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The Constitution of the United States is the system of fundamental laws of the United States of America. The Constitution was drawn up by 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia during the summer of 1787 and ratified by the states in 1788. According to Professor Lowi, the Constitution was based on... |
If DNA is the fundamental code of the genome, RNA is the message. Genes are made active through the process of transcribing the code into RNA, and then translating RNA into protein. This is known as the central dogma of molecular biology.
Recently, it’s become apparent that RNA has many other roles to play than as a me... |
(Family Features) More than 25 million Americans suffer from asthma, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Health Interview Survey. This chronic condition is so common that even if you don’t have it yourself, you probably know someone – a friend, colleague or child – who does. Health ca... |
Exchange rational choice theory has two parts. Rational choice theory: people are motivated to do things based on what is best for them. Exchange theory: this is an application of the rational choice theory onto societal interactions between individuals.
Rational choice theory and Exchange theory are both theories inte... |
Rare clotting factor deficiencies are a collection of bleeding disorders associated with issues with clotting factors. These conditions are inherited and target the proteins in the blood that control bleeding. Rare clotting factor deficiencies do not include deficiencies in clotting factor VIII and IX, which are known ... |
Basics of Polynomials
This lesson is an introductory interactive Pear Deck for the Basics of Polynomials. Students will learn all essential vocabulary, writing polynomials in standard form and naming polynomials by degree and term. They will be engaged in the interactive Pear Deck that asks them to provide their own re... |
The vast majority of marine animals cannot regulate their internal body temperature directly. The temperature of surrounding water controls everything from how much oxygen they can absorb and how fast they can digest food to when and whether they become sexually mature. Thermal pollution also alters plant and microbial... |
1)Conduction: Conduction is a process of heat transfer from one particle of the body to another in the direction of fall of temperature. The particles themselves remain in fixed position relative to each other. The heat transfer in a metal rod is by conduction.
2)Convection: Convection is a process of heat transfer fro... |
Radiation from space could be a big problem for quantum computers, because cosmic rays can disturb their fragile inner workings and limit the kinds of calculations they may one day perform.
Quantum computers are made of quantum bits, or qubits, which are used to store and manipulate quantum information. When designing ... |
It's hard to imagine what's deep down inside our planet, but to help my 5th grade son remember, he made a diagram.
Despite his hatred of cutting and art, he really enjoyed seeing how his diagram came together. And now he can refer to it any time to see just what exactly is deep, deep underneath our feet!
Large earth to... |
AT The Core of the Algorithm
Prime numbers are defined as whole numbers, which are divisible only by themselves and by the number 1 – for example, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17 etc. Over 2300 years ago, the Greek mathematician Euclid proved that there are an infinite number of primes, but since the Greeks did not consider 1 t... |
Box and whiskers allow us to graphically represent the spread of data by showing the quartiles. This type of diagram is called Box and whiskers because it consists of boxes that have lines extending from them called whiskers. They are quite easy to create and give us a lot of information about the set of data.
Creating... |
Luigi BrugnaroΒιογραφικό σημείωμα
At first Venice was controlled by the Byzantine Empire. However in 726 the Venetians partly gained their independence and elected Orso Ipato as doge (their word for duke).
In 810 the Franks tried but failed to conquer the Venetians. Meanwhile Venice flourished as a trading center and s... |
Landslides are a phenomenon where the movement of gravel, pebbles, and mud, move down the hill. Landslides happen because of internal disruption of the slope. It can happen because heavy downpours, tremors, draughts, hailstorms, and volcanic outbreaks can cause landslides.
One of the shocking pieces of data we found is... |
Today is the United Nations International Day of World’s Indigenous People
“In Australia an Indigenous child with disability is more likely to matriculate into prison than into tertiary education.
Many Indigenous children are falling through the cracks in the education system because they have a disability that goes un... |
The elapsed time is the amount of time it takes for a task to complete from start to finish. It can also be the length of a day. The amount of time that an event takes can be calculated by dividing the start and end times by twelve and a half. In addition, students are often asked to determine the elapsed period betwee... |
Giant mass extinction quicker than previously thought: End-Permian extinction happened in 60,000 years
Now researchers at MIT have determined that the end-Permian extinction occurred over 60,000 years, give or take 48,000 years -- practically instantaneous, from a geologic perspective. The new timescale is based on mor... |
When early terrestrial animals began moving about on mud and sand 360 million years ago, the powerful tails they used as fish may have been more important than scientists previously realized.
