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To be "The Greatest of All Time," boxing legend Muhammad Ali said you have to believe in yourself. It's something Ali's parents taught him as a child, and it's helped him through the biggest challenge of his life: fighting Parkinson's disease. He died in 2016.

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Muhammad Ali: I Am Still the Greatest (read by Lonnie Ali)

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To be "The Greatest of All Time," boxing legend Muhammad Ali said you have to believe in yourself. It's something Ali's parents taught him as a child, and it's helped him through the biggest challenge of his life: fighting Parkinson's disease. He died in 2016.

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Next week Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States. He will also become the first president to have a stammer. It's a condition that affects around 1.5 million adults across the UK.

The BBC's Felicity Baker reports on what it's like to live with this often hidden disability.
Produced by Tony Dolce and Emily Brooks

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Next week Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States. He will also become the first president to have a stammer. It's a condition that affects around 1.5 million adults across the UK. The BBC's Felicity Baker reports on what it's like to live with this often hidden disability.

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Doodler. Artist. Doodle Art This channel is all about How to doodle. Doodles by Vinnie's Doodle World

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A great question is a springboard into a fascinating discussion. Phrase it the right way and students will start thinking. Then they'll start talking. Then you won't be able to get them to stop!

Great questions can make the difference between a good learning activity and a great one.

It can also make the difference between classroom technology that's just so-so and game-changing tech use.

Want to get students talking? In this post, you'll see some really juicy questions shared by educators on Twitter that they use with their students.

Here are some ideas for creating juicy questions of your own:

Student interests: Is there an app they're excited about? A song? A YouTuber? Can you phrase the question through that?

Audio, images, and video: Is there an audio clip you can play for students? A provocative image? A short video that will spark discussion?

Would you rather: Can students choose between two options -- especially if it's a difficult decision?

Summarize: Can they boil down an idea into one sentence? One word?

Lists: Can students formulate a list (top 3, top 5, top 10) based on certain criteria? Can they justify what made the list -- and what didn't?

Fantasize: What could the world look like? What could class look like? What could the material you're studying look like?

Life's mysteries: What's a question that doesn't have a clear answer that could be argued either way?

8. Who REALLY is the strongest avenger?

A1 Juicy questions to get Ss talking in class:
*Who really is the strongest Avenger? (pop culture related)
*Who won last night? (personal lives)
*Or one of @MathDenisNJ
impossible to answer questions#DitchBook
- Lᴀᴜʀᴀ Sᴛᴇɪɴʙʀɪɴᴋ #RockNTheBoat (@SteinbrinkLaura) October 16, 2020

10. The Zombie apocalypse has started... your two best friends are being chased. Who do you save?

A1: The Zombie Apocalypse has started...your two best friends are being chased...who do you save? 😲😬 #ditchbook There are no wrong answers but only maybe some hurt feelings 😂 Choice questions rock! https://t.co/fRxnFs7CLy
- James Varlack 🇬 (@jamesvarlack) October 16, 2020

12. Whose voice is missing from this (book, article, video, story, image...)?

A1: Here's my juicy question to get students talking and thinking 🗣 "Who's voice is missing from this .... book, article, video, story, image, textbook, news report, issue, event, lecture, conversation, audience .... etc. etc?" #ditchbook @DitchThatTxtbk https://t.co/wcFV5VXPdm
- Julie Millan (@jsm2272) October 16, 2020

14. How does something get to be "trending"?

17. If you could go on a road trip with anyone in history, who would it be?

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20 juicy questions to ask students (#5 will REALLY get them talking!)

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Enjoyed a game of bingo on mfbc.us and want to create your own bingo game? Then you've come to the right place.

Myfreebingocards.com is the world's most popular bingo card generator. We provide everything you need to run a fun and entertaining bingo game:

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The home of Author Fan Face-Off, the middle grade book game show, where famous authors go head-to-head with super-fans on trivia from one of the author's best loved books. And some info on Steve Sheinkin's books too.

