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A sampling of what SweetSearch2Day brings into your classroom today:
Our featured Web Guide to Environmental Science offers a narrated tour of the best online resources for teachers and students, young and old, of the subject.
On Oct. 26, 1881, Wyatt Earp and his brothers, with Doc Holliday, engaged the McLaury and Clanton brothers in a bloody gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. We don't ordinarily cover gun battles in On This Day, but we make an exception for the most famous one in history, which provides constant references for our culture 129 years later.
October 26, 1919, is the birth date of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was Shah of Iran for more than 30 years. His reforms transformed his country into a substantial Middle Eastern economic and military power, but his autocratic rule and corrupt regime eventually led to his downfall.
Today's high school word of the day is "Purview."
The NYT Learning Network notes examples of where businesses have asked teens for advice, and provides a lesson plan for the question, "to what business would you like to give advice?"
Yesterday, we mentioned The Week in Rap; today, we offer an interview with Blake Harrison, co-founder of Flocabulary, which produces this marvelous feature.
Yesterday, we mentioned a NatGeo Kids report on a green comet visiting earth this week. Today, we offer NASA's Astronomy Photo of the Day of Comet Hartley, leaving no doubt about why it is called the Green Comet.
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