Here are the Learning Magnets that are available at Dollar Tree. Sorry there are so many posts about teaching products but at a dollar for each set you can't beat this deal even if you tried. The quality is excellent.
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If you were at the Number Corner training and remember the I Can, can... I have found the sticks used in the can again at Dollar Tree. When I was shopping I heard that more school supplies are being shipped with different items. So, just when you think this back to school shopping is over, you realize it just keeps going and going.
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Baru-baru ini NASA dan Space Exploration Technologies sedang mengadakan penggodokan rencana perjalanan murah ke Planet MARS. Perjalanan dengan kapsul Dragon di roket Falcon Heavy dapat pergi ke Planet Mars dengan biaya ratusan juta dolar, bukan miliaran.
Space Exploration Technologies, atau disingkat SpaceX, saat ini sedang mempersiapkan uji penerbangan kapsul Dragon yang akan dilakukan pada 30
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Space Exploration Technologies, atau disingkat SpaceX, saat ini sedang mempersiapkan uji penerbangan kapsul Dragon yang akan dilakukan pada 30
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Tim peneliti Hasegawa Group di Tokyo of Intitute of Technology, Jepang telah mengembangkan sebuah robot yang memiliki kemampuan untuk berfikir secara mandiri. Self-Organising Incremental Neural Network (SOINN) adalah technologi yang digunakan dalam mengembangkan robot ini, sehingga diharapkan mampu membuat suatu keputusan saat menjalankan tugas-tugasnya.
Tidak seperti robot-robot yang ada
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Tidak seperti robot-robot yang ada
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To read the content of this post, please visit Melissa's new blog by clicking on the link below:
http://www.inspiremeasap.blogspot.com/2011/08/classroom-promise.html
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http://www.inspiremeasap.blogspot.com/2011/08/classroom-promise.html
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Just found these number magnets, letter magnets, shape magnets and alphabet magnets at Dollar Tree!
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This is the first recipe I made trying to use up all the overripe bananas I have in my freezer. This recipe was suggested by Julie of Julie's Eats and Treats and as soon as I saw the recipe I knew I wanted to make this first. It looked so delicious and it really is. YUM, YUM YUM!
Ingredients
2/3 C. Slivered Almonds
1/4 C. Packed Brown Sugar
2/3 C. Butter, softened
1 1/2 C. Sugar (I think you can definitely cut at least 1/2-3/4 cup a sugar out...it's very sweet)
2 Eggs
3/4 tsp Almond Extract
3 C. All-Purpose Flour
2 tsp Baking Soda
1/4 tsp Baking Powder
2 C. Mashed Ripe Bananas (3-4 Bananas)
1 C. (8 oz) Sour Cream (I used Fat Free sour cream)
1 C. Vanilla or White Chips (I used Ghiradelli white chocolate chips)
1. In a small bowl, combine almonds and brown sugar; set aside.
2. In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in extract.
3. Combine flour, baking soda and baking powder; add to the creamed mixture alternately with bananas and sour cream. Fold in white chocolate or vanilla chips.
4. Spread into a greased 13x9x2 in baking pan. Sprinkle with reserved almond mixture.
5. Bake at 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack. (mine took almost an hour to cook in the middle so you definitely have to start checking the center of the cake with a toothpick after 38-40 min, then bake in additional 5 minute increments until the center of the cake is baked through)
Linked to Sweet Treats Thursday
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I was on one of my favorite blogs little literacy learners and I found this wonderful information about online storytime.
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Teachers pay Teachers is having a sale from August 1-6! If you are shopping use code B1T1S to get 10% off everything. Additionally, all items in my TpT store are on sale too! What a double savings!
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I first planned to go to San Francisco only to attend a conference. But when my friends told me about their willingness to spend one or two days there, we ended up booking tickets together and the trip became more than just an ordinary conference trip!
We arrived early in the morning in SF, dropped our bags at the hotel, and went to explore the city. There are sooooo many places to see
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Hey friends, if you have not joined, you just have to. Teaching Blog Addict is the place where all great teacher bloggers and blog stalkers share, inspire and connect. There are so may ways you can follow what is going on at TBA! You can follow on Facebook, Twitter, in a reader and by following the blog. It is free and available to anyone. Trust me, it is the single most positive thing I have done for my teaching. So what are you waiting for? Get going friend!
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This is a weekly post by Nidhal Guessoum (see his earlier posts here). Nidhal is an astrophysicist and Professor of Physics at American University of Sharjah and is the author of Islam's Quantum Question: Reconciling Muslim Tradition and Modern Science.
This past month, the Journal of Islamic Studies (JIS, Oxford) published the rather long review it had asked me to write about Ahmad Dallal’s book “Islam, Science, and the Challenge of History”, which was published last year by Yale University Press.
Dallal is a historian of science who has specialized in Arab-Islamic heritage. He is currently provost of the American University of Beirut (AUB), having gone there in 2009 from Georgetown University in Washington, DC, where he served as the chair of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies. He had previously held academic appointments at Stanford University (2000-03), Yale University (1994-2000), and Smith College (1990-94).
