Christian Aid: Primary Teacher's Resources
Download or order easy-to-use Primary assemblies, classroom activities and games to help pupils engage with world issues and reflect on their own role as global citizens.
Lecture 27 - 11/24/2010
Lecture 27
Race and Ethnic Diversity Among U.S. Families
This module teaches students to think about contemporary race and ethnic diversity in families, to use census data in the sociology of the family, to use computer software to access and analyze census data and to produce and interpret simple statistics.
21W.730 Writing on Contemporary Issues: Social and Ethical Issues (MIT)
This course provides the opportunity for students-as readers, viewers, writers and speakers-to engage with social and ethical issues they care deeply about. Over the course of the semester, through discussing the writing of classic and contemporary authors, we will explore different perspectives on a range of social issues such as free speech, poverty and homelessness, mental illness, capital punishment and racial and gender inequality. In addition, we will analyze selected documentary and f
Fair Use: Remix Culture, Mashups, and Copyright
In this lesson, students will focus on defining the concept, purpose, and impact of fair use in U.S. copyright law. Students will refine their understanding of fair use through the lens of the increasingly popular remix culture of music, visual art, and video.
Liberté: A First Year French Textbook
Liberté is a first-year college French textbook with a true communicative approach. It is currently being used at California State University, Los Angeles, Mount San Antonio College, and Santiago Canyon College. Please note that the downloadable version is a draft, and that the author continues to expand and modify the text.
Science in Focus: Energy: Workshop 8. Understanding Energy
Energy lights our homes, fuels our transportation systems, and much more, but affordable energy is in limited supply. In this session, look at the global impact of these limits and see how being smart about using energy will become more important in our daily lives.,End Credits
Defining Tragedy
First dialogue between Oliver Taplin and Joshua Billings on tragedy: they discuss what 'tragedy' means, from its origins in Greek culture to philosophical notions of what tragedy and tragic drama are.
Nutritional Health,Food Production,and the Environment
This course provides an understanding of the complex and challenging public health issue of food security and in a world where one billion people are under-nourished while another billion are overweight. Explores the connections among diet, the current food production system, the environment and public health, considering factors such as economics, population and equity. Case studies are used to examine these complex relationships and as well as alternative approaches to achieving both local and
Native Americans overview
A three minute overview of Indians in America. Not much depth, but it does provide some good images and good talking points for elementary age students. This is best used with a map that shows where the various tribes lived. Ideas could be the culture and the impact of geograhy on these people. You need to stop the video or another one automatically plays
Improving Understanding and Collaboration among First Responders
This unique training addresses the institutional culture of five responder groups: law enforcement, EMS, fire, public health, and private security in an attempt at fostering understanding among these groups
Environmental Health
Examines health issues, scientific understanding of causes, and possible future approaches to control of the major environmental health problems in industrialized and developing countries. Topics include how the body reacts to environmental pollutants; physical, chemical, and biological agents of environmental contamination; vectors for dissemination (air, water, soil); solid and hazardous waste; susceptible populations; biomarkers and risk analysis; the scientific basis for policy decisions; an
Confronting the Burden of Injuries: A Global Perspective
Confronting the Burden of Injuries- A Global Perspective is a course offered by the Department of International Health and the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University. This course is intended to guide students interested in working on injury control in areas with little to no tradition in injury prevention from a public health perspective. Students will learn to define the injury problem and assess its magnitude; identify data
Les moulins de la Martinique
Cette émission animée par Vincent Huygues-Belrose présente les différents types de moulins à la Martinique depuis les origines de la colonisation (moulin à eau, moulin à vent), puis les mécanismes et mouvements que suppose l'utilisation et la fabrication des moulins (moulin à canne, moulin à meule) et enfin les énergies utilisées afin de mouvoir ces moulins.
Les regards croisés, le discours et l'identité
Patrick Charaudeau analyse le discours par les systèmes de signes porteurs de signifiance, plus particulièrement la manifestation verbale : rituels sociaux-langagiers (prise de parole...), modes discursifs (raconter/expliquer), pratiques linguistiques (adverbalisation, usage de l'article), formes de dénomination. Il interroge ensuite les questions liées à l'identité : identité individuelle/identité collective, identité sociale/identité discursive. Les regards croisés questionnent le
Berkeley Writers at Work: Elaine Kim
Berkeley Writers at Work: Asian American literary figure Elaine Kim
Elaine Kim, UC Berkeley professor of Asian American Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies , will read from her work, be interviewed about her writing process, and answer questions from the audience for the Writers at Work series. Kim has been an important figure in Asian American literature and culture for over three decades and has won numerous awards. She writes on a wide range of subjects, among them identity in Asia
MODIS Snow Cover over Asia
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) provides data in 36 spectral bands, some of which are used in an algorithm to map global snow cover. The animation shows the dynamic behavior of the advance and retreat of continental snow cover over Asia for the winter of 2001-02 from MODIS-derived 8-day composite snow maps with a spatial resolution of about 5 km.
Leaf Area Index for Africa September, 2000, through May, 2001
MODIS observations also allow scientists to track two vital signs of Earths vegetation. At Boston University, a team of researchers is using MODIS data to create global estimates of the green leaf area of Earths vegetation and how much sunlight the leaves are absorbing. Called LAI, for Leaf Area Index, and FPAR, for Fraction of absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation, both pieces of information are necessary for understanding how sunlight interacts with the Earths vegetated surfaces-from th
Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation for Africa September, 2000, through May, 2001
MODIS observations also allow scientists to track two vital signs of Earths vegetation. At Boston University, a team of researchers is using MODIS data to create global estimates of the green leaf area of Earths vegetation and how much sunlight the leaves are absorbing. Called LAI, for Leaf Area Index, and FPAR, for Fraction of absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation, both pieces of information are necessary for understanding how sunlight interacts with the Earths vegetated surfaces-from th
Global Distribution of UV-Absorbing Tropospheric Aerosols for 1987
Global aerosol index from January 1, 1987 through December 31, 1987 as measured by the Nimbus-7 Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS)
