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New ELECTION guide!

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By Avis Gunther-Rosenberg    Email

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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 Tags  election  

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Why was poor Pluto kicked out of the Solar System?

dwarf-planets.jpg 11:17 AM Fri, Sep 12, 2008 | | Comments (2)
By Avis Gunther-Rosenberg    Email

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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 Tags  NASA   planets   Pluto   space  

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All eyes on Ike

10:24 AM Fri, Sep 12, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Avis Gunther-Rosenberg    Email

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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 Tags  history   hurricane   weather  

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9-11, A day that lives on in history

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By Avis Gunther-Rosenberg    Email

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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 Tags  9-11   history   September 11  

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Ouch, that hurts!

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By Avis Gunther-Rosenberg    Email

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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 Tags  math   Patriots   Pigskin Geography   Tom Brady  

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Cranston, Pawtucket, Paris, Madrid?

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By Avis Gunther-Rosenberg    Email

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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 Tags  geography   geography action   mapping the americas  

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