Exploration: Solar System Explorer Vocabulary: astronomical unit‚ dwarf planet‚ eccentricity‚ ellipse‚ gas giant‚ Kepler’s laws‚ orbit‚ orbital radius‚ period‚ planet‚ solar system‚ terrestrial planet Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo.) 1. List all of the planets you can think of in our solar system. Try to list them in order from closest to farthest from the Sun. _________________________________________________________________________ 2. Which planets are most like Earth
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Questions (Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo.) 1. A boy is whirling a yo-yo above his head in a counter-clockwise direction. At the exact moment shown at left‚ he lets go of the string. In which direction will the yo-yo travel? Draw an arrow on the image to show the yo-yo’s direction. 2. Do you think the released yo-yo’s path will be straight or curved? Explain. It will curve because the yo yo is spinning. Gizmo Warm-up The Uniform Circular Motion Gizmo™ shows a pink puck that is floating
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Student Exploration: Sight vs. Sound Reactions Vocabulary: histogram‚ mean‚ normal distribution‚ range‚ standard deviation‚ stimulus Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo.) Most professional baseball pitchers can throw a fastball over 145 km/h (90 mph). This gives the batter less than half a second to read the pitch‚ decide whether to swing‚ and then try to hit the ball. No wonder hitting a baseball is considered one of the hardest things to do in sports! 1. What
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these BEFORE using the Gizmo.) 1. What are the major types of nutrients you can get from food? Proteins‚ lipids‚ carbohydrates‚ minerals and vitamins 2. How are these nutrients used by your body? Nutrients are used by your body for everyday functions. Gizmo Warm-up Have you ever wondered what is in your food? Scientists use a variety of tests to determine the nutritional content of food. You will learn four of those tests with the Identifying Nutrients Gizmo™. 1. Below the
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______________9/19/2013__________ Student Exploration: Rainfall and Bird Beaks Vocabulary: adaptation‚ beak depth‚ directional selection‚ drought‚ evolution‚ natural selection‚ range‚ stabilizing selection Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo.) During the voyage of the HMS Beagle (1831–1836)‚ the young Charles Darwin collected several species of finches from the Galápagos Islands. Two of Darwin’s finches are shown below. 1. Which species do you think is best adapted
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MENG 3000 Engineering Management Semester 1 2009/2010 Tutorial Lecture 1 : Introduction to Engineering Management 09/09/09 1. Explain how’s Bloom’s Taxonomy can be used justify the perception that engineers are paid more than technicians. 2. What manager types and roles are best suited to middle managers? 3. Explain how engineers can be effective in the general management of a technically oriented organization. 4. What is the importance of forecasting in supply chain design
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controlled release‚ dosage‚ drug‚ overdose‚ target organ Prior Knowledge Question (Do this BEFORE using the Gizmo.) Suppose you take aspirin for a headache. What happens after you swallow the pill? The aspirin starts begins to dissolve by the enzymes and are soaked in while traveling down to the stomach. They then are distributed to the areas that need the pain relief. Gizmo Warm-up A drug is a substance that causes changes in how your body functions. When you swallow a pill‚ the pill
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Are You Hungry? My character in Hungry by H.A. Swain Thalia; also goes by the name of Apple‚ has grown throughout the novel because she has matured throughout the experiences she and Basil have gone through together.“You might be able to stop hunger and keep the world’s population under your thumb‚ but you can’t control my emotions. Those are mine. They are part of me no matter what you say!”(page 123 H.A. Swain) Apple didn’t understand that her body...wasn’t hers‚ but her families to experiment
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lifestyle. He was looking for a dog that matched that as he didn’t want to be letting down a dog that was expecting play time all the time. I picked out a bulldog-pug mix‚ Gizmo‚ who was notorious around the shelter for being lazy‚ it was a fight to get her to go out on walks. I knew that they would be a great match‚ but as I was getting Gizmo out of his crate‚ I noticed one of my co-workers getting out another dog. When asked what she was doing she said that she believed Polly‚ a very energetic dog would
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retail” (Koenig‚ 2008). Twice in this year has Dell stepped out of its direct business model. The first one is when Dell sealed with Officework and partnership with gizmo marked the second time. In the article named “Dell signs on gizmo to lend a helping hand‚” Mitchell (2008) mentions about how the strategy of alliance with Gizmo‚ an Australian service oriented company‚ benefits both sides and their customers. Three main points can be drawn from the article: • The availability and guarantee quality
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