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Core Curriculum for 2nd Grade Professional Development Courses [|WebQuests Course]

Fun Interactive Activities for Students[|Australia Virtual Zoo]



Virtual Field Trips[|Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History]



Service Learning Projects[|The Road Home Shelter]



One of the things we will be doing in class this year is learning about different ways that we can help make the community a better place. We will be having a clothing/coat collection project in October. We will be donating these items to The Road Home Shelter in Salt Lake City. I am very excited about this project and I know the kids will have a lot of fun with it. The Road Home Shelter is a wonderful organization and does a lot of good for people in our community that really need it. Thank you for your support of this project.

[|Things to Do - Themepark]



From its Galveston, Texas origin in 1865, the observance of June 19th as the African American Emancipation Day has spread across the United States and beyond. Today Juneteenth commemorates African American freedom and emphasizes education and achievement.

[|Water Conservation in Utah]



Because we live in a desert, learning to conserve the water we have is very important. Here are some things we all can do to save this precious resource. This website lists many ways we can conserve water. Some of the easiest ways that kids can help save water are: **1) Keep a bottle of water in the fridge so that we don't waste water trying to run the faucet and get cold water ** **2) Turn off the faucet when brushing teeth ****3) Wash only full loads of laundry or dishes **

[|Home Access Letter]



__<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">Sample Searches __ <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">The Lost City of Pompeii <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">I used the keyword, Italy. The author is Kristin Baird Rattini. The source is <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">[|National Geographic Kids], Feb2009, Issue 387, p30-31, 2p, 2 color photographs



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__<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">SIRS Discoverer Current Events __ <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">[|A Summer of Weather Extremes]This is an article by Ann Posegate written in the Washington Post. It was posted on September, 21, 2011.
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 * || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Where does pollution come from?Pollution is the poisoning of our environment by humans. Pollution started back in the 1800's, when factories burned coal to run equipment and provide heat for their workers. When coal is burned, it produces a dark and heavy smoke that floats into the air, harming our environment. Over time, cars were invented, trains were used for transportation and garbage was burned, sending more pollution into the air. Pollution may be partially to blame for global warming and poisonous acid rain. [|Read more about pollution ...] ||

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%; text-align: center;">SIRS Discoverer Articles[|Leopard Cubs]



<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">[|"Who Are You? The Answer Is at Your Fingertips."]

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">This article is written by Arvilla Pritchard. It was written in the Cricket Magazine in the August 1993 issue, pgs. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">47-50

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">SIRS Discoverer Spotlight of the Month - <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">January 2010 - [|Olympic Winter Games]

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%; text-align: center;">[|SIRS vs. Google]

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">Differences between SIRS and Google **__<span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%; line-height: normal;">SIRS __** <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">**__Google__** <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">Students and teachers can find many great resources that are k-12 relevant. This is a site I recommend because it is geared towards education.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">100% of SIRS teaching and learning resources are curriculum-relevant, standards-based, and access a variety editorially selected, copyrighted, publisher quality media types.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Teachers can access a variety of free SIRS-specific inquiry-based learning activities that integrate 21st Century Skills and critical thinking.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Lexile and SIRS reading scores for each article help teachers to help students select articles they can read and understand to differentiate learning.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Curriculum guides show teachers how to use information to develop critical thinking and problem solving skills—SIRS Issues Researcher, SIRS Discoverer, and SIRS Decades.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Less than 10% of Google is K-12 curriculum-relevant, and is limited to websites; most are consumer oriented, distracting to students, and many are from sources that are questionable or even inappropriate.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Google can access lesson plan websites, but busy teachers will have to do the necessary selection, adaptation, and correlation to state standards.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">NO equivalent research-proven tool available to guide students and teachers in differentiating instruction and learning.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">NO equivalent student and teacher tool provided.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%; text-align: center;">Quote From President Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address



<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan--to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations."

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">I used the database, Primary Search. I searched for the term Technology and found an article that I found interesting. It discusses using Social Robots in the classroom to fill needs that could assist teachers. It also is being used in places where teachers are in short supply. The name of this article is, "My New Teacher, Mr. Robot" by Judith Jango-Cohen.



