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Back yard learning centers: 10 ideas for outdoor classrooms

Make your time outdoors enjoyable and educational this spring by creating back yard learning centers. The following tips will help get you started....

Utah helicopter rescue gives insight into search and rescue efforts in national parks

This summer, reports of searches and rescues in the national parks have come weekly and sometimes daily. The stories are usually about lost hikers...

Geography and culture spring to life with Postcrossing

Do you like to get mail? I don't mean bills and junk. I'm talking about something like a postcard from a far-away land. Nothing brings geography to...

Yummy fun at Alabama's pick your own produce farms

If you ask most kids where food comes from, they will answer, “from the grocery store.” Summer is the perfect time to teach kids that...

Watch PBS Time Team America at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site online

Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, North Carolina, the first English settlement in America,was featured on the first episode of the five-part PBS...

Celebrate Discovery's Shark Week 2009 at the Tennessee Aquarium

On August 2, 2009 Discovery Channel will host the wildly popular Shark Week. As a parent, teacher or homeschooler, you have the opportunity to take...

Three sisters gardens bring Native American history to life

Summer is in full swing here in beautiful North Alabama. Area gardeners are already harvesting the fresh produce that they started growing in early...