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October 26, 2008 - November 1, 2008 Archives

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Lesson planning ideas for before and after the election

2:00 PM Fri, Oct 31, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Avis Gunther-Rosenberg    Email

Hollister Kids offers this lesson on how the presidential election works, and how it is covered in the media: Recording election history, piece by piece, day by day Newspapers, a famous editor once said, are the first rough draft of......

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 Tags  election   electoral college   presidential election  

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The RI Student Mock Election results are here!!!

election2008.jpg 5:06 PM Thu, Oct 30, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Avis Gunther-Rosenberg    Email

The results are in -- 17,426 students voted in the Rhode Island Student Mock Election - including 9,225 by paper ballot, 4,483 on the National Student/Parent Mock Election website and 3,718 on our own projo.com/nie site. Here are the......

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 Tags  election   president   Rhode Island Student Mock Election   vote  

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Stay tuned

3:27 PM Thu, Oct 30, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Avis Gunther-Rosenberg    Email

The votes are all in. We're just waiting for a tally . . .......

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 Tags  election   Rhode Island Student Mock Election  

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Rhode Island Student Mock Election -- deadline 2 p.m. today!

10:44 AM Thu, Oct 30, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Avis Gunther-Rosenberg    Email

Did you see today's front page story about the Rhode Island Student Mock Election? You can also view a video of students at Tiogue Elementary School casting their votes. If your students haven't voted yet, they have until 2 p.m.......

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 Tags  election   Rhode Island Student Mock Election  

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Sliding on your own home plate

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By Avis Gunther-Rosenberg    Email

Another wonderful article from NASA's Space Place, written by Diane K. Fisher. It was provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Like cars in a demolition......

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 Tags  Earth   NASA   plate tectonics   Space Place  

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More Halloween ideas for the classroom

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By Avis Gunther-Rosenberg    Email

I don't know about you, but the first thing I think of when I hear "Halloween" is candy. (Okay, that's a gimme; it's the first thing I think of most of the time!) Candy names are fun because they use......

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 Tags  Halloween  

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Halloween -- it's not just about the candy. . . dang

1:05 PM Mon, Oct 27, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Avis Gunther-Rosenberg    Email

Turn Halloween into an occasion for a history lesson. A column in last week's Lifebeat explores the origins of the holiday. Closely watching the election in your civics class? Have the students vote with their pumpkins by carving their......

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 Tags  Halloween  

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