Bunchland

What we’re reading today:

1. What to do with your “slacker” kid: relax, basically. “In fact, under the right conditions, middle-of-the-pack students may outperform their higher-achieving peers in the long run.”

2. I Don’t Know How She Does It comes out today. What’s changed between when the book was written 10 years ago, and now?

3. Awesome and inspiring teenage activists.

4. Ever wondered what’s going on when you’re soothing your crying baby?

5. Oh Weetabix, you know awesome dancing kids get us everytime! We’ll try your cereal.

Photo by jystewart via Flickr

The Knit Cafe, in Bunch’s home city of Toronto, Canada, has taken inspiration from The Institute for Figuring‘s Toxic Reef project, designed to raise awareness about the plight of the Great Barrier Reef, and The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (a congregation of plastic waste in the north Pacific that’s 30 metres deep approximately 2500 km across). They have begun a soft reef, crocheted with plastic yarn. Visitors of all ages are encouraged to create their own crocheted or knitted plastic scenery and add it to the ever-growing installation. The interactive exhibition is open until the end of April.

[via Toronto Craft Alert]

CBC‘s new interactive series, Breakout! is airing now on their online channel, The Outlet. Designed to encourage global awareness, as well as empower kids to make a difference in their world, Breakout! combines episodic documentaries with online content. After watching the show, kids  can go to the website for the guidance they need to get their class or group involved with an awesome Breakout! project of their very own.