The AUB short biographical sketch of Dallal describes this new important book, which is based on the Dwight H. Terry lectures that he delivered at Yale University in February 2008, as “trac[ing] the historical delineations between scientific knowledge and religious authority in Muslim societies.”
I cannot reproduce here my long review of the book, for copyright reasons, and the full text is only available for subscribers on the JIS website; the journal makes an “extract” available here, but it is only two paragraphs long.
The first paragraph is the opening of my review:
I often describe the field of ‘Islam and Science’ as a cultural and intellectual space in three dimensions: a) the historical developments of science during the Islamic civilization; b) the conceptual discussions of conflict, harmony, or separation between Islam and modern science; c) the issues of practical application of science in Islamic life (ranging from the calculation of prayer times to in vitro fertilization and euthanasia). Ahmad Dallal’s book, though rather concise, manages to encompass all three dimensions in a grand narrative and with a bold thesis. Indeed, while surveying the major trends of scientific activity from its emergence in the early Islamic civilization to the present time, he takes special interest in at least one specific case of application of science and intersection with religious rules (the direction of the qibla), and by the last chapter he dabbles in the conceptual issues raised by Darwinism and ‘the new astronomy’ (i.e. the heliocentric revolution).
But for the benefit of the readers of Irtiqa, let me add a couple of paragraphs (as a bonus) to help give an idea of the book’s thesis and the extent to which Professor Dallal has been successful in convincing his readers about it.
The thesis he is attempting to prove, however, is never stated clearly, but any careful reader will figure it out, especially since Dallal attempts to draw conclusions toward it at the end of each chapter. What he tries to show is that science in the Islamic civilization slowly but successfully was extricating itself from the double embrace of (Aristotelian) philosophy and religion. Dallal clearly believes that any link, whether strong or weak, made between science and religion or philosophy is counterproductive and regressive. He writes: “Yet while religion dominated the moral sphere and claimed a higher rank there […], it did not exercise an epistemological hegemony over science” (p. 147); “[w]hen Muslims were the main producers of science in the world, they did not advocate wedding science and religion” (p. 170).
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In summary, this is an important book, with a grand narrative and a bold thesis. It is very well written, though one can find weaknesses, biases, or short-cuts here and there. It is an important book precisely because it proposes a viewpoint: separation between science and religion, and even philosophy, is not only the correct course to follow but also the historical path that Muslim thinkers took over the global Islamic history. This thesis needs to be discussed and examined in light of the historical record, a fuller treatment which looks at many more viewpoints and avoids any swift generalizations. Dallal is still to be applauded for having produced an essay which forces us to think and argue the merits of his views.
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My friend Sharon is back with another delicious recipe. Her family came over my house for a pot luck BBQ/Lunch and she brought this a one of her dishes to share. It was so delcious so I asked her to send me the recipe so I could blog it and share it with everyone!
Ingredients:
salt, pepper, olive oil
1 cup of mayo
1 stalk of celery - finely chopped
1 small red onion - finely chopped
1 T. of capers
1 T. of chopped dill
1 T. of Dijon Mustard
1 T. of honey or sugar
Salt, pepper to taste
1 package of potato rolls
Preparation:
Season shrimp with salt, pepper and a drizzle of olive oil. Roast shrimp on a cookie sheet in the oven at 350 F for 6-8 minutes just until pink and firm. Let shrimp cool until warm. Chop the shrimp to a nice chunky consistency. Mix mayo, celery, onion, capers, dill, mustard, honey, salt and pepper to make the sauce. Add the sauce to the warm shrimp. Refrigerate or serve at room temperature. Spoon mixture over potato rolls.
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I came home tonight feeling beat. I sat down at my computer to check on blogs things and noticed a new post from Lil Country Kindergarten, so I knew I was going to start reading the post. I glanced down one more time because I thought I saw my name in print. As I went to the blog. I suddenly realized I had WON a giveaway. The very BEST part of this was, I really did not even intend to enter the giveaway. I LOVED her post so much I felt like I had to comment. And the real reason I was there in the first place was to get an eye on the projects she has been working on because I was wondering how many darn tools am I going to have to buy to make those circle flowers myself! Even better, I realized I had won this laminator!
I really kind of feel like this is Kindergarten Christmas! I am so darn excited that I could chicken dance right here, right now. Like I said, I liked the post so much, I wanted to comment. If you have not checked this blog out, I really hope you do! I think she has great ideas and a wonderful perspective.
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Teachers pay Teachers is having a sale from August 1-6! If you are shopping use code B1T1S to get 10% off everything.
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I haven't had a chance to post comments on latest Terrence Malick film, The Tree of Life, but I really liked it and will still have a post on it later. In the mean time, I have a chance to talk about this film and about astronomy with Reverend Peter Ives of First Churches of Northampton tomorrow (Aug 1st) morning on The Bill Newman show at 9:30am (eastern time) on Northampton's WHMP AM1400/1250 or FM 96.9 (If you can't find the live streaming, you can access the podcast later).
In the mean time, here is a podcast from the show from last month when we talked about Pluto, astronomy, and NASA's future (it starts about 10 minutes into the podcast).
In the mean time, here is a podcast from the show from last month when we talked about Pluto, astronomy, and NASA's future (it starts about 10 minutes into the podcast).
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