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Since the beginning of history itself, people have created art that reflects real events. But each artist is a unique individual with his or her own perspective and purpose for each piece of art. This Analyzing Historical Art unit is designed to help you help your students learn to think critically about what they are ... |
Nuclear explosions can cause significant damage and casualties from blast, heat, and radiation but you can keep your family safe by knowing what to do and being prepared if it occurs.
A nuclear weapon is a device that uses a nuclear reaction to create an explosion.
Nuclear devices range from a small portable device car... |
Wondering how to differentiate the format of the standard paper-and-pencil summative assessment to meet the needs of English learners? Tan Huynh shows how word banks, visuals, single-task questions, sentence starters, and synonyms can help ELs convey what they know.
Tagged: sentence starters
Respectful, fruitful collab... |
Content Standards: Social Studies and Music
Have you heard or seen the musical Hamilton yet? If not, it’s definitely worth a look. This musical is one of the hottest tickets on Broadway and just performed live on the 2016 Grammys. Beyond the recognition lies something truly inspiring: showcasing a misunderstood foundin... |
Monument to Zumbi, by Lázaro Souza Duarte. Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Photograph by Ana Lucia Araujo, 2009.
Slavery has become a popular topic in newspaper articles, television documentaries, motion pictures, discussion forums, and academic conferences over the past decade. In the Americas, and even in Europe and Africa,... |
Imagine the Chicago skyline. Now imagine it under nearly 2 miles (3 kilometers) of ice. That's what the landscape looked like at the peak of the last ice age.
In the scope of Earth's recent geologic history, this wouldn't have been such an unusual sight. In the past 2.6 million years (or what's known as the Quaternary ... |
The species was one of the largest coastal predators of the Jurassic period.
A new study has shed light on how ancient crocodiles have evolved into dolphin-like creatures.
The study, published in the PeerJ journal, revolved around a specimen discovered in 1996 in north-west Hungary. The fossil was the first of its kind... |
The idea that the flapping of a butterfly’s wings might trigger a hurricane beautifully encapsulates the concept of chaos, where a small difference in initial conditions will cascade toward a vastly different outcome in the future.
Mathematically, extreme sensitivity to initial conditions can be represented by a quanti... |
RL.4.7 Make connections between the text of a story or drama and a visual or oral presentation of the text, identifying where each version reflects specific descriptions and directions in the text.
The purpose of this standard is to link the reading of the text in a story to listening or viewing the same story. You wil... |
How did life begin and evolve on Earth, and has it evolved elsewhere in the Solar System?
Microbial life forms have been discovered on Earth that can survive and even thrive at extremes of high and low temperature and pressure, and in conditions of acidity, salinity, alkalinity, and concentrations of heavy metals that ... |
Middle School English
7th grade English engages students in writing and literature experiences. They implement the writing process in several different types of writing such as summarizing key ideas, responding to literature, narrating fictional or autobiographical topics, persuasive essays and research papers. Student... |
Quasars Can Trigger Tsunamis That Tear Across Galaxies And Snuff Out Star Formation
It’s well known that quasars are the most luminous galaxies in the Universe, spewing insane amounts of radiation across space as their supermassive black holes rapaciously devour material from a colossal accretion disc.
Well, they just ... |
Children’s engagement with and belonging to their environments.
Recent years have brought focus to the importance of understanding context when approaching the topic of child wellbeing, with both theoretical and empirical evidence mounting to support this movement (Bronfenbrenner, 1979; Coulton & Spilsbury, 2014). Whil... |
Have you ever asked yourself, “How do I teach my child to be bilingual?” or “Will being bilingual cause a speech delay for my child?” This blog post will be able to answer those questions for you! Check it out for information on commonly asked questions about bilingualism.
As defined by the American Speech-Language-Hea... |
Excavation can be arduous and, at times, even tedious, but it is thrilling to uncover a specimen that is millions of years old. Although some types of fossil specimens are stable upon excavation, others are extremely fragile. Generally specimens are block lifted, meaning that an entire block of matrix in which the spec... |
Bills and Receipts
They say that 'money makes the world go round', but how does this happen?
At its simplest, everything (unless it's done for a purely altruistic reason) has to be paid for in some way. Workers receive salaries or wages. Utility companies send bills to their customers. Even someone helping an elderly r... |
Learn and study better with flashcards
Big exam coming up, lots to cover? Flashcards, which are study aids containing key information (often with questions on one side of the card and answers on the reverse) are a sure-fire way to absorb key concepts in a relatively short amount of time.
