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SOME INTERESTING GEOGRAPHY-RELATED WEBSITES

Perspectives of Earth from Framingham State University's McAuliffe Center. Visit it here. Explore and learn!

Earth at Night. Fascinating sites and material from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Click here to go to the site.

Video of Earth at Night from NASA. Watch this brief two-minute video showing the Earth at night. How many places can you identify simply by studying the shape of the land? Note the urban areas that are lit up at night. One can clearly view the patterns of human settlement on Earth by looking at the Earth from above. Click here to view the video.

Human Population through Time. This video, using digital maps and timelines, shows the growth of human population over time. This video is from the American Museum of Natural History. Visit it here.

AMERICAN MUSEUM of NATURAL HISTORY. Celebrate Earth Day with the American Museum of Natural History. Visit it here.

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE. Learn about the History of Earth Day. Visit the Smithsonian Institute's website, which is rich in resources relating to the history of Earth Day. Click here to visit.

You can click on any of the following links and visit the websites, learning new things and watching educational videos as well.

PBS DISTANCE LEARNING CENTER

PBS has provided educational resources for students to use on-line and on television.

If you use any of the on-line resources and/or watch educational television programming, please send me an e-mail with your name, the resource used or program watched, and a brief description of the activity or program. Tell whether you recommend it for others (and why) or whether you do not recommend it for others (why not).

CLASS STARTER RESOURCES

This Day in History -- daily updates and a "look back" at events that happened on this date

National Geographic -- stories, ideas, news, and homework help from National Geographic

CNN10 -- the day's news in ten minutes

Word of the Day -- build your vocabulary and take practice on-line quizzes

Geography at ThoughtCo -- all the Geography news and information you may want or need

Smithsonian for Kids -- visit the Kid's Page of the Smithsonian Institution

Ducksters Education Site -- a directory to a variety of educational websites

STOUGHTON PUBLIC LIBRARY

https://www.stoughton.org/library-0

Also, at the Stoughton Public Library, you can access books on a computer or tablet by using Overdrive. Go to the Old Colony Library Network (OCLN) website at https://catalog.ocln.org/client/en_US/ocln . Click "Overdrive," located to the left of the page. Then click "Sign In." Select the library network (Old Colony Library Patrons) and then type in your library card number and PIN. Once that is done you will be able to access the catalog and "borrow" a book, i.e. download it to your device.

The Dr. Robert G. O'Donnell Middle School

211 Cushing Street

Stoughton [02072], Massachusetts, USA

42° 8' 59.5176'' N , 71° 13' 25.7664'' W

Earth at Night

Credit: C. Mayhew & R. Simmon (NASA/GSFC), NOAA/ NGDC, DMSP Digital Archive

PHOTO OF THE DAY

DECEMBER 1968

FIRST PHOTOS OF THE EARTH FROM THE MOON (APOLLO 8)

During the summer of 2019, we celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of Apollo 11's landing on the moon. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first two humans to set foot on the moon. Less then one year earlier, in December 1968, the astronauts of Apollo 8 became the first astronauts to orbit the moon (they did not land on the moon). As the spacecraft was completing its orbit of the moon, the astronauts took the first photographs of the Earth as seen from the moon. Their photographs allowed humans the first opportunity to see their planet from this perspective. "Earthrise" is one of the most famous photographs of Earth ever taken.

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/apollo-8-earthrise

Click here to see a short video explaining how the astronauts came to take those famous photographs.

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