Upon getting information about an upcoming school science fair and the need to consider a topic of interest, many students will typically have no idea where to get started. While the science fair is typically a common occurrence in any school at any grade level, there are different types of topics that should be taken a look at depending on the age of the student. After first taking a look at the many different categories of science projects, you will be able to locate a suitable choice of topic to take to the next level.There is a wide variety of categories that fall under the types of science projects that can be chosen for a school science fair. These include biology, chemistry, physics, microbiology, biochemistry, medicine, environmental, mathematics, engineering, and earth science. While you may not have yet learned very much in any of these categories, don’t be afraid to see what each one entails. Taking a good look at your interests will allow you to focus on the right direction to take.Many resources are also available for those who are unsure as to the topic they are wanting to use to create their science projects. If you take a look at the topics that fall under the biology category, you will likely notice that there are topics that deal with plants, animals, and humans. For those who are in 2nd grade or 3rd grade, an interesting topic may be to determine if ants are picky over what type of food they eat. While this topic might not be of interest to an 8th grader, it is certainly something in the biology category that an elementary school student would enjoy.Along with the biology category, a high school student may want to take a look at diffusion and osmosis in animal cells as this would be a more appropriate topic for the grade level. A student in 6th grade would be more advanced than an elementary school student, but not as advanced as a high school student. At this middle school grade level, a topic of how pH levels effect the lifespan of a tadpole may be of interest.Whichever resource is used to locate a topic for science projects, it is always a good idea to consider the grade level of the student prior to making a selection. It is always assumed to be best to have a project at an appropriate level in order to keep the attention of the student and provide a fun and enjoyable learning experience.
Social Trend And The Availability Of Sunbeds For Sale
In the past, social norms dictated that the desirable skin tone was a pale pink hue, which indicated that somebody was of the class which did not spend long days out in the fields labouring, with their skin being gently coloured by the rays of the sun. In recent times, this trend has reversed. Britons will go on holiday for a week or two and spend the entire time lying horizontal on a sun lounger, trying to make sure every inch of their body is affected by the sun’s rays. For some, a week on holiday is not enough. Increasing numbers of people wish to make that summer glow a year round phenomenon, and this is reflected in the growing numbers of sunbeds for sale.Suntanning is the act of exposing the skin to ultraviolet radiation for the purpose of darkening skin colour. It is a natural process whereby the skin creates a brown-coloured pigment called melanin to protect it against the harmful UV rays in sunlight.Those who are looking for sunbeds for sale need not part with huge amounts of cash in their search for year round sun. Some companies sell ex-rental sunbeds, which may be either ex-home hire or ex-salon use, but are unlikely to be in bad condition. A buyer would have to decide between a horizontal sunbed, which mirrors the experience of lying on a sunbed in the beach, and a vertical one, sometimes referred to as a sun shower, which some may prefer as it feels less like one is being shut within a box.An internet search reveals that there is quite a large number of sunbeds for sale, and the prices vary, with a new sunbed likely to start at about £1,000. Although this might seem a lot of money, for those who would go on holiday just to get a tan, this investment might end up saving them thousands of pounds in the long run. There are some dangers, though, in purchasing one’s own sunbeds. There has been discussion in the media or ‘tanorexia’ – an obsession with going to tanning partners which grips people so excessively that it is comparable to eating disorders. This is often associated with young people trying to copy the look of celebrities, and the sun kissed look featured by almost every fashion model in every magazine.It was reported in the Sun a couple of years ago that singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse owns her own sunbed, and spends more than an hour every day absorbing its rays. This prompted reminders from experts that the each session on a sunbed should last no longer than 15-20 minutes, with 48 hours in between to allow the skin to recover. Traditional alternatives are bottled fake tan, and the treatment offered by most beauty salons is a spray tan, which promises to banish the threat of any unattractive lines that may result from applying one’s own fake tan.Whether it is the trends set by celebrities or the availability of sunbeds for sale that is to blame, it does seem that Britons, and especially young girls, are increasingly determined to achieve a year round tan that is hardly in keeping with our temperate climate. Social studies have shown that men and women both view a tanned body as being healthier than a tanned body, but it is worth bearing in mind that if a sunbed is used for more than the recommended amount of time, there is likely an ugly truth hiding behind apparently healthy tanned skin.
