Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Midterm Examination

1. Explain the significance of the collage you made to the subject you choose to teach. 
   Answer: The collage connects the main topic of the broad subject. The picture already explain the topic. The collage has different pictures about the different parts of the solar system and by that, the children will know what is the topic all about.


2. Define Identity Theft and illustrate how it is committed. Site some samples. 
   Answer: Identity Theft also known as ID theft is a crime in which a criminal obtains key pieces of personal information, such as Social Security or driver's license numbers, in order to pose as someone else.(http://www.identitytheftcreditfraud.com/)
Identity theft works in a range of ways—from crude methods to well organised scams. Many of us have a wealth of personal information readily available—cards in our wallet, mail, public records, information saved in our computers and information posted on social networking sites.
Identity theft can happen easily and quickly. By leaving your personal information readily available, scammers will have easy access to this information. For example, scammers will pay people to rummage through rubbish tips and steal letters (‘dumpster diving’) to collect personal information.
However, despite your best efforts, a determined scammer can also create elaborate and cunning plans to trick you into providing your personal details. For example:
  • By sending an email that looks like it comes from your bank, financial institution or telecommunications provider. Known as phishing scams, these emails are all about tricking you into handing over your personal and banking details to scammers. Most work by including special links in the email to take you to a combination of genuine and spoofed websites.
  • Phoney fraud alerts are similar to phishing scams where scammers trick you into handing over your personal details. A common fraud alert involves the scammer pretending to be from your bank informing you that your credit card or account has been cancelled because of suspicious criminal activity (various excuses are used). They will then trick you to provide account details to ‘confirm’ your identity.
  • Bogus job opportunities are usually posted on job websites. The scammer may use or sell your personal information provided in the job application.

3. Explain the significance of the Internet in this generation.
   Answer: It helps a lot not only in education but also in work and in communication. Internet is one of the basic access in the world of new technologies and new research fact finding. It is also an alternative source for information when the books don't have any. In work, it helps to advertise the products of the company that endorses.

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Science- Solar System

 Solar System

Our solar system consists of an average star we call the Sun, the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. It includes: the satellites of the planets; numerous comets, asteroids, and meteoroids; and the interplanetary medium. The Sun is the richest source of electromagnetic energy (mostly in the form of heat and light) in the solar system. The Sun's nearest known stellar neighbor is a red dwarf star called Proxima Centauri, at a distance of 4.3 light years away. The whole solar system, together with the local stars visible on a clear night, orbits the center of our home galaxy, a spiral disk of 200 billion stars we call the Milky Way. The Milky Way has two small galaxies orbiting it nearby, which are visible from the southern hemisphere. They are called the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud. The nearest large galaxy is the Andromeda Galaxy. It is a spiral galaxy like the Milky Way but is 4 times as massive and is 2 million light years away. Our galaxy, one of billions of galaxies known, is traveling through intergalactic space.(http://www.solarviews.com/eng/solarsys.htm)

The Solar System has its own composition. The Sun has 99.85%; the Planets has 0.135%; and the rest part of the solar system is yet unknown or still needed to found out the exact percentage of their composition. (http://www.solarviews.com/eng/solarsys.htm)

The Terrestrial Planets


The terrestrial planets are the first four planets from the sun namely, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. They are called terrestrial because of their rocky and compact surface like the Earth.

The Jovian Planets

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are known as the Jovian (Jupiter-like) planets, because they are all gigantic compared with Earth, and they have a gaseous nature like Jupiter's. The Jovian planets are also referred to as the gas giants, although some or all of them might have small solid cores. 
 

Friday, January 7, 2011