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Your third grader will continue to build on basic math skills such as addition and subtraction, telling time, and counting money, but will also start to learn how to multiply, measure, and understand fractions. You can help your child master these skills simply by playing games in and around the house. Leave the flashc... |
Spiral galaxy NGC 4921 presently is estimated to be 320 million light years distant.
This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, is being used to identify key stellar distance markers known as Cepheid variable stars.
The magnificent spiral NGC 4921 has been informally dubbed anemic because of its low rate of star ... |
Shingles (herpes zoster) is a painful, blistering skin rash. It is caused by the varicella-zoster virus. This is the virus that also causes chickenpox.
After you get chickenpox, the virus remains inactive (becomes dormant) in certain nerves in the body. Shingles occurs after the virus becomes active again in these nerv... |
Civil Rights Movement Teacher Resources
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
It's December 1, 1955, and a tired African American woman refuses to give up her seat for a white man on a bus in Montgomery. This woman is Rosa Parks. While sh... |
A natural disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth; examples include floods, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other geologic processes. A natural disaster can cause loss of life or property damage, and typically leaves some economic damage in its wake, the severity o... |
How 3D works
How We See
The fact that our left eye and right eye see objects from different angles is the basis of 3D photography. If you try looking at an object through one eye and then the other, you will notice that it slightly changes position. However, with both eyes open, the two images that each eye observes se... |
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RL.9-10.9. Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a specific work (e.g., how Shakespeare treats a theme or topic from Ovid or the Bible or how a later author draws on a play by Shakespeare).
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To calculate the area of a triangle you need to know its height. If this information is not given to you, you can easily calculate it based on what you do know! This article will teach you two different ways to find the height of a triangle, depending on what information you have been given.
Method 1 of 2: Using Base a... |
Earth's companion is so large and fascinating that geologists count the Moon as one of the solar system's "terrestrial planets." In fact, it was probably born from Earth, after a Mars-sized body collided with the proto-Earth, in a collision so violent that the Moon that coalesced from the leftover fragments was entirel... |
This session introduces the idea that there are different meanings of "more" and distinguishes between relative and absolute comparisons. To familiarize ourselves with the idea of equivalent ratios, we will use both additive and multiplicative methods to explore different ways of making similar figures. We will look at... |
The phylum Mollusca includes snails, clams, chitons, slugs, limpets, octopi, and squid. As mollusks develop from a fertilized egg to an adult, most pass through a larval stage called the trocophore. The trocophore is a ciliated, free-swimming stage. Mollusks also have a radula or file-like organ for feeding, a mantle t... |
LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION
Ambrose, S.E. Undaunted Courage (Simon & Schuster, 1996).
United States citizens knew little about western North America when the Lewis and Clark Expedition set out in 1804. Twelve years earlier Captain Robert Gray, an American navigator, had sailed up the mouth of the great river he named th... |
Why are the stars in the Orion constellation different colors?
In this view of Orion you can see that the stars are different colors. The red star in the upper left is Betelgeuse (pronounced BET-ul-juice). The blue star in the lower right is Rigel. The fuzzy patch in the sword is the Orion nebula. The nebula will be di... |
Reading Skills Teacher Resources
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Students practice their fluency skills. In this fluency lesson, students read aloud stories to their peers and they help to coach one another on their fluency, pronunciation, phrasing, and inflection.... |
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A mass m is suspended at the end of a spring, its weight stretches the spring
by a length L to reach a static state (the equilibrium position of the system).
Let u(t) denote the displacement, as a function of time, of the mass relative
to its equilibrium position. Recall that the textbook... |
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|Basic forms of government|
A confederation (also known as confederacy or league) is a union of political units for common action in relation to other units. Usually created by treaty but often later adopting a common constitution, confederations tend to be established for dealing with cri... |
A painting by Rudolf Bohunek depicting a man and a barrel of whiskey entitled "Ould Irish Whiskey. This image was painted during the Prohibition Era around 1910. Learn more »
In the early twentieth century, Louisiana reluctantly became subject to the abolition, or prohibition, of alcoholic drinks as a result of the fed... |
Apollo Space Freighter (1963)
When first proposed in 1959, the spacecraft that would eventually become known as the Apollo Command and Service Module (CSM) was envisioned as a three-man Earth-orbital vehicle upgradable to lunar-orbital capability. On November 15, 1960, NASA awarded six-month feasibility study contracts... |
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Let's find out how we know our shapes!
