Happy national camp day from us at ASI! Be sure to enjoy the great outdoors with some cool, fun facts. In 2017, campers in the US alone spent $3 billion on camping equipment. In the United States, 1 million new families start camping each year. The most frequent campers in …
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor is a Black composer who was born in 1875 in Holborn, England. He was named after Samuel. Taylor Coleridge, a poet who inspired his compositions. Through his compositions, Coleridge-Taylor was a political activist who fought against racial injustices and prejudices. Coleridge-Taylor learned the violin from his father at …
Scott Joplin is an African-American piano composer known as the “King of Ragtime.” You might have heard this famous piece, The Entertainer, which you can listen to here! Scott Joplin was born in Sedalia, Missouri, in the late 1860s, though he has no confirmed date of birth. Joplin’s father was a …
Juana Medina is an author and illustrator born and raised in Colombia and now lives in the United States. She writes children’s books, including “Juana and Lucas,” and illustrates many other children’s books. Today, make an illustration inspired by Juana Medina’s illustration series “Lettuce Have Fun.” In this series, she …
Los Tres Grandes, or The Big Three, were three Mexican men who were very important to Mexican Muralism, an art movement in Mexico in the 1920s. Mexican Muralism began after the Mexican Revolution when the people of Mexico fought back against dictator Porfirio Diaz. The rules of the latter were …
Let’s celebrate everyone’s favorite chocolate treat today! Did you know that the origin of the brownie is actually unknown? Some theories about the tasty snacks creation are that it was actually an accident! A chef accidentally added chocolate into his cake mix and forgot flour, creating these flat treats! Here …
Let’s celebrate everyone’s favorite kind of carb! Bread is a straightforward thing to be made at home. All you need is five ingredients; wheat, water, sweetener (usually honey or cane sugar), yeast, and salt. With these ingredients, you can make most of the treats on the handout below. Color them …
