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April 2008
April in Iraq, Poetry & More
Welcome to this month's issue of ProQuest Teachable Moments. This issue focuses on a myriad of topics, including
the war in Iraq, financial literacy, National Poetry Month, Keep America Beautiful Month, environmentalism,
and more.
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SIRS Researcher
Keep America Beautiful
The Great American Cleanup is an annual, nationwide, community improvement campaign started by Keep America Beautiful in 1999. This year, two million people across the country will volunteer to clean up their communities.
Students will be an important part of these volunteer groups that together will form the largest litter prevention and beautification effort on record. Uncover the topics and issues within SIRS Leading Issues that can help focus your students on protecting the environment in April and beyond. (Plus, time is running out! Don't miss our SIRS Student Podcast Contest.
SIRS Discoverer
Famous People @ April
Take a peek at our list of Rams (Aries) and Taureans (Taurus) who've contributed to our world in ways that still benefit us today. Consider assigning a different person from our short list of April birthdays to each student, or have students team up!
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eLibrary Science
Health BookCarts
Health topics are always relevant and interesting to students. BookCart lesson plans are an excellent way to create student assignments that focus on research into disease prevention topics, such as the development of vaccines and antibiotics. eLibrary Science provides a variety of BookCart lesson plans that address these topics.
SIRS Decades
The Conservation President
Which U.S. President said: "If we of this generation destroy the resources from which our children would otherwise derive their livelihood, we reduce the capacity of our land to support a population, and so either degrade the standard of living or deprive the coming generations of their right to life on this continent?"
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ProQuest Platinum
Brother, can you spare a dime?
Financial literacy is one of the major goals of the 21st Century Skills movement for K-12 education. The current economic mess was caused, in part, by the financial illiteracy of millions of people who don't understand the risks and rules of borrowing money and using credit cards. Most of these people were educated in schools whose curriculums didn't include financial literacy as essential.
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eLibrary
World Genocides
It's vital for students to learn about the Holocaust and the reasons that created the rationale for a civilized country to sponsor, approve, or at least permit such horrific acts against their own citizens and those of other countries that they occupied. The rationale that justified the Holocaust continues today, as evidenced by the genocide in Darfur.
eLibrary Curriculum Edition
National Poetry Month
April was chosen for National Poetry Month with input from booksellers, librarians, poets, and teachers. The Academy of American Poets chose a month during the school year so that schools and students could participate fully. Let BookCarts help you integrate this fun, creative theme into your April curriculum.
eLibrary Elementary
How does your garden grow?
As the weather turns warmer, assign your students to the task of researching which plants can grow in their backyards or your school garden. Assign students a different fruit, flower, bush, or weird plant to research. Students should address our set of essential questions in a report of about 100 words, using at least two sources.
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SIRS Spotlights + Challenge Quests
On April 22, people across the world celebrate Earth Day, which promotes environmental protection, awareness, and education.
Act locally with our eco-friendly Challenge Quests.
National Poetry Month celebrates poetry and its significant placement in our cultural landscape.
SIRS shines a Spotlight on this topic in
April.
World Conflicts Today
April in Iraq
Former U.S. defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld called April 9, 2003 "a very good day." He called April 29, 2004 a "catastrophe." On both occasions, he was basing his judgments on what was happening in the war in Iraq. Test your knowledge of the war in Iraq and of Iraqi history and then answer our essential questions for critical thinking.
Take our Iraq quiz to see how much you know about the history and current state of the conflict in Iraq. Find the correct answers by consulting the World Conflicts Today Iraq report. An answer key is provided.
Explore additional history-related themes inside History Happenings, our hands-on social sciences enewsletter.
Historical Newspapers
Assassination of an American Hero
Forty years ago (April 4, 1968) Martin Luther King, Jr., the great civil rights champion, was assassinated in Memphis by James Earl Ray. Dr. King was in Memphis to support the cause of black sanitary public works employees. Their union, AFSCME Local 1733, had been on strike since March 12 for higher wages and better treatment.
Use this activity to help students use ProQuest Historical Newspapers to learn more about the life and work of this true American hero.
CultureGrams
Keep America Beautiful Month
April is Keep America Beautiful Month. You can teach students about the factors that cause populations to settle in a particular place and how a group's culture and activity changes those places over time, both in far-away countries and in their own American communities.
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