This Weekend Assignment revolves round the theme of projects. Going about cleaning your house on the weekend is a project. Organizing your sock drawer is a project. Sending a satellite into space is a project. What truly defines a project? How large can projects get? What was one of the first major projects to changed […]
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The Weekend Assignment: Community
This Weekend Assignment revolves around the theme of Community. What defines a community? How do they form? Why do they form? What kind of communities do animals form and how does it help them survive and flourish? These are few questions you could explore and even bring to your own communities. But let’s first explore […]
The Weekend Assignment: Footnotes
The Weekend Assignment is to learn something new about footnotes. Do you read the footnotes when you are prompted or do you wait until the end of the page to see what they say? Or do you ignore1 the footnotes all together? But before you explore the footnotes let’s see what was learned about last […]
The Weekend Assignment: Cities
This Weekend Assignment revolves around the theme of Cities. Take a stroll through your city/town and learn something new. Before you go on your weekend hike let’s take out the map and explore the previous Weekend Assignment. Maps have long been created and used to navigate the world around us, but the earliest known map […]
A refreshed student dashboard: making progress!
We recently rolled out some changes to the student dashboard (the page you see when you first sign in to your Saylor Academy account). They’re pretty modest tweaks, but we think they make for a noticeably nicer experience. In particular, your course progress is now displayed alongside each course, and certificates you’ve earned are now […]
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