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Through this post I am going to explain How Linear Regression works? Let us start with what is regression and how it works? Regression is widely used for prediction and forecasting in field of machine learning. Focus of regression is on the relationship between dependent and one or more independent variables. The “depe...
http://www.tatvic.com/blog/linear-regression-using-r/
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You can use the teaching and learning outcomes in each phase to support your unit planning and help you plan for the children's learning across the unit. The teaching sequences model good practice. You will need to tailor and develop this unit to match the needs of your pupils and the curriculum of your school. - Phase...
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110809091832/http:/www.teachingandlearningresources.org.uk/node/2937
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Factory Method Pattern An important facet of system design is the manner in which objects are created. One of the most widely used creational patterns is the Factory Method Pattern. Creational patterns describe object-creation mechanisms that enable greater levels of reuse in evolving systems Let’s consider that, the c...
http://technical-tutorials.blogspot.com/
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Pre-Algebra, Algebra 1, and Algebra 2 all require you to master new math skills. Do you find solving equations and word problems difficult in Algebra class? Are the exponents, proportions, and variables of Algebra keeping you up at night? Intercepts, functions, and expressions can be confusing to most Algebra students,...
http://www.advancedlearners.com/albuquerque/algebra/tutor/find.aspx
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An introduction to the basics of Unicode, distilled from several earlier posts. In the interests of presenting the big picture, I have painted with a broad brush — large areas are summarized; nits are not picked; hairs are not split; wind resistance is ignored. Unicode = one character set, plus several encodings Unicod...
http://pythonconquerstheuniverse.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/unicode-the-basics/?like=1&_wpnonce=401286028f
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Brazilian and British scientists have been examining the heavy smoke plumes from wildfires in the Amazon, gathering data, to understand how the burning of biomass in South America is affecting the local weather and air quality. This might help close crucial gaps in climate models about how the process changes the Earth...
http://scitechdaily.com/amazon-fire-analysis-might-close-gaps-in-climate-models/
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|Albania Table of Contents Political chaos engulfed Albania after the outbreak of World War I. Surrounded in by insurgents Durrės, Prince Wilhelm departed the country in September 1914, just six months after arriving, and subsequently joined the German army and served on the Eastern Front. The Albanian people split alo...
http://countrystudies.us/albania/23.htm
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Not Just Black and White Not Just Black and White is a science project that teaches kids about color and light. Different colors will appear when you and your kids view spinning black-and-white circles. What You'll Need: - White paper - Black paper - Black marker - Knitting needle - Paper plate Learn About Not Just Bla...
http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/family/science-projects-for-kids-spectrum-of-colors1.htm
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An elaborate system of leads spreads across our hearts. These leads – the heart's electrical system – control our pulse and coordinate contraction of the heart chambers. While the structure of the human heart has been known for a long time, the evolutionary origin of our conduction system has nevertheless remained a my...
http://phys.org/news/2012-09-reptile-hearts.html
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The Missouri Indians first came to the attention of Europeans through the account left from the Louis Jolliet and Father Jacques Marquette expedition in 1673. On the Marquette map, they are referred to as the "Oumessourit." This is the Illinois name for them, and can be translated as the "people of the dugout canoes." ...
http://mostateparks.com/page/55157/homeland-missouri-indians
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3.8 Related Rates Two variables, perhaps x and y, are both functions of a third variable, time, t, and x and y are related by an equation. Example A fire has started in a dry, open field and spreads in the form of a circle. The radius of the circle increases at a rate of 6 ft/min. Find the rate at which the fire area i...
http://homepages.ius.edu/MEHRINGE/M215/Fall%2007%20Notesr/Section3.8.htm
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Russian, early 20th century The Tsar, the Priest, and the Kulak. 1918 Lithograph printed in two colors on paper Purchased with the Elizabeth Halsey Dock, class of 1933, Fund Photograph by Stephen Petegorsky The earliest antireligious posters needed to be instantly legible to a wide audience. Often, they paired an image...
