Continuing education unit

Knowledge and Ideas cluster includes three informational text standards and two literature standards. The language in the informational text standards discusses students being able to draw from multiple sources to solve problems and to integrate knowledge from two or more texts on the same topic to write or speak about that topic knowledgeably (Cluster 3, n.d.). The last standard in informational text requires students to understand how an author uses reasons and evidence to support points made…

More often than in the past I education needs to meet the growing demands of the college system that government. Many institutions of higher education have been placed under some form of performance-based metrics. Of these performance-based reviews, completion and retention have become the focus of many institutions. This push for retention has made many institutions assess how they retain students and has prompted new initiatives to aid them. When looking at retention it raises two main…

Answer these questions: What are the benefits of having all measurements in metric rather than in a combination of standard and metric? There are many benefits to working in metric rather than standard measure. Currently the United States is the only industrialized nation that does not use the metric system. Thus, we would be in compliance with the rest of the world. Also, it is very easy to make conversions in the metric system, you simply move the decimal point to the right or to the left.…

Should America Convert to the Metric System? About what percent of the world doesn’t use the metric system? There are two different measuring systems and they use different measurement sizes. The United States doesn’t use the metric like the majority of the world we just haven’t switched over yet. A few reasons that we should use it is because we’re one of the only one’s in the world who don’t use it, it will be easier for manufacturing products to other countries, it is easier to understand,.…

the International System of Units (SI), is much easier than the U.S. customary system. A. It is a decimal system like out monetary system, and all units are related (Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 2015). B. There are seven base unit, from which everything else can be derived. This makes conversions really easy. For example, in the SI system there is one unit that is used to measure length: the meter. The U.S. system in comparison uses three completely different units of length: inch, feet,…

In Canada, it is 27 degrees outside. To a Canadian, that sounds great there would be kids playing outside with T-shirts and shorts. To an American, however, the situation is different. Most people would be inside with the heater turned on. How could the situation be so different? In Canada, they use the metric system of measurement. The Metric System is a measurement system that is based on the number 10 and used in most countries including most of Europe, Japan, China, and many other nations.…

Superb Lyrebird page 1 of 2 Body Structure: The Superb Lyrebird is a species of Menura novaehollandiae, the Lyrebird has short rounded wings and the birds typical weight is around 2.2lb(Kg).The typical size of Lyrebird is about 100 centimeters long, for females its around 74 to 84 centimeters.The birds physical adaptations are the Lyrebirds wonderful variation of colorful feathers and keen sense of smell that allows the bird to smell out its prey. Lyrebirds colors…

Sandra Bullock has a net worth of $ 200 million. She is an actress and producer. She was born Sandra Annette Bullock on July 26, 1964 in Arlington, Virginia. She has been divorced once (Jesse James), and has adopted two children. Bullock made her acting debut in 1987 in a movie called "Hangmen", that she had a minor role in, and her television debut in 1989 on "Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman". She also had the lead role on "Working Girl" in 1990 that did not…

However, some aspects of everyday life are not what you would expect from a nation of such importance. Firstly, the US customary units of measure, derived from the ancient imperial units, are still in use today in the US, Liberia and Burma. This non-coherent system of measures is difficult, even for the people raised in the country itself. My brother Victor Salas, 13, explains that although he was taught the…

On the three day of my food intake tracker I found out a general idea of what I 'm really butting in to my body. In some of my meals I meet and in others i didn 't the recommendations by the dietary intake by choose myplate.gov website. I will anylize each food group on each intake of the three days recorded. The my platte website breaks down the foods in to five groups that are the building blocks for a good diet. The groups are, Fruits, Vegetables, Grains, Protein foods and Dairy. Each…