World’s great forests could lose half of all wildlife as planet warms – report | Environment The world’s greatest forests could lose more than half of their plant species by the end of the century unless nations ramp up efforts to tackle climate change, according to a new report on the impacts of global warming on biodiversity hotspots. Mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds are also likely to disappear on a catastrophic scale in the Amazon and other naturally rich ecosysterms in Africa, Asia, North America and Australia if temperatures rise by more than 1.5C, concludes the study by WWF, the University of East Anglia and the James Cook University. The research in the journal Climate Change examined the impact of three different levels of warming – 2C (the upper target in the 2015 Paris agreement), 3.2C (the likely rise given existing national commitments) and 4.5C (the forecast outcome if emissions trends remain unchanged) on nearly 80,000 plant and animal species in 35 of the world’s most biodiverse regions. A partial solution may be relocation.
Social Media Inventory for High School Students - Teaching Sam and Scout Just popping in real quick to share a simple but, I think, meaningful activity I did with my students a few weeks as part of “Digital Citizenship Week” at our school… Kids hear a lot today about being responsible with their social media accounts. We warn them that potential employers and college admissions counselors look at what they post and tell them horror stories of people having their lives ruined because of one stupid tweet or thoughtless Facebook rant. – I started by introducing the concept of digital citizenship (basically being a responsible user of social media and other forms of technology) and talking about the impact that the things they post NOW can have on their futures etc. – Then, yes, I allowed them to use their smart phones etc. Social Media Self Inventory (Word Document) *I did this with eleventh graders and consider them a pretty mature group. *I did have two (out of 17) students who claimed they didn’t use social media.
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Print Custom Sticky Notes with Google Slides Post-it and other brands of sticky notes are put to good use everyday by teachers and students. The Post-it website has a page filled with resources for teachers, and they have a really cool iOS app for digitizing, sorting, and sharing square sticky notes. Those small pieces of paper that can be attached, easily removed, and repositioned can be even more useful when you print on them. While there is a printer designed to print sticky notes, you can send sticky notes through the printer you already have. You’ll need a template for printing, and I just so happen to have one for you. The template is in Google Slides.
Eating out increases levels of phthalates in the body, study finds | Society Eating at restaurants and fast food chains may increase exposure to potentially harmful hormone-disrupting chemicals used to increase the flexibility and durability of plastic, a study has found. Researchers investigating levels of phthalates in the human body, which have been linked to asthma, breast cancer, type 2 diabetes and fertility issues in the past few years, were found to be nearly 35% higher in participants who had eaten out the previous day compared with those who stayed at home. Phthalates are binding agents frequently used in food packaging as well as a number of other products including flooring, adhesives soaps and shampoos, and some forms of the chemical have been banned from children’s products in the US. Certain foods, including burgers and sandwiches, were linked to higher phthalate levels in the study, but only if purchased at a fast-food outlet, restaurant or cafe. The association was especially strong for teenagers, researchers found.
10 Hilarious Hoax Sites to Test Website Evaluation In this day and age, where anyone with access to the internet can create a website, it is critical that we as educators teach our students how to evaluate web content. There are some great resources available for educating students on this matter, such as Kathy Schrock’s Five W’s of Website Evaluation or the University of Southern Maine’s Checklist for Evaluating Websites. Along with checklists and articles, you will also find wonderfully funny hoax websites, aimed at testing readers on their ability to evaluate websites. These hoax sites are a great way to bring humor and hands-on evaluation into your classroom, and test your students’ web resource evaluation IQ! Check out these 11 example hoax sites for use in your own classrooms: Of all of these, my favorite is always the Dihydrogen Monoxide website, which aims to ban dihydrogen monoxide and talks in detail about its dangers. Happy hoax-hunting! Like this: Like Loading...
