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To visit the various sites on this page all you have to do is click on the hyperlinks.  To return to this page, just click on the bookmark you made for this page. 

Suriving a Hurricane

1. Go to the Miami Museum of Science website on hurricanes.
 

Find out the name of the hurricane that the Benitez family survived. (It's the one in the graphic above.)

News of the Day 

3. Go to the White House Interactive Tour. Find the White House for Kids and click on it. This will take you to a page where you see Socks the cat. Click on his nose. Take the tour and find out what is special about William Henry Harrison.

4. Look at a sample crayon newspaper. What does this site let you do?

5. When you make a phone call to your grandparents or old pals, chances are that you are not thinking of how your voice connection came to be.

After all, the telephone system is too confusing, right? Wrong! At AT&T's Brain Spin, you'll discover all the workings of the national phone system. By dialing up Brain Spin you'll be able to play the numbers game. Find out how Alexander Graham Bell taught his dog to talk!

6. What ship could have saved many additional lives if only it had responded to the flares that  were sent up from the Titanic?    7. "Houston, we've got a problem."  What was the problem?

9. Go to the Bill Nye (the Science Guy) Labs and find out where he showed off his trash can vortex smoke ring generator. (You might look in photos.)

10. Around the globe, people are experiencing the effects of El Nino which is a giant puddle of heated water that sloshes across the Pacific Ocean. Look at an animation to see where this "puddle" has moved. The real hot spot is off the coast of what continent?