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4 | This figure from NASA's Dawn mission shows the varied minerals on the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta in false color. The colors, derived from data obtained by Dawn's visible and infrared mapping spectrometer, have been chosen to emphasize mineral differences on a half-mile (kilometer) scale. Data from the spectrom... | http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA15671 |
4.0625 | GLOBAL warming could cause the bottom layers of many deep freshwater lakes to stagnate, including the Great Lakes of North America, Scandinavian lakes and some of Scotland's lochs. If this happens, many deep-water fauna that have thrived in these lakes for 15,000 years could be in danger.
The lakes' thermal structure i... | http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18424751.400-warmer-lakes-will-face-deep-trouble.html |
4.21875 | Old English Poetry
Beowulf Is often referred to as the first important work of literature in English, even though it was written in Old English, an ancient form of the language that slowly evolved into the English now spoken. Compared to modern English, Old English is heavily Germanic, with little influence from Latin ... | http://www.mannmuseum.com/old-english-poetry/ |
4.0625 | Arithmetic coding actually refers to half of an Arithmetic Coding data compression system.
It has two parts:
- An arithmetic coder
- A data model (e.g., Markovian model)
- There is a new data character (a fixed number of bits per character)
- There is a set of probabilities for each possible character
The larger the ra... | http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/a/arithmetic-coding.html |
4.3125 | A research team led by Umar Mohideen, a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, has demonstrated in the laboratory that the Casimir force – the small attractive force that acts between two close parallel uncharged conducting plates – can be changed using a beam of light, making the remote operation of mic... | http://phys.org/news101407349.html |
4 | In this file:
-I <3 U Wh- Questions: Students pick a card and answer the questions on each card. Once they respond accurately, they can hold onto their cards. If they pick the “I <3 U” card, they get a bonus turn! The student with the most cards at the end is the winner!
-Noun & Adjective Sort: Students will sort the c... | http://speechtimefun.blogspot.com/2013/01/valentines-day-word-fun.html |
4.21875 | The First Focus Reading System incorporates phonics into helping children to learn to read. First Focus Reading teaches specific phonics and reading skills through a series of charts that is shared with students and parents. We welcome parent to participate in the program as we provide weekly updates on the progress an... | http://firstfocus.com/v2_authorized_teacher.html |
4.4375 | August 30 - By observing the collision of two distant galaxies, scientists say that they now have direct evidence of dark matter's existence. For decades scientists have proposed the existence of dark matter as an explanation for how galaxies rotate at their observed velocities.
Dark matter emits no light and can only ... | http://www.nationalacademies.org/printer/headlines/20060830.html |
4.15625 | Science Fair Project Encyclopedia
A winter storm is a storm in which the dominant varieties of precipitation are forms that only occur at cold temperatures, such as snow or sleet, or a rainstorm where ground temperatures are cold enough to allow ice to form. These storms are not restricted to the winter season, but may... | http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Winter_storm |
4.375 | How it works
Tidal-power is the power achieved by capturing the energy contained in moving water mass due to tides. Two types of tidal energy can be extracted: kinetic energy of currents between ebbing and surging tides and potential energy from the difference in height (or head) between high and low tides. The former ... | http://www.worldofrenewables.com/page.php?pageid=57 |
4 | Incorporating oral history into the K–12 curriculum
Oral history techniques for use with students at all levels, from kindergarten through high school.
Oral history can deeply enrich the classroom experience, even if teachers don’t have time to launch a full-scale oral history project. At every grade level, there are w... | http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/764 |
4.34375 | Germans migrated to the English colonies in North America. Most
of them settled in Pennsylvania. Others settled in New York,
Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia. They formed
the largest non-English-speaking community in colonial North
1600s and 1700s, wars ravaged Germany. Marching armies trampled
down field... | http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/soc_studies/namerica/read/ |
4.65625 | Part One (1-2 class periods):
Start off the lesson with an overview of different biomes of the world. Students should take notes with a KWL chart. There are several alternatives. If you have a Netflix account, I would recommend viewing all or a portion of Home, directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, or Understanding Science... | http://www.teacherstryscience.org/lp/build-biome |
4.09375 | Science Fair Project Resources
Web-Based How-to Guides & Ideas
How To Do A Science Fair Project The MSSEF Student Guide is now available for download as a PDF.
A Student's View on Creating a Science Fair Project There is another useful guide called (PDF), written by students for students.
