Did you know? You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark!

Monday, February 25 - Your task today is to look up 20 interesting facts (5 from each website listed below) and post them to your blog. The next step is to then take two of the twenty facts and find additional information on the subjects. The main purpose of this exercise is for you to become experienced with search engines and to begin thinking of a possible topic for the research paper. You are to take the two articles and post the URL (website address) to your blog for others to read. Please also include 2 pictures related to the articles and a brief description of each. Here is a step by step guide on how to accomplish these tasks as well as an example of the assignment:

1. Go to the following websites:
http://hookedonfacts.com/
http://www.interestingfacts.net/
http://www.nicefacts.com://
http://www.amusingfacts.com/

2. Write 5 interesting facts from each of the four websites (20 total)

3. Find additional information on two of your facts by searching a website, such as National Geographic, PBS, New York Times (and so forth. 

4. Include these two articles'/websites on your blog with a brief summary/description.

5. Create a link to the websites by copying and pasting the URL (website address) into your blog.      

6. Add two images that relate to the two articles you have linked.

7. Title your blog entry: 20 interesting facts!


Here is an example of the assignment:

                                                                    TWENTY INTERESTING FACTS!

1. In 1938, Time Magazine chose Adolf Hitler for man of the year.
2. Twelve people have walked on the moon.
3.  Kilts are not native to Scotland. They originated in France.
4. During a typical human life span, the human heart will beat approximately 2.5 billion times.
5. Many people who read the word yawn or yawning begin to feel the urge to yawn.
6. Cold weather makes fingernails grow faster.
7. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors.
8. Walt Disney, the creator of Mickey Mouse, was afraid of mice.
9. Albert Einstein never wore any socks. 
10. More than 2,500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people. (That is unfortunate since Ms. Wood is left handed)



Leonardo da Vinci's drawing of an armored car in the year 1487


The article depicts Leonardo da Vinci's inventions including the first armored car. The article gives 12 other interesting inventions such as the helicopter. I find it really fascinating that many know of his artwork but few know that he was also an inventor. I wonder what it would have been like for the citizens of Italy to be driving or even flying 500 years ago! I can only imagine what would have happened with our own technology if society would have progressed at a much faster rate!

The National Geographic website has a ton of interesting and exciting information about Albert Einstein. I was unaware that he was good friends with Edwin Hubble and actually helped with the Hubble Space Telescope. This telescope allowed Edwin Hubble to discover that the universe is much more massive than we had ever imagined. Hubble's work included the discovery of other galaxies and they are constantly expanding. I was even more surprised that Albert Einstein had thought of this five years earlier in 1919 and actually wrote his theory down on the back of an envelope!