Engaging active recall
Flashcar... |
Otázka: Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of reason as a way of knowing
Přidal(a): Mikuláš Benda
Every day we use reason, and even though we might not know we are using it, we still do. It is a way of knowing we could not be without. Our perception of the world, language, emotion and behavior are influenced by indi... |
1. the activity of changing spoken or written words into a different language
2. spoken or written words that have been changed into a different language
Origin and usage
The noun translation is a borrowing from the French word ‘translation’ and the Latin ‘translatio’. Like the related verb ‘translate’ it was first use... |
Unlike the popular belief that dogs are colorblind, your dog can actually see more than you have thought. The vision in the dog is much more similar to humans, however, they do not perceive the color as we do.
The movement and color are perceived by rods and cone cells in the retina respectively.
Retina is a layer at t... |
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Investigate factors that influenced Germans in the 1930s to conform, if not consent, to the Nazi vision for society, and learn about the consequences for those excluded from that vision.
Learn about the early ... |
To warm you up, practise your phonics. Can you label this picture using your sounds?
These children have had to leave their parents during the War, and have moved in with somebody they don't know in the country to stay safe. How do you think they would be feeling? Write a sentence to describe their feelings. Can you us... |
[BLANK_AUDIO] In this video we will look at some of the findings from the literature on price and income elasticities in order to better understand how changes in tariffs and income affect water use by households with pipe connections. Economists try to explain the quantity of water used by a household with a pipe conn... |
When you live nearby a lake, you become familiar with a weather pattern known as ‘lake effect’. This phenomenon occurs when cold wind tracks along warmer lake water. This enables the air to pick up water vapor, gather energy, and eventually freeze as it hits the shores. Cities and towns that lie alongside lakes are all... |
Unit 3: Word Problems
Now, let's apply what we learned about solving equations to various types of word problems. To set up the equation, read the word problem carefully to identify the quantity you are being asked to find, the known quantities, and the relationship between them. This is an important skill in algebra s... |
Computers are present in almost everything we use. From our phones to our washing machines, induction cookers to television sets, computers have taken over our lives everywhere. The diversity in the tasks they perform is marvelous.
To accommodate all the task requirements, computers perform a lot of arithmetic and logi... |
Balboa Discovers Pacific Ocean
On September 25, 1513, explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa became the first European to lay eyes on the Pacific Ocean.
Balboa was born in 1475 in Jerez de los Caballeros, Spain. Following Christopher Columbus’ famed voyage to the New World in 1492, Balboa was inspired to become an explorer him... |
Table of Contents
- 1 What is direct and indirect government?
- 2 What type of government is direct?
- 3 What is indirect in government?
- 4 What is difference between direct and indirect election?
- 5 Is India direct or indirect democracy?
- 6 What are the two types of democracy?
- 7 What are the characteristics of in... |
Genetic Algorithms in Plain English
The aim of this tutorial is to explain genetic algorithms sufficiently for you to be able to use them in your own projects. This is a stripped-down to-the-bare-essentials type of tutorial. I'm not going to go into a great deal of depth and I'm not going to scare those of you with mat... |
Children that are typical processors take in spoken language before they can even speak, begin to process what they hear and build language from the bottom-up. They identify words like "mommy", "daddy", and "kitty", then begin to combine words into phrases and sentences. Children with hyperlexia often have difficulty b... |
DOT PRODUCT OF TWO VECTORS
We can explain the definition of dot product in two different aspects - in the algebraic sense and the geometric sense. In the algebraic sense, we define a dot product as the sum of the products of the corresponding entries of two given sequences of numbers. In the geometric sense, we define ... |
CBT Worksheets for Kids are designed to help children in school to gain skills that will help them prepare for examinations and eventually get into higher education. This allows parents and teachers to have a general overview of their child’s strengths and weaknesses so that they can do more to develop specific skills ... |
Feudalism flourished in western Europe between the 5th and 12th centuries. Lacking a centralized government, local lords had their fiefs. Society was caste-bound: strictly structured hierarchically.
