CHILD DEVELOPMENT Deb Roy: The Birth of a Word
What did Roy and his family do that made their house unique?

Roy and his family made their house unique by placing cameras and recording systems all inside the house.

Why did the family do this?

What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of studying how language is learned by using a method like this?

What did the research show about the relationship between language and caregiver speech?

What part of the video did you find most interesting? Why?

Read the excerpt from "death by black hole."albert einstein's general theory of relativity, published in 1916, provides the insight to understand the bizarre structureof space and time in a high-gravity environment. later research by the american physicist john a. wheeler, and others, to formulate a vocabulary as well as the mathematical tools to describe and predict what a black hole will do toits surroundings.read the excerpt from "man listening to disc."and i bow deeply to thelonious monkfor figuring out a wayto motorize or whatever-his huge pianoso he could be with us today.these excerpts are similar because both texts