Education
Washington Tour
Here's Fiona Barnes on the Internet, with a trip you and your children can take this summer without leaving home.
A Dinosaur Named Sue
Today, Koren Stembridge on the Internet is talking about dinosaurs.
Muse Magazine
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Muse-Magazine.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/1/2000 Muse Magazine Transcript Muse magazine is one of the real treasures to be found for children at your local newstand, where it serenely waits for them in the midst of the blaring mass of magazines that are more interested in selling kids on […]
Spelling
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Spelling.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 5/30/2000 Spelling Transcript This is the month for the national spelling bee, a time when I hold in awe each kid who can spell. In fact, in my fourth grade spelling bee I had to sit down because I couldn’t spell awe, a […]
Peace Games
We're speaking today with Eric Dawson, who is the executive director of Peace Games, an innovative program that educates young people in schools in Boston and Cambridge, and soon throughout the country, about ways to seek peaceful resolutions to the conflicts they encounter throughout their lives.
Enough is Enough
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Enough-is-Enough.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 5/18/2000 Enough is Enough Transcript For the record, there were no computers when I was in elementary or middle school. In high school, my graphic arts teacher, Mr. Steinmetz, introduced us to the magic of the TRS 80. My father was the proud owner […]
Brown vs. Board of Education
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Brown-vs-BOE.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 5/17/2000 Brown vs. BOE Transcript Today is the anniversary of the 1954 supreme court decision known as Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. Generally, most people know that these words, Brown v. Education, are what led to the most startling […]
Gelett Burgess’ Goops
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Goops.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 5/11/2000 Gelett Burgess’ Goops Transcript Today we are celebrating Etiquette Day. Multitudes of etiquette books have been written over the years for children. Most of the early ones took themselves very seriously, but in 1900, Gellett Burgess wrote and illustrated a book entitled Goops […]
Mental Hygiene Films
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mental-Hygiene-Films.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/9/2000 Mental Hygiene Films Transcript I remember vividly to this day a spring morning in high school, back in the early 1960s, and being marched into the auditorium to be treated to a film called “Drug Addiction,” about the decline and fall Marty DeMalone, […]
Kindergarten Day
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Kindergarten-Day.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/21/2000 Kindergarten Day Transcript Today is Kindergarten Day, which is celebrated in honor of Friedrich Froebel who was born today in 1782 and who started the first Kindergarten in Germany in 1837. The school was built upon a series of innovative principles that used […]