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This writing workshop for 6th graders includes various writing exercises: describing villains for a telegram, writing a screenplay, correcting student mistakes, giving directions to a phone booth, ranking survival items after a crash landing, writing a story using provided characters, writing an apology letter, requesting World Cup tickets from Brazil's president, and creating a story using farm animals on a boat. Students are guided through different types of writing like descriptions, scripts, instructions, lists, letters, and short stories.
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diverse human activities.
Accurate understanding of land use and cover is imperative for the development planning
of any area. Consequently, a wide range of professionals, including earth system scientists, land
and water managers, and urban planners, are interested in obtaining data on land use and cover
changes, conversion trends, and other related patterns. The spatial dimensions of land use and
cover support policymakers and scientists in making well-informed decisions, as alterations in
these patterns indicate shifts in economic and social conditions. Monitoring such changes with the
help of Advanced technologies like Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems is
crucial for coordinated efforts across different administrative levels. Advanced technologies like
Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems
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Changes in vegetation cover refer to variations in the distribution, composition, and overall
structure of plant communities across different temporal and spatial scales. These changes can
occur natural.
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- 1. Writing Workshop for 6 Graders • I am Red Kit. And I am looking for two villains. I need to send a telegraph to the headquarters, but I cannot send an image. Only text is allowed. So please describe these villains for my boos at the head quarters. • How to bake a cake, make a bike: tools you need and how to do it step by step – an example. • Youtube video – write the script for the movie • Wrong words – Pinterest, write it correctly. • Directions – on the map, find restrooms, phone booths, food places. Explain with directions. • Lost on the Moon exercise • A complete story – intro, body, conclusion • I am the old lady. An apology letter – you broke my window while playing football, let’s see if I forgive you. • Write a letter to the president of Brazil, tell her about your passion to football and ask for two free tickets to the world cup. • Give characters and ask them to make a story: a cow, a sheep, a mouse, a donkey, a boat, a river, a hen.
- 2. Put Your Red Kit I am Red Kit with my horse. And I am looking for two villains. Back then I need to send a telegraph, but I cannot send an image. Only text is allowed. So please describe this villain for my head quarters.
- 4. Bake or Make? • Bake a Cake • Make a Bike
- 5. Screenplay for an upcoming Disney Movie Alarm Clock
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- 8. Directions • I brought my grandchildren to the amusement park. I am an old, retired grandfather and we are staying at Splash Landings Hotel. The phone lines at the hotel are down. I need to make a very important phone call. Please take me to the nearest phone booth. Use the directions.
- 10. Lost on the Moon • Your spaceship has just crash-landed on the moon. You were schedule to rendezvous with a mother ship 200 miles away on the lighted surface of the moon but the rough landing has ruined your ship and destroyed all the equipment on board except for the 15 items listed below. Your crew’s survival depends on reaching the mother ship so you must choose the most critical items available for the trip. Your task is to rank the 15 items in terms of their importance for survival. Place the number 1 by the most important, number 2 by the second most important, and so on.
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