Open Wide and Trek Inside
Open Wide and Trek Inside has several objectives. The first is to help students understand major concepts related to oral health. By focusing on the science of the oral environment, the module goes beyond the traditional "brushing and flossing" curriculum and presents to students the ways science has helped people understand how to take proper care of their mouths and the structures within.
The second objective of the module is to engage students in the nature of science through inquiry. As st
UW 360 - February 2011: Designer Proteins
Hear about cutting edge research on designer proteins being developed in UW Professor David Baker's lab.
UW 360 profiles the fascinating people, programs and community connections that define the University of Washington. The show looks at a wide range of UW topics from solar energy, to heart tissue regeneration, to neighborhood farmer's markets - and much more. Samantha Rund The half-hour program is hosted by UW Alum Samantha Rund, who offers an insider's view on each story. With an abundance
Enhancing oral skills
This is a module framework. It can be viewed online or downloaded as a zip file.
As taught in Autumn Semester 2010.
Enhancing Oral Skills (EOS) is a project aimed to provide French beginners with listening activities available on the University of Nottingham (Ningbo campus) platform WebCT (Virtual Self-Access Centre) for their self-study at the very first stage of their learning.
The activities have been created taking into account the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEF
21W.747-1 Rhetoric (MIT)
This course is an introduction to the theory, the practice, and the implications (both social and ethical) of rhetoric, the art and craft of persuasion. This semester, many of your skills will have the opportunity to be deepened by practice, including your analytical and critical thinking skills, your persuasive writing skills, and your oral presentation skills. In this course you will act as both a rhetor (a person who uses rhetoric) and as a rhetorical critic (one who studies the art of rhetor
Brewing up a storm
From enhancing the efficiency of the brewing process to further work on biofuels Professor Smart shares her experience and opinion on the relationship between science and industry.
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In this podcast, beer is king as Professor Katherine Smart talks about her research and its immense commercial applications.
Español coloquial
Esta materia ofrece a los alumnos una formación teórica y práctica en una de las variedades diafásicas de la lengua española, el registro informal o coloquial. Aunque se analizan muestras escritas, se estudia preferentemente la variedad oral, en concreto, la conversación, manifestación prototípica de lo coloquial. A partir de la fundamentación teórica, se aplican las nociones aprendidas a muestras reales. En consecuencia, la clase se concibe de forma dinámica, esto es, los aspectos te
Español como Lengua Extranjera II
El objetivo de la asignatura Español como lengua extranjera II es profundizar y ampliar los conceptos introducidos en la asignatura Español como lengua extranjera I. El temario está divido en ocho temas en los que se alternan el estudio de las materias clásicas objeto de aprendizaje en el aula de E/LE, como la gramática o el léxico, el desarrollo de las cuatro destrezas básicas: expresión y comprensión oral/escrita, con el estudio de las últimas aportaciones de la lingüística a la e
Escriptures hipertextuals
Es tracta d'una reflexió humanística sobre les actuals formes emergents de cultura (societat de la informació, revolució i informació digitals, web, textualitats electròniques, cibercultura, ...) que posa un èmfasi especial en la convergència de l'ordinador amb l'art i la literatura i en la creació literària en línia (hipertextos, blogs i poesia mòbil). L'assignatura planteja com el suport digital transforma els processos de lectura/escriptura i, en definitiva, les formes de pensar.
Site Libre Savoirs: Option Assemblages inorganiques : de la molécule aux matériaux
Domaine: Chimie, physico-chimie et génie chimique
I - Chimie inorganique : liaisons et propriétés chimiques
Cette partie devrait presque être une révision ou de mise en application des concepts supposés déjà connus (liaisons chimiques, théorie des groupes
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II - Les éléments de transitions, complexes et propriétés
Il sagit de passer de la théorie du champ cristallin déjà vue par la plupart des élèves à la théorie du champ de ligand basée sur une approche mol
Supporting emergence of threaded learning conversations through augmenting Interactional and Sequent
In this article, we propose a structure of threaded learning conversations taking place in virtual learning communities. This new structure aims at facilitating the emergence of learning conversations in these learning communities. These threaded conversations take place in a forum-type tool that uses a tree data structure composed of threads to organize group communication. We identify two situations which discourage the emergence of the learning conversations taking place in threaded based too
21F.705 Oral Communication in Spanish (MIT)
A second-year intermediate course that includes vocabulary enhancement and limited review of selected points of grammar. Focuses on listening comprehension and speaking, with group activities, discussions and individual oral reports based on readings, films, music and art.
Asian, African, or Australian Inventors and Inventions
The lesson integrates both Social Sciences and Language Arts in a research and a creative writing component. The student will further understand inventors or inventions from Asia, Africa, and Australia, the focused continents in the 7th grade Social Sciences curriculum, as well as have the opportunity to develop his/her writing, reading, and oral communication skills. The project also incorporates mathematics with an emphasis on percentages and graphing.
Around the world in one semester!
This lesson is a semester-long project that focuses on countries that speak the target language. Students will research a chosen country and do an oral presentation for the class. They will then research and present a current event weekly for the remainder of the semester.
A Woman Recounts Her Twelve Abortions in Turn-of-the-Century New York
In an interview, conducted by oral historian Allyson Knoth for the Feminist History Research Project, Elizabeth Anderson, born in Germany in the late 1880s, described the twelve abortions she endured as a young married woman living in New York City with a husband who refused to use birth control devices such as condoms. Anderson detailed a series of painful and dangerous procedures, including the use of ergot pills, and pricking the cervix with a hat pin. Anderson also suggested that abortion wa
Developing Analytical and Communication Skills in a Mock-Trial Course Based on the Famous Woburn, Ma
This Journal of Geoscience Education article discusses a mock trial in which undergraduates serve as expert witnesses and law students serve as their attorneys. The article identifies the trial as an effective vehicle for developing quantitative skills and enhancing written and oral communication skills. The course discussed is unabashedly about applying scientific principles to solve real-world problems. The entire course revolves around the analysis, interpretation, and presentation of scienti
Classtalk: A Classroom Communication System for Active Learning
This pdf file is an article describing the advantages of using Classtalk technology in the classroom to enhance classroom communication. Classtalk technology cab facilitate the presentation of questions for small group work, collec the student answers and then display histograms showing how the class answered. This new communication technology can help instructors create a more interactive, student centered classroom, especially when teaching large courses. The article describes Classtalk as a v
Assessing Gallery Walk
This site from SERC's Starting Point offers sample rubrics that can be used for informal and formal evaluations of the Gallery Walk. These rubrics range from group participation to the quality of oral and written reports.
Middle School Portal: Math and Science Pathways (MSP2)
Now an annual event, National Engineers Week was founded by the National Society of Professional Engineers in 1951. In 1988, the National Engineers Week consortium expanded and now includes more than 100 engineering, scientific, and education societies and major corporations dedicated to enhancing the public understanding of the engineering profession and to promoting pre-college interest in math, science, and engineering as a career option. From this website, visitors can read suggestions for w
How to Improve Critical Thinking Using Educational Technology
Critical thinking is one of education's central goals and most valued outcomes, but it can difficult to teach effectively. The Reason! project has developed the Reason!Able software as part of a general method aimed at enhancing critical thinking skills. This paper describes the challenges involved, the theoretical basis of the Reason! project, the Reason!Able software, and results of intensive evaluation of the Reason! approach.
Immigration/Migration: Today and During the Great Depression
This is a 4-week American history unit for high school. Students conduct oral history interviews, analyze photos, evaluate the relevance and accuracy of primary and secondary sources, discuss changes in immigration and migration over time, and more.
