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Hubble is famous for its stunning images of the universe. But many of Hubble’s most amazing discoveries come from its observations of cosmic objects’ spectra.
White light is made of colors. The light from a cosmic object is dispersed by Hubble’s instruments into its component rainbow of colors.
Astronomers measure the ... |
How do you know what makes a great science fair project? Here are some pointers for making sure you have a good project, based on what science fair judges are looking for in your project.
Science fair judges are looking for inventions and innovations. Try to come up with an original idea for your science fair project. ... |
ELECTRONICS made a huge leap forward when the delicate and temperamental vacuum tube was replaced by the robust, reliable transistor. That change led to the now ubiquitous silicon chip. As a consequence, electronic devices have become vastly more powerful and, at the same time, have shrunk in both size and cost. Some p... |
In order to understand much of macroeconomics, it's crucial to have a clear definition of what money is. In general, people tend to use the term "money" as a synonym for "wealth" (eg. "Warren Buffett has a lot of money"), but economists are quick to clarify that the two terms are not in fact synonymous. In economics, t... |
Definition of 'Soft Skills'
The character traits and interpersonal skills that characterize a person's relationships with other people. In the workplace, soft skills are considered a complement to hard skills, which refer to a person's knowledge and occupational skills. Sociologists may use the term soft skills to desc... |
By Dr Ananya Mandal, MD
Epiglottitis is inflammation and swelling of the epiglottis. The epiglottis lies just behind the root of the tongue at the back of the mouth.
What is the epiglottis?
The epiglottis is a leaf-shaped flap of cartilage tissue. Its main function is to flip over the larynx or voice box that guards th... |
This video highlights Wilmington, North Carolina, in the years leading up to the election of 1898. At the time, Wilmington could boast of idyllic race relations between black and white citizens. Blacks, only thirty years after Emancipation, had become professionals, politicians and shop owners. While blacks prospered, ... |
The word "Baroque" is used in other art forms besides music: we talk about Baroque architecture, painting, sculpture, dance and literature. The Baroque period comes between the Renaissance and the period of Classicism (the Classical Period).
History[change | change source]
Musicians think of the Baroque period as start... |
The sun's magnetic field flips every 11 years, and it's about to do it again. As reported on Unknowncountry.com it last flipped on February 15, 2001, as the previous solar max reached its height. The complete field reversal is 3 to 4 months away. The shift will mark the midpoint of Solar Max 24, which has been one of t... |
In encryption, a substitution cipher replaces units of plaintext with ciphertext according to a regular system. The recipient of the ciphertext can decipher it by performing an inverse substitution. The unit can be anything from a single letter, letters or a mixture of both. Although the plaintext units themselves are ... |
The Sonata form, also known as sonata-allegro form, is a musical form typically used in the first movement of classical works. It is derived from the binary form of the Baroque era of music, developed further through the works of the Mannheim school, and gained prominence in the works of Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus ... |
sure used to describe the effect on a receptor. The sound power level from a single turbine is usually around 90-105 dB(A); such a turbine creates a sound pressure of 50-60 dB(A) at a distance of 40 meters (this is about the same level as conversational speech). Noise (sound-pressure) levels from an onshore wind projec... |
Beginning level grammar may be easy, but teaching it to speakers of other languages is a challenge in and of itself.
Before you walk into that classroom full of beginning students or continue with them into an intermediate class, make sure you can explain these grammatical structures.
Teaching Grammar? Here's What You ... |
A September paper by the world's leading body of scientists studying the effects of human activity on the world's climate suggested there was a slim chance that greenhouse gas emissions would force global warming to a smaller degree than previously suspected. But a new study yanks the rug out from under that slight bit... |
Feeling is the nominalization of the verb to feel. The word was first used in the English language to describe the physical sensation of touch through either experience or perception. The word is also used to describe experiences other than the physical sensation of touch, such as "a feeling of warmth" and of sentience... |
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Students are introduced to the Pythagorean Theorem using an interactive demonstration of the proof of the theorem. Students explore the reasoning behind the proof, learn relevant parts... |
Structural Biochemistry/Phase Diagrams
Introduction of phase diagrams
A phase diagram is a chart that helps define the conditions at which a substance can be in its solid, liquid, and vapor states. The three boundary lines of the chart signify the equilibrium relationships between the phases: fusion curve, vaporization... |
Presentation on theme: "Do Now Record in your Agenda: Civil War unit test on Friday (things to study: life in North/South, events leading to the war, key battles/events of the."— Presentation transcript:
1 Do NowRecord in your Agenda: Civil War unit test on Friday (things to study: life in North/South, events leading t... |
Similar Triangles using Geometer's Sketchpad
Lesson 6 of 10
Objective: SWBAT investigate properties of similar triangles using dynamic geometry software.