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In this free science game, students recognize and distinguish birds, insects and animals' sound patterns and ecosystems--all while creating cool beatbox tunes!

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The Backwards Brain Bicycle - Smarter Every Day 133

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Mindfulness: A Collection of Short Videos

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Mindfulness: A Collection of Short Videos

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The Greater Good Science Center studies the psychology, sociology, and neuroscience of well-being, and teaches skills that foster a thriving, resilient, and compassionate society.

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How to Eat More Mindfully | The Science of Happiness

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Every detective needs good informants to help crack a case. Who are the best informants for your family investigations? Older relatives, such as your grandparents, great-aunts or -uncles, even your parents' older siblings. They can tell you their memories of your family from before you were born.

Grownups like to share their memories, so don't be shy-call an older relative to set up an interview. In-person is best, but you can do it over the phone or computer if your relative lives far away.

Be sure to bring your detective notepad and a pencil to take notes; you also might want to bring an audio or video recorder to tape a face-to-face interview. Just ask your interviewee's permission first; some people feel uncomfortable being recorded.

Here are 10 questions to ask:

1. Where did you grow up and what was it like?

2. What were your parents' and siblings' names? Were you an oldest, youngest or middle child?

3. What kind of jobs did your parents do?

4. What were your chores, and what did you do for fun?

5. What was my mom/dad like as a child?

6. What are your happiest family memories?

7. How did you meet Grandma/Grandpa/Uncle ____/Aunt ____?

8. What do you remember about your grandparents?

9. Do you know any stories about ancestors immigrating to America? Where did they come from?

10. Do you have any old photos, papers or a family Bible you could show me?

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CUBA, N.M. (AP) - The midday arrival of a school bus at Cyliss Castillo's home on the remote edge of a mesa breaks up the long days of boredom and isolation for the high school senior.

The driver hands over food in white plastic bags, collects Castillo's school assignments and offers some welcome conversation before setting out for another home.

The closing of classrooms and the switch to remote learning because of the coronavirus have left Castillo and other students in this school district on the sparsely populated fringe of the Navajo Nation in New Mexico profoundly isolated - cut off from direct human contact and, in many cases, unconnected to the grid.

Like many of his neighbors, Castillo does not have electricity, let alone internet.

It is yet another way in which the pandemic has exposed the gap between the haves and have-nots in the U.S.

"There's not a lot to do here. You clean up, pick up trash or build stuff. Like, I built that shed right there," the 18-year-old Castillo said, pointing at a pitched-roof plywood shed.

"Hopefully, hopefully by next semester we'll be going back into school," he said. "I don't like online. I like to be, you know, in school, learning. That's just not me. I just find it a lot easier and a lot better than just out here, not doing nothing."

The Cuba Independent School District, centered in a village of 800 people, has kept the buses running as a way to bring school to students who live in widely separated cabins, trailers, campers and other structures on a vast checkboard of tribal, federal and county land.

On their routes, the buses carry school assignments, art supplies, meals and counselors who check in with students who are struggling with online bullying, abuse, thoughts of suicide or other problems.

The buses are a lifeline for families in the Cuba school district, of whom nearly half are Hispanic and half are Native American, including many Navajo-speaking English-language learners.

Many do not have running water. Castillo and others with no electricity charge their school-issued laptops with car batteries or at a relative's house. One student has sent her laptop on the buses to be charged at school. This far out, internet service is unavailable or prohibitively expensive.

For students without home internet, the buses bring USB drives loaded with assignments and video lessons from teachers. Some students like Castillo eventually asked for paper packets because of the difficulty in charging laptops.

With COVID-19 cases spiking in New Mexico to their highest levels yet, it is unclear when the district will begin offering in-person classes again.

The district has a record of adapting to challenges, and a high school graduation rate of 83% - well above the state average - to show for it. It has long employed a "community school" approach in which social workers, nurses and teachers help students around the clock, not just during the school day, on the theory that they will do better academically if their home life can be made better.

