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Let′s All Teach Computer Science!: A Guide to Integrating Computer Science Into the K-12 Classroom
by Kiki ProttsmanYou belong in this world of computer science education—and because of you, adults of the future will understand how to responsibly participate in high-tech environments with confidence. Districts, cities, and states are moving toward computer science requirements for all K-12 classrooms, even in courses that were not previously associated with technology. These new requirements leave many teachers feeling anxious and unprepared when it comes to integrating computer science into existing curriculum. This book is here to support educators in that shift by inviting them to explore computer science and coding in an approachable and unintimidating way. Let′s All Teach Computer Science: K-12 is a source of inspiration and empowerment for educators who are moving into this technological wonderland. Kiki Prottsman has more than 15 years of experience in computer science education, and her insight informs thoughtful discussions on promoting creativity, problem-solving, and collaboration in students. The book positions computer science in a way that supports other essential skills–such as reading, writing, and mathematics– by providing customizable frameworks that help to seamlessly integrate computer science into core subjects. This book: Provides powerful insights for creating innovative and inclusive learning environments Offers practical examples of integrating computer science into traditional subjects like math, history, art, and more Highlights the importance of addressing implicit biases and promoting computer science as an inclusive field for all students Includes insights on classroom technology and educational technology, as well as AI and its role in education Encourages educators to work together to nurture digital innovators while recognizing potential challenges and frustrations Let′s All Teach Computer Science is an essential guide that equips K-12 teachers with the knowledge and tools necessary to begin teaching computer science immediately–and does so in an enjoyable way, thanks to Prottsman’s friendly and playful style.
Let's Eat: Sustainable Food for a Hungry Planet (Orca Footprints #10)
by Kimberley VenessAll the food you eat, whether it's an apple or a steak or a chocolate-coated cricket, has a story. Let's Eat uncovers the secret lives of our groceries, exploring alternative—and sometimes bizarre—farm technology and touring gardens up high on corporate rooftops and down low in military-style bunkers beneath city streets. Packed with interesting and sometimes startling facts on agriculture around the world, Let's Eat reveals everything from the size of the biggest farm in the world to how many pesticides are in a single grape to which insect people prefer to eat.
Let's Find Inclined Planes (Let's Find Simple Machines)
by Wiley BlevinsDid you walk up a ramp today? Then you’ve used an inclined plane! These simple machines are all around. Take a look inside and discover 13 ways we use inclined planes.
Let's Find Levers (Let's Find Simple Machines)
by Wiley BlevinsDid you use a fork today? Then you’ve used a lever! These simple machines are all around. Take a look inside and discover 13 different ways we use levers.
Let's Find Pulleys (Let's Find Simple Machines)
by Wiley BlevinsDid you see a flagpole today? Then you’ve seen a pulley at work! These simple machines are all around. Take a look inside and discover 13 different uses for pulleys.
Let's Find Screws (Let's Find Simple Machines)
by Wiley BlevinsDid you put the cap on the toothpaste tube today? Then you’ve used a screw! These simple machines are all around. Take a look inside and discover 13 different ways we use screws.
Let's Find Wedges (Let's Find Simple Machines)
by Wiley BlevinsDid you use a scissors today? Then you’ve used wedges! These simple machines are all around. Take a look inside and discover 13 different ways we use wedges.
Let's Find Wheels and Axles (Let's Find Simple Machines)
by Wiley BlevinsDid you ride a bike today? Then you’ve used wheels and axles! These simple machines are all around. Take a look inside and discover 13 different ways we use wheels and axles.
Let's Get IoT-fied!: 30 IoT Projects for All Levels
by Anudeep Juluru Shriram K. Vasudevan T.S. MurugeshInternet of Things (IoT) stands acclaimed as a widespread area of research and has definitely enticed the interests of almost the entire globe. IoT appears to be the present as well as the future technology. This book attempts to inspire readers to explore and become accustomed to IoT. Presented in a lucid and eloquent way, this book adopts a clear and crisp approach to impart the basics as expeditiously as possible. It kicks off with the very fundamentals and then seamlessly advances in such a way that the step-by-step unique approach, connection layout, and the verified codes provided for every project can enhance the intuitive learning process and will get you onboard to the world of product building. We can assure that you will be definitely raring to start developing your own IoT solutions and to get yourself completely lost in the charm of IoT. Let’s start connecting the unconnected! It’s time to get IoT-fied.
