April


			April

	"Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates
	"Smithsonian Jazz": http://www.smithsonianjazz.org/ celebrates Jazz Appreciation Month, April, by offering sound clips, information about jazz events, a directory of jazz societies (by state & country), links to other jazz websites, & four online "classes" featuring Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, & Benny Carter. Daylight Savings Time One of America's founding fathers and great thinkers, Benjamin Franklin, came up with the idea of Daylight Savings Time in 1784. He wrote an essay called "An Economical Project," where he pointed out that rolling the clocks forward an hour in the summer would save on lamp oil because people would have an extra hour of sunlight in the evenings, then go to bed pretty much when it got dark. Englishman William Willett called it a "Waste of Daylight" in a pamphlet he published in 1907, saying people wasted April's early morning sun, then were left in the dark. He proposed moving all the clocks forward 20 minutes on each of the the four Sundays in April. A bill was introduced to the English Parliament several times after that, but no one was interested. A year after Willett died, England went on DST in May 1916 to save coal because of World War I. Germany had passed a similar law earlier. In 1918, the United States went on DST to conservce energy for the war, too, but the practice lasted only seven months. The states Massachusetts and Rhode Island and cities New York City, Philadelphia and Chicago continued. During World War II, the United States had year-round DST, but after that it was up to individual communities. In 1966, Congress passed the Uniform Time Act, mandating that DST begin the last Sunday of April and end the last Sunday of October. Any state that wanted to be exempt needed to pass a state law. In 1986, Congress changed the law to start DST the first Sunday of April and end the last Sunday of October. It still saves energy and fuel. After the 1973 Middle East oil embargo, the United States stretched DST for several more months in 1974 and 1975 and saved 10,000 barrels of oil each day. Seventy different countries observe some sort of DST. In the United States, three states have voted not to switch time: Arizona, Hawaii, and Indiana. Different countries have different laws. Western Europe goes on DST on the last Sunday in March. The United Kingdom switches over on the last Sunday in October. Russia and China are on a schedule similar to Europe's. Countries in the Southern Hemisphere go on DST from October to March. Earth Day All About Earth Day: http://earthday.wilderness.org/history/ At the Wilderness Society's Earth Day site, you can read how and when the day got started in a report by its founder, US Sen. Gaylord Nelson. Alliance to Save Energy: http://www.ase.org/educators/ Free, hands-on, multidisciplinary energy lesson plans for elementary, middle, and high school students can be downloaded from the website. Best Lessons on Earth (Day)!: http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson260.shtml Buster The Cloud: http://www.dltk-kids.com/crafts/earth/mcloud.html Discuss what makes a cloud, how the water cycle works--or for an Earth Day activity, how pollution affects the planet--all while creating this art activity cloud. Celebrate Earth Day - Every Day: http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/earthday/ KidsDomain.com has an Earth Day page just for kids with songs, games, coloring pages, stories, and clip art in keeping with the day. Earth Day Grocery Bag Project: http://www.earthdaybags.org/ Third grade teacher Mark Ahlness created this popular Earth Day project nine years ago, and it has been gaining momentum around the world ever since. Involve your school--you will coordinate with a grocery store to borrow paper bags. Your students will decorate them (some templates are available) with an Earth Day message or theme, and then return them to the store to use on Earth Day. A report can be sent in to the web site on your class/school participation. This is a well-coordinated project and your students will thoroughly enjoy the community effort. Earth Day Lessons and Teacher Resources: http://www.lessonplanspage.com/EarthDay.htm Earth Day Network: http://www.earthday.net/default.aspx Earth Day Network's Educator's Network: http://www.earthday.net/howto/teachers-corner.stm Earth Day Lesson Plans and Resources: http://www.sciencespot.net/Pages/classearthday.html Earth Day Paper Weights: http://www.ghbooks.com/activity/activity.cfm?bookid=18325&page=477 Students will learn about the different features of the Earth as they model their own globes from self-hardening clay. Let them add on blue and green clay after they have made their balled shapes, in order to form land and ocean designs. Earth Day Resource Page: http://www.teacherplanet.com/resource/earthday.php Earthwatch Institute & Global Classroom: http://www.earthwatch.org Endangered Ecosystems: http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/explorer/ecosystems/ Environment Theme: http://atozteacherstuff.com/themes/environment.shtml Environmental Protection Agency: www.epa.gov/teachers The EPA offers creative ways to teach your students about the environment through a variety of curriculum resources activities, and community service projects. The Student Center offers background information on environmental issues for middle school and high school students while the Explorer's Club has fun-filled pages for grammar school kids. Garbage: http://www.learner.org/exhibits/garbage/ If you're an American, you contribute about four pounds of trash per day--and all together we are creating a large trash problem. Explore this online interactive exhibit on garbage with your students, learn about hazardous waste, global efforts of renewal and waste reduction, and possible solutions to sewage treatment problems. Great Backyard Bird Count: http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/ National Audubon Society, 700 Broadway, New York, NY 1003; phone: 212-979-3083; email: numckown@audubon.org . You and your students can become citizen scientists and contribute to on-going environmental research by helping the National Audubon Society and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology track winter bird populations. It is fun, free, and no prior experience is required. Grist Magazine: www.gristmagazine.com Each weekday Grist combs the world's newspapers for the top environmental stories of the day, briefly summarizes them with a humorous twist, and emails the summaries, along with the links to the full newspaper stories to readers, free of charge. It's a great way to stay on top of environmental issues. Helpful Hints for Planet Earth: http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/earthday/earthday.htm Mrs. Rollman's first grade class says "Earth Day is the time we remind ourselves that the Earth is precious and we need to take care of it." The site, put together by this class at Pocantico Hills School in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., includes the children's own thoughts and illustrations, recycling lessons, a list of books about Earth Day, and links to other child-friendly Earth Day pages on the Web. The