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This fall,I had an amazing trip with my husband, Cliff-We went to China!See pictures of my bear, PurpleAnnie, who also toured China with us.
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IN THE NEWS!1/27/12
Two teens,Matthew Ho and Asad Muhammad,from Canada successfully sent an unusual astronaut into space.They sent up a plastic Lego Man! Working for several months and on most of their weekends, they developed a plan, purchased their supplies and made a styrofoam capsule. The 17 year old teens stuffed 4 cameras inside, along with a GPS-equipped cellphone and attached their Lego Man.A tiny parachute was also attached to the capsule. Checking weather forecasts for the best launch date,the teens set off to see if their capsule could go into orbit. It did! The teens captured the entire journey of Lego Man soaring to heights of 80,000 feet(twice the height of most commercial airplanes)tethered to a weather balloon. The odyssey lasted 97 minutes before the weather balloon burst. The GPS enabled the teens, to locate their Lego Man still intact, about 70 miles from where it had launched. Lego Man,holding the Canadian flag, had made it into orbit and returned safely back to earth.
Picture from Boston Globe.com. See video of the adventures of Lego Man at this link:
You may have folded up a lawn chair but a car?An electric two-seater has been designed by Boston's MIT-Media lab,that does just that. Without any doors, and a motor located in the wheels, the Hiriko(a Basque word for "urban")will make city parking such a 5 ft. vehicle lots easier. Shown this week, the car, which can go 75 miles without recharging, will be available for purchase in 2013. Note: Spain is an area which is part of the European country of Spain.
The world's oldest dinosaur nursery has been found in Golden Gate Highlands National Park, South Africa. Each of the dinosaur nests(clutches) had up to 34 eggs, extremely delicate, about the width of a human hair.The complete nests had eggs with embryos still inside. Dating back to 190 million years, there are also baby dino footprints as well as skeletons of some of the mother dinosaurs. Scientists say the dinosaur is a Massospondylus(relative of the sauropods), a long necked plant eating dinosaur. It is thought that there are many more clutches still embedded in the cliffs. See photograph and read more at this link:
Imagine, knowing that your birthday would always fall on the same day each and every year. Would it be helpful if you knew that all holidays would also be celebrated on the same day? Our current calendar, called the Gregorian calendar, has been used for 450 years. Two professors at John Hopkins University think we need a new calendar. Their calendar would eliminate all leap years, which are added ever 4 years to keep our 365.2422 day year from getting our calendar out of sorts. With the Hanke-Henry Permanent Calendar, named for the two professors who have developed it, there wold be two 30 day months followed by one 31 day month. Every five or six years, there would be an "extra week" at the end of December.The professors also would like to see an additional change, Universal Time. They suggest all the world should be on the same time, Greenwich MeanTime, no matter WHERE you live. What do you think of this new calendar? What types of problems would Universal Time create? How might an "extra week" in the year be celebrated?
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About Gail:
As of June /2006, I have retired from teaching after 33 1/2 years in the classroom. Of that time, I taught Grade 6 Social Studies teacher for 31 1/2 years.I earned my BA in early secondary education with a concentration in social studies from SUNY Oneonta, New York, and my MST in social studies education from Binghamton University in New York. In 1988, I was awarded the Outstanding Elementary Social Studies Classroom Teacher of the Year Award from the New York State Council for the Social Studies. Additionally, in 1988, I was also awarded the Outstanding Elementary Social Studies Teacher of the Year Award by the National Council for the Social Studies.
My work has appeared in most children's publications including:
Appleseeds,Scholastic's Super Science,Scholastic's Science World, Highlights for Children, National Geographic World, Ranger Rick, Cobblestone, Faces, Muse Magazine, Contact Kids, US Kids, Action Magazine(Scholastic), Girls' Life, Boys' Life, American Girl, Instructor, Creative Classroom, Middle Years, Time for Kids, Scholastic News, Scholastic News Zone, Time for Kids , Ask Magazine, Dig, Calliope, Cobblestone, FACES, Studies Weekly, Glo Adventurer, and more.
