Head scraps homework 'dinosaur'
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A head teacher is scrapping homework for 12-year-olds, calling it a "dinosaur".
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By CHRIS TOMLINSON  As we all know, today's newspaper is tomorrow's fish and chip wrapping. However, thanks to Google, old newspaper copy has gained a reprieve from the grease.
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Grace Kendall knew back in seventh grade that she didn't want to cut open a preserved frog. Her teacher allowed her to use a computer alternative, and she has declined to dissect ever since.
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0845 and all that Mobile phones can replace anything these days: diary, address book, TV, and radio, and now they are substituting for the scrawled notes on the inside of the cuff which have been so important to a generation of students.â¦
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Consider the New World of Information - stuff that, unlike the paper days of the past, doesn't always physically exist. You've got notes, scrawlings and snippets, Web graphics, photos and sounds. Stuff needs to be cut, pasted, highlighted, annotated, crossed out, dragged away. And, as Ross Perot used to say (or maybe it was Dana Carvey impersonating him), don't forget the graphs and charts.
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A CT scan of dinosaur bones from northwest Wyoming could help resolve a dispute about the great Tyrannosaurus rex.
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A little homework goes a long way.
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LARGO, Fla. - Stephanie King had to tell her music teacher that a raccoon was to blame for her missing homework. &quot;I explained that the raccoon fell from the ceiling in my bathroom and it ran into my bedroom,&quot; the 13-year-old seventh grader at Osceola Middle School told the St.
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By DEIRDRE CONNER  A controversial computer plan at a St. Johns County elementary school has been scrapped.
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The mystery of whether dinosaurs were indifferent parents or cared for their young may have been solved by a discovery in China. More than 100 million years ago an adult dinosaur was buried
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A British schoolteacher, attempting to motivate her pupils into making the most of each day, told them a meteorite was about to smash into the Earth and that they should all return home to say goodbye to their families, a report said.
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By Nicole Kauffman, Herald-Times, Bloomington, Ind.  Dec. 18--Mark Helmsing doesn't stand in front of his Core 40 English  class lecturing and passing out homework assignments.
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THE DISCOVERY: A University of Pittsburgh geology student on a field trip stumbles across the fossil of an oversized, salamander-like creature that lived about 300 million years ago.
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China has uncovered the  skeletal remains of a gigantic, surprisingly bird-like  dinosaur, which has been classed as a new species.
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Also: Pregnant teens common among dinosaurs. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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By Tom Avril, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Sep. 5--Dinosaur hunters of the world, grab your picks and hammers!   You've barely scratched the surface, according to a study published yesterday by scientists at the University of Pennsylvania and Swarthmore College.
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A prehistoric neck bone found 12 years ago by amateur fossil hunters in Britain belongs to the biggest dinosaur ever discovered in the UK and possibly Europe, a report published in the Cretaceous Research Journal said today.