Idea Box (select the Earth Day link): http://www.theideabox.com/ideas.nsf/seasonal NationalGeographic.com says there are more than 200 locations on Earth that have been identified as critical conservation regions. That site has two sections where you can learn about them. "WildWorld": http://www.nationalgeographic.com/wildworld has interactive maps showing the world's richest and most endangered areas, with plant and animal life in places like Siberia, the Australian desert, and the Amazon River valley. The section includes a teacher's guide. "EarthPulse": http://www.nationalgeographic.com/earthpulse is where we can check "Earth's vital signs, from the oceans to the ozone and all that's in between." The section shows visitors "how the issues affect all of us, why we should care, and how we can become involved in making things better." Planetpals Greatest Earth Day Pages Ever: http://www.planetpals.com/earthday.html PlanetPals provides lots of Earth Day arts and crafts activities and links to projects that students can participate in as they prepare for and celebrate Earth Day. The site includes recycling and energy-saving tips and tricks. An environmental calendar lists other Earth related holidays and celebrations. There are Earth Day recycling kits -- on recycling, pesticides, and saving energy -- ready to print out and use with your kids. The Rainforest Site: http://www.therainforestsite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CTDSites A world map delineates the rainforests as they were in 1990, as they are today, and how they would appear projected into the future if they keep disappearing at the same rate they do today. Here is one way to become actively involved with your class--all it takes is a click a day to help preserve a portion of the world's rainforests, at no cost to you or your class. Recycle City: http://www.epa.gov/recyclecity/ Explore the theme of recycling in both homes and businesses with this interactive learning site. Students choose games and activities to follow how a fictional town with a trash problem decides to reduce waste and learn how to recycle. Scorecard: http://www.scorecard.org/ Enter your zip code and find out about the sources of pollution in your community and who is responsible. Trash Busters Handbook: http://www.galaxy.net/~k12/recycle/ This site offers experiments and worksheets about recycling and trash targeted towards elementary school children. The Water Cycle: http://www.kidzone.ws/water/index.html Here are some great pages for PreK to grade 1 on the water cycle. Each page has colorful graphics and age-appropriate explanations of the cycle, with downloadable coloring pages and home activities to better understand each stage. Arbor Day Arbor Day is a national holiday that encourages tree planting and tree care. First celebrated in Nebraska in 1872, National Arbor Day is now observed annually on the last Friday in April. It is an opportunity to learn about the ecological and economic importance of trees. Arbor Day: http://www.theteachersguide.com/arbordaylessonplans.htm Arbor Day lesson plans, printouts and clip art, activities, crafts, and more. Arbor Day Crafts: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/arborday/ From things you probably already have around the house (such as construction paper and egg cartons) Enchanted Learning creates seven tree-related craft projects. The colorfully illustrated step-by-step instructions are great for preschoolers and lower elementary grades. Arbor Day Lessons and Teacher Resources: http://www.lessonplanspage.com/ArborDay.htm Arbor Day Net: http://www.arbor-day.net/ Arbor Day Net tells the history of Arbor Day, from 1872 Nebraska to President Nixon's 1970 creation of National Arbor Day. Nebraska's first Arbor Day, proposed by state agriculture board member J. Sterling Morton, was an amazing success -- more than one million trees were planted. So when Nebraska made Arbor Day an official state holiday in 1885, they chose to honor Morton by celebrating it on his birthday, April 22nd. Arbor Day (or some variation) is celebrated in many countries around the world, including Australia, Japan, Korea and Israel. Kids for Trees: http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/chf/pub/tree_kit/ "Trees don't just stand around. They do many jobs that are very important to animals, people, and the environment." This illustrated, eleven-page guide for K- 3 students was created by The Illinois Department of Natural Resources. There is a glossary (from "Arbor Day" to "zoologist"), and a teacher guide, which includes ideas for projects and activities. The site is also available in Spanish. To find it, click on "Other Classroom Materials" and follow the link to "Wild About Plants." The National Arbor Day Foundation: http://www.arborday.org/index.cfm This site has a collection of resources for youth and educators alike. These include online games and activities, tree identification booklets, an Arbor Day poster contest, and more. Trees Theme: http://atozteacherstuff.com/Themes/Trees/ APRIL SHOWERS: http://www.dltk-kids.com/crafts/april_showers.htm Find pages on rain songs, flower crafts, the water cycle, and spring and rain coloring pages. Also included are simple weather graphing templates to print out--children will color in a block for each sunny or rainy day. April's is Zoo and Aquarium Month. Kids Go Wild: http://www.kidsgowild.org The Wildlife Conservation Society of the Bronx Zoo presents a fun, colorful kids' site with a Shockwave game arcade and a smattering of animal tidbits and wildlife news. After playing the games, go to the virtual tour of the zoo's newest naturalistic exhibit, Congo Gorilla Forest. You'll find this link buried on the About WCS page, under the Bronx Zoo heading. "Congo Gorilla Forest's 6.5 acres are home to a remarkable collection of animals, including two troops of lowland gorillas, led by silverbacks Timmy and Dan, as well as DeBrazza's monkeys, okapis, mandrills, and red river hogs." Lincoln Park Zoo: http://www.lpzoo.com/tour/tour.html Take a tour of Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo by following one of the color-coded trails to the animal exhibits or jump to the live animal cams at the bottom of the page. The trails lead to individual animal fact pages, which are fun for browsing and useful for school reports. Los Angeles Zoo: Zoo Animals: http://www.lazoo.org/home.html Look for the cutesy headlines ("Where Wolf?") running down the middle of the front page, and also in: Critter Close-Up ("Hang Out with Indian Fruit Bats"), Zoo Animals ("Fabulous Fossas"), and Zoo Conservation ("Two Days of the Condor.") Excellent tips on researching an animal report can be found at ("How to Find Information about Animals"). National Zoo: http://natzoo.si.edu/ Highlights of The National Zoo site from Washington, D.C. are the animal Web cams, photo gallery slide show, kids games and the two giant pandas Mei Xiang and Tian Tian. Browse "a sampling of moments" from the pandas' first year at the zoo in the online photo essay, "A Year In Their Life." Other don't-miss-them-clicks are the Panda cams and notes from the ongoing panda research studies. San Diego Zoo & Wild Animal Park: http://www.sandiegozoo.org/ First stop on our virtual tour of the world-famous