While we all keep looking for the ideal job: journalist, doctor, architect, teacher or even football player, working as a panda bear caretaker could be a wonderful yet demanding choice.
Giant panda cubs are adorable fluff balls that squeak and squeal. This
endangered species is also incredibly tricky to breed and raise in
captivity. In the 1960s, only 30 percent of infant pandas born at
breeding centers survived. Today 90 percent survive.
The video below shows how baby pandas are successfully raised and bred in captivity in a panda bear center in China before being released into the wild.
Ying Hua was abandoned by her mother after only a few days and is being
hand reared. This highly intensive conservation job means that the
keeper has to mimic the absent mother's every behaviour.
Maybe next time when someone asks you what you want to be when you grow up, you won't hesitate.
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Jupiter is at its biggest and brightest this month, rising at dusk and remaining visible all night. The solar system's largest planet is a brilliant jewel to the naked eye, but looks fantastic through binoculars or a small telescope, which will allow you to spot the four largest moons, and maybe even glimpse a hint of the banded clouds that encircle the planet. And if this leaves you yearning for a closer look, these gorgeous views from NASA's Juno spacecraft, which is currently orbiting Jupiter, make the planet feel almost close enough to touch.
In mid-June, Mars and Mercury appear ultra-close together immediately after sunset for two days, on June 17th and 18th. You'll need a pretty clear view of the western horizon to catch them, as the pair will be only a few degrees above it (and the farther north you are, the lower they'll be). But it should be spectacular if you can manage it.
In the middle of the month, from about June 14th to the 19th, look for the Moon to form a beautiful lineup in the sky with Jupiter and Saturn that changes each night as the Moon moves in its orbit around Earth. While you're out marvelling at this trio, there's a really neat astronomy observation you can attempt yourself, just by paying attention to the Moon's movement from night to night. Okay, imagine a line passing through Jupiter and Saturn, like so. This more or less represents the plane in which Earth and the other planets orbit the Sun. Think of it as a big disk, and you're looking out to the edge of the disk from within it. Look closely and you can see that the Moon doesn't move along the same line. From night to night it moves along its own path, crossing the Jupiter-Saturn line as it moves between the two giant planets on the 18th. This separate path shows that the Moon's orbit is slightly tilted with respect to Earth's orbit around the Sun. This tilt in the Moon's orbit is why an eclipse is kind of a special event. Eclipses occur when the Moon passes into Earth's shadow, or when Earth passes into the Moon's shadow. With the Moon orbiting Earth every month, you might think there would be a lunar and solar eclipse every month as well - with the Sun, Moon and Earth forming a nice, straight line. But instead, its tilted orbit means the Moon misses this lineup most months, crossing Earth's orbital plane at the right time for a lineup with the Sun only a couple of times a year.
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There's a lot still to learn about the Moon, and science is one of the reasons NASA has plans for both robots and humans to continue exploring it into the future. Here are the phases of the Moon for June.
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Are you afraid of black cats? Would you open an umbrella indoors? How do you feel about the number 13? Would you walk under a ladder even if you had no other choice?
Whether or not you believe in them, you’re probably familiar with a few of these superstitions. But where did they come from? Stuart Vyse shares the weird and specific origins of some of our favorite superstitions.
Here is also a scene from a 3D animated movie about an unusual day in the life of a person who happens to be very superstitious
Now it is time for you to test how superstitious you actually are! Click on the question below...
This is your last term PBL assignment. Now you will have to create your own webcomic.
To do so, you must craft a creative story and draw your own characters and their roles.
Your comic strips must contain:
- Layout (design)
- Imaginary and unique characters (give them names and moods)
- Dialogues (put your grammar and vocabulary into practice)
- Setting (draw the different places where the story happens)
- Plot (the whole story)
Here you have a video and a website with interesting ideas on how to create your webcomic:
After putting all your bright ideas together, you should shape them into cool and eye-catching comic stipes that will bring your heroes to life. Here are some online comic strip creators:
Once you have finished your comic strips, you can send it by email or print it and hand it in on time.
The deadline for this assignment is Friday, May 31, 2019. No assignment will be accepted after this date. Remember that you can send your webcomics before the deadline.
There is an artist inside you waiting to create visual art and take the world by storm.
Good luck on your creations!
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Under the motto Leaving no one Behind, Sustainable Development
Goal 6 is crystal clear: water for all by 2030. In spite of this optimistic goal, billions of people are still
living without safe water: their households, schools, workplaces, farms
and factories struggling to survive and thrive.
Marginalized groups such as women, children, refugees, indigenous peoples,
disabled people and many others are often overlooked, and sometimes
face discrimination, as they try to access and manage the safe water
they need.
This World Water Day, 22nd March, is about tackling the water crisis
by addressing the reasons why so many people are being left behind.
However, is there anything we can do to help them?
We can all play our part by saving water everyday. We can also support and join events and initiatives aimed at improving these people's lives and making them grow.
Water is a precious, yet finite resource essential for life, with no
adequate substitute: do NOT take it for granted!
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This is the first episode of a five-episode video series on Growth Mindset.
Through this wonderful adventure, two monsters named
Mojo and Katie explore the different aspects of growth mindset so that you can have fun learning about it together in your classrooms or at home!
This series has been developed by ClassDojo in collaboration with
Stanford University's PERTS lab.
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So often, we follow the same habits of mind over and over again... But imagine if you started just noticing, being more aware of your surroundings...
It's hard to change something that you can't see. This story shows that awareness is the first step towards positive change, in our minds, and in our lives. It's great motivation for your meditation practice, and the perfect reminder to ... look out for that hole!
Stop and think just for a moment... for you, in your life, what is that hole?
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On Friday 15th we are reminded about the importance of having a good night's sleep everyday.
Poor quality of sleep can lead to memory loss, difficulty in concentration and lack of motivation. This #WorldSleepDay start following these tips to get the best rest possible.
And remember: everyday is a perfect day to take care of yourself!
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