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Pleasant Hill Library

***Children's Programs***

City of Pleasant Hill                                     Des Moines Schools

East Des Moines Girls Softball                 Pleasant Hill Little League

Altoona Campus  

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AEA-11 Resources                                                                                                                                                  ====

Click here for a great link to AEA-11 websites that are free for families to use.  Passwords will be sent home with your student.   

My Granddaughters go to Pleasant Hill Elementary School.  I'm including a link you might like, that has free educational posters available from the State of Iowa.  These would be great for the classroom.  http://www.iowalivingroadway.com/PrairiePosters.asp
Thanks!  Jaci Bodensteiner

A link that I like to use for kids is Familyfun.com.  It parallels the magazine, Family Fun, and has good crafts, play activities and party ideas.  I decorate a special cake for each of my kids' b-day and almost all of the ideas come from this website.  Check it out.
Kelly Swinton

Just type in your child's first name and then print out a letter to them from the Tooth Fairy.  It's kind of neat for kids to get letter's that are personalized. Especially when it's a name that is spelled differently.  www.familytime.com/asp/ProcessToothFairyLetter.asp
Susan Blome   (Stacy Bowman's mom!) 

FREE -- Federal Resources for Educational Excellence -- aims to make it easy for teachers, parents, students, & others to find learning resources from 40+ federal organizations.      http://www.ed.gov/free

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Arts
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"National Museum of African Art"
     presents images from more than 30 exhibitions -- embroideries,  textiles, pottery, jewelry, sculptures, palace doors, chairs,
     headrests, pipes, cups, drinking horns, bowls, drums, photos,  currency, icons, & a range of paintings, including
     contemporary works. (SI)
     http://www.nmafa.si.edu/

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Science
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"Tracking Habitat Change"
     is an electronic field trip to learn about habitat & how scientists use technology to understand habitat change.  This
     live satellite event on March 4, 2004, will take students to Nevada & New Mexico to join scientists examining factors that
     are changing the habitat of the sage-grouse & prairie chicken.    (BLM)
     http://www.blm.gov/education/LearningLandscapes/teachers/fieldtrip_04/index.html

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Social Studies
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"1900 America:  Historical Voices, Poetic Visions -- Lesson, Learning Page"
     invites students to use life histories, recordings, & other primary resources to create their own multi-media epic poems
     about the year 1900.  Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" & Hart Crane's "The Bridge" serve as models. (LOC)
   http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/00/voices/index.html

"America at the Centennial -- Lesson, Learning Page"
     offers images & texts from the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876 to help students learn about America at
     that time.  Students work as historians using primary sources to create museum exhibits on issues of the Centennial Era.
     (LOC)
   http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/00/centen/index.html

"Artifact Road Show -- Lesson, Learning Page"
     outlines a staff development workshop & offers lessons that help students see historical events in context & as a part of
     a larger story.  Use of primary resources is the focus --  where to find them, what they are, how to examine them, & how
     to "construct the context" to tell the whole story. (LOC)
   http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/99/road/intro.html

"Baseball: As American as Apple Pie -- Community Center, Learning Page"
     is an annotated collection of Library of Congress resources about America's national pastime.  It includes early baseball
     pictures, baseball songs & stories, baseball cards, the first all-professional baseball team (the Cincinnati Red Stockings,
     1869), Cy Young, Ty Cobb, "home run kings," & letters & speeches by Jackie Robinson, the first African American to
     play major league baseball. (LOC)
     http://memory.loc.gov/learn/community/cc_baseball.php

"The Branding of America -- Collaborative Activity, Learning Page"
     offers thumbnail histories of nearly 30 well-known brand names associated with soft drinks, potatoes, cereal, fruit,
     airplanes, buses, pianos, sewing machines, jeans, shoes, & other products. (LOC)
   http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/branding/index.php

"Harry Truman & Independence, Missouri"
     features the home & story of our thirty-third President.  Upon returning home after World War I, Truman married his childhood
     sweetheart, started a clothing store that failed, & was elected to a judgeship & later the U.S. Senate.  He was Vice
     President 82 days when President Roosevelt died.  As President, he used the atomic bomb to end World War II,
     instituted the Marshall Plan, & sent troops to defend South Korea when the North invaded. (NPS,TwHP,NRHP)
     www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/103truman/103truman.htm

"Marco Paul's Travels on the Erie Canal -- Lesson, Learning Page"
     draws on photos, texts, & other sources to help students learn about the Erie Canal & its impact on the economic & social
     growth of New York & the nation. (LOC)
     http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/00/canal/

"National Parks Associated with African Americans: An Ethnographic Perspective"
     links from a map to nearly 60 national park sites & resources that emphasize the role of African Americans in the
     development of American culture, heritage, & history.  Each link describes the importance of that park or resource to
     African American history. (NPS, Archeology & Ethnography Program)
     http://www.cr.nps.gov/aad/PEOPLES/overview.htm

"The Online Academy"
     highlights artifacts, scholars, collectors, & preservers of African American history.  Features include the inventor of
     the "multiple effect vacuum process" for producing sugar, the first identified African American toolmaker, the autobiography
     of an African American cowboy, & Zora Neale Hurston's first novel. (SI)
     http://anacostia.si.edu/academy.htm

"The Robinson House: A Portrait of African American Heritage"
     pieces together the story of the James Robinson family from artifacts found in archaeological excavations around the house
     where they lived for nearly a century.  An African American born free in 1799, Robinson worked in a Virginia tavern
     earning nearly $500 to purchase 170 acres of land near Bull Run.  There he built a log cabin, & his family turned the land
     into a prosperous farm, making him one of the wealthiest African Americans in the Manassas area in the mid-19th
     century. (NPS, Archeology & Ethnography Program)
     http://www.cr.nps.gov/aad/robinson/index.htm