Grey Cell Transfer Technology – A Strategy For Business Continuity
The truth is, traditional training, while it is a source of new skills, is out of sync with the needs of a modern, fast-paced business. Put on L-plates on your organisation because Learning is the new black.
Every business today operates in a borderless Knowledge Economy where knowledge and innovation are two main sources of competitive advantage and profitable growth. As the war for the global customer intensifies, the outcome depends not on ‘bright shiny objects’ of technology but on people. And, in the perfect storm of aging population and their inability to attract Gen-Y, Australian manufacturers, primary producers and SMEs in general, are being left a little dumber and far less competitive.
Many Australian businesses are facing a major barrier to innovation and growth: brain-drain. Over the next ten years a large cohort of skilled, experienced and committed employees will continue to leave the workforce. This talent spill is leaving many businesses a little dumber and highly vulnerable to losing the biggest competitive advantage of the Knowledge Economy, knowledge itself.
By definition, ‘competitive advantage’ is what keeps business afloat and in the black. It’s the reason customers remember you and choose to buy from you. It’s the source of differentiation and therefore, profit. When you differentiate your value proposition – in product, service, supplier relationships, or perceived quality or design – you can stop discounting.
You can reverse the trend and preserve your unique know-how and valuable experience that is not taught at schools and universities and cannot be easily bought and it took you years to build it.
Unlocking the Solution of the Brain-Drain
No doubt, continuous innovation is the best way your business can maintain its competitive advantage. And it’s not about investing millions in R&D or hiring experts to smash your business mould and put you in a new one.
What you need is an improved ability of your engaged, informed workforce to know how to connect the dots differently. It means that you need to start being strategic about how your organisation learns and what it learns. You need to transform the way you use training so that your workforce is engaged and conditioned for continuous learning and improvement. Learning is about agility, the ability to connect the dots: people, ideas and information to solve both operational and experimental problems better.
This new approach to Training is about unlocking the potential of your best, most experienced people, and your winning processes and recycling them to feed growth. By contrast, traditional training, while it is a source of new skills, it’s out of sync with the needs of a modern, fast-paced business.
Here are seven reasons why:
#1: Loss of Productivity: taking people en mass out of daily routine;
#2: Limited range: due to costs and people’s availability you cannot put everyone in the classroom;
#3: Cost: the cost of a workshop seat combined with the cost of lost productivity;
#4: Effectiveness: remember, people only retain 5% of what they hear; and, Gen-Y in particular does not want to listen;
#5: Relevance. Is this training linked to specific business objectives or problems?
#6: Repeatability: Every time training needs to be repeated, the costs are multiplied; how else can you give people a chance to hear the expert again?
#7: Knowledge Sharing: once they leave the room, what chance do they have to discuss the topic and build on it?
Collaborate, Co-Create, Communicate
It only takes four steps to get more strategic results out of your people and addresses all of the above seven problems.
Identify your most valuable business processes that support your business strategy so that you can build on what’s important.
Engage your most valuable people who have this knowledge (older, experienced, successful employees) and capture their winning processes into proprietary training packages (in formats that appeal to the new generation – interactive, media rich, social) and make them available to all employees, as often as needed, for free!
Connect your employees (online and offline) in purposeful networks: collaborative, focused discussion groups that drive continuous improvement into your business and sharpen your competitive advantage.
Communicate! Look to your business and customers to find reasons for people to get involved. This is possibly the hardest task but one that will bring the greatest rewards for business.
This approach may require simple technology to allow you to disseminate information and connect employees conveniently online. Hey, they are already on line. They already communicate, collaborate and co-create content on Social Media. You can use it to your advantage.
And the best news is that this is one case when doing it in-house – without big disruptions to the operations, without the down-time or big budget – will produce the best results for your business!
This DIY approach is more effective and provides better ROI than any other alternative available to today’s time-poor, cost conscious businesses to maintain their competitive advantage and grow business successfully.
Of course, if you want results fast and don’t have the ‘bandwidth’ with your existing time and people resource constraints, InnoFuture offers a System for implementing these steps, complete with a simple technology and content creation support.