U.S. History - Colonial Challenge!
Try to reach $1,000,000! Answer a range of easy to difficult questions and test your knowledge of early US history!
US History - Colonial Challenge!
The Roald Dahl Funny Prize
This exciting new prize has two categories –
The Funniest Book for Children Aged Six and Under
The Funniest Book for Children Aged Seven to Fourteen.The Roald Dahl Funny Prize aims to:
> promote laughter and humour as a feel-good factor when reading, by encouraging families to read together and discover the pleasure of humorous (funny) books. This in turn will reinforce the message that reading together promotes family well-being.
>draw attention to funny books as readable and enjoyable books. We hope that the prize will enable these books to gain a profile that makes them more accessible to children and young people. The prize will work to achieve this through a range of activities supported by libraries, teachers and parents.
>reward and encourage authors (and illustrators) who write and illustrate books using humour in their stories, poetry and fiction. By creating these awards we hope to promote a vibrant area of publishing often overlooked by other awards.
Check it out:
Introduction to Algebra
This Introduction to Algebra can be found at Math is Fun. The site explains that algebra is a puzzle and starts you on the way to solving that puzzle here.
Lapbooks
This video offers some great examples of a Lapbook and how to put one together.
Lapbook Fever! A personalized visual book!
Here are a few more resources that I found on the net:
- Lapbooking on a Shoestring
- Lapbook Lessons
- Lapbook Tutoria
- Living Literature with Lap Book Learning
- What is a lapbook? from Tobin’s Lab (PDF file)
Thanksgiving Recipes from America’s Past
The Pilgrim Hall Museum offers these recipes from American History.
Thanksgiving Recipes from America’s Past
Sailship
This printable sailship model from Canon is just one of many paper models they offer at their site.
National Museum of the U.S. Airforce Press Release
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
Public Affairs Division, 1100 Spaatz St., Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 45433-7102
(937) 255-4704 www.nationalmuseum.af.mil
On the Radar
Nov. 12-25, 2008
Celebrate 10 years of the International Space Station during Family Day
Nov. 15
10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the International Space Station (ISS) during Family Day with space-related activities and presentations. Also, enjoy the IMAX movie “Space Station” at a discounted price at 11 a.m. More information is available at http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/education/family/index.asp.
Media contact: Sarah Parke, (937) 255-1376, sarah.parke@us.af.mil
Note: Media interested in attending this event must contact the Public Affairs Division in advance.
Learn about the challenges of unmanned aircraft
Nov. 19
7:30 p.m.
Sean “Skipper” Moulton will delve into unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from a warfighter’s perspective during his presentation “Challenges of the Next Generation Unmanned Aircraft System” on Nov. 19 at 7:30 p.m. at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. More information is available at http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123122484.
Media contact: Sarah Parke, (937) 255-1376, sarah.parke@us.af.mil
Note: Media interested in attending this event must contact the Public Affairs Division in advance.
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Out of this world Thanksgiving
NASA offers us a glimpse at Thanksgiving in outerspace here.
You can track the Space Station Thanksgiving or any other day via Nasa’s Station Sightings. I love going out on a clear night, looking at the stars and then seeing the space station travel overhead.
We live near an airport, so much of the night sky is hidden by its lights, but we have many areas a few miles from us that we visit so that the night sky opens up to us in all its glory.
Space shuttle Endeavour’s seven astronauts will are scheduled to launch tomorrow, November 14th. They will spend Thanksgiving in space. You can learn more about their mission from NASA. Also, I downloaded their STS -126 Press kit that offered some great insight as well.
American Museum of Natural History Young Naturalist Contest
I received a letter from the American Museum of Natural History announcing their 2009 Young Naturalist Award.
Their website (amnh.org/yna) provides a step-by-step guide on how to conduct the program for a group and for individual participation.
The deadline for the contest is March 2, 2009.
Daily Chess
Test your chess proficiency with three new free online chess games every day. Take your choice of easy, medium or hard chess puzzles.
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