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Archives, 1999-2000 school year

SOL tests
9/13/99: Which way is up on the SOL test?
9/14/99: Who knows much about history?
9/15/99: How do you bake a fraction?
9/16/99: How does an SOL scientist think?
9/17/99: How do you spell language arts?

Ancient Egypt
9/20/99: What is the world's longest river?
9/21/99: Who got to be a pharaoh?
9/22/99: How did Egyptians build the pyramids?
9/23/99: Did Egyptians love their mummies?
9/24/99: Did Egyptians make cartoons?

Johnny Appleseed
9/27/99: Where did Johnny Appleseed walk?
9/28/99: When was a war in the woods?
9/29/99: How many apple seeds did he plant?
9/30/99: How do flowers become apples?
10/1/99: What is Johnny Appleseed's legend?

Supply and demand
10/4/99: Where can you catch Pokemon?
10/5/99: Who gets to supply Pokemon?
10/6/99: How much does Pokemon cost?
10/7/99: Is supply and demand fair?
10/8/99: Do you need Pokemon to live?

The battle of Yorktown
10/11/99: Why were the British at Yorktown?
10/12/99: Why did Washington attack Yorktown?
10/13/99: Who fired at his Yorktown house?
10/14/99: Why did the British get stuck?
10/15/99: When did the world turn upside down?

The Aztecs
10/18/99: Where was the golden land?
10/19/99: What did the Aztecs think of Cortes?
10/20/99: What did the Aztecs sacrifice?
10/21/99: How do you grow an island?
10/22/99: What ended the Aztec empire?

Brandon Plantation
10/25/99: Who ate fox McNuggets for lunch?
10/26/99: What did the English plant?
10/27/99: Who were Virginia's Harrisons?
10/28/99: Do you want lime in your dirt?
10/29/99: How did the Civil War hurt Virginia?

Jane Addams
11/1/99: Who invented Chicago's playgrounds?
11/2/99: Why did Jane Addams helps the poor?
11/3/99: How long did kids work in 1892?
11/4/99: Who picked up stinky garbage?
11/5/99: Who writes an autobiography?

Ancient Greece
11/8/99: Where was Poseidon's adventure
11/9/99: Who invented democracy?
11/10/99: Which part is the Parthenon?
11/11/99: When was the first Olympic moment?
11/12/99: Who made all the world a stage?

Nor'easters
11/15/99: So what is a Nor'easter?
11/16/99: Who deals with stormy weather?
11/17/99: When is the Weather Wrestling Federation grudge match?
11/18/99: Who rides the water cycle?
11/19/99: What dirt is slip sliding away?

The First Thanksgiving
11/22/99: Who had the first Thanksgiving?
11/23/99: How was life in the New England?
11/24/99: Why were the Pilgrims thankful?
11/25/99: What did the Pilgrims and Indians eat?
11/26/99: When did others start giving thanks?

The American flag
11/29/99: What was the first American flag?
11/30/99: Who sewed the stars and stripes?
12/1/99: How did we get the stars and stripes?
12/2/99: Who wrote the flag's theme song?
12/3/99: When did the flag get too long?

Space
12/6/99: What can you telescope?
12/7/99: Who was the first "Buzz" spaceman?
12/8/99: Why do the seasons change?
12/9/99: You say you want a revolution?
12/10/99: Does gravity bring you down?

Religious freedom
12/13/99: When was skipping church a crime?
12/14/99: Who separated church and state?
12/15/99: What bill did Jefferson write?
12/16/99: Why did Madison fight Henry?
12/17/99: When did Virginia free souls?

Money
12/20/99: Why did people invent money?
12/21/99: How do you turn chicks into checks?
12/22/99: Why is a bank better than a jar?
12/23/99: How do you buy now, pay later?
12/24/99: What is money good for?

Calendars
12/27/99: Does anybody know what time it is?
12/28/99: Who had the first sun calendar?
12/29/99: Who put the calendars in synch?
12/30/99: Who could make 11 days vanish?
12/31/99: Maybe it's really the year 5760

Capt. John Smith
1/3/00: What was John Smith really like?
1/4/00:  Did Smith say: No work, no food?
1/5/00: Did Powhatan try to kill Smith?
1/6/00: Why did John Smith leave Virginia?
1/7/00: Will the real John Smith stand up?

Slavery
1/10/00: How bad was the middle passage?
1/11/00: What was life like for slaves?
1/12/00: How did Turner plan his revolt?
1/13/00: What convinced Turner to attack?
1/14/00: Did Nat Turner's revolt succeed?

Edgar Allan Poe
1/17/00: Edgar Allan Poe, Part 1
1/18/00: Edgar Allan Poe, Part 2
1/19/00: Edgar Allan Poe, Part 3
1/20/00: Edgar Allan Poe, Part 4
1/21/00: Edgar Allan Poe, Part 5

Virginia's General Assembly
1/24/00: Who makes the rules for Virginia?
1/25/00: What gets committed in a committee?
1/26/00: Who can amend what they meant?
1/27/00: How do solar cells really work?
1/28/00: Who can drop the veto hammer?