http://www.smith.edu/artmuseum2/archived_exhibitions/godlesscommunists/tsar_priest_kulak.htm
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Children are best encouraged to engage in an activity when they see others participating in it. This is why it is important for educators of young children to model the writing process. Outlined below are a few ways in which this can be 1. Many teachers like to begin each class with writing a short morning message. Thi...
http://kinderplans.blogspot.com/2011/02/preschool-kindergarten-writing.html
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Eye vision enables us to see clearly the objects in our surroundings at different distances and under numerous conditions of lights. How Eye sees? Eye works by changing the curvature of the lens to bring the image to a focus from any light from a single point of a distant object and/or a near object called as eyesight ...
http://healthy-ojas.com/eye/eyesight.html
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Dec. 8, 2010 Thirteen billion years ago our universe was dark. There were neither stars nor galaxies; there was only hydrogen gas left over after the Big Bang. Eventually that mysterious time came to an end as the first stars ignited and their radiation transformed the nearby gas atoms into ions. This phase of the univ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101208132210.htm
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Planets are in equilibrium with their surroundings: they are neither getting hotter nor colder. All planets absorb incident radiation from the Sun (this heats them up); to maintain equilibrium, they must radiate away the same amount of energy. The temperature of a planet can be approximated by assuming that it is a bla...
http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/AST101/habzone.html
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Plants In Arches National Park Photograph by brewbooksFlikr Desert plants, since they are rooted in place, must cope with extremes in temperature, water availability and solar radiation physiologically rather than behaviorally. In fact, surface temperatures in direct sunlight are commonly 25 to 50 degrees F warmer than...
http://www.travelwest.net/canyonlands-plants
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Thursday, November 18, 2010 By Aaron Dicks In the photovoltaic process solar cells are used to covert light into electricity. Solar cells are made up of semiconductor materials such as: silicon, gallium, cadmium telluride and copper indium diselenide. One of the most common materials used in solar cells is silicon. In ...
http://www.solarpowerbuzzmedia.com/2010/11/crystalline-silicon-solar-cells.html
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Fishing is a topic that provides many opportunities for comparing present-day practices with the past. For example, how would a young person today become a fisherman or lobsterman? Perhaps there are local fishermen in the area who could provide information to the class. What skills, knowledge, and abilities would help ...
http://penobscotmarinemuseum.org/pbho-1/fisheries/k-2-activities
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and Whole Language Learning Balanced Approach to Beginning Reading Association for the Education of Young Children Children cannot learn to read without an understanding of phonics. All children must know their ABCs and the sounds that letters make in order to communicate verbally. The question in early childhood progr...
http://www.readinguniverse.com/articles.php?id=23
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Welcome to the study guide for King Lear. In it you will find information about the play and the historical context in which it was written, along with that in which this production is set. In order to prepare your class to see the performance, David Dean has supplied background information on Shakespeare and the time ...
http://nac-cna.ca/en/englishtheatre/studyguide/king-lear
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Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases: Lesson plans and teaching resources Commas: Introductory Prepositional Phrases Interactive practice with punctuation of long introductory phrases. Appropriate for elementary students and older. Finding Prepositional Phrases Students find the prepositional phrases in the sentences...
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/prepositions.html
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Hosted by The Math Forum The diagram shows a circle of radius 1, with the boundary of the shaded (gray) portion consisting of three circular arcs of radius 1 whose centers are equally spaced on the ambient circle. Dissect the unshaded (yellow) portion of the circle's interior into pieces that can be reassembled to form...
http://mathforum.org/wagon/fall95/p794.html
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- Explain how the following elements and terms affect the quality of a picture: - Light-natural light/ambient, flash - Exposure-aperture (f-stops), shutter speed, depth of field - Composition-rule of thirds, leading lines, framing, depth - Angle of view - Stopping action - Explain the basic parts and operation of a fil...
http://usscouts.org/usscouts/mb/old/mb083-06.asp
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What is Asperger Syndrome? Asperger Syndrome or (Asperger's Disorder) is a neurobiological disorder that lies on the Autistic Spectrum and affects more boys than it does girls. The O.A.S.I.S. organization describes Asperger's as the following: “Individuals with AS can exhibit a variety of characteristics and the disord...
http://hope.edu/student/development/disabled/asperger_syndrome.htm
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A part of the vast Central Lowlands of North America, the Osage Plains incorporate western Missouri, southeastern Kansas, central Oklahoma, and north-central Texas. The area is sometimes called the Lower Plains, North Central Plains, and the Rolling Plains. In Oklahoma the Osage Plains is divided into subregions, broad...