Science Fair Project Developme... | http://massscifair.com/high-school-fair/resources/default.aspx |
4.21875 | Language is a means of communication. By using a language people can communicate with each other. Using a language is not as simply as we thought because there is a set of rules that must be followed, which is called Grammar. Actually grammar is used to mean the structure of a language. It is an essential part of the u... | http://cupep.blogspot.com/2010/01/skripsi-analysis-of-grammatical-error.html |
4 | Topics covered: Exceptions to Lewis structure rules; Ionic bonds
Instructor: Catherine Drennan, Elizabeth Vogel Taylor
Lecture Notes (PDF - 1.1MB)
The following content is provided under a Creative Commons license. Your support will help MIT OpenCourseWare continue to offer high quality educational resources for free. ... | http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/chemistry/5-111-principles-of-chemical-science-fall-2008/video-lectures/lecture-12/ |
4.21875 | Tidal energy or tidal power refers to the use of the oceans’ tides to generate electricity. Tides can be utilized as energy sources through the currents they cause or through the associated variations in ocean level. The most effective way of taking advantage of these vertical water displacements is through impoundment... | http://expert-energy.com/tidal-energy-what-is-tidal-energy/ |
4.125 | The adaptive behavior can be defined as a type of behavior that is used to adjust to another type of behavior or situation. This is over and over again characterized by a sort of behavior that allows an individual to transform a negative or disturbing behavior to something that is more helpful. These behaviors are most... | http://classof1.com/homework_answers/psychology/adaptive_behavior/ |
4.5625 | The use of onomatopoeia and alliteration are abundant in children's literature and can easily be identified by our youngest learners so they are both perfect crafts to start with when teaching writing. Begin by selecting mentor texts containing onomatopoeia- some books may be filled with onomatopoeia while others may c... | http://larremoreteachertips.blogspot.com/2012/07/wild-about-writing-wednesday_31.html |
4.03125 | Plants, Poles and Plugs
Electricity Is Measured In Watts.
Electricity is measured in units of power called watts. One watt is such a small amount of power, however, that the more commonly used measurement is the kilowatt, representing 1,000 watts. The higher the watt or kilowatt rating of a particular electrical device... | http://www.southerncompany.com/learningpower/powerinfo_4.aspx |
4.09375 | Even a log raft with a goatskin tied to a pole will sail before the wind. To sail in other directions, a boat must be designed and rigged so that the force of the wind moves it across the wind or into the wind, as well as moving it with the wind.
Controlling Direction. A boat with no means of control will travel straig... | http://library.thinkquest.org/5705/page2.html |
4.1875 | July 3 2012
The Declaration of Independence Was Key to Women's Liberation
Almost two years ago, Time magazine published an article entitled, “What Happens If We Leave Afghanistan.” The article highlighted the plight of a young woman named Aisha, whose uncle -- under orders from the Taliban -- sliced off her ears and no... | http://www.iwf.org/news/2788399/The-Declaration-of-Independence-Was-Key-to-Women's-Liberation |
4.0625 | for National Geographic News
Rhea, Saturn's second largest moon, may be the first known moon with its own small system of rings, astronomers announced.
Although no one has actually seen Rhea's rings, scientists say that odd data collected during a 2005 flyby of the Cassini spacecraft provides strong clues.
"We can't sa... | http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080306-moon-rings.html |
4.25 | The FOSS program uses several instructional pedagogies to make science more efficient for teachers and more productive for students.
