Category Archives: Interesting Stuff

The World Wide Wonderful Web

Source: Bill Frymire Visuals (http://www.billfrymire.com/blog/)

When I was growing up you would never ever DREAM of using the internet as a source for a paper.BUT WHY NOT?

There is a lot of fabulous information, opinions, media and interactive websites out there, that it would seem foolish not to explore, comment on and use what we find out there. As always, we as explorers should examine the things we find and determine whether or not we think they are factual or not. There is no 100 Percent on this, but if you can find other sites or sources to back up your claims, then you have a good argument there.

Here is a list of 100 cool websites to check out! Happy exploring!

https://dailytekk.com/100-best-websites-2017/

 

Student Power – Know Your Education

https://curriculum.gov.bc.ca/sites/curriculum.gov.bc.ca/files/pictures/curriculum_model.png

Source: https://curriculum.gov.bc.ca/curriculum-info

Hey Students,

Did you know that there is a NEW curriculum? You may have heard someone mention it in passing or may have seen some new things in the classroom that you hadn’t seen before. Since it’s YOUR education, aren’t you curious, WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN??!

Well check it out for yourself at:

https://curriculum.gov.bc.ca/curriculum-info

What are your thoughts about it? Does it matter to you? What works? What doesn’t work?  Leave a comment below.

 

Interesting Fact of the Day

So stuff happens in the world. Like All. The. Time. Why not sift through it, twitter style with @neverknownfacts or at their website:

www.neverknownfacts.com

Today I learned:

  • The Disney Channel doesn’t accept any outside ads. The only commercials it airs are for its own shows and Disney products.
  • The least successful Harry Potter move earned about $90 million over than the most successful Twilight movie.

and…

  • The sons of Hitler’s nephew all agreed that they would never marry or have children in order to kill Hitler’s bloodline.

There IS a lot of not great stuff on their twitter account, due to some of their random retweets, BUT there website is fun and is a great conversation starter!

 

 

Bathing Like a Royal

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Historians are always interested in the not simply the names and dates from the past, but how life was lived, how people felt and what were they thinking. One thing that we as history learners RARELY discuss is the hygiene of historical figures. In this article, a historian does just that. Check it out:

https://newrepublic.com/article/129828/getting-clean-tudor-way