What Your Fifth Grader Needs to Know: Fundamentals of a Good Fifth-grade EducationEric Donald Hirsch Building on themes and topics from earlier volumes in the Core Knowledge Series, some of the things you will find in this volume include stories and speeches: selections from Homer's epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, Don Quixote, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address; American Civilization: progress and problems with industrialization, reformers who worked for rights of women, African-Americans, and the urban poor, and the complexities and compromises of becoming an international power; life sciences: classifying living organisms and life cycles and reproduction of plants and animals; geography: climate zones and time zones and how lakes are formed; physical sciences: combining concepts of science and math such as mass, speed, force, and energy; and world civilizations: European and Native American cultures meet, the European Renaissance, feudal Japan and Russia, the tremendous religious upheavals of the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation, and the massive political and social shake-up of the French Revolution. |
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... heat it on a stove , a phase change will happen : the ice will melt to liquid water . Melting is the change from a solid to a liquid state . The melting point of a solid is the temperature at which it changes into a liquid . You may ...
... heat it on a stove , a phase change will happen : the ice will melt to liquid water . Melting is the change from a solid to a liquid state . The melting point of a solid is the temperature at which it changes into a liquid . You may ...
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... heat to raise the temperature of your bath . Adding just a little more heat from the cup of water didn't make much difference to the bath temperature . To understand the difference between heat and temperature , we have to under- stand ...
... heat to raise the temperature of your bath . Adding just a little more heat from the cup of water didn't make much difference to the bath temperature . To understand the difference between heat and temperature , we have to under- stand ...
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... heat , even though they could . The usual measure for heat is the calorie . A calorie is defined as the amount of heat that will raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1 ° Celsius . To raise a gram of water from 4 ° C to 7 ° C , you ...
... heat , even though they could . The usual measure for heat is the calorie . A calorie is defined as the amount of heat that will raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1 ° Celsius . To raise a gram of water from 4 ° C to 7 ° C , you ...
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