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Introduction: Tecumseh and the Shawnee Prophet Digital History ID 665 Tecumseh and the Shawnee Prophet During the last years of the 18th century, defeat, disease, and death were the lot of Indians living in the Old Northwest. In 1794, an American force crushed an opposing Indian army at the Battle of Fallen Timbers nea...
Earth's solid iron core formed a BILLION years ago and is still growing: Innermost part of our planet was created when it 'froze' - International team led by the University of Liverpool made the estimate - They believe the Pluto-sized inner core at the heart of our planet formed when it 'froze' from the surrounding mol...
Predator animals like bears, big cats, wolves, and others are often regarded as dangerous, yet majestic. They’re captivating fixtures of nature documentaries, and creatures that many wildlife enthusiasts would be delighted to see out in the world. They’re also incredibly vulnerable. Around the globe, many predator spec...
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2015 April 19 Explanation: How could a galaxy become shaped like a ring? The rim of the blue galaxy pictured on the right is an immense ring-like st...
Mercury is the planet closest to the dazzling light of the sun. So why is its colour so dark? Scientists think they've finally figured out the answer. Billions of years ago, Mercury was black all over, coated by a crust of graphite — the form of carbon found in pencil leads. That "primordial crust" has long since been ...
The domestication of wild animals, beginning with the dog, heavily influenced human evolution. These creatures, and the protection, sustenance, clothing, and labor they supplied, were key factors that allowed our nomadic ancestors to form permanent settlements. Though to many urbanites livestock are as distant a part o...
The exact date that Jazz originated is quite controversial. The range however has been concluded to be somewhere in between 1895 and 1917. The modernization of the 20th century came hand in hand with the emergence of Jazz. According to Kathy Orgen, Jazz was “often credited with expressing a break from the past and the ...
Different crystals have different shapes and forms because of the: - stacking of the unit cells - internal arrangement of the atoms - the environment in which they grow Crystal shapes (morphology) can be a valuable tool in mineral identification. The study of crystals and the laws that govern their growth, external sha...
The Leidenfrost effect is a phenomenon in which a liquid, in near contact with a mass significantly hotter than the liquid's boiling point, produces an insulating vapor layer which keeps that liquid from boiling rapidly. This is most commonly seen when cooking; one sprinkles drops of water in a skillet to gauge its tem...
A companion phenomenon of emitting CO2 into the atmosphere is the loading of the oceans with elevated levels of carbon dioxide created by fossil fuel burning and other human activities. Recent estimates have calculated that 26 percent of all the carbon released as CO2 from fossil fuel burning, cement manufacture, and l...
In Ms. Jackson’s 4th grade classroom, the students were asked to list words describing the various events in the story “The Stranger”. In the general music class, Ms. Wyatt and Saalik Ziyad (teaching artist) asked the students write down words that came to mind after they watched a film scene. The scene was set in a ba...
Before now, our two separate pieces of silicon were electrically neutral; the interesting part begins when you put them together. That's because without an electric field, the cell wouldn't work; the field forms when the N-type and P-type silicon come into contact. Suddenly, the free electrons on the N side see all the...
The Native American tribe who has called Northern California home for a considerable length of time are known as the Yurok Indians. Whenever interpreted, the name signifies “downriver” in their local Yurok dialect. In 1849, Northern California rapidly turned into a place where gold searchers hurried to discover their f...
August 26th is the anniversary of national women’s suffrage in the United States. The woman suffrage amendment was introduced for the first time to Congress on January 10, 1878, thirty years after the first major women’s rights conference in the U.S. at Seneca Falls, New York. According to the National Women’s Equality...
Image in the public domain On November 19, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln gave a short speech to honor those who had died at the Battle of Gettysburg, which was fought in July of that year. After a two hour speech by politician Edward Everett, Lincoln spoke for just over two minutes. In just 272 words Lincoln explicitl...
If you are brave enough to let someone edit your work, be it an academic paper or the third chapter of your novel-in-progress, there’s a good chance that you’ve seen this scribbled out in bold red pen: Use active voice here. Well, wouldn’t it be helpful if they explained? Since your editor can’t hyperlink an example on...