As my students enter the classroom, I assign them a partner and give each pair a laptop. For today's Do Now, I ask my students to practice using Geometer's Sketchpad.... |
Tap on any of the Student Vital Actions to explore teaching moves!
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What is a Teaching Move?
ELLs produce language.
Students revise their thinking.
Students talk about each other’s thinking.
Students engage and persevere.
Students say... |
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Add within 100, including adding a two-digit number and a one-di... |
The concept of the Rule of Law stems from a lot of different continents and traditions. It is intertwined with the history of law around the world. In 1760 B.C, the King of Babylon promulgated the Code of Hammurabi. It is one of the first citations of the law’s codification. It was presented to the public, and applied ... |
The Confederate States of America recognized from the outset of the Civil War that they had disadvantages in terms of population and industrial output. Their strategy was to take advantage of their compact geography, with internal lines of communication, their military heritage (Southerners had been disproportionately ... |
New York, Nov 30 (IANS) Researchers have discovered fossils of 2.5 billion-year-old sulfur-oxidising bacteria that existed just fine without any oxygen.
The ancient life forms were found fossilised in two separate locations in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa.
“These are the oldest reported fossil sulfur bact... |
The earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan focused attention on the Fukushima nuclear power plant in the northern region of the island nation. Explosions at the plant and the failure of the systems used to cool its reactors heightened the risk of a meltdown.
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) has made numerou... |
Council of Constance, (1414–18), 16th ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church. Following the election of two rival popes (Gregory XII in Rome and Benedict XIII in Avignon) in 1378 and the attempt at the Council of Pisa in 1409 to resolve the Great Schism by the election of a new pope, the church found itself wi... |
English Grammar Rules
The seven basic pronouns have one form when they are used as subjects and another form when they are used as objects.
Subjects are what the sentence is about. (See more about Subject Pronouns)
Objects are what is affected by the action of the subject.
- I like orange juice. (I is the subject).
- I... |
How to model the brainstorming process
You may think of writing as a hands-off subject: just give a child a piece of paper and a writing prompt and let him at it, right?
Well, not always.
The truth is, writing is a subject that must be taught in order for most children to learn and improve. A schoolteacher stands at th... |
Word Study Activities from Words Their Way
The following activities come from what many consider to be the bible of word study, Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction by Donald Bear, Marcia Invernizzi, Shane Templeton, and Francine Johnston.
If you like these exercises, you might ... |
Mode (Mathematics Glossary)
What Is the Mode?The mode is an average of a set of numbers.
The mode is the number that appears most often in a set of numbers.
It is possible for a set of numbers to have no mode or multiple modes.
Dictionary DefinitionThe Oxford English Dictionary defines the mode as "the value, or range ... |
Antislavery Sentiment Emerges in Pre-Revolutionary America
The Colonists are by the law of nature free born, as indeed all men are, white or black. ~James Otis 1764
Some Americans began expressing reservations about slavery long before the ferment of opposition to British policies in the 1760s led others to link coloni... |
Parents’ concerns about Internet safety were at one time confined to the computer. Today, kids have unlimited access to the Internet via smart phones and gaming devices. The potential for cyberbullying is alarmingly greater than ever.
Cyberbullying is when one minor uses technology as a weapon to target another young p... |
During exercise, the amount of blood pumped by the heart increases in order to deliver more oxygen to the body’s muscles. In a healthy adult, cardiac output—a measure of the amount of blood pumped by the heart—can increase from 3 liters of blood per minute per square meter of body surface to 18 liters per minute per sq... |
This session can be used as a starter for ‘Talking about depression’ or ‘Finding a way forward’.
In this session we will learn:
- to recognise when we need to ask for support
- to recognise when others need support
- to understand what depression is
- shoe boxes or balloons labelled as below
- Ask for a volunteer from ... |
A new study has shown that the sophisticated structure of tooth enamel holds clues for aerospace engineers as they build the aircraft and space vehicles of the future.
