Junior Scholastic back issues from March 2009:
Sleeping beauties: what mysteries lie beneath the churches of Sicily?(Anthropology)
Mar 02, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] What comes to mind when you hear the word mummy? Images of ghouls or pharaohs? On the Italian island of Sicily, mummies are a popular tourist attraction. You can find them lining the catacombs of churches and monasteries. Many are dressed in their finest ...
Fair pay?(National)(Brief article)
Mar 02, 2009 ... For generations, women in the U.S. have fought for equal pay. The struggle to be paid the same as men for doing the same work is not over. But it reached a new milestone on January 29, when President Barack Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
A friend in deed ...(Civics)
Mar 02, 2009 ... Kyllian Warman, 14, loves animals. That's why the ninth-grader from Locust, New Jersey, volunteers for a local ASPCA chapter. She hands out fliers, raises money, and--best of all--visits animals in the shelter. "Everyone thinks someone else will do it," Kyllian ...
A Noah's Ark of frogs.(Animals)(Colombia)(Brief article)
Mar 02, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] They look so fragile, you fear that they could almost break apart in your hands. Scientists call these tiny animals with transparent skin "glass frogs." They are among the 60 species of amphibians newly discovered in the mountains of Colombia, ...
Online schools for kids?(Debate)
Mar 02, 2009 ... NEWS FACT: Students at public high schools in Michigan don't have to show up for class. That doesn't mean they get to skip school--just that they can now study in cyberspace. The state's Superintendent of Public Instruction has waived rules requiring students to be on school premises for ...
Numbers in the news.
Mar 02, 2009 ... $3,000,000 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Cost of a 30-second commercial during Super Bowl XLIII, which aired February 1 on NBC. 98.7 million Number of people who tuned in to the game. $18.4 billion Bonus money that Wall Street ...
'1989 Tiananmen square massacre: twenty years ago this spring, China's army forced a bloody confrontation against peaceful student demonstrators.(World)
Mar 02, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On May 29, 1989, a 27-foot-tall foam-and-papier-mache statue appeared in Tiananmen Square, the 100-acre heart of Beijing, China's capital. For more than a month, thousands of college students had occupied the square in defiance of China's Communist ...
Techno trends: a behind-the-scenes look at video games, robots, and Air Force One.(TECHNOLOGY: SPECIAL PULLOUT SECTION)(Cover story)
Mar 02, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Your generation is the first to come of age with the iPod, BlackBerry, laptop--and flying car. Actually, flying cars are still in the future, but scientists are working on them. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] You probably are blase about the ...
Hot new inventions: how might these creative innovations shape your future?(TECHNOLOGY: HOT NEW INVENTIONS)
Mar 02, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] New inventions are constantly changing our lives. Twenty-five years ago, the word Internet did not exist. Digital cameras were rare and only for the rich. CD players were just starting to catch on, while portable MP3 players were unimaginable. ...
Attention, video gamers! What is it like to create video games? JS talks with a producer to find out.(TECHNOLOGY: VIDEO GAMES)(Interview)
Mar 02, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Jonathan Warner is a senior producer at Avalanche Software. There, he oversees production for game features for upcoming Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar releases. This means he works closely with artists, designers, and programmers to design levels ...
Air Force One: get the "plane facts" on the high-tech wonder known as the Flying White House.(TECHNOLOGY: AIR FORCE ONE)
Mar 02, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] You've seen it in photos: the blue and white jumbo jet with UNITED STATES OF AMERICA emblazoned on its side. It is the most famous plane in the world. But many people don't realize that there are in fact two such planes, specially designed for the ...
What's next?(TECHNOLOGY: SKILLS)(telephones)(Brief article)
Mar 02, 2009 ... "There is nothing permanent except change," goes the old saying. How are changes in technology reflected in our lives and the ways in which people in the U.S. communicate? Which old technologies--once at the cutting edge of past generations--will soon be obsolete? Study the graphs, then ...
Eleanor Roosevelt: the U.S. president's wife was once expected to be a silent partner. Eleanor Roosevelt changed that rule forever.(American History)(Biography)
Mar 02, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Beginning with Martha Washington, a U.S. President's wife was expected to be seen and not heard. Politics was a man's world, and women were not welcome in it. "The President's wife must be a silent partner," The New York Times Magazine declared ...
Google ocean.(Reading a Satellite Map)
Mar 02, 2009 ... Maps made by satellites--weather maps, for instance--have revolutionized the way we see our planet. Recently, Google added an ambitious new feature to its detailed satellite views of Earth. Google's ocean layer explores the many mysteries of the seafloor. From your computer, you can ...
