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The Total Solar Eclipse of August 21, 2017 - fly along with the shadow! This video "follows" the moon's shadow
as it sweeps over the surface of the USA on August 21, 2017. Production details are in the end credits.
Check out http://www.eclipse2017.org for more details on the eclipse!
A button on the right side will show you to the minute where the shadow will be as it cruises through the USA,
from Northwest to Southeast from Washington State to South Carolina!
Eclipse of August 21, 2017 This Vimeo video is seven minutes long, including credits.
There is a Download button in case you want to Save the video.

This is our ever changing list of recently added sites, plus the occasional oldie.
These are not in alphabetical order.
Generally, sites get added on the top and eventually get taken off the bottom.

How to build an earthquake proof structure Watch as traditionally built Chinese buildings from the Forbidden City
ride out extreme earthquakes, just as they have done hundreds of years. Find out how the old Chinese did it,
in the Youtube video. Going in Technology

Assateague Island National Seashore
"Did you know that by just finding a mermaid's purse on the beach you can contribute to science?
Citizen science has always been an important part of collecting environmental data,
and when it comes to sharks, skates, and rays, scientists at The Shark Trust are asking for your help!
In order to study the distribution of different oceanic shark and skate species,
they are asking that you report your egg case finds online.

The first step if you are going to report an egg case is to identify it. Since the egg cases we find are usually dried out,
the first step in identifying one is to soak it in fresh water for a couple of hours.
(Don’t worry- if the egg case has already hatched, it won’t smell!) When soaking the egg case, you should make sure
to remove all the air from it so it sinks in the water. Once you have rehydrated your find, it’s time to identify it!

Head over to The Shark Trust’s website (www.sharktrust.org/en/usa_eggcases) for a guide to the different types
of egg cases you can find on the Eastern Shore of MD &VA. The next step is to report your findings.
Be sure to get a picture, so they can confirm your report and add your report to their records!
(Text: Mark Bochner) (Photo: Shark Trust)

1) Look up the 4 fish named above and check them out!
2) Credit - Bevin Rose O'Grady

This 4:39 Youtube video from TED-ed shows some different ways to arrange
(sort) books on your bookshelf. All the sorting algoritms are demonstated and
explained. Going in Secondary Math.

Check Out this Incredible Timelapse Video of a Meteorite Exploding over the Mojave
"Our inherent curiosity about what’s going on outside our own planet means we’re actually missing out
on natural phenomena that’s just as impressive. So to remind you, here’s a beautiful timelapse of the
Mojave Desert, shot and edited by astrophotographer Harun Mehmedinovic, that managed to capture
a meteorite explosion." Going in Astronomy

Cuddle Berries - Nursery Rhymes & More All your favourite traditional nursery rhymes animated and set to music.
"Cuddle Berries helps create a fun filled environment of rhymes and rhythms for tiny minds.
An interactive platform for both parents and children to connect and reconnect to a sense of wonder
and joy with colours, shapes, words and sounds.

With Cuddle Berries, we will cater to children of younger ages, from a few months old to 6 years.
We have developed nursery rhymes, with world class animation. The appealing and colourful visuals
help a child engage and sing a long with a familiar rhyme and exciting music.

Research has shown children love to sway, move and get involved in variations in tones and vocal modulation,
sometimes even imitating sounds to communicate. Repetition of rhymes and singing helps a child develop language skills
and creates a desire to read and write. Rhymes with visuals help a child form word and sound associations.
Do enjoy the Cuddle Berries experience. Join us for a sing a long with your child!
Going in Early Childhood

Giraffe licks a GoPro! A 20" tongue is good for tearing off leaves.
Going in Animal Cams

World’s largest bat colony, 15-20 million strong, emerges from Texas cave in 360 VR In Bracken Cave, Texas,
is the world's largest bat colony. 15 to 20 million bats! This VR video lets students zoom around in 360; look up,
look down, look all around! Going in Animal Cams