Introduce or review geometric shapes such as circles, triangles, squares, rectangles, etc. with students. Hold a class discussion of the similarities and differences between the shapes. Have students use construction paper and Crayola® Construction Paper™ Crayons ... |
The Early Cases
The Supreme Court adopted its present law of affirmative action after an extended period of experimentation. In a series of plurality decisions, various justices and coalitions of justices toyed with a variety of legal standards to govern the use of racial classifications for the benefit of racial minor... |
You may have heard of the Richter scale used to study earthquakes. In 1935 Charles Richter developed a system to measure the magnitude --or amount of energy released--of an earthquake. Each whole number on the Richter scale indicates a tenfold increase in amplitude (greatness in size). Thus, a 7.5 earthquake on the Ric... |
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Collecting rocks and minerals is a fun way to learn about geology! Most kids are naturally inclined to pick up any "pretty" rock that they see, which provides a great learning opportunity. Start by keeping the interesting rocks you find on walks and hikes. You might want to wrap... |
You Decide: Should the American space program send a manned mission to Mars?
This educational guide focuses on whether or not the American Space Program should send a manned Mission to Mars. Students are invited to examine the arguments on both sides of the debate, developing critical thinking skills as they work throu... |
A healthy ear emits soft sounds in response to the sounds that travel in. Detectable with sensitive microphones, these otoacoustic emissions help doctors test newborns' hearing. A deaf ear doesn't produce these echoes.
New research involving the University of Michigan and Oregon Health and Science University shows that... |
(Phys.org)—Two teams working independently have succeeded in entangling a single electron spin with a single photon in a solid-state platform. Both teams describe their process and results in papers they've had published in the journal Nature. The two teams used laser pulses fired at quantum dots to entangle pairs of e... |
Oxidation and Reduction
Oxidation is the loss of electrons or loss of hydrogen and addition of oxygen.
Reduction is the gain of electrons or gain of hydrogen and loss of oxygen.
Redox refers to a reaction where both of these happens. Remember it with OIL RIG (Oxidation Is Loss, Reduction Is Gain)
The oxidation state of... |
Kids learn the appearance and value of pennies, count pennies, and write the number of cents for the pennies on this first grade math worksheet.
Counting quarters is simple once you learn how. Practice counting quarters with your child using this math worksheet.
Let's go shopping! In this math worksheet, your kid will ... |
Analyze Air Quality with Lichens
Lichens are composite organisms consisting of a fungus (the mycobiont) and a photosynthetic partner (the photobiont or phycobiont) growing together in a symbiotic relationship. The photobiont is usually either a green alga (commonly Trebouxia) or cyanobacterium (commonly Nostoc).
The mo... |
In living and past peoples, there is wide range of variability. Despite this variability, our bones
have features that can be clues to ancestry. Many of these features reflect evolutionary processes, including adaptation to the environment.
Bone cells retain "biogeographical" information that is found in our DNA. These... |
Oh no! The mayor finally finished building the city, but all the signs got mixed up! Can your child help him sort out the mess?
Help your second grader learn how to read a math table by using this math farm table to answer a set of questions.
Can your second grader make her own bar chart? Use this pretend survey of 38 ... |
Primary Sources and Research – 4
Students’ research will use the History Detective Form to examine artifacts and primarysource documents, making observations about them and generalizing about what theymight mean. And how they might be used by historians. The primary source documentsare authentic and come from the life ... |
Multiplying Decimals Teacher Resources
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Developing the Concept: Exponents and Powers of Ten
Here is an exponents lesson which invites learners to examine visual examples of multiplication and division using powers of 10. They... |
Fossil galaxy reveals clues to early universe
A tiny galaxy has given astronomers a glimpse of a time when the first bright objects in the universe formed, ending the dark ages that followed the birth of the universe.
Astronomers from Sweden, Spain and the Johns Hopkins University used NASA's Far Ultraviolet Spectrosco... |
The first printing press designed to use the newly invented Cherokee alphabet arrives at New Echota, Georgia.
