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For one-semester courses in Introductory Remote Sensing as well as
Introductory Airphoto Interpretation. This widely adopted book
introduces the fundamentals of remote sensing from an earth
resource (versus engineering) perspective. Emphasis is on turning
remote sensing data into useful spatial biophysical or
socio-economic information that can be used to make decisions.
Geospatial technologies in general - and Geographic Information
Systems (GIS) in particular - are becoming increasingly important
in our society. GIS technology is used to identify the optimal
routes for emergency vehicles, to determine the best locations for
various businesses, schools, and facilities, to monitor the growth
and expansion of urban areas as a way to manage natural resources,
and much more. Principles of Geographic Information Systems by John
Jensen and Ryan Jensen is an ideal introduction for those who know
very little about geographic information systems and spatial
analysis. Relatively complex GIS principles are introduced in basic
terms, often using graphics to communicate principles rather than
complex mathematical equations. Content is not geared toward any
single commercial GIS software program, and the book's timely,
practical examples and extensive visual format appeal to today's
students. This text can be used at the undergraduate or graduate
level in one or two semester courses in Introductory and
Intermediate GIS, yet can also be useful for professionals looking
to increase their knowledge in this subject area. Note: If you are
purchasing the standalone text or electronic version,
mygeoscienceplace does not come automatically packaged with the
text. To purchase mygeoscienceplace, please visit
www.mygeoscienceplace.com.
Teaching Students to Work Harder and Enjoy It: Practice Makes
Permanent points out a single, fundamental, and easily-corrected
flaw that has held back American education for nearly a century-the
design of instruction to achieve familiarization instead of
mastery. This book explains the psychological dynamics and methods
involved in mastery, and how to apply them easily in K-12 learning.
A basic insight is that once students have a correct answer to any
question, a straight road to its mastery is entirely comprised of
practice. Practice continues to "make perfect" in all skill areas
including the accumulation of a body of knowledge. Outlined here
are the forms of it that enable students to master academic
learning perfectly and permanently, as well as become competent
with social/emotional skills and alter their behavior. A
combination of methods especially valuable for students falling
behind can turn classrooms around quickly.
Effective Classroom Turnaround: Practice Makes Permanent, the third
book in the Practices Makes Permanent series, contends that because
students learn and behave differently, educators must thoughtfully
approach them in the classroom in order to affect change. Like all
humans, students respond to conditions around them. Regardless of
their habits and behaviors at home or in school, educators can
successfully stimulate them to approach education in a new, more
positive light. Effective Classroom Turnaround offers teachers over
fifty ways to generate cooperation, enthusiasm, and consistent
academic success by utilizing principles of learning and motivation
that are often ignored or, at best, underused even in the best
schools. Embracing the idea that school reform occurs in the
classroom, and not in the boardroom, this guide will effectively
connect instruction with students motivation and performance."
Effective Classroom Turnaround: Practice Makes Permanent, the third
book in the Practices Makes Permanent series, contends that because
students learn and behave differently, educators must thoughtfully
approach them in the classroom in order to affect change. Like all
humans, students respond to conditions around them. Regardless of
their habits and behaviors at home or in school, educators can
successfully stimulate them to approach education in a new, more
positive light. Effective Classroom Turnaround offers teachers over
fifty ways to generate cooperation, enthusiasm, and consistent
academic success by utilizing principles of learning and motivation
that are often ignored or, at best, underused even in the best
schools. Embracing the idea that school reform occurs in the
classroom, and not in the boardroom, this guide will effectively
connect instruction with students' motivation and performance.
Teaching Students to Work Harder and Enjoy It: Practice Makes
Permanent points out a single, fundamental, and easily-corrected
flaw that has held back American education for nearly a century-the
design of instruction to achieve familiarization instead of
mastery. This book explains the psychological dynamics and methods
involved in mastery, and how to apply them easily in K-12 learning.
A basic insight is that once students have a correct answer to any
question, a straight road to its mastery is entirely comprised of
practice. Practice continues to "make perfect" in all skill areas
including the accumulation of a body of knowledge. Outlined here
are the forms of it that enable students to master academic
learning perfectly and permanently, as well as become competent
with social/emotional skills and alter their behavior. A
combination of methods especially valuable for students falling
behind can turn classrooms around quickly.
