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Study Tips • Put Yourself on the Map: Improve your map-making skills. • 7 x 8?: Easy memorization of a multiplication table. • Comma Chameleon: When to use a comma. • Spellcheck: Keep your spellings straight. • Presidential Smorgasbord: Remembering who comes after George Washington in the presidential parade. • Thanks, Aunt Sally: When math problems have got you down, Aunt Sally comes to the rescue. • Longitude Liftoff: If you can't tell the difference between longitude and latitude, you're lost. • Origin of the Species: How to tell your kingdoms from your phylums. • An Amazing FEAT: Write better essays using your FEAT. • A Great Trick for Great Lakes: Can you name all five? • A Solar System System: Memorize this sentence to learn the order of the planets outward from the sun. • All in the Family: The next time you're staring at a long division problem, try this. • International Geographic: Find your way from Africa to South America with this handy memory trick. How To Helpers • How Hot?: Tell the temperature by a cricket's chirp. • Handy Kid: Use a hammer the right way. • Alligator Wrestling: How to escape from a croc attack. • Know Your Knots: How to tie a bowline. • Hitting the Road: How to perform a basic bike safety check. • Screwy Antics: Tighten and loosen screws without driving yourself nutty. • Ready, Set, Table: Figure out where to put the forks (and spoons, and knives). • Itchy and Scratchy: How to avoid poison ivy. • Ready to Rumble: How to tell how far away lightning is from you. Homework Helpers • BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Helper: Find homework help on almost any topic on this kid-created Web site. • Jiskha Homework Help: This site lets you ask the experts your homework questions. Research Help • Word Central: Look up words in Merriam-Webster's dictionary, or build your own dictionary online. • Encyclopedia Britannica: Search encyclopedia entries and read magazine articles about your research topic. • Internet Public Library: Can't get to the library? Try this virtual version. © 2005 The Washington Post Company | ||||||||||||||||
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