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/O/OS007.html
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The definition of cyber-bullying is "when the Internet, cell phones or other devices are used to send or post text or images intended to hurt or embarrass another person." StopCyberbullying.org, an expert organisation dedicated to Internet safety, security and privacy, defines cyber-bullying as: "a situation when a chi...
http://clc2.uniservity.com/GroupHomepage.asp?GroupID=20222617
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Archaeologists led by the University of Cincinnati have revealed new details about sustainable water and land management among the ancient Maya, including the discovery of the largest ancient dam in Central America. Recent excavations, sediment coring and mapping at the pre-Columbian city of Tikal have identified new l...
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/article00470.html
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Solution to Additional Practice Unit 1: Analyzing Lines on a Graph In the graph below, the straight line S is given by the equation y = c + dx. If the line shifts from this initial position S0 to a new position of what must have changed in the equation? - In this graph, the line has changed in steepness, which means th...
http://cstl.syr.edu/fipse/graphb/unit6/SolnT2Full.html
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In 152 Ways to Keep Students in School: Effective, Easy-to-Implement Tips for Teachers, author Franklin P. Schargel provides practical tips for teachers that can be read quickly and easily implemented in order to improve student learning. Involved Students Learn Faster! Children should be active participants in their e...
http://www.eyeoneducation.com/Blog/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1504/Involved-Students-Learn-Faster
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Halifax was founded by the English in 1748 to counteract the French military presence at Louisbourg. To build Halifax the English cut down forests and infringed on Micmac lands. This brought them into greater conflict with the native people who were friends and allies of the Acadians. Micmac raids that resulted from th...
http://www.canadahistoryproject.ca/1755/1755-05-founding-halifax.html
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- Learn how to identify the main verb in a sentence. Verbs express what someone or something does. Look for the verb that express the 'action' of the sentence. - Decide on when the action takes place. Does it take place in the present, the past or the future? - Once you have discovered the general time, find out the sp...
http://esl.about.com/od/tense-review/ht/How-To-Conjugate-Verbs.htm
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A condition that exists during the winter time in the Antarctic, in which the air moves in a ringing, circular motion, allowing little air to come in or out. This is one of the factors resulting in the low stratospheric temperature during the polar night, which are a prerequisite for the ozone hole. When the vortex dis...
http://www.metaglossary.com/meanings/955499/
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ENGLISH AND LANGUAGE ARTS Sixth Graders review parts of speech and verb tenses and write detailed reports and compositions. Grammar emphasis is on clauses, phrases and the formulation of good sentences and paragraphs. Oral presentations of reports and research are given with an artistic component. Students practice len...
http://shiningmountainwaldorf.org/our-program/middle-school/main-lesson-and-subject-classes/
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Play is vital for providing opportunities to develop language, thinking, motor skills and social skills. Children participate in different types of play and their skills change and develop over time. Providing children with opportunities to develop these skills helps lay the foundation for strong skills in communicatin...
http://blog.talkingmatters.com.au/developing-play/
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Here's a very simple GNU Make function: it takes three arguments and makes a 'date' out of them by inserting / between the first and second and second and third arguments: make_date = $1/$2/$3 The first thing to notice is that make_date is defined just like any other GNU Make macro (you must use = and not := for reason...
http://www.agileconnection.com/article/gnu-make-user-defined-functions
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Electrical elementAn electric circuit, or electrical network, consists of electrical elements or components connected by conductors. Elements include devices (such as an inductor, resistor, capacitor, conductor, line, or cathode ray tube) with terminals at which it may be connected directly with other devices. It can a...
