Practice Based Learning
Learning for students working together on care of the elderly wards and or rehabilitation units. The Leicester Model is applied in the design of this ward based learning.
Working with International Data on Government Finances
This is a case study including graphs and sources, aimed at introductory economics students, showing how to obtain, transform and interpret international data, using for its example a comparison of government finance between six countries.
Rational Exponent Rules - Problem 2 of 4
This video is a continuation and presents another example that demonstrates how to apply the rules for rational exponents to simplify a rational expression with fractional exponents. (1:56)
Rational Exponent Rules - Problem 4 of 4
This video is a continuation and provides an example that demonstrates how to simplify a higher degree radical expression by applying the rules for rational exponents. (1:44)
Simplifying Radicals Using Rational Exponents
This video explains how to simplify roots that are either greater than four or have a term raised to a large number by rewriting the problem using rational exponents. Remember that every root can be written as a fraction, with the denominator indicating the root's power. When simplifying radicals, since a power to a power multiplies the exponents, the problem is simplified by multiplying all the exponents together. (1:44)
Freedom Riders Create Change
In this video segment adapted from American Experience: "Freedom Riders," view newsreel footage, archival photos, and interviews to explore how the Freedom Rides of 1961 brought about the end of racial segregation in interstate transportation. The Freedom Riders, aware that their nonviolent protest would elicit violence from some Southerners attempting to enforce local segregation laws, were determined to continue their protest even in the face of possible arrest. A series of events involvi
Fresh Troops
In this video segment from the American Experience: "Freedom Riders" Web site, view newsreel footage, interviews, and archival photos to explore how students in Nashville, Tennessee, prepared for civil rights protests by training in the techniques of nonviolent direct action. This training prepared them for several initial efforts focused on the Nashville community and made them ideal reinforcements when attacks by white mobs decimated the ranks of the first Freedom Riders in 1961. (4:07)
Power Teaching and Classroom Management
This video is a great way to help with classroom management....and engagement! Can be used with any grade level. It works - I've done it!
key words: power teaching, classroom management, engagement, active listening, Chris Biffle (7:34)
Breakingviews: Defrauding Uncle Sam
Breakingviews columnists discuss the latest twists in the U.S. mortgage mess involving Citigroup and Bank of America.
Authors at Google, Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, "Giving 2.0"
The Authors@Google program presents Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, author of "Giving 2.0: Transform Your Giving and Our World".
Written for all readers of all income levels, ages, and backgrounds, Giving 2.0 is a guide to living a life of generosity that is socially impactful, emotionally rewarding, and rich with learning. The author not only shares her own experiences as a prominent young philanthropist, academic, and social innovator, but also tells the inspiring stories of how ordinary, generou
Mac Barnett: 2011 National Book Festival
Mac Barnett appears at the 2011 National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: Mac Barnett is the author of several picture books, including "Mustache!," "Oh No! Or How My Science Project Destroyed the World" and "Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem." He also writes the Brixton Brothers series of mysteries. Although he often neglects shaving, he has never worn a mustache.
Vivons-nous dans un univers ou dans un multivers ? (video)
Conférence donnée à l'IAP le 7 février 2012 par Aurélien BARRAU, astrophysicien au Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie de Grenoble.
Dans cette conférence, je proposerai une introduction simple à la cosmologie d'aujourd'hui et aux concepts physiques qui la sous-tendent. De la relativité générale à la théorie des cordes, en passant par les trous noirs et la gravitation quantique, nous en viendrons à interroger le statut de notre univers lui-même. Se pou
Solar System (The Milky Way) 101
How was the Milky Way born? This video tells about how The Milky Way was born, and also gives information about all of the planets, the Sun, the asteroid belt, and the dwarf planets. There are also images of the different parts of the solar system. (3:20)
This month with the President - February 2012
President Patrick Deane talks about the importance of the 3M Teaching Fellowships and congratulates McMaster's winners: social sciences' Marshall Beier and the Centre for Leadership in Learning's Susan Vajoczki.
EARTH - Masterpieces of Ice and Stone
Revel in Earth as Art. Landsat missions were launched for scientific purposes, but they make up one of the most awe-inspiring collections of beautiful images of our home planet. (13:32)
N.E.A.R. Device
THE DETECTIVE: Gwen Wright THE PLACE: Westminster, Colorado THE CASE: History Detectives peers inside a black box that may shed light on some of the darkest days of the Cold War. The US atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 raised the stakes of modern warfare. Almost immediately after World War Two, America’s former ally, the U.S.S.R., became her Cold War archenemy. the Soviet Union’s surprise testing of its own atomic bomb in 1949 helped trigger a nuclear arms race, with
LBJ Escalates the Vietnam War
In this video segment adapted from American Experience, view archival photos, newsreel footage, and interviews to examine the decision-making process that led Lyndon Johnson to order increased United States military involvement in the Vietnam War. With military and political advisers recommending massive American troop involvement over a number of years, and only one adviser urging complete withdrawal, Johnson chose to continue the commitments made by past presidents. This decision reflecte
OrganWise Guys Shorts: Pirates of the Carrot and Bean
Come learn about health and nutrition with the OrganWise Guys! In this short: Health Pirates sail the produce isles in search of high fiber foods. (1min)
A Comedy Segment About Leap Year
This comedy segment explains the purpose of February having twenty-nine days every four years, known as Leap Year. Children will be entertained by the performer, a grown man, saying that he is only seven years old!
1st AEARU Symposium on the Culture of Chinese Characters
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