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#1. March 25, 2011
Dear Reader,
Only four more days left of my Italian adventure. But we saved a few of the very best things for last, as we have scheduled a guided tour through the Uffizi Gallery today. It will be like walking through the Italian renaissance!
I hope you’ve had a chance to look at some of my snapshots.
Ciao!
See ya on the Net,
Barbara J. Feldman
"Surfing the Net with Kids"
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#2. Online Scavenger Hunts
by Barbara J. Feldman
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This week’s site selection is dedicated to improving search skills. Some of today’s sites feature a single daily question (or search challenge), and others offer topic-based research questions often called online scavenger hunts. Good hunting!
Ask.com: Question of the Day
These are fun, topical questions, but often very easily answered with a single search. For example, on the day of the royal wedding, the Ask Question of the Day was “Will Kate Middleton become Queen?” To see the answer displayed along with the Ask results, simply click on the question or the “See the Answer” button. Oh, and the answer is “If Prince William does become King, she would be the Queen Consort.”
Blackwell’s Best: Internet Scavenger Hunts
Vicki Blackwell brings us lots and lots of scavenger hunts. A few have fallen victim to link rot (URLs that no longer work) but there are so many goodies here, I just had to ignore the few problems. The first batch (listed at the top of the page) is hunts created by teachers in the Tangipahoa Parish School System in Louisiana. Next comes a PowerPoint presentation that consists of research questions called “mini-hunts.” The third section is a collection of both on-site and off-site scavenger hunts, some from sites such as Education World, Scholastic and Cyberbee.
Education World: Internet Scavenger Hunts
Education World has organized their large collection of printable scavenger hunts (in PDF format) by month. For example, May includes Memorial Day Memories, April Showers Bring May Flowers, Honoring our Veterans and fourteen other topics. In addition to the one-page activity sheets with questions and links to web resources, Education World provides online answer keys.
… Click to continue Online Scavenger Hunts .
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#5. Surfing the Calendar
Hurricane Preparedness Week
May 22-28, 2011
National Backyard Games Week
May 23-30, 2011
Cellophane Tape Patented
May 27, 1930
Golden Gate Bridge Opened
May 27, 1937
Sojourner Truth Gives “Ain’t I Woman?” Speech
May 28-29, 1851
John F. Kennedy’s Birthday
May 29, 1917
National Spelling Bee Week
May 29-Jun 3, 2011
President Woodrow Wilson Proclaims June 14 Flag Day
May 30, 1916
First Daily American Newspaper Published
May 30, 1783
Memorial Day
May 30, 2011
Walt Whitman’s Birthday
May 31, 1819
Mark Felt Reveals Himself as Watergate’s Deep Throat
May 31, 2005
Dairy Month
June
National Fireworks Safety Month
June
Start of Hurricane Season
Jun 1, 2011
Jerusalem Day
Jun 1, 2011
Helen Keller Dies
Jun 1, 1968
Isabella Baumfree Chooses the Name Sojourner Truth
Jun 1, 1843
#6. Quote of the Week
“You can get through anything if you stay put in today.” ~~ Regina Brett ~~ (b. 1949) columnist in The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio. Click here for more Regina Brett quotes.
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