The General Council of the Cherokee Nation had purchased the press with the goal of producing a Cherokee-language newspaper. The press itself, however, would have been useless had it not been for the extraordin... |
The conquest of Central America is primarily the story of the conquest of the Maya states in northern Central America (1551–1697). There were, however, other tribes further south. Rodrigo de Bastidas established Spain's claim to the isthmus of Panama. He sailied along the Darién coast (March 1501). Christopher Columbus... |
Nibbling by herbivores can have a greater impact on the width of tree rings than climate, new research has found. The study, published this week in the British Ecological Society's journal Functional Ecology, could help increase the accuracy of the tree ring record as a way of estimating past climatic conditions.
Many ... |
In economics, a cost curve is a graph of the costs of production as a function of total quantity produced. In a free market economy, productively efficient firms use these curves to find the optimal point of production (minimizing cost), and profit maximizing firms can use them to decide output quantities to achieve th... |
Having analyzed Mars from afar via orbiting satellite, Los Alamos National Laboratory instruments will next be on their way to get out and play in the Martian dirt. Two of the eight instruments aboard NASA's planned Mars Science Laboratory rover, scheduled for launch in 2009, include Los Alamos technology.
Image: Mars ... |
The shape of a proton depends on the speed of the quarks inside. Of the four shapes shown here, the spherical shape (lower right) is the shape most physicists expected to find. The peanut shape (top left) is produced by quarks traveling nearly at light speed and spinning the same direction as the proton. (Gerald A. Mil... |
Objectives: In this lab you will learn:
- Metric measurements and conversions
- Use of basic laboratory equipment
- Preparation of solutions
- Proper use of the microscope
- Measurement of specimens using the micrometer
Series 1 Lab 1 Scientific Investigation Boot Camp
In this laboratory, we will review the metric syst... |
IN THE evolution of organs, skin came first. The discovery that even sponges have a proto-skin shows that the separation of insides from outsides in multicellular animals was key to their evolution.
It has been known since the 1960s that sponges have a distinct outer layer of cells, or epithelium. But because sponges l... |
More than just strings
Another surprising revelation was that superstring
theories are not just theories of one-dimensional objects. There
are higher dimensional objects in string theory with dimensions from
zero (points) to nine, called p-branes.
In terms of branes, what we usually call a membrane would be a two-brane... |
Exploration of Neptune
The Exploration of Neptune started on August 25, 1989, when Voyager 2 became the first and so-far only spacecraft to visit the planet. Like the other gas giants, Neptune has no solid land on its surface so landing on Neptune would be impossible. Currently, NASA is thinking to send another spacecr... |
A term used to describe the relatively peaceful transfer of power in Czechoslovakia from the Communist Party to the civil rights movement, which the state had unsuccessfully tried to fight for over a decade. The collapse of Communism in Poland and Hungary, and the growing popular protests in Eastern Germany, triggered ... |
The pigment reveals that these animals were, at least partially, dark-coloured in life, which is likely to have contributed to more efficient thermoregulation, as well as providing means for camouflage and UV protection. Researchers at Lund University are among the scientists that made the spectacular discovery.
Preser... |
Electric potential plays the similar role for charge that pressure does for fluids. It reflects the the speed and direction in that the free charged particle would move due electric forces caused by charge that create this potential.
The electric potential created by a point charge q, at a distance r from the charge, i... |
||It has been suggested that Grid bias be merged into this article. (Discuss) Proposed since March 2014.|
Biasing in electronics is the method of establishing predetermined voltages or currents at various points of an electronic circuit for the purpose of establishing proper operating conditions in electronic component... |
Sassy Sally Snake
It is important for students to understand letter to sound correspondences in order to be successful readers and spellers. Children need to be able to identify letters when they hear the sound orally or when reading words that incorporate their phoneme. The purpose of this lesson is to assist the chil... |
This issue is particularly critical on islands where feral cats have been implicated in the extinction of a number of native species.
Some animal rights proponents have promoted "trap, neuter, and return" programs as a potential humane solution to the problem.