http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/e/electrical-element.html
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Of the over 620 species and subspecies of carnivorous plants currently recognised in the world, New Zealand has but relatively few. Although many of our native carnivores are small in stature they are both beautiful and deadly; masters of their boggy realm. Carnivorous plants occur on every continent throughout the wor...
http://www.nzcps.co.nz/NZCPSNativeCPs.html
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Whether your students' families came to America ten days ago, ten months ago, ten years ago, or much longer than that, they, like most Americans, are either immigrants or descendants of immigrants. Have your students do an oral-history project that explores each one's immigrant background. Develop questions such as: Wh...
http://www.hmhbooks.com/readers_guides/bunting/america.shtml
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Children, Moms and Dads – or maybe Grans and Granddads – Enjoy! Would be authors – would you like to see your stories published here? Writing Short Stories for Children. - Choose a narrative point of view . You can write your children’s short story like one of the characters (first person), as an individual narrator pr...
http://www.mclkids.org/
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dogs descended from the gray wolf. But dogs are so different from wolves that it seems difficult to imagine how one species led to another. How an organism evolves has to do with the selective pressures it is exposed to in its environment. In this activity, see what happens to two different populations of wolves as dif...
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/education/activities/3103_dogs_01.html
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Strides are continuing to be made in the world of quantum computing. The most advanced quantum computer contains about 12 quibits… meaning it can hold 4096 pieces of data simultaneously. So how does quantum computing work? With normal computers, a bit may be represented by a group of electrons. In a quantum computer, i...
http://community.mis.temple.edu/richm3538/2011/11/07/what-is-quantum-computing/
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Sometimes you can see that certain parts of clouds show iridescent colours. In most cases this iridescence appears in clouds which form rapidly (e.g. altocumulus lenticularis). Especially the rims of these clouds have purple red, blue and green colours. This phenomenon is closely related to the coronae. Here the colour...
http://www.meteoros.de/iris/irise.htm
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Architecture played a very important role for the church in Medieval England. The more splendid the architecture, the more the church believed it was praising God. The church in Medieval England poured vast sums of money into the creation of grandiose architectural projects that peaked in the cathedrals at Canterbury a...
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/medieval_church_architecture.htm
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Logic is the skill of correct thinking and conceptual development. It is the thinking through of similarities, comparisons, and differences in order to induce the correct general conclusions. Studying logic and practicing logical thinking prepares students for the development of wisdom. Unfortunately, logic is all but ...
http://covenantclassicalschool.org/pages/page.asp?page_id=104572
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As our closest neighbor in space, a time-capsule of planetary evolution and the only world outside of Earth that humans have stepped foot on, the Moon is an obvious and ever-present location for future exploration by humans. The research that can be done on the Moon as well as from it will be invaluable to science. But...
http://phys.org/news/2012-07-moon-toxic.html
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In this math worksheet, your child will get practice with place value by writing each number as a sum of 10s and 1s. This coloring math worksheet lets your child practice counting sets of animals' legs, which lays a foundation for understanding multiplication. Help the kids share the food equally! This coloring math wo...
http://www.greatschools.org/articles/?p=6&grades=201&outcomes=209&language=EN
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Science Fair Project Encyclopedia This global, interconnected body of salt water, called the World Ocean, is divided by the continents and archipelagos into the following five bodies, from the largest to the smallest: the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and the Arctic Ocean. Off...
http://all-science-fair-projects.com/science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Ocean
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The monument maintains an Air Quality Station which tracks visibility, particulates, ozone, nitrates, sulfides, dioxins, and rainwater deposition. This data is analyzed and used to determine overall air quality, and factors or events that may be having detrimental effects on the air. This information can help managers ...
http://www.nps.gov/chir/naturescience/airquality.htm
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Brain: The Inside Story Brain: The Inside Story explores how neurons communicate; how the brain processes sensory information, emotions, and behaviors; how the organ evolved in vertebrates; and what makes each human brain unique. This comprehensive guide will help you explore the exhibition with your students. Use thes...
