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http://www.earthsunmoon.co.uk/
earthsunmoon.co.uk. When you go to this site, you are invited to play a game, where you have to explore the sun, earth and moon to explain to an animated alien from an obscure planet. You first have to get through an asteroid belt by moving your spaceship, then you choose, the sun, moon or earth, and the program goes through some animation, but teaches interesting facts about each. After you have learned about all three, you move your spaceship to the obscure planet, but you have to go through another asteroid belt and this time using your mouse, shoot down asteroids. After you have made it through the asteroid belt, and land on the planet, you are given a small quiz on the planets. There are many more interesting and interactive sites on the internet to learn about the earth, sun, and moon.
What is weather? The basic answer to this question is that weather is the state of the atmosphere to the degree that it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy. Weather generally refers to the day-to-day temperature and precipitation activity. Common weather phenomena include wind, clouds, rain, snow, fog, and dust storms. Less common events include natural disasters, such as tornadoes, hurricanes, typhoons and ice storms. As mentioned above, there are several websites that teach about the weather and one of the most interesting is www.
http://www.weatherwizkids.com/
weatherwizkids.com. This is a site designed by meteorologist Crystal Wicker especially for kids to allow them to learn more about weather. This site is broken down into sections about different facets of weather. For example, on the site about lightning, it tells about what causes lighting, and has a world map that you can click on to see where lightning is happening at the current time. It also tells...
This would be a fascinating site for all ages of students learning about the weather.
Climate is, according to Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, "the condition of the atmosphere at a particular location over a long period of time, generally 30 years. Climate is the sum of atmospheric elements and their variations, such as solar radiation, temperature, humidity, clouds and precipitation, atmospheric pressure, and wind speed and direction." There are many factors that affect climate, including distance from the sea, ocean currents, direction of prevailing winds, mountains, proximity to the equator, El Nino or the Jet Stream and finally humans. From the first time humans appeared on the earth, we have affected climate. Trees take in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and put out oxygen, but when we cut trees down, that affects the amount of carbon in the air. Then once we invented motors and engines in the industrial revolution, we caused pollution or smog and that affects the climate of an area. One of the better websites that explains climate and then explains how people have affected climate is: http://www.ecn.ac.uk/Education/factors_affecting_climate.htm. You can go to this site and click on a tutorial entitled 'Climate Change' and see how we have affected climate and it even gives you sections to see what will happen with different things. Very interesting.
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Palmer, A.R., & Zen, E. The Context of Humanity: Understanding Deep Time. BASIN. Retrieved from http://bcn.boulder.co.us/basin/local/sustain2.html on July 22, 2011.
IX. Teacher presentation The teacher's presentation in inquiry-based learning must be one that presents questions to the students. This can be best achieved through an interesting presentation that requires students to actively and fully participate in that which is being presented by the teacher. Capturing the classroom attention in this activity may be easily accomplished through filling a basket or box with oddities relating to earth science and to one-by-one pull
Science Misconception First you have to list why this misconception is correct. Misconception: Energy gets used up or runs out Reasons why this is false: One of the basic laws of science is the Law of Conservation of Energy is that energy can be neither created nor destroyed. It can only be changed from one form to another. Describe a non-mathematical way to help your students correct their misconception of this idea. Suppose you were
This type of evolutionary thinking will challenge the initial creationist act as well. Many creationist currents, including the Christian one, believe that human life was also created through divine intervention, so any kind of such approach where life actually evolved to form the human being along the way takes away the special characteristics of human kind, as perceived by Christianity, for example. So, evolutionism virtually challenges the entire theological belief
Another Victorian poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, was more forthright in his beliefs. Biblical typology was a signature to his poetry, and his poems often included biblical phrasings and in the case of "The Barnfloor and Winepress," even a passage from a scripture as an epigraph. Hopkins addresses the sinning Christians and even unbelievers, and reveals to them the various gifts that Christ has rewarded them with, as a result of
Scottish universities generally offered more mathematics and science programs than were offered by most English universities. The strong mathematics and science programs in Scotland attracted such American students as Benjamin Rush. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. When he returned to North America in 1769, he helped form the earliest American medical education programs at the College of Philadelphia. After the United States won its independence from
Otherwise, one field risks becoming subordinate to the other; although it's likely that Coyne's theology is extraordinarily sophisticated, the brief excerpt of it that Bill Maher uses leads the viewer to suspect that if these precepts are followed to their logical conclusion, religion will always give way to science as John Paul II gave way to the certainty that organisms evolve over time. If so, then efforts to restore faith