Let's Meet a Dentist (Cloverleaf Books (tm) -- Community Helpers Ser.)
by Bridget Heos Kyle PolingLet's Meet a Dentist!Have you ever had a toothache? Or gotten your teeth cleaned? Dr. Florez could help you out! She's a dentist, and today she has an office full of curious visitors. They try out her dentist's chair and look at X-rays of teeth. They also learn how she helps patients keep their teeth clean and healthy. Hooray for dentists!"Cartoon-style animated drawings in bright colors introduce diverse characters who will capture children's interest." —School Library Journal "In each book introducing a community-benefiting career, schoolchildren meet one adult to learn about his or her job; information includes the training required to become a firefighter, doctor, etc., daily routines, and primary responsibilities. The content is inclusive and up-to-date but delivered though vapid stories. Peppy computer-generated cartoons are amateur." - The Horn Book Guide Free downloadable series teaching guide available.
Let's Pretend and the Golden Age of Radio
by Arthur AndersonWelcome to the new, improved and expanded biography of everyone's favorite radio show, Let's Pretend, now containing a complete log of the series by radio historians Martin Grams, Jr. and Derek Tague. Arthur Anderson, an actor for 69 years, started playing character roles for Nila Mack on Let's Pretend at age 13, and was on it almost every week (with time out for military service) until the program's demise. He played the boy Lucius in Orson Welles' spectacular Broadway production of Julius Caesar, and was then in Welles' Mercury Theatre on the Air on CBS. He was most recently the voice of the nasty farmer Eustace in the TV cartoon series Courage, the Cowardly Dog, but he's most proud of his 29 years as the original voice of the Lucky Charms (cereal) Leprechaun.
Let's Stop Teaching and Start Designing Learning: A Practical Guide
by Jason KennedyHow can you shift from a focus on content to the creation of active learning experiences? In this practical resource, author Jason Kennedy provides a blueprint to help you stop "teaching" and start designing learning, so you can improve students’ critical thinking, decision making, problem solving, and collaboration with others, preparing them for their futures beyond school doors. The framework for learning design covers components of planning (learning targets), of instruction (the opening, learning task, skills, tools, and success criteria), and of the work session (choices, pathways, feedback, and assessment). Appropriate for teachers of any subject area, the book also offers wide variety of tools to help you implement the ideas in your own setting.
Let's Visit A Space Camp
by Edith AlstonTours the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, describing exhibits, spacecrafts, and activities at the space camp where children can experience what space travel feels like and participate in a simulated space shuttle mission
Letter to a Young Farmer: How to Live Richly without Wealth on the New Garden Farm
by Wendell Berry Gene LogsdonFor more than four decades, the self-described “contrary farmer” and writer Gene Logsdon has commented on the state of American agriculture. In Letter to a Young Farmer, his final book of essays, Logsdon addresses the next generation—young people who are moving back to the land to enjoy a better way of life as small-scale “garden farmers.” It’s a lifestyle that isn’t defined by accumulating wealth or by the “get big or get out” agribusiness mindset. Instead, it’s one that recognizes the beauty of nature, cherishes the land, respects our fellow creatures, and values rural traditions. It’s one that also looks forward and embraces “right technologies,” including new and innovative ways of working smarter, not harder, and avoiding premature burnout. Completed only a few weeks before the author’s death, Letter to a Young Farmer is a remarkable testament to the life and wisdom of one of the greatest rural philosophers and writers of our time. Gene’s earthy wit and sometimes irreverent humor combines with his valuable perspectives on many wide-ranging subjects—everything from how to show a ram who’s boss to enjoying the almost churchlike calmness of a well-built livestock barn. Reading this book is like sitting down on the porch with a neighbor who has learned the ways of farming through years of long observation and practice. Someone, in short, who has “seen it all” and has much to say, and much to teach us, if we only take the time to listen and learn. And Gene Logsdon was the best kind of teacher: equal parts storyteller, idealist, and rabble-rouser. His vision of a nation filled with garden farmers, based in cities, towns, and countrysides, will resonate with many people, both young and old, who long to create a more sustainable, meaningful life for themselves and a better world for all of us.
Letterboxed: The Evolution of Widescreen Cinema
by Harper CossarWhen widescreen technology was introduced to filmmaking in 1953, it changed the visual framework and aesthetic qualities of cinema forever. Before widescreen, a director's vision for capturing beautiful landscapes or city skylines was limited by what coul
Letters
by Oliver SacksThe letters of one of the greatest observers of the human species, revealing his passion for life and work, friendship and art, medicine and society, and the richness of his relationships with friends, family, and fellow intellectuals over the decades, collected here for the first time&“Here is the unedited Oliver Sacks—struggling, passionate, a furiously intelligent misfit. And also endless interesting. He was a man like no other.&” —Atul Gawande, author of Being MortalDr. Oliver Sacks—who describes himself in these pages as a &“philosophical physician&” and a &“neuropathological Talmudist&”—wrote letters throughout his life: to his parents and his beloved Auntie Len, to friends and colleagues from London, Oxford, California, and around the world. The letters begin with his arrival in America as a young man, eager to establish himself away from the confines of postwar England, and carry us through his bumpy early career in medicine and the discovery of his writer&’s voice; his weight-lifting, motorcycle-riding years and his explosive seasons of discovery with the patients who populate his book Awakenings; his growing interest in matters of sight and the musical brain; his many friendships and exchanges with writers, artists, and scientists (to say nothing of astronauts, botanists, and mathematicians), and his deep gratitude for all these relationships at the end of his life.Sensitively introduced and edited by Kate Edgar, Sacks&’s longtime editor, the letters deliver a portrait of Sacks as he wrestles with the workings of the brain and mind. We see, through his eyes, the beginnings of modern neuroscience, following the thought processes of one of the great intellectuals of our time, whose words, as evidenced in these pages, were unfailingly shaped with generosity and wonder toward other people.
