https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNvjAfKTeY0
The Pythagorean Theorem (a2 + b2 = c2) is the coolest theory I ever known so far. This small video proves that the Pythagorean Theorem is real. At the beginning, two squares of the equal area are shown. One of the squares split into two squares (look carefully!) You will realize that the area of the two smaller squares and the area of the biggest square can form a triangle in the middle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PZBzqsQhFo
Este es KAS! KAS es divertida!
¡Hola! ¿Cómo estás? Yo estoy muy bien.
As a beginner of learning Spanish, Ann, Er ya, Elaina, and I made this video to introduce every part of KAS in Spanish! We have a lot of fun filming, and I hope you have fun watching it too!
¡Gracias! ¡Adiós, amigos!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdLOZFnpFS8
おはよう！As a beginner of learning Japanese, Ann, Elaina, Chloe, Er ya, Jeslyn, and I recorded our voices to follow the story! Please enjoy~ ありがとうございます。
As one of the most well known cities in the world, New York is thriving (Burnett & Klein, 2016). New York is located at the northeastern part of U.S and borders with Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Canada, and the Atlantic Ocean (New York, 2016). The governing leader and governing style helped New York become such a great city by many ways. The governing leader and governing style of New York City has impacted New York by mainly through constantly creating high tech industries, effectively responding to threats by strong military forces and building museums to provide citizens different art perspectives.
The governing leader has impacted New York by creating high tech industries not only for citizens to use, but also for trading with other countries (The world factbook, 2016). With the world leading high technology innovator and second largest industrial output in the world, New York factories produce petroleum, steel, motor vehicles, chemicals, electronics, lumber, and mining (The world factbook, 2016). New York also has the second largest output in the world, with 20.8% of the economy being shipping industries (The world factbook, 2016). Besides that, the Apple Company is also located on the Fifth Avenue (Apple store, fifth avenue, 2016). All this helps provide a convenient life for the New York citizens.
However, the world leading industries has caused global and environmental threats, which are issues the governing leader has to face. The truth is, the governing style helped respond to both global and environmental threats by strong military forces and raising public awareness (Oreskes, 2016). Terrorism such as ISIS has been a threat to the US since 2013 (Syria Iraq: The islamic state militant group, 2014). As the first place of the world ranking for the strongest military force in the US, which has 145,215,000 manpower available, US has kept the citizens quite safe from ISIS (United States of America military strength, 2016). For environmental threats, all kinds of pollution such as air pollution, and noise and light pollutions are seen and the New York government had responded by raising public awareness (Cost of living in New York, 2016). All these responds to threats gave the citizens a safe place to live in.
The governing leader and government style also increased the art perspectives of the citizens. As the 3rd richest country and 17,970 billion US dollars, New York has more than 48 museums for citizens to visit. (The world factbook, 2016). These museums collect all artworks from the world, including well known artists such as Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Pablo Picasso in the Museum of Modern Art (Burnett & Klein, 2016). Besides, New York provide educational sources in museums for citizens to use (Museum facts, 2016). There are approximately 850 million of museum visitors in the US everyday (Museum facts, 2016). As you can see, this can be one of the reasons why the literacy rate in New York is higher than any other countries. As a result, these museums did increase art perspectives and literacy rates of the New York citizens.
High tech industries, strong military forces, and education resources such as museums has provided citizens a convenient, safe, and fun place to live in, which is the reason why people from other parts of the world flock to this great city.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VsYwtEIXJw&feature=youtu.be
Using the Star Wars Theme Song, Morgan, Chloe, Danny and I made this movie to encourage people to practice and believe in yourself. Try to find parts that include time lapse, slow motion, and reverse!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMQNRk3GsPI&feature=youtu.be
This is the silent movie Mia, Jerry, and I made. Please enjoy and KEEP TRACK OF TIME!
This is my drawing of the sea during sunset (that’s why it’s orange). The further it is, I add more white to the original color while I add black as the scenery gets closer. This creates values for landscapes.
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This is my project about tides.
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This is my project about Nineveh, a great city in Mesopotamia.
Have you ever wondered how having a nap can hugely affect student’s learning quality? After 7 hours of classes in Kaohsiung American School, students get tired. Classes go one after another, not seeming to stop until 3 o’clock. Exhaustion and lack of sleep can cause students not able to learn regularly. A short nap during daytime is the best choice for solving this issue, since naps give students energy for learning later on, have higher grades, and even make them happier.
Having a daytime nap can allow students to learn more later in the afternoon. In a German study, a six-minute nap helped volunteers recall a list of 30 words they had memorized earlier. Researchers agree that student’s memories can increase by 16% after taking naps during the afternoon. This surprising statistic shows how we, especially referring to schools without naptimes, should let students take a nap during the afternoon to make learning more efficient.
Not only do naps help students learn more, it also gives students higher grades. Students who take naps turn out to have grades 10% higher than the kids who do not take naps. A research showed that 584 students from 7 schools in Brazilian city of Natal had an experiment and the students who take naps seem to improve more on their test while the other kids who didn’t take naps did not improve. I know that KAS competes with many other schools by grades, and I believe that taking a nap can definitely cause a great change in student’s grades.
Lastly, students are in a better mood and are happier after they take a nap. Scientists state that napping is like re-organizing the brain and letting students think more deeply about things that are happening. When the brain of people are more organized, students are able to learn and not be irritated when they don’t understand. Happier students can also greatly increase the quality of the school and learning.
Naps help students get higher grades, learn more, and be happy. If KAS can start planning for all students to have naps, students will definitely do better in classes and learn more things. As a result, this plan should be put into action as soon as possible. So what are you waiting for? Try to take a nap somewhere before class starts in the afternoon instead of going out to have recess and waste all your energy for learning. Napping won’t make students smarter, but it can help improve their memories and solve problems. Sleeping well at night, and long enough, is associated with good health. The combination is a two-step approach and the basic way to lead students to success.
This is a video Kaitlyn, Issa, Francis, and I made. It teaches us how to reduce stress other than napping!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDB5sX51NuI
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