<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%; text-align: center;">[|"My New Teacher, Mr. Robot"]

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">My 2 sons had a chance to go to school in The Netherlands (Holland) when we were living over there. School in The Netherlands (Holland) is a little bit different than going to school in the United States. One of the big differences is that kids start school there on their 4th birthday. They have typical grades like they have here. Kids are placed into a "Group" that will be their class for that year. To say "Thank You" in Dutch, you say, '//Dank u well//" (Donk you vell). The person then responds with Alstublief. That is using good, polite manners in Dutch. Also, if you ask someone for something, you say "Please" at the end of your request. Please is said //"Alstublieft."// It is pronounced "Allsh too bleefed." To say "Good Morning" in Dutch, you would say, "Goedemorgen. (H//OO-duh-MORE-hun//)" <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">According to the CultureGrams website, this is what it is like to be a student: <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">Education is very important in the Netherlands. Most children go to school between the ages of five and eighteen. Students may attend a Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Muslim, or “nonreligious” school, but they all study the same subjects. There are also International Schools where students from other countries can learn the Dutch curriculum and learn to speak Dutch, but be taught in English. Primary education ends at age 12. During the final two years of primary school, students learn English. After two years of secondary education, Dutch students can choose between different types of high schools to help prepare them for jobs or for higher education." But, most of the kids start school there at 4 and not 5.



<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">Children in The Netherlands learn to ride a bike very early in their lives. The Dutch love to ride their bikes everywhere. In the mornings and afternoons, you could see a flood of bicycles arriving and leaving the school as parents take younger children to school and older children ride to school on their bikes with their friends. If they are too far away from the school to bike, they can ride a chartered bus or one of the city buses. They don't have typical yellow school buses like we have here. The Dutch love to get lots of exercise.

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<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">I like all kinds of music. I think that each style of music is unique and can make us want to move our bodies in different ways to the different beats. I also think that it can be fun to try and pick out which instruments we can hear together and by themselves. Music is very important to me and I think it helps us to learn new things. I hope you will enjoy our music library and learn to appreciate all different styles of music.

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<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%; text-align: center;">Surf The Ages - Changing TimesIf I were to change the time I was born in (and it couldn't be my own time), I would probably choose to be born in the 1800's. There are several reasons why I would want to be born then (and several reasons why I am glad I wasn't!) <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">I love a good adventure. The world was changing so quickly back then. It was perfectly acceptable to travel by horse (my FAVORITE mode of transportation!)There was plenty of open space to explore and things to discover.I think horse-drawn carriages are cool. If you didn't like where you were living or your neighbors, you could always hitch a ride with someone going west and you could make a new life for yourself out West. I would have wanted to make friends with the Indians and see the great Buffalo herds on the plains and see all the wild horses. (Do you see a common theme here?) :)



<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">Deseret News Archives <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">Studio City, California - **Lenny Krayzelburg** won his second gold medal — setting an Olympic mark of 1 minute, 56.76 seconds in the 200-meter backstroke in Swimming.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%; text-align: center;">Counties of Utah <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">[|Uintah County]

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">The history of Uintah County goes back to the dinosaur age. Evidences of Dinosaurs, such as bones and fossilized footprints, have been left in the region. Much later, the <span style="color: #591479; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">Freemont Indians and, more recently, the <span style="color: #591479; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">Ute Indians have inhabited this area. Rock art can be seen on many of the canyon walls even today. In 1776 the Dominguez and Escalante expedition stopped here. The Ashley valley was named after Willaim Henry Ashley, one of the early trappers, who traveled many times through the area. In 1861 a group sent by Brigham Young to explore the area declared it a “waste and valueless.” Then in 1873 a group of people entered the Ashley valley to raise livestock an industry that has become very important to the area. <span style="color: #591479; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">Vernal, the county seat, was set up around 1880 when the residents of the area were protecting themselves from a group of hostile Indians. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Today, many visitors visit the area to see the <span style="color: #591479; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">Dinosaur National Monument, a national monument established to protect a major quarry and the surrounding area. In the city of <span style="color: #591479; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">Vernal visitors can see the remarkable <span style="color: #591479; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">Utah Field House of Natural History State Park with indoor and outdoor exhibits. Uintah County provides many scenic drives, such as the Red Cloud/Dry Fork Scenic Backway that provides beautiful vistas, early rock art, and forest views. Nearby <span style="color: #591479; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">Fantasy Canyon provides the visitor a look at rock formations that you’re sure you’ve seen before in storybooks. Two state parks in the county, <span style="color: #591479; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">Red Fleet and <span style="color: #591479; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">Steinaker State Park, help provide water and recreation throughout the year.

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