SocialStudies News

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Jan 18, 2006In the movie King Kong, the gorilla falls for the starlet Ann Darrow, protecting her from harm and stroking her hair as she sleeps. ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Jan 17, 2006By MICHAEL KESTERTON. "Only now are researchers beginning to understand why we yawn, when we yawn and why we yawn back," writes Dawn ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Jan 16, 2006On this date in 1942, the Duke of Connaught died. He was Governor-General of Canada in 1911-16. Also on Jan. 16, 1957, the Earl of Athlone died. ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Jan 12, 2006"Chimpanzees, which are believed to be humans' closest ancestral relative, grow at a steady rate," writes Amanda Onion of ABC News. ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Jan 13, 2006"As late as the 19th century, old shoes were left on the roofs of houses for good luck," writes Judie Schwartz in The Rocky Mountain (Colo.) News. ...

Southfield second-graders combine science, social studies with ...
Shreveport Times, LA -
Jan 15, 2006Abdal Ibrahim, 7, illuminates his project, a McDonald’s replica, recently at Southfield School in Shreveport. Ibrahim and other ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Jan 5, 2006Women are four times more likely to suffer from seasonal affective disorder (SAD) than men, and the onset of the condition typically occurs after age 20 ...

Zimbabwean Students Driven to Prostitution
Jan 19, 2006 ... ... According to a social studies lecturer at Harare's University of Zimbabwe - where sexual harassment of women students is rife - this has turned the whole ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Jan 11, 2006A steady climb in the number of telecommuters and "minipreneurs" (those with side jobs) has led to more couples sharing home office space. ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Jan 9, 2006This is the Year of African Languages, which seeks to promote the use of mother tongues, says BBC News On-line, but the continent's indigenous languages are ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Jan 6, 2006"Sometimes we program ourselves for the Monday blahs," says Dr. Wanda Bethea a psychologist in Melbourne, Fla. "And we do the same ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Jan 10, 2006"When the first alarm clock with a snooze button made its debut in 1956," writes William Weir in The Hartford (Conn.) Courant, "General Electric-Telechron ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Jan 4, 2006Regular players at his Friday night, low-stakes poker games tell him that learning poker has helped them negotiate raises and sell houses at inflated prices ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Dec 28, 2005Amazon.com billionaire Jeff Bezos is building a rocket-ship complex in suburban Seattle, reports The Seattle Times. His company, Blue ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Dec 23, 2005It is bad luck to take mistletoe down; it should only be replaced the following Christmas. Holly is used as a protection against witches and thunder. ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Dec 21, 2005"Canadian Blood Services recently launched its winter campaign, Brighten a Life," says a press release. "As part of this campaign ...

Urbandale school updates
Jan 19, 2006 ... ... time. • Students in Monette Ross' eighth-grade language arts and social studies class made resolutions for the new year. Some ...

Statewide standards for graduation urged
Jan 19, 2006 ... ... Yet while the state universities recommend students take four years of English, three years each of math, science and social studies, and two years of a ...

Schools may add to math requirement
Jan 19, 2006 ... ... count. Social studies: One semester less would be required by moving a Washington state history requirement to middle school. CTE ...

Veteran principal enjoys new experience
Jan 19, 2006 ... ... Elrod, 54, started his career in York, SC, as a social-studies teacher and basketball coach. In 1981, he became a social-studies ...

Six Million Little Pieces?
Jan 19, 2006 ... ... According to Seidman's account, published in the scholarly journal Jewish Social Studies, Wiesel substantially rewrote the work between editions — suggesting ...

Ralph McCall students get real life lesson in politics when ...
Jan 19, 2006 ... ... Rogers had originally only been looking for campaign materials from the candidates, as part of an election theme for his Grade 7 social studies class, but one ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Dec 26, 2005"Recent studies on leadership in cows . . . suggest that intelligence, inquisitiveness, confidence, experience and good social skills ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Jan 2, 2006"For legitimate physical reasons, some women find themselves shivering while their male partners cast withering looks," writes Natalie Pompilio in The ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Dec 30, 2005"The Hollywood hero races his convertible down the boulevard for a date he can't miss. It might be with a lover or a terrorist or ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Jan 1, 2006"On Jan. 29 we bid farewell to the dynamic, fast-talking Rooster and welcome the Year of the Dog," says the Australian women's magazine Good Medicine. ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Dec 18, 2005Tigers disappeared from Bali in the 1940s, from Afghanistan in the 1970s and from Java in the 1980s, reports The Independent on Sunday. ...