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1.                  April has been designated as National Poetry month and teachers, bookstores and others will be planning and hosting lots of interesting events. If you need suggestions for events and activities, you     might want to check out the following.http://www.childrenslit.com/th_poetry.html

 

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2.  MLNC is pleased to announce that we are able to offer netTrekker to our Missouri K12 members at a significant discount.  NetTrekker is America’s #1 educational search engine, allowing users to connect to over 180,000 of the best online resources for teaching and learning, aligned with state standards and organized by readability and grade level.  This awarding winning database is available to MLNC members at a discounted rate from now until JUNE 15th, so don’t wait to order.

 

For a free trial of this exciting new product go to http://school.netTrekker.com and login in

 

User Name: MOtrial

Password:   trial

 

For more information, including pricing and order forms, go to http://www.mlnc.org/Products/ElectRef/Nettrekker/Nettrekker.html

 

Or call or email Asia at asia@mlnc.org, 1800-969-6562 x814

 

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3.  Free book at MASL Conference – Me and Uncle Mike – Follow Me and Uncle Mike through one of our adventures.  Do you want to go to Montana?  Find out where the Boston Tea Party came from. If water is more your style, you can visit the Amazon or the Snake Rivers. The first 200 elementary librarians to come by the Lions & Tigers & Bears Publishing booth at MASL Spring Conference will receive a free book.

 

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4.  Earth Science, Weather, Climate, and Energy  http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.php?articleID=196604342

More than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group in 1997 to make hundreds of federally supported teaching and learning resources easier to find. The result of that work is the FREE web site. FREE stands for Federal Resources for Educational Excellence. The web sites listed below are excerpted with permission from the FREE web site. This month, we highlight web sites for earth science, weather, climate, and energy; in other months, we feature other subject areas. You can search our site for the word FREE to find them. 

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5.   Part of the Virtual Wonders exhibit at London's Natural History Museum, this site examines six meteorite fragments in a 3-D format. Users may click on and drag an image to make the meteorite rotate laterally. The site also provides information on the meteorites.  http://www.techlearning.com/webpicks/

 

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6.  School Years Around the World: Reading a Bar Graph  A printable graph-reading exercise that compares the number of years children are expected to go to school in the United States and in a host of other countries. Good reinforcement for students learning to interpret data displayed as a bar graph and for interpreting how different communities around the world meet or do not meet the education needs of their citizens.  http://www.techlearning.com/webpicks/showArticle.php?articleID=196604280

 

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7.  Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection is a multi-format ethnographic field collection of traditional fiddle tunes performed by Henry Reed of Glen Lyn, Virginia. Recorded by folklorist Alan Jabbour in 1966-67, when Reed was over eighty years old, the tunes represent the music and evoke the history and spirit of Virginia's Appalachian frontier. Many of the tunes have passed back into circulation during the fiddling revival of the later twentieth century. This online collection incorporates 184 original sound recordings, 19 pages of fieldnotes, and 69 musical transcriptions with descriptive notes on tune histories and musical features; an illustrated essay about Reed's life, art, and influence; a list of related publications; and a glossary of musical terms.  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/reed/

 

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8.  The goal of the Hall of Black Achievement is to spotlight the accomplishments of African-Americans in the U.S. It covers the famous (Harriet Tubman, Marian Anderson) as well as the less well-known (Roland Hayes, a musician and composer). The site gives a brief biography and a portrait for each profile. Many of the biographies have an audio component, requiring RealPlayer for audio. http://www.techlearning.com/webpicks/showArticle.php?articleID=196604173

 

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9.  New Librarians – If you know of people who will be moving or are new to school librarianship, please send me their names, district, and email addresses.