Shipwreck teaches students about history
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Five 13-year-olds in life jackets crowded inside the cabin of a small research boat and stared at a bank of computer monitors.
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At approximately 12:05 yesterday morning, history was made in perhaps the most remarkable way imaginable. Amid the shouts of euphoria from transplanted Bostonians in rainy Collegetown, one singular theme could
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By STEVE HARTSOE RALEIGH, N.C. - A shipwreck off the North Carolina coast believed to be that of notorious pirate Blackbeard could be fully excavated in three years, officials working on the project said.
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She rides into history aboard the shuttle Challenger, opening up new vistas to a young generation.
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How two ships went to sea to fight the whalers ... and ended up fighting each other
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SANTIAGO, Chile -- When the Class of 2006 graduates in a few weeks, its members will look back at a year in which some of the most important lessons took place outside the classroom.
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Divers off the Pembrokeshire coast may be about to re-write history after discovering an unidentified shipwreck.
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Archaeologists are set to begin an expedition this month in hopes of finding a Spanish ship that wrecked along the jagged reefs off the Turks and Caicos Islands in 1841 carrying a cargo of African slaves.
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TORONTO (CP) - A charitable group for children is sending information kits to teachers across Canada to assist them in helping students understand the effects of tsunamis in southeast Asia that have inundated the world with haunting images of grief and destruction.
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Finding the wreck of a 19th-century steamer in Florida has taken special technology and the results have been extraordinary.
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By Panaggio, Leonard  The Museum of Yachting, Newport, Rhode Island, recovered its 1916 Herreshoff Fish Class Sloop Anchovy. The 90-year-old boat broached and sank on 2 September in 50-ft of water southeast of Rose Island in Narragansett Bay.
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When Christopher Laub âsat inâ on a Spanish, social studies, reading, or math lesson, he actually âsatâ at homeâmiles away from his classroomâbattling leukemia and undergoing chemotherapy. But thanks to iChat AV and iSight, Christopher could attend classesâeven recessâon a regular basis. In fact, videoconferencing via his Mac and iChat not only kept Christopher connected with his friends and current with his classwork; it also let his fellow students learn about leukemia and its treatment, according to principal Patti Purcell. âThrough the use of iChat AV, weâve had many âteachable moments,â and the kids have learned so much.â
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American students often get the impression from history classes that the British got here first, settling Jamestown, Va., in 1607. They hear about how white Northerners freed the black slaves, how Asians came in the mid-1800s to build Western railroads. The lessons have left out a lot.
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Maybe the science teachers at Broken Arrow Elementary School can teach a lesson on life being full of surprises.
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When talk at the high school here turns to the origins of life, biology teachers have to make time for both Charles Darwin as well as his detractors.
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When Penn Manor High School technology teacher Shawn Canady asked for volunteers to create interactive-learning games for first- graders, three of his students stood up.  When the task was completed hundreds of hours later, only one student was left standing: senior Rob Drummond.
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By D'Alto, Nick In the hands of climatologists and historians, centuries-old ships' logs are revealing past-and maybe future-weather. &quot;...9 o'clock, gale still increasing...