Effect of Coefficient of x^2 on Parabola Shape
This classroom activity presents College Algebra students with a ConcepTest, a Question of the Day, and a Write-pair-share activity concerning the effect of the coefficient of x^2 on the shape of a parabola where b and c are arbitrarily fixed values in f(x)=ax^2+bx+c.
First-Principles Investigation of Optical Transitions in Small Silicon Quantum Dots
By: icamp2012school Zhibin Lin, Colorado School of Mines
21M.220 Early Music (MIT)
This course examines European music from the early Middle Ages until the end of the Renaissance. It includes a chronological survey and intensive study of three topics: chant and its development, music in Italy 1340-1420, and music in Elizabethan England. Instruction focuses on methods and pitfalls in studying music of the distant past. Students' papers, problem sets, and presentations explore lives, genres, and works in depth. Works are studied in facsimile of original notation, and from origin
Jackie Robinson on Racial Taunts
The first African-American to play major league baseball, Jackie Robinson describes his experience in the first few games of the 1947 season, when he was subjected to vicious epithets from other teams and spectators. (0:52)
Jackie Robinson Appears Before HUAC
In this video clip, listen as Jackie Robinson was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee to discuss the appeal of communism to black America in 1949. (0:33)
Tassell MTEC Donor Thank You
Tassell MTEC Donor Thank You
Inside the Goodyear Blimp
For three Kent State University alumni, work isn't exactly your everyday desk job. Electronics technician, Eric Woodliff, and pilots, James Kosmos, Jr., and Michael Dougherty work for the Spirit of Goodyear, Goodyear's Suffield-based aerial video coverage and advertising tool.
Transposing Instruments
This article uses Fullan's (2005a) leadership and sustainability model to assess lasting impact of a systemic change initiative within a high-need school district. The assessment, which is part of a case study, spans from 1998 when the current superintendent began his tenure through 2005 when an advanced leadership development program closed. The lead author is the project director and principal investigator of that externally funded program. The coauthors assumed different responsibilities duri
This Day in History February 13: Galileo in Rome for Inquisition
On this day in 1633, Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome to face charges of heresy for advocating Copernican theory, which holds that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Galileo officially faced the Roman Inquisition in April of that same year and agreed to plead guilty in exchange for a lighter sentence. (1:00)
ASL Life Processes
Defrag Tools: #5 - Autoruns and MSConfig | Defrag Tools In this episode of Defrag Tools, Chad and I walk you through Sysinternals Autoruns. We also look at its predecessors: MSConfig and SysEdit. AutoRuns and MSConfig allow you to view and disable autostart entries on the computer. The autostart entries are locations in the registry and file system that can cause applications and DLLs to be automatically run at startup, login, application launch, and at many more registration
NCR525 FALL 2012 Segment 01 .mp4
Denise Williams
2012 UM Common Reading Experience
Are you reading the 2012 UM Common Reading Experience book by Ole Miss professor Tom Franklin? Visit umreads.olemiss.edu. Video by Mary Stanton
Plant Growth Regulation
Plant growth regulators, including auxin, gibberellin, cytokinin, abscisic acid, and ethylene, are investigated in this learning activity to demonstrate how these chemicals (hormones) affect plant growth and development.
Eigenschappen van een vierkant Leerlingen bekijken de eigenschappen van een vierkant. Ze leren ook hoe ze de omtrek en de oppervlakte van een vierkant moeten berekenen.
Colonial House - A Character's Perspective
In an experiment to experience the realities of life in colonial America, seventeen people in 2004 participated in a reenactment to build a settlement on the New England coast in a similar scenario to settlers of the year 1628. In this video segment from Colonial House, modern day colonists struggle to build homes, grow crops and fight frequent illness caused by exhaustion and exposure to cold. They also have to establish relationships with the native Passamaquoddy people in order to gain the se
Connections Between Texts - Maya Lin and Jane Jacobs
Overview
Students watch two segments about two women who have influenced architecture and the physical look of a city. After a class discussion, students will write and perform a Readers' Theater script in which Jacobs and Lin talk to each other about their ideas about architecture and life.
Why is this an important concept?
It is important for learners to be able to recognize connections between or among texts so they can identify common themes and conflicting information in t
Science Bulletins: Cosmic Microwave Background: The New Cosmology
The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a vast curtain of energy left over from the Big Bang. It is the oldest, most distant feature of the observable Universe. Since the discovery of the CMB in the mid-1960s, cosmology—the study of the origin and evolution of the Universe—has experienced an explosion of activity. The field has changed from a purely theoretical enterprise to the empirical study of what populates the physical Universe. "Cosmologists are right at the cusp," says the Universit
Memphis Collegiate Vote 2012 and Mayor Wharton.
Memphis Collegiate Vote 2012 and Mayor Wharton.
