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September 2008 Archives
12:26 PM Mon, Sep 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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The Rhode Island Geography Education Alliance, R.I.'s affiliate of the National Geographic Society's Geographic Alliance network invites teachers of all subjects and all grade levels to the RIGEA Fall Geography Dinner at the John Nicholas Brown Center in Providence on......
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2:55 PM Fri, Sep 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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In addition to Chapter 2 of the serial story Paper Cut, Kidsbeat looks at bird migration -- how do birds know when it's time to move on? What birds can you find today in your own backyard? According to Rhode......
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2:38 PM Thu, Sep 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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Last week marked the start of Hispanic Heritage Month -- observed each year between September 15 and October 15. In 1968, as President Lyndon Johnson established a week-long celebration of Hispanic Heritage. Two decades later, President Ronald Reagan extended it......
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2:57 PM Wed, Sep 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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Young voters speak out on the issues that will influence their choice of president in I'm Voting For. The video testimonal project is presented by Campus Progress Action, part of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, who work......
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11:35 AM Wed, Sep 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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In Fresno, Ca. this week, a principal apologized to a student after the school punished him for wearing an American flag t-shirt to class. Fifteen-year-old Jacob Shelley wore the flag shirt during "hippie day" at Dos Palos High School. But......
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4:15 PM Tue, Sep 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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Sometimes people use the term "rocket science" to say what something isn't. "For goodness sake, finish your homework, Shmedly! It's not rocket science, you know!" "Do you think just maybe this once, when you take off your socks, you could......
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11:09 AM Tue, Sep 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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One of your students could win an iPod touch for themselves and a $2,500 School Safety Package for your school. Here are some statitics that make me cringe: According to the Centers for Disease Control, each month, over one million......
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1:23 PM Mon, Sep 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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At 11:44 this morning, the sun could be observed directly above the earth's equator -- something that happens only twice a year -- the vernal equinox around March 20 or 21and the autumnal equinox on September 22 or 23.......
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10:26 AM Fri, Sep 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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Wednesday, September 21, 1938, was a perfect morning of airy fresh blue skies in Tiverton when I stepped onto the bus bound for Durfee High School. It was my last year, and I was 17. So begins the story of......
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11:44 AM Thu, Sep 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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Talk-Like-A-Pirate Day was started in 1995 by two landlubbers -- John Baur and Mark Summers and has taken on a life of its own, arrr! Teachers have embraced the day as a way to sneak in history without kids......
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11:36 AM Wed, Sep 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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The First Amendment is considered the most important amendment and its guarantee of free speech the most important freedom. Talk to your students about the importance of free speech and ask them how it is the foundation of all......
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1:00 PM Tue, Sep 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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Let your students explore for themselves how the 221-year-old U.S. Constitution continues to govern our lives today. Send them on a scavenger hunt through The Providence Journal or projo.com to find examples of stories, headlines and photos of the......
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10:16 AM Tue, Sep 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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Here's an easy tool to help kids remember the Bill of Rights: First, have students memorize the following list of alphabetical words (using pictures might be helpful) -- apple, banana, couch, date, egg, football, gate, horse, ice cream, jewelry. Once......
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12:59 PM Mon, Sep 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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Remember to check the NIE page for a variety of downloadable Constitution Day lessons and guides. Or make learning fun with a Constitution Day crossword puzzle, a Preamble puzzle, and eight additional puzzles at Vocabulary.com.......
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3:49 PM Fri, Sep 12, 2008 | Permalink |
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A new guide to teaching the elections just in time! elections - ann west.pdf Watch this blog for more election curriculum over the coming weeks. . .......
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11:17 AM Fri, Sep 12, 2008 | Permalink |
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This image shows the eight planets and the four dwarf planets named so far: Pluto, Makemake, Eris, and Ceres. Note that the orbits in this image are not to scale. When I was a third grader at Cranston's Eden......
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10:24 AM Fri, Sep 12, 2008 | Permalink |
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With Hurricane Ike bearing down on the Texas coast, many eyes will be glued to the TV this weekend. This is a good time for students to research the Galveston hurricane of September 8, 1900, where more than 6,000 people......
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11:58 AM Thu, Sep 11, 2008 | Permalink |
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Seven years ago today, September 11, 2001, al Qaida terrorists crashed two hijacked airliners into the twin World Trade Center towers in New York City, causing both 110-story towers to collapse. A third plane struck the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.,......
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2:45 PM Wed, Sep 10, 2008 | Permalink |
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While I'd like to think that the talk around the lunchroom is all about yesterday's primary election and the upcoming November 4 presidential election, all I'm hearing is about Tom Brady's injury and what it might do to this......
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9:47 AM Tue, Sep 09, 2008 | Permalink |
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Last week, I had the wonderful opportunity to sit down with a cup of coffee with retired St. Luke's teacher Ellen Thompson in Barrington's Starbucks. Thomspon recently returned from Washington, D.C. where she and educators from all 50 states attended......
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3:36 PM Fri, Sep 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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Last week, my husband drove my oldest child to Chicago, where he is spending the first semester of his senior year of college. While he's been away from home for three years now, it's been in a dorm room......
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8:47 AM Wed, Sep 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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In October, we'll be holding a statewide Student Mock Election online. Students in grades K through 12 will be able to cast their votes for Obama or McCain. And they'll tell us what issues are the most important to......
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2:32 PM Tue, Sep 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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NIE FAQs If you've ordered the NIE Classroom Curriculum Package, your deliveries will start on Monday, September 8. Remaining fall deliveries are:September 15, 22, 29, October 6, 20,27, November 3, 10, 17, 24; and December 1, 8, 15, 22. If......
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