As part of Earth Month 2008, Wal-Mart will be giving away a million custom-made reusable shopping bags on Saturday, April 19, 2008 at 8:00am Local Time.* Plastic bags can take as long as 1,000 years to degrade. If you miss out on the free reusable shopping bag, don’t panic. Wal-Mart sells their reusable shopping bags [...]
The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies is sponsoring an Earth Day photo contest for middle school students. Interested students are asked to photograph something that is changing in their local environment. They are to take the photo between Tuesday, April 22, and Tuesday, April 29. The change could be occurring in the student’s backyard, outside [...]
Celebrate Earth Day EPA’s Earth Day Web site offers you many tips and fun ways to protect the environment and your health every day. Check out the Earth Day Take Home Kit. Earth Day Network find all the information you need to plan your event, get involved, and help protect the environment. Planetpals Greatest Earth [...]
Peter Rabbit.com The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter – Find the online version here for Beatrix Potter’s classic children’s tale. Peter Rabbit’s Activities – Download printable student activities and connect to online learning games to complement your reading of “The Tale of Peter Rabbit”. Math worksheet for Peter Rabbit – How many items [...]
Color Easter eggs with dyes found in nature Virtual Plant Tour for Peeps – In the interactive tour you will learn how the Peeps are mixed, deposited, coated with sugar and packaged. Did you know, Peeps celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2003. For tour, go to About Peeps and click on Factory Tour. This one [...]
Art Lessons and Info for Artists Georgia O’Keeffe and Claude Monet Abstract Flowers View and discuss Georgia O’Keeffe’s flower paintings and then create your own drawings. Flowers Galore Observe the shapes and lines that make up a flower by studying the work of Georgia O’Keeffe. Biography of O’Keeffe that includes quotes from the artist and [...]
Aquarium In A Cup SeaBed Make an Ocean Diorama Ocean And Undersea Life Ocean Animal Calendar Ocean Theme **Note: I would not use Styrofoam meat packages; instead I would use styrofoam veggie/fruit/dessert packages (due to disease causing bacteria.) Arts & Crafts: Beach & Ocean Sea World Songs Shark Cam, Seal Cam & Coral Research Cam [...]
The third Monday in February is a day for honoring both Washington and Lincoln, as well as all the other men who have served as president. The White House has an index to the biographies of all the Presidents of The United States of America, from 1789 to present, a wealth of information including a [...]
February 7, 2008 — The Year of the Rat Gung Hay Fat Choy! Traditional Celebration of the Chinese New Year Of all the traditional Chinese festivals, the new Year was perhaps the most elaborate, colorful, and important. This was a time for the Chinese to congratulate each other and themselves on having passed through another [...]
Stretch Break for Kids, a software program published by Para Technologies and offered free to any K-12 student, is designed to help kids avoid the kinds of repetitive strain injuries (RSIs) that plague so many adult computer users. The program, which offers a choice of 20 stretching exercises, provides written directions and computer animations for [...]
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