Top 15+ Best Android Apps To Curb Your Smartphone Addiction For the users that are very much addicted to their Android phone, there are some apps that will help you to curb out the addiction with the very helpful ways that will surely help you a lot. With the advancement in technology, we are all around with lots of smart devices and the thing that we use the most is our smartphones, that is Android, iPhone or other mobile OS. We are addicted to all these smart devices as most of our free time is almost consumed by these devices and they cut off us from the real world by throwing us in the virtual world. Many of you must have tried out lots of things to come up from these smart device addiction, but most probably you have failed. So that’s why we are here to help you out in this. In this article, we are going to discuss some apps that will help your to curb your Android addiction and will help you a lot to come up to a real world. Also Read: Top 10 Best Android Apps For College Students Also Read: How To Create Android Apps Without Coding
Classy Graphics with Google Drawings Summer 2017 - Register Summer 2017 The class officially begins June 26th and ends August 7th. However, the Google Classroom is open now and will continue to be available after the class concludes. Plan to spend anywhere between 8 and 36 total hours on this class—the assignments are open-ended, so you might spend extra time designing something you will put to good use. Is this class for you? Do you want to jazz up your social media posts? If you're new to Google Drawings, you'll get the chance to learn and practice while completing weekly assignments. If you're a Google pro, you'll get the chance to infuse design skills and third party tools into your workflow.
Science Infographics Breakdown STEM Subjects as Visual Maps Jessica Stewart is a Contributing Writer and Digital Media Specialist for My Modern Met, as well as a curator and art historian. Since 2020, she is also one of the co-hosts of the My Modern Met Top Artist Podcast. She earned her MA in Renaissance Studies from University College London and now lives in Rome, Italy. She cultivated expertise in street art which led to the purchase of her photographic archive by the Treccani Italian Encyclopedia in 2014. When she’s not spending time with her three dogs, she also manages the studio of a successful street artist. In 2013, she authored the book 'Street Art Stories Roma' and most recently contributed to 'Crossroads: A Glimpse Into the Life of Alice Pasquini'.
Best practices for attribution You can use CC-licensed materials as long as you follow the license conditions. One condition of all CC licenses is attribution: crediting the author and giving the source information. Generally speaking, attribution must reasonably include all relevant information supplied by the licensor. Because each use case is different, you can decide what form of attribution is most suitable for your specific situation. The following examples are intended to illustrate what typical prudent practices look like. Basic components of attribution Whenever you are reusing CC licensed works, we recommend that the attribution include the Title, Author, Source, and License. Let’s now go through TASL — we will explain each element in more detail: Title: What is the name of the work? If a title was provided for the work, include it as a part of the attribution. The inclusion of title is a requirement of all CC licenses version 3.0 or earlier, and it is optional for the 4.0 suites. Reasonable attribution
Best Parental Control Software 2018 - Filters, Time Management Best Parental Software Why Use Parental Software? Our top picks for parental software are Qustodio, Norton Family and Surfie by PureSight. Parents have enough to worry about without the added anxiety about letting their children use the internet. Each of the computer monitoring programs we tested tracks the websites your children visit and the terms they search for in search engines, and they provide you with a good summary of this activity either through an online parent portal or email notification. How We Tested Internet Controls As part of the testing process, we downloaded parental control software onto our home computers, as well as our children’s laptops; we also used the test computers in Purch Labs. Because of our testing environments, we are able to provide feedback about things beyond the apps’ spec sheets – we know how easy it is to monitor with each program, how quickly each notifies you about flagged activity and how much lag each program creates on its host computer.
Go Slow Online Workshops - Teacher Tech I am trying out something new. One thing that is always a challenge when you have a PD day is that you have only that day to learn everything. No surprise we are totally wiped out at the end of a PD day. I’ve had some friends encourage me to make an online course of videos… but I just can’t bring myself to do it. I’m passionate about online learning and that interactions are important. So I am trying a GO SLOW series. 6 Weeks Instead of a 6 hour PD, let’s spread it out over 6 weeks. New Things Each Week Each week I will post some new activities, nothing that takes very long. No Particular Time The Go Slow workshops are asynchronous which means they do NOT require you to be online at any particular time. Interact Going slow allows everyone to interact with each other (and me), to ask questions and to share! Google Classroom The online platform we will use is Google Classroom. Go Slow Workshops If this works out I’ll do more Taking Suggestions Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2017