Professor Herzl Chai of Tel Aviv University’s School of Mechanical Engineering and his colleagues at the George Washington University applied varying de... |
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Some earthquakes seem to hit in a seasonal pattern – and no one knows why.
Zhongwen Zhan of the California Institute of Technology and Peter Shearer of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography examined a global catalogue of earthquakes that have occurred since 1900. Out of 60 large, deep ea... |
By Kristina Kassis (Fall 2012 GE 101 student)
Have you ever been jarred awake in the middle of a particularly cold night by what seemed to be a small earthquake? If you have, chances are that it was not an earthquake but rather a rare frost quake, also known as a Cryoseism.
Frost quakes are non-tectonic seismic events ... |
On this day in 1942, the Japanese infantry stage a major offensive against Allied troops in Bataan, the peninsula guarding Manila Bay of the Philippine Islands.
The invasion of the Japanese 14th Army, which began in December 1941 and was led by General Masaharu Homma, had already forced General Douglas MacArthur’s troo... |
The term Nisei refers to Japanese children born to parents who emigrated to another country. The term roughly translates to English as "second generation," indicating that the emigrating parents were the first generation to take up residence outside of Japan, and the children were the second.Continue Reading
Nisei chil... |
In the March 15 issue of Annals of Carnegie Museum, researchers describe their findings regarding an ancient amphibian skull found at the Pittsburgh International Airport in 2004. This amphibian fossil, named Fedexia striegeli, is believed to be an important transitional fossil and one of the earliest examples of terre... |
P2.7.1 Nuclear Fission 1
- This is the process of splitting a nucleus into fragment nuclei, and releasing 2/3 fission neutrons which go on to cause other fissionable nuclei to split-a chain reaction.
- Energy in the form of radiation, as well as kinetic energy of the fragment nuclei and fission neutrons is released.
- ... |
To graduate from Brookings/Harbor High School, a student must take four years of a foreign language. But back to that subject in a moment.
October 13th is Columbus Day. However, there are many communities that don't celebrate Columbus. Instead, they celebrate Indigenous People.
You see, some communities realize that ce... |
If you've ever had a little trouble trying to program your calculator, you may find a little relief with this four-part video tutorial. Here, a Texas Instruments (TI-84 Plus) calculator will be used to explain the programming process. The four parts include:
1: The Basics
2: Creating a Simple Program
3: Perfecting a Pr... |
An erroneous doomsday theory doing the rounds is that a supernova explosion, which releases energy equivalent to that produced during the sun's entire lifetime, could happen in 2012 and harm earthly life.
However, given the vastness of space and the long light years between supernovae, astronomers say with certainty th... |
FOR a brief time during its infancy, Earth was a hot, doughnut-shaped blob called a synestia. Rocky worlds can be pulverised by collisions with each other, mushrooming into synestias before cooling off and becoming more familiar-looking celestial spheres, a new study says.
Worlds in our universe come in all shapes, fro... |
The word osteoporosis literally means "porous bones." It occurs when bones lose an excessive amount of their protein and mineral content, particularly calcium. Over time, bone density, and therefore bone strength, is decreased. As a result, bones become fragile and break easily. Even a sneeze or a sudden movement may b... |
Unit 1: Historical Background . 800 and 600 B.C., two groups of Celts from southern Europe invaded the British Isles. Britons settled on the largest island, Britain. Gaels, settled on the second largest island, known to us as Ireland. Farmers and hunters.
800 and 600 B.C., two groups of Celts from southern Europe invad... |
From VOA Learning English, welcome to The Making of a Nation, our weekly program of American history for people learning American English. I’m Steve Ember.
During the first half of the 19th
century, leaders of the United States could find no answer to the question of slavery. The dispute grew more threatening after the... |
LA: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
LA: Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text.
LA: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative... |
An international team of astronomers has discovered yet another planet far beyond our solar system, but the astronomers used a different method than the one previously used to find planets. They used a cosmic magnifying glass provided by nature.
Telescopes are not yet powerful enough to see planets orbiting distant sta... |
thousands of bird species on the earth. Every one of them
possesses distinct features. For example, falcons have acute
vision, wide wings and sharp talons, while hummingbirds, with
their long beaks, suck the nectar of flowers.