Inquiry. FOSS investigations are guided by questions. The overarching questions of science are "what's in this world?", and "how does it work?" In FOSS we break them down into discrete su... | http://www.deltaeducation.com/science/fossms/Pedagogy.shtml |
4 | You are here
Color-coding Revision - Visualizing the Process
Following a detailed set of instructions, students use crayons (or other multi-colored writing utensils) to visually distinguish between certain elements of their papers. The result is a colorful paper that visually demarcates areas of text that may require r... | http://lessonplans.dwrl.utexas.edu/content/color-coding-revision-visualizing-process |
4.1875 | Dysentery is an intestinal disorder characterized by inflammation of the intestine, pain, and severe diarrhea, with the frequent stools often containing blood and mucus. It is most often caused by infection due to bacteria, viruses, protozoa, or intestinal worms. Other causes include chemical irritants and certain medi... | http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/p/index.php?title=Dysentery&oldid=830077 |
4.03125 | news & tips
A collection of helpful articles on teachers and teaching
Grounding Experiences in Language: Expanding a Child’s World
Children’s language development is dependent upon exploration and their growing ability to understanding the world they inhabit. It is when children learn to listen, question, and to formul... | http://lessonplanspage.com/grounding-experiences-in-language-expanding-a-child%e2%80%99s-world/ |
4.1875 | CHALCOLITHIC ERA in Persia. Chalcolithic (< Gk. khalkos “copper” + lithos “stone”) is a term adopted for the Near East early in this century as part of an attempt to refine the framework of cultural developmental “stages” (Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze, and Iron Ages) and used by students of western Europe... | http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/chalcolithic-era-in-persia |
4 | Learn how to write the hiragana character for "sa" in this simple lesson. Please remember, it is important to follow the stroke order when writing Japanese characters. Learning the proper stroke order is also a great way to help you to remember how to draw the character.
Example: さかな (sakana) --- fish
Please check out ... | http://japanese.about.com/od/howtowritehiragana/ss/hiraganalesson3.htm |
4.03125 | 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 explore many of the countries in the Middle East, devel... | http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/unmasking-the-middle-east/?scp=1&sq=unmasking%20the%20middle%20east&st=cse |
4.09375 | distribution of wealth and incomeArticle Free Pass
distribution of wealth and income, the way in which the wealth and income of a nation are divided among its population, or the way in which the wealth and income of the world are divided among nations. Such patterns of distribution are discerned and studied by various ... | http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/638235/distribution-of-wealth-and-income |
4.03125 | ReadWriteThink couldn't publish all of this great content without literacy experts to write and review for us. If you've got lessons plans, activities, or other ideas you'd like to contribute, we'd love to hear from you.
Find the latest in professional publications, learn new techniques and strategies, and find out how... | http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/family-ties-making-connections-1070.html |
4.0625 | US History/War, Nationalism, and Division
The War of 1812
Precursors to the War
By the time James Madison took office as president in 1809, the U.S. was still a young nation. Though the war for independence was fought and won, culminating in the Treaty of Paris in 1783, problems revolving around U.S. sovereignty cont... | http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/US_History/War,_Nationalism,_and_Division |
4.0625 | There are two main types of taxes (1)
direct tax and (2) indirect tax.
Explanation of Direct Tax:
A tax is said to be direct tax
impact and Incidence of a tax are on one and same person, i.e., when a
person on whom tax is levied is the same who finally bears the! burden of tax.
For Instance, income tax is a direct
tax ... | http://www.economicsconcepts.com/direct_tax_and_indirect_tax.htm |
4.09375 | Carnivorous plants are a specialized group of plants that grow in wet, boggy, acidic soils. These bogs are typically comprised of peat soils which are low in the mineral salts and other nutrients vital for the plants survival. One of the most critical plant nutrients is nitrogen which is usually taken up by plants as n... | http://www.life.illinois.edu/plantbio/greenhouse/vt_carnivorous.html |
4.03125 | |This article does not cite any references or sources. (January 2008)|
In grammar, an interjection or exclamation is a word used to express an emotion or sentiment on the part of the speaker (although most interjections have clear definitions). Filled pauses such as uh, er, um are also considered interjections. Interje... | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interjection |
4.03125 | SQ3R is a comprehension strategy that helps students think about the text they are reading while they're reading. Often categorized as a study strategy, SQ3R helps students "get it" the first time they read a text by teaching students how to read and think like an effective reader.
- Survey: Students review the text to... | http://www.adlit.org/strategies/19803/ |
4.03125 | White Only: Jim Crow in America
Early Klan image
The Ku Klux Klan was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1866 to combat Reconstruction reforms and intimidate African Americans. By 1870 similar organizations such as the Knights of the White Camelia and the White Brotherhood had sprung up across the South. Through fear, b... | http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/1-segregated/white-only-2.html |
4.28125 | Nature and Science: Geology
It’s all about rocks! Construction of the canal across New York was made possible thanks to the most significant gap in the Appalachian Mountain range. This low lying gap provided a natural avenue between the eastern seaboard and the Great Lakes through which a canal could be dug.