George Washington Carver
1/31/00: Was George Washington Carver born a slave?
2/1/00: Did the South get reconstructed?
2/2/00: What did a sharecropper do?
2/3/00: How did Carver make inventions?
2/4/00: Why was Carver the "Peanut Wizard?"

Megalopolis
2/7/00: How did people live 800 years ago?
2/8/00: How fast was mail 225 years ago?
2/9/00: How did boats get better in 1807?
2/10/00: How did trains make cities bigger?
2/11/00: How did we get into this jam?

Hampton during the Civil War
2/14/00: What was Hampton like in 1861?
2/15/00: Who was in the "Contraband?"
2/16/00: Who burned Hampton in the Civil War?
2/17/00: When was the first attack on Richmond?
2/18/00: What does "emancipation" mean?

Woodrow Wilson
2/21/00: Who was Virginia's Wilson?
2/22/00: When was a professor the president?
2/23/00: Was Wilson a progressive president?
2/24/00: What was World War I like?
2/25/00: Who wanted a League of Nations?

Ancient Rome
2/28/00: Who wants to be a legionnaire?
2/29/00: Was Rome always a republic?
3/1/00: What people did Rome conquer?
3/2/00: Why were Roman arches important?
3/3/00: Quid Novi (or What Now)?

Susan B. Anthony
3/6/00: Who was Susan B. Anthony?
3/7/00: What was the Underground Railroad?
3/8/00: What did the 15th Amendment do?
3/9/00: Did Anthony get a fair trial?
3/10/00: When did all women get to vote?

Alexander Hamilton
3/13/00: Who was at Trenton and Yorktown?
3/14/00:  Did the Articles of Confederation fail?
3/15/00: Who made the first U.S. money?
3/16/00: Who started political parties?
3/17/00: What was Hamilton's downfall?

John Cabot
3/20/00: Where did cinnamon come from?
3/21/00: Who does Spain pay to sail west?
3/22/00: What king believed John Cabot?
3/23/00: What land did Cabot discover?
3/24/00: Whatever happened to John Cabot?

Virginia governors
3/27/00: Where did royal governors live?
3/28/00: How old is the executive mansion?
3/29/00: How was West Virginia created?
3/30/00: Who controlled Virginia in 1866?
3/31/00: Who was the first black governor?

Atoms Family
4/3/00: What are little girls made of?
4/4/00: Just how cool are molecules?
4/5/00: Are there any tiny particles in light?
4/6/00: How does nuclear power work?
4/7/00: What does the Mummy know about energy?

Civil War
4/10/00: Where did J.E.B. Stuart learn to ride?
4/11/00: Who won the first Civil War battle?
4/12/00: What happened to "Stonewall?"
4/13/00: Why was the fighting at Gettysburg?
4/14/00: Who led the Union army to victory?

Frogs
4/17/00: Where do frogs have their babies?
4/18/00: How many eggs do frogs lay?
4/19/00: Are these adventures in baby-sitting?
4/20/00: Who wins the race of life?
4/21/00: Who says don't worry, be hoppy?

Davy Crockett
4/24/00: Who were the mound builders?
4/25/00: Where was Davy Crockett born?
4/26/00: Who fought the Creek Indians in 1813?
4/27/00: Who fought Andrew Jackson in D.C.?
4/28/00: Why do we remember the Alamo?

Massive Resistance
5/1/00: Who ran the "organization?"
5/2/00: Who said separate was unequal?
5/3/00: Who created Massive Resistance?
5/4/00: Did Massive Resistance work?
5/5/00: How fast did Virginia integrate?

The transcontinental railroad
5/8/00: Who sold tools to the gold-diggers?
5/9/00: Why build tracks across America?
5/10/00: Who laid the transcontinental track?
5/11/00: Where did the tracks finally meet?
5/12/00: Who built up Newport News?

Submarines
5/15/00: When was America's first submarine?
5/16/00: Which sub first sank a ship?
5/17/00: Did Hampton Roads start subbing?
5/18/00: Where was "Torpedo Junction?"
5/19/00: Who builds nuclear submarines?

Memorial Day
5/22/00: Why do we have Memorial Day?
5/23/00: Who held Decoration Day?
5/24/00: What was the Spanish-American War?
5/25/00: Who do some graves get poppies?
5/26/00: How do we spend Memorial Day?

Amelia Earhart
5/29/00: Where was Amelia Earhart from?
5/30/00: Who was nicknamed "Lady Lindy?"
5/31/00: How fast did Earhart cross?
6/1/00: Which first lady flew with Earhart?
6/2/00: What happened to Amelia Earhart?

Francis Marion
6/5/00: Who was America's "Swamp Fox?"
6/6/00: Who fought in Charleston, S.C.?
6/7/00: Who won the battle of Camden?
6/8/00: What was life in the swamp like?
6/9/00: What happened after Yorktown?

Roller coasters
6/12/00: How did coasters get rolling?
6/13/00: What energy rocks and rolls?
6/14/00: Why can we loop the loop?
6/15/00: What is friction's restriction?
6/16/00: Are simple machines in coasters?

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