New Product: Bill Nye the Science Guy - Digestion

Includes 3 different handouts with answer keys to accompany the Bill Nye the Science Guy video for Digestion. The handouts include 2 fill-in-the-blanks (same questions, but 1 includes a word bank) and a fill-in-the-blank for the song at the end!  You can use any of the handouts to fit your needs including just singing the song at the end without filling in the blanks!  The questions are in order so they do not have to worry about searching all over the page to complete it all.

The videos can be purchased here.

Concepts include:
chyme, digestion, enzymes, peristalsis, saliva, small intestine, stomach, and teeth

Having students take notes during a video increases their ability to retain the information from the video. Students are able to create comprehensive fill-in-the-blank notes to study while still having enough time to appreciate the video.

Keywords:
chyme
digestion
enzymes
esophagus
hydrochloric acid
large intestine
mucus
oxygen
peristalsis
saliva
small intestine
stomach
teeth
Bill Nye Worksheet
Bill Nye - The Science Guy Videos
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New Product: Bill Nye the Science Guy - Archaeology

Includes 3 different handouts with answer keys to accompany the Bill Nye the Science Guy video for Archaeology. The handouts include 2 fill-in-the-blanks (same questions, but 1 version includes a word bank) and a fill-in-the-blank for the song at the end! You can use any of the handouts to fit your needs including just singing the song at the end without filling in the blanks! The questions are in order so they do not have to worry about searching all over the page to complete it all.

The videos can be purchased at http://www.dep-store.com/Bill-Nye-the-Science-Guy-Videos-s/32.htm.

Concepts include:
archaeology, hieroglyphics, radiocarbon dating, and the Rosetta Stone

Having students take notes during a video increases their ability to retain the information from the video. Students are able to create comprehensive fill-in-the-blank notes to study while still having enough time to appreciate the video.

Keywords:
archaeologists
carbon
museum
petroglyph
Bill Nye Worksheet
Bill Nye - The Science Guy Videos
Bill Nye - The Science Guy worksheet
Bill Nye Video guide
Bill Nye - The Science Guy guide

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New Product: Bill Nye the Science Guy - Gravity

Includes 3 different handouts with answer keys to accompany the Bill Nye the Science Guy video for Gravity. The handouts include 2 fill-in-the-blanks (same questions, but 1 includes a word bank) and a fill-in-the-blank for the song at the end!  You can use any of the handouts to fit your needs including just singing the song at the end without filling in the blanks!  The questions are in order so they do not have to worry about searching all over the page to complete it all.

The videos can be purchased at http://www.dep-store.com/Bill-Nye-the-Science-Guy-Videos-s/32.htm.

Concepts include:
gravity, Apollo space missions, forces, Galileo Galilei, drag, sun, earth, planets, orbit, and weight

Having students take notes during a video increases their ability to retain the information from the video. Students are able to create comprehensive fill-in-the-blank notes to study while still having enough time to appreciate the video.

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New Product: Science News Articles!

Great template for students to search for current events and practice analyzing and summarizing the news article!

I have used this with my students to have them practice looking at reliable sources to find current events. They look for news articles that are science based and then write a short summary about it. I have provided several different sources that students can use! Students can then practice reading about current events, informative and nonfiction texts that they will then pull information from to analyze and summarize.

I started this assignment the very first week of school and had the students turn in 1 news article every week. We were able to discuss how information is constantly changing and how you need to look at the evidence when forming your own opinions on certain subjects. You can easily adjust it to make it as easy or difficult as the student needs. For example, when I taught 7th grade students, they had to find articles that had a minimum of 3 paragraphs.

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A Bit of Gardening Terminology

Even though winter is coming quickly, I think it is important to start preparing early so you are not rushed because time can go by so fast!  I have always dreamed of having a big garden.  I think it is very rewarding to care for something, watch it grow, and see it transform into something useful.  

Unfortunately, since I moved out of my parents' house to go to college (a few years ago), I have never lived in a place that has allowed me to set up a big garden either because of space and/or because I am renting and can't really change the landscape...and I still don't have that opportunity.  However, I am now within a day's drive of my parents' place and they live in the country, surrounded by farmland.  So, I am planning on doing research now and setting up some raised garden beds at their place to use this summer!

So, I ordered a bunch of seeds and am planning on storing them in a cool place so they last a long time.  I am looking into setting up a compost area that we can eventually add the compost to the garden this spring (but more on that later).  

I have learned that not all seeds are created equal.  So, I did some digging and here is some of the terminology that I have found:

Aeration: Any method of loosening soil or compost to allow air to circulate.


Aerobic: Describes organisms living or occurring only when oxygen is present.


Alkaline: A soil with a pH between 7.0 and 14 (on a scale of 0.0-14.0). Often referred to as “sweet” soil by gardeners.


Anaerobic: Describes organisms living or occurring where there is no oxygen.


Annual: A plant that blooms, produces seed, and dies in one year.

Beneficial Insect: An insect that benefits your garden by eating or laying its eggs in other insects, thereby controlling their population.


Biennial: A plant that completes its full life-cycle in two growing seasons. It produces leaves in the first and flowers in the second.