That’s one conclusion from a new study of African mudskipper fish and a robot modeled on the animal conducted by a multidiscipli... |
One of three possible approaches to thermal energy storage is to use reversible thermo-chemical reactions. The most important advantage of the thermo-chemical storage method is that the enthalpy of reaction is considerably larger than the specific heat or the heat of fusion. Therefore the storage density is much better... |
Three pathogenic coronaviruses have emerged in the past two decades: the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV), the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), and SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19. Both SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 are Sarbecoviruses. Bats harbor other Sarbecoviruses that co... |
Midsummer Magic in Tudor England
“Whatever is dreamed on this night, will come to pass.” —
William Shakespeare, A MidSummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare wrote of the enchantments of summer solstice. Each year, on a day between June 20-June 24, we have solstice — the longest day of the year. This day has been celebrated th... |
The Effects of Radiation on Matter
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All radioactive particles and waves, from the entire electromagnetic spectrum, to alpha, beta, and gamma particles, possess the ability to eject electrons from atoms and molecules to create ions.
There are many types of radiation, but the two most common are electromagnetic ... |
Mike O'Neill looks at the 'KWL approach' - a classroom strategy for G&T coordinators and leading teachers to share with colleagues
Activity: KWL (Know, Want to know, Learned)
Key Stage(s): 2, 3 and 4.
Time to allocate:
This activity can be used alongside a learning stimulus in a lesson such as a section of video materi... |
Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is middle man type interface thorough which web servers pass user’s requests to external databases/ information resources/ program applications and receive the processed data to sent it back to user. This post will discuss what is Common Gateway Interface (CGI), how it works, when & how i... |
The important thing is not to stop questioning; never lose a holy curiosity. — Albert Einstein
Curiosity, that drives learning, critical thinking, and learning behaviours, is one of the key characteristics of a learner. Personality traits like curiosity are as significant as intelligence in determining students’ academ... |
If you've studied Covalent and Dative Bonding before, you know that a covalent bond is when two atoms share a pair of electrons. In a molecule like Cl2, the shared electrons are in the middle, half-way between the two chlorine atoms. But in hydrochloric acid (HCl), the electrons aren't shared evenly. Instead, they're c... |
Design & Technology
We believe that Design and Technology knowledge and skills are crucial in providing children with the tools to be able to question and explore the impacts of Design and Technology on the world and on quality of life. It allows them to develop the creative, technical and practical expertise needed to... |
Although this projection is not particularly attractive in appearance, it has sometimes been seriously proposed for actual use, particularly in versions where the map is stretched vertically to a considerable extent.
Its main significance is as an intermediate mathematical step in the construction of some equal-area pr... |
Activity 1: Recognizing sets of one and two
2 plates and 3 child-safe objects, such as crackers, spoons, or blocks
Try It Out:
- Place 1 cracker on 1 plate and 2 crackers on another.
- Point to each plate and say: “This plate has 1 cracker.” “This plate has 2 crackers.”
- Say: “Point to the plate with 1 cracker.”
- If ... |
“At the higher temperatures that seem to have prevailed during the early phase of life, evolution was shaking the dice frantically.”
Life arose at a time when Earth was much hotter than it is today. According to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, those high temperatures may ha... |
Right or Left – Which Hand is Best? All You Need to Know About Hand Dominance
- 23 September 2021
- Posted by: CDC
- Category: Parent Tips,
“Why does my child change hands during an activity?”, “Is this ok?”, “Should I encourage my child to use only one hand?”. “He’s using his left, isn’t it best to be right-handed?
Pa... |
The starter is very important and necessary for starting purpose of the motor. There are two types of motors that are widely used-DC motors and AC motors. A motor is an electrical machine used for various applications in industry, traction, or any other sensitive operation. An ideal motor is one that has a low starting... |
In nuclear physics and nuclear chemistry, the various species of atoms whose nuclei contain particular numbers of protons and neutrons are called nuclides. Nuclides are also characterized by their nuclear energy states (e.g., metastable nuclide 242mAm). Each nuclide is denoted by the chemical symbol of the element (thi... |
Microbes could be used to extract metals and minerals from space rocks
A species of bacteria can successfully pull out rare Earth elements from rocks, even in microgravity environments, a study on the International Space Station has found. The new findings, published in Nature Communications today, suggest a new way we... |
Q: How does a GPS work?
