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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

North Andover Middle School -- March 12 & 13




See the math!
42° 41' 36" N



71° 07' 15" W
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The EarthView team is delighted to be returning to North Andover Middle School, where we enjoyed a terrific visit last year. This time, we are visiting for two days, so that we can try more extensive programs with each group. This may allow us to develop alternative models for our presentations in future years.

Family commitments preclude Dr. Hayes-Bohanan from participating in the programs this time, but we are delighted that several Bridgewater State College geography students will be part of the EarthView team this time.

Members of the team will also be participating in a special geography family night with Mr. Poirier on Thursday.
We invite North Andover Middle School students to use the "comments" link below to send their geographic questions to the EarthView team!


For this visit, we have two days of Brainy History!

March 11:

1997 Beatle Paul McCartney knighted Sir Paul by the Queen
1990
Lithuania declares its Independence
1918
Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia
1918
Save the Redwoods League founded
1892
1st public basketball game (Springfield, Massachuetts)
1888
Great blizzard of '88 strikes the North East U.S.
1824
U.S. War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs
1302
Romeo and Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare 

March 12:
1994
Church of England ordains 1st 33 women priests
1993
Inkhata leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2-week speech
1990
Los Angeles Raiders announce they were returning to Oakland
1987
"Les Miserables" opens at Broadway/Imperial New York City for 4000+ performances
1985
Larry Bird scores Boston Celtic record 60 points
1984
National Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51 week strike
1982
PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on "Nightline"
1981
Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial, Richmond, Virginia
1976
South African troops leave Angola
1970
U.S. lowers voting age from 21 to 18
1959
U.S. House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood
1958
British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day"
1947
President Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism
1945
New York is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race and creed in employment
1945
U.S.S.R. returns Transylvania to Romania
1933
Franklin D. Roosevelt conducts his 1st fireside chat
1930
Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m (300km) march protesting British salt tax
1867
Last French troops leave Mexico
1849
1st gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to California (before the Panama Canal, of course!)
1789
U.S. Post Office established
1773
Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicago
1755
1st steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine

11 comments:

  1. Team 6B
    What are the all the names of the tectonic plates?
    IA

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  2. Team 6B
    What was the name of the woman who sailed around Asia to South America? JM

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  3. Team 6B
    How can you identify where the center of an earthquake starts and how big and area is that has been effected by it? LL

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  4. Team 6B
    What is the scale of the Earth Balloon to the actual size of the Earth? BG

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  5. Team 6B
    If the continents are still moving, will all of the plates eventually become one big landmass again? AK

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  6. Team 6B
    How far is the most southern tip of South America to Antartica? TS

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  7. What is the largest sea?

    Melissa W 6C

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  8. When viewing the Earth View, it looks like Antarctica is smaller than Australia. We are wondering what is the smallest continent per square miles?

    Mia D, 6c

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  9. What are the largest and smallest cities by square miles in the World?
    Taylor S, 6C

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  10. What is the most polluted city in the world?
    Abby 6C

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  11. What and where is the most active volcano in the world?

    Cam, 6C

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