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Here’s an illustration of where you can find elements in things we use.

Free online courses for the next 8 weeks from the San Diego Zoo – for ages 13 and up!

We had a 5.7 earthquake here in Salt Lake City this morning, and the first 16 minutes of this PBS Science Trek episode gives a great explanation for kids.

Other Science Trek episodes can be found here free online.

Just check it out! Zooniverse has projects you can help sort data (real science!) Kids really get into it.

President’s Day resources by grade from Readworks.org for Monday, February 20

Sign up on Readworks is free and worth the hassle. This is a valuable site that I use over and over in our homeschool lessons.  There are over 2500 articles for grades K-12.

Learn why we celebrate Presidents’ Day from History.com

http://mass.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/nvmm-math-pifibonacci/pi-the-fibonacci-sequence/

http://mass.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/nvmm-math-numeracy/animals-numeracy/

The archives are listed here with lots and lots of suggested reading links.

For example, complete this crossword puzzle about the Roaring 20s, then explore the news site for related reading.

Lesson plan for middle school students:

http://nationalgeographic.org/lesson/languages-and-religions-europe/

http://mass.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/nvmm-math-mathmusic/ancient-math-music/