The Circle Of Life: The Heart's Journey Through The Seasons Let the Circle Be Unbroken Mini-lessons for Literature Circles The Inner Circle Perfect Circle The Circle: How the Power of a Single Wish Can Change Your Life The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan The Giant Encyclopedia of Circle Time and Group Activities for Children 3 to 6: Over 600 Favorite Circle Time Activities Created by Teachers for Teachers Secrets in the Fields: The Science and Mysticism of Crop Circles

• Theory to Practice: Literature Circles .
• Literature Circles involve a small group of students exploring a piece of literature in depth. Although you'll find lots of books and articles on the Literature Circles, there are many ways to implement the strategies across grade levels and subject areas. Think of literature circles as one element of a balanced literacy program rather than "the solution. " In most cases, the application of literature circles evolves over time as students and teachers become more experienced readers. ... Schlick Noe titled Overview of Literature Circles. ... In Literature Circles, students are actively engaged in reading through making choices, discussing, and constructing meaning. ...   The goal of literature circles is enthusiastic, natural, informal conversation that encourages a life-long love of reading. As one element of a balanced literacy program, reading circles can provide an exciting way to promote reading from Kindergarten through Grade 12. ... Read Laura Candler's easy step-by-step instructions for implementing literature circles in the classroom. ... Also read The Importance of Oral Language in the School Curriculum by Gillian Bertram (English Online, 2002)   The Roles   Most literature circles provide for specific roles and responsibilities within the group. ...
•   Thematic Literature Circles   Our eduscapes Themed Literature Units go hand-in-hand with Literature Circles. ...   Explore at least two of the following literature circles "starters".
• Technology-Rich Literature Circles.
• Students working on themed literature circles often ask questions that require resources that go beyond the books. ...   Read Virtual Circles: Using Technology to Enhance Literature Circles & Socratic Seminars by Johnny Walters in Meridian (Summer 2003).

• Since 1990 inroads have been made by a few dedicated individuals to catalogue and analyzes the large occurrences of physical, biological and mental effects crop circles have on both human beings visiting the formations, as well as animals. ...
• CROP CIRCLES AND HEALING.
• How the energy of crop circles is being positively applied to biological systems.
• RADIOACTIVE ISOTOPES FOUND IN CROP CIRCLES.

• Circles and Spheres .
• Geoff Mess relates a proof that the Borromean ring configuration (in which three loops are tangled together but no pair is linked) can not be formed out of circles. ...
• Circle fractal based on repeated placement of two equal tangent circles within each circle of the figure. One could also get something like this by inversion, starting with three mutually tangent circles, but then the circles at each level of the recursion wouldn't all stay the same size as each other. ...
• Conceptual proof that inversion sends circles to circles, G. ...
• Filling space with unit circles. Daniel Asimov asks what fraction of 3-dimensional space can be filled by a collection of disjoint unit circles. (It may not be obvious that this fraction is nonzero, but a standard construction allows one to construct a solid torus out of circles, and one can then pack tori to fill space, leaving some uncovered gaps between the tori. ) The geometry center has information in several places on this problem, the best being an article describing a way of filling space by unit circles (discontinuously). ...
• Ford circles and circle inversions, Kleinian groups, more Kleinian groups, even more Kleinian groups,. ...
• Fractal patterns formed by repeated inversion of circles: Indra's Pearls Inversion graphics gallery, Xah Lee. Inversive circles, W. ...
• , and MathWorld explain and animate the partition of a 3-sphere into circles. ...
• Geometric transformations of circles, animated with CabriJava. ...
• A pretty problem involving cocircularity of five points defined by circles around a pentagram. ...
• Miquel's pentagram theorem on circles associated with a pentagon. ...

• The eye-witnesses reports of the Circles' appearing. ...
• The electro-magnetic anomalies measured (and felt) in the Circles. ...
• The strange sound that is often heard in connection to the Circles' appearing. ...
• The Circles' connection to magnetic power lines and Earth's magnetic lines. ...
• The evolution of the formations from simple circles to more complex pictograms year by year. ...

• Crop Circles are widely acknowledged as one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century. ...
• Southern England is still the main area that crop circle formations appear ­ over 90% of the reported 5000+ circles. ... Thousands of these simple circles, Celtic crosses, and increasingly complex pictograms have been discovered in southern England's crop fields since 1978. One of the most popular theories regarding the formation of these circles has to do with some form of extraterrestrial and/or extradimensional alien intervention. ...
• Some of these circles have been written off as a hoax, intentionally created by groups of individuals with various agendas. However, upon objective scrutiny, a large percentage of these circles are still unexplained. Some would say that this is a concerted effort by the part of agencies unknown to discredit and cover-up the nature of the genuine phenomena, the nature of which can be readily discerned by a more in-depth examination of certain unique properties of the "real" circles. ...
• We will present several of the more interesting and informative internet websites should you wish to do further research on the crop circles: .

