Presented by:

Wendie Gelardi wgelardi@bufsd.or

g Jolynn Sapia

jlsapia@bufsd.orgBrentwood Public

School DistrictCertified MarcoPolo

trainers

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What is MarcoPolo?What is MarcoPolo?What is MarcoPolo?What is MarcoPolo?

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1The World Trade Organization was established in 1995.

2Isaac Asimov, acclaimed science fact and fiction writer, was born in 1920.

3Potter Josiah Wedgwood died in 1795.

4Monster.com went live in 1998.

5George Washington Carver died in 1943.

6The Blizzard of 1996 hit the East Coast.

7The closing day of the 7th Annual Conference of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) occurred in 2003.

8Marco Polo died in 1324.

9President Richard M. Nixon was born in 1913.

10The phrase "Where's the beef?" was uttered for the first time on a television commercial for Wendy's in 1984.

11Painter Charles E. Burchfield died in 1967.

12John Hancock, first signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born in 1737.

13Andrew Jackson wrote a letter to Martin van Buren regarding the Nullification Crisis in 1833.

14Matthew Fontaine Maury, a pioneer in oceanography and hydrography, was born in 1806.

15New York’s Mayor William Strong appointed Colonel George E. Waring as Commissioner of Street Cleaning in 1895.

16Ellen Russell Emerson, American ethnologist, was born in 1837.

17A 6.9 magnitude earthquake destroyed over one hundred thousand buildings in Kobe, Japan, in 1995.

18Daniel Webster was born in 1782.

19The National Institutes of Health director announced in 1999 that the NIH would fund research using "master cells" from human embryos.

20Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died in 1924.

21George Orwell died of tuberculosis in 1950.

22The Chinese Telephone Exchange, in San Francisco's Chinatown, was closed in 1949.

23The Twenty-Fourth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified in 1964.

24In 1916, the Supreme Court upheld the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution, ruling that the federal government had the authority to collect taxes on income.

25Nellie Bly completed a journey "around the world in less than 80 days" in 1890.

26Today is Republic Day in India.

27Lewis Carroll was born in 1832.

28In 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded, 73 seconds into flight.

29Chinese New Year – The Year of the Dog begins on this day in 2006.

30The Yogi Bear Show premiered in 1961.

31Samuel Loyd, mathematician and inventor of the "15 Puzzle," was born in 1841.

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Social Studies

Elementary

Quilting: the Story of the Underground Railroad

Includes virtual tour of the Underground Railroad

• Connecting Art, Music, Dance, and Poetry Grade Level(s): 9,10,11,12

• Lesson URL:

• http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=252

• Description:The Harlem Renaissance was a vibrant time that was characterized by innovations in art, literature, music, poetry, and dance.

• In this ReadWriteThink lesson, students conduct Internet research, work with an interactive Venn diagram tool, and create a museum exhibit that highlights the work of selected artists, musicians, and poets of the Harlem Renaissance. Critical thinking, creativity, and interdisciplinary connections are emphasized.

• The famous "Stroop Effect" is named after J. Ridley Stroop who discovered this strange phenomenon in the 1930s. Here is your job: name the colors of the following words. Do NOT read the words...rather, say the color of the words. For example, for the word BLUE, you should say "RED". Say the colors as fast as you can. It is not as easy as you might think!

                                                                               

To understand how the brain receives and sends signals to the body.

Science Elementary Busy Brain Interactive lab experiment makes this useful in a classroom setting.

• Level-Intermediate• Paper Pool Game• Handouts and

interactive pool game make this one of the more popular MarcoPolo lessons

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