All students were issued Chromebooks in 2019, well before the coronavirus outbreak. That made the shift to distance learning easier in March when school buildings shut down.

Other rural districts around the country have likewise been engineering ways to connect with students who are otherwise disengaged during the pandemic.

In San Joaquin, California, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) west of Fresno, the Golden Plains Unified School District found early in the pandemic that students were out working rather than doing schoolwork.

"We would have kids call from the fields. They were picking peaches," said Andre Pecina, an assistant superintendent, who noted only 40% of high school students were participating in distance learning. "Once COVID happened, parents were like, `Let's go to work.'"

To bring students back into the fold, the district reached out to parents by phone to set teacher conferences early in the school year and ordered hundreds of internet hot spots. It is also delivering school materials and electronic devices to students.

In New Mexico, before the buses set out from Cuba High School each day, about 25 cafeteria workers, bus drivers and other staff spend over an hour loading them with milk, produce, prepared meals, toilet paper and other necessities for the families.

On board one day in late October was head district counselor Victoria Dominguez, who was checking on two students who had suicidal thoughts. She was bringing one a pair of skateboard shoes. In the spring, a screening system for messages sent by students flagged one or two a week as showing signs of possible emotional trouble. Now she is seeing dozens in single week.

"I'm worried for the winter months. It's going to get darker. It's going to get colder and you can't go outside," Dominguez said.

As COVID-19 rates spiked, the school switched to making bus deliveries every other day, instead of every day.

"They'll still get the same amount of food, but they won't get the same amount of human contact," she said.

Along the bus route, a home is situated every few miles. The Castillos built their cabin from scratch and use a small camper as well.

The road from the high school turned from asphalt to gravel to deeply rutted dirt. The oak and pine trees gave way to sagebrush and gaunt junipers before the bus came to halt in front of a cluster of houses.

Students poured out to greet the bus driver, Kelly Maestas. He asked them how they were doing and handed out lunches. Dominguez went to shoot baskets with some of the older kids.

Among them was 15-year-old Autumn Wilson, a shy sophomore whose father died after she started high school last year. Then school shut down. Now she can't play on the volleyball team anymore. Dominguez connected her with a therapist on an earlier visit.

Autumn said the sadness over the loss makes it difficult for her to finish schoolwork. But she finds joy riding horses when her grandfather takes her to the family corral. And she looks forward to the visits from Maestas, who brought her candy for her birthday.

"Kelly, he's really funny to talk to. And if you're feeling sad you can really talk to him," she said, "and you can trust him."

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Associated Press writer Jeff Amy in Atlanta contributed to this report.

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Attanasio is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues. Follow Attanasio on Twitter.

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Open a new window somewhere in the world. Look through windows shared by real people, and share yours to become a part of this global community.

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Wondering how much gratitude you have? Fill out this Gratitude Questionnaire and see how you compare to other people who took the quiz.

What does displaying gratitude do for your brain? Visit Scientific American and watch Gratitude on the Brain to find out the answer to that question. Want to learn more about the Science of Happiness? Visit this NPR link and find out exactly what happiness can do for both your body and brain.

What does this all have to do with your heart? " Gratitude Is Good For The Soul And Helps the Heart, Too" might just inspire you to become more heart healthy! Choose to Be Grateful. It Will Make You Happier, a New York Times article has all the latest brain science on how even pretending to be happier can actually affect your brain. The Selfish Side of Gratitude, an article just published in the NY Times is also an interesting read!

Are there actually ways to increase your feeling of gratitude about your place in the world and your life in general? Read, "Take a 'Savoring Walk,' and three other research-based strategies to help you appreciate this life," from the Washington Post and see if you are doing the right things to help your appreciate what you have, or in some cases don't have!

These TED Talks on the topic of gratitude and gratefulness just might provide the inspiration you are looking for:

Want to be happy? Be grateful.
Nature. Beauty. Gratitude.
Remember to say thank you.

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We have rounded up a selection of interesting animal cams, online videos, and live virtual animal experiences to allow you to find some joy watching adorable animals at play.

