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March 2008
Women's Rights, Erin Go Bragh +
Welcome to this month's issue of ProQuest Teachable Moments. This issue focuses on a myriad of topics, including
the global struggle for women's rights, St. Patrick's Day, biographies, obesity, economics, International Earth Day, and more.
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SIRS Researcher: Equal Rights for Women & Social Issues
The lack of equal rights for women is often the cause of many other problems in our society: ongoing poverty, the growth of single parent families, violence against women and children, and unequal health care for too many women and their children. How do these problems relate to unequal rights for women? In our March lesson, students will explore several SIRS Leading Issues to learn more about how gender inequality contributes to many current societal issues. (Plus, don't miss our Student Podcast Contest! Find out more.)
SIRS Discoverer: Famous People in March
Many famous people have March birthdays. Usually such lists include celebrities from the world of sports and entertainment that most students would easily recognize. The list in this activity may be a challenge for most students, because only one of them is involved in any current events. These persons have made the world a better place, both during and after the prime time of their major accomplishments.
SIRS Decades: The Global Struggle for Women's Rights
March 8 is International Women's Day, and this year marks the 36th anniversary of the failed Equal Rights Amendment. Using SIRS Decades, students can learn more about the Equal Rights Amendment and other initiatives of the Feminist Movement of the 60s and 70s.
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eLibrary Science: International Earth Day @ Vernal Equinox
Each International Earth Day provides opportunities for people all over the world to organize activities that help increase appreciation of nature and the ways that we can conserve its bounty. These activities focus on the responsibility that governments, businesses, and ordinary people have to conserve and protect nature.
eLibrary BookCarts: eLibrary + SIRS
Do you receive both eLibrary and SIRS? You're in luck! eLibrary subscribers who can also access SIRS Researcher or SIRS Discoverer can integrate SIRS articles and websites into their BookCarts. These hybrid BookCarts provide the best of these two comprehensive learning resources. Plus, you and your media specialists can copy from more than 700 ProQuest Carts collection and then add SIRS resources into the weblinks section of these models.
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ProQuest Platinum: The Weight Loss Obsession
Each year, millions of Americans make New Year resolutions to lose weight. Everywhere you turn there are "new-and-improved" ways to lose weight. Americans spend $33 billion annually on weight loss foods, products, and services, according to the ADA. What are some of the diets that have proven to be successful in the long run and why? What is the best method of losing weight and remaining healthy?
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eLibrary: The Struggle for Women's Rights in 2008+
Students can learn more about the struggle for women's rights, both in America and the rest of the world, using a special model BookCart created by ProQuest: "Women's History--Struggle for Rights." The BookCart includes examples of essential questions for critical thinking that motivate and guide students to do more than find and regurgitate facts. You can create additional questions when appropriate.
eLibrary CE: Erin Go Bragh
"Erin Go Bragh" is the Anglicization of a Gaelic phrase used to express allegiance to Ireland. It is translated most often as "Ireland Forever." You'll hear and see this phrase often in March because March is Irish American Heritage Month, and also because St. Patrick's Day is March 17. Students can learn more about the history and heritage of Irish Americans using a special model BookCart created by ProQuest: "Irish American Heritage."
eLibrary Elementary: Biographies
Most elementary curricula include research activities that focus on biographies of famous people. This activity is designed to do just that in March! You should assign a different person from the list to each student.
Students can create an oral or PowerPoint report of about two minutes that uses at least two resources. It should include a picture of the person, as well as a second picture of something representative of their accomplishments.
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SIRS Spotlights + Challenge Quests
The 1848 Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, marked a turning point in the history of women's rights movement in the United States.
Find out more in our new SIRS Challenge Quests.
Whatever their achievements, women are widely recognized as playing vital roles in American society.
Let SIRS shine a Spotlight on this topic in
March.
World Conflicts Today
Weather & War
March 21 is the date of the Vernal Equinox. This day marks the time when days and nights are of equal length, and when in the Northern Hemisphere the days get longer and in the Southern Hemisphere, the days get shorter. This process affects the weather, with spring and summer following this date in the north, and fall and winter in the south, until the process is reversed on September 21 at the Autumnal Equinox.
For several years now, Taliban fighters appear to have tailored their fighting strategy to the season. As winter ends, U.S. military commanders in Afghanistan are once again warning of a "spring offensive" by the Taliban. Is such predictability unusual, or have war and weather always been so closely linked?
Explore additional history-related themes inside History Happenings, our hands-on social sciences newsletter.
Historical Newspapers
When Economic Bubbles Burst
Following a decade of economic growth that featured a bubble of easy money and over-speculation in stocks and land, Wall Street crashed on Black Thursday in 1929.
The Great Depression soon spread across the country and around the world. Banks and businesses went bust and people tried to hoard their money rather than invest or spend it--further slowing the economy.
Students should be able to see parallels between the causes of Great Depression, the reforms that FDR launched, and the causes of and the remedies proposed for our current economic woes.
CultureGrams
How Folktales Preserve History
World Folktales Week is observed in March. This is a great opportunity for students to discover how ancient and sometimes even the modern history of people and events have been preserved and passed on from generation to generation, including the role of oral literature, in other cultures and their own.
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