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IN THE NEWS! 03/08/10
Seventy-one dog teams have begun this year's famous Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.Leaving from Willow Lake, on Saturday, March 6th,the final destination is Nome, Alaska. Over the years, racers have endured sub-zero temperatures, high winds,blinding snows and wind chills to -100 F covering the 1161 mile race route. The Iditarod Trail,began as a mail and supply route to mining towns in the interior of Alaska. In 1925, part of the trail was used to helped save the city of Nome suffering a diphtheria epidemic. Needed medicine was brought in by mushers and their hard working dogs. The Iditarod honors this history of the state of Alaska.Lance Mackey, three-time champion of the Iditarod, is hoping for his fourth consecutive win.And,in a first for the race, begun in 1973,...a musher from the Caribbean island of Jamaica!This site has lots of great information: http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/iditarod/
Can you walk and chew gum at the same time? Not, if it's on the streets of the island nation of Singapore! For the past 18 years there has been a ban on the sale and import of chewing gum. With a ban on chewing gum, the streets of Singapore are clean and you don't see wads of old gum on furniture or stuck to the bottoms of your sneakers. Recently, some lawmakers in Singapore wanted to have the law changed,that it was a freedom to be allowed to chomp on gum. The government didn't agree. The ban on chewing gum for recreational purposes will continue to stick to the books of Singapore!You may have heard about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch where tons and tons of garbage, especially plastics) have accumulated. About the size of the state of Texas, an estimated 3.5 million tons of trash are swirling around and around. Pink and blue toothbrushes, plastic bags, yellow plastic rubber duckies, sneakers and baby pacifiers are just some of the junk located in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Located between Hawaii and San Francisco,California, this massive patch of trash was discovered by Charles Moore, in 1997. Scientists say they've discovered another similarly large garbage dump in the Atlantic Ocean! Stretching from Virginia to Cuba, billions of similar plastic junk is located hundreds of miles off the coast of North America. With little movement in these areas but surround by strong currents, the discarded rubbish spins around and around, accumulating but not dispersing throughout the ocean. Scientists call these areas gyres. For the past 22 years, scientists have conducted 6100 tows of the North Atlantic. The nets have turned up lots and lots of teeny plastic pieces, called "mermaid tears" or "nurdles". Such a large concentration of plastic bits,200,000 pieces of debris per square kilometre,(about 1/4 sq. mile) suggest the Atlantic Garbage Patch is similar in size to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch... a sad badge of honor for another of earth's oceans.
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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:
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