January Internet Facts Hunt Directions: Use the links provided to find the answers to the questions. If a link is broken, use your online research skills to find an answer.

1. You might have been traveling in a car during the holiday season.
Did you wear your seat belt EVERY time? I did!

Check out the National Seat Belt Use Rate chart (graph). (PDF)
By what percentage did the use rate improve from 1994 to 2005?

Consider the Seat Belt Use Rate in State table.
What was the percentage of use in your state in 1998?

Did it improve in 2005?

By how much did it vary from the 2004 figure?

Please, buckle up!

2. Diagrams are a great way to organize information.
Check out this diagram. Answer the questions.

a. What is the topic of the diagram?

b. List two facts that the subjects have in common.

c. List one disparity for each subject.

d. Name something you could compare/contrast this way.

Just for fun - How to make a diagram using a computer

3. Become a fact "expert" on one game of the Winter Olympics.
Name and describe the sport.

4. It is cold and flu season. Check out this microbe web site.

What is a microbe? List them.

How did Lou get the flu?

5. What is the NIST? (Use your online research skills to find it.)


a. What do they do there?


b. Why is that important?

6. Watch Adding and Subtracting fractions. Take notes as necesary.
(You can stop the movie as you need to by clicking the double upright bars button.)

Take the quiz. Write your score here.

7. Do the Guess the View activity at Math Nets. Write your score here.

8. Do you have snow? Do you wish you did? Perhaps you wish you didn't. Whatever your thoughts may be on snow,
you can learn lots about snow at the NSIDC All About Snow site.
For example, Compare a blizzard and a squall. Would you say they are antonyms or synonyms?

9. Homonyms are words that are spelled and pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Consider the word - draft. In winter, I think of draft as meaning an unwelcome, cool breeze in a room.
At school it often refers to something you are in the process of writing.
Use this online dictionary to identify more meanings of the word - draft. How many did you find?

Use your online research skills to uncover answers:

10. He was born January 17, 1706. He was an author, a publisher, a candlemaker, an inventor, a humorist, a scientist,
a statesman, a father and a revolutionary. You know him. Who was he?

What is his most famous experiment?

11. Just like the person in Question 10, Blanche Ames had many talents and accomplishments.

Name 3.

Which one is important today?

12. Do the Chilly Charizard math challenge:

You go to the doctor because you feel sick.
She informs you that your temperature is 40 degrees Celsius. Do you have a fever?

13. Watch this video Face Reader. What is one challenge for kids with Asperger's Syndrome?

Use your online research skills to answer the questions.

14. On January 29th, citizens of the United States should be wishing Thomas Paine a happy birthday.
Why should we remember him?

"Who is rich? He that rejoices in his Portion." ~ Ben Franklin

Done already?

Explore the How Shocking web project.	Explore the online exhibits at the Franklin Institute.
How did Lou get the flu?	Learn lots about snow at the NSIDC All About Snow site.
Learn about making charts and graphs	Do the Winter Fun crossword puzzle
Benjamin Franklin Quotes	Try the Winter Fun Hunt
Learn about the Lunar New Year	Compare the New Years Celebrations diagram project
What is the message of 18seconds.org?	Decode the snow message
January Civics activity	Outstanding African Americans
StoryCorps - listen to compelling personal stories	Compile the Percentage Picture
Explore Science videos at DFTV - check it out and then do a Try It

In the spirit of Thomas Paine - released to public domain by Cynthia J. O'Hora 5/24/2007, posted Dec 24, 2001

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