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/brain-the-inside-story/brain-promos/for-educators
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Least common multiple In arithmetic and number theory, the least common multiple (also called the lowest common multiple or smallest common multiple) of two integers a and b, usually denoted by LCM(a, b), is the smallest positive integer that is divisible by both a and b. If either a or b is 0, LCM(a, b) is defined to ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_common_multiple
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Learning the Swahili Articles is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. The more you practice the subject, the closer you get to mastering the Swahili language. But first we need to know what the role of Articles is in the structure of the grammar in Swahili. Swahili articles are words ...
http://www.mylanguages.org/swahili_articles.php
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Arctic sea ice In recent years, the area covered by Arctic sea ice, particularly the minimum extent in summer, has rapidly shrunk. This is thought to result from a combination of factors: over the past several decades surface air temperatures in the Arctic have been warming at about twice the global rate, and the ocean...
http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/Browse_by_Topic/ClimateChange/theClimate/glaciers
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Note: This lesson was originally published on an older version of The Learning Network; the link to the related Times article will take you to a page on the old site. Teaching ideas based on New York Times content. Overview of Lesson Plan: In this lesson, students will explore the significance of various body parts in ...
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2001/02/02/talk-to-the-hand/
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What was life like for women in the first half of the 19th century in America? What influence did women have in shaping the attitudes towards slavery? Towards women's suffrage? One myth that Southern slave owners and proponents were happy to perpetuate was that of the slave happily singing from dawn to dusk as he worke...
http://edsitement.neh.gov/calendar/2013-02-20
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Language is the primary tool human beings use for thinking, communicating and learning. Having a knowledge of several languages can provide new perspectives on the surrounding world, enhanced opportunities to create contacts and greater understanding of different ways of living. The English language surrounds us in our...
http://kaliningradendre.se/?page_id=26
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Despite their name, and the common conception that a centipede has 100 legs, this is in fact not true. The centipede has pairs of legs that run the length of the body of the centipede, which are normally between 15 and 30 pairs of legs in total and not 50. There are thought to be around 8,000 species of centipede world...
http://a-z-animals.com/animals/centipede/edit/
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Patterns of Ocean Circulation Environmental scientists study ocean circulation because, along with patterns of air movement in the atmosphere, the movement of water through the oceans helps determine weather and climate conditions for different regions of the world. The three main patterns of ocean circulation are gyre...
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/patterns-of-ocean-circulation.navId-813972.html
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Simply begin typing or use the editing tools above to add to this article. Once you are finished and click submit, your modifications will be sent to our editors for review. ...the AC signals that set up the switches employed in the circuit. Single-frequency tones were used in the switching network to signal availabili...
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/397133/multiple-frequency-signaling
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Promoting Social and Moral Development through Sports Marty Ewing, PhD Promoting Social & Moral Development US Youth Soccer Parents Resource Library For most people the development of social roles and appropriate social behaviors should occur during the childhood years. Physical play between parents and children, as we...
http://www.mayouthsoccer.org/parents/promoting_social_moral_dev.aspx
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Why use primary sources? What is history and how can we make sense of it? How can we excite our students about the past and teach them to think like historians? One way we can learn about the past is by examining primary sources. They make history come alive. They offer different points of view. Students will find them...
http://loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/holidays-past/introduction.html
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This interactive activity from NOVA scienceNOW reviews several potential means of storing carbon dioxide (CO2) captured from industrial sources. Among the featured ideas are technologies that deliver compressed CO2 to underground cavities, saline aquifers, and the deep seabed. The benefit of storing, or sequestering, c...
