Puzzler
The Iditarod Dogsled Race
1998 Iditarod Rules
Track Star
BrainTeasers
The North American Quilt Project
At Home in the Heartland
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Helper
50 States and Capitals
National Geographic
World Surfari
Word Play
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The Founding Fathers
The Delegates to the Constitutional Convention are presented in this site by the National Archives of the United States. These great and famous men seem just to have stepped away from the tables in the photo on the entry page. They come to life further in the overview biographical article, which tells of their careers (diverse), families (just 4 bachelors), and longeviety (average age of death was 67). And to meet them individually, click on their names, arranged by colonies, to arrive at a biography and picture.
In Search of the Giant Octopus
A research team, which traces its project's start to the clean-up of spilled oil in Prince William Sound, Alaska, has built a scientific treasure trove of information and color photos around the knowledge it gathers. Being in touch here with scientists at work lets younger students learn that the octopus takes crabs home for dinner and tosses the shells out of his den on to a midden pile, while those in the grad school can note that the biggest crab in the Octopus dofleini diet is the Telmessus cheiragonus. There is a new section (July 1997) called "On Rocky Shores" with educational projects for K-12. A sample: the "Life's a Beach" puppet show, starting Olivia Octopus.
Virtual Belize
Bring the jungle, the center of the once powerful Mayan civilization, and the longest barrier reef in the Northern Hemisphere on to your desk in gorgeous color by visiting the Web site of this new nation. Several sections, like the one on Coastal Treasurers, have excellent materials >for elementary school students to use in environmental and science studies. Another homework treasure is this "Nation in the Making," presenting its history in fourteen chapters that describe centuries of colonialism, slavery, resistence, and transformation.
Punctuation
This chapter from a handbook for technical writers and editors begins by describing "A Functional Concept of Punctuation." This conceptual explanation is practical and helpful. Each punctuation mark is then explained and illustrated. Although the material is easy to understand, it is not simplistic. Did you know a semicolon, colon, question mark, period or exclamation point are okay to supercede and replace a dash, but not a comma?
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