A: You've played Marco Polo, haven't you?
Close your eyes, your friend shouts "Marco!" and you try to figure out
where the sound is coming from. Which direction, how far. And try to
tag your friend with your eyes closed.
Now let's put a twist on that game. Pretend you
had 4 friends, one in each ... |
The Korean Independence Movement and Boston University
The Korean Independence Movement and Boston University
On March 1, 1919, a group of Korean intellectuals met at a restaurant in Seoul to formally introduce the Korean Declaration of Independence to the world. This was a document inspired by President Woodrow Wilson... |
The purpose of this article is to examine the background for sudden emergence of kesig, a system of Mongol Empire in Goryeo Korea and to find its meaning. The Goryeo situation in the late 13th century before and after the emergence of kesig was very complex. Internally, the Goryeo military regime sustained for a long p... |
Electromagnetism: the basics
Electrical energy can be generated by rotating magnets inside a coil of conductive wire. The big question is how to achieve that rotation.
In conventional power stations, fossil fuels like coal, gas and oil are burnt to heat water, producing high pressure steam that can drive a turbine and,... |
The Role of a Bystander
Did you know that more than 50% of the time, bullying stops within 10 seconds of a bystander stepping in to help? This means that empowering bystanders to take action may be the key to stopping most bullying from happening. Bystanders are considered to be people who observe a situation but don’t... |
The Appalachian Mountains
In the eastern part of the United States, there is a mountain range known as the Appalachian Mountains. They are a part of the greater Appalachian Mountain chain, which stretches into Canada and the Caribbean, and extend from Quebec, Canada in the north to Alabama in the south.
The formation o... |
Operator Precedence in Python Programming
Operators in Python
In this lesson, we will learn what is the rule of Operator Precedence in Python programming and how it works with some examples.
What is Operator Precedence
Operator Precedence in Python programming is a rule that describe which operator is solved first in a... |
They toiled through back-breaking labor during both frigid winters and blazing summers. Hundreds died from explosions, landslides, accidents and disease. And even though they made major contributions to the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, these 15,000 to 20,000 Chinese immigrants have been largely ignore... |
2018 Statue of Freedom Set
Statue Of Freedom Completed
On December 2, 1863, the Statue of Freedom was placed atop the US Capitol to a 35-gun salute.
Construction on the US Capitol Building began in 1793 when George Washington laid the cornerstone. The most famous part of the Capitol is the dome. The first one, erected ... |
Given the erratic nature of weather, is it really possible to predict exactly when, where and how strongly the sun shines? A group of European researchers seems to think so.
A new EU-funded research project, MACC II, is now providing up to minute-by-minute solar radiation data with a 3-5 km spatial resolution for any l... |
In Math, learning to draw and label graphs is really important for children. Math grid sheet is one of math tools that can be used as the media to teach children about drawing, labeling, reading, writing numbers and graphs.
For this reason, today we will share some selection of math grid worksheets for children which a... |
Fourth Grade Ela Word Structure WorksheetsBack
Below is list of all worksheets available under this concept. Worksheets are organized based on the concept with in the subject.
Click on concept to see list of all available worksheets.
- Make Your Own Crossword Puzzle
Crossword puzzles help build brain power and bolster ... |
Racial means connected with a particular race or with various races. Discriminate means to treat a person or particular group of people differently, especially in a worse way from the way in which one treats other people, because of their skin, colour, religion, sex etc. Segregate means to keep one group of people apar... |
9 Questions About Giraffes
How do giraffes reach high trees?
Giraffes are known for their unique and distinctive appearance. They are the tallest land animal, with an average height of between 14 to 18 feet. Their long necks, slender legs, and spotted coats make them instantly recognizable. Their anatomy has evolved ov... |
Happiness is a multifaceted emotion that can be influenced by various factors, including genetics, environment, and personal circumstances. While it may not be possible to be happy every single day, incorporating elements of the scientific method into your life can help improve your overall well-being and increase the ... |
Children at Girton Glebe Primary School learn to
- Read fluently, with confidence and good understanding
- Develop the habit of reading widely and often, for both pleasure and information
The Teaching of Phonics
- Phonics is taught in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 through daily lessons following the Essential Letters & ... |
Scientists struggling to understand how Earth’s climate will change in the next few decades have neglected a potential treasure trove of information–sediments deposited in the ocean by major Arctic rivers such as the Colville and Mackenzie rivers–according to geoscientists at The University of Texas at Austin and Texas... |