The highest rank were on land holders. Below land lords were vassals, who pledged allegiance and provided security in ret... |
The firestorms in California are common that is linked to the issue of global warming. The warm climate is changing the temperature and precipitation levels of the soil that increase the risks of firestorms. The implications depict that the dry areas are becoming drier. Due to an increase in global warming the incident... |
About two million years ago, the land was already formed. One large land area reached out into the Pacific Ocean from the Asian continent. Only the South China, Sulu and Celebes basins remained as seas. But events were taking shape in the earth’s polar region, causing three successive ice ages which lowered sea levels ... |
Handshaking is the connection between the computer and a device. Handshaking is required in order to allow both the computer and device to send protocols to each other. During a handshake, the two devices make sure that they know certain connection requirements of each other. For instance, they will need to find out a ... |
The First World War started in August 1914. It would last for more than four years, and kill about nine million people in uniform. In the same time period the war and other violent conflicts would kill an estimated twenty million civilians. The world would never be the same.
Tensions in Europe
The major powers in Europ... |
“Teaching is facilitated or hampered by different strategies in learning” Hascher (2010). What students do, the strategies that they use, make a difference in how much learning takes place. However, students “often have a faulty mental model of how they learn and remember, making them prone to both misassessing and mis... |
For many, coordinate geometry is already a daunting concept. When a question dispenses with the graph all together, students can feel even more at a loss. If you fall into this group, do not despair. Here is a helpful guideline:
Do Not Always Draw the Graph
This advice may seem counterintuitive. After all, the problem ... |
When the United States makes treaties with other nations, or when it sends ambassadors abroad, it is practicing foreign policy. The first priority of the United States’ foreign policy is to preserve and strengthen the position of the United States as an independent and sovereign nation. In the Declaration of Independen... |
RULES OF ACTIVE PASSIVE
We must first understand about subject and object in a sentence
Subject is a person, animal or a thing that does action. We can identify subject in a sentence by asking “who” or ‘what’
Object is a person, place, animal or a thing that receives action. Object will be known by answering the ‘which... |
If you watch this video, you will see a pretty standard U.S. treatment of introductory fraction material.
PLEASE understand that this is not about Sal Khan or Khan Academy. What you see in that video is what happens in many, many elementary classrooms across the U.S. on any given day. It is what is written into our tex... |
Math Activity Book for Learning Number Tracing, Identifying, Counting, Matching and Coloring Numbers and Shapes, Practicing Addition, Subtraction and Solving Word Problems!
This preschool math workbook helps preschoolers and kindergarten kids to learn starting from numbers and shapes with
- Number Tracing
- Identifying... |
Skip to comments.Cattle's Call Of The Wild: Domestication May Hold Complex Genetic Tale
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Cattle's Call of the Wild: Domestication may hold complex genetic tale
A new investigation of DNA that was obtained from modern cattle and from fossils of their ancient, wild ancestors put... |
Grammar is an essential aspect of any language, as it helps speakers and writers communicate effectively and accurately. Grammar is the set of rules that govern the structure of a language. In English, there are several main parts of grammar that are important for learners to understand.
Parts of Speech
These are the c... |
||Deriba Caldera, Sudan |
Deriba Caldera is a geologically young volcanic structure located at the top of the Marra Mountains of western Sudan. The Marra Mountains are part of a large geologic feature known as the Darfur Dome. The dome appears to be the result of a mantle plume, which is a fixed "hotspot" in the Earth'... |
Wikijunior:Programming for Kids/Inputs, Outputs and Processes
In the previous chapter, we initialised our variable with our own value. What if we want the user to input her own value? What if we want to do something with it?
Inputs and outputs
There are numerous ways to receive output. The most common one is displaying... |
Climate forecasting is a difficult and often controversial science. One major subject of dissension are the computer models on which the intergovernmental panel's report largely depends. The climate experts on the panel believe their models have become increasingly reliable. But skeptics continue to assert that the mod... |
MIT engineers have designed a new type of nanoparticle that could safely and effectively deliver vaccines for diseases such as HIV and malaria. The new particles, described in the Feb. 20 issue of Nature Materials, consist of concentric fatty spheres that can carry synthetic versions of proteins normally produced by vi... |
Every day, the ocean absorbs about 22 million tons of carbon dioxide, which is about the weight of 15 million hybrid automobiles. Just as you can't see the carbon dioxide that comes out of your own body each time you exhale, you can't see the gas as it dissolves into the seas.
