Fqwimages. Own a Print Update 17th September 2012: 5 images in this series have been placed 2nd as a series in the 2012 IPA awards. Update 20th June 2012: I am honoured and pleased to announce that three of my art pieces (Gerbera Exploded 01, Gerbera Exploded 02 and Pom Pom Exploded 01 are now available exclusively via Lux Archive in limited editions) Update 6th November: I have concluded this series today, with a set total of 20 exploded flowers in this particular series – Realised that there are many more flowers out there in the world, and I cannot possibly include them all! Flowers are indeed one of the most beautiful and complex structures found in nature, specifically designed to achieve the purpose of reproduction.
This is a new series I have embarked on – exploded flowers which are images that show the radial symmetry of flowers, and also individual floral components. If you like the above work, you may like my floral paintings and floral swirls! Download, print, fold, paste. Downloading cars, houses and aeroplanes is no science fiction. In the future, a desktop fabricator may be as common as a desktop computer today, 3D-printers might complement inkjet printers. Downloading, sharing and printing of appliances might become as ordinary (and controversial) as it is today with music, movies and texts. Yet, downloading objects is already possible with a familiar computer configuration. At least, if the objects are made of paper and if you are willing to spend some time cutting and pasting. Paper cut-outs have a long history, but thanks to the internet they are making a comeback. Using imaging software, the objects can be scaled to your liking.
Some models are very simple and childlike, others are extremely complex and are rich in detail. 1. French blog Agence Eureka has several pages of downloadable cut-outs from far gone times - buildings, soldiers, classic cars, theatre scenes, farms, a circus, a camping site, and much more. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Characteristics and Behaviors of the Gifted. Characteristics of Gifted Children Identifying The Gifted Recognizing the Characteristics of Gifted Children General Behavior Characteristics Learning Characteristics Creative Characteristics Who are the Highly Gifted?
Some Myths About Gifted Children Identifying The Gifted Einstein was four years old before he could speak and seven before he could read. Recognizing the Characteristics of Gifted Children ERIC Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children (1985) cites three types of characteristics of gifted children: general behavioral, learning, and creative characteristics. General Behavior Characteristics Gifted children's behavior differs from that of their age-mates in the following ways: Learning Characteristics Gifted children are natural learners who often show many of these characteristics: Creative Characteristics Gifted children's creative abilities often set them apart from their age-mates.
Who are the Highly Gifted? Learn at a much faster pace. Printed with Permission Not necessarily. Old School Filmstrips. 5 Ways To Use StumbleUpon In Education. Do you need another time-sucking website that will entertain, educate, and enhance your day-to-day life? Of course you do! Lucky for you, there’s StumbleUpon and it’s more than just another LOLCat-powered site. It’s actually useful for education! We’ve come up with a few handy ways to use the content discovery site to actually benefit teachers, students, and education administrators. After all, that’s what Edudemic is all about! 1) Stumble Your Way to a Lesson Plan: Using StumbleUpon is a great way to find new material to keep your curriculum fresh and interesting. Giving a lecture on the solar system tomorrow morning?
2) Follow Channels : Whatever your area of expertise, StumbleUpon has a channel for you. 3) Stumble for Show-and-Tell : With StumbleUpon, homework doesn’t have to be boring. 4) Connect With Your University : Everyone’s got a soft spot for their alma mater, and using StumbleUpon is a great way to keep in touch. Do you use StumbleUpon? The Leitner System. Contents General Flashcard Information How Do I Create Flashcards on Cram.com? Using our site to create your very own flashcard sets is simple. First click on Create Flashcards. You will then enter the title of your set as well as a description for your flashcards. Feel free to tag your set by entering keywords in the Subjects section for easier searching. Now you can enter your flashcards. Creating Flashcards Manually: Simply type in the text for the front of your card then fill in the back of the card.
Once all your cards are inputted click the ‘Create Set’ button to save your set. Using Import Options to Create a Set: Need to create lots of cards quickly, create cards from a spread, or import cards from another site? Import Using Google Docs: Select ‘From Google Docs’ under Import Options. How Can I Edit My Flashcard Sets? Sign in to your account. How Can I Delete a Flashcard Set? Sign in to your account. How Can I Delete an Individual Flashcard? Sign in to your account. Account Questions. Numbaland! Classroom Architect. Educational Songs & Children's Music from Songs for Teaching®
Search lessons by keyword. Free Maths Video Lecture courses. PowerPoint Games. Racing Games No preparation required, just have a sheet of vocabulary or review questions in your hand. Click a button on the screen and the car or horse moves one step closer to the finish line and victory.