A shallow ... | http://eriecanalway.org/learn_nature-science_geology.htm |
4.25 | Money Connection—Unit 3
This lesson focuses on the impact of too much money or too little money flowing in the economy in terms of jobs, prices, and production of goods and services. A simulation is used to demonstrate the impact of inflation on the economy.
Money Connection Video
The Money Connection is a lively, two-... | http://www.frbatlanta.org/edresources/classroomeconomist/inflation_resources.cfm |
4.09375 | Among modern political movements, socialism has arguably given the greatest attention to the elaboration of a coherent political theory. By the late nineteenth century many socialists had come to believe that Marxism gave them alone a “scientific” understanding of the economic and social laws of history. This belief be... | http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofHistoryandAnthropology/ProspectiveStudents/UndergraduateStudies/History/UndergradHistorymodules/SocialismtheHistoryofanIdeaHIS3038/ |
4.09375 | Narwhals are mid-sized whales living in the cold waters of the Arctic Circle near northern Canada and Greenland. They grow between 4 and 6 m (12-20 ft.) in length – a similar size to their relative, the beluga whale.
But they are easily distinguished from their beluga kin. Male narwhals possess a great spiraled tooth t... | http://www.animalfactguide.com/animal-facts/narwhal/ |
4.0625 | Crust is made by melting mantle. Small percentages of the mantle melt - the resulting magma is more buoyant and so rises towards the surface. So you can say that the crust is the scum of the Earth!
The main place where new crust, indeed new plate, is created is at mid ocean ridges. This is oceanic crust but over geolog... | http://www.see.leeds.ac.uk/structure/assyntgeology/extra_info/ehistory.htm |
4.40625 | The discovery of nearly identical sea creatures on either side of a now solid Antarctic ice sheet -- 1,500 miles wide and over a mile thick -- points to an open ocean passage there as recently as 125,000 years ago.
A schematic of a seaway created by the partial collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
The new evidence... | http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-09/01/sea-creatures |
4.21875 | LEADER RESOURCE 2: Histories
South Africa and Black South Africans
Apartheid was the law in South Africa from 1948 to 1994. Apartheid laws enforced segregation by race and kept the white majority in power, while denying black South Africans basic human rights and freedoms. After years of pressure from other countries, ... | http://www.uua.org/re/tapestry/youth/call/workshop11/workshopplan/leaderresources/173124.shtml |
4.1875 | |Learning About Computers and the Internet|
How to keep straight the various ways that computers encode characters.
Since computers do everything in binary code, the letters and other characters that we use are actually encoded as a number on a computer. Because there are various ways to do this encoding, things can so... | http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/characters.htm |
4.0625 | “Dead zones” occur in the most of the world’s oceans. These massive plumes are devoid of life as nothing is capable of surviving there. Most fishermen have heard of the Gulf of Mexico’s Dead Zone, but few understand what it actually is. Here are the basics...
The Mississippi River serves as the drainage basin for over ... | http://www.saltwatersportsman.com/blogs/short-strikes/gulf-s-zombie |
4.15625 | © Copyright 2006 J. Banfill. All Rights Reserved.Legal Notice
Fourth Grade Hands-On Activities
- Use a scale or balance to determine weight/mass in both
metric units (grams, kilograms) and U.S. customary units (ounces, pounds).
- Measure length in metric units (millimeters, centimeters and meters) and U.S.
customary un... | http://aaamath.com/B/handson4.htm |
4 | From about c.1600-1100 BC main land
Greece was ruled by the Myceneans. Their name comes from the city of Mycenae
where remains of the culture were first discovered. Some of the first and
most important archaeological evidence comes from the royal graves which
date from 1600 BC. There were two types of graves, shaft gra... | http://library.thinkquest.org/5372/grmycen.html |
4.03125 | See U.S. Agricultural Research Service, Beekeeping in the United States (rev. ed. 1971).
Sweet, viscous liquid food, golden in colour, produced in the honey sacs of various bees from the nectar of flowers. Honey has played an important role in human nutrition since ancient times; until about 250 years ago, it was almos... | http://www.reference.com/browse/HONEY |
4.03125 | Temporal range: Early Pleistocene – Recent
|Reconstructed range of wild boar (green) and introduced populations (blue). Not shown are smaller introduced populations in the Caribbean, sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere (such as the southwest of Australia.).|
Wild boar (Sus scrofa), also known as wild pig, is a species of ... | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Boar |
4.0625 | In the world of herbal medicine, distinguishing between various plant parts is important. Here’s a quick overview of botany to help you understand terms commonly used on labels, in books, and in the bulk aisles of your local health-food store.