San Diego Zoo is Kid Territory for their zoo games, animal crafts, science experiments, and profiles of "Wildly Famous Featured Creatures." The zoo does a lot of work in animal conservation, and their site has an excellent section on research efforts in China, the Pacific Islands, the southwestern United States, the Caribbean Islands, and South America. For specific animal backgrounders (for reports and such) head to Animal Bytes. April is Math Awareness Month, a time to encourage the importance of mathematics in our daily lives: http://www.mathgoodies.com/mam/ World's largest math event: http://nctm.org/wlme/ Grades: 6 - 12 This site celebrates Mathematics Education Month which is held in April of each year. MarcoPolo provides many resources to help you and your students discover how to integrate mathematics into everyday life. Mathematics is used to determine the speed of a pitched baseball, the volume of a swimming pool, the probability of a rainstorm or the exchange rate of currency. To help you introduce creative math activities into your classroom, MarcoPolo is highlighting interactive mathematics lessons from its Partner sites. Here are some trivia questions to get you started! Scroll down for answers and links to bring these activities into your classroom. QUESTIONS: 1. The leaves of this tree resemble the shape of the palm of a human hand. What is the name of this tree? 2. If no one lives there, why does Antarctica have its own currency? 3. How many faces does a dodecahedron have? (Hint: each face is a pentagon) 4. Who holds the Major League Baseball home-run record? 5. How do sea gulls and crows open mollusks in order to feed on the meat inside? 6. How much blood can an average human heart pump in one minute? 7. If the ship was filled to full capacity, what percentage of crew and passengers could the RMS Titanic’s lifeboats hold? ANSWERS: 1. The palmetto tree has “lobed” leaves that resemble the shape of a human hand. Students will learn about numbers and counting by examining and classifying different types of plants in “It Counts” (Grades K-2). Teachers will find guiding questions to ask students during their experiments at http://marcopolo.worldcom.com/partner/08aaas_itcounts.cfm 2. Antarctican dollars raise funds for various scientific projects that will take place in Antarctica after the year 2001. One Antarctican dollar is equivalent to $1 U.S. The notes are not legal tender in the Antarctic, but may be used there if the giver and the receiver agree. Students will explore the similarities and differences of world currency in “On the Money” (Grades K-2). Teachers can bookmark or print the teacher and student versions of this online economics lesson at http://marcopolo.worldcom.com/partner/08ncee_money.cfm 3. A dodecahedron has 12 faces. Students can explore geometric principles using interactive programs in “Exploring Geometric Solids and Their Properties” (Grades 3-5). Teachers can review the “Thoughts for Teachers” lesson tips or practice using interactive Java-based programs at http://marcopolo.worldcom.com/partner/08nctm_geometric.cfm 4. Hank Aaron holds the Major League Baseball record with 755 home runs. Students will use baseball statistics to develop an understanding of the different ways of analyzing data in “Baseball Stats” (Grades 6-8). Teachers can review and bookmark baseball statistic web sites for students at http://marcopolo.worldcom.com/partner/08aaas_baseball.cfm 5. Sea gulls and crows feed on various types of mollusks by lifting them into the air and dropping them onto a rock to break open their shells. Students will use interactive programs and view a video clip to determine mathematically why Northwestern crows consistently drop mollusks from a height of about 5 meters to crack open the shells in “Whelk-Come to Mathematics: Using Rational Functions to Investigate the Behavior of Northwestern Crows” (Grades 9-12). Teachers can preview the Quick Time video clip or review the materials list at http://marcopolo.worldcom.com/partner/08nctm_whelk.cfm 6. An average human heart pumps 1.3 gallons (5 liters) per minute. Students investigate mixture problems, rates of change and accumulation by testing heart rate in “Put the Heart into Mathematics: Cardiac Output, Rates of Change and Accumulation” (Grades 9-12). Teachers can download the Mac or PC student version of this lesson or practice using the interactive graphing software at: http://marcopolo.worldcom..com/partner/08nctm_cardiac.cfm 7. While the RMS Titanic was built to carry 3,547 persons at full capacity, the 16 wooden lifeboats and four collapsible boats that were stored on board could carry only 1,178 people, or 33%. Students will explore how social class can affect survival probabilities by using statistical and demographic information of passengers and crewmembers of the RMS Titanic in “First Class First? Using Data to Explore the Tragedy of the Titanic” (Grades 9-12). Teachers can explore statistical databases or download and print student handouts at http://marcopolo.worldcom.com/partner/08aaas_titanic.cfm Spring Unit SRING ACTIVITIES: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/8966/spring.html Eggshell Chalk: http://www.make-stuff.com/kids/eggshell_chalk.html Flower Power: http://www.kinderart.com/seasons/flowerpower.htm Spring: http://abcteach.com/spring/springtoc.htm Spring Flowers From Egg Cartons: http://www.make-stuff.com/kids/tulips.html Springtime Card: http://www.moongear.com/thebearypatch/ecard10.htm Teddy Bears in Spring Garden: http://www.sd1new.net/tbgarden.htm Flower Graphics By Pat: http://www.patswebgraphics.com/flowers.html Flowers Virtual Gallery: http://www.iflowers.com/vir/vir_gallery.html Ideas For Decorating Eggs: http://www.make-stuff.com/hollidays/easter_eggs.html Printable Spring Cards: http://www.bonus.com/bonus/card/easter_cards.html Snick's Spring gifs: http://members.tripod.com/~snickers/spring.html Spring Fun For Families: http://childparenting.about.com/library/blspring.htm Things To do with Flowers: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/8911/flow.html Spring Picnic Treats: http://family.go.com/recipes/kids/feature/famf0501picnic/famf0501picnic.html Springtime Cookies: http://cheftochef.net/r/1/A01071.shtml Springtime Crafts: http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/simple_living/16249 Springtime In The Carolinas: http://members.aol.com/AuroraCSA/scarletsspring.html Springtime Or Anytime Placemat: http://www.kidsdomain.com/craft/sprung.html All About Food: Springtime: http://fp.enter.net/~rburk/springtime.htm Come Into My Garden: http://personal.trxinc.com/martyr/spring.htm Spring Backgrounds: http://www.ccinet.com/~wizzle/spring/springbackgrounds.htm Spring Theme: http://www.preschoolrainbow.org/preschool-spring.htm Springtime: http://guymorrow.com/springtime.htm Springtime: http://www.eastdevon.net/sidmouth/bloom/springtime.htm Springtime Barbie Collection Hallmark: http://www.awesomedolls.com/springtime_barbie_collection_hal.htm Springtime Observations: http://www.osweb.com/kidzkorner/spring.htm The Springtime Breeze: http://ppsr.com/poems/lori/springtime.html Dogwood Blossoms Screensaver: ftp://ftp.lizardworks.com/pub/lizard/blossoms.exe Fun Project Ideas: http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/kindergarden/Fun/project.htm