Space isn't an issue, considering that the... |
A tall pile of tar will slowly flow downhill, ultimately spreading into a nearly horizontal sheet of tar. Most material, under pressure, “creeps” in this way, although rocks deform very, very slowly.
Calculations show that the growing upward bulges of large crater floors on the Moon should occur to their current extent... |
Third Grade – Unit 1
Culture Develops Over Time
“I Can” Statements
1. What is respectful listening and speaking during a discussion?
This means I can listen and respond respectfully to others.
-establish and follow agreed upon “rules for
-follow agreed upon rules for discussion
(listen to others, speaking one at a time... |
A tape head
is a type of transducer
used in tape recorders
to convert electrical signals to magnetic
fluctuations and vice versa.
Principles of operation
arrangement of a tape head is generally similar for all types, though the physical design varies considerably depending on the application - for example video recorde... |
Fact Versus Fiction
Young readers have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction. Help your child learn the difference with this writing activity. As you read a tall tale, point out exaggerations. Then your daughter will choose a fact about herself to exaggerate wildly.
What You Need
- A tall tale (see below)
What ... |
Science fair is an opportunity for students to apply the scientific method to conduct independent research. The results of each student's research is presented in a school wide science fair--or sponsored local science fair-- where the student's efforts are displayed and where students are interviewed to determine scien... |
(PhysOrg.com) -- Solar flares are amongst the most dangerous cosmic phenomena man has ever known. Though they pose no harm to humans, their effect on technology is vast. When they occur, they possess the capability to knock out satellites orbiting earth and bring down power grids that provide electricity to millions of... |
If comet ISON becomes visible to the naked eye as it approaches the Sun, try imagining yourself watching it two thousand years ago.
At first glance you wouldn't have been able to tell that the new object was moving at all against the background of stars. Probably bewildering was the comet's tail - which seemed to flow ... |
Orbiting the sun at an average distance of 140 million miles, the planet Mars is a cold and windy world, wrapped in an insubstantial atmosphere. At all but the lowest elevations, cosmic radiation hammers the Martian surface, unchecked by the planet’s thin sheath of carbon dioxide, nitrogen and argon, transforming the a... |
Five related species of tree-dwelling snakes found in Southeast and South Asia may just be the worst nightmares of ophidiophobes (people who have abnormal fears of snakes). Not only are they snakes, but they can "fly" -- flinging themselves off their perches, flattening their bodies, and gliding from tree to tree or to... |
|Maryland’s history as a slaveholding state was unique. Few land holdings in the state would have rated the name of “plantation” in the eyes of slaveholders from the Southern States, as the median number of enslaved persons owned by each slaveholder in Maryland was only three. In addition no other state approached Mary... |
Common Core State Standards
The Common Core State Standards provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn, so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help them. The standards are designed to be robust and relevant to the real world, reflecting the knowledge and skills that o... |
The student will:
- list the properties of acids.
- list the properties of bases.
- name an acid or base when given the formula.
- write the formula for an acid or base given the name.
We interact with acids on a daily basis without even realizing it. For example, the chemical names for aspirin and vitamin C are acetyl... |
On this day in 1940, Hitler occupies Romania as part of his strategy of creating an unbroken Eastern front to menace the Soviet Union.
As early as 1937, Romania had come under the control of a fascist government that bore great resemblance to that of Germany's, including similar anti-Jewish laws. Romania's king, Carol ... |
Golden Bear by Ruth Young
A toy bear and his owner dance up the stairs, learn to play the violin, talk to a ladybug, ice skate, play outside, talk on the telephone, take a bath, wish on stars, and dream together.Introducing the Story
- Read the title of the book from the cover, while pointing to each word. Say the titl... |
Protect Kids Online @ OnGuardOnline.gov
Today’s kids use technology more than ever. While technology can be a great tool to communicate, learn, and socialize, it can also be used in harmful ways, and allow some kids to take bullying from school hallways into cyberspace. Cyberbullying happens when kids bully each other ... |
Polar ice sheets shrinking ever faster
The planet's two largest ice sheets are melting faster then ever before - three times as fast as they were just 20 years ago.
"In the 1990s, not very much was happening," says Benjamin Smith of the University of Washington's Applied Physics Laboratory. "Sometime around 1999, the i... |
Who were the characters in the story? What were their motives? What kind of person was each of them?
What does this song suggest about family life in the 1600s—life expectancy, marriage, children, inheritance (primogeniture, dowries, etc.)?
