• Drawing and Painting Activities
  Resources and tools from our Arts Center
  

Enrico Caruso, Italian operatic tenor (Faust), born (1873)

• Making the Case for Music Education
  
• Music Center
  Resources and tools from our Arts Center
  

Anthony Burgess, British linguist and author (A Clockwork Orange), born (1917)

• 9-12 Literature & Poetry Center
  Resources and tools from our Language & Literature Center.
  

Tennessee Williams, American playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), died at 71 (1983)

Glacier Bay National Monument established in Alaska (1925)

• The Iditarod: The Last Great Race
  Alaska's annual Iditarod Dogsled Race is a perfectly "teachable moment." Wise teachers are using the race and the many Web sites connected with it to teach geography, math, reading, and language arts.
  
• Explore Alaska: Three Scavenger Hunts
  Students explore an "Alaska" Web site in search of answers to ten grade-appropriate questions.
  
• Great Sites for Teaching about... Alaska
  In recognition of the anniversary of Alaska's statehood (January 3, 1959), this week's sites are among the best on the Web for teaching about our 49th state.

Hiram R. Revels, became the first black member of the U.S. Senate as he was sworn in to serve out the unexpired term of Jefferson Davis (1870)

Congress formed the US Bureau of Engraving & Printing (1862)

Samuel Colt patented the first revolving barrel multi-shot firearm ( 1836)

• Great Sites for Teaching About...Inventors and Inventions