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Have a wonderful summer vacation. Continue to check in for updated information throughout the summer!
NEW...Click here: SUMMER OLYMPICS BEIJING 2008 CYBERHUNT
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Click here: Vote, Vote, Vote! Presidential Election Activities
Just posted 6/14/08:
NEW: Presidential Election Puzzle at Puzzle section of my website
New Careers posted in May: Radio Personality-Cousin Brucie and Cartographer-Shane Matthews, National Geographic Maps
Read books this summer and help others! Scholastic is offering a summer reading program. For every four books you read and log online,Schoalstic will donate a book to a nonprofit organziation called Room to Read. The organization establishes libraries and schools in underpriviledged communities in the developing world. Learn more at this site: http://www.scholastic.com/summerreading/
ALL LINKS HAVE BEEN CHECKED AND IF NEEDED UPDATED: 3/08! If you should find one I missed, please let me know.
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IN THE NEWS! 07/17/08Starlight, Starbright, scientists have found the second brightest star in our galaxy. Runner up to Eta Carina, the brightest star out there, is pretty amazing when astronomers estimate there are 100 billion stars twinkling out in the Milky Way! Called Peony Nebula, the star is as bright as 3.2 million suns and was found in a flowery dust cloud near the center of our galaxy(that's why the flower name). Eta burns as bright as 4.7 million times our sun. Astronomers say that Peony Nebula is a super-giant star, which is very rare. If you compare it to our sun, it's diameter is about 100 times as big. That means, if it was located where the sun is found,it would extend out to the orbit of Mercury! Being so large, such stars don't have much of a life- span and astronomers think it won't be long before it explodes into a supernova. Read more about this story at this link:http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/07/16/bright-star-galaxy.html
Archives of IN THE NEWS: Click here: IN THE NEWS
NEW CHILDREN'S STORY- The Wooden Cookie Box( a young girl learns about her family history from her favorite cookie!)
Click here to read the story! The Wooden Cookie Box
NEW: ALL MY "TO TELL THE TRUTH PLAYS" ARE NOW FREE TO DOWNLOAD! Just email me as to which plays you'd like me to send along.
Click on "The Plays" on upper left for the list of To Tell the Truth Plays Available and THREE free plays to download(Sacagawea, Hans Christian Andersen and King Tut!)
My latest book of plays is now available from Teacher Creative Materials.
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Check out my latest "Where in the World is Mrs. Waffenschmidt"(35 new adventures) being posted weekly at Education World's site Click Here
Special thanks to EducationWorld for letting me use this image of my "alter ego" as Mrs. "Waffenschmidt!
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
"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."
A quote by Ben Franklin
Sites for Teachers
Award winning site for April 2008!
Newton's Castle
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