(Whole Class Participation Game) Download Car Race (Beach Rally) Download Horse Race | Instructions | Office 2007 Instructions | Video Tutorial | What is Louie Thinking (Pyramid Game Show) Similar to Pyramid Game. Download Guess Louie | Instructions | Office 2007 Instructions | Sample Game | Video Tutorial | March Mayhem - Basketball Great for the Basketball March Madness time of year.
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Available from Premium Games Web Site. The Big Wheel. - StumbleUpon. EasyDefine - Define multiple words quickly. How to retain 90% of everything you learn. Imagine if you had a bucket of water. And every time you attempted to fill the bucket, 90% of the water would leak out instantly. Every time, all you’d retain was a measly 10%. How many times would you keep filling the bucket? The answer is simple: just once. The first time you noticed the leak, you’d take action You’d either fix the bucket or you’d get another bucket, wouldn’t you? Yet that’s not at all the way we learn. Almost all of us waste 90% of our time, resources and learning time, because we don’t understand a simple concept called the Learning Pyramid.
That weird thing is that you’re wasting time. So why do you retain 90% when you teach someone else or when you implement it immediately? So as soon as you run into difficulty and start to make mistakes, you have to learn how to correct the mistake. But surely your brain is concentrating in a lecture or while reading Sure it is, but it’s not making any mistakes. Reason 1: Your brain gets stuck at the first obstacle. 1) NEW!
How to Extract DNA from Anything Living. First, you need to find something that contains DNA. Since DNA is the blueprint for life, everything living contains DNA. For this experiment, we like to use green split peas. But there are lots of other DNA sources too, such as: Spinach Chicken liver Strawberries Broccoli Certain sources of DNA should not be used, such as: Your family pet, Fido the dog Your little sister's big toe Bugs you caught in the yard Step 1: Blender Insanity! Put in a blender: 1/2 cup of split peas (100ml) 1/8 teaspoon table salt (less than 1ml) 1 cup cold water (200ml) Blend on high for 15 seconds. The blender separates the pea cells from each other, so you now have a really thin pea-cell soup.
Step 2: Soapy Peas Pour your thin pea-cell soup through a strainer into another container (like a measuring cup). Add 2 tablespoons liquid detergent (about 30ml) and swirl to mix. Let the mixture sit for 5-10 minutes. Pour the mixture into test tubes or other small glass containers, each about 1/3 full. Why am I adding detergent? Science vs. Religion: 50 Famous Academics on God. By Maria Popova Decoding divinity, or what the great intellectuals of our time have to say about science and spirituality. The dialogue between science and religion is among humanity’s oldest and most controversial, drawing each era’s greatest thinkers into some of history’s most heated debates.
We’ve previously looked at a BBC documentary on the complex relationship between the two and 7 essential books on the psychology of faith. Today, we turn to a fantastic mashup of 50 famous academics — including Brain Pickings favorites Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Oliver Sacks, Steven Pinker and Daniel Dennett — talking about spirituality and science, created by Jonathan Pararajasingham. I can’t believe the special stories that have been made up about our relationship to the universe at large, because they seem to be too simple, to connected, too local, too provincial.
The Earth! The speakers, in order of appearance: 1. Via @kirstinbutler Donating = Loving Share on Tumblr. Several Lessons to Be Learned from the Finnish School System. The Internet has been abuzz since the release of “What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart?” By Ellen Gamerman of the Wall Street Journal. In essence, Finland teens are able to deliver the goods on international tests and now American educators have begun researching the Finnish system to see what tidbits they can glean.
According to Gamerman, the differences between Finland and American education are enormous. High-school students rarely get more than a half-hour of homework a night in Finland. In other words, Finland educates its children with a model that is virtually the anti-thesis of what we do in America. Different Schools and Different Kids However, though school is different, it should be noted that Finnish youth appear to be very similar to their American counterparts in their teenage behaviors.
At the same time, it must be noted that Finland as a country is nothing like America. The people are far more homogeneous in terms of both income and education. Scientists Create World's 1st Practical Artificial Leaf, 10X as Efficient as the Real Thing. Science Experiments You Can Do At Home or School. Theories of Learning - Learning: Theory and Research Behaviorist teaching methods have proven most successful in areas where there is a “correct” response or easily memorized material.
