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August 2007
CultureGrams & World Conflicts Today Updates
Login to CultureGrams today to experience 15 new country reports along with hundreds of new images. Each States Edition report now sports photos of four famous local inhabitants, while the
Kids Edition has been enhanced with hundreds of new cultural and historical images placed alongside paragraphs to bring cultural content to life for younger users. New Photo Gallery collections have been added for Afghanistan, Burundi, Colombia, Djibouti, Dominica, Hong Kong, Montenegro, and Slovakia. (Details.)

Teaching Idea: Fractions and Food
Looking for a fresh curriculum connection between world cultures and fractions? Tuck into a refreshing K-5 lesson plan from our editors that casts students as chefs cooking for the heads of state for their choice of country. There are last minute guests, and your chefs will need to double and even triple some of
their signature recipies. View the full activity.

Podcast

Introduce staff and students to CultureGrams.

Photo Gallery Pick

Stavna, Montenegro: August 2004
Radoš: Radoš and his wife, Milijana, have four sons and two daughters. During the summer, Radoš lives in Stavna village, located at the base of Komovim Mountain (2,461 meters above sea level). Because women do most of the work in this community, men don’t usually have much to do. Radoš spends most of this time visiting people, talking about history and politics, and telling stories from his youth, a time when shepherds’ songs could be heard all over the mountain.

Tap into our CultureGrams Photo Gallery.
It contains hundreds of photos from around the globe.

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Oct. 3-5, Springfield, Missouri
Missouri Library Association

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Idaho Library Association

Oct. 17-19, Nashville, Tennessee
T+L Conference

Oct. 25-27, Reno, Nevada
American Assocation of School Librarians (AASL)

Nov. 14-16, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
NCSLMA Conference

Regional Quiz
How much do you know about the region of southern Europe? Test your knowledge with these tidbits from CultureGrams:

What Mediterranean nation has been partitioned
since 1974?
Portugal occupies the western coast of which
peninsula?
San Marino is an independent nation surrounded completely by what larger country?
Andorra is the only independent state in the world
to give official status to what language?
Which American actress married Prince Rainier III
of Monaco in 1956?
When Yugoslavia dissolved in 1992, which two
countries comprised the remaining Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia and finally split in 2006?

Take the full quiz.

World Holidays
Holidays provide a great way to introduce students to the
culture and history of a country. "Observe" a world holiday in your classroom by asking students to research the holiday’s origins or learn more about a particular aspect of the country.
Read about world holidays occuring this month.

Focus on a Canadian Territory
A little larger than the state of California, the Yukon covers an area of 482,443 square kilometers (186,272 sq miles). The territory is shaped like a triangle and shares its western border with Alaska. Yukoners joke that there are only two seasons in the territory: this winter and last winter!

Here are some more interesting facts about the Yukon:

In the summer near the Arctic Circle, it stays light outside so long that Yukoners can read outside at midnight.
More than two thousand glaciers are found in Kluane National Park, including Lowell Glacier, which is 65 kilometers (40 miles) long.
The word Yukon means “the great river” in Athapaskan. The Yukon River is, in fact, the fourth longest river in the world at 3,600 kilometers (2,300 miles) long.
Read more Yukon facts.


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