The Quaternary, the most recent and short geologic period in the Earth’s 4.5 billion years long history, is characterized by the appearance of Man and the large glaciers. Hence sedimentation is directly related to cold climatic conditions and to rapid changes in sea-level. These in turn are related to alternations of s...
Presentation on theme: "Sex at Sea. Living organisms have evolved many different reproductive strategies. The strategies must be suitable for the environmental conditions in."— Presentation transcript: Living organisms have evolved many different reproductive strategies. The strategies must be suitable for the environm...
How has the writer used language in Chapter 5 of "Frankenstein" to develop character behavior? In Chapter 5, Victor is recovering from his fevered experience following the creature's coming to life at Henry Clerval's adept hands. Victor reads a letter from Elizabeth in which she fills him in on events at home. The lang...
In 1926, the famous astronomer Edwin Hubble developed a morphological classification of galaxies. This method divided the galaxies into three basic groups – elliptical, spiral and lenticular. Since then, astronomers have devoted a considerable amount of time and effort to discover how galaxies evolve over several billi...
The strangeness of the Sargasso Sea is older than that of Bermuda Triangle. The sea measuring 700 miles wide and 2000 miles long located in North Atlantic. It is the only sea without a land boundary. Ocean currents confined the Sargasso Sea on all sides – the Gulf Stream Current, the Canary Current, North Atlantic Curr...
Scientists have found evidence that there was once an ancient lake on Mars that may have been able to support life, in research published today in the journal Science. A team of researchers from NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover mission, which includes a researcher from Imperial College London, have ...
Japan's massive tsunami on March 11 reached heights of up to 131 feet (40 meters), according to the latest data from Japan's Meteorological Agency. That's the agency's best estimate, but the precise height will likely never be known because the earthquake and tsunami destroyed tide gauges and triggered blackouts and co...
Following the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant meltdown, biological samples were obtained only after extensive delays, limiting the information that could be gained about the impacts of that historic disaster. Determined not to repeat the shortcomings of the Chernobyl studies, scientists began gathering biological in...
Traditionally, studies of the transition from adolescence to adulthood have concentrated on young peoples ability to achieve independence by "getting a job." But the nature of employment and the values attached to paid and unpaid work have changed dramatically in todays world. Increasingly, we are recognizing that a su...
G2G Communities encourage learners to use technical skills, build tools to solve problems, from using apps to make animations to designing and making moving vehicles powered by bands and balloons. During Tim Peakes mission students will have lots of opportunities to follow his journey, to learn about the science behind...
Early YearsAn uncompromising and fearless Lakota leader who was committed to protecting his people's way of life, Crazy Horse was born with the Native American name Tashunka Witco around 1840 near what is present-day Rapid Springs, South Dakota. The details of how he came to acquire the name Crazy Horse are up for deba...
The aim of the K 12 Teachers Guide is to help teachers prepare units of work that integrate listening, speaking, reading, writing and learning. Teachers Guide helps teachers to think about important goals of the curriculum, as well as the opportunities that children will need to achieve the goals successfully. K 12 Tea...
The setting is both the time and geographic location within a narrative or within a work of fiction. A literary element, the setting helps initiate the main backdrop and mood for a story. Setting has been referred to as story world or milieu to include a context (especially society) beyond the immediate surroundings o...
This week we explore some very topical issues such as cyber bullying, identity theft and what it means when things go viral. There are some definitions and you will explore to see if the media has exaggerated these negative behaviours associated with social media. We will discuss how these issues impact on schools and ...
We’ve been sharing classroom resources to help you tap into the energy of the election season. The following resources from PBS LearningMedia allow students to investigate the role, challenges, and triumphs of U.S. Presidents. You’ll also find a variety of supporting materials to accompany these resources. Abraham Linc...
Dinosaurs might not have been the mighty conquerors that everyone thinks they were. Instead of overwhelming the world with force, dinosaurs might have instead moved in when no one was looking. Conventional wisdom suggests that soon after dinosaurs originated in what is now South America, they rapidly invaded every corn...
