Keystone Weekly
volume 4, issue 25        April 14, 2003

This week's Key Points: *Web Pick of the Week* and *Awesome Science!*
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We've mentioned this site before in the Plant Growth and Development Curricular Companion, and with springtime upon us, it's worth highlighting again.

KidsGardening is an offering of The National Garden Association, and they've worked hard to create a rich site for kids, educators, and parents, with lots of creative projects and ideas for creating schoolyard gardens and fostering an appreciation of nature. Be sure to take a look at the Teachers' Resource Room, which has articles about such topics as using gardens to teach interdisciplinary concepts, using plant dyes, seeds, weaving, and insect interactions. There's also a list of plant-related kids fiction books, as well as an online course for teachers titled "From Seed to Seed" that offers college credit.

April is National Garden Month, so visit the site and find little and large ways you could celebrate with your students.

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Gnawed fossil findings suggest that dinosaurs roaming the plains of Madagascar more than 65 million years ago ate each other. The incriminating evidence? The bones and the tooth marks on them belong to members of the same species. This species, Majungatholus atopus, a two-legged dinosaur, also ate other creatures, as well as its own kind. These findings—the strongest proof yet of dinosaur cannibalism—are also useful in that they show clear indications of actual behavior, whereas scientists usually have to make educated guesses about behavior.

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9819641.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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