This unique book combines state-specific facts and 30 fun-to-do hands-on projects. The Symbols Projects Book includes creating a model of the state bird, counting popcorn to visualize state population, creating state borders using craft materials, making a scrapbook of unique state facts and more! Kids will have a blast and build essential knowledge skills including research, reading, writing, science and math. Great for students in K-8 grades and for displaying in the classroom, library or home.

Exploring Florida through Project-Based Leaning includes 50 well-thought-out projects designed for grades 3-5. In assigning your students projects that dig into FloridaÕs geography, history, government, economy, current events, and famous people, you will deepen their appreciation and understanding of Florida while simultaneously improving their analytical skills and ability to recognize patterns and big-picture themes. Project-based learning today is much different than the craft-heavy classroom activities popular in the past. Inquiry, planning, research, collaboration, and analysis are key components of project-based learning activities today. However, that doesnÕt mean creativity, individual expression, and fun are out. They definitely arenÕt! Each project is designed to help students gain important knowledge and skills that are derived from standards and key concepts at the heart of academic subject areas. Students are asked to analyze and solve problems, to gather and interpret data, to develop and evaluate solutions, to support their answers with evidence, to think critically in a sustained way, and to use their newfound knowledge to formulate new questions worthy of exploring. While some projects are more complex and take longer than others, they all are set up in the same structure. Each begins with the central project-driving questions, proceeds through research and supportive questions, has the student choose a presentation option, and ends with a broader-view inquiry. Rubrics for reflection and assessments are included, too. This consistent framework will make it easier for you assign projects and for your students to follow along and consistently meet expectations. Encourage your students to take charge of their projects as much as possible. As a teacher, you can act as a facilitator and guide. The projects are structured such that students can often work through the process on their own or through cooperation with their classmates.

For over a hundred years, the world has been at war with terrorism. During the early part of the 21st century, a select group of radical Muslim countries from the Middle East has formed an Alliance. This Alliance has but a single goal in mind: to eliminate the Infidels of the world by any means-every last man, woman and child. But the world has been brought to its knee's after the detonation of three large nuclear devices by terrorists from the Alliance: three capitals-three governments: wiped off the face of the planet. A secret organization known to but a few as "The Order" has vowed to fight the final battle to eradicate the terrorist issue by the Alliance once and for all. These countries leaders have forged a new pact and are preparing to fight back with the most deadly virus mankind has ever seen, a special virus, one that has been groomed to kill the enemy! While on mission, operative Commander DC Rhodes comes across physical evidence that leads to the re-cultured and enhanced WWII virus that has just been used on a major Asian city by the Alliance. After recovery of the remaining Nazi canisters from a remote mountaintop lake in the Swiss Alps, DC and his team are ordered by the American President and Chairmember of "The Order" to provide security of the canisters while enroute to the highly modernized top secret labs at South Pole Station and Russias Vostok Station on the Antarctic peninsula while he and his team are absorbed under The Orders wing. As the Alliance unfolds its final plans to once and for all remove its enemies from the world; DC and his team are thrust into action to counter the world-wide threats as the virus they are escorting could be the worlds undoing as the use of this mutated virus could put the human race on the brink of a world-wide extinction.

Grades K-8. Features 30 state specific projects for kids to complete-and includes actual state facts. Each project is quick, easy, and inexpensive! Projects include: creating a model of the state bird; building a toothpick railroad track; creating state borders using craft materials; creating a fishbowl with the state fish using jello and gummy fish; and more! Students will have a blast creating projects sure to end up as part of a state symbols & facts resource center-all about your state! Most projects use ordinary, easy-to-access materials. 32 pages.

The anthrax attacks in Sept. & Oct. 2001 highlighted the need to develop medical countermeasures. The Project BioShield Act of 2004 authorized the Dept. of Health & Human Services (HHS) to procure countermeasures for a Strategic Nat. Stockpile. However, in Dec. 2006, HHS terminated the contract for a recombinant protective antigen (rPA) anthrax vaccine because VaxGen failed to meet a critical contractual milestone. Also, supplies of the licensed BioThrax anthrax vaccine already in the stockpile will start expiring in 2008. This report identifies: (1) factors contributing to the failure of the rPA vaccine contract; & (2) issues associated with using the BioThrax in the stockpile. Includes recommendations. Charts & tables.

Coast lines have been and still are the central lines of civilization around the world with still increasing pressure from both sides – the hinterland and the sea – with all its foreseeable and unforeseeable impacts by means of nature or mankind. While the response of nature to such impacts is flexible in the way that all morphological changes with all the consequences are tolerated as part of the system, humanity cannot tolerate short-term or long-term changes without being threatened in its physical and economical existence. The objectives of this Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on Environmentally Friendly Coastal Structures were: - to contribute to the critical assessment of existing knowledge in the field of coastal and environmental protection; - to identify directions for future research in that area; - to promote close working relationships between scientists from different countries and with different professional experience. The latest trends in research on coastal and environmental protection were summarized and developed during the meeting. Seventeen papers are presented in this book, attempting to cover all related aspects as completely as possible – coast, engineering structures, water, sediments, ecosystems in their complicated interaction.