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Let’s play Chess.Education

The Educational Value of Chess

by Wendi Fischer

It’s not about Kings, Queens, and Rooks, but rather, quadrants and coordinates, thinking strategically and foreseeing consequences. It’s about lines and angles, weighing options and making decisions. Chess might just be the perfect teaching and learning tool. Since 2000, America’s Foundation for Chess (AF4C) has been working with 2nd and 3rd grade students and their teachers to promote the use of chess as an educational tool. The goal of the First Moveâ„¢ curriculum is to use the game of chess as a tool, to increase higher level thinking skills, advance math and reading skills, and build self-confidence.

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- Posted on September 6th, 2006 in Education | 1,980 Views | Comments (0)

Sound metal - Sound casting.Technical

What is ‘Sound Mold’?
Ask a foundry man.

“as good as gold”,
replies the foundryman.
`cause the enterprise,
challenges the molder with a quick guise,
to provide a cavity sufficiently manor,
for dear metal, to pour in clear,
inclusions free and laminar,
so as to sleep night…….
to be morning tight!

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- Posted on August 20th, 2006 in Technical, Foundry, Education, Poems, Environment | 3,892 Views | Comments (0)

Limericks in Education Technology.General

The Guys and Gals of my Hind

In a country as old as Hind,
There lived some Guys and Gals in Pradesh Sind
The Gals never did use their mind,
That’s why they got severely left behind,
And the guys rolled on to fall in line!
No wonder they followed the scent of daffodils in wind!
And that complacency allowed Sind drift away from Hind

© 2005 Priyavrat Thareja

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- Posted on August 20th, 2006 in General, Education, Free Stuff, Limericks | 2,364 Views | Comments (0)

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