• This website reflects my involvement with crop circles. ...
• To call attention to the circles and the body of work that has been done on them, signatures are being sought for the document at the url below, with special interest in enrolling people  from the scientific community, the media, and others who get listened to. ...
• A Call For an Investigation of What is Known About Crop Circles.
• Executive Producer of CROP CIRCLES: Quest for Truth. ...
• Crop Circles 101 .
• There's nothing that gets me as excited as crop circles. ...
• I'm the Executive Producer of "Crop Circles: Quest for Truth," a feature documentary opening August 23. ...
• "I'm currently making three theatrical documentaries: the first is Crop Circles: Quest for Truth. I think that crop circles are one of the most unrecognized significant unexplained phenomena in the world. ...
• Read William's account of his relationship with the circles. ...
• And I like that it mentions my film, Crop Circles: Quest for Truth, which is opening in theatres in the States on August 23. ...
• "Swirled News is THE web site to access for informed up-to-date news and reviews on the latest happenings and discoveries in the world of crop circles, supported by incisive and frank commentary, analysis, opinion and humour. ...
• What are people saying about crop circles? .
• Then email me if you still maintain that all crop circles are human-made. ...
• What did Bill O'Reilly, who has the highest rated talk show on cable, have to say about crop circles?.
• Many people with whom I speak of crop circles are unaware of the intricate weaving that is present in the designs. ...

•  crop circles.
• Crops circles are geometric patterns, some very intricate and complex, appearing in fields, usually wheat fields and usually in England. Most, if not all, of them are probably due to pranksters, such as Doug Bower and David Chorley who, in 1991, admitted to hoaxing approximately 250 circles over many years. There is a segment of the population that believes the circles are messages from alien spacecraft. ... Those who engage in such serious study and theorizing about crop circles are known as cerealogists (after Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture and fertility) or croppies. ...
• Had crop circles existed in the thirteenth century, they would have been attributed to Satan, who was said to have been responsible for many weird happenings as well as for many unweird things, such as the construction of Stonehenge and Hadrian's wall between England and Scotland. ...
• "Crop Circles. ... or just Crap Circles ?" .
• Hollywood Fertilizes Profits with Crop Circles (CSICOP press release in response to the movie Signs) .
• CSICOP's Library & Research Center on Crop Circles .
• Scams from the Great Beyond : How to Make Easy Money Off of Esp, Astrology, Ufos, Crop Circles, Cattle Mutilations, Alien Abductions, Atlantis, Channeling, and other New Age Nonsense (Paladin Press, 1997). ...
• Schnabel, Jim, Round In Circles: Physicists, Poltergeists, Pranksters and the Secret History of the Cropwatchers (Penguin: London, 1994).

• What are literature circles?.
• Defining Literature Circles.
• Where Literature Circles Fit in "Best Practice" Classrooms.
• Partners, Teams, Group Investigations, Centers, Peer Writing Groups, Literature Circles.
• Where Literature Circles Fit into Fountas/Pinnell’s Reading Program .
• Independent Reading  (kids on own: Reading Workshop / Literature Circles).

• CROP CIRCLES AND QUANTUM MECHANICS.
• Many things have been said and written about the connection between crop circles, sound and music. ...
• Indeed: a lot has been said and written about the presence of diatonic ratios in the crop circles' geometry. ...
• These geometrical ratios are quite often found in the geometry of crop circles. In my previous article I have shown that these ratios are a natural consequence of the type of construction technique used to create the crop circles. They are a logical part of the crop circles' geometry. As a result, the relationship "crop circles - music" seems to be obvious.
• The patterns that are created like this are often found in crop circles.
• Does this mean there is a connection between music - or at least sound - and crop circles?.
• The only similarity between the patterns in the paraffin and the crop circles are the interference patterns! There are no indications whatsoever that the patterns in the crop are created by sound, or even that they refer to sound. ...
• The geometry and forms that we find in crop circles are strongly related with the harmonics and interference patterns created by vibrating strings.

• CONONDALE CROP CIRCLES.
• The Conondale circles are the first detailed configuration ever to appear here in this area and were discovered.
• They consisted of four circles spread over a distance of 24 metres. ...
• lines of grass within the circles were beautifully laid and made it clear these were no hoaxes.
• Nothing in the circles showed broken or battered stems as you would find when the grass was.

• This website is sponsored by the Walloon Institute, a summer retreat for educators where Lit Circles and other progressive practices are shared, and by Stenhouse, the publisher of Literature Circles: Voice and Choice in the Student-Centered Classroom (2002) by Harvey Daniels. ...
• Defining Literature Circles .

• 2004 CROP CIRCLES IN THE US AND ONTARIO EARTHFILES .
• 2003 CROP CIRCLES .

Do you have a great site about Circles? Is your Circles site listed here? Would you like a prefered placement of your site in this directory?

It's easy! First place, the HTML from the box below on your page that you would like listed in this directory.

Then use our link submission request with your name, your contact information, and the URL of your site that has a link to this directory. After we verify your link to us, we'll make sure your site stays in our directory, and we'll give it prefered placement here also.

Here is how to make a simple text link to us. Just copy the code in this box to your website:

We can also develop a custom Guide To The Internet for your site. Please request your own custom Guide To The Internet.