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Name/Section: Caitlin Adams ed205, mwf 10:00

ED205 Lab – Web Surfing

Lab # 8

 

1.      http://www.fema.gov

 

FEMA stands for? Federal Emergency Management Agency

 

Go to FEMA For Kids link.  Go to Get Ready Get Set.  Give

 

one tip that FEMA gives to kids for protecting a house against tornadoes: have hurricane straps installed to keep the roof attached to the walls

 

2.      http://volcano.und.edu/vw.html

 

Click on the links Teaching and Learning (right side of screen) and then Volcano Facts.

 

Volcano Names:  How to you say volcano in Hawaiian?  lua pele

 

Cost of:  How much land was lost in the 1955 eruption of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii?  3,000 acres

 

3.      http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/index.html

 

Who is the editor of this NASA page for kids?

Shelley Canright

 

4.      http://cnn.com

 

What is the one top story today on CNN?

Bus Plunges off Overpass


 

 

 

5.      http://weather.com

 

What is the projected high and low temperature for tomorrow for Charleston, South Carolina?  (Hint:  Use “Enter a City” – type the city and press “go city”.)

 

High:  69 Low:  48

 

6.      http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/

 

The public debt today is  $ 8,781,363,457,243.90

 

Your share of this debt is  $29,165.55

 

7.      http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/index.html

 

What is the name of the wife of Chester A. Arthur?  Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur

 

When did she die? January 12, 1880.  From What?  Pneumonia

 

8.      http://www.co.kent.mi.us/zoo

 

A new arrival at the zoo, a Komodo Dragon, is how long?  7 feet

 

9.      http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Oregontrail.html

 

There are many Fantastic Facts about the Oregon Trail.

 

For example, buffalo dung was used commonly by the pioneers for: Fuel

 

But it was sometimes used by their children to: play Frisbee

 

10.  Add two of your own web-surfacing question.  Give the answer also. 

Site:  http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/salem.htm

 

Question: What was one symptom of the girls of the Salem witch trials?

 

Answer:  seizures, blasphemous screaming, or trance-like states

 

Site:  http://www.branns.com/History.aspx

 

Question: What year did John Brann Sr. open the first Brann’s Steakhouse & Grille?

 

Answer:  1960