NationalMuseumofNaturalHistory
OnlineSchoolPrograms
*Live, online video programs
*Options for Grades Kindergarten (幼儿园) through 12th
*Free, but registration (登记) required
*Program date: February 15, 2022-May 31, 2022
ProgramDescriptions
GradesK-2:AnimalAdaptation
During this museum-educator-led program, students will compare animal specimens(标本) from our collections to discover how different adaptations help animals live on rather than die out. Students will explore the different kinds of adaptations for animals that live on land, water, and in the air.
Grades3-6:InsectSurvival(存活)
During this staff-led program, students explore what makes an insect an insect, and why they are so successful (insects have more kinds and live in more places than any other animal). Students will research into the survival skills of the Carolina Sphinx Moth and the Tobacco Homworm, exploring their adaptations using the scientific skill of observation.
Grades6-12:HotPotato:ClimateChange, FoodSystems, andYou
During this staff-led program, students will examine the connections between their lives and climate change through the study of food. This online program offers an opportunity to explore agricultural systems and learn about how climate change affects potato growth. Together we will learn how scientists study food as a valuable but limited natural resource, and explore some solutions to keeping it a long-term one for humans.
My high school life has been filled with many ups and downs, whether it was social or academic. Even though my current high school was not my first choice, I never regretted attending Southside High School. "Since you have chosen it, then it is the best for you, " said my parents.
Up until the junior year I did not realize my capabilities (能力) as a student. Being in the IB Program, I was told that my junior year would be the toughest in all the years of high school. With this "little" piece of information, I walked into my junior year, scared of my grades. As weeks went by, I started to believe that the junior year was not as hard as everyone had said, but I was wrong. My grades were rapidly declining(下降) and by the end of the first term I had had five Cs in seven of my classes! I could not believe it—I did not want to believe it. I tried my best to get my grades up myself without any help from anyone, but my pride just made my grades worse. And I had to miss out on one of the most important speech and debate competitions all year: States. I was heartbroken. I realized that I could not survive my junior year on my own, so I had to get help fast.
Once I got a tutor, my grades went from Cs, Ds, and even some Fs, to nothing but As and Bs. I slowly started to gain my confidence back in all of my classes and even myself. By the time the third and fourth quarter came around, I had been on the honor roll twice, and I had received awards from speeches and debates, tennis and school.
Southside has taught me to always keep my head up and never give up on myself no matter what life throws at me. I am proud to be a Southside Tiger.
Breakfast is food for the brain and for the rest of your body, say experts in children's nutrition. And taking in those morning calories are worth it, even for people concerned about their weight, a new study finds. Middle-school students who eat breakfast are more likely to have healthy weight than those who skip breakfast. This is true even for students who eat two breakfasts—one at home and one at school.
"Not skipping breakfast sets you up to not overeat later in the day, " concludes Marlene Schwartz. This psychologist studies obesity(肥胖) and directs the Rudd Center for Obesity & Food Policy at the University of Connecticut in Hartford.
Breakfast is considered so important that many schools now serve it as well as lunch. But at least one study has found that a lot of these kids who take part can end up eating two breakfasts, Schwartz says. People become concerned that kids who eat breakfast at home and at school may become obese.
In fact, Schwartz now says, that's not what her data have turned up.
Her group studied some 600 middle-school students. Over three years, students from 12 different schools—in fifth, sixth and seventh grades—were asked about their breakfasts. Throughout the study, about 34 to 44 percent of all students said they regularly ate breakfast at home. Up to 17 percent, or almost one in every six kids, regularly ate breakfast at school. On the whole, about one in every 10 kids ate breakfasts both at home and at school.
Eating habits change somewhat as the kids get older. For instance, fifth graders were more likely to regularly eat breakfast at home. But by seventh grade, 22 percent of the studied kids skipped breakfast frequently. Surprisingly, at every age, kids who ate breakfast were less likely to be overweight.
Jeffrey Hall, a teacher of Communications from the University of Kansas (KU), has used his research to define the exact amount of time necessary to make friends with someone. He's also found how long it will take to deepen a relationship. His new study found that it takes around 50 hours of time together to go from being someone's acquaintance to a casual friend. It takes about 90 hours to go from being a casual friend to a friend, and more than 200 hours before considering someone a close friend or best friend.
But it isn't spending just any kind of time together that deepens a friendship—hours spent working together, for example, don't count as much as hours spent getting to know someone by hanging out, joking around, playing video games, and doing more playful activities. The study explains that these kinds of activities help us to form a deeper connection with someone. "We have to put that time in," Hall said. "You can't make friends without any effort."
The results of the study come from the analysis of 355 responses to an online survey from adults who said they had moved in the last six months and were looking for new friends in their new environment. Survey participants were asked about new relationships as well as hours spent together and activities they did. They were then asked to rate their resulting relationships according to one of four stages: acquaintances, casual friends, friends and close friends.
