Ms. McCoy Science Current Events Homework Writing Assignment Keep in your folder – one due per month by the 15th NOTE: If you do not have a printer‚ handwrite your summary‚ fill out overview paper‚ and find a current article in the newspaper or a science magazine. Many teachers get newspapers delivered to their class. Cut out a science related article. Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to encourage students to connect what we are learning about in science class to the bigger picture
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2 Tips and Benefits of Winter Swimming Swimming is a great way to exercise. In the article‚ “Tips and Benefits of Winter Swimming” it states that winter swimming is referring to swimming outdoors. According to Pointing‚ “Winter Swimming is done outdoors in freshwater‚ and often resembles an ice cold bath”(Pointing‚ 2011). Most people would never think to try this exercise in the winter‚ but it does have benefits too. According to Pointing‚ “Winter swimming is very popular and possesses several
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This poses a serious health threat‚ not only to the swim team members and lifeguards but also to the community of Biddeford‚ Maine‚ who participate in outreach swimming programs designed for children and older adults. Their health is greatly affected by the poor filters‚ low ceilings and a build up of byproduct gases observed in the university pool. Within my research I learned that other schools were discovering
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History of Swimming The sport of swimming has been recorded since prehistoric times; the earliest recording of swimming dates back to Stone Agepaintings from around 7‚000 years ago. Written references date from 2000 BC. Some of the earliest references to swimming include theGilgamesh‚ the Iliad‚ the Odyssey‚ the Bible‚ Beowulf‚ Quran and other sagas. In 1778‚ Nikolaus Wynmann‚ a German professor of languages‚ wrote the first swimming book‚ The Swimmer or A Dialogue on the Art of Swimming (Der Schwimmer
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Swimming As a Good Habit I like swimming and I search about it in the Kent library. I have ten-year experience in competitive swimming and twelve years in pleasure swimming. I was born close to a lake where my father practice fishing and while my mother hire yachting facilities. I requested my father to take me with him to fishing expeditions but he refused because I did not know how to swim. At the age of seven‚ my brother trained me how to swim. Since then‚ I have become and swimming enthusiast
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Hummel WHICH IS A BETTER WORKOUT: SWIMMING OR RUNNING? Every exercise has both its fan-boys and not so fan-boys‚ swimming and running being no exception. Most of the disagreements over running and swimming revolve around how the benefits of these exercises are measured. Some choose to measure in terms of calorie burn while others measure by the amount of time it takes to reach a specific goal. I have come to the conclusion that whether or not swimming is better than running‚ or vice versa
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Basic Swimming Skills From your work toward Second Class rank‚ you know that a rescuer often does not need to enter the water to save someone from drowning. Reaching or throwing rescue devices usually work‚ but sometimes a rescuer must swim a float to an active victim‚ or swim out and tow an unconscious person to safety. Such cases require strong swimming skills. First Class rank requirements start you on your way to becoming a good swimmer‚ but you need additional skills to begin training for the
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announce the swimmers competing in the next race. Uneasiness rushed down my spine the moment my coach pronounced my name. My first race began in less than fifteen hours. The months of training before my competition built my endurance and confidence in swimming. I was prepared to tackle my first competition. When it came time to perform‚ the crowd was silent. I was on a ledge that was three feet above the water. I stared at the crystal blue water and saw my reflection. I gripped firmly on the edge of the
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Jonathan swimming pools I. (To begin‚ let’s look at how to clean the pool) I. There are several important steps to cleaning a swimming pool. A. (1)The VGB Pool and Spa Safety Act passed in 2007; states that you must have 2 separate main drains not allowing someone to get stuck to them. (2) The number of return inlets shall be based on two inlets per six hundred square feet of pool surface area; you want to begin by removing and clearing any debris from those baskets. Next you
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Wellness 2 Essay on Why Swimming Should be Part of the Wellness Curriculum 10/09/2012 Swimming: An Important Life Skill Swimming is a very important and necessary life skill to have; for this reason it should be included in part of the wellness curriculum at Newington High School. If a person has the proper knowledge of life saving skills/techniques‚ he or she will be able to save his or her own life as well as other people. Swimming is also an abundant way of exercise. Lastly‚ it is a pleasurable
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