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Butterflies or Ladies

How many butterfly ladies do you see?Now how many are there? Where did the first group go? Did they fly away? How many did they leave? Will they fly away too?

Sheet Music Paris Balloon Post Galop by H. Hermann

• “Cependant, il fallait trouver le moyen de traverser l’Atlantique en bateau, —à moins de le traverser en ballon, — ce qui eût été fort aventureux, et ce qui, d’ailleurs, n’était pas réalisable. Le Tour Du Monde en Quatre-vingt Jours. Paris, J. Hetzel et cie, 1874

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Does the word “pourtant” mean the same thing as the word “cependant “? Use the Research Thesaurus reference in Word to find out if these words are the same and then use the Translation to find out the exact meaning of the two words.

Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airport. Surface weather being observed at a Weather Bureau instrument panel on which are mounted barometers, thermometers, wind direction and velocity indicators, and other instruments for measuring weather elements. October 1943America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945

The National Weather Service has weather balloons that they use to figure out what the weather will be like for the day.This a picture of the National Weather Bureau Station at National Airport in 1943. The equipment you see is very different than what is available now. Look at this slide show about weather balloons and write down the names of equipment that it mentions. www.nws.noaa.gov/om/educ/radiosnd.rm

Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airport by Fred Driscoll. Oct. 1943.America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945

After looking at the slide show about weather balloons, use Tables and Clip Art in a Word document to tell what time a weather balloon is let go each day in the United States. You can use clocks and maps and other pictures that help someone who sees your table know about when weather balloons are released.

The weather and flying • Birds were symbols of flight so

weather vanes such as this one from George Washington’s home at Mount Vernon served not only a decorative, but a functional purpose for farming. They let you know the direction of wind.

• Church spires often contained weather vanes like the one you see on the next slide.

Plans for the Steeple Building, Weathervane, Company Street, Christiansted, St. Croix County, VI

• Significance: The Steeple Building (former Lutheran Church of Our lord of Zebaoth) was begun in 1750 and finished in 1753. The tower was begun in 1793 and completed by 1794, although work continued on interior details as late as 1796. James Rodgers, blacksmith, made the wrought iron spire and the weathervane while Christian Gortz made the copper ball, and covered the wooden balls and ornamental finial with copper

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• Use the dimensions of the Steeple Building given in this document to figure out the perimeter around it. P=2LX2W

About Crows, Blackbirds and Wrens • Crows are a common bird that are found in many places in the world. The

family of crows include jays, ravens, magpies, rooks and jackdaws. They have 23 calls that they use to communicate. Their songs are not musical. They live in groups called “Murders”. Because crows like to eat corn, wheat and other grains that farmers grow, farmers build scarecrows.

• Do you know the story of the scarecrow in the Wizard of OZ? What other kinds of creatures were like crows in that story?

• What other kinds of birds do you know about from reading stories or poems?

• Have you ever heard the nursery rhyme Sing a Song of Sixpence? What happens in this rhyme? Are there blackbirds and wrens?

• Blackbirds are smaller birds than crows that also eat the grain of farmers along with insects and weed seeds. Their flocks are called “Colonies”. They have beautiful songs. “Isn’t that a dainty dish to set before a king?”

• Wrens are common birds in North America and very protective of their nests. Gardeners like them because they eat insects.

• In the picture below from the poem Sing a Song of Six Pence, the little girl is giving money to a poor worker. Do you think the girl is rich? Do you think she is showing charity which was encouraged for little children of her time? Who shows charity to the Baudelaire children in The Vile Village?

• At the end of this version of the poem, the maid gets her nose restored by what kind of bird? How is that ending different than the one you read earlier?

How do centimeters and inches compare? An inch contains 2.54 centimeters.

Therefore a wren that is 5.25 inches would be how many centimeters?. (2.54 X 5.25 =

13.3 centimeters)A crow that was 53 cm would be how many

inches? (53/2.54=20.8 inches)

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How many centimeters was the vulture on Neville’s grandma’s hat if it was 12 inches?

The Leonard Bernstein Collection, ca. 1920-1989

Young People's Concerts Scripts: Young Performers [typescript on blue

paper w/ inserts on white paper, emendations in black, blue & red

pencil],

Bernstein describes parts of the orchestra for Peter and the Wolf Prokofieff’s Peter and the Wolf was

written in 1936. In it the flute in the orchestra played the character of a bird and the oboe played a duck. What instruments played Peter and Grandfather?