Explore the role of temperature and salinity in changing the density of water samples. Observe and discuss the impact of density differences in the ocean. Ages 8 and up. This lesson can be scaled with ability level. Lesson support for elementary, middle, and high school students are included. 45 to 60 minutes NJ State ...
Also called a molecular bond, a covalent bond is a type of chemical bond wherein two non-metallic atoms share (not donate) their electron(s) with each other and stick together, as a result. This attraction is due to the electrostatic force existing the electron(s) of one atom and proton(s) in the nucleus of the other a...
The search for planets outside the Solar System is set to follow a new path, says S.Ananthanarayanan. The methods used to detect planets around distant stars were effective mainly with planets that were fairly close to the parent stars. This was not a disadvantage because it was felt that it was the ‘earth-like’ planet...
A horizontal cladogram, with the ancestor (not named) to the left Two vertical cladograms, the ancestor at the bottom A cladogram is a diagram used in cladistics which shows relations among organisms. A cladogram is not, however, an evolutionary tree because it does not show how ancestors are related to descendants or ...
This week we have been discussing descriptive writing. We have been learning about how adding adjectives and similes can help to build a story that the reader can step right into. Yesterday we came up with some similes and adjectives that describe winter. We then crumpled up the paper to create snowballs and had a snow...
What prompted our earliest ancestors to leave the safety of the trees and begin walking upright on two legs? Traditional theories point to climate changes that reduced tree cover and forced them to forage and hunt on solid ground. But a new study suggests a different evolutionary stimulus. Archaeologists at the Univers...
Bird eggs come in a variety of colours. From the creamy and chalky whites in doves and pigeons to spotted yellow lapwing eggs and brown chicken eggs, to the blues of blackbirds and American robins. The striking colours and patterns have inspired artists, scientists and home decor makers from Aristotle to high-end jewel...
A new technology developed by scientists at University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA) can store solar energy for up to several weeks — an advance that could change the way scientists think about designing solar cells. The materials in most of today’s residential rooftop solar panels can store energy from the sun fo...
A proposition can only be said to be true if it corresponds to reality. For example, if I told my friend that I ate eggs and bacon for breakfast this morning, it is only true if I really did eat eggs and bacon this morning. To show that a proposition is true, one needs to be able to present evidence and arguments, a pr...
In a research context, the term construct refers to the characteristic or trait that is being evaluated. Constructs are classified as direct or indirect. Some examples of constructs are intelligence levels, measures of satisfaction, weight and height.Continue Reading Indirect constructs are those that can not be direct...
If you like the hands-on approach to teaching, then maybe you know about algebra tiles. Check out the video below to learn more about how they can help engage your algebra students. Algebra tiles are good manipulatives to give students a hands-on approach to be used in addition to the normal way it's taught in the clas...
A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun. Pronouns are used to avoid repetitive use of the same noun within a sentence or narrative. The following is an example of a sentence written without pronouns: When the angry bear became hungry, the angry bear ate. The essential counterpart of a pronoun is its antecede...
3 - 5 Students will learn about geographic, economic, human and cultural influences on food choices around the world and conduct research to learn about the influences behind an international egg recipe. - Where in the World? cards (1 copy, cut cards out) - Country Research Log activity sheet (one per student) - Intern...
When Japan opened its first national leprosaria in the early part of the 20th century, marriage between patients was not permitted. Only couples who were already married by the time they entered the sanatorium were allowed to live together. Quite soon, however, the authorities changed their policy. The idea was to make...
The struggle for equitable public transportation began as a fight for the civil rights of transit riders and workers. It remains so today, as WMATA considers cuts to bus service across the region. In 1917, African-American civil rights and union leader A. Philip Randolph started the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters ...
Cubism is an avant-garde movement of art history that surfaced in the early 20th century in the decade before Europe became embroiled in the First World War. Some say that Cubism was a natural outcome of earlier movements like Impressionism and Expressionism. Pablo Picasso and his contemporary Impressionists, including...
Understanding how carbon dioxide moves through pores could help develop crops to adapt to climate change Botanists have long known that plants breathe through tiny openings in leaves called stomata that take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen. But until now, it was never clear how these air channels form their intric...