Why did the mother and father probably die at the same time? Epidemic.
Why did ... |
Did clay hydrogels ‘host’ the first life on Earth?
Clay might have been the birthplace of life on Earth, or at least of the complex biochemicals that make life possible, report biological engineers.
“We propose that (in early geological history) clay hydrogel provided a confinement function for biomolecules and biochem... |
Tenham meteorites are the fragments of a larger meteorite that fell in 1879 in a remote area of Australia near the Tenham station, South Gregory, in western Queensland. Although the fall was seen by a number of people its exact date has not been established. Bright meteors were seen to be moving roughly from west to ea... |
Science Lesson 5
Ecology (Grade 6)
|CCSTD Science Grade 6 5.a.|
In our last two Lessons, we learned that almost all of the energy we use on Earth comes from the Sun. How can that be? We don't eat sunshine, do we? Well, actually we do, but it has to be turned into food first. This Lesson is about how that happens. First... |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow & Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Longfellow had opposed slavery throughout the antebellum period, and even published Poems on Slavery in 1842. Thus, although he would not be considered a strident abolitionist, one would expect him to sympathize with... |
The British Take and Lose Control, 1763-1814
When the British government attempted to consolidate its vast North American holdings after the French withdrawal in 1763, it found itself confronted by what turned out to be insoluble problems about how to control and pay for its new empire. The government immediately estab... |
What is MS
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurological condition which affects around 100,000 people in the UK.
Most people are diagnosed between the ages of 20-40, but it can affect younger and older people too.
Roughly three times as many women have MS as men.
Around 100,000 people in the UK have MS.
It's normally diag... |
Baseball is played on a field of geometric regularity. The baseball "diamond," for instance, is properly a square, 30 yards on each side.
Official league rules also specify the size and shape of home plate: Home base shall be marked by a five-sided slab of whitened rubber. It shall be a 12-inch square with two of the c... |
The floods that surged through the Mississippi River basin are subsiding, but their impact is far from over. As the floodwaters swept over farms and towns in May and June 2011, they scoured fertilized soil from the ground and carried it downstream. Swollen rivers dumped thousands of tons of nutrients into the Gulf of M... |
In sub-Saharan Africa, a child is dying every minute due to malaria (WHO, 2010). Malaria is spreading quickly in the sub-Saharan region of Africa and affecting a significant portion of the population. Mosquitoes are the vectors that transmit malaria to humans (CDC, 2010). Mosquitoes thrive in sub-tropical and tropical ... |
The first step in creating a butterfly garden involves a little scouting and research. The goal is to find out what butterflies live around you so you can include the plants they need for food. The best way to start is to look for butterflies around your proposed garden. Look at who visits your neighbors' yards, or wat... |
The Modern Civil Rights Movement: A River of Purposeful Anger
Central Question: Did individual African American activists spark the Civil Rights Movement?
Textbooks are silent about defining race and racism, even though the modern Civil Rights Movement and its antecedent movements were efforts to challenge and eliminat... |
The USGS Water Science School
In this picture, sediment-laden water from a inflow tributary stream is entering a much clearer river, the Chattahoochee River in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Just like all rivers, the Chattahoochee River has a main stem with tributaries coming into it at various points along its path. These tri... |
Better Students Ask More Questions.
In 'To Kill a Mockingbird', what are the historical aspects of racism and why does...
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High School Teacher
In the 1930’s, Alabama was exposed to a great injustice in the Scottsboro trials where nine African-American males where unfairly accused of raping a white w... |
For centuries wind turbines have harnessed the force of wind to pump water and grind grain. Around 1910, the first wind turbines were built in Europe to produce electricity. Today, advances in technology and the need for renewable energy sources has made wind a fast growing source of electricity. Click on the video for... |
Year 8 of a 90-day mission
The Viking landers were highly successful, but they didn't answer one of the big questions: did Mars have water? Various features seen from orbit were highly suggestive of ancient seas and rivers, but that only made the mystery deeper. If Mars had surface water in the past, where did it go? W... |
Geologists collected samples of lava rock from the sea bed surrounding these areas of volcanic activity, carefully recording the location and began piecing together the puzzle of these undersea lava flows. Scientists used the magnetic anomalies recorded in the lava rocks to date them - to tell how old they were and whe... |
Write the Sight Words: "Over"
How can your child get over the reading hump? The word "over" is a sight word, which through memorization can help improve your child's reading skills. This worksheet will help your child learn the sight word "over" by having him trace the different letters in the word and then using it in... |
Objectives for Beginner Crochet Classes
Objective: To introduce students to basic crochet techniques including the
slip knot and chain stitch, single crochet, double crochet, half-double crochet,
and triple crochet.Slip Knot and Chain Stitch
Demonstrate the slip knot and chain stitch by using a large hook and bulky
yar... |
How the Doris system works
On the satellite, an antenna pointed towards Earth receives radio waves emitted by ground stations in the Doris network. An electronic receiver measures the frequency shift caused by the Doppler effect.