Garden Art Gallery: http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/kindergarden/art/Gallery1.htm School Garden Potpourri Of Ideas: http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/kindergarden/Child/school/ideas.htm Starting A School Garden: http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/kindergarden/Child/school/step.htm Theme, Concept, and Topic Gardens: http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/kindergarden/Child/school/theme.htm Aggie Horticulture Just For Kids: http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/kindergarden/ Count The Flowers: http://www.bry-backmanor.org/actpag25.html Gardening Theme: http://www.perpetualpreschool.com/gardening.htm Garden Parties: http://www.birthdaypartyideas.com/html/garden_party.html Life Cycles Of Plants: http://www.mobot.org/PFG/cycles/song2.htm Plant Munchers: http://www.mobot.org/PFG/samples/munchers/munchers.htm Plant-Parts Salad: http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/vegquiz/index.html School Garden: http://www.mobot.org/PFG/samples/school/asg2.gif Decoupage Vase: http://craftcentralstation.com/projects/decovase.html Little Hands Planter: http://craftcentralstation.com/projects/hands.html Mosaic Flower Pots: http://www.homeschoolzone.com/pp/crafts/flower-pots.htm Nifty Socks: http://www.homeschoolzone.com/pp/crafts/socks.htm Pressed Flower Greeting Card: http://craftcentralstation.com/projects/pflower.html Spring Sneakers: http://www.homeschoolzone.com/pp/crafts/sneakers.htm Designing and Building A Terrarium: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/BODY_MG356 Fabulous Flower Pots And Plants: http://gustown.com/Museum/Crafts/SpringCrafts/FlowerPots.html Flowerpot Recipe Holder: http://www.kidsdomain.com/craft/recipeholder.html Fun Activities For Kids: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/9659/crafts.html Grow A Seed Garden: http://www.kinderart.com/seasons/earth3.htm Keeping A Garden Journal: http://www.arnprior.com/kidsgarden/planning/journal.htm Mini Greenhouse: http://www.arnprior.com/kidsgarden/planting/minigree.htm Adventurous Bunny: http://learningbox.com/bunny/ Bunny Tic Tac Toe: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/7134/Easter/easttictactoe.htm Gummi Bunnies Game: http://www.candystand.com/arcade/arehshk.htm Letter From the Easter Bunny: http://www.searsportrait.com/storybook/easter_town_99_form.html Mix and Match Bunny Game: http://www.billybear4kids.com/holidays/easter/mixmatch/mixmatch.htm Rabbits and Hares: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/7134/Easter/frabeaster.htm Annie's Bunny Trail: http://www.annien.com/Holidays/Easter/menu.html Bunny Trails: http://www.web-holidays.com/easter/crafts/trail.htm Color Me Bunny: http://www.pastrywiz.com/season/easter2.htm http://families-first.com/art/bunny.htm Help The Bunny Deliver Eggs: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/6459/actpag34.html Lunch Bag Bunny: http://craftcentralstation.com/easter/projects/paperbag.html Peter Rabbit: http://www.peterrabbit.co.uk/templates/index.cfm Tea Towel Bunny: http://www.boxplanet.com.au/easter/towel.htm Flower Power: http://www.kinderart.com/seasons/flowerpower.htm It's Spring: http://www.searsportrait.com/storybook/spring_98_form.html Spring: http://www.abcteach.com/Themeunits/Spring/SpringTheme.htm Spring Greeting Cards: http://www.searsportrait.com/cards/spring_00.html http://www.searsportrait.com/cards/spring_fun.html http://www.searsportrait.com/cards/spring_trad.html Springtime Card: http://www.moongear.com/thebearypatch/ecard10.htm Teddy Bears in Spring Garden: http://www.sd1new.net/tbgarden.htm Birds, Bees, flowers, and Trees Coloring Book: http://www.searsportrait.com/family_fun/mom_99/bird_bees.html Flower Graphics By Pat: http://www.patswebgraphics.com/flowers.html Flowers Virtual Gallery: http://www.iflowers.com/vir/vir_gallery.html Printable Spring Cards: http://www.bonus.com/bonus/card/easter_cards.html Snick's Spring gifs: http://members.tripod.com/~snickers/spring.html Things To do with Flowers: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/8911/flow.html Easter Easter is the most important festival of the Christian year, celebrating the life and resurrection of Christ. It is the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox. Awesome Clipart for Kids: Easter: http://www.awesomeclipartforkids.com/easter.html Easter Sunday Lesson Plans and Teacher Resources: http://www.lessonplanspage.com/Easter.htm Easter On the Net!: http://www.holidays.net/easter/ Easter Time at Kids Domain: http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/easter/ How to Decorate Easter Eggs: http://www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us/Easter/Eggs.html Rosie's Easter Basket: http://www.night.net/easter/ Passover Passover is the 8 day observance commemorating the freedom and exodus of the Israelites from Egypt during the reign of the Pharaoh Ramses II. A time of family gatherings and lavish meals called Seders, the story of Passover is retold through the reading of the Haggadah. ChildFun's Passover Pages: http://childfun.com/passover/ Passover at Kids Domain: http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/passover/ Passover Children's Story and Activities: http://www.hanukat.com/Passover.htm Passover On the Net!: http://www.holidays.net/passover/ Torah Tots: The Site for Jewish Children: http://www.torahtots.com/holidays/pesach/pesach.htm April brings winds that blow beautiful colorful kites into the air dancing around. Dual Line Stunt Kites: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/web/Jason/KiteSite/DualLine.html Go Fly A Kite: http://users.hsonline.net/kidatart/htdoc/lesson20.htm K is For Kite: http://www.1ads.com/features/kideland/coloring/alphabet/kite.gif Kite Buggying: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/web/Jason/KiteSite/Buggies.html Kite Coloring Pages: http://crafterscommunity.com/kids/coloringpages/kite.html http://www.princetonol.com/family/coloringbook/kite.gif http://www.pitara.com/activities/colouring/thumbpics4/kite.gif Single Line Kites: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/web/Jason/KiteSite/SingleLine.html Basic Sled Kite: http://www.ex.ac.uk/~jastaple/kites/projects/sled/sled.html Bulletin Board Idea: http://www.sound.net/~kiteguy/bbcolor.jpg Kite Crossword Puzzle: http://www.les.com/kids/images/kite4_1.gif Kite Safety: http://ci.independence.mo.us/pl/kids/page07.gif Kite Word Search: http://www.les.com/kids/images/kite1_2.gif Little Kite Big Fun: http://www.sound.net/~kiteguy/littlekids/littlekids.htm Paper Kite: http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/5959/kite.html Sugar Glider Kite: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~ctech/sugkite.htm April 1 -1950: Death of Charles R. Drew (45), surgeon and developer of the blood bank concept, after an automobile accident near Burlington, North Carolina. April 2 - 742: Charlemagne was born. -1234: Edmund Rich becomes Archibishop of Canterbury. Raised to the Archbishopric by Pope Gregory IX, Edmund was an outspoken figure who clashed with King Henry III of England and preached for the Sixth Crusade. -1285: Honorius IV elected pope. Honorius was old and crippled when elected but in