• Herbs have four basic parts: the root, the stem, the leaf, and the flower ... | http://www.motherearthliving.com/gardening/herb-basics-a-ripe-banana-contains-more-andshyalcohol-than-a-dose-of-tincture-15-a-brief-lesson-in-botany.aspx |
4.0625 | simple machineArticle Free Pass
simple machine, any of several devices with few or no moving parts that are used to modify motion and force in order to perform work. The simple machines are the inclined plane, lever, wedge, wheel and axle, pulley, and screw.
The inclined plane
An inclined plane consists of a sloping su... | http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1194584/simple-machine |
4.125 | proportionalityArticle Free Pass
proportionality, In algebra, equality between two ratios. In the expression a/b = c/d, a and b are in the same proportion as c and d. A proportion is typically set up to solve a word problem in which one of its four quantities is unknown. It is solved by multiplying one numerator by the... | http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/479166/proportionality |
4.5 | Ensure students learn the basic terms needed to understand the material in the rest of the Teaching Citizenship Unit.
1 - Terms and Definitions
2 - Democracy versus Autocracy
- Democracy versus Autocracy Worksheet.
3 - U.S. Constitution Basics
4 - Public Officials - Roles & Responsibilities
- Handout the Responsibiliti... | http://www.goodcitizen.org/Instructional%20Materials/Lesson%20Plans/Lesson%201/Lesson%201%20-%20Terms%20&%20Definitions.html |
4.03125 | Traditional methods of food drying is to spread the foodstuffs to place the foodstuffs in the sun in the open air. This method, called sun drying, is effective for small amounts of food. The area needed for sun drying expands with food quantity and since the food is placed in the open air, it is easily contaminated. Th... | http://climatetechwiki.org/print/technology/jiqweb-edf |
4.15625 | The process of communication is one in which people convey their meaning to others in an attempt to reach a mutual understanding. Interspecies communication is possible to an extent, such as a lion tamer being able to control a lions actions to a degree. For purposes of this discussion however, the focus will remain on... | http://www.mbcnet.org/tag/route-of-communication |
4.09375 | mark systemArticle Free Pass
mark system, penal method developed about 1840 by Alexander Maconochie at the English penal colony of Norfolk Island (located east of Australia). Instead of serving fixed sentences, prisoners there were held until they had earned a number of marks, or credits, fixed in proportion to the ser... | http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/365619/mark-system |
4.03125 | Last week, we discussed a couple of variations of inequality questions with many factors. Let’s now look at some more complications that we should know how to handle.
Complication No 3: Even powers
(x – a)^2(x – b)(x – c)(x – d) > 0
How would you handle even powers of factors? Say, if the question has a factor (x – a) ... | http://www.veritasprep.com/blog/2012/07/quarter-wit-quarter-wisdom-inequalities-with-complications-part-ii/ |
4.09375 | Ground beetle (Bembidion nigropiceum)
|Size||Length: less than 7.5 mm (2)|
Classified as Nationally Scarce in Great Britain (3).
Unlike many members of the Bembidion genus, the largest genus of ground beetles in Britain, this blackish ground beetle does not have a metallic sheen (2). It is small, flattened and rather p... | http://www.arkive.org/ground-beetle/bembidion-nigropiceum/factsheet |
4.03125 | Verizon Thinkfinity offers thousands of free K-12 educational resources across seven disciplines for use in and out of school.
Our lesson plans are written and reviewed by educators using current research and the best instructional practices and are aligned to state and national standards. Choose from hundreds of topic... | http://www.readwritethink.org/professional-development/strategy-guides/introducing-content-with-seed-30631.html?tab=1 |
4.09375 | For example, shield volcanoes such as Kilauea on the island of Hawaii produce large amounts of lava that is less viscous (less sticky) because it has less silica, SiO2, in it. Lava from these eruptions may flow as a rough textured type called aa (a Hawaiian word, pronounced "ah, ah"), or another type called pahoehoe, w... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/earth/surface_and_interior/lava |
4.1875 | The madrigal is a genre of secular music that developed in Italy in the 1500s and reached its peak there around the turn of the seventeenth century. The popularity of the genre continued when it was exported to England in a volume entitled Musica Transalpina. Confusingly, it is unrelated to the fourteenth century Itali... | http://toddtarantino.com/hum/crudaamarilli.html |
4.09375 | How far have these students walked by the time the teacher's car
reaches them after their bus broke down?