The Duck and the Bird characters are made by an oboe and a flute

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What kind of songs do children sing?There are many kinds of songs that children sing. Often they are about animals. Listen to this song by clicking on the speaker icon. The singer is named Lura Mae Jumper who is an eight year old who is with her teacher. This song is about a bat and is a traditional Seminole Indian children’s song. Play the song again. Now search the clip art in PowerPoint and find a picture that will illustrate what you think the song is about. You can use musical notes, colors, pictures of bats or anything else that you want to. If you want to use a noise and a picture it is O.K. to do that too. Be creative. You can use the shapes and colors that are in PowerPoint to decorate your slide and really make a picture that is interesting.

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The little boy mentioned in this letter was accidently poisoned. What kinds of things are poison? Visit the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency’s “Learn about Chemicals in Your House web page and Join the House Tour. Find two bottle that have stars on them. Ask your teacher to help learn about why all the things you find are dangerous.

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This group of ladies are dancing in a circle outside. What might they be saying? Games are fun and lots of exercise. Play the one to the right with some friends.

A group of ritualists from the "Forward into Light" pageant which will close the "Women for Congress" conference of the National Woman's Party at Westport-on-Lake-Champlain, New York, August 15-16-17. Miss Eleanor Van Buskirk of New York City, a student at Hamilton Institute, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Van Buskirk, leads the group. 1924.Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party

This leaping lady is also dancing outside. Is jumping good exercise?

Mrs. Florence Fleming Noyes by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1910-15?

Greenversations• The Environmental Protection

agency of the United States has a Blog called Greenversations and on it people talk about things that we can do to save the earth. Their conversations appear on Twitter where other people can talk about what they are doing.

• As a class, send a short message via cell phone, instant email message or the web to the EPA on Twitter about the question of the week that they ask there.

Mobile launcher used to send Apollo astronauts to the moon.

AERIAL VIEW SHOWING SIDES 3 AND 4 OF MOBILE LAUNCHER. HAER FLA,5-TIVI.V,1-2Mobile Launcher One, Kennedy Space Center, Titusville vicinity, Brevard County, FLBuilt in AmericaSurvey number HAER FL-4Building/structure dates: 1966 initial constructionBuilding/structure dates: 1973 subsequent workStructure associated with Apollo 4, Apollo 8, Apollo 11, Skylab & Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.

Significance: The mobile launcher is a representative example of the engineering and technology used in the U.S. manned space program. Mobile Launcher One formed an integral part of the Apollo program and played an important part in several space missions.

Teach Your Friends About RocketsDo your classmates know what a rocket launch looks like?Send them the ecard at the right which is on the Blue Mountain cards web site. It is called Mars Mission. When you do, your friends can launch a rocket and protect its journey to Mars.In order to do this, you need your friend’s email address, your email address and a message that says you want to help them learn something new. In your message use complete sentences, capital letters and correct punctuation. Before you put the message on the card, write it in Word and use the spell checker to make sure all the words are spelled correctly in your message.

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A Visit with a Different Kind of DoctorDr. Mae Jemison is a medical doctor. She also was an astronaut on the Shuttle Endeavour in 1992. In 1999, she talked about her work as Science Mission Specialist on the Endeavour and her dream to become a doctor in space.

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Chat session with Dr. Mae Jimeson concerning medicine in space[ MaeJemison/Houston - 22 - 11:44:11 ]RE: [Kellye] What inspired you to finally make your dream come true? Was it hard to take a absence from th medical study? No, because you do medicine in space. My interest has always been in research, though I did practice with patients for a few years. In space exploration, there is lots of medicine and life sciences involved. Right now, I work as a professor of environmental studies. I use all of medical training to identify the issues and solutions for keeping us helathy and the planet healthy. [ MaeJemison/Houston - 6 - 11:30:55 ]RE: [Emily] What were the findings of your research on bone cells in space?Basically, we had some problems. The cell chambers became contaminated. We weren't able to find as much informatrion we needed. We needed to rework the experiment. We found information about the equipment should worek. In space exploration things don't always work out the way you expect them to. [ MaeJemison/Houston - 70 - 12:18:43 ]RE: [Hannah] What was something you learned from this mission?The frog embryology experiment was exciting, where we had frogs lay eggs in space. We watched the development of the tadpoles. Surprisingly, there were no defects. So we learned that amphibian eggs do know how to organize themselves into tadpoles even in weightlessness.