his brief two years as pope he worked toward reuniting the Western and Eastern churches and supported the mendicant orders. -1918: Charles White was a renowned African-Americccan artist born in Chicago, IL He died October 3, 1979. Charles White began his professional career by painting murals for the WPA during the Depression. He was influenced by Mexiccan muralists Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siquieros. Among his most notable creations are: J'Accuse(1966), a series of charcoal drawings depicting a variety of African-Americans from all ages and walks of life; the Wanted posters(c. 1969), a series of paintings based on old runaway slave posters; and Homage to Langston Hughes(1971) April 4 -1968: Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by white sniper in Memphis, Tennessee. The assassination precipitated a national crisis and rioting in more than one hundred cities. Forty-six persons were killed in major rebellions in Washington, Chicago and other cities. Twenty thousand federal troops and thirty-four thousand National Guardsmen were mobilized to quell disturbances. Memorial marches and rallies were held throughout the country. Many public school systems closed and the opening of the baseball season was postponed. President Lyndon B. Johnson declared Sunday, April 6, a national day of mourning and ordered all U.S. flags on government buildings in all U.S. territories and possession to fly at half-mast. April 5 -1614: John Rolfe and Pocahontas married in Jamestown. He introduced tobacco crops to Virginia, and she was the daughter of a chief, captured by colonists and converted to Christianity. April 6 -1823: Newspaper editor Joseph Medill was born -1830: the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints was founded in a log cabin in Fayette, N.Y. -1846: Dred Scott and his wife Harriet filed suit against Irene Emerson for their freedom. The Dred Scott case was first brought to trial in 1847 in the first floor, west wing courtroom of St. Louis' Courthouse. A black slave from Missouri who claimed his freedom on the basis of seven years of residence in a free state and a free territory. -1851: Portland, Ore., was founded. -1866: Journalist Lincoln Steffens -1884: Actor Walter Huston was born -1892: Radio commentator Lowell Thomas was born -1896: the first modern Olympics formally opened at Athens, Greece, after a 1,500-year hiatus. -1903: Baseball Hall-of-Famer Gordon "Mickey" Cochrane was born -1909: Robert E. Peary and co-explorer Matthew Henson reached the North Pole. -1917: the United States declared war on Germany, propelling the United States into World War I. -1928: Geneticist James Watson was born -1929: Musician Andre Previn was born -1937: Country singer Merle Haggard and actor Billy Dee Williams were born -1942: Producer/director Barry Levinson was born -1944: Singer/actress Michelle Phillips -1947: the first Tony Awards, honoring distinguished work in the theater, were presented in New York City. Actor John Ratzenberger ("Cheers") was born. -1952: Actress Marilu Henner ("Taxi") -1968: federal troops and National Guardsmen were ordered out in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Detroit, as rioting continued over the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. -1976: Actress Candace Cameron ("Full House") -1991: Iraq's parliament accepted a permanent cease-fire in the Gulf War. -1992: science fiction patriarch Isaac Asimov died after lengthy illness. He was 72. -1993: testimony concluded in the federal trial of four Los Angeles police officers charged with violating Rodney King's civil rights during his 1991 arrest. (Two of the officers would eventually be convicted.) -1994: The presidents of the African nations of Rwanda and Burundi were killed in a plane crash in the capital city of Rwanda. The incident triggered bloody fighting between the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups that ultimately left hundreds of thousands of people dead. Justice Harry A. Blackmun, who had served on the U.S. Supreme Court since being chosen by President Nixon in 1970, announced his retirement. -1996: rioting broke out in Liberia following the arrest of factional leader Roosevelt Johnson on murder charges. -1999: in the first state referendum of its kind, voters in Missouri voted 52 to 48 percent against a proposal to allow the carrying of concealed weapons. The National Rifle Association reportedly had spent $4 million in support of the referendum. -2000, the father of Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez arrived in the United States to take custody of his six-year-old son. April 10. -1866: The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) was founded. It was patterned after a similar -- and similarly named -- organization in Britain. -1938: Nana Annor Adjaye, Pan-Africanist, dies in W. Nzima, Ghana April 13 -1743: Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, was born. -1853: Frank Woolworth, founder of the five-and-dime stores, was born. -1899: Alfred Butts, inventor of the game "Scrabble," was born. -1906: Irish playwright Samuel Beckett was born. -1907: Harold Stassen, former Minnesota governor who sought the Republican presidential nomination seven times, was born. -1909: Author Eudora Welty was born. -1917: Actor/singer Howard Keel was born. -1935: Actors Lyle Waggoner was born. -1939: Paul Sorvino was born. -1945: Tony Dow (Wally on "Leave It To Beaver") was born. -1946: Singers Al Green in 1946 was born. -1951: Peabo Bryson was born. "Late Night with David Letterman" bandleader Max Weinberg was born. -1950: Actor Ron Perlman ("Beauty and the Beast") was born. -1964: Sidney Poitier became the first black man to win an Oscar for best actor. He was so honored for his work in "Lillies of the Field." -1965: Lawrence Bradford Jr., a 16-year-old from New York City, started work as the first black page ever to serve in either chamber of Congress. -1966: Andrew F. Brimmer, economist and former Professor of Economics at University of Pennsylvania, is nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson to serve as a Governor of the Federal Reserve System. This appointment represented the first black to serve in this capacity. -1970: Rick Schroeder ("NYPD Blue") was born. -1972: the first major league baseball strike ended, eight days after it began. -1984: Christopher Wilder, the FBI's "most wanted man," accidentally killed himself as police moved in to arrest him in New Hampshire. Wilder was a suspect in the deaths, rapes and disappearances of 11 young women in eight states. -1987: the Population Reference Bureau reported that the world's population had exceeded 5 billion. -1990: Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev gave Lithuania a two-day ultimatum, threatening to cut off some supplies to the Baltic republic if it does not rescind laws passed since a March 11 declaration of independence. -1991: an advance team of U.N. observers arrived in Kuwait City to set up a peacekeeping force along the Kuwait-Iraqi border. -1992: construction workers breeched a retaining wall in the Chicago River, sending water flooding through a tunnel system connecting buildings in the downtown area. Princess Anne, daughter of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, began