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    Scaffolding could be considered an art in the right eyes, it is over 17,000 years old and around since the oldest civilizations. “The scale of the paintings suggests that the artists must have used ladders and scaffolding. Archaeologists discovered sockets for scaffolding beams in the walls of the cave.” (Encarta, 2003). Scaffolding is full of culture and is used by everyone in some way. There’s many different styles, but there 's usually one uniform way now with steel scaffolding. I really chose

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    aforementioned advancements is the use of scaffolding, from ancient times where sockets in the walls around the Paleolithic cave paintings at Lascaux, the Berlin Foundry Cup depicts scaffolding in ancient Greece (early 5th century BC), the ancient Egyptians, Nubians and Chinese are also recorded as having used scaffolding-like structures to build tall buildings. Early scaffolding was made of wood and secured with rope knots. All the way to the present day where scaffolding has enclosed and has been used to

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    1). Define bottom-up and top-down reading strategies. Be sure to give three examples of each strategy. Top- down is the process of understanding the whole picture. This means that the reader does not actually read the text word for word, but instead he uses his prior knowledge to fill up the gaps. The reader experience and his language cognitive abilities allow him to understand the the sentence by looking at keywords that would provide him with enough information based on his prior knowledge to

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    It is alarming to know that each year there are over 4,500 scaffold injuries and 65 deaths (Occupational Safety and Health Administration [OSHA], 2016). In addition, there is a high risk for construction workers to be struck from objects falling off scaffolds. With these facts in mind, the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission’s (OSHRC) 2013 case of the Secretary of Labor v Performance Contracting, Inc. (PCI) raises questions as to why violations of OSHA’s scaffold standards are sometimes

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    ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET [JOINT SUBMISSION OF GROUP WORK] For submission to: Dr. X Shen Course Code: CVEN 4102 Course Name: Operations & Projects Assignment: Group Assignment 1, Report on Building Construction at UNSW ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS Before submitting this assignment, students are strongly advised to: ● Review the assessment requirements contained in the briefing document for the assignment; ● Review the various matters related to assessment in the relevant Course Outline; ● Review the

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    Scaffolding

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    development. Vygotsky, feels strongly that play provides children with a great amount of scaffolding, making it possible for the child to performs at the higher end of the ZPD (Zone of Proximal Distance). The ZPD working in concert with the related concepts of scaffolding can be of tremendous help to teachers and other adults- be it a parent or others to guide the children to coming to progress more efficiently. Scaffolding is used as a support system- but warns that when working with someone on a particular

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    Occupational Health and Safety 10 Policies: 1. Scaffolding 2. Fall protection (scope, application, definitions) 3. Excavations (general requirements) 4. Ladders 5. Head protection 6. Excavations (requirements for protective systems) 7. Hazard communication 8. Fall protection (training requirements) 9. Construction (general safety and health provisions) 10. Electrical (wiring methods, design and protection) Scaffolding Hazard: When scaffolds are not erected or used properly, fall hazards can occur

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    Equipment Safety Essay

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    Introduction Contractors are responsible for the safety of their employees and the people near or at the work place. Part of their job is to ensure that equipment, materials, and the work environment is safe as well as make sure that the guidelines are being followed. In a construction site, it is important to be cautious around heavy equipment and power tools. When operating equipment while working at a construction site, protecting your body is very necessary. Creating a good work environment is

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    Scaffolding is Strategy that can be used to help students form a better understanding of lesson materials, topics, and other information learned in the classroom (GCU, 2015). Lessons will start from the ground up by first identifying and utilizing student pervious or background knowledge of a topic as a foundation to support understanding of new facts; which can encourage students to show more interest in classroom topics as subjects are already known and easily relatable (Diaz-Rico, 2013). The teacher

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    Cognitive Scaffolding

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    in which I will utilize in my classroom. The small groups’ instructions are quick thinks and cognitive scaffolding. Quick thinks examined by Cooper and Robinson (2014) are types of classroom evaluation in which the instructional and other performance configurations are interposed by inquiries or subjects that oblige students to process data independently or in sets or groups. Cognitive scaffolding conversely, is a type of bolster briefly offered by educators when presenting additional material

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