How do you teach curiosity? Project work has some answers. Donna Hutton, Director of Preschool at The Lexington School helps us understand a world where asking questions leads children on an unparalleled path of exploration and discovery where we see that spark, the start of the desire to know more. That desire is what...
Regional language facts for kids Internationally, the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, "regional or minority languages" means languages that are: - traditionally used within a given territory of a State by nationals of that State who form a group numerically smaller than the rest of the State's popu...
This lesson helps young people understand how to choose a healthful meal when eating school lunch. Youth will draw their lunch choices on paper trays, then examine the drawings to see if their meal represents the five food groups. School lunches play an important part in meeting a child’s daily nutritional needs. Since...
S3-3: Investigate simple situations that involve elements of chance by comparing experimental results with expectations from models of all the outcomes, acknowledging that samples vary. This means students will understand that probability is about the chance of outcomes occurring. At Level Three students should recogni...
African-Americans demonstrate in favor of a strong civil right picket outside GOP convention hall, Chicago, Illinois, July 1960. "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." - Fift...
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What are Coronaviruses? Coronaviruses are a large group of viruses that are common among animals. In rare cases, they are what scientists call zoonotic, meaning they can be transmitted from animals to humans, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is a dangerous diseases with incubation peri...
A force is defined as a Force is a push or a pull that changes or tends to change the state of rest or uniform motion of an object or changes the direction or shape of an object One way that you can recognize that a force is acting on an object: A 1-kg object is lying on the ground. An unbalanced force of magnitude 1 N...
Habitat loss is one of the greatest threats to biodiversity today. It is estimated that habitat loss and degradation affect between 85 percent and 90 percent of all endangered birds, amphibians, and mammals. Habitat loss can put species in closer contact with human populations, which can cause a variety of problems. On...
Kids often dread bringing report cards home for a signature. By the time students reach higher education, there is a long list of assessments that define their success. In educational institutions, that success is measured by academic performance. This is how well a student meets standards set out by the local governme...
Close-up of a nutria. Approximately every years, the Mississippi River changed its course, creating seven major deltas in central and eastern Louisiana. Consequently, the region has experienced relatively drastic land loss. Byif nothing is done to stop this process, the state could lose another square miles, and one-th...
Reactivity in Chemistry By now you are familiar with a range of reaction types in organic, inorganic, and biochemistry. The purpose of this chapter is to help you review some of the tools that we use in communicating how reactions happen. First and foremeost, a mechanism is a sequence of intermediates. What happens to ...
There are different points of view in stories. What is a point of view? A point of view is the way a story is told by the narrative voice or the viewpoint. Whether a short story, children’s story or any genre, a point of view can change a story drastically. When an author begins their story, they have to decide how the...
Difference Between Density and Weight Key difference: Density is the object’s mass per volume. Weight is the force that the earth pulls on the mass of the object. Density and weight are both terms most commonly used in physics, however for the general public, the difference between the two may not be familiar. This is ...
Why Are A, E, I, O, U, And Y Called “Vowels”? Getty In elementary school, we all learned the vowels of the English language: A, E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y. Or, at least how we write them out, that is. What makes a vowel a vowel? Vowels and consonants are two different categories of sounds that linguists use to better ...
Working memory is the ability to hold information in your head and manipulate it mentally. You use this mental workspace when adding up two numbers spoken to you by someone else without being able to use pen and paper or a calculator. Children at school need this memory on a daily basis for a variety of tasks such as f...
Monomers are smaller molecules, and when bonded together, make up polymers . -Fatty acids are the monomers for lipids , for example, and regardless of how they are bonded (as a saturated or unsaturated fat, for example), they will form lipids. -Nucleotides form nucleic acids (eg. DNA) -Monosaccharides form carbohydrate...
Bloody Sunday occurred on January 22nd, 1905 in St. Petersbrg, Russia. It happened during a peaceful protest with unarmed citizens, mostly poor laborers, against Tsar Nicholas II over undesirable Tsarist policies. Multiple groups, lead by Georgy Gapon, a Russian Orthodox Priest, were converging on the Winter Palace whe...
