Kindergarten Lesson Plan: Fun With Patterns!!
Course material - 3 pages - Educational studies
Objectives: The students will be able to demonstrate their knowledge of patterns by creating and finishing patterns that involve colors, shapes, objects and numbers. Content: *Patterns can be made from colors, shapes, objects, numbers, etc. * Definition: Patterns = are...
Classroom Management Plan
Course material - 8 pages - Educational studies
In my classroom I expect to be an effective teacher. For this to occur I need to have effective classroom management. I will create an environment that feels safe for the students so that they can focus on learning. For me, classroom management does not go hand in hand with discipline. This is...
Kindergarten lesson plan title: Apple sentences
Course material - 3 pages - Educational studies
The students will be able to write out original sentences that describe apples. The students will be able to demonstrate their knowledge of phonics by using the sounds in a letter/word to write out the words they want to use. The students will be able to demonstrate their ability to write upper...
Kindergarten Lesson Plan Title: Counting and Sorting Turkeys!
Course material - 2 pages - Educational studies
The students will be able to demonstrate their ability to count objects and to sort those objects by how many feathers the turkeys have. The students will be able to identify same and different by the attributes of color, shape, size, and kind and sort those turkeys by their differences. The...
Kindergarten Lesson Plan Title: Investigating Pumpkins
Course material - 3 pages - Educational studies
The students will be able to generate questions based on their observations of pumpkins. The students will be able to investigate those questions and find answers to their questions. The students will be able to use measurement devices to find their answers. The students will be able to...
Running Head: The Relationship between Depression and Age
Case study - 3 pages - Psychology
Depression may be influenced by age differences. Other studies showed no relationship between age and depression so one should expect no relationship between the two in further studies. Data was obtained from 41 college students in order to determine relationships between the profile of Mood...
James Lett and Paranormal Belief
Essay - 4 pages - Psychology
Paranormal belief is a controversial topic within society and many of its advocates and opponents are both victim to biases in their advocating for or against it. Paranormal belief implies a belief in phenomena that currently cannot be explained by science. These ideas can range from precognition...
GABA Receptors
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
GABAA Receptor The GABAA receptor is a member of the superfamily of ligand-activated ion channels in the cell membrane. GABA type A (GABAA) receptors are most closely related to strychnine-sensitive glycine receptors, more distantly related to acetylcholine nicotonic receptors and serotonin...
Amino Acid Neurotransmitter Receptors
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Psychology
Glutamate Receptors Glutamate receptors are found throughout the brain and are expressed on both neurons and glia, although not all glutamate receptor subtypes are found on both cell types. Glutamate receptors, sometimes referred to as excitatory amino acid receptors, were initially classified...
Developmental Sport & Exercise Psychology
Course material - 2 pages - Sports
Motivational processes vary across the lifespan. Children are motivated by different factors than older adults. In class we discussed the importance of motivating people to lead physically active lives beginning in childhood and continuing throughout older adulthood to maintain good health and...
Kinesiology Exam
Course material - 4 pages - Sports
A developmental perspective in research involves describing an individual's psychological, social, and behavioral changes across a span of time. It also assesses the similarities and differences in changes observed over time between individuals. The study may cover a lifespan, which constitutes...
Ethics Paper: Performance Enhancement Substances
Essay - 3 pages - Sports
Athletes voluntarily agree to partake in sporting competitions. These contests require opponents to promise to play the game, at the same time, and under the same conditions.7 Performance enhancement substance use is a core ethical issue in sports today. Some athletes feel the use of steroids and...
Monoamine Sythesis, Storage and Degradation
Essay - 3 pages - Psychology
In addition to similarities in neuronal organization, monoaminergic systems are similar with regard to their synthesis, storage, and degradation. Monoamines are synthesized within neurons from common amino acid precursors and taken up into synaptic vesicles via a vesicular monoamine transporter....
Anatomy of Monoamie Systems
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Psychology
The anatomical organization of monoaminergic systems shares a number of common features. Monoaminergic systems are strikingly divergent: monoaminergic cell bodies are generally found in aggregates located in a few restricted subcortical brain regions. Individual monoaminergic neurons typically...
Receptors
Tutorials/exercises - 6 pages - Psychology
Ultimately the effects of monoamines on CNS function and behavior depend upon their interactions with receptor molecules. The binding of monoamines to these plasma membrane proteins initiates a series of intracellular events that modulate neuronal excitability. Unlike the transporters, multiple...
