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Exploring Carbohydrates
Exploring Carbohydrates identifies the primary functions of carbohydrates by describing how carbohydrates are used as a structural component, for energy storage, and as a source of energy in living organisms.
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Revising Simple Sentences
“Revising Simple Sentences” will explain how to revise simple sentences in order to vary sentence structure.
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Problem and Solution Text Structure: Desertification
Problem and Solution Text Structure:Desertification demonstrates understanding of the problem and solution text structure by explaining the problem presented in an informational text and explaining the solution(s) to an identified problem.
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Description Text Structure:Local Girl Gets Party of a Lifetime
Description Text Structure:Local Girl Gets Party of a Lifetime demonstrates understanding of the description text structure by documenting the who, what, when, where, why, and how of the topic of an informational text.
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Project Based Learning
Project-Based Learning is a method that involves students in a long-term in-depth investigation of a real world challenge. Instead of raw memorization of facts or following instructions that present a smooth path to knowledge, students...
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What Happens (Chemically) When Wood Burns?
When wood comes in contact with fire, it undergoes thermal degradation, or pyrolysis. The pyrolysis of wood leads to the release of certain volatile gases and the formation of char, which eventually undergoes flaming and glowing...
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How Igloos Turn Snow into Toasty Havens
An igloo is made of compressed snow. Compact hardened snow is a great insulator of heat because snow is nothing but semi-frozen water with roughly 95% trapped air. The air molecules trapped between the tiny ice crystals create air...
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Thinking It Through
Political scientist John Dunn, University of Cambridge, points out that in many ways democracy, civil liberties and capitalism actually oppose one another rather than reinforce each other, as many naively believe.
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Stephanie Costello - Let the Students Run the Show
Stephanie Costello is the Academic Dean of Technology and Innovation at String Theory Schools, an Apple Distinguished Educator, Class of 2019, history nerd, Apple Teacher and Google Certified Educator. String Theory Schools is a...
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Problem and Solution Text Structure
Problem and Solution Text Structure identifies the common characteristics of the problem and solution structure of informational text.
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Cause and Effect Text Structure
Cause and Effect Text Structure identifies the common characteristics of the cause and effect structure of informational text.
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Creating Meaning: Structure and Sound
This video will help students understand how poetry is organized and how the sound adds to the overall meaning of the written work.
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Description Text Structure
Description Text Structure identifies the common characteristics of the description structure of informational text.
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Can Images Classify Themselves? | Self-Organization and Neural Cellular Automata
Can Images Classify Themselves? | Self-Organization and Neural Cellular Automata
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Did DeepMind Solve One of Biology's Biggest Challenges? | AlphaFold 2
Did DeepMind solve the protein folding problem with AlphaFold 2? Stay tuned to find out.
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The Cell
The Cell defines the term cell by explaining that a cell is the basic unit of structure and function of all living things.
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World Landmarks
“World Landmarks” explains the significance of world landmarks by discussing specific examples and their locations.
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The Importance of Carbon
The Importance of Carbon analyzes the importance of carbon by explaining how carbon is uniquely suited to form biological macromolecules
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The Prokaryotic Cell
The Prokaryotic Cell examines a prokaryotic cell by describing its structure.
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National Landmarks
National Landmarks explores significance of national landmarks in representing the identity and principles of the United States by discussing the history and importance of the Statue of Liberty, the White House, Mount Rushmore, and the...
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Scouring Museums
Once we knew that quasicrystals could be produced in a laboratory, Paul Steinhardt, Princeton University, set out to see if they might exist naturally, spending hours carefully examining minerals in museums in the hopes of stumbling upon...
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Evolving Through Copying
Duke University neuroscientist Jennifer Groh describes an intriguing hypothesis that might account for the often hard to imagine intermediate stages of evolution while highlighting how evidence for one aspect of the theory might involve...