The Rosetta is a space probe launched by the European Space Agency in March 2004. Back in August 2014, the space probe was able to reach comet 67P and was able to land on it a month after – marking the first time we’ve ever landed on a comet. Yesterday, Rosetta announced that they have discovered molecular oxygen in th...
Type I Error A Type I Error is also known as a False Positive or Alpha Error. This happens when you reject the Null Hypothesis even if it is true. The Null Hypothesis is simply a statement that is the opposite of your hypothesis. For example, you think that boys are better in arithmetic than girls. Your null hypothesis...
The 19th Century was characterized by the integration of asylums in order to treat the mentally ill. Public and private asylums were popular in both the United States and in Europe. The most famous is the York Retreat created by Quakers at the very end of the 1700s in England. Asylums were extremely beneficial to the c...
Radio and radar waves, microwaves, infrared rays, light rays, ultraviolet rays, X-rays and gamma rays all form what is called the electromagnetic spectrum. They are all various kinds of radiant energy and they differ only in their wavelength of frequency. Those with long wavelengths are generally called waves and the s...
Two continent-size blobs of hot — and possibly molten — rock can be found deep underground, about halfway to the center of the Earth, according to a new study. These curious structures — each of which is so large that it would be 100 times taller than Mount Everest — could be made up of materials that may shed light on...
We have become greatly interested in the rise in interest in computing lessons in schools, and as software developers we wanted to let you know how we created our Wordsearch activity. 1. Reason for creating Why make the program? To support some of our existing activities, we wanted to offer a wordsearch containing some...
To ‘transliterate’ means to represent a language – eg English, in a different ‘mode’ eg visually, through cueing it, rather than orally through speaking it. This is different from ‘interpreting’ which is representing a first language in a second separate language. Cued Speech Transliterators are people with a high leve...
The Seneca Indians are a tribal people originally from the New York area in the northeastern part of the United States. They were generally the most prominent and largest of the five tribes comprising the Iroquois Nation. There are three Seneca reservations in western New York, along with a reservation in Canada that’s...
| The fault in our stars| The Expanding Earth hypothesis, first proposed by Robert Mantovani in 1889, attempts to explain continental drift, but without the actual continental drift. This hypothesis was actually considered not unreasonable before the acceptance of plate tectonics, and there have been a small number of ...
Helioseismology studies the waves that travel through the Sun. The waves (vibrations) are increased by the temperature of the Sun and the deep motions inside the Sun. Scientists can measure these waves at the Sun's surface. Since the waves are made deep inside the Sun, scientists use these waves to understand the Sun's...
Our K-2 SIS’ers are learning about emotions! As our students are growing in their academics, they’re also growing in their social lives, and it’s important for them to know what those things they’re feeling inside their bodies are! Students are introduced to the four basic feelings of happy, sad, mad, and scared. I sho...
That handful of potting soil may not look like much when you tamp it down around the tomato plant: clay, bark, perhaps recycled cardboard. It's the characteristics of soil—to retain water, to provide space for a plant's roots to obtain oxygen—that make it important. These characteristics affect not just plants but the ...
The virus responsible for SARS has been designated the SARS-CoV virus and is related to coronaviruses, those responsible for the common cold. It is a stable virus and may be found in urine and faeces after two days and on walls, glass, etc for several days, but loses its infectivity after exposure to disinfectants. SAR...
Modern sound recordings usually involve tiny disks which can hold dozens of tracks, specially designed to be easily portable and convenient. The Maya may have had different priorities. David Lubman has proposed that the earliest sound recording so far discovered on the planet may well be the main pyramid at Chichen Itz...
Scientists from the National University of Australia said that the inside of the gas giant Saturn can be as viscous and fluid as honey. They came to this conclusion after analyzing the data from the Cassini probe. According to the results of the study, the pressure in the inner layers of Saturn’s atmosphere becomes so ...
Zika virus is a generally mild illness that is spread primarily through the bite of an infected mosquito. Zika virus occurs in tropical areas with large mosquito populations, and is known to circulate in Africa, Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, South America, Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico. To see a map ...
