The Origins of St Patrick’s Day

Today we will find out just who St Patrick was and why we celebrate him on March 17th.  We will also find out about wearing green and shamrocks and what they have to do with today.

Sources:

https://www.history.com/topics/st-patricks-day/who-was-saint-patrick

https://www.history.com/news/st-patricks-day-myths-debunked

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/celebrations/article/st-patricks-day

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Otters As Employees?  Join us today as we learn about the otters in Bangladesh that go to work each day.

Sources:

https://time.com/40632/bangladesh-otters-fishermen/

https://phys.org/news/2014-03-bangladesh-otter-fishing-tradition-extinction.html

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/798/#:~:text=The%20Sundarbans%20Reserve%20Forest%20

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What Is the Food Chain?  Join us today as we learn how the food chain works.

Sources:

https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/photosynthesis/353624

https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/food-chain/353141

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/food-chain/

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Who Was Gideon Sundback?  Join us today as we learn about the man who made a common, yet so helpful invention.

Sources:

https://www.meche.engineering.cmu.edu/news/2018/10/zipper-inventor-legacy.html

https://www.invent.org/inductees/gideon-sundback

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The History of Arabic Numbers  Join us today as we learn how the numbers we use daily came to be.

Sources:

https://www.britannica.com/science/numeral/Development-of-modern-numerals-and-numeral-systems

King, Zelda. The Story of Our Numbers: The History of Arabic Numerals. PowerKids Press, 2004.

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What Are the Galapagos Islands?  Join us today as we learn abou this unique island chain and some of the animals that live there.

Sources:

https://www.britannica.com/place/Galapagos-Islands

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1/

https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/galapagos-tortoise

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What Is a Peccary?  Join us today as we learn about this interesting animal.

Sources:

https://animalia.bio/chacoan-peccary

https://animalia.bio/white-lipped-peccary

https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/species/peccary/

https://animalia.bio/collared-peccary

https://animalcorner.org/animals/peccary-javelina/

https://www.britannica.com/animal/peccary

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What Is Type 1 Diabetes?  Join us today as we learn about this chronic disease.

Sources:

https://www.chop.edu/pages/explaining-type-1-diabetes

https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/type1.html

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Who Was Mary Coulter?  Join us today as we learn about a woman who did not let societal limitations stop her from living out her dream.

Sources:

https://pioneeringwomen.bwaf.org/mary-elizabeth-jane-colter/

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/mary-colter/

https://www.nps.gov/articles/marycolter.htm

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What Is the FBI?  Join us today as we learn the history of this government agency.

Sources:

https://www.fbi.gov/history/brief-history

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fbi-founded

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Federal-Bureau-of-Investigation

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