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Great educators have used it since Aristotle

The Rule of Three for learning establishes the requirement that students be given the opportunity to learn something at least three times before they are expected to know it and apply it.

1. Students engage in a particular learning topic for the first time. The key is that the student must be engaged; an introductory lecture or a movie clip don’t count because the students are learning passively — just listening or observing. So after the introduction and modeling by the teacher, step one of the Rule of Three could be a vocabulary development exercise, a history inquiry activity about primary and secondary sources, or a mathematical patterns discovery excursion. The important thing is that students have their first roll-up-the-sleeves-and-get-messy experience with the content they are supposed to acquire. Much of what the students learn in this step will still be in the knowledge and comprehension level.
2. In this step, students have their second opportunity to practice what they learned in step one. Since students have some basic knowledge of what the topic is, this is a wonderful time to use collaborative-learning strategies. Students can analyze the word compositions by categorizing them according to similarities. Students can assess the validity of the data acquired from primary sources versus secondary sources using tertiary sources. Students would be able to expand their knowledge, for example, of mathematical patterns by creating unique formulas that create visual patterns when graphed.
3. While three steps are the minimum, sometimes students require more than three opportunities to learn. This step should not be viewed as the final step. In step three, students get to do the really fun stuff through project-based learning, product-based learning — with a lot of hands-on learning. All of these learning activities require problem-solving (analysis), critical thinking (evaluation), and creative thinking (synthesis).

Featuring a long, slender bowl that gracefully tapers down to a footed base, pilsner glasses are specifically proportioned for showing a golden colored, classic pilsner.

Marquis by Waterford pilsner glasses made in Germany pair classic shapes with impeccable craftsmanship for a timelessly sophisticated look.

Each glass stands 9-1/4 inches tall and is capable of holding 20 ounces.

 

Children who play chess develop the ability to concentrate for extended periods, think ahead and solve problems. They learn to win and lose graciously.

The M V Anderson Chess Collection at the Victorian State Library has been a valuable resource for Australian players for more than half a century.

With over 13,000 volumes, the M V Anderson Chess Collection is the largest chess collection in the Southern Hemisphere. Chess resources include books on strategy, chess in film and art, novels featuring chess, the history of chess and overviews of openings such as the Sicilian Dragon, Complete Hedgehog and more.

The collection is recognised by the Oxford Companion to Chess (1992) as one of the three largest public chess collections in the world, the other two being the J.G. White Collection in the Cleveland Public Library and the Van der Linde-Niemeijer Collection in the National Library of the Netherlands.

The M V Anderson Chess Collection is based on the personal collection of Magnus Victor Anderson (1884-1966), a Melbourne accountant and keen chess player. Initially Anderson started his collection as a player’s working collection, but as his collection grew he also began to collect the early chess works that now give his collection such historical depth. In 1955 Anderson offered his chess books to the then Public Library of Victoria. At that time he had a collection of about 1,500 books. Anderson himself looked after the collection – he added to it, catalogued it, and answered requests for games. By the time he died in 1966 the collection numbered over 6,000 volumes.

The M V Anderson Collection has its own place within the Victorian State where reading and study is possible, with chessboards provided for assistance. More than a thousand, generally recent, publications are on display but older books, journals, chess columns and tournament bulletins are easily accessible on request, although some rare books are only viewable with supervision. Chess game sets and open access books from the Chess Collection are available in the La Trobe Reading Room.

The Melbourne collection is also well funded. Recent books and magazines are added frequently; the library buys most chess books published in English and major works in other languages.

Chess on the forecourt

The Library has two large chess outdoor chess sets that are set up on decal boards outside the library on the forecourt from 10am to 5pm. Chess on the forecourt was established in Summer 2014 to provide an alternative space to engage new players.

A range of glassware by emerging designer Roman Kvita was the result of the NextGen project in 2013 to discover fresh talent.

My inspiration came from the most simple geometrical shape, the sphere. As I developed my idea, I was excited by the way spherical shapes play with light to make striking refractions.

The SPHERE collection received the Red Dot Design Award in 2015, in recognition of its outstanding design.

