Here is a short worksheet on the Greek word root helic/o. It means spiral and circular. This is a particularly productive root in vocabulary in mathematics and the life sciences.
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Here is a short worksheet on the Greek word root arthr/o, which means joint. Now you know the origin of the word arthritis. This is a word root for students interested in the health care professions, if nobody else.
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You might find this short exercise on the Greek word roots hect, hecto, and hecat useful for getting a class started. It means hundred.
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Here is a worksheet on the Greek word root dactyl/o. It means finger, toe, and digit (which may require some explaining, or perhaps a context clues worksheet to explain what digit means in this context).
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“His faults were–we write it with pain–coldness of heart, and meanness of spirit. He seems to have been incapable of feeling strong affection, of facing great dangers, of making great sacrifices. His desires were set on things below, titles, patronage, the mace, the seals, the coronet, large houses, fair gardens, rich manors, many services of pate…”
T.B. Macaulay, Essays 1842
Excerpted from: Bernard, Andre, and Bill Henderson, eds. Pushcart’s Complete Rotten Reviews and Rejections. Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1998.
Posted in Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
Tagged literary oddities, philosophy/religion, science literacy
Here, on a warm and muggy (yet quite chilly in this building, with the air conditioning laboring against less than one-tenth of the human bodies that normally complement this building) Tuesday morning is a short exercise on the Greek word roots xer/o and xeri. They mean dry.
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Here is a short exercise on the Greek Word root alg/o–it means pain–which can help students get settled after the transition between classes. This is also a vocabulary-building endeavor; I like to think these worksheets also–passively–assist students in developing pattern recognition in language.
Nonetheless, this is another medical root that will show up in words in the healthcare professions, if you have students headed in that direction.
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Back in the early 1980s, while living in my hometown of Madison, Wisconsin, I fell in with a group of doctoral candidates in the genetics department of the University of Wisconsin. I was and remain no genius when it comes to science. At that time, the lab in which these scholars worked, under the direction of a man named Fred Blattner, was on the cutting edge of genetic research. So perhaps only initiates into that world really understood what was going on in the Blattner Lab, as it was known.
The fellow who introduced me to this circle, Tim Durfee, remains a close friend of mine. So I was delighted this week when he sent me a PDF from the Genome Web on a new technology, developed at Columbia University, to bring what was once the arcane science of DNA sequencing into middle school and high school classrooms. Tim will develop the analytical software for this endeavor, and he is clearly excited about it.
For this is, in fact, exciting: bringing real-world scientific inquiry into the high school classroom can only be a good thing. If this interests you, you may want to have a look at this PDF: PlayDNA Works on Bringing DNA Sequencing, Big Data Analysis to Secondary Schools.
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with the problems longer.”
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.
Science teachers at the very least might find useful this context clues worksheet on the transitive and intransitive verb investigate.
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