Under this approach, feral cats are trapped, sterilized, an... |
Heart murmurs and other sounds
A heart murmur is a blowing, whooshing, or rasping sound heard during a heartbeat. The sound is caused by turbulent (rough) blood flow through the heart valves or near the heart.
Chest sounds - murmurs; Heart sounds - abnormal; Murmur - innocent; Innocent murmur; Systolic heart murmur; Di... |
Choose a symbol to put into the number sentence.
Imagine a pyramid which is built in square layers of small cubes. If we number the cubes from the top, starting with 1, can you picture which cubes are directly below this first cube?
Can you make a cycle of pairs that add to make a square number
using all the numbers in... |
Theorem 1.3: There is a uniquely determined line going through a given point with a given slope. If the given point is (x1, y1), and the line is vertical, then the equation is
If the line is not vertical, then the equation can be written as
which can be simplified to
Proof: If the point is (x1, y1) and the line is a ve... |
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The former Colonies were able to expand into North America simply because they had the military backing and a desire for additional resources and land. As colonial immigration increased, it simply became advantageous for the numbers of people, who, landing on the East Coast, kept pushing westward.
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Turtle embryology said to connect the evolutionary dots and reveal transitional turtle.
The origin of the turtle shell has long been a bone of contention among evolutionists. The latest fossil to make an appearance in this saga is the South African Eunotosaurus, which at a purported age of 260 million years is being bi... |
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Organizational Text Patterns
Expository texts, such as chapters in textbooks, have different organizationalpatterns. These patterns, or structures, can often be identified by
Text Pattern: Cause and EffectWhat is it?
Text organized to show cause and effect identifies the reasons thateve... |
This map shows the five ocean drainage areas in Canada, the major river basins, the internal drainage areas and the diverted drainage areas. A drainage basin, sometimes called a watershed, is an area where all surface water shares the same drainage outlet. Surface water consists of the tiny trickles of water flowing on... |
Watching this resources will notify you when proposed changes or new versions are created so you can keep track of improvements that have been made.
Favoriting this resource allows you to save it in the “My Resources” tab of your account. There, you can easily access this resource later when you’re ready to customize i... |
A pattern rule contains the character ‘%’ (exactly one of them) in the target; otherwise, it looks exactly like an ordinary rule. The target is a pattern for matching file names; the ‘%’ matches any nonempty substring, while other characters match only themselves.
For example, ‘%.c’ as a pattern matches any file name t... |
Congress of Tucumán
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|History of Argentina|
The Congress of Tucumán was the representative assembly, initially meeting in San Miguel de Tucumán, that declared the independence of the United Provinces of South America (modern-day Argentina, Uruguay, part of Bolivia) on July 9, 1816, from the Spani... |
|Topics in Roman mythology|
|Other minor Roman deities|
In Roman religion, Terminus was the god who protected boundary markers; his name was the Latin word for such a marker. Sacrifices were performed to sanctify each boundary stone, and landowners celebrated a festival called the "Terminalia" in Terminus' honor each y... |
How it Happens: The Physics Behind the Urban Heat Island Effect
To understand the urban heat island effect, we first need to understand a few simple rules of physics. Most importantly, we should understand that objects can absorb and reflect light. In fact, the color of an object depends on what kind of light it reflec... |
In population genetics, the founder effect is the loss of genetic variation that occurs when a new population is established by a very small number of individuals from a larger population. It was first fully outlined by Ernst Mayr in 1942, using existing theoretical work by those such as Sewall Wright. As a result of t... |
Black Codes was a name given to laws passed by southern governments established during the presidency of Andrew Johnson. These laws imposed severe restrictions on freed slaves such as prohibiting their right to vote, forbidding them to sit on juries, limiting their right to testify against white men, carrying weapons i... |
Collision With A Protoplanet?
At the same time, new findings about the formation of the solar system suggested that large numbers of massive objects, called protoplanets or planetesimals, had been orbiting the sun at the time the Earth formed. Gradually, scientists came to believe, these objects collided with one anoth... |
This project will start off by describing the basics of electronics. After that, the fundamentals of binary and boolean logic will be described. Lastly we will then move onto the function of the various parts of a simple-as-possible computer (with a few modifications) as described in Malvino's text Digital Computer Ele... |
Feverishly hot ocean surface waters potentially reaching more than 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius) may have helped cause the greatest mass extinction in Earth's history, researchers say.
