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It's a beautiful coming together of curriculum areas and being good citizens," [Joan Lloyd] said recently. "It's empathy, that we really want the kids to learn.
"Some of my family members have it -- I kind of felt bad," said Grade 6 student Justeen Barnes, who planned the project for breast cancer research with friend Kristen Lucas. "We went to CancerCare Manitoba -- they have a lot of cool stuff in there, like a healing garden."
"Somebody vandalized our school on spring break" last year, including wrecking the school's Schubert choke-cherry tree. "It would be a learning opportunity to start a committee. We would get to know everybody," he explained.
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... attended a spring summit given by Solution Tree about the fundamentals of professional learning co...
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.... Learning about climate change has motivated Malawian farmerrs to organize tree planting, grow more drought-tolerant crops and leg...
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Sugar historically brought many Indians and most others to this remote island, and the best introduction to Mauritius's history is a visit to the engaging Aventure du Sucre (www.aventuredusucre.com), an 18th-century sugar factory turned museum that tells the story of Mauritius through its former greatest export (in 1858, Mauritius had a remarkable 259 sugar producers; today information technology, banking and tourism fuel the Mauritian economy). Along with learning about pirates, slavery, rum running and sugar tycoons, I got to taste 15 types of sugar.
Farther inland to the south, nature lovers and Mauritian families on weekend outings flock to the Black River Gorges National Park, 6,574 hectares of virgin forest where hikers can climb to the highest point on Mauritius -- the 828-metre ...
... set in forests of ebony, eucalyptus, palm trees, wild orchids and ylang-ylang. Visitors can stay i...
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.... Thomas Jefferson wrote that the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time wit...
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... Hamilton Eat Local and the Hamilton Fruit Tree Project. . hamiltoneatlocal.blogspot.com and hamil... of the meal, but dialogue, debate and learning are its lasting products. Children, engaged, bloom...
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This paper investigates the way in which people categorize environmental sounds in their everyday lives. Previous research has shown that isolated environmental sounds are categorized on the basis of high-level semantic features when the sounds can be attributed to specific sound sources. However, in the presence of numerous sound sources, as occur in most real-world situations, the process of source identification is often hindered. In the present study, a free categorization task with open-ended verbal descriptions was used to investigate auditory categories for environmental sounds in complex real-world sonic environments. Two main categories emerged from the free-sort, reflecting the absence or presence of human activity in relation to hedonic judgments. At a subordinate level, subc...
... acquired and modified in the course of learning by interacting with category members in everyday l... analyzed using both QualiTree, an additive tree scaling program developed by Barthelémy and Guén...
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...Finally, that's changing. Learning about the environment, especially the local enviro...
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... is that we have been barking up the wrong tree when it comes to stemming urban sprawl. We put our...