Background View of Knowledge View of Learning View of Motivation Implications for Teaching Background Methodological behaviorism began as a reaction against the introspective psychology that dominated the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Introspective psychologists such as Wilhelm Wundt maintained that the study of consciousness was the primary object of psychology. Their methodology was primarily introspective, relying heavily on first-person reports of sensations and the constituents of immediate experiences.
Behaviorists such as J. B. The mentalistic problem can be avoided by going directly to the prior physical causes while bypassing intermediate feelings or states of mind. View of Knowledge Behaviorists such as Watson and Skinner construe knowledge as a repertoire of behaviors. View of Learning View of Motivation Reference. Math Videos. Have Fun Teaching. 65 Ways to Say "Good for You" EVERYONE KNOWS that a little praise goes a long way in any classroom. But "a little praise" really needs to be something more than the same few phrases repeated over and over ad nauseum.
Your students need more than the traditional "Good," "Very good" and "Fine" if encouragement is in the cards. Here are some additional possibilities: That's really nice. Thank you very much. Wow! Behavior Therapy Clinic 4211 Waialae Ave. This article was first published in September 1972, in Teacher, 90(1), pg. 47. Last updated 2 March 1999 E-mail: yen@noogenesis.com Return to Encouraging Words List. Checklists for Teachers. Our amazing planet. Dictation : Le lapin. The Ontario Curriculum Unit Planner (OCUP) The following resources were previously posted on the Ontario Curriculum Unit Planner (OCUP) website (e.g., grade-by-grade elementary expectations, Teacher Companion files, etc.).
Assessment & Evaluation Symposium Keynote: Dr. Douglas Reeves (Excerpt) On January 8, 2008, Dr. Douglas Reeves delivered the keynote address at the Assessment and Evaluation Symposium. In this excerpt, he describes "toxic grading practices" such as: Assigning a grade of "0" for late/incomplete work; Using the average to determine a grade. Download: Assessment & Evaluation Symposium Keynote: Dr. Please note: This is a Windows Media video file. Senior Math Training Resources This file contains resources that were used for implementation training for The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 11-12, Mathematics, 2007 in the spring of 2007. Download: Senior Math Training Resources (ZIP, 17.2 MB)) Resources for "Assessment and Evaluation for Improved Student Learning" Training Sessions (English 9-12, ESL and ELD 9-12, Graphic Organizers. Reading and listening french exams online. DELF, TCF DILF, DALF.
Build a Touchless 3D Tracking Interface with Everyday Materials. Combine low-tech materials with some high-tech components and build a completely Touchless 3D Tracking Interface. Explore capacitive sensing by using several panels of cardboard lined with aluminum foil. These panels, when charged, create electric fields that correspond to X, Y, and Z axes to create a 3D cube. With the aid of an Arduino microcontroller and some supplied code, movements inside the cube are tracked as your hand moves around inside the field. For Weekend Projects makers looking for an introduction to Arduino, this is a great project to learn from.
Once your touchless 3D tracker is up and running, what you do with it is only limited by your own imagination! Make an RGB or HSB color pickerControl video or music parameters; sequence a beat or melodyLarge, slightly bent surface with multiple plates + a projector = “Minority Report” interface More: See all of the Weekend Projects posts Related. Mental_floss Blog & Ugly Bugs. Advances in macro photography and the development of the electron microscope have shown us a world nature never intended for us to see. Over the years, they've shown us how very ugly insects can be if you take a close look! Mosquitos are considered ugly even when we don't get a closeup view. Our model seems to have lost one antenna before posing for a portrait. This picture is from Lehigh University, where you can get a short course on electron microscopy.
A wolf spider looks much more menacing when you stare him in the face. This image by photographer Steven Flanagan gets up close and personal. Continue reading for bugs that take prizes for ugliness. The Oklahoma Microscopic Society has an annual Ugly Bug Contest. This Carolina Sphinx Moth was one of the Grand Prize winners in the 2007 Ugly Bug Contest. This prizewinning photo of a Spiny Assassin Bug was submitted to the Oklahoma contest in 2007 by Community Christian School in Norman, Oklahoma. Math. Grains of sand magnified to 250 times real size.
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