"We may have found the hottest time the world has ever had," researcher Paul Wignall, a geologist at the University of Le... |
President Obama has outlined a broad strategy to reduce pollution and slow the effects of climate change.
The President's strategy relies on deploying the low-carbon technologies we already have as well as developing new ones. One of these emerging technologies is called "chemical looping."
While chemical looping may n... |
A-level Chemistry/OCR (Salters)/Alkenes
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Communication mechanism is provided by the sockets b/w 2 computers by the help of TCP. Client program makes socket to make it connected to the server.
After the connection has been created, a socket object is created by the server at its communication end. Server & client then can... |
Pronouns have traditionally been regarded as one of the parts of speech, but some modern theorists would not consider them to form a single class, in view of the variety of functions they perform. Subtypes include personal pronouns, reflexive and reciprocal pronouns, possessive pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, relativ... |
Sensory Integration (SI) is the neurological process that occurs in the central nervous system and involves receiving sensory information and turning it into functional responses. Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) is a diagnostic term which describes an individual who is not able to effectively process and integrate se... |
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- History of elections
- Functions of elections
- Types of elections
- Systems of vote counting
- Constituencies: districting and apportionment
- Voting practices
- Participation in elections
- Influences on voting behaviour
Developed in the 19th century in Denmark and in Britain, the single t... |
Can you recreate these designs? What are the basic units? What
movement is required between each unit? Some elegant use of
procedures will help - variables not essential.
See if you can anticipate successive 'generations' of the two
animals shown here.
These are pictures of the sea defences at New Brighton. Can you
wor... |
Interesting online CONFCHEM discussion going on right now on the ChemWiki and
greater STEMWiki Hyperlibary project. Come join the discussion.
The Pauli Exclusion Principle states that, in an atom or molecule, no two electrons can have the same four electronic quantum numbers. As an orbital can contain a maximum of only... |
Ancient astronomers thought that the Sun was a ball of fire, but now astronomers know that it’s nuclear fusion going on in the core of stars that allows them to output so much energy. Let’s take a look at the conditions necessary to create nuclear fusion in stars and some of the different kids of fusion that can go on.... |
In English, it is common to use more than one adjective before a noun — for example, “He's a silly young fool,” or “She's a smart, energetic woman.” When you use more than one adjective, you have to put them in the right order, according to type. This page will explain the different types of adjectives and the correct ... |
Inflation means that the general level of prices is going up, the opposite of deflation. More money will need to be paid for goods (like a loaf of bread) and services (like getting a haircut at the hairdresser's). Economists measure inflation regularly to know an economy's state. Inflation changes the ratio of money to... |
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Regina Public Schools Unit Comparison for Grade 7/8 Math Makes Sense Grade 7 – Unit 1: Patterning Grade 8 – Unit 1: Square Roots and the Pythagorean Theorem Lesson 1.1 Patterns in Division Lesson 1.1 Square Numbers and Area Models Lesson 1.2 More Patterns in Division Lesson 1.2 S... |
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Temporal range: 299–251 Ma Early to Late Permian
|Class:||"Amphibia" (wide sense)|
Diplocaulus (meaning "double caul") is an extinct genus of lepospondyl amphibians from the Permian period of North America. It is one of the largest lepospondyls, wi... |
Stages of Wilms' Tumor
Staging refers to the extent of a cancer within the body, including whether the disease has spread from the original site to other parts of the body. In order to stage a disease, doctors perform exams and tests to learn more about the disease, especially to see whether the disease has spread from... |
Differentiated instruction is the practice of modifying and adapting instruction, materials, content, student projects and products, and assessment to meet the learning needs of individual students. In a differentiated classroom, teachers recognize that all students are different and require varied teaching methods to ... |
Finding the acceleration of a moving object calculates its change in velocity, both a change in speed and direction. You can find the average acceleration to determine the average velocity of the object over a period of time. Acceleration is an important concept in physics, so you can learn how to find average accelera... |
Shearing, also known as die cutting, is a process which cuts stock without the formation of chips or the use of burning or melting. In strict technical terms, the process of "shearing" involves the use of straight cutting blades; and, if the cutting blades are curved then the process is considered a "shearing-type oper... |
1. Activate students' prior knowledge about extreme natural events.
Ask: What do you already know about extreme natural events? Have students brainstorm a list of extreme natural events around the world, such as:
- flooding or drought
- snowstorms or blizzards
- severe thunderstorms, hail
Ask: What type is most likely ... |
A new understanding of how glass is formed may assist with our understanding of everything from the design of golf club heads to the structure of the early universe.
