{"id":3988,"date":"2016-06-07T18:02:21","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T18:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/newsletters\/2016-06-07\/3988\/"},"modified":"2016-06-07T18:02:21","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T18:02:21","slug":"surfnetkids-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/newsletters\/2016-06-07\/3988\/","title":{"rendered":"[Surfnetkids] Rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dear Reader,<\/p>\n

Are you in charge of a website or blog for kids, teachers, or parents? If so, let me reintroduce the Surfnetkids Widgets. They are little snippets of daily fun facts, coloring pages, jokes, inspirational quotes, and a Surfnetkids Calendar. You can place a single line of code on your site or WordPress blog, and have fun, “of the day” content from Surfnetkids.<\/p>\n

I first developed these widgets years ago, but this week I updated them, fixed a few bugs, and converted them to use the secure https:\/\/ format. This means that these widgets will run on both http:\/\/ and https:\/\/ websites. But you don’t have to understand whether or not your website page is SSL-compliant, the snippets will just work either way.<\/p>\n

If you’d like to take a look, or update your code to the new secure https:\/\/ version, you can see the code snippets here: https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/widget-code\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In other news, I finally wrote a short review of my sitting\/standing Varidesk<\/a> on my personal blog. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tSee ya on the Net,
Barbara J. Feldman
“Surfing the Net with Kids”
https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Rivers<\/b>
https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/resources\/rivers\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Rivers Printable(** for Premium Members only)
https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/printables\/files\/printables-club\/rivers.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Facebook\"\/<\/a> \"Twitter\"\/<\/a> \"Addthis\"\/<\/a> <\/p>\n

A river is a natural flow of water (usually freshwater) towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. They are an important part of our ecosystem as a source of water, food, transportation, defense, energy, and recreation. Learn more at this week’s selection of sites.\t<\/p>\n

American Rivers: Discover Your River

Learn about rivers with this collection of educational articles from American Rivers, a non-profit advocacy group. Topics include the water cycle, vernal pools, what makes a river, water conservation, migratory fish, and why rivers flood. “Rivers and creeks flood when pulses of rainfall and\/or snowmelt move downstream. This causes water to overtop the channel’s banks and spill onto the neighboring floodplain.”<\/p>\n

Fact Monster: Principal Rivers of the World

The Fact Monster almanac lists the fifty-five biggest rivers in the world, with links to additional articles about most of them. The Nile (the longest river in the world) tops the list with a length of 4,180 miles, and the Tigris is the shortest river on the list, with a length of 1,180 miles. A separate Rivers of the United States page annotates rivers 350 miles or longer, but is listed alphabetically, not by length.<\/p>\n

Missouri Botanical Garden: Rivers and Streams

“From outer-space, the earth looks like it is covered with veins and arteries, similar to our bodies. The earth’s arteries, however, are really a vast web of rivers and streams that channel water across the planet, from mountains to oceans.” This excellent lesson for middle and high-school students covers watersheds, surface runoff, water pollution, how streams become rivers, river zones, river creatures (such as the Arrau River turtle) and hydroelectric power (dams).<\/p>\n

… Click to continue to Rivers<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

\tPrintables Club Members Also Get … <\/b> <\/p>\n

Surfnetkids Printables Club Members also get the following printables to use in the classroom, the computer lab, the school library, or to send home with students:<\/p>\n

Rivers Printable
Rivers Wikipedia Printable
Lewis and Clark Printable
Water Cycle Printable
*** Are you curious? Get your own ten-day trial membership:
https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/printables-club.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

Related Games<\/b><\/p>\n

River Fishing: Colors of Autumn<\/a>
Pigeon River State Park Jigsaw<\/a>
River in the Forest Image Puzzle<\/a><\/p>\n

Quote of the Week<\/b><\/p>\n

“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.” ~~ Frank Lloyd Wright ~~ (June 8, 1867 \u2013 April 9, 1959) American architect. Did you know Frank Lloyd Wright designed a house built over a waterfall? Belief is a powerful tool \u2013 check out more quotes about belief<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Surfing the Calendar<\/b><\/p>\n<\/style>\n

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