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Teachers at Work
Feel the Words
Wed May 03 00:00:00 EDT 2006
Gina Peebles teaches English at the Continuous Learning Center in Camden, South Carolina. It's an alternative school for problem students expelled from the district's junior high and high schools. Gina's a "core academic" teacher, the only English instructor at the school. She works with fifty students and teaches many different levels, often in the same classroom. Gina has to get creative to get through to these challenging students. So she puts technology - and the Visual Thesaurus - to work in her classroom in innovative ways. She explains how.
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Behind the Dictionary
The Forgotten Helping Verbs
Fri Mar 02 00:00:00 EST 2012
We're coming up on National Grammar Day (it's March 4th, as in "march forth"), so we asked our resident linguist Neal Whitman to tackle a topic sure to warm the cockles of grammar-lovers' hearts: helping verbs! But how many are there? And can you fit them all into a catchy song?
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Contest
The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: October Edition
Fri Oct 29 00:00:00 EDT 2010
For the October edition of the Visual Thesaurus crossword puzzle, we've got a spooky Halloween theme. Figure out the hidden word chain and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!
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The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: January Edition
Fri Jan 30 00:00:00 EST 2009
Welcome to the January edition of the Visual Thesaurus crossword puzzle. Figure out the hidden word chain and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!
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The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: March Edition
Fri Mar 27 00:00:00 EDT 2009
Welcome to the March edition of the Visual Thesaurus crossword puzzle. Figure out the hidden word chain and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!
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The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: August Edition
Fri Aug 28 00:00:00 EDT 2009
We're heading back to school in the August edition of the Visual Thesaurus crossword puzzle. Figure out the hidden word chain and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!
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Contest
The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: October Edition
Fri Oct 30 00:00:00 EDT 2009
For the October edition of the Visual Thesaurus crossword puzzle, we've got a spooky Halloween theme. Figure out the hidden word chain and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!
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Contest
The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: August Edition
Fri Aug 27 00:00:00 EDT 2010
We're heading back to school in the August edition of the Visual Thesaurus crossword puzzle. Figure out the hidden word chain and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!
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Weekly Worksheet
Celebrating Fibonacci Day
Mon Nov 22 00:00:00 EST 2010
November 23rd has been named Fibonacci Day since 11-23 doubles as the date's abbreviation and the first numbers in the Fibonacci Sequence (1, 1, 2, 3...). The Italian mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci used this sequence in lots of wacky ways--from predicting the population growth of rabbits to exploring the "golden ratio" formed between two consecutive numbers in the sequence.
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Weekly Worksheet
Celebrating Fibonacci Day
Thu Nov 15 00:00:00 EST 2012
November 23rd has been named Fibonacci Day since 11-23 doubles as the date's abbreviation and the first numbers in the Fibonacci Sequence (1, 1, 2, 3...). The Italian mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci used this sequence in lots of wacky ways--from predicting the population growth of rabbits to exploring the "golden ratio" formed between two consecutive numbers in the sequence.
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