Click here and listen to her biography. After that, go back to the Main Page of StarChild and click the Search StarChild button and then enter the words “Mission Specialist” and find out what they get to do.http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level1/jemison.html#

Do Astronauts Smoke?

People have always written about travel into space and they have made movies too. When you click on the movie to the right, you will find out how health and space travel are not always the concern of only astronauts like Dr. Jemison.

Space Stories • Yoda in Star Wars is a space fantasy Jedi

master. In reality he is a puppet who is operated by and has a voice produced by a puppeteer named Frank OZ.

• Visit the Muppet Wiki and learn about Yoda. This will help you prepare for the next step. http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Yoda

• You and your class can go to the Facebook site of Frank OZ and find out how to ask a question about what it is like to pretend to be a famous character like Yoda. Find out if Yoda is a Muppet. The Wiki says he is not.

• Remember to use complete sentences and to be polite when you talk to Mr. Oz.

• http://www.facebook.com/pages/Frank-Oz/45845005169

Pegasus Recording NeedlesEmile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording IndustrySprechmaschinen-nadeln = Talking machine needles =

The recordings of the two Shakespeare speeches that you are about to hear were played back with the needles in these ads. Why did the maker of these needles liken their product to the floating or flying action of Pegasus? What were old gramophones like and how did that influence the performance of the actors? How does it impact the clarity of what you hear?

Shakespeare and Language

• Listen to this historic reading of the “Seven Ages of Man” and “Hamlet’s Advice to Players”. Both contain floating words. Shakespeare is studied not only because he created memorable stories that had meaning to people in the past as well as to us today, but also because of his use of language.

• What words does the actor use to bring floating to the minds of his audience in these speeches? What words does Shakespeare include?

Shakespeare’s Fairies• Using Read Shakespeare’s

Midsummer Night’s Dream.• The Butterfly Ball : [a

spectacular] dramatized from Culprit Fay and [A] Midsummer Night’s Dream by W.B. Melville and C.W. Ebert. from 1888 that is a manuscript of a theatrical event patterned after Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. How do the two compare?

• Listen to this National Public Radio Midsummer Night’s Dream broadcast about fairy legends. What do the authors that are interviewed think about fairy worlds.

Look up the word “fairy” in the Encarta Dictionary in the research area of Word. Then look up the word “sylph”. By definition, can sylphs be the “malicious” kind of fairy that is described in the general definition?

In Butterfly Ball there is a distinction made between sylphs and fairies. How does the definition impact the kind of costume that such a creature might wear?

Open the “Fair Sylph” sheet music at the right by clicking on the cover. What kind of definition can be applied to the Sylph mentioned in this song?

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THE BUSINESS OF FLYINGThe Patent for the Wright’s Flying MachineMay 22, 1906 included this drawing

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Boeing Wing Room 1922 JPEG

[Panoramic view, wing room].Created/Published1922 August 26. Panoramic Photographs

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A Company History Exercise

• Use the Smithsonian historical air database to collect data on the different planes created by the different companies that are now Boeing.

• Look at the Boeing web site under “About” and “History”. Read its histories. How many companies have become its subsidiaries? Collect data from the Boeing web site on the various models of planes produced by these companies to verify the information you got from the Smithsonian database.

• Use the Consumer Price Index, 1913-2007 percentage of change data from the Time Almanac 2009 which is on the next slide to figure out the estimated cost of the planes from year to year. After 2007 use the data on the web site for the U.S. Department of Labor. Start your calculations with the $25,000 figure that the Wright Brothers sold their plane to the U. S. War Department.

• Using Access create a database that lists the plane names, their date, the former company names and an estimated price.

• Print reports by the individual companies.• Convert the database to an Excel spreadsheet.• Using the data from the spreadsheet, produce a pie chart that shows the percent of revenue each

subsidiary of the company may have produced historically.• Make a two page PowerPoint presentation and use this chart to describe how the company grew.• http://siris-thesauri.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=planes#focus