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The Planet Neptune
Neptune is the eighth planet from the sun and the third most massive planet. In terms of diameter, Neptune is the fourth largest planet. Neptune is a giant and a dense planet; it is 17 times larger than earth in mass. Furthermore, Neptune cannot be seen by naked eyes due to its distance. It is the on... |
Courage is mental or moral strength to venture, persevere and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty. In the real world, people are often given difficult situations that many do not want to face. Through their own values and decisions, they choose to either persevere through their own problems or take the easy way out, ... |
Element of Cone A cone has two parts, namely the base and the lateral. his the height of the cone, r is the radius of the base, and s is the slant height. Lateral s h Base r Lateral Base s r
Element of Cylinder Flat Top Flat Top h Lateral Lateral r Flat Base Flat Base A cylinder has three parts, namely the flat top, fl... |
Remember the Fibonacci sequence? It’s a series of numbers in which each subsequent number is the sum of the previous two: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, and so on. One of the most fundamental concepts in mathematics, it is the basis for the Golden Ratio in architecture and nature, some financial markets, and ... |
This team activity can be used as a simple connect 4, continuing until no other possibilities of connecting 4 are left. It can also be used as a collect as many squares as possible. Another use is one team gives an item of vocabulary to the other team and they have to make a full sentence or even each team take turns t... |
Univ. of Wisconsin
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Brian was a geometry teacher through the Teach for America program and started the geometry program at his school
Solving formulas for a variable is a critical skill in the Geometry area unit because many problems will give the area of a polygon and ask for a side, ... |
New simulations show the planet could have maintained moderate temperatures and liquid water until 700 million years ago
Venus is one of Earth’s closest neighbors, but astronauts won’t be stepping foot on the second planet from the sun anytime soon. Venus is a true hellscape, sporting an atmosphere thick enough to crus... |
Bessie Coleman, the first African American female pilot, grew up in a cruel world of poverty and discrimination. African Americans were essentially barred from voting by literacy tests. They couldn't ride in railway cars with white people, or use a wide range of public facilities set aside for whites. When young Bessie... |
Researchers at McGill University, Canada suggested that heat from the depths of the ocean is being trapped under the Antarctic ice shelf and this could be another effect of climate change.
In the 1970s, researchers in Antarctica found an open body of water just like the of New Zealand within, within an ice pack in the ... |
In order to define the term civilization, one must first understand the qualities that elevate a society to that next higher level of development beyond village or town. The Mesopotamian culture of Sumer provides examples of these key characteristics: specialized workers, industries, organized religion, infrastructure,... |
Bee5's - What's the buzz?
Here at the Activity House we have developed a number sense scheme we call Bee5’s. All activities in the Bee5’s activity pack are designed for children at grades K and 1, and are based around the visual modelling of numbers in groups of five.
Additionally, the structure of the Bee5’s abacus is... |
In this blog, I would like to introduce Aristotle’s model of the universe. The cosmic theory from Aristotle is clearly wrong from the view of modern science. However, before modern astronomy was developed, Aristotle’s ideas about our world dominated people’s belief for thousands of years. It was embraced by scholars, p... |
In audio signal processing and acoustics, echo is a reflection of sound that arrives at the listener with a delay after the direct sound. The delay is directly proportional to the distance of the reflecting surface from the source and the listener. Typical examples are the echo produced by the bottom of a well, by a bu... |
Literature can say one thing and mean another. Trope is the common term for the myriad ways in which literature might achieve meanings other than the literal ones, from metaphor and simile to allegory. In this part of the module we will look at ways of doing this that are frequent in many different genres.
More general... |
What is Responsible Decision-Making?
"The ability to make constructive choices about personal behavior and social interactions based on ethical standards, safety concerns, and social norms. The realistic evaluation of consequences of various actions, and a consideration of the well-being of oneself and others."
CASEL (... |
The upper layers of the world’s oceans have been warming much faster than oceanographers realised over the past few decades, according to a new study.
Sparse sampling of the Southern Hemisphere’s oceans have led to conservative estimates of warming. But the new research, published in Nature Climate Change, suggests tha... |
Lesson: Using Dialogue to Infer Traits
State Standard: . 3.LT-EF.14
Standard Name: Identify character traits in a story.
Objective:Students will be able to take what characters are saying in a text, use their dialogue to infer a character trait based on those characters' actions or words.
Do-Now: I am going to say some... |
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