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SIRS Discoverer &
eLibrary Elementary Updates
Our ProQuest editors are constantly reviewing customer feedback and making additions and changes to this pair of online resources:
SIRS Discoverer
- New Content: Bring Personal Archaeology Into the Classroom
- 2009 World Almanac and Book of Facts: Live
- Understanding the Civil Rights Era & More
eLibrary Elementary
- New Magazines: Career World, Listen, Muse, National Geographic Explorer
- 17 John Wiley & Sons Teacher Titles: Live
- American Heritage Book of Great American Speeches for Young People + More
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SIRS Discoverer Activity | New Year Celebrations
The first day of the new year is celebrated with religious, cultural, and social observances around the world. It is usually marked by rites and ceremonies that symbolize casting off the old year and rejoicing in the new.
Most of the world recognizes January 1 as the start of a new year because the Gregorian calendar, from its papal origin in 1582, has become the international reference for treaties, corporate contracts, and other legal documents. Nevertheless, numerous religious and national calendars have been retained.
Assign your students to investigate the similarities and differences among the variety of ways that people in different countries celebrate their traditional holidays and New Year.
(Activity Archives)
eLibrary Elementary | Happy 2010!
All over the world, people welcome the celebration of the new year. It is one of the oldest of all holidays. Most New Year celebrations focus on family and friends. It's also a time to reflect on the past year and resolve to create a better life in the in the New Year.
ProQuest has created a BookCart learning activity for your students to use: "New Year Celebrations around the World."
This virtual activity includes four examples of essential questions for critical thinking that you can assign to your students. You can even create more of these or substitute others that challenge your students. Tap our additional 800+ free lesson models here.
(Activity Archives)
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SIRS Current Events, Political Cartoons & Graphs
What makes our SIRS solutions so special?
It's the human element.
Every day, our SIRS Discoverer team post hand-picked articles and resources. Tap into a short list of the most topical articles added
to SIRS in recent weeks. Did you know that SIRS Discoverer offers
charts and graphs plus
map activities,
geared for young researchers? You'll also find timely political cartoons.
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Top Websites @ ProQuestK12.com
Each month, our SIRS team scours the Internet for top-quality websites for schools and students. Dive into this month's selections: Dogs, Cigarette Anatomy, Galaxy Games. (More)
SIRS Spotlights + Challenge Quests
In 1924, France hosted the first Winter Olympics, then called "The International Winter Sports Week." Sixteen nations sent athletes to compete.
SIRS Discover wants you and your students to learn more about the 2010 Winter Olympics, and about the Canadian city in which the Winter Games are held,
in this month's Spotlight of the Month: XXI Winter Olympics @ Vancouver.
On January 11, 1935, Amelia Earhart became the first person to accomplish a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean.
SIRS asks:
Earhart departed from Honolulu, Hawaii, and landed in what California city?
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