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things have come to symbolize love—especially on Valentine’s Day: chocolate, cupid, hearts, jewelry, roses . . . the list is very long! With all these different symbols, this holiday offers a great way to blend the fun of the day with connections to the
</span></span><a href="https://www.michigan.gov/mde/Services/academic-standards"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">MDE Academic Standards</span></a><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">
for elementary students. The </span></span><a href="https://mel.org/welcome"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Michigan eLibrary</span></a><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">
(MeL) provides free access to encyclopedia and magazine articles, eBooks, images, and video clips that can be used to build background knowledge and further learning about many of the topics that get shared on or around this special day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Chocolate<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">With a nod to the sciences, the subject of chocolate may inspire a comparison between local ecosystems versus those that
exist where cocoa beans grow. While the </span></span><a href="https://widgets.ebscohost.com/prod/customerspecific/mel/auth.php?database=ebsco-e860xna"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">eBook K-8 Collection</span></a><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">
offers </span></span><a href="https://auth.mel.org/newera/check-direct?url=https://widgets.ebscohost.com/prod/customerspecific/mel/auth.php?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e860xna&AN=2116270&site=ehost-live&scope=site&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Beans
to Chocolate</span></a><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">, a colorful text that guides readers through the details of cocoa growth and production,
</span></span><a href="http://widgets.ebscohost.com/prod/customerspecific/mel/auth.php?database=eb"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Britannica School</span></a><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">
provides specific facts about </span></span><a href="https://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/chocolate/273650"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">chocolate</span></a><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">
and </span></span><a href="https://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/ecosystem/384948"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">ecosystems</span></a><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">,
as well as an </span></span><a href="https://school.eb.com/levels/middle/browse/atlas"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">interactive atlas</span></a><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">
to help learners realize the proximity of growing regions in Africa or South America to the well-known
</span></span><a href="https://school.eb.com/levels/high/article/Hershey/40237"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Hershey</span></a><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">,
Pennsylvania chocolate factory. Britannica also offers a curated list of Web’s Best Sites behind the
<b>Related </b>tab, including </span></span><a href="https://www.who-invented-the.technology/chocolate.htm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Inventors and Inventions: Chocolate</span></a><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Conversations in the classroom about gemstones can easily become early elementary lessons in economics.
</span></span><a href="http://widgets.ebscohost.com/prod/customerspecific/mel/auth.php?database=pebblego"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">PebbleGo</span></a><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">
Social Studies gives Kindergarten through second grade students access to engaging read-aloud text and media that articulates needs and wants, consumers and producers, goods and services, and supply and demand.
</span></span><a href="https://auth.mel.org/newera/check-direct?url=https://widgets.ebscohost.com/prod/customerspecific/mel/auth.php?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e860xna&AN=1443304&site=ehost-live&scope=site&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_55"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Inside
the Gold Industry</span></a><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">, from the eBook K-8 Collection, invites readers to consider both the negative and positive effects of industry
on a local economy, and the </span></span><a href="https://widgets.ebscohost.com/prod/customerspecific/mel/auth.php?database=ebsco-e700xna"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">eBook Public Library Collection</span></a><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">
offers texts to help young students learn further about </span></span><a href="https://auth.mel.org/newera/check-direct?url=https://widgets.ebscohost.com/prod/customerspecific/mel/auth.php?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e700xna&AN=609265&site=ehost-live&scope=site&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_A"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Diamonds</span></a><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">,
</span></span><a href="https://auth.mel.org/newera/check-direct?url=https://widgets.ebscohost.com/prod/customerspecific/mel/auth.php?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e860xna&AN=402724&site=ehost-live&scope=site&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_A"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Groovy
Gems</span></a><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> and
</span></span><a href="https://auth.mel.org/newera/check-direct?url=https://widgets.ebscohost.com/prod/customerspecific/mel/auth.php?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e700xna&AN=519090&site=ehost-live&scope=site&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_Cover"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Marveling
at Minerals</span></a><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">. For additional facts, images, and video clips, Britannica School also covers
</span></span><a href="https://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/economics/353081"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">economics</span></a><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">,
</span></span><a href="https://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/diamond/353050"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">diamond</span></a><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">,
</span></span><a href="https://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/gold/353190"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">gold</span></a><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">,
</span></span><a href="https://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/platinum/276461"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">platinum</span></a><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">,
and </span></span><a href="https://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/silver/277067"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">silver</span></a><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hearts</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">To learn all about the heart parts, what makes a heartbeat, blood vessels, and more,
</span><a href="https://auth.mel.org/newera/check-direct?url=https://widgets.ebscohost.com/prod/customerspecific/mel/auth.php?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e860xna&AN=1796846&site=ehost-live&scope=site&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_Cover"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Your
Hardworking Heart and Spectacular Circulatory System</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> title from the eBook K-8 Collection is the perfect place to start. To see a
</span><a href="https://school.eb.com/levels/middle/assembly/view/146006"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">beating, human heart</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">, the video clip in
</span><a href="http://widgets.ebscohost.com/prod/customerspecific/mel/auth.php?database=ebelem"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Britannica Elementary</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> is
just what you’re seeking. Moreover, Britannica has articles, images and more video clips on
</span><a href="https://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/blood/273256"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">blood</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> and the
</span><a href="https://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/cardiovascular-system/273674"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">cardiovascular system</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">.
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