divorce proceedings after a two-year separation from Capt. Mark Phillips. -1994: five Israelis were killed and another 30 wounded in a suicide bombing in a bus station in Hadera. -1995: Rep. Robert Dornan, R-Calif., announced his candidacy for the GOP presidential nomination. -1997: Tiger Woods, 21, won the Masters Tournament. He was the youngest Masters champion and the first African-American to win any of the four major professional golf tournaments for men. Indian Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda resigned. April 14 -1865: President Lincoln was shot and critically wounded at Ford's Theater in Washington. April 15 -1959: African Freedom Day is declared at the All-African People's Conference in Accra, Ghana. April 17 -1521: Martin Luther Excommunicated. German religious reformer Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church. The Church's action was based on Luther's attacks against the papacy and the sale of indulgences. (A practice common at the time, a person's sins were pardoned through the purchase of an indulgence letter.) More about Martin Luther: http://pw1.netcom.com/~supeters/luther.htm -1872: Wiliam Monroe Trotter, crusader for full equality, publisher of "The Boston Guardian," co-founder of the Niagra Movement and close friend of W.E.B. Dubois, was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Trotter led a protest against the showing of the racist film "Birth of a Nation" and was in opposition to BookerT. Washington. -1961: Bay of Pigs invasion took place. When Eisenhower left office and John F. Kennedy entered the White House, the invasion plan still existed and the training of the Cuban exiles was in progress. Although Kennedy was skeptical about the plan, he gave reluctant approval. On April 10, 1961 American advisors began to transport the exile-soldiers, and on April 15th the Nicaraguan Air Force carried out air strikes. These were ineffective, but they gave Castro warning of what was coming and enabled him to prepare for the invasion. On April 17, 1961 an invasion force of 1,400 U.S.-trained, exiled Cuban soldiers landed at the Bay of Pigs. Castro was ready for them. As soon as they landed on the beach, the exiles were immediately met with heavy resistance. A Cuban aircraft sank a ship carrying munitions and communication equipment. The exiles' air force support was quickly destroyed, and the chance of a general uprising in Cuba was quelled when there was a mass arrest of suspected dissidents. By April 20th, the exiles had been completely defeated, all of which were killed or captured. Not only was it a total military defeat, but American involvement in the attempted invasion could not be kept secret, and the United States faced international outrage. After the Bay of Pigs invasion, relations among the United States, Cuba, and the Soviet Union deteriorated, and it may have been that the fiasco encouraged Nikita Khrushchev to send missiles to Cuba later on. Accounts of the Bay of Pigs debacle: http://library.thinkquest.org/11046/days/bay_of_pigs.html http://library.thinkquest.org/10826/pigbay.htm http://www.parascope.com/articles/1296/bayofpigs.htm -1967: Surveyor 3 Successfully Launched. The spacecraft Surveyor 3 was successfully launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. The second U.S. spacecraft to make a soft landing on the moon, it studied the lunar surface and sent more than 6,300 pictures back to Earth. A total of seven Surveyors were sent to the moon: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/surveyor.html -1982: Canada Received Its Own Constitution. For over a century, the closest thing that Canada had to a constitution was the British North American Act of 1867. Although effectively an independent country, Canada lacked constitutional autonomy. That situation came to an end on April 17, 1982, in Ottawa, when Queen Elizabeth II signed the Constitution Act of 1982. According to the Act, although remaining a commonwealth of the United Kingdom, under the figurehead control of the British monarch, Canada took full possession and control over its constitution, including the power to make amendments in the future. The new constitution also includes the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, guaranteeing certain fundamental rights to the individual, including legal equality and linguistic rights. History of Canada's Constitution: http://www.canadianembassy.org/issues/federalism/constitution.html Text of the Constitution Act: http://www.solon.org/Constitutions/Canada/English/ca_1982.html -1986: Peace Treaty Signed Between Isles of Scilly and the Netherlands. The Isles of Scilly and the Netherlands signed a peace treaty ending a war that had started in 1651. Although hostilities had ceased in the 17th century, the war had never been officially ended. The Isles of Scilly are a British archipelago of about 100 small islands located southwest of Great Britain. Tresco is one of five inhabited Scilly islands: http://www.tresco.co.uk/home.htm -1989: Solidarinosc Granted Legal Status. After almost a decade of struggle and suppression, the Polish labor union Solidarinosc (Solidarity) was granted legal status, clearing the path for the downfall of the Polish Communist Party. Solidarinosc surprised the government by winning 99 of 100 parliamentary seats, and the soon-to-be President Wojciech Jaruzelski was forced to co-lead Poland with Solidarinosc. The birth of a Solidarity Movement: http://shrike.depaul.edu/~bkapusta/new2.html April 18 -1480: Italian duchess Lucrezia Borgia was born -1775: American patriot Paul Revere began his famed ride through the Massachusetts countryside, crying out "The British are coming!" to rally the Minutemen. -1857: Lawyer Clarence Darrow was born. -1882: Symphony conductor Leopold Stokowski was born. -1922: Actress Barbara Hale was born. -1923: Yankees Stadium opened in New York. -1942: U.S. planes bombed the Japanese mainland for the first time during World War II. -1946: Actress Hayley Mills was born. -1947: Actor James Woods was born. -1949: the Republic of Ireland formally declared itself independent from Britain. -1954: Actor Rick Moranis was born. -1956: Actor Eric Roberts was born. -1961: Actress Jane Leeves ("Frasier") was born. -1963: Late night talk show host Conan O'Brien and actor Eric McCormack were born. -1976: Actress Melissa Joan Hart was born. -1977: Alex Haley, author of "Roots" was awarded Pultizer Prize. -1980: Rhodesia became the independent African nation of Zimbabwe. -1987: Democrat Annette Strauss was elected the first woman mayor of Dallas. -1992: An 11-year-old Florida boy sued to "divorce" his natural parents and remain with his foster parents. The boy eventually won his suit. -1993: The U.N. Security Council voted to toughen sanctions against Serbia because of its support for Bosnian Serbs trying to carve an ethnically pure state out of Bosnia-Herzegovina. -1996: Gunmen killed 18 people and wounded 15 more in an attack on tourists at the Egyptian pyramids. -2000: The U.N. Commission on Human Rights embarrassed the Clinton administration by refusing to criticize China's record on human rights. April 19 -1897: The very first running of the Boston Marathon, a familiar and popular annual event ever since that date. It was