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Hello Ruby : adventures in coding
\"Meet Ruby--a small girl with a huge imagination. In Ruby's world, anything is possible if you set your mind to it. As Ruby embarks on her adventure, kids will be introduced through storytelling to the basic concepts of coding. With activities included in every chapter, future kid coders will be thrilled to put their own imaginations to work.\"--Page 4 of cover.
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Reading Things Not Seen: A Reflection on Teaching Reading, Race, and Ghosts in Juvenile Detention
Ezekiel Joubert III discusses the (im)possibilities of using literature that includes the death of or violence on bodies of color and the presence of ghosts of color in curricula that supposedly promote social justice to examine how we read historical and social tragedies that haunt our historical and collective memory. Using the literary responses and reflections from juvenile detainees in a summer reading program, this studies shows how teens identified and named the racialized ghosts present in literature taught to juveniles. The article explains how reading the presence of racialized ghosts within the curriculum allowed students to co-construct knowledge, build a sociopolitical consciousness and engage in dialogue with one another and the texts in the era of extrajudicial killings of people of color in the era of #BlackLivesMatter and Trayvon Martin.
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How to be a beloved toy : teamwork with Woody
\" Being a toy can be a tough job. You need to be able to work as a t eam with other toys to make your kid happy. It also takes patience, resourcefulness, and much more. Join Woody as he learns about teamwork in Andy's room. You'll also learn about some real-life jobs and how workers use some of the same skills to do their jobs well!-- Provided by publisher.
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The resurgence of service-learning as a social impact tool for youth confidence-building and learning: the untapped latent capital of the Saldanha area
Social impact is complex and requires a multi-faceted approach to youth development. Hence, it is a comprehensive and all-inclusive process, and approach. This article highlighted the urgent need for youth service-learning activities in Saldanha through partnership agreements between secondary and tertiary educational institutions. The alignment of effective community activities and supportive service-learning structures on various institutional platforms should trigger youth development and or empowerment. Through service-learning and social impact intervention, communities can develop their resilience strategies. Modern youth’s face numerous encounters associated with the real-life issues of both rural and urban communities, for example, the incessant surge in youth employment, lack of capacity in upskilling and even reskilling of youth, early school dropouts, crime, drug, and alcohol abuse that bring about social disturbances in family households. This research focuses on the existing literature regarding the significance of social impact as a tool to galvanize and inspire the youth to bring about change for the socio-economic betterment of communities. Research in South Africa and even in local areas lack the propensity and the political will to collectively embark on an effort to merge economic and current development with youth development. This article foresees and or envisions the current youth-supporting development structures in the study area, the underlying causes of youth decay, and what changes have been institutionalized to improve the youth’s educational, social, and economic circumstances (environments). This article focuses on a secondary (desktop) research approach that involves using already existing literature and applying it in a real context. The research question is as follows: What service-learning programmes are available for youth confident-building in Saldanha?
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Super-brain science book of why
\"Jam-packed with answers to hundreds of fascinating 'why?' and 'how?' and 'what?' questions, this fun, fascinating guide features the heroes of the hit Disney Channel series as they introduce readers to the most fascinating, unusual and downright mind-boggling concepts from science, technology, engineering, and math\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Evidence‐based evaluation of the cumulative effects of ecosystem restoration
This study adapts and applies the evidence‐based approach for causal inference, a medical standard, to the restoration and sustainable management of large‐scale aquatic ecosystems. Despite long‐term investments in restoring aquatic ecosystems, it has proven difficult to adequately synthesize and evaluate program outcomes, and no standard method has been adopted. Complex linkages between restorative actions and ecosystem responses at a landscape scale make evaluations problematic and most programs focus on monitoring and analysis. Herein, we demonstrate a new transdisciplinary approach integrating techniques from evidence‐based medicine, critical thinking, and cumulative effects assessment. Tiered hypotheses about the effects of landscape‐scale restorative actions are identified using an ecosystem conceptual model. The systematic literature review, a health sciences standard since the 1960s, becomes just one of seven lines of evidence assessed collectively, using critical thinking strategies, causal criteria, and cumulative effects categories. As a demonstration, we analyzed data from 166 locations on the Columbia River and estuary representing 12 indicators of habitat and fish response to floodplain restoration actions intended to benefit culturally and economically important, threatened and endangered salmon. Synthesis of the lines of evidence demonstrated that hydrologic reconnection promoted macrodetritis export, prey availability, and juvenile fish access and feeding. Upon evaluation, the evidence was sufficient to infer cross‐boundary, indirect, compounding, and delayed cumulative effects, and suggestive of nonlinear, landscape‐scale, and spatial density effects. Therefore, on the basis of causal inferences regarding food‐web functions, we concluded that the restoration program is having a cumulative beneficial effect on juvenile salmon. The lines of evidence developed are transferable to other ecosystems: modeling of cumulative net ecosystem improvement, physical modeling of ecosystem controlling factors, meta‐analysis of restoration action effectiveness, analysis of data on target species, research on critical ecological uncertainties, evidence‐based review of the literature, and change analysis on the landscape setting. As with medicine, the science of ecological restoration needs scientific approaches to management decisions, particularly because the consequences affect species extinctions and the availability of ecosystem services. This evidence‐based approach will enable restoration in complex coastal, riverine, and tidal‐fluvial ecosystems like the lower Columbia River to be evaluated when data have accumulated without sufficient synthesis.
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Multicultural children's literature
This book is designed to prepare K-12 preservice and inservice teachers to address the social, cultural, and critical issues of our times through the use of multicultural children’s books. It will be used as a core textbook in courses on multicultural children’s literature and as a supplement in courses on children’s literature and social studies teaching methods. It can also be used as a supplement in courses on literacy, reading, language arts, and multicultural education.
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Proverbs in the Academy: A Folklore Studies Activity for the Writing Classroom
A primary research activity involving proverbs is detailed and recommended for use in writing classrooms to promote higher-order thinking and analytical skills closely tied to effective academic writing. It is argued that the interrogation of proverbs cultivates among less-experienced writers some analytical and linguistic skills that correspond with academic writing demands. It is also argued that the examination of such popular forms of expression further allows such writers to experience the convergence of their vernacular and academic discourses. The directed examination of popularized linguistic expressions is further postulated as having the added benefit of impressing upon less-experienced writers that language—far from being a uniform, reliable, and static means of communication—is actually an evolving system of signification that to various degrees reveals meaning to be contextually bound and socially relative.
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