Cartoon.(What Do You Know?)(Brief article)
Mar 02, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Irony is the humorous contrast between what we expect to see or hear and what is actually happening or being said. This cartoon, which relates to this issue's special section on technology, relies on just such a contrast. Study it, then answer the ...
Eyewitness.(What Do You Know?)(Brief article)
Mar 02, 2009 ... You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." You must do the thing you think you cannot do. ...
Word wise.(What Do You Know?)(Brief article)
Mar 02, 2009 ... Fill in the letter of the best definition for each of the following words. 1. advocate (A) opponent (B) rival (C) spouse (D) supporter 2. archaeologist (A) clergy member (B) Egypt scholar ...
Quiz whiz.
Mar 02, 2009 ... How much do you know about what's in this issue o/ JS? Getting I8-20 correct makes you a Quiz Wizard; 14-17 correct makes you a Wizard's Apprentice. WORLD: 1989 TIANANMEN SQUARE MASSACRE, PAGES 6-9 * Decide whether each sentence is true, false, or an opinion. Write ...
Women's history month: five more who led the way.
Mar 02, 2009 ... On pages 19-21, Junior Scholostic honors Eleanor Roosevelt, a woman who helped change the world. In the course of American history, many women smashed barriers of prejudice and indifference, to bring about social change and improve people's lives. Here's an introduction to five more. After ...
Find Mapman.(CONTEST)(Brief article)
Mar 02, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As JS's Mapman[R], I create the maps you see in all of our issues. In the photo above, I'm sitting at the ruins of an ancient Roman city in northwest Africa. It was the final destination of a trip I took recently. If you answer the following ...
Exploring personal voices: Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day" and students' "My Blog".(TEACHER TO TEACHER)
Mar 02, 2009 ... There are many ways teachers can use this issue's American history feature (pp. 19-21) in the classroom. This suggested lesson plan comes from Lisa Arce, who teaches seventh- and eighth-grade students at Selden Middle School in Centereach, New York, and is a contributing editor to Junior ...
Big money: will a $787 billion plan help jump-start our troubled economy?(News Special)
Mar 15, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Last month, President Barack Obama put his signature on what he called "the most sweeping economic recovery package in our [nation's] history." Congress named it the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. The news media have more often ...
Fighting for the next generation.(Education)(Brief article)
Mar 15, 2009 ... Ty'Sheoma Bethea was fed up--with freezing classrooms, leaky ceilings, and roaring trains that interrupt her studies at J. V. Martin Junior High School in Dillon, South Carolina. "When the train passes through, it shakes the mobile [classrooms]," Ty'Sheoma, 14, tells JS. "The teachers have ...
Yes you KenKen.(International)(Interview)
Mar 15, 2009 ... Do you like sudoku? Then you'll want to try the latest logic puzzle from Japan. It's called KenKen, a term that translates roughly as "cleverness squared." The object is to fill each row and column with the numbers I through 4 without repeating a number within any row or column. Our "easy" ...
Do Smartphones = Smart Kids?(Debate)
Mar 15, 2009 ... NEWS FACT: The cell-phone industry is tryin8 to convince educators that smartphones help kids learn. Qualcomm Incorporated, a company that makes cell-phone chips, recently released a study claiming that smartphones make kids, well, smarter. Smartphones are cell phones that can ...
Numbers in the news.(news)(Brief article)
Mar 15, 2009 ... 36 Percent of students in grades 6 through 8 who say that they have been cyberbullied at least once in the past two months. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 11 Percent of students in grades 6 through 8 who say that they have cyberbullied another person in the past ...
Saving Africa's gorillas: as humans fight over land and resources, mountain gorillas are caught in the middle.(Environment)(Cover story)
Mar 15, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In January, wildlife officials reported that, during the preceding 18 months, 10 mountain gorillas had been born in Africa's Virunga National Park. That is great news for the endangered species. While all gorillas are under threat--between 175,000 and ...
Crisis in the Middle East: what are the obstacles to achieving a lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians?(World)(Chronology)
Mar 15, 2009 ... Hillary Rodham Clinton recently made her first trip to the Middle East as U.S. Secretary of State. Experts worldwide consider U.S. help essential to resolving the current stalemate between Israel and the Palestinian Territories. So Clinton's visit offered a sign of hope. For ...
Israel and the Palestinian territories.(Reading a Country Map)(Country overview)(Brief article)
Mar 15, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] One of the most fought-over places in the world, the area once known as Palestine is divided into three parts. ISRAEL AREA: 8,131 sq mi. POPULATION: 7,500,000; 76.4% Jewish, 23.6% Arab and other. ECONOMY: ...
The reformer: Martin Luther: how a German priest challenged authority--and changed the world.(World History)
Mar 15, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Church bells rang through Juterborg (YOO-tur-borg), a small town in Germany. Jugglers performed, and people sang hymns in the square. The year was 1517. A group of friars paraded past the swelling crowd. They carried a document on a satin ...