Letters from an Astrophysicist
by Neil DeGrasse TysonA luminous companion to the phenomenal bestseller Astrophysics for People in a Hurry. <P><P>Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has attracted one of the world’s largest online followings with his fascinating, widely accessible insights into science and our universe. Now, Tyson invites us to go behind the scenes of his public fame by revealing his correspondence with people across the globe who have sought him out in search of answers. In this hand-picked collection of 101 letters, Tyson draws upon cosmic perspectives to address a vast array of questions about science, faith, philosophy, life, and of course, Pluto. His succinct, opinionated, passionate, and often funny responses reflect his popularity and standing as a leading educator. <P><P>Tyson’s 2017 bestseller Astrophysics for People in a Hurry offered more than one million readers an insightful and accessible understanding of the universe. Tyson’s most candid and heartfelt writing yet, Letters from an Astrophysicist introduces us to a newly personal dimension of Tyson’s quest to explore our place in the cosmos. <P><P><b>A New York Times Bestseller</b>
Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works (Interactive Technologies)
by Janice Ginny RedishWeb site design and development continues to become more sophisticated. An important part of this maturity originates with well laid out and well written content. Ginny Redish is a world renowned expert on information design and how to produce clear writing in plain language for the web. All of the invaluable information that she shared in the first edition is included with numerous new examples. New information on content strategy for web sites, search engine optimization (SEO), and social media make this once again the only book you need to own to optimize your writing for the web. <p><p> New material on content strategy, search engine optimization, and social media Lots of new and updated examples More emphasis on new hardware like tablets, iPads, and iPhones
Leuchtstoffe, Lichtquellen, Laser, Lumineszenz
by Thomas Jüstel Sebastian SchwungDas vorliegende Buch dient als Nachschlagewerk wichtiger Begriffe und Materialien, die im Bereich der Lumineszenz sowie der Lampen-, Laser-, Leuchtstoff- und Lichttechnik von Bedeutung sind. Es liefert somit Antworten und Daten zu Fragestellungen im Zusammenhang mit dem Fachgebiet der Photonik.
Leung's Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients
by Ikhlas A. Khan Ehab A. AbourashedThe third edition of the unparalleled reference on natural ingredients and their commercial useThis new Third Edition of Leung's Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients: Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics arrives in the wake of the huge wave of interest in dietary supplements and herbal medicine resulting from both trends in health and the Dietary Supplement and Health Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA). This fully updated and revised text includes the most recent research findings on a wide variety of ingredients, giving readers a single source for understanding and working with natural ingredients.The Encyclopedia continues the successful format for entries listed in earlier editions (consisting of source, description, chemical composition, pharmacology, uses, commercial preparations, regulatory status, and references). The text also features an easily accessible alphabetical presentation of the entries according to common names, with the index cross-referencing entries according to scientific names.This Third Edition also features:More than 50 percent more information than the Second Edition, reflecting the greatly increased research activity in recent yearsA new section on traditional Indian medicine, with information on nine commonly used herbsMore than 6,500 referencesTwo new appendices explaining and illustrating the botanical terminology frequently encountered in the textA revised and expanded indexLeung's Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients: Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, Third Edition will continue to provide a comprehensive compilation of the existing literature and prominent findings on natural ingredients to readers with an interest in medicine, nutrition, and cosmetics.
Level 1/Level 2 Cambridge National in Creative iMedia (J834)
by Kevin Wells Sarah McAtominey Judi BrownTrust highly experienced teachers and authors Judi Brown, Sarah McAtominey and Kevin Wells to guide learners through the redeveloped Level 1/Level 2 Cambridge National in Creative iMedia (J834). This thorough, accessible and OCR-endorsed introduction to the Creative iMedia industry will develop your learners' understanding of the core examined content and boost the skills required to tackle the NEA with confidence.This OCR-endorsed textbook is: - Comprehensive. Gain in-depth knowledge of the examined unit with clear explanations of every concept and topic, and develop the skills and understanding for the practical non-examined units, each of which is covered in detail.- Accessible, reliable and trusted. Structured to match the specification and provide the information required to build knowledge, understanding and skills across accessible and easy-to-use chapters and learning features.- Designed to support you. Boost confidence when preparing for assessment with plenty of activities and practice questions.- Your go-to guide. Expert authors have carefully designed tasks and activities to build your skills and aid progression, and written questions to assess your understanding.