Biodegradable: Able to decompose or break down through natural bacterial or fungal action. Substances made of organic matter are biodegradable.


Biological Pest Control: Using living organisms such as beneficial insects or parasites to destroy garden pests.

Cold Frame: An unheated structure usually made of wood and covered with glass or plastic. Cold frames are used to protect plants from frost and are helpful season extenders.


Companion Planting: The sowing of seeds in the garden in such a way that plants help each other grow instead of competing against each other.


Compost: Completely decayed organic matter used for conditioning soil. It is dark, odorless and rich in nutrients.


Cool-Season Crops:  Peas, lettuces, radishes, brassicas (broccoli, kale, cauliflower, collards), and spinach germinate and thrive in the lower temperatures of spring and fall and tolerate light frosts. Many cool-season crops can be direct-sown in the garden around before the last frost.

Cover Crop: Vegetation grown to protect and build the soil during an interval when the area would otherwise lie fallow.


Crop Rotation: The planting of a specific crop in a site different from the previous year.


Cutting: A vegetative method of plant propagation whereby a piece of plant leaf, stem, root or bud is cut from a parent plant. It is then inserted into a growing medium to form roots, thus developing a new plant.


Dead Heading: The act of removing spent flowers or flowerheads for aesthetics, to prolong bloom for up to several weeks or promote re-bloom, or to prevent seeding.


Deep Shade: A plant requiring less than 2 hours of dappled sun a day.


Determinate:  Determinate plants are bush-type plants.  They only grow to a certain height, produce their fruit, and then die off.  

Direct Seed:  To seed directly into the soil instead of starting your seeds indoors.
Acidic: A soil, compost, or liquid with a pH between 0 and 7.0 (on a scale of 0.0-14.0). Often referred to as “sour” soil by gardeners.

Fertilizer: An organic or synthetic material added to the soil or the plant, that is important for its nutrient value.


Fungicides: Compounds used to prevent the spread of fungi in gardens and crops, which can cause serious damage to plants.


Germinate: The beginning of growth in seeds, the action of sprouting, budding or shooting, above the soil. This occurs whenever a plant or seed begins to vegetate into leafy young plants. The breaking of dormancy in seeds or the sprouting of pollen grains deposited on a stigma.


Hardening Off: The process of acclimatizing plants grown under protection, in the greenhouse for example, to cooler conditions outdoors.


Heavy Soil: A soil that contains a high proportion of clay and is poorly drained.

Heirloom Vegetables:  Heirlooms are open-pollinated varieties that have been cultivated for at least 50 years. They are often more flavorful, colorful, and interesting than hybrids, but they may lack disease-resistance or require staking.

Humus: A fairly stable, complex group of nutrient-storing molecules created by microbes and other forces of decomposition by the conversion of organic matter. Typically its dark loamy earth.


Hybrids:  These plants are the result of cross-breeding to produce offspring with certain desirable traits, such as disease-resistance or uniform color or size. Their complicated genetics mean that the seed inside the fruit you grow one season will not produce a plant like its parent. Each year, you will have to buy new seeds of this variety if you want to grow it again.

Indeterminate:  The plant continues to grow after it begins producing fruit.  Indeterminate plants can produce fruit all season long.

Micro-Nutrients: Some mineral elements are needed by plants in very small quantities. If the plants you are growing require specific “trace elements” and they are not getting them through the soil, they must be added.


Mulch: Any organic material, such as wood chips, grass clippings, compost, straw, or leaves that is spread over the soil surface (around plants) to hold in moisture and help control weeds.


No-Till-Gardening: This type of gardening calls for no cultivation (or tilling) of the soil after the initial tilling. In its place, regular mulches are added and plants are planted through the mulch. This saves on labor and eliminates weeds, which might germinate as a result of tilling.


N-P-K: An abbreviation for the three main nutrients that have been identified as absolutely necessary for plants are nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium (K). These three are also known as “macronutrients,” and are the source of the three numbers commonly found on fertilizer labels.


Open-Pollinated (OP):  These plants come from a parent of the same variety and they can, in turn, produce offspring of the same variety. This is called "coming true from seed." The seed from open-pollinated varieties can be collected from the plants you've grown and saved to grow again next year.

Organic Gardening: This method of gardening is based on building a healthy, living soil through composting and using supplemental nutrients from naturally occurring deposits. The basic principle is to feed the soil so the soil will feed the plants. Healthy plants are better able to resist pests and disease thus reducing the need for control. If control is needed, cultural and mechanical methods are used first. Naturally derived pesticides are used only as a last resort.


Perennial: A plant that grows and flowers for years. They are either evergreens or may die back to the ground but will grow again the following season.


pH: A scale from 0-14 that explains the degree of acidity or alkalinity of the water or soil. Soil pH is very important because it affects the availability of nutrients to plants and the activity of microorganisms in the soil.


Rhizome: A fleshy underground stem or runner. Creeping grasses spread by rhizomes.


Season Extender: Any technique or piece of equipment used to extend the growing season in both spring and fall. Examples include; row covers, greenhouses, hotbeds, cold frames, and products such as Wall O’ Waters.


