1. When it comes to active learning, nothing beats presenting live in front of fellow classmates.
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... about historical characters,” said Richard Bellomy, V.P. of Sales for Samsung Techwin’s Electronic Imaging Division.  “This competition is fun and engaging.  Students are to portray their favorite historical ...

2. Kids Have Fun While Learning History with Samsung SUPERHERO Video Contest
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“My students had fun!” said Cynthia Dale, a teacher from New York. “The contest was great because it allowed us to combine research, writing, speaking, and technology all in a creative manner.” Samsung, ...

3. World Young Reader Prize Extends to Teachers
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... has allowed more widespread study of the electronic versions of newspapers, especially when not all students have computers in class,” said Aralynn McMane, WAN-IFRA executive director of young readership ...

4. Student Publishing
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... Angie Kelley said, "Writing stories can be hard for some students, but when I tell them, ‘Your work will be published in a book,’ they get so excited and really engage in the process! As a teacher, you ...

5. My Teacher, My Hero; Honoring Great Teachers
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...  Dick Cook (Chairman, Disney Studios). “Teachers open windows to the world for their students by giving them the tools and desire to discover their fellow humans,” said Ford Motor Company’s ...

6. The Miser In The Bush
(Fairy Tales/Brothers Grimm)

... any longer; so he went to his master, and said, 'I have worked hard for you a long time, I will trust to you to give me what I deserve to have for my trouble.' The farmer was a sad miser, and knew that ...

7. Clever Elsie
(Fairy Tales/Brothers Grimm)

There was once a man who had a daughter who was called Clever Elsie. And when she had grown up her father said: 'We will get her married.' 'Yes,' said the mother, 'if only someone would come who would ...

8. The Pink
(Fairy Tales/Brothers Grimm)

... came to her and said: 'Be at rest, you shall have a son with the power of wishing, so that whatsoever in the world he wishes for, that shall he have.' Then she went to the king, and told him the joyful ...

9. Snowdrop
(Fairy Tales/Brothers Grimm)

... black ebony, and as she sat looking out upon the snow, she pricked her finger, and three drops of blood fell upon it. Then she gazed thoughtfully upon the red drops that sprinkled the white snow, and said, ...

10. Sweethearth Roland
(Fairy Tales/Brothers Grimm)

... 'Be quiet, my child,' said the old woman, 'and you shall have it. Your stepsister has long deserved death; tonight when she is asleep I will come and cut her head off. Only be careful that you are at the ...

11. Frederick And Catherine
(Fairy Tales/Brothers Grimm)

There was once a man called Frederick: he had a wife whose name was Catherine, and they had not long been married. One day Frederick said. 'Kate! I am going to work in the fields; when I come back I ...

12. The Little Peasant
(Fairy Tales/Brothers Grimm)

... and yet he and his wife did so wish to have one. One day he said to her: 'Listen, I have a good idea, there is our gossip the carpenter, he shall make us a wooden calf, and paint it brown, so that it looks ...

13. The Old Man And His Grandson
(Fairy Tales/Brothers Grimm)

... wife scolded him, but he said nothing and only sighed. Then they brought him a wooden bowl for a few half-pence, out of which he had to eat. They were once sitting thus when the little grandson of four ...

14. Clever Gretel
(Fairy Tales/Brothers Grimm)

... girl!' And when she came home she drank, in her gladness of heart, a draught of wine, and as wine excites a desire to eat, she tasted the best of whatever she was cooking until she was satisfied, and said: ...

15. Rumpelstilskin
(Fairy Tales/Brothers Grimm)

... palace where there was a great heap of straw, and gave her a spinning-wheel, and said, 'All this must be spun into gold before morning, as you love your life.' It was in vain that the poor maiden said ...

16. Tom Thumb
(Fairy Tales/Brothers Grimm)

A poor woodman sat in his cottage one night, smoking his pipe by the fireside, while his wife sat by his side spinning. 'How lonely it is, wife,' said he, as he puffed out a long curl of smoke, 'for ...

17. The Robber Bridegroom
(Fairy Tales/Brothers Grimm)

There was once a miller who had one beautiful daughter, and as she was grown up, he was anxious that she should be well married and provided for. He said to himself, 'I will give her to the first suitable ...

18. Little Red Riding Hood
(Fairy Tales/Brothers Grimm)

... she gave her a little cap of red velvet, which suited her so well that she would never wear anything else; so she was always called 'Little Red-Cap.' One day her mother said to her: 'Come, Little Red-Cap, ...

19. Mother Holle
(Fairy Tales/Brothers Grimm)

... sprang out of her hand and fell into the well. She ran home crying to tell of her misfortune, but her stepmother spoke harshly to her, and after giving her a violent scolding, said unkindly, 'As you have ...

20. The Mouse, The Bird, And The Sausage
(Fairy Tales/Brothers Grimm)

... complained to the dog of this bare-faced robbery, but nothing he said was of any avail, for the dog answered that he found false credentials on the sausage, and that was the reason his life had been forfeited. ...