News HW Due by Feb/4/2009
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98783020
Questions
1. Do you have any experience like this article (Play and learn)?
2. can you think of any other ideas(other than museums) that technology or art can develope kids’ education?
Vocabulary
1. vortexes: a whirling mass of water, esp. one in which a force of suction operates, as a whirlpool.
2. Plexiglas: Trademark.
a brand name for a thermoplastic polymer of methyl methacrylate that is light in weight, resistant to weathering, capable of being bent when hot but returning to its original shape when reheated, used for signs
3. pteranodons: Any of several large pterosaurs of the genus Pteranodon of the Cretaceous Period, having a long pointed head, a scooplike beak, no teeth, and a wingspan upwards of 6 meters (20 feet).
4. paleontology: the science of the forms of life existing in former geologic periods, as represented by their fossils.