Word wise.(What Do You Know?)(Brief article)
Mar 15, 2009 ... Fill in the letter of the best definition for each of the following words. 1. deficit (A) recovery (B) shortfall (C) stimulus (D) surplus 2. excommunicate (A) deprive an individual of the rights of church ...
Cartoon.(What Do You Know?)
Mar 15, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Cartoons almost always rely on symbols to represent larger ideas, groups of people, or countries. Sometimes these symbols are drawn as individual figures--and sometimes the individuals are most eloquent when they say nothing. This cartoon comments on the ...
Eyewitness.(What Do You Know?)(Brief article)
Mar 15, 2009 ... "A siren goes off, and a voice comes over the hotel intercom: 'Proceed at once to the bomb shelter.' On the beach outside, Israeli boys who were skateboarding are now huddled on their hands and knees behind a small stone wall. From their well-rehearsed reaction, it is obvious that they ...
Quiz wiz.
Mar 15, 2009 ... How much do you know about what's in this issue of JS? Getting 18-20 correct makes you a Quiz Wizard; 14-17 correct makes you a Wizard' s Apprentice. NEWS: BIG MONEY, PAGE 3 * Decide whether each sentence is true, false, or an opinion. Write your answer on the blank ...
Using context clues Hadrian.(SKILLS REPRODUCIBLE)
Mar 15, 2009 ... Roman Emperor Hadrian [76 A.0.-138 A.D.] played a brief but fateful role in the history of the land that the Romans called Palestine. The results of his actions are still producing repercussions today. Fill in the missing blanks in the text with words from the vocabulary list, based on the ...
Knowledge bowl 5.
Mar 15, 2009 ... Playing this Knowledge Bowl game is a fun and easy way for students to review keg facts and ideas from Junior Scholastic this gear. This game [the fifth of six this school year) covers our most recent issues: March 2, March 16, and March 30, 2009. To play, assign students to the ...
Putting news in context: seeing the big picture.(TEACHER TO TEACHER)
Mar 15, 2009 ... Teacher Andrew Ragan calls articles such as "Saving Africa's Gorillas" [pp. 6-7] kid magnets." Students zero in on them because of their subject matter, the images, and the dilemma--in this case, animals, extinction, and habitat destruction. He uses students' heightened interest in such ...
A watery invasion: non-native species are threatening U.S. rivers and lakes.(Environment)
Mar 16, 2009 ... Warning: The Great Lakes and the Mississippi River are swimming with aliens. These non-native fish and plants, introduced from foreign waters, are called invasive species. They are as harmful, experts say, as the pollution that caused Ohio's Cuyahoga River to once catch fire. "Now what we ...
Hero of the Hudson.(National)(Chesley Sullenberger, Hudson River )
Mar 16, 2009 ... It's hard to not marvel as one listens to the tale of Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger. He is the pilot who recently saved all 155 passengers and crew members on his plane by making a daring landing on the Hudson River near NewYork City. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] After ...
Keke Palmer on the go.(Entertainment)(Brief article)
Mar 16, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A teenage fashion maven? A spelling bee champ? They're all in a day's work for Keke Palmer, 14, star of Nickelodeon's new series True Jackson, VP. This young actress has been a pro since she was 9, and nails every role she gets. Why is ...
An asterisk for A-Rod.(Sports)
Mar 16, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In February, the baseball world was shaken by the charge that New York Yankee third baseman Alex (A-Rod) Rodriguez had used steroids. The highest-paid player in Major League Baseball admitted his guilt. "I was young, I was stupid," Rodriguez ...
Ban wild pets?(Debate)
Mar 16, 2009 ... NEWS FACT: Last month, a pet chimp named Travis viciously attacked his owner's friend. After the attack, which took place in Stamford, Connecticut, local officials called for a ban on "wild" animals as pets. Travis's owner, Sandra Herold, is not sure what made her 200-pound ...
Numbers in the news.
Mar 16, 2009 ... 10 years [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Age of Stump (pictured at right), the Sussex spaniel that won Best in Show at the Westminster Dog Show in February. For a dog, 10 is considered to be the equivalent of about 70 in human years. 6,500 Estimated ...
Kenya after violence, hope: for the people of Barack Obama's African ancestral home, getting by--and getting along--are a struggle.(World)(Cover story)
Mar 16, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The people of Kenya consider Barack Obama to be one of their own. Kenya is the birthplace of the President's late father, Barack Obama Sr. Members of Obama's extended family still live in this East African country. Kenyans feel especially proud ...
