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Animal homes. Human homes. There is variety in both. Animals and humans both seek out homes to suit their environments and to provide optimal shelter. Animals live in burrows, caves, trees, nests, webs. Humans live in houses, apartments, grass huts, boats, motor homes. Every living thing needs a home. Sample some of the following activities to learn more about homes. Places To Go | People To See | Things To Do | Teacher Resources | Bibliography The following are places to go (some real and some virtual) to find out about homes. Beavers are masterful builders of homes. Take a virtual tour of a beaver lodge and marvel at how these rodents fell trees, dam rivers and streams, and constuct their homes with only teeth and paws as tools. A zoo is a home for animals! The National Zoo is in Washington D.C. Select "Zoo Highlights" from the menu to hear an audio tour of the zoo. And the best thing of all is the cool zoo web cams. The still images of different animals refresh about every minute--and some of the animals even have live video cams. This is a great use of internet resources in our schools! How else but on the internet could you watch the behavior of a Komodo dragon throughout the day! Check back to this site often because classrooms can participate in weekly video chats with zoo employees who care for the animals. (You'll need the free software, CU-SeeMe, for this feature.) Classrooms can also particpate in web-based chats with other classrooms who are studying animals, animal homes, zoos, etc.
The Los Angeles Zoo is pretty cool, too. Visit it online. Every month the zoo features a different resident (animal), and you can find out interesting information about the creature. The Anasazi, ancient peoples of southeast Utah and northeast Arizona, had elaborate cliff dwellings as homes.
Angel Island served the same purpose as Ellis Island--it served as an immigration station for people entering the United States--only it was located in San Francisco Bay. Visit the Delta Center. It's the home of the Utah Jazz and the Utah Starzz.
Travel to the remains of the Topaz Internment Camp near Delta, Utah. This camp was home to thousands of Japanese-Americans who were interred during World War II. Learn more about Japanese internment. Don't miss the book, The Children of Topaz : The Story of a Japanese-American Internment Camp : Based on a Classroom Diary by Michael O. Tunnell and George W. Chilcoat. The book is based on the writings of children who lived at the Topaz Camp. Plimoth Plantation was the first permanent European settlement in the northern part of the United States. It was established in 1620. Visit the homesites of these early New England inhabitants. Homes
of the Past: The Archaeology of an Iroquoian Longhouse
Virtually visit Mark Twain's boyhood home in Hannibal, Missouri. It's located at 206 Hill Street. Southern plantation homes were renowned for their stately grace and charm. Visit Stratford Hall Plantation in Stratford, Virginia.
Visit this Utah
farmhouse built in the 1920's in Millard County, Utah. It has been
lovingly Visit Collonial Williamsburg. Explore colonial homes. Experience colonial life. Visit Abraham Lincoln's home. This restored home in Springfield, Illinois is not Lincoln's boyhood log cabin but a home from his later life just before he became president. Monticello was Thomas Jefferson's home. He designed the home, the layout of the grounds, the gardens. 
When building a home, how do you make sure that a door or window is plumb? (OR--What does "plumb" mean?) Send your questions to the Ask a Construction Expert. Professor Construction will reply and fill you in with constructive details.
If we're talking about homes, Norm Abram is the man to see. Visit him at PBS's This Old House site. The experts at DoItYourself.com can help with all your home repair questions. Visit with a home run giant. Until Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa came along, Babe Ruth and Roger Maris were the kings of home run hitters. Roger Maris held the record for home runs hit in a single season when he hit 61 home runs in 1961. Before that, Babe Ruth held the record with 60 home runs. Babe Ruth had held that record for many years. Find out more about Babe Ruth and his home run prowess.
Join the Utah Heritage Foundation, 485 North Canyon Road, Salt Lake City, Utah 84103. Its goal is to preserve, protect, and promote Utah's historic environment. Every May they have their annual Historic Homes Tour during which privately-owned historic buildings are opened to the public for docent-guided tours. They also have a program where members of their organization visit schools and give slide presentations/lectures about historic preservation and homes in Utah. Ask for Mary Lou Gottschall, 801-533-0858. Take a tour of our governor's house. The governor's home is also known as the Kearn's Mansion because it was built by a rich and famous Utah miner named Thomas Kearns. The home is located on South Temple in Salt Lake City. The mansion schedules school tours from April to October. There are free public tours every Tuesday and Thursday from 2:00 to 4:00. Mount Vernon was George Washington's home. Check out his trading cards! They even have stats on them just like sports cards! And you can send the cards electronically to someone else! After you've read all about President Washington and Mount Vernon, take the online quiz. Make a batch of chocolate chip cookies because nothing says "home" like the smell of cookies fresh out of the oven. Check out the Great Buildings Online website. It is a gateway to architecture from around the world and across history. The website documents hundreds of buildings and leading architects with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, plus commentaries, bibliographies, and web links, for famous designers and structures of all kinds. You can find information about the Taj Mahal there. It was built by Emperor Shah Jahan for his wife--not as a home but as what? Learn more about Jamestown, home to early American settlers. The Jetsons live in a home of the future! Design what YOU think that homes in 2050 will be like. What time-saving features will these future homes have? Add, subtract, multiply, and divide your way to a home run with Math Baseball! Find out what city is home to the tallest building in the world. Sing Home on the Range. Did you realize that it has many more verses than the first verse that we all know? The other verses mention a curlew and a zephyr. Use World Book Encyclopedia Online and find out what a curlew and a zephyr are.
Online activities are a listing of internet sites with fun, interesting, and educational tasks attached to each one. (You can learn how to use this WWW Activities tool created by UEN for Utah educators). Virtual Field Trips are teacher and student-created tours of curricular topics. (You can learn how to use this UEN Virtual Field Trip tool created by UEN for Utah educators).
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