called the American Marathon. The race started at the site of Metcalf's Mill in Ashland and finished at the Irvington Oval near Copley Square. There were fifteen starters. New York's John McDermott was the winner. McDermott's time was 2:55:10. April 20 -1990: Oakland, California hosted the first Bay Area "Black Filmworks Festival." Sponsored by the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, the three-day event featured 25 films including a documentary entitled, "Making 'Do the Right Thing." April 21 -1856: The first train crossed the first railroad bridge across the Mississippi River. -1997: Kenya's Lamuck Aguta wins the 101st Boston Marathon. -1917: Alexander Kerensky, the leader of the revolution that removed Czar Nicholas II from power, was born. Also, Vladimir Ilyitch Ulyanov, who is better known as Nikolai Lenin, was born. After the revolution of 1917 Lenin returned from exile to overthrow Kerensky and establish a Socialist society. Kerensky himself was then exiled. -1904: J. Robert Oppenheimer, a quiet intelligent son of a textile manufacturer, was born in New York City. He grew up to attend Harvard and Cambridge Universities. He excelled in both chemistry and physics and became fascinated with atomic structure. Eventually, while working for the United States government during World War II, he was credited with inventing and testing the world's first Atom Bomb. April 25 -1917: Ella Fitzgerald, "First Lady of Song," was born. In 1934, an awkward sixteen-year-old girl made her singing debut at the Harlem Apollo Theatre amateur night in New York City. She intended to dance, but she lost her nerve when she got on stage. "The man said, 'do something while you're out there, 'the singer later recalled. "So I tried to sing 'Object of My Affection' and 'Judy,' and I won first prize." She drew the attention of the bandleader Chick Webb. After personally coaching the shy performer, Webb introduced her at the Savoy Theatre one evening as his orchestra's singer *. That evening marked the beginning of Ella Jane Fitzgerald's singing career. One of the great compliments paid to Ella was from Ira Gershwin who said 'I didn't realize our songs were so good until Ella sang them'. Ella's life was marked both by extreme highs and lows. Born in Newport News, Virginia in 1917 and orphaned at the age of 15, Ella was placed in the Colored Orphan Asylum in Riverdale, one of the few orphanages at the time that accepted Afro-American children. From there, she was transferred to the New York State Training School for Girls, a reformatory at which State investigations later revealed wide-spread physical abuse. Having escaped from the reformatory, Ella was literally living in the streets of Harlem when she was discovered by Webb. She was married twice, first at the age of 24 to a shady character by the name of Benjamin Kornegay, and then again to bass player Ray Brown at the age of 30. Both marriages ended in divorce. A diabetic for many years, the disease compromised her vision as well as her circulatory system before taking her life. In 1992, both of her legs were amputated below the knee due to diabetes related circulatory problems. As an artist, however, Ella achieved legendary success in a career that spanned six decades, yielded recordings numbering into the thousands, and earned the singer countless awards including a Kennedy Center Award for her contributions to the performing arts, honorary doctorate degrees from Dartmouth and Yale, and thirteen Grammy Awards. Despite never having received formal vocal training, Ella's technique and range rivaled that of the conservatory trained singer. Throughout her three-octave vocal range, Ella's voice remained uniform in its clarity and child-like timbre. Her diction was unfailingly crisp, and her intonation was absolutely flawless. Coupled with this textbook-perfect technique, Ella had an improvisational talent on par with that of the best jazz instrumentalists. Her spontaneous, often pyrotechnic scat vocalizations, in fact, were a trademark of her style. In looking back upon Ella's rich catalogue of recordings, the name of Norman Granz consistently emerges in conjunction with that of Ella's. Ella met the record producer and founder of both the Verve and Pablo jazz labels in 1949, after which the two developed a working relationship which lasted forty years. Under the direction of Norman Granz, Ella recorded her legendary "songbook" albums - a series of albums each devoted to the songs of a particular American composer. Between the years of 1956 and 1964, Ella recorded songbook albums featuring the music of Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart, Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern and Johnny Mercer. Collectively, these are one of Ella's crowning achievements. Granz also produced Ella's phenomenal collaborations with Count Basie and Duke Ellington, respectively entitled "On the Sunny Side of the Street" and "Ella at Duke's Place." All of these recordings are on the Verve label, and are available on CD. After founding the Pablo label, Granz recorded the four Ella Fitzgerald/Joe Pass duet albums, each of which are deservedly considered jazz classics. As amazing as Ella's musical talents were, equally amazing was the fact that she managed not to fall through the cracks of the segregated child welfare system of the 1930's. A victim of poverty and abuse, Ella was able to transcend circumstance and develop into one of the greatest singers that America produced. Ella died on June 15th of complications associated with diabetes. She was 79 years old. Despite suffering poor health Ella remained an active performer until 1992. -1945: United States and Soviet forces linked up on the Elbe River, in central Europe, a meeting that dramatized the collapse of Nazi Germany. April 26 -1785: Wildlife artist John James Audubon was born in Haiti. He moved to his father's farm in Pennsylvania when he was 18, and published the first volume of "Birds of America" in 1827, the last volume in 1838. April 28 -1947: A six-man expedition led by Thor Heyerdahl left South America on a balsa raft called the Kon-Tiki for a journey across the Pacific Ocean ending in Polynesia 101 days later. The Norwegian ethnologist wanted to prove that the South Sea islands may have been inhabited by South Americans. -1967: Mrs. Robert W. Claytor elected president of the YWCA, the first Black president of the organization. April 29 -1913: The anniversary of a revolutionary fashion patent given to Gideon Sundback from Hoboken, New Jersey. He invented a wonderful new fastener intended to "replace" the button which came to be known as the zipper. Unlike many other inventions, the zipper was aptly named for the sound that it made when opening and closing instead of being named after its inventor. April 30 Día de los Niños/Día de los Libros (Day of the Child/Day of the Book): http://www.colorincolorado.org/day.html April 30 is the day when many communities celebrate Día de los Niños/Día de los Libros (Day of the Child/Day of the Book). Borrowing from the traditional Mexican holiday, the American version is a celebration of childhood and literacy. -1863: Sarah Thompson became the first African American woman to become a principal in the New York Public School System.