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/nsn08.sci.ess.watcyc.capcarbonint/
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Lesson Plans and Worksheets Browse by Subject - Ancient Civilizations - Christine K., secondscience - Sylvania, OH Ancient Civilizations Teacher Resources Find teacher approved Ancient Civilizations educational resource ideas and activities Sixth graders examine important information relating to Ancient Egypt while obt...
http://www.lessonplanet.com/lesson-plans/ancient-civilizations
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Democracy - Elections Democratic elections are widely recognized as a foundation of legitimate government. By allowing citizens to choose the manner in which they are governed, elections form the starting point for all other democratic institutions and practices. Genuine democracy, however, requires substantially more....
http://bogota.usembassy.gov/elections.html
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2. Sample Prolog Programs In this chapter we provide several sample Prolog programs. The programs are given in a progression from fairly simple programs to more complex programs. The key goals of the presentation are to show several important methods of knowledge representation in Prolog and the declarative programming...
http://www.csupomona.edu/~jrfisher/www/prolog_tutorial/2.html
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Benefits. Expressive arts (art, music, dance and dramatics) provide content for literacy development. The arts not only provide important content but serve as a vehicle for developmental learning for children of all ages and abilities. The expressive arts offer important opportunities for expression, problem-solving, a...
http://www.wiu.edu/thecenter/articles/draw2.html
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Technicians are scrambling to contain the damage after March 11's devastating earthquake and tsunami knocked out power at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Seawater is being flooded into the reactor core to prevent overheating, and radioactive gas is being periodically vented to prevent pressure from build...
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/03/14/what_happens_during_a_nuclear_meltdown
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With constantly rising global energy needs, the uncertainty of long term fossil fuel supplies and their negative effect on the climate, there is a growing demand for environmentally clean energy sources. For decades, nuclear fission power has been a cheap and reliable source of energy for many countries. In such fissio...
http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2011/ph241/kates-harbeck1/
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talk about the structure of DNA and RNA Warming up the brain: Nucleic acids are made up of nucleotides, consisting of bases (purines and pyrimidines), as you probably recall from your genetics or cell biology class, sugars (ribose or deoxyribose), and a phosphate backbone. Remember that we have some rules, called "Wats...
http://escience.ws/b572/L1/L1.htm
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Harriet Tubman became famous as a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad during the turbulent 1850s. Born a slave on Maryland's eastern shore, she endured the harsh existence of a field hand, including brutal beatings. In 1849 she fled slavery, leaving her husband and family behind in order to escape. Despite a bounty...
http://www.history.com/topics/print/harriet-tubman
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Antibiotic resistance is a type of drug resistance where a microorganism is able to survive exposure to an antibiotic. While a spontaneous or induced genetic mutation in bacteria may confer resistance to antimicrobial drugs, genes that confer resistance can be transferred between bacteria in a horizontal fashion by con...
http://www.biosolutions.info/2012/06/antimicrobial-resistance.html
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Wednesday, June 9, 1999 Published at 13:12 GMT 14:12 UK Moon's tail spotted The Earth passes through the sodium trail once a month By BBC News Online Science Editor Dr David Whitehouse The tail of sodium gas that streams out for great distances behind the Moon has been observed better than ever before. The new observat...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/363105.stm
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Word Sort Instructions Your child will be bringing home a collection of spelling words weekly that have been introduced in class. Each night of the week your child is expected to do a different activity to ensure that these words and the spelling principles they represent are mastered. These activities have been modele...
http://www.laurens55.k12.sc.us/Page/6292
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EARLY WHALE HISTORY Pakicetus, early ancestor of whales Whales and dolphins first emerged about 50 million years ago. Fossils of a 51-million-year-old whales that could actually walk were found in the Himalayan foothills in Pakistan in 1981. This creature, called Pakicetus , was a relatively small, furry, four-legged a...
http://factsanddetails.com/world.php?itemid=2224&catid=53&subcatid=341
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For the Latest Bird Watching News, Hot Birding Spots, Tips & More, Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter: The Birder Alert! Bird reproduction begins, as in mammals, when an egg, or ovum, is fertilized in the oviduct by contact with a sperm cell. The fertilized ovum forms the nucleus of the egg, which will be equipped with a...
http://www.birdwatching-bliss.com/bird-reproduction.html
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The Ice Sheets at both poles are changing - shrinking at increasing rates - rates that are faster than was ever expected by scientists. Combined with the shrinking of these expansive blankets of continental ice is the disappearance of large expanses of sea ice. These changes will impact all of us through sea level rise...
