Conifer cone

For my science lesson, I taught heat energy. During this lesson, students had to investigate what objects were going to melt when placed under the sun and why certain objects did not melt when we placed them outside. For this lesson, the level of inquiry that was implemented was level two because I told students what they were going to investigate and explore during the experiment, but students had to make their own conclusions based on what they observe. For this lesson, I planned to have…

I noticed that Brianne had an ice cream cone in her hand. “Brianne” I asked looking wide eyed “where did you get the ice cream” “On the top deck next to the pool” Cassidy said answering my question. I noticed that she had a plate with a cheese covered piece of bread I could even smell the tomato…

Growing up in Brooklyn, in the early 90’s was one of the best experiences in my life. I remember the ice cream trucks, corner stores, fire hydrates being opened for the kids especially when there was a block party but most of all, the unity of families and neighbors. Many people will say “Brooklyn, only the strong survive” and I have lived by that phrase my entire life. It showed me the beauty of living in one of the boroughs that makes up New York City and has taught me to be a strong…

Understanding social norms is one of the major formulations people use to keep society running in a respectful, safe, and proper way. In public settings people establish, maintain, and change their personal territories formulated by social norms and other verbal and nonverbal notifications sent by others. The term “public,” specifically means areas where individuals have freedom of access, but not necessarily of action (Guerrero, DeVito & Hecht, 1999). In this paper, I will describe my…

It all started with a chili pepper named Jeffrey ( aka Carolina and/or Jeff ), an Oreo thin named Holly, a classic Oreo named Devon and an ice cream cone named Monica. You see they were all “friends” or so to speak. They all were polar opposites. Jeffrey had a bad temper and got angry at practically anything, Holly, well Holly was super sensitive and over-emotional, Devon was the silliest Oreo you’ll ever encounter, and Monica, oh Monica, she didn’t care, and I mean she didn’t care. She didn’t…

Domain/Curricular Structure: Main Idea Goal/Concepts to be explored: • I want the students to understand that the main idea of a text is the most important point the author is making about the topic. • I want the students to be able to identify the main idea and supporting details in a passage. Objectives/Indicators: • Standard 6: Summarize key details and ideas to support analysis of central ideas.  6.1 Summarize multi-paragraph texts using key details to support the central idea.…

In the poem Summertime Sharing by Nikki Grimes and an excerpt from The Scourge by Jennifer A Nielsen both authors developed the common theme of friends are always there when you need them. The poem Summertime Sharing develops the theme through actions. In the excerpt from The Scourge the theme is developed through symbolism. To start, in the poem Summertime Sharing the author develops the theme through actions of a character. The main character Danitra “breaks the Popsicle in two and…

After 4 hours of math, science and history it was finally time to get our stuff and walk over to the junior high for the 8th grade graduation rehearsal. I needed to go get my stuff from my locker with the other 150 kids that also needed their stuff. I fight through all those people and managed to get to my locker. I grabbed my backpack with my lunch and the book I’ve been reading “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”. Now that everyone has their stuff, we started walking. I…

diameter and pollen and seed producing cone sizes across conifer species. A similar paper that helps support the methodologies used in this article titled, “Branching habit and the allocation of reproductive resources in conifers” also used methods like Corner’s rule to analyze conifer’s reproductive structures (ie. whether large-diameter branches bear large cones) and used simple regression models to show the association between branch diameter and cone volume of conifers. This approach is…

reproductive structures demonstrate that conifer species possessing large diameter branches usually bear large pollen and seed producing cones as well as larger cones but more specifically testing the factors that could generate morphological diversity over a period of time on the production of cones, by studying the differences in the diameter of the branches and branching density among conifers to determine if they influence the evolution of the size of cones. Furthermore, the authors are also…