In the real world, you often have many objects of the same kind. For example, your bicycle is just one of many bicycles in the world. Using object-oriented terminology, we say that your bicycle object is an instance of the class of objects known as bicycles. Bicycles have some state (current gear, current cadence, two ...
Rube Goldberg was a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and engineer. He became famous for creating cartoons of machines that used an extraordinary string of events to accomplish a single task. Rube Goldberg projects are popular among high school and college students and hobbyists who love physics. Students will study th...
A controller is basically a unit present in a control system that generates control signals to reduce the deviation of the actual value from the desired value to almost zero or lowest possible value. It is responsible for the control action of the system so as to get accurate output. The method of producing a control s...
Mountains and hills are geographical features that determine the topography of physical land. They hold no official classification that can distinguish them. The U. S. Board initially considered hills to have summits of less than 1000 feet. The statement was abolished in the 1970s. They are categorized as generic terms...
Thomas Andrews was a master of detail. As managing director and head of the design department of the British ship-building company Harland and Wolff, he oversaw the construction of the Titanic, then the world’s largest passenger ship, in 1912. From the hull design to the correct number of screws for the hat hooks in th...
DNA replication refers to the production process of 2 identical replicas from 1 original DNA molecule. It is a biological process that takes place in all living things. In essence, DNA replication forms biological inheritance basis. The two strands serve as the reproduction templates of opposite strands. The replicatio...
Food security is perhaps one of the most commonly discussed social determinants of health, with the medical and public health industries standing poised to address it. According to Healthy People 2030, food insecurity is “a household-level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.” ...
In psychology, it is important to test data in order to arrive at the best options for analyzing data. Psychologists use five main types of hypothesis testing which include; Histograms, Box plots, Dot plots, Bar charts and Scatter plots. The use of a histogram involves the measuring of the data given by looking at the ...
Studies have shown that the emergence of the political parties throughout the 1790s was basically as a result of the formation of the groups that held onto opposing views related to the government structure including the Republicans and Federalists (Goldfield et al., 2001). By the end of the first term of Washington, t...
The following resources should assist parents to prepare culturally appetising school lunches: This video presentation links to ethnic lunch ideas from culturally diverse backgrounds. The video, “Let’s Eat Dinner” (Everyday Learning, 2019b), is a great way to teach preschool children to respect, appreciate and positive...
Spring is considered severe weather season in the Central US and on Tuesday the power of Mother Nature was on full display across the region. More than 300 severe storm reports were counted and the vast majority included very large hail. In Kansas and Nebraska, hailstones the size of a grapefruit were reported. Those a...
Did Scandinavian Vikings Carry Leprosy To Ireland? Leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease , is a chronic infectious disease that is caused when Mycobacterium leprae attacks the peripheral nerves, affecting the mucosal surfaces of the upper respiratory tract, the skin and eyes. Initially, the infected person shows no s...
Romanticism was a rebellion against the Neoclassic period of reason and ushered in the age of sensibility when artists choose passion and intuition over reasonable neutrality. Romanticism was also a reaction to the industrial revolution, an age of liberalism and nationalism when social norms flew out the window. Romant...
Enslavers valued the people they held in bondage by the work they could do: the more they were capable of, the more they were worth. Elders were not considered to be productive workers, and were worth little to their enslavers. The true value of these elders only becomes evident through reading between the lines of off...
Why do predatory dinosaurs have eyes on the sides of their head? This week's question comes to us from Graham Richard from Haida Gwaii, who asks the following: Eye orientation can reveal a lot about the niche terrestrial vertebrates occupy. Eyes of predators like mountain lions and pine martens have forward-facing eyes...
What’s a Totem Pole? A totem pole or monumental pole is a tall structure created by Northwest Coast Indigenous peoples that showcases a nation’s, family’s or individual’s history and displays their rights to certain territories, songs, dances and other aspects of their culture. Totem poles can also be used as memorials...
You’ve likely heard that the moon is responsible for tides on Earth, but have you ever actually thought about why? While the moon has the biggest effect on Earth’s tides, the sun and the ocean’s shape also have effects that increase or decrease the tide. The effects of the moon on Earth’s tides are called moon tides. M...