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Why Old Arguments for Earning a Diploma Don't Resonate With My Students — and Which Ones Will

ED Surge

Will it diminish or overshadow the other myriad accomplishments they have achieved? For many families, a high school diploma is a huge accomplishment that not everyone has been able to achieve. Will it diminish or overshadow the other myriad accomplishments they have achieved?

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Paper Bobsled: STE(A)M Olympics-Related Lesson

User Generated Education

Develop a model to describe that when the arrangement of objects interacting at a distance changes, different amounts of potential energy are stored in the system [Grades 6-8] Construct, use, and present arguments to support the claim that when the motion energy of an object changes, energy is transferred to or from the object.

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Shifting to Student-Centered Instruction

STEM Discovery Education

Student-centered instruction and learning lead to greater rates of achievement and transferrable life skills for success in school and long after. At this point, constructive arguments are based on evidence, which enriches students’ understanding of the concepts. The shift to student-centered instruction is well worth the effort.

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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

But, first and foremost, the story of the Second Law is the story of a great intellectual achievement of the mid-19th century. By 1807 the term “energy” had been introduced, but the question remained of whether it could in any sense globally be thought of as conserved. But in plenty of situations it wasn’t.

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Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

Sometimes textbooks will gloss over everything; sometimes they’ll give some kind of “common-sense-but-outside-of-physics argument”. With hard spheres there’s built-in conservation of energy, momentum and number of particles. The First Law of thermodynamics asserted that heat was a form of energy, and that overall energy was conserved.

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The Mystery of the Baghdad Battery

STEMe

However, König had another theory to form the entire argument around this artifact. Jansen, performed the same experiment except with vinegar and benzoquinone, which is produced by certain types of beetles, instead of grape juice and achieved the same results. Another engineer, W.

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Kids Online Learning Statistics 2023

The Maker Mom

Energy consumption, transportation, and time spent learning can all be reduced drastically thanks to online learning technologies. Many of these students achieve most, if not all of their credit hours through online courses. This is a systemic problem that requires years to correct and oversight on nearly every level to achieve.