| Week of July 20, 2008 |
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Color Me Healthy |
 Meet up with the Fruit and Veggie Color Champions at www.foodchamps.org to learn all you need to know about colorful, healthy eating. Type in your screen name and choose a champion such as fruit lover Big Pauly as your guide. If your taste buds are tempted, click on Recipes and find plenty of tantalizing recipe cards featuring delectable dishes, including Banana in a Blanket. Check out Artwork, where you can scan in and display your own fruit or veggie masterpiece. Then head to Activity Pages and print out stickers to track your appetite. |
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Into the Great Wild |
 Wild and crazy animal friends are waiting for you at Science and Nature: Animals, www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/wild. If you are going on an overseas vacation this year, visit Holiday Guide, where you can look around a map of Europe to see what animals inhabit the different regions. Amazing Animals features cool creatures that you can search alphabetically. For example, did you know the uakari, a red-faced primate, lives in swampy forestlands? If you want more in-depth information, check out Creature Close-Up with videos, sounds and other colorful animal features. |
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Radical Restorations |
 Get a glimpse of all the hard work that goes into preserving art for the ages at The Minneapolis Institute of Art’s Restoration Online, www.artsmia.org/restoration-online. The recovery process for two famous works of art is made available to curious minds. When art is very old, the chances of it being damaged are pretty good. Explore the Condition Report and Problem Areas to help determine what needs to be fixed. A Look Back features a restoration journal, where you can watch the painting as it is cleaned. Beauty sure takes a lot of work! |
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What is your favorite fruit? |
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A Retro Revolution Chances are you've seen pixel art online, but maybe you didn't know what to call it. Pixel art is a type of digital art that has been gaining popularity in recent years. It has a similar style to old video-game graphics, which needed to be simple due to memory constraints. This form of art takes a lot of patience because it is created one pixel at a time, but it's worth the effort. You can use pixel art to design your own cool avatars, or you can try designing your own favicons. A favicon, or favorites icon, is the small image that appears next to the URL in most Web browsers. These links will show you how to start making your own awesome pixel art. Mark's Pixel Art Tutorial Pixel Art Interview Adding a Favorites Icon to Your Site —Amy |
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