One boy. One catapult. One thousand evil giant toads . . . . . . and luckily one huge, luminous green frog on a mission. Frank Davies is in trouble again – at school with the principal and his arch enemy, Wobber Wiley, and at home with his mum and his step-dad. Just the usual stuff . . . until a terrible event changes everything, and then The Frog arrives. That's when things get massively weird and Frank's life spirals out of control . . . A rollicking and slightly disturbing adventure set in the badlands of suburbia, toxic swamps and Kakadu.
There is one teacher companion per topic (eight per year level). Each teacher companion provides EAL/D support strategies and activitie, guided reading notes for topic books, scope and sequence documentation for the Australian Curriculum, and offers a range of assessment strategies and tools.
Read Night and Day to find out the answers to these questions: What causes daytime and night time? What is an eclipse? What happens when the Moon gets between the Earth and the Sun? Why do people in some Asian countries celebrate the Moon Festival? Why is the Moon important?
One magazine per topic (eight per year level). Each magazine sets the context with an introduction, topic questions and engaging facts. Four clearly structured text types are covered in each magazine from a comprehensive range of genres. One text in each magazine is a relevant authentic text. Three of the four magazines are levelled to Fountas and Pinnell guided reading levels. Breakaway tasks are provided for each text, based on Bloom's Taxonomy, encouraging students to think creatively and critically and promote higher order thinking. Magazines conclude with a 'Strands in Action' section with 'Core Tasks' and 'Extra Tasks' where students can apply their thinking and learning in more depth.
This is the Student Magazine for Pearson English 3-6's topic Decisions, suitable for Year 6 students. Pearson English 3-6 teaches Australian Curriculum: English within the context of topics from other curriculum areas - this topic is a Health and PE Topic. Student Magazines set the context of the topic with an engaging quote, introduction and full page stimulus photo. Four clearly structured text types are covered in this magazine from a comprehensive range of genres. Three of the four texts are aligned to Fountas & Pinnell's year level expectations. The fourth and final text is a relevant authentic text. Let's Find Out topic questions and Did You Know sections are provided to support the texts within the magazine. Breakaway tasks are provided for each text, based on Bloom's Taxonomy, encouraging students to think creatively and critically and promote higher order thinking. This magazine concludes with a Strands in Action section with Core Tasks and Extra Tasks where students can apply their thinking and learning in more depth.
There is one teacher companion per topic (eight per year level). Each teacher companion provides EAL/D support strategies and activitie, guided reading notes for topic books, scope and sequence documentation for the Australian Curriculum, and offers a range of assessment strategies and tools.
This is the Student Magazine for Pearson English 3-6's topic Healthy Living, suitable for Year 4 students. Pearson English 3-6 teaches Australian Curriculum: English within the context of topics from other curriculum areas - this topic is a Health and PE Topic. Student Magazines set the context of the topic with an engaging quote, introduction and full page stimulus photo. Four clearly structured text types are covered in this magazine from a comprehensive range of genres. Three of the four texts are aligned to Fountas & Pinnell's year level expectations. The fourth and final text is a relevant authentic text. Let's Find Out topic questions and Did You Know sections are provided to support the texts within the magazine. Breakaway tasks are provided for each text, based on Bloom's Taxonomy, encouraging students to think creatively and critically and promote higher order thinking. This magazine concludes with a Strands in Action section with Core Tasks and Extra Tasks where students can apply their thinking and learning in more depth
This is the Teacher Companion for Pearson English 3-6's topic Healthy Living, suitable for Year 4 students. Pearson English 3-6 teaches Australian Curriculum: English within the context of topics from other curriculum areas - this topic is a Health and PE Topic. This Teacher Companion provides the detailed teaching sequence and required student support for this topic. Scope and sequence documentation for the Australian Curriculum is presented so educators can see relevant links. Guided reading notes are provided for this topic's fiction and non-fiction topic book. Each text is supported with a structured learning pathway for educators to follow. EAL/D support strategies and activities are included to help students with language barriers. A range of assessment strategies and tools to inform teaching and learning are also offered. Please note the documentation to support the NSW syllabus is available on Pearson English Digital.
New Frontiers of Cardiovascular Screening using Unobtrusive Sensors, AI, and IoT provides insights into real-world problems in cardiovascular disease screening that can be addressed via AI, IoT and wearable based sensing. Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) are surpassing CDS and emerging as the foremost cause of death. Hence, early screening of CVDs using wearable and other similar sensors is an extremely important global problem to solve. The digital health field is constantly changing, and this book provides a review of recent technology developments, offering unique coverage of processing time series physiological sensor data. The authors have developed this book with graduate and post graduate students in mind, making sure they provide an accessible entry point into the field. This book is particularly useful for engineers and computer scientists who want to build technologies that work in real world scenarios as it provides a practitioner’s view/insights /tricks of the trade. Finally, this book helps researchers working on this important problem to quickly ramp up their knowledge and research to the state-of-the-art. Maps digital health technology to real diseases that are relevant to the medical community Supported with patient data and case studies Gives practitioners insights into the real-world implementation of signal conditioning, signal processing and machine learning
Wahhabism is often understood as a radical version of Islam responsible for inspiring and motivating Islamic terrorism. Western Imaginings: The Intellectual Contest to Define Wahhabism is an inquiry into how Wahhabism has been understood and represented by Western intellectuals, particularly those belonging to the neo-conservative and liberal traditions. In contrast to the existing literature that treats Wahhabism as a historical phenomenon or a monolithic theological ideology, a literature often written by authors keen to promote geopolitical interests or with ideological axes to grind, Davis's work considers Wahhabism as a discursive construct crafted and popularized by a Western intellectual elite. This comprehensive study speaks to how and why Western intellectuals have chosen to represent Wahhabism in specific ways, ranging from an analysis of the particular rhetorical techniques employed by these intellectuals to a consideration of the religious and political beliefs that inspire and motivate their decisions. Western Imaginings is aimed at students of political philosophy, intellectual traditions, and sociology; media and policy professionals; and anyone interested in how Islamic doctrines like Wahhabism have been represented in an international context framed by a heightened anxiety about radical Islam.
The Sri Lankan ethnic conflict that has occurred largely between Sinhala Buddhists and Tamil Hindus is marked by a degree of religious tolerance that sees both communities worshiping together. This study describes one important site of such worship, the ancient Hindu temple complex of Munnesvaram. Standing adjacent to one of Sri Lanka's historical western ports, the fortunes of the Munnesvaram temples have waxed and waned through the years of turbulence, violence and social change that have been the country's lot since the advent of European colonialism in the Indian Ocean. Bastin recounts the story of these temples and analyses how the Hindu temple is reproduced as a center of worship amidst conflict and competition.
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