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So... do plants need dirt? The truth might shock you. In this episode of Crash Course kids, Sabrina talks about how plants get energy and how that energy is transported around them. Also, she talks about dirt.

There is a surfeit of scientific research surrounding the benefits of cooking and baking with your children. Involving children in their own food preparation has been linked to a direct increase in food awareness, consumption, and personal confidence. Each of the lessons in the program has an in-depth examination of what's happening when the food is baking and why.

Lee Taal explores the topic "There is a labour shortage right now across Canada. Why are so many graduates having a hard time finding a job?"

Help your students think through how to get from “I can’t” to “I can try.”

This graphic organizer is compassionate way for you to help your students who feel stuck understand their resistance and make a plan to overcome it.

There are batteries powering so many parts of our everyday lives, so today we’re going to talk about how they work and how we can make them better. We’ll explain how they provide power by discharging ions between a cathode and an anode, and how reversing that process gives us a way of charging them. We’ll also look at how that batteries deliver voltage differently over time, leading to discharge curves, and some of the work being done to improve the properties of batteries for portable electronics.

Theater had a slow start in Germany, mainly because Germany wasn't really a thing until *relatively* recent times. After Germany finally became a unified state, it had a couple of really important theatrical movements. Today we'll talk about Sturm and Drang, as well as Weimar Classicism. We'll also get into the work of the greatest German playwright, Goethe, and look at his play Faust in the Thought Bubble.

If we challenge ourselves to do things we might not be sure about succeeding in, we grow and develop as a person. We gain inner power when we challenge ourselves to do the things we don’t know how to do. If we never try riding a bike, we miss out on how fun riding a bike can be. The resource also includes a web on stepping out of your comfort zone.

Explore self-care for teachers, and find 20 ideas for teaching self-care in your classroom as well.

We’ve introduced the 0th and 1st laws of thermodynamics, so now it’s time to move on to the second law and how we came to understand it. We’ll explain the differences between the first and second law, and we’ll talk about the Carnot cycle and why we can never design a perfectly efficient engine.

As we get into our unit on stratification, we inevitably return to our old friends, the three sociological paradigms. How to structural functionalism, social conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism each think about stratification? How does ideology and help stratification reproduce itself? What did Marx and Weber have to say about all of this? And at the micro level, how does stratification work in everyday life?

Kevin Breel didn't look like a depressed kid: team captain, at every party, funny and confident. But he tells the story of the night he realized that -- to save his own life -- he needed to say four simple words.

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With this project, students create a figure with paper mache on a wire armature that is easy enough for the kids to construct and utilizes recyclables.

Wire Tree Creations by Leah Baratta

CP4.8 Create art works using a variety of visual art concepts (e.g., organic shapes), forms (e.g., kinetic sculpture, mural), and media (e.g., wood, wire, and found objects).

This guide will take you through the steps to create quick and easy model wire trees.