If you're looking for a relaxing and enjoyable pastime, try virtually watching animals frolic in their natural habitats. There are now live animal webcams in places all around the world, as well as several types of virtual experiences that allow you to interact with all kinds of creatures at zoos and aquariums. In addition, animal lovers can view a plethora of free, appealing animal videos anytime on YouTube. Viewing animals online is safe as well as entertaining, and also provides a window into different species and habitats that we would not be able to see otherwise.

Here, we have rounded up a selection of interesting animal cams, online videos, and live virtual animal experiences to allow you to find some joy watching adorable animals at play. Not all of the cams operate around the clock, so be sure to check the details. Also, while many of the experiences listed here are free, some of the virtual ones cost a fee and require registration.

Get Print. Get Digital. Get Both!

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Watching and Interacting with Animals Online

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Mr. Nussbaum Lang. Arts Contextual Vocabulary Activities

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Name That LEGO Book Cover! (#24) - 100 Scope Notes

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Can you name these three books by their LEGO-fied covers?

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Watch the latest news summary from BBC World News. International news updated 24 hours a day.

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Have the boys draw a book or movie for us to guess.
From Venesha: I had them partner up and share screen.  So, they had to make decisions together.  They also had to decide who would share screen and be the “drawer”.  I told them we would do it again, so they could switch roles. They loved it, and then as a whole class we tried to guess the books and movies.

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Fast drawing for everyone. AutoDraw pairs machine learning with drawings from talented artists to help you draw stuff fast.

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The home of news and fun facts for kids. Find out what is going on, with stories, pictures and videos. Try a quiz or one of our free games.

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Meet the Media Monsters.Meet the Media Monsters.Media monsters are everywhere.They're even reading this right now!Every day we interact with endless media all around us: pictures, articles, T.V. sh...

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Do on Thursdays. Check reveal on Fridays (or later on Thursday)

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Intriguing Times images stripped of their captions — and an invitation to students to discuss them live.

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2 mins 31 (Supermarket on top of 1000 year old house)

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🔊 Listen Now: German Supermarket Chain Lidl Builds Store On Historic Medieval Dublin Site

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Women in sports have come a long way since Babe Didrikson Zaharias and Billie Jean King. Yet the financial distance between today's female pros and their male counterparts, whose earnings have soared into the stratosphere, is probably larger than ever.

What accounts for this? Is it sex discrimination, inexorable market forces or some combination of the two? This Wall Street Journal roundtable explores the contentious issue with the University of Michigan's Carol Hutchins, the most successful softball coach in National Collegiate...

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What's Behind the Gender Pay Gap in Sports?

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Your regular reminder that a corgi crossed with any other breed just ends up looking like a corgi disguised as the other dog.

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Your regular reminder that a corgi crossed with any other breed just ends up looking like a corgi disguised as the other dog.

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Your regular reminder that a corgi crossed with any other breed just ends up looking like a corgi disguised as the other dog.

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Can You Tell What's A Cake And What's A Real Object?

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Human Beatbox 11 mins

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Beatbox brilliance | Tom Thum | TEDxSydney

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Stan the Dinosaur and the $32 million feud (8 minutes)

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Twenty-eight years ago, legendary paleontologist brothers Peter and Neal Larson dug a 40-foot-long Tyrannosaurus rex out of the craggy, South Dakota ground. This month, Christie's sold that skeleton, nicknamed Stan, for $32 million-a price that smashed the record paid for a fossil.

To outsiders, such a sale would appear to be a windfall for the siblings, fossil hunters who have spent decades discovering spectacular specimens. The T. rex sold for four times Christie's high estimate, buoying the fall auctions and highlighting...

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The Family Feud Behind a $32 Million T. Rex Named Stan

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Identify the differences between two similar photos.

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Drawasaurus - Multiplayer drawing & guessing game!

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Drawasaurus is a free, online drawing & guessing game similar to Pictionary that can be played on any browser. Play with strangers from around the world or join a private room to play with friends.