Others migrate over long distances to very specific
places in the world. But the most importa... |
Presentation on theme: "Kaitlyn Manns ED 602-51 08/01/13 CHAPTER SEVEN Preparing Students and Parents for a Differentiated Classroom What can teachers do?"— Presentation transcript:
Kaitlyn Manns ED 602-51 08/01/13 CHAPTER SEVEN Preparing Students and Parents for a Differentiated Classroom What can teachers do?
What ca... |
Matrix is a set of mn numbers (real or imaginary) arranged in the form a rectangular array of m rows and n columns. It is called an m×n matrix and is read ‘m by b matrix’.
1. A matrix is a rectangular array of numbers [aij]
2. A matrix with m rows and n columns is called an m×n matrix and the size or dimension of this ... |
e-Science : April 2012 Issue 1
CONCEPT INFORMATION (AS DENOTED BY SUPERSCRIPT NUMBERS): 1. Big bang The big bang is thought to be the beginning of the Universe. About 14 bil- lion years ago the expansion of the Universe began, and continues today. Everything in the Universe is receding away from everything else. How do... |
There may be water — a good bit of it — deep inside the moon, scientists at Brown University say.
By analyzing satellite images, the scientists found evidence of water trapped in “glass beads” in ancient ash and rocks that volcanoes spewed across the surface of the moon, said Ralph Milliken, lead author of the new rese... |
The research was done by astronomers at Keele University and the University of Central Lancashire and will be published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
The galaxy, with the very clunky name of SAGE0536AGN, was discovered with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
. Scientists think it's about 9 billi... |
5. Description, Geography, and Climate
The Sundarbans National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Indian National Park, Tiger Reserve, and Biosphere Reserve located in the state of West Bengal in India. The national park is located adjacent to the similarly named Sundarban Reserve Forest in Bangladesh. The National ... |
Dolphins, as well as whales and porpoises, are marine mammals commonly called cetaceans, as they belong to the order Cetacea. They inhabit all oceans and although, classified as marine mammals, some species of dolphin also inhabit freshwater rivers and they are even found as far from the ocean as in Nepal. They are ful... |
This stone fragment may not look like much, but it may blow open the door to understanding early human culture in Eurasia tens of thousands of years ago.
A major new find in the Vezere Valley in France is making the rounds in the world of anthropology. A research team from New York University has found a 38,000-year-ol... |
Many people use decimals every day when they deal with money. Decimals are also commonly found on gas pumps and on a car's odometer. All these uses of decimals are a way to show a fraction of a whole unit, such as a dollar or gallon of gasoline.Continue Reading
Every time someone buys an item and makes change, they are... |
On April 6, 1917, two days after the U.S. Senate votes 82 to 6 to declare war against Germany, the U.S. House of Representatives endorses the decision by a vote of 373 to 50, and the United States formally enters the First World War.
When World War I erupted in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson pledged neutrality for the ... |
Use this activity to explore common refractive errors and how corrections help correct them. In this acitivity, we will examine both myopia (nearsightedness) and hyperopia (farsightedness).
Myopia is a common form of mild visual impairment, often called nearsightedness because people with myopia can focus well on near ... |
Fossils are usually crushed or incomplete when they are found. Millions of years can take a toll, after all. Consequently, fossils have to be studied very carefully to avoid damage and sometimes they are hard to access. Now, an international team of scientists has found a better way to examine delicate fossils and reco... |
President of the Senate
The President is a senator who is chosen as the Presiding Officer. This means that in addition to representing their state or territory, the President is responsible for running the meetings of the Senate.
The President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives are both Presi... |
The Adventures of Odysseus
The story of Odysseus was told by the ancient poet, Homer.
His epic poem The Odyssey is one of the most important literary works in history.
