Weston Woods Animated Children's Books
It's a complicated world and there are many ways you can be taken advantage of or cheated. Learn how to recognize a scam, and how to protect yourself from identify theft, pyramid schemes, and more.
The conventional notion of dimension consists of three degrees of freedom: length, width, and height, each of which is a quantity that can be measured independently of the others. Many mathematical objects, however, require more
Watch this program in the 10th session for grade 3
Weston Woods Animated Children's Books
Examine your intuitive notions of what makes a "good copy" and then progress toward a more formal definition of similarity. Explore similar triangles and look into some applications of similar triangles, including trigonometry.
Connections can be physical, as with bridges, or immaterial, as with friendships. Both types of connections can be understood using the same mathematical framework called network theory, or graph theory, which is a way to abstract and quantify the notion of connectivity. This unit looks at how this branch of mathematics provides insights into extremely complicated networks such as ecosystems.
I Choose My Future, a captivating presentation and video series, provides viewers with comprehensive, straightforward insight into how substance abuse impacts the individual, their families, and society.
Global 3000 is Deutsche Welle's weekly magazine that explores the intersection of global development and the environmental and social conditions of the diverse cultures of the world. In each program, host Michaela Kufner presents three to four video-rich segments that profile a different part of the planet where man's quest for economic and industrial strength is jeopardizing the ecosystems and the social and economic structures of people thousands of miles away. The program not only documents where those struggles are taking place - but how some groups and individuals are finding solutions to the growing problems of global development.
The study of cultural geography focuses on how we shape our surrounding space, and how natural and man-made landscapes affect our perspectives. This session looks at literary texts through the lens of relationships of people to their environments.
What are traditions and how are they transmitted? Islamic Spain, Korea, and West Africa provide examples of many different modes of transmission, including oral, written, artistic, and architectural.
Rome's civil engineering contributed as much to the empire as did its weapons.n
This episode of GED Connection talks about the elements of fiction you need to look for when you read. Fiction is a story that the writer has made up and the GED test has passages from both contemporary and classic works of fiction. This program discusses ways to analyze fiction and says that a good way to start doing that is to react to a story in light of your own experiences. Every work of fiction has characters, a plot, and a setting. Another element found in fiction is conflict. Conflict involves come sort of tension or struggle and can be internal or external. In fiction, plot, character, and conflict help reveal the theme or message of a story. The program also discusses point of view, that knowing the perspective from which a story is told determines what kind of information we get as readers. In fiction it is important to recognize what type of narration is used and if the passage conveys some sort of feeling or attitude. This feeling or attitude is called tone, whereas the personality of the piece is called style and has to do with the kind of story the author is writing. The student is reminded that the best way to prepare for this portion of the test is to read a variety of fiction.
Global 3000 is Deutsche Welle's weekly magazine that explores the intersection of global development and the environmental and social conditions of the diverse cultures of the world. In each program, host Michaela Kufner presents three to four video-rich segments that profile a different part of the planet where man's quest for economic and industrial strength is jeopardizing the ecosystems and the social and economic structures of people thousands of miles away. The program not only documents where those struggles are taking place - but how some groups and individuals are finding solutions to the growing problems of global development.