Princeton chemists have found that the formation of glass -- a familiar substance that nonetheless retains some elusive scientific mysteries -- always occ... |
Scientists collected specimens from up to 6,500 feet (2,000 meters) beneath the surface of the Southern Ocean as part of an international project to take a census of Antarctic marine life.
Some of the animals far under the sea grow to unusually large sizes, a phenomenon called gigantism that scientists still do not ful... |
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Lesson Segment 1: How can I represent equivalent forms for decimals, fractions and percents?
Put the “Representing Equivalent Rational Numbers”, and “Fractions, Decimals, and Percents With Candy”... |
On this day in 1948, T.S. Eliot wins the Nobel Prize in literature, for his profound effect on the direction of modern poetry.
Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a long-established family. His grandfather had founded Washington University in St. Louis, his father was a businessman, and his mother was involved in... |
Climate change and the developments it spurs carry the narrative of the Quaternary, the most recent 2.6 million years of Earth's history. Glaciers advance from the Poles and then retreat, carving and molding the land with each pulse. Sea levels fall and rise with each period of freezing and thawing. Some mammals get ma... |
Definition of Anglo-Saxon in English:
1Relating to or denoting the Germanic inhabitants of England from their arrival in the 5th century up to the Norman Conquest.
- In 10th Century Anglo-Saxon England, this dynamic had been complicated by a highly chequered history.
- In theory all freemen of Anglo-Saxon England were ... |
Programmes work by manipulating data stored in memory. These storage areas come under the general heading of Variables. In this section, you'll see how to set up and use variables. You'll see how to set up both text and number variables. By the end of this section, you'll have written a simple calculator programme. We'... |
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Find the latest in professional publications, learn new techniques and strategies, and find out how... |
The renaissance flute, the type of instrument used in Europe from roughly 1500 to 1650 and later, was designed to blend well; it was often played with other flutes in a consort, or perhaps with voices or other soft instruments. Yet it can be seen in medium sized and large ensembles, where it presumably played in its hi... |
Messy play is important for young children, giving them endless ways to develop and learn. All types of play are crucial for children’s development and early learning. Play helps children to; improve physical skills and co-ordination, work co-operatively and collaboratively, use all their senses to discover and explore... |
Did you know that without the atmosphere, Earth's surface would be covered with meteor craters and life on this planet would be non-existent? Protecting us from meteorites, regulating temperature, and providing the air we breathe are only some of the ways that the atmosphere makes Earth the home it is.
Earth's atmosphe... |
NASA's Fermi Telescope peers deep into a microquasar
Cygnus X-3 is the first microquasar for which scientists can prove high-energy gamma-ray emission.
November 30, 2009
Provided by Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
November 30, 2009
In Cygnus X-3, an accretion disk surrounding a black hole or neutron st... |
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Monsoon (UK: //; US: //) is traditionally defined as a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation, but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associ... |
Evidence of Plate Tectonics http://www.mnh.si.edu/earth/text/4_1_2_3.html
Evidence of Plate Tectonics• 1980s• Ten years of telescope-based measurements from Earth to distant quasars confirmed that the North American and Eurasian Plates are moving away from each other at a rate of 1.7 cm (0.7 in) per year.• Geological s... |
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A plane figure bounded by four line segments AB,BC,CD and DA is called a quadrilateral.
In geometry, a quadrilateral is a polygon with four
sides and four vertices. Sometimes, the term quadrangle is used... |
The Cell Functions And Actions Guide
A cell is the primary building block of life and cells functions are required for everything that happens inside a human’s body. While an organism may consist of only one cell, such as bacteria, a human body is thought to contain over 100 trillion cells. The function of cells is det... |
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