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Which is the sixth largest country in the world?
Australia Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It has a landmass of 7,617,930 square kilometres (2,941,300 sq mi).
7 Questions With Katrina Buyers
Listen Watch Can you tell us about yourself? Hi there. My name is Katrina Buyers. I am a special education teacher at City Hill middle school in Naugatuck Connecticut. I have been a teacher for a while, since about 2008. And I have currently been at my school for five...
Find the Ones Who Haven’t Given Up by: Laura McDonell
Listen One of my favorite movie scenes is the final scene in the movie Tomorrowland. The movie stars scientist Frank Walker, played by George Clooney, who at the end instructs Casey Newton (Britt Robertson), as well as several other kids in Tomorrowland, to go out and find the people who...
Which is the second most populous city in the United States?
Los Angeles The City of Los Angeles is approximately 472 square miles in size, with a population of 3,694,820. The City of New York is 304 square miles in size, and has a population of 8,008,278. ... More than half of the land area of New York City exhibits a population density greater than 15,000.
Kentucky Fun Facts For Teachers
The town of Murray is home to the Boy Scouts of America Scouting Museum located on the campus of Murray State University. The Kentucky Derby is the oldest continuously held horse race in the country. It is held at Churchill Downs in Louisville on the first Saturday in May. The...
Kansas Fun Facts For Teachers
A ball of twine in Cawker City measures over 38′ in circumference and weighs more than 16,750 pounds and is still growing. A grain elevator in Hutchinson is 1/2 mile long and holds 46 million bushels in its 1,000 bins. South of Ashland the Rock Island Bridge is the longest...
Iowa Fun Facts For Teachers
Ripley’s Believe It or Not has dubbed Burlington’s Snake Alley the most crooked street in the world. Strawberry Point is the home of the world’s largest strawberry. The state’s smallest city park is situated in the middle of the road in Hiteman. Scranton is home to Iowa’s oldest water tower...
7 Questions With Dana Hedgepeth
Listen Watch Can you tell us about yourself? This is Dana Hedgepath. I'm a teacher at Alexander Graham Middle School in Charlotte, North Carolina. I teach seventh-grade social studies. And I've been here. I've been teaching since, um, like 99, the fall of 99, so 21 years. And I've been...