Experiment with the interactivity of "rolling" regular polygons,
and explore how the different positions of the red dot affects its
vertical and horizontal movement at each stage.
Position the lines so that they ar... | http://nrich.maths.org/public/leg.php?code=68&cl=3&cldcmpid=4954 |
4.25 | Ancient Rocks Reveal Ages
Billions of years of history have been uncovered with a new technique that is helping scientists paint a picture of how Earth’s continents were arranged.
Scientists are using the new method to recover rare minerals from rocks and analyze their composition. In addition, researchers claim they c... | http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1701581/ancient_rocks_reveal_ages/ |
4.15625 | Sentences and Sentence Patterns
Sentence Clarity and Combining
Run on sentences
Identifying Sentences: Nearly
every complete sentence has at least a verb and subject.
A more complete analysis of the
structure and makeup of sentences can be examined in:
moderately long and complex sentences are accompanied by
explanatio... | http://www.angelfire.com/blues/writing/sentence_pattern.html |
4.1875 | July 15, 2007 Dutch researcher Joris van den Berg has developed a mathematical model to predict the movement of sand waves. Sand waves are formed by an interaction between the tidal current and sand. They are larger than sand ripples on the beach but smaller than sandbanks. Sand waves largely determine the shape of the... | http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070712134908.htm |
4.3125 | 7. Ratio and Proportion
We need to be a bit careful because lots of people use the words "ratio", "fraction" and "proportion" to mean the same thing in everyday speech.
This makes it difficult when we meet the terms in mathematics, because they are not necessarily used to mean the same thing.
Ratios and Fractions
Ethan... | http://www.intmath.com/numbers/7-ratio-proportion.php |
4.25 | Anemia is a condition when there are too few red blood cells in the body. Iron deficiency anemia (IDA) is one type of anemia where there is not enough iron in the blood.
The main job of red blood cells is to carry oxygen from your lungs to all the organs and tissues in your body. A red blood cell is full of a protein, ... | http://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/health/i/iron-anemia/ |
4.0625 | Winning Lesson Plans
these science lesson plans submitted by teachers for Science WoRx contests.
Building Working Models of the Human Heart
In this activity by David Brock, students design and build functioning artificial "hearts" to study and to demonstrate their knowledge of the circulatory system.
The Cell as a Syst... | http://www.scienceworx.org/Resources.aspx |
4.125 | ||It has been suggested that Combining dimensions be merged into this article. (Discuss) Proposed since August 2012.|
||This article needs attention from an expert in Mathematics. (February 2013)|
In mathematics, a projection is a mapping of a set (or other mathematical structure) into a subset (or sub-structure), whic... | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection_(mathematics) |
4.0625 | A & P Study Guide
Exam # 2
Chapter 6 – Skeletal System
Skeleton: Overview (p. 79)
at least five functions of the skeleton.
a classification of bones based on their shapes.
the anatomy of a long bone.
the growth and development of bones.
and describe eight types of fractures, and state the four steps in
Axial Skeleton (... | http://www2.thomas.edu/faculty/hansenj/sc321/Study2.htm |
4.3125 | A Texas Alphabet
Social Studies, Art, and Language Arts Activity
Students create an alphabet book for younger children based on Texas themes.
WHAT YOU NEED
- Reference materials about Texas places, people, and products
- Art materials suitable for making and binding a booklet
- Examples of alphabet books with a variety... | http://www.eduplace.com/ss/act/alphabet.html |
4.15625 | Sore mouth is caused by a virus. It commonly affects nursing or recently weaned lambs, but sheep of all ages can be affected. The disease is characterized by the formation of lesions, which progress into thick crust or scabs, on the lips. Often, an entire group of lambs will become infected. However, mortality is low.