Common Core arose from broad recognition that children were not
retaining their learning. Its solution, however, was for students
to learn different material--math and English more advanced and
better arranged-and adults would declare their learning
satisfactory or not. It did not address why children lost their
learning in the first place and did not alter the instructional
patterns that produced current results. This book examines the aim
of Common Core and how the structure of U.S. education has limited
its potential; why many states, district administrators, teachers,
and parents oppose it, and the changes that might help to set it
back on track. At issue are how standards can be made an
inspiration or their drawbacks can be a liability; how teachers can
implement a few powerful motivational conditions in any classroom
to spur learning; how they can readily find out the ongoing
knowledge students actually possess without relying on high stakes
tests, and the universally effective learning method teachers use
but seldom arrange for students.
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What Is a Sea Dog? (Paperback)
John Jensen; Illustrated by Richard J King
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What is a Sea Dog? Why it's any dog who loves the water, Or lives
along the shore. Whose tail wags and ears jump When stormy winds
roar. Join little Skipper, a curious puppy in an orange life
preserver, as she meets a galaxy of sea dogs from past and present.
What Is a Sea Dog? combines poetry, history, and fun in a
celebration of the many dogs who love the water. Inspired by the
exhibit Sea Dogs! Great Tails of the Sea at Mystic Seaport, What Is
a Sea Dog? was written and illustrated by two seafaring
storytellers, historian John Jensen and artist/writer Richard J.
King. Both have known many real sea dogs.
Enjoy the exciting adventures of Will and Wyatt, as their
grandfather teaches them about fly fishing and other important
things in life. The little boys are taught the importance of taking
care of each other, share a fun story from the Bible, and learn how
to catch rainbow trout. 30 full color illustrations will keep
little ones excited to learn more. Perfect for parents or
grandparents to either read to their children, or have the children
read to them. Soft cover, 8 x 10 inches, 28 pages, $12.95
To the victor belong the spoils: property, power... the writing of
the history. Iconoclastic, "The Case for Classical Liberalism"
removes the victor's veneer from the pages of history to expose the
unvarnished truth.
Tragic fate pursues Isidore Ducasse from his childhood. At the age
of two, he witnesses the suicide of Celestine, his mother, on
Christmas Eve 1847. At the age of eighteen, holding a baccalaureate
and with some of his unfinished Songs in hand he takes on the
pseudonym "Count of Lautreamont" and enters the literary world of
Paris and Brussels. Rejected by publishers, the young writer
abandons his studies and takes on a life of luxury at his father's
expense. The Franco-Prussian War breaks out. Decadence overtakes
his guardian, leaving him practically penniless in South America.
At the age of twenty-four and profoundly depressed at the carnage
of bodies piling up in the streets of Paris, the young writer
ingests a mortal cocktail and picks up his razor, thus fulfilling
his prophecy: "Upon awakening, my razor, opening a pathway across
my neck, will prove that nothing, actually, is more true..."
How does a society absorbed in short-term self-interest, group
think, moral confusion, and the cowboy problem change itself?
In a coffee shop, my friend Dave asked about title of the book I
was editing.
When I told him, his eyes opened wide and he smiled.
"What does that mean to you?" I asked.
"Lenin was a revolutionary, a visionary " he answered, "but you're
proposing a different way to do that."
"That's it," I exclaimed. "You're the person I'm writing this for.
You get it "
He thought a moment and summed up the book: "You take us on a
psychological walking tour through the processes that will bring
global change."
The processes are ways people connect, think together, work in
groups, and apply their effort to the needs of humans and other
living things.
How does a society absorbed in short-term self-interest, group
think, moral confusion, and the cowboy problem change itself?
In a coffee shop, my friend Dave asked about title of the book I
was editing.
When I told him, his eyes opened wide and he smiled.
"What does that mean to you?" I asked.
"Lenin was a revolutionary, a visionary " he answered, "but you're
proposing a different way to do that."
"That's it," I exclaimed. "You're the person I'm writing this for.
You get it "
He thought a moment and summed up the book: "You take us on a
psychological walking tour through the processes that will bring
global change."
The processes are ways people connect, think together, work in
groups, and apply their effort to the needs of humans and other
living things.
For junior/graduate-level courses in Remote Sensing in Geography,
Geology, Forestry, and Biology. Introductory Digital Image
Processing: A Remote Sensing Perspective focuses on digital image
processing of aircraft- and satellite-derived, remotely sensed data
for Earth resource management applications. Extensively
illustrated, it explains how to extract biophysical information
from remote sensor data for almost all multidisciplinary land-based
environmental projects. Part of the Pearson Series Geographic
Information Science. Now in full color, the Fourth Edition provides
up-to-date information on analytical methods used to analyze
digital remote sensing data. Each chapter contains a substantive
reference list that can be used by students and scientists as a
starting place for their digital image processing project or
research. A new appendix provides sources of imagery and other
geospatial information.
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