Level 1/Level 2 Cambridge National in Engineering Design (J822): Second Edition
by Alex Reynolds Jonathan Adams Peter ValentineTrust highly experienced teachers and authors Jonathan Adams, Alex Reynolds and Peter Valentine, to guide your students through the redeveloped Cambridge National in Engineering Design (J822 for first teaching from September 2022). This revised and updated version of the bestselling first edition will strengthen your students' understanding of the core content and boost the skills required to tackle the NEA with confidence.Brought to you by the No.1 Engineering textbook publisher, this extensively revised and updated Student Textbook is:- Comprehensive - gain in-depth knowledge of the examined units with clear explanations of every concept and topic, plus improve understanding of all the non-examined units with in-depth and easy-to-follow chapters.- Accessible, reliable and trusted - structured to match the specification and provide the information required to build knowledge, understanding and skills.- Designed to support you - boost confidence when tackling the internal and external assessment with plenty of activities to test and consolidate knowledge.- The go-to guide - expert authors have carefully designed tasks and activities to build skillset in order to aid progression and questions to assess understanding, as well as lots of real-world examples.
Level 1/Level 2 Cambridge National in Engineering Design (J822): Second Edition
by Alex Reynolds Jonathan Adams Peter ValentineTrust highly experienced teachers and authors Jonathan Adams, Alex Reynolds and Peter Valentine, to guide your students through the redeveloped Cambridge National in Engineering Design (J822 for first teaching from September 2022). This revised and updated version of the bestselling first edition will strengthen your students' understanding of the core content and boost the skills required to tackle the NEA with confidence.Brought to you by the No.1 Engineering textbook publisher, this extensively revised and updated Student Textbook is:- Comprehensive - gain in-depth knowledge of the examined units with clear explanations of every concept and topic, plus improve understanding of all the non-examined units with in-depth and easy-to-follow chapters.- Accessible, reliable and trusted - structured to match the specification and provide the information required to build knowledge, understanding and skills.- Designed to support you - boost confidence when tackling the internal and external assessment with plenty of activities to test and consolidate knowledge.- The go-to guide - expert authors have carefully designed tasks and activities to build skillset in order to aid progression and questions to assess understanding, as well as lots of real-world examples.
Level 1/Level 2 Cambridge National in IT (J836): Second Edition
by Maureen Everett Sonia Stuart Richard HoweTrust highly experienced teachers and authors Mo Everett, Richard Howe and Sonia Stuart to guide learners through the redeveloped Level 1/ Level 2 Cambridge National in IT (J836). This thorough and accessibleintroduction to the IT industry will develop your learners' understanding of the core examined content and boost the skills required to tackle the NEA with confidence. This revised and updated textbook is:- Comprehensive. Gain in-depth knowledge of the examined unit with clear explanations of every concept and topic, and develop the skills and understanding for the practical non-examined units, both of which are covered in detail.- Accessible, reliable and trusted. Structured to match the specification and provide the information required to build knowledge, understanding and skills across accessible and easy-to-use chapters and learning features.- Designed to support you. Boost confidence when preparing for assessment with plenty of activities and practice questions.- Your go-to guide. Expert authors have carefully designed tasks and activities to build your skills and aid progression, and written questions to assess your understanding.
Level 1/Level 2 Cambridge National in IT (J836): Second Edition
by Maureen Everett Sonia Stuart Richard HoweTrust highly experienced teachers and authors Mo Everett, Richard Howe and Sonia Stuart to guide learners through the redeveloped Level 1/ Level 2 Cambridge National in IT (J836). This thorough and accessibleintroduction to the IT industry will develop your learners' understanding of the core examined content and boost the skills required to tackle the NEA with confidence. This revised and updated textbook is:- Comprehensive. Gain in-depth knowledge of the examined unit with clear explanations of every concept and topic, and develop the skills and understanding for the practical non-examined units, both of which are covered in detail.- Accessible, reliable and trusted. Structured to match the specification and provide the information required to build knowledge, understanding and skills across accessible and easy-to-use chapters and learning features.- Designed to support you. Boost confidence when preparing for assessment with plenty of activities and practice questions.- Your go-to guide. Expert authors have carefully designed tasks and activities to build your skills and aid progression, and written questions to assess your understanding.