• Great Sites for Teaching about Heroes
  Some of the best sites on the web about heroes
• Heroic Activities to Celebrate Heroes!
  Everyone has a hero -- someone to look up to or admire. This week, Education Word offers ten lessons that will get students thinking about their heroes.

John dos Passos, American novelist ( Big Money, 42nd Parallel), born (1896)

• Great Sites for Teaching about…Authors
  Some of the best sites on the web about authors

Hugh Lofting, English/ American author and illustrator (Dr. Dolittle books), born (1886)

Julian Bond, Black American civil rights leader and politician, born (1940)

Faye Dunaway, American actress (Chinatown, Bonnie & Clyde), born (1941)

Edmund Halley, English astronomer and mathematician who was the first to calculate the orbit of a comet later named after him, died at 86 (1742)

• Earth and Sky
  Earth & Sky is a daily radio series that deals with science topics and issues. The scientific information concerns the natural world and covers discoveries, established ideas in science, listener questions and science news.

Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), English author (Alice in Wonderland), died at 66 (1898)

Humphrey Bogart, American actor (Casablanca, The African Queen, Caine Mutiny), died at 57 (1957)

Anaïs Nin, French/American writer (Diaries, Solar Barque), died at 73 (1977)

Ernst Abbe, German physicist whose theoretical and technical innovations in optics led to advances in microscope design, died (1905)

• Science Center 9-12
  Resources and tools from our Science Center

Revolutionary War officially ended when U.S. Congress ratified Treaty of Paris (1784)

• Great Sites for Teaching About...The American Revolution
  Best sites on the web for teaching about the American Revolution time period.

President Carter proposed Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday (1979)