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The tournament went forward and now for the reveal! There was a way to win most of the time in the game More Than Chance, and it's the same way you can win at guessing coin flips. If you replace the Heads and Tails with Black and Red you get the same situation. HTT beats TTH, and RBB beats BBR. All of these combinations have a one in eight chance of happening, but if you choose the right choice after knowing your oponent's combination, you can choose a combination that steals the combinations that would have been theirs. Find out more here!
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Check out what Google Doodle has to say about Sally Ride and Ada Lovelace. Tell us what was great about them and which scientist/mathematician you like better!
https://www.google.com/doodles/sally-rides-64th-birthday http://www.google.com/doodles/ada-lovelaces-197th-birthday Feel free to check out other Google Doodles here and tell us about the ones you think are great! https://www.google.com/doodles/#archive Math Contest! Who can practice the most new skills in their coming grade on Khan Academy? Final winners announced on Monday.
1st Place: 20 points 2nd Place: 15 points 3rd Place: 10 points 4th place: 5 points 3 points for participating Ratemyprofessor.com is a website where you rank and comment on the teachers you have in college. To check what prejudice ideas there are, you can type in a word and see how often it was used for women teachers, vs. how much it was used for men teachers. Guess what words will be used more for men, and what will be used more for women, and then test it! Tell us the results!
http://benschmidt.org/profGender/#{%22database%22%3A%22RMP%22%2C%22plotType%22%3A%22pointchart%22%2C%22method%22%3A%22return_json%22%2C%22search_limits%22%3A{%22word%22%3A[%22funny%22]%2C%22department__id%22%3A{%22%24lte%22%3A25}}%2C%22aesthetic%22%3A{%22x%22%3A%22WordsPerMillion%22%2C%22y%22%3A%22department%22%2C%22color%22%3A%22gender%22}%2C%22counttype%22%3A[%22WordCount%22%2C%22TotalWords%22]%2C%22groups%22%3A[%22unigram%22]} Make a commercial on your own or with your classmates, trying to sell a made up or existing product! What do you want to sell to us?
Write, or present about a book that you've read! Introduce us to what you're loving about it and grow an even better understanding of the book itself!
Check out dogonews.com for your news on mini dragons
http://www.dogonews.com/2015/4/30/researchers-unveil-three-new-species-of-colorful-miniature-dragons and whether or not video games make people better learners http://www.dogonews.com/2015/5/6/brown-researchers-believe-gamers-are-able-to-learn-visual-tasks-faster-than-non-gamers and many more articles! Tell us what you think about the recent news! When your parents moved to a new house you weren't too happy. You had friends in your old neighborhood and here you know no one. Further your room is teeny tiny, and in it is the teensiest tiniest closet you've ever seen with barely enough room to put a few toys inside. Of course, your feelings about the closet change when you discover that any toy you leave in the closet over night is alive and moving on its own by the morning. Write a story, play, diary, or picture book about your experience!
With a partner or alone, come up with a story and then make a cartoon of the story on Scratch, or on Khan! The best cartoon made by next Thursday will get a bonus 5 points!
Hans Rosling shows really cool stuff about the world using graphs. Check out some of what he found.
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_reveals_new_insights_on_poverty?language=en http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen?language=en You can also check out what you can find yourself on the site gapminder! http://www.gapminder.org/world open graph menu to see a bunch! Want to know how to make a platform game? Put Youtube music in a game?What about making your character lip synch a song? Make beautiful art? Make pokemon? You can learn how to do those and many more on Scratch here! Over a hundred tutorials, many made by kids!
https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/244523/ 2 stories are all over the news this week. Those are the protests in Baltimore over police violence, and the recent killing of Freddie Gray and the massive earthquake that affected millions in Nepal.
Check out the Nepal story here: http://www.dogonews.com/2015/4/27/world-rushes-to-help-nepal-recover-from-devastating-earthquake And the protests here and the current curfew saying no one may be on the streets after 10 PM: http://abcnews.go.com/US/baltimore-riots-protesters-defy-citywide-curfew/story?id=30658044 and President Obama's speech on the Baltimore protests here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfA7EV-SrpE Post your thoughts! These are ranked as some of the best jobs in the United States. Would you want one of these jobs, or one of the happiest jobs? What job would you be interested in doing?
http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/rankings/the-100-best-jobs When asking people how they felt about their jobs CareerBliss found that some jobs were especially well loved, and others especially hated.
Check out the list and tell us if there are any you'd enjoy doing. http://www.careerbliss.com/facts-and-figures/careerbliss-happiest-and-unhappiest-jobs-in-america-2015/ Create a card saying all the reasons you're thankful for the earth. What's your favorite parts about being on our planet?
Take Google's quiz to find out what animal you are! https://www.google.com/webhp?#q=earth%20day%20quiz
Then tell us some facts about your animal! Head over to Khanacademy.org to practice any math you've learned, but don't feel like you fully understand, so you'll be ready for it when it shows up on the test!
Make a dance animation in Scratch. Instructions on how to do it can be found in a video here! For extra points make it so that it's a game where you control which dance moves the character does.
https://scratch.mit.edu/help/videos/# The second Scratch project is to make a game where you avoid objects for a certain amount of time in order to win!
Here's an example you can play!: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/56685876/ Make your own game and share it with us! You can do this by either changing around the provided example, or by making one all your own. Today people on Twitter gave advice they wish they'd had when they were younger. Tell us which tweet you think is good advice!
https://twitter.com/hashtag/ToTheGirls Read some here and tell us about your favorite! If you're feeling up for it write your own poem as well!
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/p180-list.html Write about 3 events that happened to you over break and include 3 details about each event. Two of these events should be completely true, and the other event and each of the details for it should be completely made up. Write me a note saying which is a lie, so that I'll know, and then people can start guessing what's true and what's a lie. For every one they guess wrong you'll get a point, if they guess the lie correctly than they get a point. Enjoy!
It's hard having a disability. Many people treat you as though you're somehow less than other people, and some people even make fun of, and laugh at people with disabilities. That hurts and people ignore people with disabilities in many ways. One way is by not having them as main characters in any books or movies. Check out this video by an 11 year old with a disability as she talks about how she wants to change that.
http://mic.com/articles/108716/meet-the-11-year-old-girl-changing-the-way-america-think-about-disabilities What do you think of what she's trying to do? Are there any other kinds of people that you don't often see in books and movies? What kinds of people do you see the most of? How can we support people with disabilities and other groups of people who get treated badly. Radiation, super cold weather, poisonous soil and no oxygen, Mars is not a very easy place to live, but you and 80,000 others have found a way and now live on Mars. Write diary entries or a story about your life on Mars. Watch this video for some ideas about how you might survive.
http://www.universetoday.com/111462/how-can-we-live-on-mars/ What can a group of friends do to deal with one of them being a bully? Write a story about a group of friends who manage to turn one of their own friends away from being a bully.
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