	Teacher Appreciation Week May 7-11: 2007http://www.readingrockets.org/calendar/appreciation In celebration of Teacher Appreciation Week, May 7-11, Reading Rockets invites you to send in a description of a teacher who has made a difference in your life or your child's. Participants will be entered to win a drawing for an iPod or a gift certificate to our online Learning Store. The Costs of Energy PROJECT BEGIN and END DATES: 7/24/06 to 5/31/07 (must register by 4/2/07) NUMBER OF CLASSROOMS: 100 AGE RANGE: 8 to 21 years TARGET AUDIENCE: Anyone PROJECT SUMMARY: -- We all rely on energy to heat, cool, and light our homes among many other purposes. The purpose of this project is to compare different types of utility rates across the country and around the world. Students will get to see how different energy resources are used in different areas around the nation and world and be able to see how climate can influence energy costs. They can then make observations and propose hypotheses as to why there are differences. PROJECT LEVEL: Basic Project CURRICULUM AREAS: Social Studies; Mathematics; Science; Community Interest TECHNOLOGIES USED: -- Text: stories, essays, letters; Spreadsheet: data, analysis; Web-published COLLABORATION STYLES: -- Database Creation; Pooled Data Analysis; Information Search; Peer Feedback; Global Classroom; Electronic Publishing FULL PROJECT DESCRIPTION: -- This project is meant to allow a wide range of outcomes. The project, in and of itself, is to create a data set allowing energy rate comparisons over a broad range of regions and energy types. Given that so many different energy sources exist, the list could become quite extensive. The project is meant as a tool to provide teachers and students with additional information. Individual students, student groups, or classes can then forward conclusions drawn for inclusion on the project website. OBJECTIVES: -- The primary objective is to involve as many classrooms from as many areas as possible in creating a data set for analysis. The hope is that students (and all others involved) will become more aware of the sources of their energy and how that and where they live influence the costs. Teachers and students can use this information to look at how energy rates differ between regions with varying climate types. They could look at how the primary energy source (coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, etc.) could influence the rates charged. Teachers and students could look further into non-renewable resources to look at trends in rates as the resources become more scarce. The idea is to post conclusions from the analysis of the information for others to both view and to use as a springboard to further exploration. PROJECT URL: http://students.ed.uiuc.edu/ssvends2/590project/Projmain.html REGISTRATION DATES: 7/23/06 to 4/02/07 REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS: -- Email me with your name, city/state, country (if outside US). The website URL gives instructions on how to send information. PROJECT EMAIL ADDRESS: mailto:sesvendsen@excite.com PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT POSTED BY: Steve Svendsen mailto:sesvendsen@excite.com (Teacher Middle School (ages 11-14)) St. Joseph Middle School St. Joseph, Illinois, United States Our Pennsylvania Community PROJECT BEGIN and END DATES: 2/20/06 to 4/21/06 (must register by 4/10/06) NUMBER OF CLASSROOMS: any AGE RANGE: 9 to 11 years TARGET AUDIENCE: United States PROJECT SUMMARY: -- This is a statewide collaborative projects with students, grades 3 through 5 from all over Pennsylvania. In connection with our 4th grade Social Studies unit on Pennsylvania, we would like to learn about other regions and communities in PA. Please tell us, in a few paragraphs, what is special about your community. PROJECT LEVEL: Basic Project CURRICULUM AREAS: -- Social Studies; Technology; Information Technology; Community Interest; History TECHNOLOGIES USED: -- Email, List server; Postal Mail; Text: stories, essays, letters; Graphics: photo,draw,paint; Web-published COLLABORATION STYLES: Information Exchange; Electronic Publishing FULL PROJECT DESCRIPTION: -- There are many things that could make a community special. Perhaps some famous person is from your community. Or maybe your community contains a notable tourist attraction? Maybe your community played an important role in Pennsylvania or U.S. history. Your community may be notable for its physical or geographical features. Perhaps your community is notable for the mix of people who live there. Please e-mail us and include the following information: Name of school, grade, name of teacher, location (town or city and county), description of your community and what makes it special. It would also be more interesting if you include basic statistical information on your community such as (but not limited to) County, Longitude and Latitude and Population, Land Area. Some possible sources for this information would be http://www.city-data.com/city/Pennsylvania.html or http://pasdc.hbg.psu.edu/pasdc/Search/Search.html or http://www.discoverourtown.com/PA.html. You may also include a picture of something in your community. (The picture can be e-mailed to us as an attachment--.jpg is preferable. If you want to send hard copy by snail mail, that would be fine, but we will not be able to return your picture.) We will post your responses on our webpage PROJECT URL: http://www.baldwinstudents.org/Lower/4PACommunity.htm REGISTRATION DATES: 2/14/06 to 4/10/06 REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS: -- Please send email to lmullen@baldwinschool.org with Pennsylvania Community in the subject line. PROJECT EMAIL ADDRESS: mailto:lmullen@baldwinschool.org PROJECT REGISTRATION URL: http://lmullen@baldwinschool.org PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT POSTED BY: Linda Mullen mailto:lmullen@baldwinschool.org (School Technology Coordinator) Baldwin School Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States Kids' Internet Radio Project Project Begin & End Dates: 4/01/04 to 4/30/07 Project Summary: The Radio Project offers youth, students and teachers the tools to produce a streaming radio broadcast. So what can you produce? Here are some ideas: - Present stories or other schoolwork; - Use your foreign langauge skills to create a dialogue; - Use sounds to create an audio story - no speaking allowed! Project Level: Basic Curriculum Area: Arts, Community Interest, History and Social Studies, Information Technology, Language, Science, Technology Technologies Used: Email, IRC or Other Real-Time Chat, Web Based Discussion Forum Full Project Description: The Kids' Internet Radio Project is a streaming broadcast which will help kids everywhere share their talents over the internet airwaves! The project combines digital collaborative recording and broadcast with traditional storytelling, reporting, music, and learning. It's free to participate, and all students need is a computer, microphone, and Internet connection. Check out our website at http://www.projectkir.org/ and join today! Objectives: --Writing, Planning, Speaking-- After producing a radio show, students will be able to: -Feel comfortable in verbalizing their experiences and thoughts. -Reflect upon and improve their enunciation and public speaking skills. -Recognize new opportunities to vocalize ideas to the world; -Learn production planning, writing and editing skills; --Technology Skills-- After producing a radio show, students will: -Become proficient in basic audio editing skills and techniques; -Understand the systems necessary to broadcast over the internet; --Science Skills-- While editing a radio show, students will: -Learn about frequency patterns, sound waves and patterns (waveform) Project Registration Information Project Email Address: staff@projectkir.org Registration Acceptance Dates: 4/01/04 to 4/30/07 Number of Classrooms: Any/All Age Range: 13 to 19 years Target Audience: Anyone Project URL: http://www.projectkir.org Registration Instructions: Everything is free. Simply join our community to take full advantage of the resources we have to offer. Project Contact Information David Crusoe - mailto:dhcrusoe@projectkir.org Kids' Internet Radio Project Greenwich, Connecticut US http://www.projectkir.org
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