1. Question: Who Am I?
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- Introduce your class or group to those who are participating in our program module. Include your school or group name, number of students, your town, village or city and country
- Do you know the meaning of your name? Do you know the meaning of the names in the rest of your fam... |
You may have heard the phrase ‘no man is an island’. This means that people need each other to survive in a healthy manner, as when they are isolated from society they do not function at their best. However, when they are part of a community, they are more likely to thrive. Research has shown that having social relatio... |
Children, as well as adults, are infected through contact with the virus through the respiratory tract, although it can also occur through contact with vesicular lesions (small blisters) that occur on the skin of infected people.
What is chickenpox
Chickenpox is an infectious disease produced by the varicella-zoster vi... |
Indian art dates back roughly 30,000 years to the Bhimbetka cave drawings, which are the oldest form of art in the country. Throughout history, art has played a significant role in communication, education, and collaboration.
The use of visual information has also enabled us to reflect on past civilizations by recallin... |
The history of Passover, one of the best known Jewish holidays, dates back over 3,000 years. It marks a time when Jacob, a Hebrew, arrived with his twelve sons in Egypt.
They were struck with famine in this region and Jacob requested that he and his sons be able to live in peace in the Land of Goshen, and they were gra... |
The Universe is probably full of planets with water which got to them from water-laden comets and asteroids crashing into them, as occurred on Earth, which started off dry and gradually got wet after millions of collisions, say researchers from the University of Warwick.
Dr. Roberto Raddi and colleagues wrote in the jo... |
HISTORIC INDIANS OF ILLINOIS
By Audrey L. Muschler
The Illinois Indians ((Iliniwek) occupied the Chicago region as far back as history records. The Illinois were driven from the area by the Iroquois. The Miami took their place in the Chicago region and were crowded southward by the Pottawatomi as they began migrating s... |
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth century colliers in every coal-mining area attempted to form unions. Colliery owners refused to negotiate with these organizations and the colliers were invariably defeated. During this period miners obtained a reputation for militancy and were accused of being followers of the re... |
SOCIAL JUSTICE / JUANES
This Social Justice & World Problems Culture & Songs Unit is ideal for Spanish Two, Three, Four, AP, IB and Spanish-speaker classes. There are cultural readings, comprehension activities, True/False assessments, songs, and numerous related videos to extend student learning about world problems a... |
a diverse class of chondrites (one of the two divisions of stony meteorites), important because of the insights they provide into the early history of the solar system. They comprise about 3 percent of all meteorites collected after being seen to fall to Earth. Carbonaceous chondrites are subdivided into six well-estab... |
Asthma is an inflammatory disorder of the airways, characterized by periodic attacks of wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and coughing.
Three things make it harder to breathe during an asthma attack -- the inflammation (swelling) of the lining of the airways, the tightening of the muscles around the airwa... |
Text by Candace Kanes
Images from Maine Historical Society
By the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, increasing numbers of women worked outside the home for pay, in jobs that ranged from dirty, hot, and dangerous factory work, to teaching school or owning one's own business.
In Portland at the turn of... |
The area that became South Australia was settled by British colonists in 1836 and was made a crown colony in 1842. (It is the only Australian state where settlement by convicts was prohibited.) Heavy immigration gave the colony sufficient population by 1850 to apply for self-government, which was granted by the British... |
Since launch in 2004, ESA's Rosetta mission has been chasing down comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The comet is a regular visitor to the inner Solar System, orbiting the Sun once every 6.5 years between the orbits of Jupiter and Earth.
Like all comets, Churyumov-Gerasimenko is named after its discoverers. It was first ... |
April 18, 1792
Why should the Senate open its proceedings to non-senators? Members of the first Senate in 1789 had a ready answer to that question: “There is no reason.” If the House of Representatives, which styled itself the “peoples’ house,” chose to admit the public, good luck to them. Neither the Continental Congr... |
Read more: Timeline of climate change
As an antidote to this year's Darwin-mania, we celebrate a piece of science from 1859 that wasn't remotely controversial at the time, but which underpins the hottest political potato of our era: climate change. In May 1859, six months before the publication of On the Origin of Spec... |
Social Studies Activity
As children play the School Rooms game, they reinforce their understanding of
commonly used school terms in a fun, noncompetitive atmosphere. They also build
awareness that their senses are constantly gathering information to help them navigate
through the world around them.
