To
avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
- Albert
Einstein
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about
things that matter.
- Martin
Luther King, Jr.
If you aren’t completely appalled, you haven’t
been paying attention.
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- Eanes ISD
parent
No man stands so tall as when he
stoops to help a child.
- Abraham Lincoln
Judge each day
not by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
- Robert
Louis Stevenson
All children deserve an
equal playing field.
-
Ed Allen, Westlake Picayune April 2008
Nothing
is more destructive of respect for the government and the
law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
-
Albert Einstein
Gifted Education
"Giftedness is
asynchronous development in which advanced cognitive abilities and
heightened intensity combine to create inner experiences and awareness that are
qualitatively different from the norm. This asynchrony increases with
higher intellectual capacity. The uniqueness of the gifted renders them
particularly vulnerable and requires modifications in parenting,
teaching, and counseling in order for them to develop optimally." (Columbus Group,
1991)
ACE Academy is a private, independent school for gifted and
high-achieving students in Austin, Texas.
If you've ever wondered how things are made - products like
candy, cars, airplanes, or bottles - or if you've been
interested in manufacturing processes, like forging, casting, or
injection molding, then you've come to the right place.
AIM
has developed an introductory website for kids and adults
showing how various items are made. It covers over 40 different
products and manufacturing processes, and includes almost 4
hours of manufacturing video. It is targeted towards
non-engineers and engineers alike. Think of it as your own
private online factory tour, or a virtual factory tour, if you
wish.
We
are able to cover only a small number of products and processes,
but we believe it will give you a good introduction to the world
of manufacturing.
Ever wondered how the pyramids or Stonehenge were built, how they moved
those huge stones to the sites? Check out this fascinating website from
a builder/carpenter in Michigan who actually demonstrates some of the
relatively simple techniques that he has used in his work with concrete
and building that he believes these ancient people used in their
craftsmanship.
The site includes video with sound effects showing him
actually moving huge concrete structural elements. Check his section on
physics and how he uses levers and pulleys to do the work for him. And
read the section on how he moved a whole barn by himself. Learn about
what he would use to build his own Great Pyramid. Very interesting.
Puts a whole new slant on those ancient builders and what kind of math
and physics they knew and probably used every day.
Of course he advises that working with such heavy objects is not
something that our kids should do, since this could be very dangerous if
anything went wrong. Better to watch him doing it and read about his
projects, learn about the physics. Or maybe try a small at-home project
to demonstrate the techniques he describes.
The New York Times Learning Network is a free service for students in
grades 3-12, their teachers and parents. The site is updated Monday through
Friday throughout the year.
Together we'll meet a 65-million-year-old
Tyrannosaurus rex specimen,
nicknamed "Wyrex." It's being
excavated in Montana by
Black Hills Institute, a fossil company from Hill
City, South Dakota—and by you! This web site will introduce you to the
excitement of digging a T. rex,
and show you how accessible working with fossils can be!
Anyone—whether
amateur, student, or scientist—can contribute to this dig experience and
this Web site. You can even contact the excavation team! This is the
heart of why this web site was developed. While we will try to answer
most questions or inquiries, we will be busy trying to update the web
site with current content (and digging a T. rex, of course).
Click
on image at left to view
the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through
space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a
tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field
Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the
actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls,
the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of
electrons and protons.
Honda Ad -
The Cog There were no special effects used to
create this video which makes it amazing!
"One is always a long
way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer."
- Stephen Hawking
"Self-education is, I
firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only
function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that,
it does nothing.
- Isaac Asimov
"The thing that makes you exceptional, if
you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely."
- Lorraine Hansberry
The truly creative mind
in any field is no more than this:
A human creature born
abnormally, inhumanely sensitive.
To him...
a touch is a blow,
a
sound is a noise,
a misfortune is a tragedy,
a joy is an
ecstasy,
a
friend is a lover,
a lover is a god, and
failure is death.
Add to this cruelly
delicate organism the overpowering necessity to
create, create,
create--so that without the creating of music or
poetry or books or
buildings or something of meaning, his very breath
is cut off from
him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some
strange, unknown, inward
urgency he is not really alive unless he is
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