The main conclusion that Hall came to is that making close friends takes serious effort. So if you want to have some best friends, you have to know that spending time with someone is the most important thing.
Let's face it: Nobody really likes doing chores (家务) around the house. But at a certain age, our kids are old enough to start lending a hand with the housework. But what exactly are the benefits that young children and teenagers get from doing chores?
Chores help teach life skills. They're young now, but they won't be kids forever! Washing clothes, cooking and cleaning the room are just some of the skills kids will need once they finally move out. So it is really important to make kids learn them at home.
Chores teach kids how to follow directions. Whether you are giving instructions to a small child or a teenager, describing what you are expecting them to do and then doing it will teach them how to follow directions. Remember, only age-proper instructions can help them learn this important skill.
Chores teach responsibility and respect. Having your children clean up their own messes will give them a sense of responsibility. Task them with assisting in making the family's meals. These will help them understand all that their parents do to keep the home running smoothly and be more respectful of it.
Everyone in our home has their own jobs to do in order to allow our house to function. It not only lessens our own stress level and to-do list, but it teaches our kids that we all must work together as a team. They may complain, but they've come to understand that the chores they are tasked with each day or week are all a bigger part of keeping the family functioning.
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A. Chores encourage teamwork. B. They can benefit from doing this. C. Or let them sort their own clothes. D. Speak to them at a level they'll understand. E. These are also things that schools do not fully teach. F. Encouraging kids to do chores will build their confidence. G. Chores help improve planning and time management skills. |
My brother Joe liked driving cars. He was especially1speed. It was enough to make Mother2.
As a little boy, Joe would often say to me, "Sister, when I am old enough to drive my own car, I will fly so fast that angels will run scared." With a big grin(咧嘴笑), he would3the scene. I could have told him it would4happen. But I didn't tell him that.
Joe was born blind. But he could5like anyone. I didn't want to be the one to6Joe's dreams. 7would do that for him, soon enough. Up to then, didn't he8his happiness?
Growing up is a9between disappointment and surprise, a compromise between dreams and the reality. When Joe was 12, I think he knew he would never get a license(驾照). As with the other hard facts of life, he seemed to accept it without question or sadness, as if it were10more than a card drawn at random(随机地).
One hot summer day when he was 16, Joe, with the help of a stick, found his way to my stepfather's car. He felt the heat of the11, opened the door and climbed in. Under the seat, he discovered 6 cans of beer. And he drank all. He found the keys, shouted, "Hooweeee!" and12it up.
I have heard various versions(版本) of this story. They all13this: the car's engine 14. My mother fainted. My stepfather rushed outside.
15, for everyone, the Ford didn't move an inch. But to this day, Joe still swears(发誓) that when he found those keys and fired that old engine up, he heard the angels.
Hou Changliang volunteered to teach at Xiangyang Primary School in a remote village of Yunnan Province in August 2017. Before that, the local government attempted (close) the school due to the inadequate (不足的) teacher supply. There (be) just three temporary teachers for about 100 students across four classes. Shutting down the school meant that the students would have to go to another school far from (they) homes. Hou's (arrive) helped keep the school open.
It is the third village school Hou, 34, has taught since he graduated from university. Before Xiangyang Primary School, he (teach) in Hechi, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region (自治区), for four years, and in Bijie, Guizhou Province, for two years. "The longer I stayed in the countryside, the deeper I understood the (challenge) in rural education. Rural schools need teachers,(especial) good ones," Hou says.
a volunteer teacher, he holds the firm belief that a good teacher can make real difference in a student's life and can even change a village.
Humphrey and his wife Hildy had ten white sheep, eight black-faced sheep, and five long-legged lambs. Early every autumn, they would drive their sheep onto the ground beside the big, yellow barn(畜棚). Then Humphrey would hold each sheep still while Hildy cut off the wool.
When they finished, there were twenty-three soft piles of wool on the floor, and twenty-three pink, skinny sheep jumping around happily as they were freed into the field. Humphrey and Hildy collected piles of wool and put them in the house.
The next few weeks were very busy. They finally finished on a cold, fall evening. Twenty-three bright, woolly blankets lay in cheerful piles around the kitchen. They would sell the warm blankets when winter came. By the time the snow flew, the sheep's wool would have grown long enough to keep them nice and warm. Humphrey and Hildy both smiled, content with a job well done, and went to bed early.
The alarm clock went off at 5:00 a. m. Humphrey and Hildy listened to the local weather report. "The earliest cold air in history," The announcer said, "has brought a freeze(霜冻) to our area! So put warm coverings, folks!" They stared at each other in horror.
"The sheep!" shouted Humphrey. They hurried to put on their clothes and raced outside. What a freeze it was! The golden autumn grass fell to the ground, and the sheep without wool were shaking with cold painfully. Their pink skins had turned blue.
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"What will we do?" Hildy cried. "The barn can't hold so many sheep."
Outside the messy kitchen, Hildy had a good idea, eyes falling on the blankets.
