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Weekly This week's Key Points:
*Web Pick of the Week* and *Awesome Science!* Web Pick of the Week Are You Teaching the Real Story of Thanksgiving? http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr040.shtml
Education World brings you this article that asks "Are you
teaching the true Thanksgiving story or is the version
you're passing on to your students a blend of fact and
myth?" and offers information about and a link to the
project called "Teaching About Thanksgiving"
As the Education World article explains, the project includes "an accurate telling of 'The Plymouth Thanksgiving Story' along with study and discussion questions, ideas for enrichment, art projects, and authentic recipes—all intended to enable teachers to accurately portray the events surrounding the first Thanksgiving." Even if you're only teaching science this year, this is definitely worth a look, for current and future use. While on the topic of Thanksgiving, you may want to check out these cool sites too. They feature addictively interesting (and scientific!) food and turkey facts.
Talking Turkey: Watch a Webcast
The Science of Cooking Awesome Science! Dog Domestication http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22090- 2002Nov21.html Recent research has brought questions to bear on long-held beliefs about the dog domestication. While believed to have been domesticated in Europe or the Middle East, recent DNA study reveals that it may have first happened in East Asia. The study also reveals that contemporary dogs may have been selected for their attentiveness to human cues, as they proved to be more responsive to subtle human gestures than chimpanzees, which are generally considered to be more intelligent than dogs in most other areas. And in a comparison between domesticated dogs and wolves, researchers report that this talent for communication was not found in wolves, and thus dogs had been bred for this characteristic for hundreds of generations. Read more details about the findings above. |
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