Arithmetic Races II
Practice your mental and mathematical agility with arithmetic races. A sequence of levels with timed questions. Each level gets progressively faster. The questions themselves are based on the four main arithmetical operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) and involve positive integers in the range 0 - 1000. There are a total of 11 levels, combing both multiple-task and single-task questions. Points available increase as the time decreases. Tracking of numerous performance
Lunch Poems: Fall 2006 Kick-Off
SERIES KICK-OFF
Distinguished faculty and staff from a wide range of disciplines read and discuss a favorite poem. This year's participants include:
Ani Adhikari (Statistics)
Mary Catherine Birgeneau
Patrick Dillon (California Magazine)
Janette Hernandez (Education)
Davitt Moroney (Music)
Charlotte Rubens (Library)
Jonathan Poullard (Dean of Students)
Harsha Ram (Slavic Languages and Literature)
Clare You (Korean Sudies)
Dr. Helen Caldicott: The New Nuclear Danger
The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military-Industrial Complex
Dr. Helen Caldicott
Founder of Physicians for social Responsibility
Nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize
Founder of Nuclear Policy Research Institute
This event took place on April 24, 2003 in the Chevron Auditorium, International House, UC Berkeley.
Addressing her new book by the same name, world-renowned antinuclear activist Dr. Caldicott looks at the indebtedness of the current Bush administration to the nuclear arms industr
Jazz in America: National Jazz Curriculum
The school offers lessons for teaching about jazz in American history or music class for Grades 5, 8, and 11. Learn about the evolution of jazz, different jazz styles, improvisation, basic musical elements, and how jazz influenced (and was influenced by) American culture. The mission of The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz is to offer public school-based jazz education programs for young people around the world, helping students develop imaginative thinking, creativity, curiosity, a positive s
Letters, Telegrams, and Photographs Illustrating Factors That Affected the Civil War
This site allows students to analyze a variety of documents to identify events, actions, and individuals who contributed to the Civil War's outcome. This lesson correlates to the National History Standards and the National Standards for Civics and Social Sciences. It also has cross-curricular connections with your history, government, and American literature.
Imagination, Creativity And Entrepreneurship
This is a course about the courage to create, and to risk making mistakes in the quest for ideas that lead to a true innovation of a product, service or process. Creativity is the central focus, which might be defined as "the application of a person's mental ability and curiosity to discover something new. The act of relating previously unrelated things." More specifically, we are concerned with capitalist creativity, which means that solutions must be generated that are profitable and reflect b
From Page to Stage
Musical theater book writers, lyricists, and composers have long looked to literature for their inspiration and subject material. In this lesson, students will compare and contrast literary works and the musicals they inspired. Utilizing video clips and Web sites, students will compare specific passages from original texts to moments in Broadway musicals on which they were based, and analyze similarities and differences between the two. As a culminating activity, students will try their hand at
Visualisation of construction information: A process view
This paper addresses the issue of information visualisation within the context of business process integration. Visual technologies offer appropriate information interfaces that facilitate the integration of mainstream construction applications. This paper assesses the needs of visualisation by the construction sector. It then describes recent developments in the areas of 4/5 dimensional modelling. Th
Gerry Martin at a Seminar
Gerry Martin talks about the development of science and technology
over the last ten thousand years. He illustrates his arguments with charts
and glass instruments.,Gerry starts the seminar held at King's College, Cambridge, in
April 2003, and then makes several interjections. At the end he summarizes
much of his philosophy of historical change. Filmed by Alan Macfarlane.
Lasts about 42 minutes.
Improving Literary Understanding Through Classroom Conversation Booklet
Effective literature instruction develops reading, writing, thinking, and other literacy skills -- but that is easier said than done. A new booklet by Judith Langer and Elizabeth Close shares some of the most effective strategies, drawing on the research and including real classroom examples. The booklet is designed for teachers and administrators who wish to improve their students' reading comprehension
Nobel Prize: Educational Games
Play a game and find out about a Nobel Prize awarded discovery or work! These educational productions do not require previous knowledge. A central thought or issue is explored during 10-20 minutes of activity, using a specific Nobel Prize-awarded work as a springboard for the whole exercise. Students, teachers and non-professionals of all ages will enjoy testing and building their knowledge in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, peace and economics.
