Does a comma go here? Or here? This is a common question among adults and students. Many people use commas too often. Watch this TED-Ed video and try the lesson to learn more about where and when to use the comma. This illustration shows that commas help to balance a sentence when you use subordinates and conjunctions. The educator has created characters for the parts of the sentence so that you can remember when to use a comma. This skill will help you out all the way through graduate school! Professors will be looking for the appropriate use of commas when they are grading your papers, and too many commas in a cover letter to a company you are applying for could cost you a job. While it may seem tiny and insignificant knowing how to use the comma can help your writing and long term success!
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Today's lesson takes one of the most incredible education videos that illustrates the scale of the solar system. It digs deep into what measuring "to scale" means. These gentleman set out to show an accurate perspective of the solar system, since most pictures and models put all of the planets too close together. In order to do this, they needed 7 miles in a Nevada desert. With the Earth the size of a marble, they were able to show how large our solar system actually is. Combined with perspectives of astronauts who have seen the Earth from space we can begin to understand just how large our universe is and how small we are in comparison. Click Here to explore the TED-Ed Lesson with questions, discussions, and additional resources. Last week was the annual Alabama Association for Gifted Children conference at the McWane Science Center where gifted education specialists, advocates, parents, and administrators gathered from all over the state to learn from one another and from nationally renowned experts in gifted education. This year's theme "Igniting Gifted Potential" captured the many talents of our state's educators and students. This is the 2nd year in a row that BCS has had a winner in the annual video contest. Kimberly Green's GATE class at Arrington Middle School won 1st Place in the video contest for 6th-8th grade students with a video highlighting their class. The class won a video camera that they can create more videos with, and the students were already coming up with ideas for the next video. In addition to the student award, Principal Anthony Moss won the Administrator of the Year award. It was a great day for Arrington Middle School and the GATE program! In addition to our talented video students, Carver High School's quintet led by Laura Walters accompanied the conference at lunch on Thursday. Many conference participants remarked on what a nice addition the music was to the lunch hour. With all of the new learning this week we are excited to bring new ideas to GATE classrooms and schools across the district, continue to ignite the potential students across Birmingham City Schools! Thank you to all of those involved in making the 2015 AAGC conference one of the best yet! *Photos courtesy of Butch Oglesby at Blue Moon Studios This TED-Ed Tuesday features one of Alabama's Gifted Children in honor of the Alabama Association for Gifted Children annual conference this week at the McWane Science Center. Venkata Macha is a high school student from Montgomery, Alabama with guts and grit. Macha won the International Brain Bee in 2014 and spoke at TEDxBirmingham in 2015 about using radical approaches to problem-solving. In this case, Macha was radical in that he "cold called" or emailed researchers all across the country to see if he could work in their lab. This is similar to Jack Andraka, another extremely gifted youth who you will learn more about if you check out this week's TED-Ed Lesson on Venkata's talk. These boys have got some serious grit to take so many rejections and keep on going! While they are both brilliant, this trait is what allows them to reach their goals. Enjoy Venkata Macha's talk! Can you save your co-workers from mutant zombies? If you can do math and problem solve you can find a way to safely cross the bridge and make sure others are safe as well! In this TED-Ed lesson by educator Alex Gendler you can try to solve the problem and save everyone from the zombies! There's one catch. You'll have to pause the video while you solve it. Keep at it and don't check too soon! Make sure you try every option and persevere even when it gets hard. If you want some hints, check out the TED-Ed Lesson Here. You may want to work in a team to solve the problem because two heads are almost always better than one. Good luck! |
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