WWII had already been raging for a couple of years when Operation Torch was deployed. This significant operation called for the liberation of French colonies in North Africa. American General Patton led the Allies to success in the operation. On June 6, 1944, D-Day had arrived, and the Battle of Normandy began. This involved the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Western Europe. Patton later sent a telegram to Eisenhower in which he wrote, ''Dear Ike: Today I spat in the Seine.'' Patton was explaining that Allied troops had liberated Paris. The code name for this operation was Operation Overlord. This called for the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe. In late 1944, the Allies were engaged in the Battle of the Bulge, which was Germany's final assault on the Allied lines. The fighting continued into the following year, and in February 1945, the Allies fire-bombed Dresden, Germany. This was controversial, but it contributed to the defeat of Germany. We viewed some scenes from Stephen Spielberg's "Band of Brothers" about the U.S. "Easy" Company of paratroopers who parachuted behind enemy lines on D-Day.
In today's class, we watched a Crash Course video on genetics and heredity, going over everything we have learned so far on genetics. This includes Mendel and his experiments, chromosomes, punnett squares, and inheritance. Cameron then answered all of the review questions I had for him at the end.
"Challenging Truth: Identifying Credible Sources" activities continued... Cameron is assessing the credibility/reliability of this website: https://www.dhmo.org/environment.html. His preliminary assessment (yesterday) was that he believed the website to be credible. He will find out today that the website is fake by following a checklist to assess it's credibility. DHMO is just H2O (water) cleverly formatted to trick a reader into believing it is some harmful chemical polluting the Earth. We are using this as an opportunity to reflect on how easily we can be fooled by something online. We will also discuss what made him trust the information without looking more critically to begin with. We will consider how this widely applies to information on the internet/social media.
8-5 Linear, Exponential, and Quadratic Models – Linear, quadratic, and exponential functions are differentiated by their average rates of change over different intervals. A linear function models a relationship between x and y in which the differences between successive y-values are constant. A quadratic function models a relationship in which the second differences, or the difference between the first differences, are constant. An exponential function models a relationship where the ratios of consecutive y-values are constant.
