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2022 ends with football fireworks
Jan. 2, 2023 - For college football fans in Ohio, Michigan, Georgia and Texas, and for their millions of fans across the United States and around the world, the last day of 2022 was one to remember. On New Year's Eve, the four teams met in the College Football Playoff (CFP) Bowls - the Fiesta Bowl and the Peach Bowl. A movie writer could not have written a better script.  Word of the Daycontroversial: adjective;related to controversy (noun form), a dispute or challenge about something Find it in blue in today's top story!Writing Practice
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Complete this Writing Practice. Then print or email your document, or if available, save it to Google Drive. Writing ProgressTrack your progress all year. For your Student Summary Report Form: Weekly VOCABWeek of January 30 conducted: verb; operated, ranIngenuity Helicopter takes flight on Mars established: verb; set up, begun, founded Remember the reason for Memorial Day improvised: verb; solved a problem by thinking of a new way to do something Michael Collins, NASA astronaut (1930-2021) incapacitated: verb; not able to function in a normal way; injured Never Forget: Honor 9/11 Heroes pauses: verb; to stop something in action with the intent to start again November 11 - Veterans Day Today In HistoryFebruary 3 2013: Super Bowl XLVII between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers was played. Both teams were coached by Harbaugh brothers. John Harbaugh coached the Ravens and Jim Harbaugh coached the 49ers. Baltimore won the game.1984: The Challenger Space Shuttle launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida with a crew of five astronauts, including Ronald McNair, physicist and mission specialist. McNair was killed two years later on January 28, 1986 in the Challenger accident. The shuttle exploded just seconds into its mission, the first mission on which an educator - Christa McAuliffe - was one of the astronauts. More from Student News Net
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Studio glass art is a recent development but creating functional glass from silica sand is thousands of years old. Through this Student News Net video, tour the Chihuly Garden and Glass in Seattle, Washington to marvel at the beauty of glass and the chemical elements! Student News Net was there in 2017. Read More: Seattle sights are simply stupendous Pink diamonds are rareOver 90 percent of the world's pink diamonds come from The Argyle Diamond Mine in Western Australia. Pink Diamonds are very rare and very expensive, but all diamonds are tetrahedrons of carbon atoms.  A rush for gold ended quicklyThe story of the short-lived Klondike Gold Rush (1896-1899) is told at the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park in downtown Seattle.  Glass: a hot and cool combo of art and scienceGlassblowing is a red hot, totally cool combination of art and science. In The News March: Women's History MonthMarch 3, 2022 - March is Women's History Month. Read and learn about Cornelia Fort (1919-1943).  February: Learn more about Presidents Lincoln and WashingtonJan. 31, 2022 - Take time to learn about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln who were both born in February.  Nation honors Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.Jan. 12, 2022 - On Monday, Jan. 17, the nation will honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the father of the civil rights movement.  Cornelia Fort (1919-1943): Pilot and PatriotDec. 7, 2021 - Early on Dec. 7, 1941 in Honolulu, Hawaii, Cornelia Fort, 22, was doing what she loved to do.   |