WHAT YOU NEED
WHAT T... |
Fertilization, the union of a male and a female sex cell to form a new individual. If the male and female sex cells are from different individuals of the same species, the union is called cross-fertilization. Fertilization is essential to reproduction in most higher plants and animals. The female sex cell, or female ga... |
The number of beavers in North America fell sharply throughout the 20th century, from an estimated 60 to 10 million to 6 to 12 million. The U.S. park service is now seeking to reintroduce them and the sooner, the better. The dams that beavers build, and the wetlands that are produced, sequester carbon — beavers, that i... |
Grade Range: 9-12
Resource Type(s): Lessons & Activities, Primary Source
Date Posted: 8/18/2008
The impacts on voting due to social and technological advancements in the United States during the second half of the twentieth century are addressed in this section of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History’s... |
Exercise 28: Boolean Practice
The logic combinations you learned from the last exercise are called "boolean" logic expressions. Boolean logic is used everywhere in programming. They are essential fundamental parts of computation and knowing them very well is akin to knowing your scales in music.
In this exercise you wi... |
Design for Growing Independency and Fluency
Rationale: One vital component of reading and reading comprehension is reading with fluency. To read with fluency means to read with automatic word recognition. When readers can recognize words effortlessly and automatically, they can work full time at getting the message of ... |
Figurative language can be found in literature and poetry where the writing appeals to the senses. It can do this by giving a word with a specific meaning, by comparing two things in such a way that you find the comparison interesting or by using words that have unusual constructions or sounds.
You are using figurative... |
Two identical probes landed on Mars in 1976 within weeks of each other, while their orbiter mother ships mapped the planet and made other measurements.
The Viking 1 and 2 landers were the first spacecraft to take photographs from the surface of the Red Planet. Both carried a series of experiments to test for life in th... |
History of the Popes
The history of Popes as leaders of the Catholic Church is rooted back in the time of Saint Peter. The Pope is the father figure of the Catholic Church. According to the Catholics, the pope is believed to be the successor to Saint Peter. The Catholics recognize Saint Peter as a Pope although he neve... |
This antimatter trap at the ALPHA experiment at CERN mixes positrons and antiprotons to make antihydrogen.
Credit: Niels Madsen ALPHA/Swansea
Scientists have taken the first-ever measurement of an atom made of antimatter.
This measurement, though not very precise, represents a first step toward being able to study anti... |
Researchers have cast doubt on the theory that early arthropods showed a unique diversity 530 million years ago. The fossil evidence of the Burgess Shale in British Columbia, Canada, seemed to back up the theory. But Richard Fortey of the Natural History Museum, London, disputes the idea. He suggests that the odd-looki... |
Teaching is an abstract art. As a teacher one must enter the mind of one’s student with the intent to engage. A teacher must engage ones student in the process of absorbing, understanding, applying, and then retaining new knowledge. It is said that it takes the average human 21 days to create a new, repetitive behavior... |
The discovery was uncovered by scientists at the Leiden University in The Netherlands who focused on a protostar located in the constellation Perseus, which is around 750 light years from earth.
The star is aged at no more than 100,000 years and still remains surrounded by a large gas-cloud and dust from which the star... |
Rabies is a zoonotic viral disease maintained in domestic and wild carnivores and bats all over the world. It is transmitted to other animals and humans through close contacts with saliva from infected animals (i.e. bites, scratches, licks on broken skin and mucous membranes). Once symptoms of the disease develop, rabi... |
What is West Nile virus?
