Author: L.K. de KockPublisher:
ISBN: 9781770032194
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
My Practical Natural Science and Technology
Author: L.K. de KockPublisher:
ISBN: 9781770032194
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
My Practical Natural Science and Technology
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781770032385
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
My Practical Natural Science and Technology
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781770032552
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
My Practical Natural Science and Technology
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781770032200
Category : Competency-based education
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
My Practical Natural Science and Technology
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781770032392
Category : Competency-based education
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
My Practical Natural Science and Technology
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781770032569
Category : Competency-based education
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
The Grid
Author: Phillip F. SchewePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309133890
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The electrical grid goes everywhere-it's the largest and most complex machine ever made. Yet the system is built in such a way that the bigger it gets, the more inevitable its collapse. Named the greatest engineering achievement of the 20th century by the National Academy of Engineering, the electrical grid is the largest industrial investment in the history of humankind. It reaches into your home, snakes its way to your bedroom, and climbs right up into the lamp next to your pillow. At times, it almost seems alive, like some enormous circulatory system that pumps life to big cities and the most remote rural areas. Constructed of intricately interdependent components, the grid operates on a rapidly shrinking margin for error. Things can-and do-go wrong in this system, no matter how many preventive steps we take. Just look at the colossal 2003 blackout, when 50 million Americans lost power due to a simple error at a power plant in Ohio; or the one a month later, which blacked out 57 million Italians. And these two combined don't even compare to the 2001 outage in India, which affected 226 million people. The Grid is the first history of the electrical grid intended for general readers, and it comes at a time when we badly need such a guide. As we get more and more dependent on electricity to perform even the most mundane daily tasks, the grid's inevitable shortcomings will take a toll on populations around the globe. At a moment when energy issues loom large on the nation's agenda and our hunger for electricity grows, The Grid is as timely as it is compelling.
Simulating Nature
Author: Arthur C. PetersenPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 146650062X
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Computer simulation has become an important means for obtaining knowledge about nature. The practice of scientific simulation and the frequent use of uncertain simulation results in public policy raise a wide range of philosophical questions. Most prominently highlighted is the field of anthropogenic climate change—are humans currently changing the climate? Referring to empirical results from science studies and political science, Simulating Nature: A Philosophical Study of Computer-Simulation Uncertainties and Their Role in Climate Science and Policy Advice, Second Edition addresses questions about the types of uncertainty associated with scientific simulation and about how these uncertainties can be communicated. The author, who participated in the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) plenaries in 2001 and 2007, discusses the assessment reports and workings of the IPCC. This second edition reflects the latest developments in climate change policy, including a thorough update and rewriting of sections that refer to the IPCC.
Outdoor Science
Author: Steve RichPublisher: NSTA Press
ISBN: 193613778X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Research shows that environment-centered education improves student achievement. Whatever your school's setting-urban, suburban, or rural-you can create stimulating outdoor classrooms for your students, with a little help from Outdoor Science. Author and state science specialist Steve Rich shows teachers how to create outdoor learning spaces that can be used from year to year-with little extra effort or resources. These practical suggestions for creating, maintaining, and using outdoor classrooms work for both elementary and middle school students. The simple and inexpensive lessons satisf.
Informatics in Schools. A Step Beyond Digital Education
Author: Andreas BollinPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031158512
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution and Perspectives, ISSEP 2021, held in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, in November 2020. Due to COVID-19 related travelling restrictions the conference had to be switched to online format. The 12 full papers presented together with 4 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 57 submissions. They are organized in 2 topical sections named: state of research and best practice, country, and experience reports. As in our school education subjects like “digital literacy" or "media literacy" are making their way in, complementing or partially replacing computer science education. The current ISSEP conference reacted to this trend and therefore invited computer scientists, media didactics, and representatives of politics, media and industry to a discussion round on the topic "Media Education or Computer Science? Quo Vadis, School Teaching?".