Creating a Yelp-like Resource for Autism Families
As a father to an autistic child, Topher Wurts realized autism families could use an app and website that listed resources to help them find appropriate places, services and products -- with reviews. So he created Autism Village.
Cognitive Disability and Cognitive Enhancement
Prof Jeff McMahan,Rutgers University explores why it is important for our understanding of problems in bioethics to determine the moral status of human beings whose cognitive capacities and potential are no higher than those of higher nonhuman animals.
Genetic Testing for Cancer: Is It Worth It?
Please visit: www.mdanderson.org/prevention for more information regarding prevention and screening How often you should get tested for breast cancer depends on your chances for getting the disease. If you are at increased risk for breast cancer, you may need to start screening exams at an earlier age, get additional tests or be tested more often. Learn when genetic testing makes sense for you. Dr. Banu Arun, Professor of Breast Medical Oncology and Co-Director of Clinical Cancer Genetics at The
Bobo the Baby Elephant Grows Up Read-Aloud Online Storybook
This read aloud is Bobo the Baby Elephant Grows Up written by Andis Sergejevs and illustrated by Aija Jasuna. In this story Bobo the baby elephant doesn't want to grow up. However in his adventures he learns to like being grown up. There is a back, stop, and next button on each page. Each word is highlighted as it is read. This is a good resource to help build a literacy rich environment in the elementary classroom. This would be great used i
Cycads (Cycas revoluta)
Cycads look like palms but are not among the flowering plants. Cycad seeds develop on specialized leaves. These leaves pack together to form a cone.
Permeable Pavement
In this activity, students investigate how different riparian ground covers, such as grass and pavement, affect river flooding. They learn about permeable and impermeable materials through the measurement how much water is absorbed by several different household materials in a model riverbed. Students use what they learn to make recommendations for engineers developing permeable pavement. Also, they consider several different limitations for design in the context of a small community.
Household energy audit
Students review the electrical appliances used at home and estimate the energy used for each. The results can help to show the energy hogs that could benefit from conservation or improved efficiency.
3.3 Constructive plate boundaries
Plate tectonics is an earth sciences topic that attracts a good deal of interest, given that it a topic very often featured in popular science programmes on TV and radio. It is a subject that have strong visual appeal. The coverage is S279 is self-contained, up to date and is written in a way that will be accessible to those with interest and motivation, all the more so for those who have some pre-existing scientific understanding.
2.4.1 Try some yourself
Diagrams, charts and graphs are used by all sorts of people to express information in a visual way, whether it's in a report by a colleague or a plan from your interior designer. This unit will teach you how to interpret these tools and how to use them yourself to convey information more effectively.
Une soirée entre amis: tickets reserveren
Op het einde van deze les kun je telefonisch tickets voor een concert reserveren. Eerst leer je reageren met de gepaste repliek, dan luister je naar een conversatie en duid je de elementen aan waarover gesproken wordt. Vervolgens krijg je een oefening op voorzetsels. En tenslotte duid je -met een luisteroefening- aan wat het juiste antwoord van de bediende zal zijn op bepaalde vragen.
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Lync IM an Expert - Part 1 of 2 IM an Expert is a publicly available Lync instant messaging question-and-answer service that automatically connects participants with experts who can answer their questions. Users can opt-in, and then the service harnesses the database of experts to connect people together via IM. In Part 1 of this series, Ross Smith, Director of Test, OCDG, gives an overview of IM an Expert. He describes how the idea came about, shows the user interface, and explains how the service fits in
18.100B Analysis I (MIT)
Analysis I covers fundamentals of mathematical analysis: metric spaces, convergence of sequences and series, continuity, differentiability, Riemann integral, sequences and series of functions, uniformity, interchange of limit operations.
E3 2011: Forza 4 Interview with Dan Greenawalt Dan Greenawalt stops by the Channel 9 studio to talk about the E3 announcements surrounding Forza 4, the integration of Kinect and his love of tire dynamics.
NSIPP: North America Water Vapor and Soil Moisture
An animation of atmospheric water vapor and soil moisture from December 1999 through June 2000 for North America from the NSIPP global climate model
This Week @Minnesota: Steelroots, Summer at the U and Wesbrook Hall
In the University of Minnesota weekly webisode series "This Week @Minnesota" for May 30 - June 3, 2011, we profile a new exhibit at the U of M Landscape Arboretum, run through summer attractions on campus and discuss the imminent demolition of historic Wesbrook Hall.
Can You Take the Pressure?
This lesson introduces students to the concept of air pressure. Students will explore how air pressure creates force on an object. They will study the relationship between air pressure and the velocity of moving air.
Chefs to the Rescue
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