Soil Amendment: Material added to the soil to improve its properties. This may include; water retention, permeability, water infiltration, drainage, aeration and structure. Soil amendments are mostly organic matter or very slow release minerals and are typically worked into the topsoil.


Soil Test: A measurement of the major nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium) and pH levels in the soil.


Topdressing: Applying fertilizers or some kind of soil amendment after seeding, transplanting or once the crop has been established.


Transplanting: The moving of a plant from one growth medium to another.

Vermicomposting: The use of red worms to convert food scraps or other organic materials into worm castings.

Warm-Season Crops:  Tomatoes, eggplants, summer and winter squash, beans, and corn prefer summer's heat. Plant these only after the soil has warmed. Many warm-season crops require a long growing season and should be started indoors in late winter or early spring or purchased as seedlings ready to be transplanted.

Worm Casting: The digested organic waste of red worms. Gardeners consider them the most nutrient dense organic compost available.

Turmeric

Turmeric (Curcuma longa) has been used to treat a variety of conditions for 4,000 years.  Studies show that turmeric may help fight infections and some cancers, reduce inflammation, and treat digestive problems.  

Turmeric is widely used in cooking and gives Indian curry its flavor and yellow color.  It is also used in mustard and to color butter and cheese.  Turmeric has been used in both Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine as an anti-inflammatory, to treat digestive and liver problems, skin diseases, and wounds.

Curcumin, the active ingredient found in turmeric, is a power antioxidant.  Antioxidants scavenge molecules in the body known as free radicals, which damage cell membranes, tamper with DNA, and even cause cell death.  Antioxidants can fight free radicals and may reduce or even help prevent some of the damage they cause.

In addition, curcumin lowers the levels of two enzymes in the body that cause inflammation.  It also stops platelets from clumping together to form blood clots.

Plant Description

Turmeric is a perennial plant that grows 5 to 6 feet high in the tropical regions of Southern Asia.  It is a relative of ginger and has trumpet-shaped, dull yellow flowers.  Its roots are bulbs that also produce rhizomes, which then produce stems and roots for new plants.  Turmeric is fragrant and has a bitter, somewhat sharp taste.

Medicinal Uses

The roots, or rhizomes and bulbs, are used in medicine and food.  They are generally boiled and then dried, turning into the familiar yellow powder.

Curcumin stimulates the gallbladder to produce bile, which some people think may help improve digestion.  The German Commission E, which determines which herbs can be safely prescribed in Germany, has approved turmeric for digestive problems.  

Early studies suggested that turmeric may help prevent atherosclerosis, the buildup of plaque that can block arteries and lead to heart attack or stroke.  In animal studies, an extract of turmeric lowered cholesterol levels and kept LDL "bad" cholesterol from buildin up in blood vessels.  Because it stops platelets from clumping together, turmeric may also prevent blood clots from building up along the walls of arteries.  But a double-blind, placebo-controlled study found that taking curcumin, the active ingredient in turmeric, at a dose of up to 4 g per day did not improve cholesterol levels.

How to Take It

• Cut root: 1.5-3 grams per day
• Dried, powdered root: 1-3 grams per day
• Standardized powder (curcumin): 400-600 mg, three times per day

Possible Interactions

According to the information found on Penn State Hershey: 

If you are being treated with any of the following medications, you should not use turmeric or curcumin in medicinal forms without first talking to your health care provider.

Blood-thinning Medications -- Turmeric may make the effects of these drugs stronger, raising the risk of bleeding. Blood-thinners include warfarin (Coumadin), clopidogrel (Plavix), and aspirin, among others.

Drugs that reduce stomach acid -- Turmeric may interfere with the action of these drugs, increasing the production of stomach acid:

• Cimetidine (Tagamet)
• Famotidine (Pepcid)
• Ranitidine (Zantac)
• Esomeprazole (Nexium)
• Omeprazole
• Lansoprazole (Prevacid)

Diabetes Medications -- Turmeric may make the effects of these drugs stronger, increasing the risk of hypoglycemia (low blood sugar).

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Garth Brooks

I started listening to Garth Brooks when I was little and I have never found a song that I dislike from him! I have yet to see him in concert, but am hoping that he will come to this area (or within a day's drive) during this current tour!

I finally caved and bought the digital bundle on GarthBrooks.com! Even though I already own all of the cd's that have been released, I decided to purchase this set because it comes with the songs from the upcoming album, 30 videos, and all of the songs that are set to release with the 2015 album! So I decided that it was worth it to purchase the bundle instead of purchasing the 2 upcoming albums.

I am looking forward to listening to these on the way to school and work every day!

For more information about Garth Brooks, you can visit his website:  http://www.garthbrooks.com/garth/

Garth Brooks has been certified by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) as the top-selling solo artist of the 20th century with 134 million albums. He is also the fastest-selling album artist in RIAA history and the only solo artist to have 6 albums top the 10 million mark.

Garth spent more weeks at #1 on the album sales charts than any other artist since the inception of SoundScan. He has taken 25 singles to the #1 position on the country charts. When his recent boxed set “Blame It All On My Roots” debuted at #1, it marked the 13th time Garth had accomplished this feat – making him the highest country debut leader of all time.