Mathematical processing of the measurements, after modelling to take into account the forc... |
In the winter of 1848, the Crafts made a plan to escape to Philadelphia. Ellen's fair skin allowed her to pose as a white man, while William pretended to be her slave. She cut her long hair and disguised herself with dark glasses and men's pants. Ellen wore a sling on her arm with the hope that it would help hide the f... |
The Montessori Method
The Montessori method of educating children was developed by
Dr. Maria Montessori. While studying children in varying conditions throughout the world, she discovered universal principles
underlying the development of all children. Her revolutionary approach was to look at learning from a child's p... |
History of Llamas: The ancestor of today's llamas evolved on the central plains of North America about 40 million years ago. Some migrated north across the Bering Straits to further evolve as Old World camels, others journeyed south to become South American camelids: guanacos and vicuñas. These two species were domesti... |
New research on the Natural History Museum’s Tissint meteorite reveals evidence of its Martian origin, scientists report in the journal Science today.
Museum scientist Dr Caroline Smith holds the Tissint meteorite. It is now the largest Martian meteorite in the Natural History Museum collections.
The Tissint meteorite ... |
On October 7, 2006, Rabaul Volcano on the northeastern tip of New Britain produced a large-scale eruption. According to ReliefWeb, the eruption shook windows and rained heavy ash and small stones on the city of Rabaul as authorities declared a state of emergency. Besides volcanic ash and steam, the eruption produced su... |
In the spring of 1974, farmers in Shaanxi Province, China were digging a new well when they struck a hard object. It turned out to be part of a terracotta soldier.
Soon, Chinese archaeologists realized that the entire area outside of the city of Xian (formerly Chang an) was underlain by an enormous necropolis; an army,... |
In early spring, the marsh marigolds begin blooming along the edges of water seeps, wetlands, wet meadows, and along rivulets in wooded swamps. Their beautiful gold flowers contrast strongly with the deep green of their large, roundish to kidney-shaped leaves.
They are among our earliest flowers to bloom and offer spot... |
John Milton Biography
Born: December 9, 1608
Died: November 8, 1674
English poet and essayist
The English poet John Milton was a champion of liberty. As a Protestant, he believed that the individual reader should interpret the Bible. He is chiefly famous for his epic (a long poem centered around a legendary hero) poem ... |
This lesson is about wants. Little Penguin is hungry and she wants to eat. This story is about how Little Penguin tries to get what she wants.
Define economic wants as things people would like to have.
Everybody has wants. Students want toys, clothes, and treats to eat. Students want stories to be read to them, songs t... |
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a space-based telescope that was launched in 1990 by the space shuttle. From its position 353 miles (569 km) above Earth’s surface, the HST has expanded our understanding of star birth, star death, and galaxy evolution, and has helped move black holes from theory to fact. In its firs... |
New Discoveries at Mercury
July 3, 2008: Mercury's magnetic field is "alive." Volcanic vents ring the planet's giant Caloris Basin. And Mercury has shrunk in on itself more than previously suspected.
These are just a few of the new discoveries by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, which flew past Mercury on January 14, 2008.... |
Root Hairs in Plants: Function, Definition & Quiz
In this lesson, you will learn about root hairs, which are the structures that allow a plant to get water and nutrients from the soil. They are a delicate but necessary component of a plant's overall root system.
You may not know it but you have likely eaten many roots ... |
Here's a simple number puzzle that leads to a surprisingly challenging investigation. Note 3
It's a hot summer day, and Eric the Sheep is at the end of a line of sheep waiting to be shorn. There are 50 sheep in front of him. Being an impatient sort of sheep, though, every time the shearer takes a sheep from the front o... |
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November is National Novel Writing Month!
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