Information on January Events Including Australia Day, Martin Luther King Day, and More!

Monthly Newsletter Volume 5, Issue 12 December 2015

Welcome! Welcome to the students, teachers, and librarians of Gilbert, Arizona! We’re happy you are using Infotopia.info, Infotrek.info and Kidtopia.info for your research needs!

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Have you ever visited Crash Course Kids on YouTube? This YouTube show from the producers of Crash Course is all about http://www.virtuallrc.com/ science for kids. With host Sabrina Cruz, they investigate Earth, First created in 1998 by the developers of Infotopia and Habitats, Space, Chemical Reactions, Engineering, and more. Kidtopia, the Virtual Learning Resource Center (Virtual LRC), is still being used by thousands of students around the world as a custom Google search engine for high school students to find information. If you want to do a quick search and find quality information, try it out!

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Designed for high school or college students, Crash Course includes many courses: Hank Green teaches Biology, Ecology, http://www.youtube.com/infotopiaworld Chemistry, and Anatomy & Physiology; John Green teaches American History, World History, and some Literature; Phil We have two new “Elements” videos on our YouTube Plait teaches Astronomy; Craig Benzine teaches U.S. Channel: Neon and Helium. Learn about the properties and Government and Politics; and Adriene Hill and Jacob Clifford uses of these elements and the discovery of helium and neon teach Economics. Presented in 10 to 15 minute “fun” episodes, in these brief videos. If you subscribe to our channel, you this free channel has over 3 million subscribers and is worth won’t miss any videos! checking out. You’ll want to preview the content to make sure that it meets your students’ needs. There is a certain amount of humor, sarcasm and “edge” to the some of the courses which high school students may find interesting. Some of the presentations will definitely provoke discussion and/or debate https://youtu.be/b_8u5GkKHyw among your students!

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Information on January Events including Australia Day, Martin Luther King Day, and more!

Infotopia Newsletter December 2015 page 2 To subscribe to our monthly PDF newsletters, just send an email to: December Events [email protected] • Dec. 1st—Rosa Parks Day Dr. Michael Bell and Carole Bell http://www.biography.com/people/rosa-parks-9433715 (Retired) Librarians/Teachers • Dec. 1st—World AIDS Day http://www.infotopia.info http://www.worldaidsday.org/ https://www.aids.gov/ http://www.kidtopia.info http://www.infotrek.info • Dec. 7th--Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor http://www.academicindex.net

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http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/

The University of Manchester from the U.K. shares learning materials, activities, and educational games for children in the areas of history, languages, art and design and Our favorite health/medical web site for science. The science resources are especially good, and advanced students (and teachers) is WebMD. include the body and medicine, energy and the environment, It is searchable by keyword, lists diseases and the earth and beyond, teeth and eating, microorganisms, the condition from A to Z, and includes brain and senses, and exercise. Students can explore all the information on drugs and treatments. It also topics on their own or teachers can project the activities on a whiteboard and have the class participate as a group. (Note: for has healthy living topics, such as diet, food, students from North America, there is some British spelling, and exercise, living well, aging well, and but this makes for a great teachable moment.) more!

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