At the end of the Trojan War, Odysseus and his crew sailed from Troy with the rest of the Greek fleet. According to the story, a storm blew Odysseus’s s... |
Body mass index (BMI) is a simple index of weight-for-height that is commonly used to classify overweight and obesity in adults. It is defined as a person's weight in kilograms divided by the square of his height in meters (kg/m2). The WHO definition is: a BMI greater than or equal to 25 is overweight a BMI greater tha... |
Created as a way to spiral the Common Core Math Curriculum, these calendar pieces support students in practicing multiple concepts throughout the month. This month includes the concepts of identifying attributes and multiple names of quadrilaterals and triangles, whole number multiplication and division, and comparing ... |
The following environments are typically found across sub-Saharan Africa, where African Wildlife Foundation works:
North Africa is the site of the world’s largest hot desert, the Sahara, while Southern Africa hosts the Kalahari Desert. Despite a harsh, dry, climate that is hot during the day and extremely cold at night... |
Grades2 to 8
In the ClassroomSeveral games require significant reading, so partner weaker and stronger readers if students work independently. Create a link to specific games on classroom computers as a center to use on President's Day, Constitution Day, or any class day studying U.S. Government. If studying your state... |
An empire founded by Genghis Khan early in the 13th century. Loosely related nomadic tribesmen who lived in felt huts (yurts) and subsisted on meat and milk – and fermented mares' milk (koumiss) – were united for the first time under his leadership. From Mongolia they swept out to Asia and eastern Europe. Splendid hors... |
The Scottish Enlightenment was the period in 18th century Scotland characterised by an outpouring of intellectual and scientific accomplishments. By 1750, Scots were among the most literate citizens of Europe, with an estimated 75-percent level of literacy. But it was a few hundred men who made the Enlightenment. Gathe... |
A selection bias is a bias that comes from a difference between the distribution of data sampled in a study and the distribution of the population selected from. The fundamental problem of statistics in science is to try to infer general properties from a small set of observations. Concerns about selection bias are imp... |
In 1648, the Treaty of Westphalia gave France possession of Breisach, on the right bank of the river Rhine. This town was fortified by Vauban on the order of Louis XIV and it gave France an important bridgehead on the right bank of the Rhine. Breisach flourished, and so many people came to the town that it spread onto ... |
The observation of colossal bubbles of energetic particles in space by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed the enormous sphere of influence exerted by some black holes. This vast reach can also slow down the growth of surrounding galaxies by slowing star formation.
“Direct observational evidence for a black h... |
How babies learn what we want
Every day, we interpret the actions of other people in terms of what they want and how hard they’re willing to try.This ability appears to emerge early in development: Like us, babies use the amount of effort someone spends towards a particular goal to infer how much the person values that... |
Waves –The Basics
Waves have amplitude, wavelength and frequency.
- Frequency is the number of waves passing past a certain point per second or the number of waves produced by a source each second. It’s measure in hertz (Hz). 1 Hz is 1 wave per second.
- Transverse waves have sideways vibrations
Most waves are transver... |
We will learn about Roman Numeration and its rules. We know that there are seven basic Roman Numerals. They are I, V, X, L, C, D and M. These numerals stand for the number 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500 and 1000 respectively. We already learned about the numerals I, V, X, L and C and now we will learn about the remaining two n... |
Recent research has revealed that the large intestine and its resident bacterial population have key roles to play in determining our health and wellbeing. It is much more than just a waste storage facility.
In an average adult, the large intestine is about 1.5m long and 5cm wide. It consists of the caecumappendixcolon... |
Cultural education is consisting of the capacity for reflection. Children and youngsters in cultural education are learning to reflect upon their own culture, the culture of others and culture in general.
This reflection is one of the principles trained in many different forms. It can be an instance or through history ... |
When and where did our species originate?
When and where modern humans arose is still debated.
Our species, Homo sapiens, has now spread to all parts of the world, but our origins are debated.There are several viewpoints on this but the two major and opposing opinions are the ‘Out of Africa’ model and the ‘Multiregiona... |
No one invented time; it was merely discovered.
Early humans were aware of time passing and at some point began marking it.
Archeologists continue to uncover ancient civilizations that devised elaborate methods of keeping track of the movement of the sun and the stars.
Stonehenge is one example.
The earliest clock, a s... |
Europe 1946: The Iron Curtain Descends
By the time the Allies met at Potsdam in September 1945, it was clear that Stalin intended to retain tight control over the eastern European countries Soviet armies had occupied during the War. Western distrust grew with Soviet insistence on pushing Poland westward into lands cont... |
Do we all see things the same way?
Lesson 1 of 32
Objective: SWBAT look at visuals and text from multiple viewpoints.