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/research/marine-geology-geophysics/ice-bridge
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Joint session of the United States Congress From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Forms of Joint Session and Joint Meeting While any meeting of both House and Senate of the US Congress is commonly called a Joint Session, there is a distinction between the two terms Joint Session and Joint Meeting: - Joint Session of c...
http://www.bazpedia.com/en/j/o/i/Joint_session_of_the_United_States_Congress_377f.html
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Hay fever; Nasal allergies Definition of Allergic rhinitis Allergic rhinitis is a collection of symptoms, mostly in the nose and eyes, which occur when you breathe in something you are allergic to, such as dust, dander, or pollen. Causes, incidence, and risk factors An allergen is something that triggers an allergy. Wh...
http://www.drgreene.com/adam/allergic-rhinitis/
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1999 Learning Strategies Learning Strategy 11 Developing a Class Constitution through Participatory Democracy Martin Doucette (NS), Derryk Flemming (ON), Bernie Rubinstein (ON) Through an examination of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, students create a class "constitution". In this interactive environment, students...
http://www.parl.gc.ca/About/Parliament/Education/LearningStrategies/lesson.asp?Language=E&tife=1&lpl=77
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PRINCIPLES OF POND FISH CULTURE 1. Fish are dependent for food directly or indirectly on plants. 2. The weight of fish which can be produced in natural waters is dependent upon the ability of the water to raise the plants. We could increase production by adding plant organic matter produced elsewhere. 3. The ability of...
http://hobiikan.blogspot.com/
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Tremor is a rhythmic, involuntary back-and-forth oscillation of part of the body. Tremor in children may be caused by familial essential tremor, focal epilepsy, or a psychogenic movement disorder. Tremor is often seen with ataxia, dystonia, or myoclonus. Physiologic tremor is the normal shaking that occurs when people ...
http://endoflifecare.tripod.com/juvenilehuntingtonsdisease/id55.html
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Geometry is heavily tested on the GRE Math section, and a thorough review of geometrical concepts is essential to a high score. Consider the following problem: “If the length of an edge of a cube X is twice the length of an edge of cube Y, what is the ratio of the volume of cube Y to the volume of cube X?” The easiest ...
http://www.newgre.org/preparation/sample-math-problem-hip-square-or-cube/
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Armistice Day, held on 11 November every year, commemorates the signing of the armistice between the Allies and Germany at 11 am on 11 November 1918 - the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. Although hostilities continued in some areas, the armistice essentially brought an end to World War I. After...
http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/resources/a/armisticeday.asp
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Here is a brief sketch of 19th century military organization to help civilians reading history The combat arms of an army were classified as infantry, cavalry and artillery. Infantry moved by marching, and its weapon was the individual firearm--musket or rifle, replacing the lance of the medieval army. Cavalry moved by...
http://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/hist/army.htm
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What's the Chance? Click on the image to enlarge it. Click again to close. Download PDF (774 KB) This is a level 4 statistics activity from the Figure It Out series. place probability of events on a continuum This activity establishes the key idea that probability can always be expressed as a number between 0 and 1. It...
http://www.nzmaths.co.nz/resource/whats-chance
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Letter knowledge is understanding that letters are different from one another and that they have different names and sounds. There are many different ways to encourage letter knowledge in your child. - Help your baby recognize simple shapes like circles and squares. When pointing out the shapes of toys, describe it out...
http://westervillelibrary.org/kids/born2read/letter-knowledge
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Smooth muscle is responsible for the contractility of hollow organs, such as blood vessels, the gastrointestinal tract, the bladder, or the uterus. Its structure differs greatly from that of skeletal muscle, although it can develop isometric force per cross-sectional area that is equal to that of skeletal muscle. Howev...
http://www.uic.edu/classes/phyb/phyb516/smoothmuscleu3.htm
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In the years immediately following 1814, the newly organized state fought repeatedly for its existence. Norway was hit by the worst economic depression it had ever suffered. The common market with Denmark was dissolved and the British market was closed to Norwegian timber. Mines and sawmills lost foreign custom. Many o...
