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Teachers.Net Gazette Vol.5 No.4 April 2008 Cover Story by Marvin Marshall Immaculate Perception There is no such thing as immaculate perception. What you see is what you thought before you looked. Harry & Rosemary Wong Effective Teaching Schools That Beat the Academic Odds Columns » Are We Demanding Enough of Our Students? » The Busy Educator's Monthly Five » Podcasting 101 » Think Outside the Box » Problem-Based Learning Part 2: Good problems » Ten Ways to Foster Resiliency in Children Articles » Finger in the Dike Protects Half the Kingdom » April 2008 Writing Prompts » Amusing Abacus » Making the Grade » The Disrespecting of Social Studies » Classroom Magazines: More Than Just Shared Reading » The Silenced Majority » I Won't Learn What You Teach! » Dear Laura Bush » Choice, Access, and Relevance: Reading Workshop in the High School Classroom » Stay Inside the Lines » Chat with Grant Writing Expert LaVerne Hamlin » Proofreading and Learning Disability » Choose-a-Chart » Drexel Online Education Program Features » Featured Lessons: April 2008 » Video Bytes: Abbott and Costello, Earth Day rant and more » Today Is... Daily Commemoration for April 2008 » Live on Teachers.Net: April 2008 » The Lighter Side of Teaching » Apple Seeds: Inspiring Quotes for Teachers » HELP! Grading: How Do You Do It? » Newsdesk: Events & Opportunities for Teachers Advertisement The Teachers.Net Gazette is a collaborative project published by the Teachers.Net community Editor in Chief: Kathleen Alape Carpenter Layout Editor: Mary Miehl Cover Story by Marvin Marshall Effective Teaching by Harry & Rosemary Wong Contributors this month: Cheryl Sigmon, Marjan Glavac, Rob Reilly, Barbara & Sue Gruber, Hal Portner, Leah Davies, Tim Newlin, James Wayne, P.R. Guruprasad, Todd Nelson, Alan Haskvitz, Mandy Yates, Bill Page, Susan Rismiller, Bradley Cook, Kimberly Payne, Kevin Coffey, John Keegan, and YENDOR. Submissions: click for Submission Guidelines Advertising: contact Bob Reap Subscribe for free home delivery Email: State: - Select State (required) - Alabama Alaska Arkansas Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington DC Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming -- Canada United Kingdom Australia/NZ Other Featured Advertiser Links FEATURED ADVERTISER LINKS

Tim Newlin TimTim.com Archive | Biography | Resources | Discussion Finger In The Dike Protects Half The Kingdom Hans Brinker saved the city of Haarlem by holding his finger in the dike. Does global warming again threaten Brinker's homeland? by Tim Newlin Regular contributor to the Gazette April 1, 2008 Courtesy Tim Newlin, TIMTIM.com   The famous Dutch children's story about the boy, Hans Brinker, who saved the city of Haarlem by holding his finger in the dike has inspired our barnyard friends to line up and take turns doing their part to keep back the waters. Canals, dikes, windmills, wooden shoes, and tulips are often associated with the Dutch. Holland is the term much of the world uses for THE KINDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS. There are several regions or counties of the Netherlands called Holland. Almost half of The Netherlands is below sea level and it is one of the countries that will suffer most due to climate change and global warming. The sea dike system in The Netherlands is one of the largest human constructions on Earth. It is over 3500 km (2000 miles) long, and is in a constant state of repair and change to protect the 16.5 million people who are also the tallest in the world with an average height for men of 1.81 meters (5 ft 11 in). Holland or The Netherlands is a parliamentary democracy and there are also 2 members of the parliament who belong to the Animal Rights Party (our barnyard friends will be speaking to them after their shift). It is also a member of NATO, The European Union, OECD, and has signed the Kyoto Protocol against man made climate change. The country is also the home of Europol, the EU's version of the FBI. The Shell Oil Company is Dutch and the country is also a leader in hot-house flowers and fresh vegetables for the European supermarkets. But if global warming continues and sea levels rise too fast, all this may be washed away. So let's hope our friends keep up the good finger work! Picture Crosswords at TimTim.com And much more available from the TimTim.com homepage http://www.timtim.com/ Tim Newlin Creator of TimTim.com - Free Drawings for Classroom Use » More Gazette articles... Discussion For This Article: Finger in the Dike Protects Half the Kingdom Tim Newlin (April 2008 Gazette) Hans Brinker, 4/19/08, by Conny Jensen. Re: Hans Brinker, 4/07/08, by Editor. Hans Brinker, 4/06/08, by Tim newlin. Neither an author nor hero..., 4/06/08, by MJC. See All Comments | Add Your Comment About TIMTIM.com... TIMTIM.COM is a free-use site of thousands of color and B&W cartoon-style drawings organized by more than 50 different subjects ranging from holidays, jobs, nature, animals, transportation, computers, religion, environment, health, travel, geography and more. The site is recommended by the American and Canadian Teachers Federation and use of the drawings is free for non-commercial purposes. Visit Tim's Features by Tim Newlin at http://www.timtim.com Tim Newlin Columns on Teachers.Net... Finger In The Dike Protects Half The Kingdom (April 08) Spaceship Toilets (Mar. 08) The Year of the Earth Rat - The Chinese Zodiac (Feb. 08) TIMTIM.com - Free Drawings for Teachers, Students (Jan. 08) Related Resources & Discussions on Teachers.Net... Arts & Crafts Teachers Chatboard Fine Art Teachers Chatboard Web Authors Chatboard Media Specialists Chatboard Teachers.Net Mailrings

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