Alternative small scale meteorology input to a chemical transport model
In order to respond to the increasing demand for better understanding of the environment, air quality studies at different scales are required. The Community Multi-scale Air Quality Model (CMAQ) chemical transport model is designed to handle all major scales of interest. However, the meteorology input to the model has to represent adequately the atmospheric conditions at these scales. So far, the meteorological input to CMAQ has been supplied by the Fifth-Generation Pennsylvania State University
Synthesis and characterization of the properties of Ti3SiC2/SiC and Ti3SiC2/TiC composites
In 1996, the ternary compound titanium silicon carbide (Ti3SiC2) was for the first timesynthesized as a single-phase, fully dense compound. Its characterization revealed aunique combination of properties. For its high fracture toughness, low hardness toelastic modulus ratio and excellent damage tolerance, it was dubbed a soft ceramic. Italso displayed good thermal shock and oxidation resistance. In this work, thereinforcement of this material with silicon carbide and titanium carbide particles w
Fault-tolerant distributed shared memory on a broadcast-based interconnection architecture
This thesis focuses on the issue of reliability and fault tolerance in Distributed Shared Memory Multiprocessors, and on the performance impact of implementing fault tolerance protocols that allow for Backward Error Recovery through the use of synchronized checkpointing. High Performance Parallel computing systems that implement Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) require interconnection networks capable of providing low latency and high bandwidth and efficient support for multicast and synchronizat
In-vitro tiered approach alternative to live animal testing for determination of ocular or dermal ir
There is a continual need for information concerning the potential for chemicals, if inadvertently splashed into the eyes, to cause effects from irritation to total blindness. This information is currently generated by exposing the eyes of live rabbits to the chemical. As can be imagined, this often results in severe distress to the animal while generating information that we have shown to be discernable without putting any animals at risk. This may be accomplished by replacing the live animal t
Disability Studies for Teachers
This document introduces the field and resources of Diability Studies for interested teachers.Disability Studies for Teachers is a web-based resource for teachers who want to introduce students in social studies, history, literature, and related subjects in grades 6-12 to disability studies and disability history. Resources on this site also can be adapted for use in postsecondary education. The project prepares lesson plans, essays, and teaching materials. It also draws on and contains links to
Collaborative Consultation and Larger Systems, Fall 2007
How do individuals and families interface with larger systems, and how do therapists intervene collaboratively? How do larger systems structure the lives of individuals and families? Relationally-trained practitioners are attempting to answer these questions through collaborative and interdisciplinary, team-focused projects in mental health, education, the law, and business, among other fields. Similarly, scholars and researchers are developing specific culturally responsive models: outreach fam
What's Happening to Your Body
There are three lessons in this group. The first two focus on the biological and developmental changes that take place during adolescence and addresses the nutritional, physical exercise, and mental exercise needs of adolescents during this period. During the third lesson, a health professional with a background in adolescent health needs leads the class in a group discussion. (Note: these lessons are intended to serve as an introduction to a more in-depth nutrition unit by helping students unde
English Matters
Welcome to ://English Matters, a journal where language meets hypermedia. This site presents teaching modules designed by faculty in the English Department to help instructors integrate the materials presented in ://english matters--essays, poetry, annotations of websites--into their courses. These modules are designed for students in lower-division literature classes. We invite teachers and students of English who are questioning and creating new texts and pedagogies on the web to browse throu
DTG Spring Concert 2010
The annual spring concert allows student-choreographers from a wide range of disciplines to present new works to Dickinsonians and the larger community. Presenting dances about diverse themes, including chance meetings, social taboos, mental illness, self-identification and nearly extinct traditions of indigenous peoples, this years choreographers explore ways in which were taught to, and ways in which we choose to, view our worlds.
