Lesson Plans For Science - Include Programs Kids Will Love

Google Earth is a phenomenon that most of us didn't know we wanted to be able to use. While some use it just for fun, educators have found that it can be a useful tool in the classroom. In fact, in many a lesson plan for science, teachers have included online options to explore science outside of the classroom. Other resources, such as educational videos, introduce students to new scientific concepts they cannot access within the classroom alone.

Now, a new version of Google Earth is set to launch. This version will allow just about anyone to explore the oceans, view images of the planet Mars and observe the changing regions of the earth over time. The applications for a lesson plan for science are virtually endless as students and teachers will have access to resources unlike any other.

Google Earth relies on software to provide users with access to geographical information by way of digital maps, satellite imagery and Google search tools. The new version, Google Earth 5.0 was introduced at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. Speakers such as Al Gore and Jimmy Buffer touted the capacity of the new program to educate the public on science in relation to our planet and beyond.

According to Gore, Google Earth 5.0 is an extremely powerful educational tool. Gore hopes that people throughout the world will use this new solution to understand what is going on with the science of the earth. Teachers and students throughout the world will be able to rely on the program to enhance the lesson plan for science to ensure the students of today increasing turn to scientific choices in study and career.

The addition of the oceans to the new Google Earth platform was conceived more than three years ago when a scientist highlighted the software itself was missing the water that covers nearly three-quarters of the earth's surface. Director of Google Earth and Maps, John Hanke noted this change and its importance for the success of the new launch.

The oceans aspect of the new application can significantly improve the user's experience and has endless application possibilities in the classroom. Students are already literate Internet users. This new application will improve the lesson plan for science as they will be able to go under the surface of the ocean and explore three-dimensional images of the terrain that exists underwater.

Students can also access the Historical Imagery feature to archive satellite images of individual locations to see how the region has evolved over time. As the climate and other forces change, students will gain access to a world of knowledge through first hand witness.

What could easily be misunderstood as a fun demo or game imitation is actually providing teachers and students access to science unlike any they have ever known. When the new Google Earth platform is used in combination with educational videos, the lesson plan for science is not only innovative, it is engaging and fun to motivate students to learn.

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Kabbalah As a Basis For a Synthesis of Sciences

The complexity of research

Until recently Kabbalah was a subject for historians, philosophers, and individual researchers. Study of this science is complex due to the specifics of its development and its unique language.

Let us examine each aspect of the complexity in more detail.

The specifics of development

Philosopher and physicist F. Capra has importantly stated that the roots of Western science go back to the mystical philosophy of the ancient Greeks. As Greek philosophy developed, it chose the path of rationalism, and thus grew significantly distant from its mystical sources. It eventually led to a worldview that sharply contradicts the worldview of the Eastern peoples.

"The father of modern science is Galileo. He was the first to connect mathematics and the experiment. Modern science was preceded by the 17th century view that matter and spirit are completely separate. Rene Descartes had greatly contributed to the emergence of this worldview. His works envisioned a fundamental divide of nature into two independent realms: the realm of consciousness and the realm of matter."

This mechanical division of the universe into the realm of consciousness and the realm of matter was later adopted by Isaac Newton. Based on this conception he built his mechanics, which was to be the foundation for modern science.

The history of modern science shows that the above conception of the world dominated in physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, psychology and all other disciplines. This worldview was favorable for the development of classical mechanics and technology, but in many respects it negatively influenced our civilization. Its use entailed systematic suppression and distorted interpretation of data when the data did not agree with the dominant scientific establishment.

"Modern Western society emerged as a single whole, and one of its pillars was a new type of knowledge, attainment and thought-science. Science was one of the hypostases of this society, since it 'permeated' all its pores."

The Kabbalistic school developed independently and fruitfully, far away from this scientific establishment. Due to the specifics of this method, where the researcher is deeply immersed in reality, this tendency did not and could not touch it.

The specifics of the language used in Kabbalistic texts

Scientists' main difficulty in penetrating into the world of Eastern teachings is their lack of scientific language. "Eastern mysticisms insist that the Upper Reality cannot be an object of reflection or transferable knowledge. It cannot be adequately described by words, since it lies beyond the realm of feelings and the intellect, the sources of our words and notions."

An interesting aspect of Kabbalah, one that differentiates it from other teachings and proves its scientific character, is the fact that it found such a language. Kabbalists have established that every object of our world provides a precise name which points to the object's upper root, despite the fact that the root itself cannot be named by any word or sound because it exists above all imagination. The presence of the roots' visible branches allows for verbal expression of the upper roots.

However, this language can be understood only by one who understands how the roots correlate to the branches. It is impossible to attain the "root-branch" connection from below upwards. That is, looking at the lower branches does not enable one to find any analogy to the upper roots or to imagine them with the help of fantasy. One must first attain the upper roots, and after that one can look at the branches that are perceived in our world and fully understand the entire quantity and quality of the correlations between each branch and its root in the Upper World.