... | http://aces.nmsu.edu/newmexicosheep/soremouth.html |
4.3125 | After leaving the nest, it is imperative that the hen keep in contact with her young. A series of assembly and maternal calls from the hen and responding vocalizations from the ducklings keep the family unit together. While feeding and exploring in thick vegetation, the family may not always have visual contact, but th... | http://www.ducks.org/conservation/waterfowl-biology/waterfowl-vocalizations/page2 |
4.125 | Marie Daucks was a twenty-five year old widow when she signed up to go to Jamestown. Barbara Burchens was just seventeen and unmarried when she decided to travel across the ocean. They were among the 57 'maids' sent to Jamestown by the Virginia Company in 1621 in an effort to raise morale and improve the quality of lif... | http://librariangene.blogspot.com/2010/03/women-in-colonial-america.html |
4 | Hebrew is classified as a Northwest Semitic language. The Northwest Semitic languages are subdivided into the Canaanite and Aramaic branches, with Hebrew falling under the Canaanite branch. The writing system used by the Canaanite and Aramaic branches diverged from each other so far as the shape of the letters are conc... | http://www.theology.edu/hebrew/hb01.htm |
4.0625 | - Grades: 1–2
It is always exciting and eye-opening for students to learn about another culture. By exploring cultures, students begin to get a sense of the world around them. China's culture is something that many students find fascinating. They begin to see how cultures that can be so very different, can also have so... | http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/exploring-china |
4.28125 | Highlights DNA Replication (continued)
1. Replication of linear eukaryotic chromosomes is more complex than replicating the circles of prokaryotic cells. During each round of eukaryotic DNA replication, a small portion of the DNA at the end of the chromosome (known as a telomer) is lost. Telomers have thousands of copi... | http://oregonstate.edu/instruction/bb350/spring12/highlightstranscription.html |
4.03125 | In Kepler, NASA has an exoplanet hunter. In the Curiosity rover, the space agency has finely tuned mechanism for tracking down geological signs of past life on Mars. It even has an asteroid hunter capable of chasing down hurtling chunks of rock from millions of miles away. Now, NASA wants a comet hunter. Literally. In ... | http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-12/hunt-comets-nasa-building-giant-harpoon |
4.09375 | As shown in our online store screenshot, our resources are intended for secondary students and teachers. I’m so excited that we are just weeks away from the release of our new curriculum, The Founding Documents: A Three-Act Drama, which is tailor-made for fourth through sixth graders. It is a fun, full-color magazine-s... | http://billofrightsinstitute.org/blog/2011/04/12/constitutional-thinking-for-young-learners/ |
4.34375 | In the preceding posts, I mentioned infinite products as approximations for π. These may be seen geometrically as exhaustion methods, where the area of a polygon approaches the circular area alternately from above, from below, from above, from below, etc.
There are also integral representations of pi. In such integral ... | http://commonsensequantum.blogspot.com/2010/04/keeping-track-of-circle-for-integral.html |
4.1875 | Historical, hands-on documents help your students explore the attitudes and conditions of the Spanish Inquisition in Europe during the Middle Ages. This Jackdaw discusses a classic example of religious intolerance and abuse of power with terrible consequences for the victims, and it provides a basis for class study on ... | http://www.jackdaw.com/p-332-the-spanish-inquisition.aspx |
4.28125 | Ability Level– Referring to instructional material that is appropriate for that particular child’s understanding.
Abbreviation - Short form of a word or phrase. Example: Texas = TX or University of California, Los Angeles = UCLA
Action Verb - See Verbs
Action Words - See Action Verbs definition in Verbs
Adjectives - Wo... | http://www.ilearnmyway.com/Reading-Definitions-s/14.htm |
4.3125 | Migration is a fact of life for most bird species in North America, and migration periods are much anticipated by birders. Since the beginning of detailed migration studies, much has been learned about how birds migrate. However, there are still open questions, such as what factors influence the routes and timing of mi... | http://dendroica.blogspot.com/2006/09/migration-study.html |
4.34375 | What Is Congress?
Making laws is the U.S. House of Representatives' most important job. Committees play an important role in this process. To learn how laws are made, visit How a Bill Becomes a Law.
In early Congresses, Representatives were creating lots of bills on many different topics and needed a way to organize th... | http://kids.clerk.house.gov/grade-school/lesson.html?intID=34 |
4.09375 | LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION
Ambrose, S.E. Undaunted Courage (Simon & Schuster, 1996).
United States citizens knew little about western North America when the Lewis and Clark Expedition set out in 1804. Twelve years earlier Captain Robert Gray, an American navigator, had sailed up the mouth of the great river he named th... | http://history-world.org/lewisand%20clark.htm |
4.03125 | What is Ozone?