Exercise Physiology Lab
Case study - 6 pages - Sports
Exercise causes numerous physiological changes in the body. Body temperature increases during exercise because heat is generated in proportion to our need to produce energy. Sweat is a by product of the body heat generated and is sent to the surface of the skin to evaporate and serves as a...
Principles of Brain Organization
Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - Psychology
The human brain contains approximately 1011 nerve cells or neurons. In general, neurons are composed of four morphologically identified regions: (1) the cell body or soma, which contains the nucleus and can be considered the metabolic center of the neuron; (2) the dendrites, processes that arise...
Neuronal Plasticity
Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - Psychology
Synaptic plasticity is a property of adult as well as developing or young cortex, and reflects how synaptic strength changes with experience. Its relevance to psychiatry is seen in the course of the illnesses psychiatrists treat. Clinical research supports the notion that psychiatric illnesses...
Neural Prenatal Development
Tutorials/exercises - 7 pages - Psychology
The wonder of development is that a structure as complex as the human brain originates from a flat sheet of embryologic ectoderm. The final, formed brain shows remarkable order in its predictable cortical layering, its diversity of cortical areas, and the numerous networks linking specific...
Early Neural Postnatal Development
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Psychology
The early postnatal years are marked by a rapid maturation of cognitive, social, and behavioral abilities as infants progress from helplessness to autonomy, and children and adolescents develop more sophisticated ways of thinking. The information and abilities acquired by infants, children, and...
Consciouness
Tutorials/exercises - 8 pages - Psychology
The vast majority of mental processes are outside of conscious awareness. These processes can impact thinking, feeling, and behavior despite the lack of conscious awareness. Consciousness can be thought to include two elements: awareness and sentience, the quality of the experience. Each form of...
Cognitive Science
Tutorials/exercises - 6 pages - Psychology
The fields relevant to this overview are a part of the interdisciplinary studies of cognitive science, which includes anthropology, cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, psycholinguistics, artificial intelligence and computational science, and neuroscience. Each of these disciplines...
The Perfect Mile
Essay - 3 pages - Sports
Neal Bascomb's The Perfect Mile is a great book about three runners who all have the desire to accomplish the unthinkable; a mile in under four minutes. Wes Santee, John Landy, and Roger Bannister were all after this difficult task, each representing a different country. Bascomb follows the...
How to Increase Visibility and Marketability of Normally Non-Revenue Sports
Essay - 4 pages - Sports
While only a few sports manage to accede above and beyond expectations, so many sports struggle to become great a sporting event. This report will go over ways in which sports that struggle with revenue can increase their visibility and marketability in the sports world. There are many untapped...
Sexual Discrimination among Individual Athletes
Essay - 2 pages - Sports
Sexual discrimination is problem that many athletes deal with regardless of their sex. Women more often deal with sexual discrimination, but even guys deal with this problem. Although sexual discrimination is still a problem today, it is not the same issue it used to be thanks to Title IX. Women...
PRE by Tom Jordan
Essay - 2 pages - Sports
In the late 60's and early 70's, there was a great distance runner by the name of Steve Prefontaine. Steve, also called “Pre” for short, had an illustrious running career, which has inspired runners to this day to work hard and have the desire to win. Pre's running career began when he...
Bowerman and the Men of Oregon
Essay - 5 pages - Sports
A coach by the name of Bill Bowerman sets out to change the lives of many young college students through their abilities in track and field. Bowerman, a famous coach from the University of Oregon not only coaches Olympians but prepares them for the real world after college. He is also the...
Circulation assistant cover letter
Sample letter - 1 pages - Educational studies
From Emerson College's human resources website, I learned of numerous openings within the university. I am very interested in the position of circulation assistant, for I am seeking employment in an academic environment and believe that my education and experience will be very beneficial to the...
Lucid Dreaming and the Infinite Mind
Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - Psychology
It's safe to say that practically everyone has experienced a dream at some point in their lives. Loads of dreams, it seems, are nothing but a blur of pictures floating through our minds while we rest. In fact, most people don't consider their dreams to be much besides recollections of previously...
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Essay - 3 pages - Educational studies
It is a well-established notion that in his writings, F. Scott Fitzgerald was able to capture the spirit of the 1920's like few other authors. As a member of the Lost Generation, the group of writers who worked in the years following the First World War, Fitzgerald's novels and short stories are...
