March Facts Activity #2

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1. Your dad has decided to make Corned Beef and Cabbage from scratch for his first, annual St. Patrick's Day party.
How much corn will he need?

2. In March 1847, Alexander Graham Bell was born in Scotland.
What communication device did he invent?

3. Joseph Priestley was a famous chemist who was born March 13, 1733. For what is he remembered?

4. Tornadoes are dangerous storms. Write two facts about tornadoes.

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b.

5. You are watching your favorite TV show at home. They interrupt the show to say there is a tornado warning for your town.
List two actions you should take.

a.

b.

6. Robert Frost was an American poet. One of his most famous poems is "The Road not Taken".
Read the poem. Finish this quote from it

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by,

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7. A credit card is a powerful tool. How you use the tool can be good or bad.

Take the Spending Challenge.
Record how well you do.

8. Someone took a slice from the cake you made for the bake sale.
When you ask your brother if he did it, he replies,"I take the fifth."
You realize he means the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

What rights are protected by the Fifth Amendment?

9. How did Alice Hamilton contribute to making this a healthier world?

10. The rules for daylight savings time have changed. What are the new rules?

Why do we do this?

Calculate the answer to this Daylight Savings Time problem at MathMastery.com.

11. Which of these facts from Women's History Month: March 2008 @ the Census Bureau is the most surprising to you? Why?

12. On March 4, 1917, Jeannette Rankin took her seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Why is this noteworthy?

13. Glenda Goodacre's works have been part of many lives.
Identify one. What was its theme?

14. How is your school building or home green?

Legends are works of fiction. But many elements of a legend can be indeed fact.
Read this legend about Fionn mac Cumhail. Select three facts in the legend and use your online research skills to check if they are real or imaginary.

Extra: Chasing Metaphors - seeing is believing WOW!

Check out the Daylight Saving Time web site. We tend to think that what happens here, happens all over the world.
Does the whole world switch time or just the U.S.A.?

The Yes Men - democracy for sale - Try your hand at this approach to dealing with a problem facing you today.

"My interest is in the future because I'm going to spend the rest of my life there." Charles F. Kettering
More quotes from Mr. Kettering

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