Among the 32 titles in the series are Wetlands , Clean Air , Gorillas , and Power from the Sun . The CNN Newsroom acknowledges Women s History Month from March 10-31 with a series profiling women leaders, including Wilma Mankiller, the first woman chief of the Cherokee Nation, and Roxanne Spillette from Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Free curriculum materials related to the program are available. The book includes specific lesson ideas from teachers around the country, including a look at an introduction to the skeletal system, a review of famous artists, and career explorations. Each teacher-tested activity includes a project summary, learning objectives, needed materials, and sample graphics of the completed presentation.
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The deadline for applications is March 31, 2000. The grant recipient will be announced in May 2000. St. Joan of Arc Catholic Elementary School in Aberdeen, Maryland, won the 1999 Sony Symphony Learning System grant for its language program that includes a foreign language requirement for all students in K-8th grade. Pad The Ergo Write mouse pad does double duty as an erasable whiteboard and a place for your mouse to skate. The size of a regular mouse pad, the Ergo Write has a special traction surface on one side that allows coverage of the entire computer screen with approximately 2 inches of mouse movement.