EduHound Weekly

Spotlight Site of the Week!

Constitution Day
Features resources to help you celebrate Constitution Day – featuring over 200 activities, lessons, books, DVDs, and more from over 20 different providers.
http://www.constitutioncenter.org/constitutionday

Additional Sites:

• NEH / EDSITEment - Constitution Day
  NEH's website that helps teachers bring online resources into the classroom, provides a number of lesson plans and reviewed websites that help you commemorate Constitution Day with your students.
  http://edsitement.neh.gov/ConstitutionDay/constitution_index2.html
• Lessons for Constitution Day
  Help students develop an understanding of American constitutional democracy and the fundamental principles and values upon which they are founded.
  http://www.civiced.org/index.php?page=constitution_day
• The Constitution: Counter Revolution or National Salvation?
  Students will access primary documents from American Memory, identify arguments for and against the ratification of the constitution.
  http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/broad/teacher.html
• The National Archives - Teaching With Documents: Observing Constitution Day
  Celebrate this important day in our nation's history by presenting these activities, lesson plans, and information.
  http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/constitution-day/index.html
• Constitution Day Teaching Unit (pdf)
  The goal is to honor the Constitution by teaching students about its importance as a living document that confers basic rights and responsibilities upon them as young people in the school environment.
  http://cqpress.com/incontext/constitution/docs/Constitution%20Day%20Teaching%20Unit2.pdf

Judi's Corner

This week features information on the total eclipse of the Moon that will occur Tuesday, August 28, 2007:

NASA - Total Lunar Eclipse Page

http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/LEmono/TLE2007Aug28/TLE2007Aug28.html

A total eclipse of the Moon occurs during the early morning of Tuesday, August 28, 2007. The event is widely visible from the United States and Canada as well as South America, the Pacific Ocean, western Asia and Australia. During a total lunar eclipse, the Moon's disk can take on a dramatically colorful appearance from bright orange to blood red to dark brown and (rarely) very dark gray.