Chemically, ozone is oxygen with an extra atom added. Electrically, ozone is oxygen with a higher energy level. It is unstable and highly reactive.
There is a cycle of oxygen just as there is a cycle of water. Oxygen is released in photosynthesis by land plants and ocean phytoplankton (mostly diatoms), a... | http://nevadaozone.com/whatisozone.html |
4.15625 | Bees with the necessary honey-storing characteristics to be exploited by humans for their honey belong either to the subfamily Meliponini that contains several genera of stingless bees, or to the single genus Apis, the honey bees, The stingless bees are social bees that store significant volumes of honey. Their natural... | http://www.beesfordevelopment.org/portal/topic.php?id=106&p=38 |
4.46875 | This activity investigates how you might make squares and pentominoes from Polydron.
Here are some ideas to try in the classroom for using counters to investigate number patterns.
Can you make a cycle of pairs that add to make a square number
using all the numbers in the box below, once and once only?
Can you make squa... | http://nrich.maths.org/thismonth/2and3/2003/01 |
4.125 | of Earth Science |Northeastern
Objectives #6 (September 13,
the end of today's class, you
should be able to do the following:
v Making a Scientific Presentation:
v Water Flow:
and verbally convey information on a scientific lab experiment to an
audience, supplementing your talk with simple illustrations.
v Properties o... | http://www.neiu.edu/~llsander/337/Fall2007/objectives6.html |
4.09375 | Search Course Communities:
Conditional Probability Applet
Course Topic(s): Probability | Basic Probability, conditional probability | Basic Probability, basic rules
This applet shows two events \(A\) and \(B\) as squares within a larger square that represents the sample space. The user can drag events \(A\) and \(B\) a... | http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL/61/?pa=newCollection&sa=viewResourceEntry&resourceId=1246 |
4.1875 | The standard RAVLT format starts with a list of 15 words, which the examiner reads aloud at the rate of one word per second. The test-taker's task is to repeat all the words he or she can remember, in any order. This procedure is carried out a total of five times. Then, the examiner presents a second list of 15 words, ... | http://www.annarbor.co.uk/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=416_249_303 |
4.09375 | Ocean Regions: Littoral Zone - Characteristics
The littoral zone is the part of the ocean closest to the shore.
The littoral zone is from the shoreline to 600 feet (183 meters)
out into the water and is divided into three zones: the supralittoral
zone, the intertidal zone and the sublittoral zone.
The supralittoral, or... | http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/ocean/regions/littoralzone1.htm |
4.71875 | You can learn a lot about the nature of matter by making a model of an atom. Before you begin, look through the Periodic Table of Elements and pick an atom. You can find the table in an encyclopedia, a science textbook or online. Choose an atom with an atomic number of at least 11, since it has at least three energy le... | http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/scientific-experiments/how-to-make-model-of-atom.htm |
4.09375 | Many of the words we use come from a root word. Once you pull off any prefixes or suffixes, the root will be normally at the front or the back of the remaining word. A little digging will uncover just what the root word really means. For example, in a word such as scissors, the root word is sciss, which means cut.
Word... | http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-root-words.html |
4.3125 | Oh My! Long O is all Over the Place!
Rationale: This lesson will help students to recognize the long vowel o_e = /O/. It is critical for students to understand that vowels can make different sounds and be able to distinguish between them to master language skills and reading skills. The students will be learning about ... | http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/journeys/adkinsbr.htm |
4.03125 | LCROSS Finds Water on the Moon
November 13, 2009: The argument that the Moon is a dry, desolate place no longer holds water.
At a press conference today, researchers revealed preliminary data from NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, indicating that water exists in a permanently shadowed lu... | http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2009/13nov_lcrossresults/ |
4.1875 | How to multiply fractions – Special fractions worksheets
There are some basic, very important, math skills underlying multiply fractions. If kids want to learn how to multiply fractions, they have to have the following tools in their math tools chest.
- Ultimate multiplication skills or in other words kids need to be v... | http://fractions-worksheets.com/multiply-fractions/ |
4.34375 | The exact cause of a squint or strabismus is not fully understood. Six eye muscles controlling eye movement are attached to the outside of each eye. In each eye, two muscles move the eye right or left. The other four muscles move it up or down and at an angle. To line up and focus both eyes on a single target, all of t... | http://www.health24.com/Medical/Eye/Squint/How-does-a-squint-arise-20120721 |
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