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In this episode of NASA 360, hosts Johnny Alonso and Jennifer Pulley look at some of the most inspiring events/people that have come out of NASA over the past 50 years. This program includes: Apollo 12 Astronaut/Painter Alan Bean; NASA Langley Center Director Lesa Roe; 7-Time Shuttle Astronaut Franklin Chang Diaz; Astronaut Jose Hernadez; Hubble Space Telescope and much more
Why do we teach social studies? This session focuses on the relevance of teaching social studies and discusses strategies for helping students gain a deeper understanding of social studies content. The onscreen teachers review standards and themes developed by the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and view video clips from the Social Studies in Action video library to identify examples of powerful teaching and learning.
Counting is an act of organization, a listing of a collection of things in an orderly fashion. Sometimes it's easy; for instance counting people in a room. But listing all the possible seating arrangements of those people around a circular table is more challenging. This unit looks at combinatorics, the mathematics of counting complicated configurations. In an age in which the organization of bits and bytes of data is of paramount importance
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Learn how to use the concept of similarity to measure distance indirectly, using methods involving similar triangles, shadows, and transits. Apply basic right-angle trigonometry to learn about the relationships among steepness, angle of elevation, and height-to-distance ratio. Use trigonometric ratios to solve problems involving right triangles.
Learn that area is a measure of how much surface is covered. Explore the relationship between the size of the unit used and the resulting measurement. Find the area of irregular shapes by counting squares or subdividing the figure into sections. Learn how to approximate the area more accurately by using smaller and smaller units. Relate this counting approach to the standard area formulas for triangles, trapezoids, and parallelograms.
As the Learner Teams continue working on their own units, they examine strategies for determining how well students meet unit objectives. By revisiting the lessons in the first four programs, they discover how to build formative and summative assessments into the units that they are developing.
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Musical instruments get a whole new life in the Los Angeles Unified School District. A look at Smarter Balanced testing in Elk Grove and how kids are adapting to the new format. An "Education 101" on per pupil spending with State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson. Visit a school kitchen in Turlock where fresh and local ingredients come first.
Nearly a thousand years after Rome's fall, Constantinople was conquered by the forces of Islam.nn
Form the way music is organized and structured from beginning to end guides composers, performers, and listeners in all musics. Here, the traditional Western sonata, the blueprints behind improvisational jazz, the narrative structure of traditional Japanese music, call-and-response forms in West African music and American gospel, and Irish fiddle tunes exemplify worldwide variations in musical form.n
Global 3000 is Deutsche Welle's weekly magazine that explores the intersection of global development and the environmental and social conditions of the diverse cultures of the world. In each program, host Michaela Kufner presents three to four video-rich segments that profile a different part of the planet where man's quest for economic and industrial strength is jeopardizing the ecosystems and the social and economic structures of people thousands of miles away. The program not only documents where those struggles are taking place - but how some groups and individuals are finding solutions to the growing problems of global development.
Vocabulario: numbers (100-1000); food groups (meat, fish, fruits, vegetables, others); writing and written works.nGram
How do we connect social studies to life beyond the classroom? In this culminating session, the teachers demonstrate the major concepts they
How were water routes used as conduits of expansion and trade? The traders of the Indian Ocean, the early Mississippians, and the Norsemen carried death and disease, skills and technologies, philosophies and religion down rivers and across oceans.