How Magellan circumnavigated the globe A six minute TED-Ed YouTube video. Learn how Ferdinand Magellan,
with five Spanish ships, set off to sail around South America, cross the Pacific to the Spice Islands, load up precious cargo,
and sail back to Spain. One ship made it back, but Magellan didn't. It was all about the money from the spices.
Going in History

Graphing Sea-Level TrendsGraphing Sea-Level Trends a lesson plan from NASA/JPL and CIT. For grafes 5 - 12.
Standards-based and resources/data are provided. Older stdents can track data sets using spreadsheets. Lots of
additional information and links. Going in Earth Science and in Teachers and Parents

Hummingbird Nest - summer 2017
This is the Bella nest cam. It's LIVE.
Going in Animal Cams

Features
concordance + keyword search + advanced search + statistics
Plays
by genre + by number of words + by number of speeches + character list + character search
Sonnets and Poems
individual sonnets + sonnets compared side-by-side + all sonnets + all poems
Open Source Shakespeare attempts to be the best free Web site containing Shakespeare's complete works.
It is intended for scholars, thespians, and Shakespeare lovers of every kind.
Use Mobile Open Source Shakespeare on your mobile device.

Why Do Corals Glow in the Dark? Read this article from The Atlantic and find out! Beautiful photos!

This 2:33 video shows the sizes of solar system planets and some huge stars.
"There are several videos circulating showing a comparison of the largest stars.
I like these kinds of things, and I wanted to try one myself."

Click the pic to watch the video!

Nine Places Where You Can Still See Wheel Tracks from the Oregon Trail Article by Jennifer Billock on Smithsonianmag
"The legendary trail has carved itself into American history—and, in some places, into the earth itself"
Rut traces amight be long and flat like the 1,000 feet of trail ruts near Rock Creek Station (Fairbury, Nebraska),
or the short but five feet deep Guernsey Ruts (Oregon Trail Ruts National Historic Site in Guernsey, WY), or the
steep and rocky one mile of ruts cut into a cliff at Biggs Junction, Oregon. See these and more at this site.
Can you imagine what it must have been like?

Aquifer

An aquifer is an underground layer of rock or soil that contains water. The water is held in the spaces between the rock or soil particles. There are two kinds of aquifer:

1. a confined aquifer is a water supply which is sandwiched between two layers of soil or rock that water can not pass through (impermeable layers),

2. an unconfined aquifer is a water supply that has an impermeable layer below it, but not above it. A confined aquifer that is under pressure is an artesian aquifer. The pressure can often push water to the surface in a well drilled into an artesian aquifer; usually wells need a pump to bring water to the surface from the aquifer they are drilled into.

We use aquifers as a source of drinking water and of water to irrigate crops or to use in industry, pumping water from the aquifer using a well. As with any container of water, pumping from the aquifer empties it--or at least decreases the amount of water it holds. Aquifers are refilled, or recharged, in areas where they are exposed on the surface of the earth. Water can re-enter the aquifer in these recharge areas. Going in Earth Science

Made w/ Code Superpowers come in all shapes and sizes. Discover a new superpower with code.This exercise was linked to the Google main page lst week. Wonder Woman helps you to learn code using an interface that reminded us of MIT's Scratch. Learn coding by plugging in commands. Reason out how many moves it will take; then test your coding and see if your guesses are correct. If not, find your mistake(s) and correct them until your programs what it needs to. After mastering the basics you can strive for elegance- do the sames tasks in fewer moves, for example.

Going in Logic and Probability and in Life Skills

"Mr. N's Boardwalk Challenge is a super fun activity that requires students to order positive and negative decimals and whole numbers on a number line. Upon success, players will earn "tokens" to use on boardwalk games such as ski-ball, roll the ball, whack-a-pirate, and air hockey. Tickets from these games can be earned to print out boardwalk "prizes." This game is a perfect motivator for fifth and sixth graders who will play for hours if given the chance."

Going in Math > Intermediate