West Nile virus (WNV) is an infectious disease that was first discovered in Uganda, Africa in 1937. It then spread slowly through the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and West Asia. The first U.S. cases of WNV were reported in New York in 1999. Since then, the viral infection has moved steadily wes... |
A Reference Resource
Life Before the Presidency
William McKinley was born on January 29, 1843, in the small town of Niles, Ohio. He lived there until age ten, when he moved with his family to nearby Poland, Ohio. His loving family provided William Jr., the seventh of eight children, with a fun-filled childhood that was... |
Freckles are clusters of the pigment melanin. It is produced by melanocytes deep in the skin, with greater concentrations giving rise to darker skin tones, and hence, ethnicity. Melanin protects the skin against harmful ultraviolet radiation, but is also found in other locations around the body, such as the brain. Frec... |
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The anatomy of the arm consists of only three bones but a number of muscles, tendons, and nerves. At the end of the forearm are the metacarpal bones, which make up the wrist joint and attach the hand to the arm. The arm connects with the shoulder at the scapula, and i... |
Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Galileo first introduced the concept of free fall. His classic experiments led to the finding that all objects free fall at the same rate, regardless of their mass. Accordi... |
This packet is a continuation of my other packet called: "Fluently Adding and Subtracting Within 5". That packet is for kindergarten. This packet is for first grade.
This activity is to help promote understanding of adding and subtracting within 10; this does not include the "within 5" cards. Those are featured in the ... |
Following its approval in a national referendum, King Juan Carlos ratifies Spain's first democratic constitution in nearly five decades.
Juan Carlos' grandfather was Alfonso XIII, the last ruling monarch of Spain, who was forced into exile in 1931 after Spain was declared a republic. Born in Italy in 1938, Juan Carlos ... |
By the time North Carolina claimed its independence in 1776, the institutions of state government were already firmly established. Recognizably English in origin, though radically altered in spirit by its break from the "Mother Country," the government in many ways still resembled the hierarchical network of local and ... |
Craters! Can We Simulate How Craters Are Formed and Predict Their Size and Shape? (page 2)
- State the problem you are going to investigate in this science fair project.
- Create and reproduce the data sheet you will use to record your observations.
- Gather all your materials.
- Put on your safety glasses, plastic glo... |
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- This map, produced in the 1920s by the Transportation Department of the United States Department of Commerce, shows the railroad network of British Honduras (present-day Belize). Under the Treaty of Versailles of 1783, the Spanish Empire granted Britain the right to harvest timber in the region b... |
"Crater Lake partially fills a 1,200-meter deep caldera, a depression formed by collapse of ancestral Mount Mazama during the violent eruption of 50 cubic kilometers of magma, or molten rock, about 7,700 years ago (6,845 +/- 50 14C years before present). By comparison, Mount St. Helens in 1980 erupted about half a cubi... |
The skeletal formula, sometimes called line-angle formula, of an organic compound is a type of molecular structural formula that serves as a shorthand representation of its bonding and some details of its molecular geometry. It is represented in two dimensions, as on a page of paper. It employs certain conventions to r... |
Grades 4 and 5
The Me I Want to Be
A Sample Unit on Self-esteem
Lesson Plans | Additional
Unit Introduction: Self-esteem
Although experts are not unanimous when it comes to a precise
definition of the term "self-esteem", they tend to agree that
there is a strong link between how much we value ourselves
and how much con... |
Teaching with Complex Texts
Laura Robb's six tips for unlocking literacy instruction.
- Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8
More to Think About
You can improve students’ reading skill with challenging instructional texts because you are there to scaffold. Understanding the relationship between text complexity and students’ i... |
1. Introduce the lesson: vocabulary, brainstorming, and discussion
Vocabulary. Students should have a working knowledge of the following terms:
- primary resource
What evidence is there of German influence in your family? In the community? (Students may bring in pictures or slides of architecture in their community or ... |
Forty years ago today, July 16, 1969, the most momentous space flight in the history of mankind rocketed skyward at 9:32 AM EDT. Apollo 11, the culmination of the United States space program that integrated the talents of over 300,000 scientists, engineers, skilled crafts workers, pilots, astronauts, and countless othe... |
The Women's Suffrage Movement--It's About Time!
- What are rights? Are they given or required? Why or why not?
- What is reform? Why is reform necessary?
- Does reform happen quickly or slowly? Why or why not?
Through this lesson the student will be able to:
- Identify the main ideas of the suffrage movement.
- Describ... |
A novel analysis of water flow in the Southern Ocean surrounding the Antarctic is revealing previously hidden structures that are crucial in controlling the transport of drifting plants and animals as well as the distribution of nutrients and pollutants that affect ocean life.
Researchers at the University of New South... |
Helping Students Overcome the Illusion of Comprehension
How often have you heard the following from a student, or perhaps your own child? "I studied so hard, and I still got a C!" This is referred to as the illusion of comprehension or, confusing familiarity with knowing. This illusion can be reinforced through multipl... |
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