http://www.emb-norway.or.th/aboutnorway/history/after1814/unionswe/
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This is an interesting question, because if the strong nuclear force could confine the electron within the nucleus, atoms would collapse. Many electrons in the atom do venture very close to the nucleus (especially those in s orbitals). The uncertainty principle comes into play twice here: it determines the range of the...
http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/quantum/faq/electron-confinement-to-nucleus.shtml
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Aug. 29, 2011 A team of German and Canadian scientists has shown that today's plague pathogen has been around at least 600 years. The Black Death claimed the lives of one-third of Europeans in just five years from 1348 to 1353. Until recently, it was not certain whether the bacterium Yersinia pestis -- known to cause t...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110829173751.htm
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The rhizosphere is the narrow region of soil that is directly influenced by root secretions and associated soil microorganisms. Soil which is not part of the rhizosphere is known as bulk soil. The rhizosphere contains many bacteria that feed on sloughed-off plant cells, termed rhizodeposition, and the proteins and suga...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizosphere_(ecology)
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- Action Teams - Sign Up - Get Trained - Do Projects - Submit Finished Projects - ACE Alumni - Media Team Climate Science Lesson Plans and Curricula Check out our favorite climate lesson plans below. You can view them either by subject or by key concept. We encourage teachers to use these resources to extend their stud...
http://www.acespace.org/node/25765
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Sea water off the east coast of Greenland looked a bit like marbled paper in October 2012. The shifting swirls of white were sea ice, as observed by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite on October 17, 2012. In fact, this ice moved discernibly between October 16 and October ...
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=79521
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Eclipses take place when the Sun is partially or completely blocked from view by some body passing in front of the observer. In a solar eclipse, the Moon passes between the Earth and Sun, and observers in the shadow of the Moon see an annular, partial or total solar eclipse. In a lunar eclipse, the Earth passes between...
http://cseligman.com/text/sky/eclipse.htm
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At the time of acute infection with HIV, the body has not yet made antibodies to HIV. Antibodies, proteins produced primarily by certain white blood cells called B lymphocytes, attack substances foreign to the body, including viruses. The fact that symptoms are present even though the blood test to detect antibodies to...
http://homehealthrx.com/english-hiv-infection-and-its-effects-on-the-body-acute-seroconversion
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Knowing how and where birds migrate and breed is an important part of understanding how and why their numbers increase or decrease over time. However, we don't know much about the exact migratory patterns of most birds. After all, they are one of the most itinerant animals on earth, coming and going from one place to a...
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/scbi/migratorybirds/science_article/default.cfm?id=137
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To get Excel to perform calculations, such as addition or subtraction, we create a formula. Although writing a formula in Excel is similar to the way you would write a formula in math class, there a couple of important differences. One difference is that a formula in Excel begins with the equal sign rather than ending ...
http://spreadsheets.about.com/od/exceltips/qt/cell_ref.htm
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Stars form from dense clumps of molecular gas deep inside a cloud. The clumps shrink down until their centers become hot enough (around 10 million degrees) for hydrogen to fuse together. At that point, the energy generated by fusion pushes their outer layers outwards and halts the contraction. The delicate balance betw...
http://spiff.rit.edu/classes/phys230/lectures/star_age/star_age.html
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Ghostly Ripples in Space A simulated map of the hot and cold spots in the cosmic microwave background. The top image assumes the standard cosmological model. The bottom image shows the contribution from neutrino ripples to the above fluctuations. CREDIT: Roberto Trotta. Neutrinos are tiny particles that can plow throug...
http://www.space.com/1217-ghostly-ripples-space.html
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It's never too early to start talking to your kids about recognizing inappropriate, hurtful behaviors and to how to promote kindness and respect for all. It's not all about the name-calling, teasing, or taunting. Learn what bullying is and how you can teach your child to be a tolerant, inclusive, friendly companion to ...
http://www.nickjr.com/all-together-now/teaching-kindness_ap.html