs on science and technology subjects aimed at 8- to 12-year-olds. Based on research on children's television viewing, the series attempts to pique children's interest, alter their stereotypes of scientists, and attract them to the experience of scientific inquiry. (SK)

Published
1980

5. A Step or Two Back in Time.

Author

Thomson, Peggy

Abstract

Describes the National Park Service's Environmental Living Program for elementary school children in the San Francisco Bay Area, where teachers, parents, and children stay overnight in a historic fort and schooner, experience living in a past age, use candles and oil stoves, and engage in mock military and shipboard activities. (MF)

Published
1979

6. Radio as a Teaching Tool.

Author

Thomson, Peggy

Abstract

National Public Radio's educational staff is experimenting with radio in the classroom by dramatizing the issues of the Afghan crisis in an audiodisc presentation mailed to teachers around the country. The article includes samples of dialogue from the tape, student opinions, and why radio is the medium used. (CT)

Published
1980

7. Foxfire Kindles a Thousand Sparks

Author

Thomson, Peggy

Abstract

A highly successful student developed magazine, "Foxfire" has inspired the development of some 30 other student magazines which emphasize, as "Foxfire" has, the local environment. (JC)

Published
1975

10. Epitaph

Author

Thomson, Peggy

Published
1949

12. Good signs from MSSD

Author

Thomson, Peggy

Subjects
Deaf -- Education, Education
Published
1978

17. A new harvest for rural women

Author

Thomson, Peggy

Subjects
Rural American Women Inc. -- Management, Women in politics, Country life -- Social aspects, Women's issues/gender studies
Published
1980

19. LETTERS.

Author

THOMSON, PEGGY, PASINSKI, DAVE, GAYLOR, ANNIE LAURIE, CASTRONUOVO, DAVID, STARK, JAMES H., SIMPSON, DAVID, MCWILLIAMS, EDMUND, and FERRO, MICHAEL T.

Published
2022

20. My wild kingdom

Author

Thomson, Peggy

Subjects
My Wild Kingdom (Book) -- Book reviews, Books
Published
1982

21. MY PHYSICIAN FATHER'S IDEA OF A.

Author

Thomson, Peggy

Subjects
CARDIOPULMONARY resuscitation, BASEBALL competitions
Abstract

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) treatment provided by his father to a stranger during a baseball game.

Published
2015

22. HONESTY.

Author

Thomson, Peggy

Subjects
THEFT, MOTHER-son relationship, HONESTY
Abstract

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of forcing her five-year-old son to return a candy he stole from a grocery store.

Published
2013

24. LETTERS.

Author

INNES, CHRIS, GREENBERG, DANIEL L., WYNN, JENNIFER R., COHEN, DAVID, THOMSON, PEGGY, GROSS, JANE, SAINT JAMES, JOY, and STOWE, CLIFFORD

Subjects
*INSURANCE costs, *BEAGLE (Dog breed)
Abstract

Several letters to the editors are presented in response to articles in the February 2015 issues including "Long-Term Care Insurance: Costs Are Up but Vary Widely," by Ann Carrns in the February 21 issue, "Beware the Beagle," by Emily Yoffe in the February 22 issue, and "The Horrors Keep Coming at Rikers" in the February 24 issue.

Published
2015

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