Unit Overview and Set up
This unit revolves around the multiple accounts common core standards (RI5.6 and RI5.8) . Next to poetry, this is, by far, my favorite unit. I've asked my students what types of... |
Each cell in our bodies has 2 metres of DNA packed inside its nucleus. The long string of DNA is wound up and tightly packed into structures called chromosomes. However, in order for a cell to be able to carry out all the basic processes it needs, the DNA structure needs to be organised and manipulated.
One of the ways... |
Both velocity and acceleration are the two major terminologies associated with the motion of objects. The crucial difference between velocity and acceleration is that velocity is variation in position of the object in a particular direction in unit time. On the contrary, acceleration is variation in velocity in a certa... |
Engine displacement, also referred to by the less common, but more technically accurate term piston displacement, is the measure of the volume moved by the pistons of an internal combustion engine as they move through a single, complete revolution. Piston displacement, which is expressed in volumetric units such as lit... |
Dating a fossil carbon 14
ICR researchers continue to look for radiocarbon in ancient carbon-containing Earth materials.Archaeologists commonly use carbon-14, or radiocarbon, to estimate ages for organic artifacts.The age for all these fossils was found to be less than 50,000 years1.This is not predicted by conventiona... |
Scientists are creating their own "home-brew" lava and pouring it at a test station to understand how water interacts with hot, molten rock.
Heating the rock
The experiment starts with pieces of basaltic rock, shown here. Such rock can have explosive reactions when it interacts with water, but in other situations, wate... |
The Adriatic Sea is the most indented section of the Mediterranean Sea on the continent of Europe. In its present shape, it was formed by the rising of the sea level by 96 metres following the last ice age in the Pleistocene period, when valleys and basins were submerged, and the dry land emerged as elongated islands, ... |
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- General features
- Natural history
- Form and function
- Evolution and paleontology
Arachnid, (class Arachnida), ... |
I include Warm ups with a Rubric as part of my daily routine. My goal is to allow students to work on Math Practice 3 each day. Grouping students into homogeneous pairs provides an opportunity for appropriately differentiated math conversations. The resource video specifically explains this lesson’s Warm Up- Complete t... |
Children’s Learning Styles
Learning styles is a term that refers to different ways in which we learn, process, and retain information. All young children learn through meaningful hands-on experiences—through touching, doing, and moving. And children also learn through seeing and hearing. As you observe your child, you ... |
Let's start at the beginning - choosing a topic for your science fair project. I know you are thinking there's not much to this, but choosing the right topic will help you succeed with the science fair project.
In this first science fair project challenge episode, we are going to delve into the keys for choosing a topi... |
"City Mouse, Country Mouse" is an Aesop fable that tells the story of two mice who take turns experiencing each other's lives in places much different from their homes. There are several modern versions of the fable, and they can be used to teach a variety of literacy, math, art, science and social studies concepts.
Re... |
What Is a Hydrocarbon?
A hydrocarbon is an organic chemical compound composed exclusively of hydrogen and carbon atoms. Hydrocarbons are naturally-occurring compounds and form the basis of crude oil, natural gas, coal, and other important energy sources.
Hydrocarbons are highly combustible and produce carbon dioxide, w... |
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The turn of the century is known as the ‘nadir’ of race relations, when white suprema... |
Short Story Unit Lesson Plans
I usually start my 8th grade Reading curriculum with short stories. Short stories allow me to teach a variety of essential elements during the first six weeks of school that I will need to build upon in our other units of study. Classic stories are my preference, but you may want to add a ... |
What to Know About Hearing Loss
Hearing is one of the five senses. It is a complex process which requires both the detection of sound and the ability to attach meaning to that sound. The ability to hear is critical to communication and navigating the world around you.
The human ear is fully developed at birth, capable ... |
Simulating galactic formation
MIT’s Caterpillar Project models the formation of galaxies like our own Milky Way
For as much as astrophysicists know about the cosmos, the formation of galaxies — even the formation of our own galaxy, the Milky Way — is still an open question. This is the question that the Caterpillar Pro... |
Rubella in Newborns
Rubella is caused by a virus.
The fetus or newborn may have symptoms depending on when during the pregnancy infection occurred.
Blood tests and tests of other samples can be done to detect the virus in the fetus, newborn, or mother.
Vaccination of the mother before becoming pregnant can prevent the ... |
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