https://www.pamelatuchscherer.com/home daily 1.0 2021-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed29ac66533665d5bd9ceee/1612991638560-Z89VG0FGUQO287AVXB20/PamelaTuchschererAbout.png Home - Welcome Here you can learn about my books and articles for young children. I specialize in biography, historical fiction, and short form science writing. I channel my enthusiasm for researching the challenges and adventures of pioneering scientists and artists into stories for young readers. I’ve taught elementary school in Australia, Oregon, and Washington, D.C. As a teacher, nothing brings me more joy than helping students discover a love of reading and encouraging their inquisitive nature in science and the past. Previously I’ve authored an award-winning newsletter and books for early childhood educators. https://www.pamelatuchscherer.com/mywork daily 0.75 2022-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed29ac66533665d5bd9ceee/1664041085027-N0OTZX3QSJX0RLWF18U5/RoxieLaybourne_4.png My Work Hi Pamela, Thanks so much for the copy of the Cricket article. You did an excellent job of describing Roxie and her work and it is all so accurate. Also, I love that youngsters are invited to write their own natural history detective story. Great job, and thanks for your interest in Roxie. Cheers, Carla Carla Dove Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Program Manager Feather Identification Lab https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed29ac66533665d5bd9ceee/1664041010067-HL7KCH32UEOIPUDI4Q07/RoxieLaybourne_1.png My Work - “Roxie Laybourne: Feather Detective” "Roxie Laybourne: Feather Detective” was published in Cricket Magazine in April 2022. It introduces readers to how Laybourne pioneered the study of forensic ornithology while at the National Museum of Natural History. Known as “the feather lady” because of her ability to identify bird species through microscopic identification of feathers, she could determine what birds collided with planes. Helping engineers design jet engines more resilient to bird strikes led to changes in aviation safety starting in 1960. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed29ac66533665d5bd9ceee/1593295442516-TUWIIT0YQQYIDYH474QW/CKT1909_31_ElseBostelmann.jpg My Work - “Else Bostelmann: Deep Sea Illustrator” “Else Bostelmann: Deep Sea Illustrator” was published in the September 2019 issue of Cricket magazine, the literary journal for children and teens. Readers learn about the artist Else Bostelmann’s amazing adventure illustrating unearthly creatures in the deep sea. She was the first to bring to life haunting fang-toothed fish and species with glistening lights, in the pages of National Geographic magazine in the 1930s. In my side-bar article, “Underwater Artist,” readers learn how Else took her easel attached to a music stand twenty-five feet below the surface of the ocean. Wearing a diving helmet connected to an air hose, she painted sea dragons and angelfish while recording the “unbelievable charm of some of Nature’s grandest scenes.” Get a copy of the issue here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed29ac66533665d5bd9ceee/1593295742811-DT7KR3EH0OAWS4T653IO/NMNH-2018-00197.jpg My Work - “Safety Suit Up: New Clean Room Allows Scientists to Study Fragile Ancient DNA” The Smithsonian BioBubble Lab allows scientists to study fragile ancient DNA. Scientists can enter a sterile lab and extract DNA from naturally preserved plants as well as from archeological skeletons, mummified tissue, and tissue remains found in ice and permafrost. To go on a visit to the lab, read the article in the Smithsonian Voice blog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed29ac66533665d5bd9ceee/1593366673588-5Q4LLZJ7LL6J8FSDN0RM/AncientPlant.jpg My Work - “Ancient Plants Tell Stories of Today” It’s hard to grasp the concept of deep time. In this article from the Smithsonian’s Plant Press, I explain how, by studying ancient plants, scientists can find clues to Earth’s climate history and can make comparisons to our current alterations of Earth’s systems. Read about the Deep Time exhibit at the Natural History Museum and discover how our effect on climate today is as powerful as past geological events here. (Image courtesy of the Biodiversity Library) https://www.pamelatuchscherer.com/q-a daily 0.75 2020-07-08 https://www.pamelatuchscherer.com/contact daily 0.75 2020-09-27 https://www.pamelatuchscherer.com/about daily 0.75 2022-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed29ac66533665d5bd9ceee/1612996357813-G8H0AJJDWCBE7TP31ZDO/PamelaTuchschererAbout.png About I spent my childhood in Oregon climbing trees, floating down our local canal on a balsa wood raft, and reading under a willow at home. My love for biographies began in third grade. Gravitating to the sky-blue Childhood of Famous Americans Series at the library, I loved to be transported by the spirited adventures of Ethan Allen, Clara Barton, and Thomas Edison. As I grew older, I moved on to James Michener’s historical sagas and began writing. I was inspired to create short stories about what life must have been like for children immigrating into the United States during the nineteenth-century. On the weekends, you’d find me playing softball or skiing on Mount Hood’s snowy slopes. I graduated from Oregon State University with a teaching degree and minors in geography and biological science. I went on to teach in a sheep-raising area of Australia, a three-room school in rural Oregon, and a private school in Washington, D.C., just blocks from the Capitol. I spent eight years writing a national early childhood newsletter and books for teachers, which involved me speaking to top educators and sharing their insights on working with young children. When I retired from teaching, I discovered the benefits of living near Washington D.C.. I combined my love of science, history, and research by using the resources of the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Museums. I interacted with research librarians and specialists in many fields. At the National Archives, I perused the Civil War Widows Pension Files and read soldiers’ testimonials, passages from fellow prisoners, and letters home with accompanying sketches of the battlefield—wonderful nuggets of history for a writer. We now live in Oregon. When I’m not reading, writing, or enjoying the out-of-doors, my husband and I spend time with our grandchildren. We also visit Hawaii, where we kayak and stroll on the beach, watching for humpback whales and spinner dolphins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed29ac66533665d5bd9ceee/1600386099745-XVKM3VAFY22SVF1IGH99/EarlyPublications2+copy.png About - Early Publications: Preschool Perspectives- National Early Childhood Educator’s Newsletter (Gold-award winner) Creative Parent Communication Early Educator’s Tool Box: The Guide to Early Learning Materials and Program Application TV Interactive Toys: The New High-Tech Threat to Children From Library Journal: This is a thoughtful, careful analysis of children's TV viewing and the harm caused by the violence of children's programming. Tuchscherer, an educator, is especially critical of the new trigger-equipped power toys that can be activated by children in response to television programs, or that TV signals can activate in the child's hand, creating a kind of electronic duel. Believing these toys desensitize children and have a more negative effect than violent programming alone, she offers many positive alternatives. Excellent appendixes and a good index. A wise choice for a "parent's corner" or any library in need of new material on the effect of TV violence on children. Annette V. Janes, Hamilton P.L., Mass.