Chris Hadfield Brushes his Teeth in Space

What Power Does The Queen Have?

Victorian age

Follow the link below. There you will find information about Victorian Britain.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/victorian_britain/

Now, choose one of the following tasks and write your composition.

• Research the timeline and choose TWO important events of the Victorian age. Imagine you were a Victorian child present at one of the events. Write about what you see or draw a picture. Explain why this event was important and exciting.

• How did people keep up with the news in Victorian Britain? Remember, no radio or TV and no internet. How might a person in Scotland have heard about something that happened in London? How do you think this made life different?

• Find out about Queen Victoria’s life. For example: When was she born? Who was king before she became queen? Where were her royal palaces?

Her majesty the queen

Great Britain does not have a president, but a queen.

Queen Elizabeth II was born on 21 April, 1926, in the beautiful city of London. Her birthday is officially celebrated in Britain on the second Saturday of June each year. The day is referred to as 'the Trooping of the Colour', but the official name is 'the Queen's Birthday Parade'. It is a huge celebration.

Queen Elizabeth is a constitutional monarchy. That means that although she is officially the head of state, the country is actually run by the government, led by the Prime Minister.

The Queen lives at Buckingham Palace in London. Her Majesty The Queen's title in the United Kingdom is 'Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Nothern Ireland'.

Henry VIII

The Anglo-Saxons

The Anglo-Saxons are also part of the British history.

Follow the link below to learn more about them. Then complete the activities!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/topics/zxsbcdm

The Vikings

Hi there!

Let's follow the link below.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/vikings/

You will find information on the Vikings: their history, their family life, their beliefs and stories.

The Union Flag

Hi everyone!

Do you know why te Union flag is red, white and blue? Watch the following video and you'll find out!

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United Kingdom

Hello!

Click on the picture below to learn more about the history of the United Kingdom!

Now let's find the following countries and its capital cities in the map:

- England

- Scotland

- Wales

- Northern Ireland

- Ireland

Classifying dinosaurs!

Dinosaurs are divided into two groups based on hip structure, the Order Ornithischia and the Order Saurischia. Harry Seeley, a British scientist, divided the dinosaurs and named the two groups in 1887.

The Saurischian dinosaurs (Order Saurischia) were the ancestors of birds. They had a hip structure similar to that of lizards - the pubis bone pointed downwards and forwards. Saurischian skulls also have large, pronounced openings (antorbital fenestrae) between the eye socket and the nares (nostrils), much more so than the ornithischians. 

The Saurischians are divided into the sauropodomorpha, four-legged herbivores, and the theropods, two-legged carnivores. The oldest known dinosaurs (Eoraptor and Herrerasaurus) are Saurischians, and date from the mid- to late-Triassic period, about 230 million years ago.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/dinoclassification/Saurischian.html

The Ornithischian dinosaurs had a hip structure similar to that of birds, but they were not the ancestors of birds. The pubis bone (part of the structure of the hip) points downwards and toward the tail in Ornithischians, an opisthopubic condition (it points downwards and to the front in the Saurischians) and. The Ornithischian pelvis is wider than the Saurischian pelvis. This may have made Ornithischians more stable while moving.

Ornithischian skulls also had small, reduced openings (antorbital fenestrae) between the eye socket and the nares (nostrils), unlike saurischians.

Ornithischians outnumbered the Saurischians. The Ornithischians were herbivores (plant-eaters).

Major divisions of the Ornithischian dinosaurs:

Ornithopods (meaning "Bird feet"): Plant-eaters, Two-legged walk or two-legged and four-legged walk.

Thyreophorans (meaning "shield bearers"): Plant-eaters, Four-legged walk, Armored plates on the body.

Marginocephalians (meaning "fringed heads"): Plant-eaters, Horns or thick skulls.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/dinoclassification/Ornithischian.html

   

Choose three Saurischian dinosaurs and three Ornithischian dinosaurs. Make a drawing of each and answer the following questions:

- What is its name?

                                       - Was it a plant-eater or a meat-eater?

                                       - Did it live on land, in the air or in the water?

History of Easter

Did you know…

Easter originated as a Pagan tradition, celebrated by the Anglo-Saxons in honor of their goddess of birth and springtime—Eastre (also known as Oestre or Ostara).

During the second century, when Christian missionaries were attempting to convert the population to Christianity, many Pagans who converted to Christianity still refused to give up their traditional religious celebrations. “Easter” began to be celebrated as a Christian holiday, in order to allow former Pagans to celebrate Eastre without being blasphemous. It became a hybrid celebration of both the Pagan Eastre and the Christian observance of the Resurrection of Christ.

Modern Easter traditions…

Most Easter traditions originated from the Pagan festival of Eastre. For example the fertility goddess Eastre was associated with a sacred earth animal—the rabbit. The tradition of the Easter Bunny may have started in Germany where the goddess Eastre was known as Ostara. As one story goes, Ostara arrived late one Spring, and many animals had been frozen by the snow. She saved a small bird whose wings had been frozen, and she transformed him into a white snow-hare so he could run fast and survive the winters. However, she allowed the bird the ability to lay eggs one day a year. And every year during the Eastre or Ostara Festival the snow hare would lay colorful eggs and give them out to the children.

Eggs have been longtime symbols of rebirth and fertility, even as far back as ancient Greece and Rome. During the Festival of Eastre it was customary to exchange colored eggs with one’s neighbors. Colored and decorated eggs were given as a token of good fortune and wishes for a prosperous year. According to some, the tradition of Easter egg hunts began during the rise of Christianity in Europe. Since egg-giving was a Pagan tradition, some people were persecuted because of it. So people began hiding eggs instead of giving them as gifts, and soon it became a game for children to hunt for the hidden eggs.