Official commemorative china celebrates the marriage of Prince Harry and Ms. Meghan Markle on 19th May 2018 at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle.

The exclusive design in white and cornflower blue has a monogram of the couple’s initials at its centre, tied together with white ribbons and surmounted by the coronet of Prince Harry.

The decorative border of each piece is inspired by the ironwork of the 13th-century Gilebertus door of St George’s Chapel.

Commissioned exclusively by Buckingham Palace, this English fine bone china is entirely made by hand in Stoke-on-Trent, England using traditional methods unchanged for 250 years.

Not suitable for use in a dishwasher or microwave.

Royal wedding souvenirs date back to Queen Victoria’s wedding to Prince Albert in 1840.

The defensive walls of Frankfurt were dismantled, during the French Revolutionary War and replaced with an English landscape park.

On July 1, 1808, Goethe’s mother wrote to her son Wolfgang:

“Die alten Wälle sind abgetragen, die alten Tore eingerissen, um die ganze Stadt ein Park.”

When Goethe visited his native city for the last time in 1815, he encouraged the councilmen with the words:

“A free spirit befits a free city. It befits Frankfurt to shine in all directions and to be active in all directions.”

When in 1831 Arthur Schopenhauer moved from Berlin to Frankfurt, he justified it with the lines:

“Healthy climate, beautiful surroundings, the amenities of large cities, the Natural History Museum, better theatre, opera, and concerts, more Englishman, better coffee houses, no bad water and a better dentist.”

The Free City of Frankfurt on the Main was the seat of the Bundestag, the unofficial designation for the assembly of the sovereigns and mayors of the Monarchies and Free Cities which formed the German Confederation (1815–1866).

Friedrich Fröbel moved to Frankfurt-am-Main in 1805, where he took up a job in the building trade. In June 1805, Fröbel found employment in the local ‘model school’ in Frankfurt that was run on Pestalozzi’s principles of education. Fröbel felt that he had now found his true vocation. He wrote to his brother, Christoph:

It is as though I had been a teacher for a long time and was born for this profession; it seems to me that I have never wanted to live in any other circumstances than these (Lange, 1862, p. 533).

Contacts with the influential patrician family of the von Holzhausens in Frankfurt led Fröbel to travel to Yverdon in Switzerland in the autumn of 1806 to familiarize himself with Pestalozzi’s educational establishment. (The von Holzhausen family paid his travel costs.) Caroline von Holzhausen arranged to recruit Fröbel as the private tutor to her children. Between 1808 and 1810, Fröbel lived with his three young charges in Yverdon, where he acquired further training in Pestalozzi’s elementary method and also endeavoured to give the von Holzhausen children the best possible training and education.

One of the most respected families of the free imperial city Frankfurt since 1245, the Holzhausen family owned property, then far outside the fortified city of Frankfurt, which the family used for farming.

The Holzhausenschlösschen (Little Holzhausen palace) is a moated former country house built by the patrician Holzhausen family on their farm, then just north of Frankfurt. The present building was completed in 1729.

Two armies clashed at a river crossing near the Baltic Sea, about 3200 years ago.

Why did so much military force converge on the narrow Tollense Valley? The size of the site and remains found so far suggest a warrior class of 4,000 people from across Europe.

Geomagnetic surveys in 2013, revealed evidence of a 120 meter long bridge or causeway stretching across the valley. The submerged structure was made of wooden posts and stone. Radiocarbon dating showed that although much of the structure predated the battle by more than 500 years, parts of it may have been built or restored around the time of the battle, suggesting the causeway had been in continuous use for centuries.

From the scale and brutality of the battle to the presence of a warrior class wielding sophisticated weapons, the Tollense Valley could be the first evidence of a turning point in social organization and warfare in Europe.

Around 3200 years ago was a an era of significant upheaval from the Mediterranean to the Baltic. The scattered farmsteads of northern Europe gave way to concentrated, heavily fortified settlements, once seen only to the south. The sophisticated Mycenaean civilization collapsed and in Egypt, pharaohs boasted of besting the “Sea People,” marauders who toppled the Hittites.

Source: Unexpected and Gruesome Battle of 1250 BC Involved 4,000 Men from Across Northern Europe