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Daily Archives: January 6th, 2008

Iditarod

06-Jan-08

The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
It’s unlike any other event in the world. A race over 1,150 miles of the most extreme and beautiful terrain known to man: across mountain ranges, frozen rivers, dense forests, desolate tundra and windswept coastline.
Iditarod XXXVI starts on March 1, 2008
Iditarod XXXVII starts on March 7, 2009
The Iditarod Trail Sled [...]

English Renaissance

06-Jan-08

“English Renaissance” is a term often used to describe a cultural and artistic movement in England from the early 16th century to the mid-17th century. It is associated with the pan-European Renaissance that many cultural historians believe originated in northern Italy in the fourteenth century. This era in English cultural history is sometimes referred to [...]

Native American History board game

06-Jan-08

Create Your Own Native American Board Game–U.S. History lesson plan (grades K-5).
Game Objectives – Students will: 1. discuss how games reflect a culture’s beliefs, priorities, and aspects of everyday life; 2. learn about a few games and toys of Native American children; and 3. analyze basic elements of a selected Native American tribe in order [...]

Discovery School board games

06-Jan-08

Discovery School offers many ideas to make your own board games.
Classroom Planetarium–Astronomy/Space lesson plan (grades K-5)
Students learn about the relationship of the nine planets in our solar system to the sun by creating a three-dimensional representation. They find out the planets’ relative distance from the sun and their approximate size in relation to the Earth.
Alexander [...]

I Squidoo. Do You?

06-Jan-08

I hadn’t been feeling too well the last couple of days so I had some time to mess around on the computer. There are many social networking platforms I’ve been looking at and Squidoo was one of them. So come check out my Squidoo Lens!
http://www.squidoo.com/homeschoolingonashoestring
There’s still work to be done on it – but I [...]