It's Mostly Sunny with a Chance of Rain


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It’s Mostly Sunny with a Chance of Rain is a story of life itself. Our lives are a collection of stories. Every moment life unravels before us in its myriad colors, characters, and events – some that we fully comprehend, some that make us joyful, some sad, and some that are beyond our intellect. Like a meandering river, it follows its own trajectory of twists and turns, and we as observers can only rejoice and celebrate its mysterious yet unceasing timeless journey and unending drama as it sprints along for centuries connecting people on its vast banks.




Mostly Sunny with a chance of storms


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Further adventures of irrepressible Sunny Hathaway, her family and friends.




Would You Rather... ? Extra Extremely Extreme Edition


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With more than 1200 questions, this new Would You Rather...' collection is antic, audacious, comic, comical, hilarious, humorous, hysterical, riotous, side-splitting, and uproarious and will provide hours of amusing, diverting, jocular, playful, waggish, whimsical, witty, gleeful, merry, and/or mirthful entertainment.




What Would You Be...?


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This delightful book challenges readers with such pressing questions as: If you were a three-course meal, what would you be? How about if you were a song from the '80s? If your mom were a weather forecast, what would she be? The book stretches those metaphor muscles along with the imagination in both solo settings and, most enjoyable, group gatherings. What Would You Be? is a game book that asks readers to look at themselves and each other in a new way.




Data Analysis & Probability - Drill Sheets Vol. 6 Gr. 6-8


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**This is the chapter slice "Drill Sheets Vol. 6 Gr. 6-8" from the full lesson plan "Data Analysis & Probability"** For grades 6-8, our resource meets the data analysis & probability concepts addressed by the NCTM standards and encourages the students to review the concepts in unique ways. Each drill sheet contains warm-up and timed drill activities for the student to practice data analysis & probability concepts. The pages of this resource contain a variety in terms of levels of difficulty and content so as to provide students with a variety of differentiated learning opportunities. Included in our resource are activities to help students learn how to collect, organize, analyze, interpret, and predict data probabilities. The drill sheets offer space for reflection, and opportunity for the appropriate use of technology. Also contained are assessment and standards rubrics, review sheets, color activity posters and bonus worksheets. All of our content meets the Common Core State Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy, STEM, and NCTM standards.




Data Analysis & Probability - Drill Sheets Gr. 6-8


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Fully comprehend data displayed in charts by converting information into percents, ratios and fractions. Our resource provides warm-up and timed drill activities to practice procedural proficiency skills. Distinguish information provided in a triple bar chart from a survey of three classrooms. Graph the results of a 5 mile (8 km) race using a graphing program. Determine the ratio of baseballs to helmets in a box. Find out what fraction of the vote someone won using a pie chart. Predict what ice cream flavor the next person you ask will like. Compare the nighttime temperatures over two days using a thermograph. Determine who won the class president election using a tally chart. The drill sheets provide a leveled approach to learning, starting with grade 6 and increasing in difficulty to grade 8. Aligned to your State Standards and meeting the concepts addressed by the NCTM standards, reproducible drill sheets, review and answer key are included.




Data Analysis & Probability - Task & Drill Sheets Gr. 6-8


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Find out how analyzing data and understanding charts can be used in daily life. Our resource introduces the mathematical concepts taken from real-life experiences, and provides warm-up and timed practice questions to strengthen procedural proficiency skills. Examine fundraising amounts by finding the mean, median and mode. Calculate the probability of which hockey team will win the Stanley Cup based on the data given. Distinguish information provided in a triple bar chart from a survey of three classrooms. Find out what fraction of the vote someone won using a pie chart. Compare the nighttime temperatures over two days using a thermograph. Determine who won the class president election using a tally chart. The task and drill sheets provide a leveled approach to learning, starting with grade 6 and increasing in difficulty to grade 8. Aligned to your State Standards and meeting the concepts addressed by the NCTM standards, reproducible task sheets, drill sheets, review and answer key are included.




Mostly Sunny


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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Sometimes you have to make your own sunshine. When Janice Dean debuted on Imus in the Morning, she was bubbly, clever, and charismatic. When Imus mocked her intelligence and looks, she gave as good as she got. She had achieved the dream she’d had since kindergarten: being a reporter on TV. So why wasn’t she happy? She had just moved to New York from Canada with no family, no friends, and no boyfriend. Her boss was a notorious jerk, and the gap between her on-air persona and real life had never been bigger. In the decade that followed, how did she turn it all around? Now she is the beloved full-time meteorologist on Fox and Friends, surrounded by wonderful people, and has a line of children’s books and a beautiful family. When she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, she was ready. She survived attacks, adversity, and a business controlled by ruthless men. She knows how love, counting your blessings, and having a good therapist can get you through more than you would expect. In this honest yet optimistic book, Janice reveals obstacles she’s faced that could have severely impacted any professional woman’s career, from online trolls to health issues to abusive and sexist bosses. In Mostly Sunny she talks about it all, including the fateful meeting with her firefighting husband after he lost his colleagues on 9/11 and how the pressure on women in television led her to a cosmetic procedure that could have ended her career. But no matter what storms blow her way, Janice refuses to let setbacks and challenges rain on her parade or cloud her outlook. Thanks to supportive coworkers and an upbeat attitude, she’s mastered turning countless would-be losses into victories. The funny, sweet, and wise Janice Dean you see on TV is now the real Janice Dean, and she’s on every page of her book, sharing her secrets and making your own forecast a little brighter.




The Weather Experiment


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A history of weather forecasting, and an animated portrait of the nineteenth-century pioneers who made it possible By the 1800s, a century of feverish discovery had launched the major branches of science. Physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy made the natural world explicable through experiment, observation, and categorization. And yet one scientific field remained in its infancy. Despite millennia of observation, mankind still had no understanding of the forces behind the weather. A century after the death of Newton, the laws that governed the heavens were entirely unknown, and weather forecasting was the stuff of folklore and superstition. Peter Moore's The Weather Experiment is the account of a group of naturalists, engineers, and artists who conquered the elements. It describes their travels and experiments, their breakthroughs and bankruptcies, with picaresque vigor. It takes readers from Irish bogs to a thunderstorm in Guanabara Bay to the basket of a hydrogen balloon 8,500 feet over Paris. And it captures the particular bent of mind—combining the Romantic love of Nature and the Enlightenment love of Reason—that allowed humanity to finally decipher the skies.




Authors of the Storm


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Whether it is used as an icebreaker in conversation or as the subject of serious inquiry, the weather is one of the few subjects that everyone talks about. And though we recognize the faces that bring us the weather on television, how government meteorologists and forecasters go about their jobs is rarely scrutinized. Given recent weather-re...