How Many Moons Does Each Planet Have Chart

I See What You Mean

Some educators may view diagrams, pictures, and charts as nice add-on tools for students who are visual thinkers. But Steve Moline sees visual literacy as fundamental to learning and to what it means to be human. In Moline' s view, we are all bilingual. Our second language, which we do not speak but which we read and write every day, is visual. From reading maps to decoding icons to using concept webs, visual literacy is critical to success in today' s world. The first edition of I See What You Mean, published in 1995, was one of the first books for teachers to outline practical strategies for improving students' visual literacy. In this new and substantially revised edition, Steve continues his pioneering role by including dozens of new examples of a wide range of visual texts--from time maps and exploded diagrams to digital tools like smartphone apps and tactile texts. In addition to the new chapters and nearly 200 illustrations, Steve has reorganized the book in a useful teaching sequence, moving from simple to complex texts. In one research strategy, called recomposing, Steve shows how to summarize paragraphs of information not as a heap of interesting facts but as a diagram. The diagram can then work as a framework for students to follow when writing an essay. This overcomes the teacher' s problem of cut and paste essays, and, by following their own diagram-summary, students have an answer to their familiar questions, Where do I start? What do I write next?

Charting the Planets

Empire 1337

In the Andrayn year 2381 the leaders of all 241 habitable planets came together in a great convention to combine their resources to solve their problems, and to discuss reform proposals. Instead it brought chaos and war! Forth came great alliances, and when war finally broke out all 241 systems had allied with either the Andrayns of Andrayos, or the Demurans of Demura. The Lumen had the largest military force in the known systems. When the war ended two powers, The Lumen and the Andrayns, would equally divide the territories and wealth. The systems however would be governed by an Empire, with a Lumen Emperor. The Andrayns agreed to their terms, and both signed all documents stipulating the terms of their alliance. The war lasted a hundred years with the loss of 231 races. Nearing the end of the war the Andrayns betrayed the Lumen. They promised Blitten, Phorokian leaders power and wealth in the new Empire, only if they assisted them in the elimination of all remaining Lumen, the two accepted the terms. There were no known Lumen survivors in space or on the Lumen planet Luma. To date the Andrayn Empire governs all known systems and inhabitants. The Demurans and the Ryloqians escaped into uncharted space at the end of the war, vowing vengeance and to return one day. They did return but it was 1337 years later, calling themselves "The Army of the Prime Light," or "The Prime" for short.