Smithsonian Digital Volunteers Mousetronaut – Story Time From Space Mousetronaut Written by: Mark Kelly| Read by: Scott Kelly | Run Time: 8:07 Minutes Activity Guides: Activity 1 – Coming Soon Activity 2 – Coming Soon Activity 3 – Coming Soon Synopsis: Mousetronaut Based on a (Partially) True Story By Mark Kelly A heartwarming picture book tale of the power of the small, from bestselling author and retired NASA astronaut Commander Mark Kelly. Astronaut Mark Kelly flew with “mice-tronauts” on his first spaceflight aboard space shuttle Endeavour in 2001.
GOONJ: Clothes and Respect | Listen & Read | Spotlight English Transcript Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. I’m Robin Basselin. Voice 2 And I’m Ryan Geertma. Suhklal lives in central India. Voice 2 One day, Suhklal heard about a way to get clothes. Suhklal decided to work with GOONJ. Today’s Spotlight is on the GOONJ organization and how it is improving life for individuals and communities in India. Voice 1 In 1998, Anshu Gupta and his wife Meenakshi heard about a crisis. The Guptas began to wonder how many people were like them. Anshu Gupta always knew that there was a need for clothes. Gupta also remembered another time when he visited a village after an earthquake. As Anshu and Meenakshi Gupta looked at their gathered clothes, they had an idea. So the Guptas began their organization and called it GOONJ. Voice 3 “One of the biggest problems with clothes donation is you give what you have. GOONJ hopes to change how people think about the act of giving and about the receiver. Voice 3 “Often, you do not give away old clothes as a gift. Voice 4
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MacScouter -- Stories for Scouts & Scouters Ghost Stories There must be hundreds of good Ghost Stories and other spooky stories out there, suitable for telling around the campfire. Please send me your favorites and I'll include them here. Table of Contents The Lady with the Emerald Ring I heard this one while visting a place in England the previous summer, and it scared the living day lights out of me, only to prevail that I had a good laugh when they were done with the tale. A man's wife became deathly ill the night before Christmas in 1798, he called for the doctor but by the time the doctor had arrived his wife had died, or so it seemed. When later that night the Clergy man fell to sleep he remembered the beautiful emerald ring the woman had been laid with on her finger. He ran with all his might upstairs where he hung himself from the rafters of his home. Wearing nothing but her fine silk dress she walked back to the home and knocked on the door and rang the bell to no avail. With this he shut the window. -- Thanks to Julia Dawn.
CrowdMed, Online Medical Diagnosis, Differential Diagnosis Some of The Best Digital Storytelling Apps for Elementary Students Creating and sharing digital stories is a great way to engage students in a wide variety of literacy-related activities in class. To this end, we curated for you this collection of some of our favourite apps to engage elementary students in digital storytelling tasks. The apps are simple and easy to use and provide learners with various materials and tools to help them create and enjoy what they create. As always, share with us your feedback in our Facebook page. For more apps for elementary students, check out this page. Links to the features apps are under the visual. 1- Story Dice - ideas for writers ‘Story Dice is a creative writing prompt tool to come up with ideas for plot, character, and setting. 2- Kid in Story Book Maker ‘Create and share customized picture storybooks with photos of your child or others as the main character! 3- Tell About This ‘Tell About This is an easy platform to inspire and capture children's thoughts and stories! 6- ChatterPix Kids ‘Grab your camera!
Podcasts | Someone Knows Something | cbc.ca Podcasts All podcast episodes Use the links below to download a file. S2 Episode 7: Ghost David drives cross-country to meet with Gwen, Michael Lavoie's partner of many years. Retired detectives share new details about their investigation. Download S2 Episode 7: Ghost [mp3 file: runs 00:37:52] S2 Episode 6: Stepbrother David tracks down Michael Lavoie's stepbrother, Mark Dempsey, and talks to him about family, betrayal and the criminal code. Download S2 Episode 6: Stepbrother [mp3 file: runs 00:32:12] S2 Episode 5: Girlfriend In the weeks surrounding Sheryl's disappearance, Michael Lavoie began a relationship with another woman, Sheila Darbyson. Download S2 Episode 5: Girlfriend [mp3 file: runs 00:43:50] S2 Episode 4: Intimation The search for more information about Sheryl’s disappearance begins to both widen and focus on the details, as David uses everything from Facebook to knocking on doors to try to figure out what might have happened to Sheryl. S1 Update Download S1 Update [mp3 file: runs 00:09:23]
English news and easy articles for students of English Short Stories at East of the Web A game of Scrabble has serious consequences. - Length: 4 pages - Age Rating: PG - Genre: Crime, Humor A semi-barbaric king devises a semi-barabaric (but entirely fair) method of criminal trial involving two doors, a beautiful lady and a very hungry tiger. - Length: 7 pages - Genre: Fiction, Humor ‘Bloody hell!’ - Genre: Humor Looking round he saw an old woman dragging a bucket across the floor and holding a mop. - Length: 3 pages Henry pours more coal onto the hearth as a gust of wind rattles through the cracked window frame. - Length: 14 pages - Genre: Horror ulissa Ye relished all the comfortable little routines and quietude defining her part-time job at The Bookery, downtown’s last small, locally-owned bookstore. - Length: 8 pages - Age Rating: U The forest looked ethereal in the light from the moon overhead. - Length: 15 pages - Age Rating: 18 Corporal Earnest Goodheart is crouched in a ditch on the edge of an orchard between Dunkirk and De Panne. - Genre: Fiction - Length: 20 pages