Reading an elevation map: Kenya.(MapSearch)(Country overview)
Mar 16, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Kenya has three main geographic regions. A low-lying coastal area includes some of Africa's most beautiful beaches. In the country's center, an arid expanse of plains is thinly populated. Most Kenyans live in the highlands of the southwest, which has the ...
Stimulant addiction: stimulants, such as cocaine, present serious health risks--they can damage your brain and your body.(HEADS UP: REAL NEWS ABOUT DRUGS AND YOUR BODY)
Mar 16, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Jeremy had always been popular in school. But when he was 13 years old, he began to change. Jeremy started worrying more about whether he was "cool" and if people liked him. "I became shy and introverted," says Jeremy. Around the same time, ...
Beyond endurance: how British explorer Ernest Shackleton's quest to cross Antarctica by foot turned into an epic struggle for survival.(World History)(Chronology)
Mar 16, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Endurance. Ernest Shackleton knew what he was doing when he chose that name for his ship. At age 40, he was the veteran of two exploration teams to the icy wasteland of Antarctica. His leadership of a 1907-1909 expedition had earned the British explorer a ...
Word wise.(What Do You Know?)(Brief article)
Mar 16, 2009 ... Fill in the letter of the best definition for each of the following words. 1. ballast (A) anchor (B) cargo (C) ice floe (D) stabilizer 2. Cabinet (A) corporate stockholders (B) group of government ...
Cartoon.(What Do You Know?)
Mar 16, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This cartoon comments on the news item on p. 4. Often, cartoonists rely on our previous knowledge of a subject. Here, the figures are given brief identification--but anyone who knows Major League Baseball will understand the cartoon's message. Study the ...
Eyewitness.(What Do You Know?)(Brief article)
Mar 16, 2009 ... Constant rain and snow squalls blotted out the stars and soaked us through. Occasionally the ghostly shadows of ... [seabirds] flashed close to us, and all around we could hear the killers [whales] blowing, their short, sharp hisses sounding like sudden escapes of steam. --Sir ...
Bringing you the world.
Mar 16, 2009; ... Dear Teacher, In this issue, your students will meet teens who live in Kibera, a sprawling slum outside Nairobi, Kenya (see pp. 6-8). Theirs is a tale of survival--and hope. In the violent aftermath of a December 2007 presidential election, these young Kenyans looked to the ...
Quiz wiz.(QUIZ)
Mar 16, 2009 ... How much do you know about what's in this issue of JS? Getting 18-20 correct makes you a Quiz Wizard; 14.17 correct makes you a Wizard's Apprentice. NEWS: A WATERY INVASION, PAGE 3 * Decide whether each sentence is true, false, or an opinion. Write your answer on the ...
A historic journey: reading a map.(SKILLS REPRODUCIBLE)
Mar 16, 2009 ... Can you imagine sledging hundreds of miles to reach the northernmost point on Earth? What about braving minus-50-degree temperatures while walking on cracking ice sheets? One hundred years ago, that's exactly what Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson did. On March 1, 1909, ...
The Pole at last! Reading a chronology.(SKILLS REPRODUCIBLE)(Chronology)
Mar 16, 2009 ... Some humans--we call them explorers--will always be bound and determined to be the first to get to the farthest places imaginable. On the surface of Earth, no places are farther than the North Pole in the Arctic and the South Pole in the Antarctic. Below is a brief chronology of polar ...
Can't we get along? Making connections.(TEACHER TO TEACHER)
Mar 16, 2009 ... Teacher to Teacher contributor Andrew Liss teaches seventh-grade social studies at Thomas Jefferson Middle School in Edison, New Jersey. As noted in the lesson plan that he wrote for our December 8, 2008, Teacher's Edition, he and his students are supporters of Kiva, a nonprofit ...
Stimulant addiction.(TEACHERS' EDITION)
Mar 16, 2009; ... Dear Teacher: Despite the positive news of a decline in teen drug use, the use of stimulants, such as cocaine, is still at levels that raise concern. Results from the 2007 "Monitoring the Future" survey showed that 2.0 percent of 8th-graders, 3.4 percent of 10th-graders, and 5.2 ...
Lesson plan and worksheet.(TEACHERS' EDITION)(Brief article)
Mar 16, 2009 ... NATIONAL STANDARDS Science (NSES): Life Science: Regulation and Behavior, Behavior of Organisms; Science in Personal and Social Perspectives: Personal Health, Risks and Benefits, Personal and Community Health KEY CONCEPTS * Stimulants are a class of drugs ...
What do you know about stimulants?(STUDENT WORKSHEET)(Brief article)
Mar 16, 2009 ... Answer the questions below to find out what you know about stimulants. 1. Stimulants are drugs that can temporarily increase energy and alertness. (A) True (B) False 2. Nicotine and cocaine are both stimulants. (A) True ...