Particle Detection Activity
This interactive museum demonstration explains how the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft uses its particle detectors to collect and sort particles that come from the boundary of the Solar System. This demonstration supports a full-length planetarium show about the IBEX mission and the boundary of the Solar System. Each short activity/product helps to build awareness and engagement in the science and engineering aspects of the mission that is reinforced as visitors choose to partic
Active Galaxies Pop-up book
The Active Galaxies pop-up book is a very large rectangular pop-up book with foldouts that was developed for use in classrooms for grades 5 and up and for special needs audiences. Active galaxies, a major scientific target for the GLAST mission, contain super-massive black holes at their cores, and sometimes emit jets of particles and light. When opened, a model of an active galaxy with jets pops up out of the center. One foldout contains explanatory information for the parts of the galaxy depic
HESSI Spacecraft Model Booklet
In this activity, students work in teams to construct the components of the model and make presentations on the results of their effort.
Get Moving
Laughing Boy
This video includes text, narration, and pictures for the poem Laughing Boy by Richard Wright. The poem is part of the suggested reading material listed on the corestandards.org website for grades K-1. (0:36)
21L.701 Literary Interpretation: Interpreting Poetry (MIT)
This seminar offers a course of readings in lyric poetry. It aims to enhance the student's capacity to understand the nature of poetic language and the enjoyment of poetic texts by treating poems as messages to be deciphered.
The seminar will briefly touch upon the history of theories of figurative language since Aristotle and it will attend to the development of those theories during the last thirty years, noting the manner in which they tended to consider figures of speech distinct from n
European Economic Crisis, Austerity Measures, Resistance Portend Future of U.S. Economic Climate
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Is the U.S. learning from Canada's example? Nope.
Former Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Clay Lowery lays out where the U.S. went wrong financially in the last few years and how Canada has set a great example. Then, he elaborates on how the U.S. ignored it all.
Female martyrs honored in Yemen
Nov. 18 - Yemeni protesters say the death of female opposition members will not be in vain as they called for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down. Deborah Gembara reports.
Pope Benedict arrives in Africa
Nov. 18 - Pope Benedict called for religious tolerance as he arrived in Benin, the cradle of Voodoo in West Africa. Deborah Gembara reports.
Tanks come under attack in Homs
Nov. 18 - Video posted to the internet purports to show Syrian military tanks coming under fire in Homs. Rough Cut (no reporter narration)
Chefs@Google: Christina Tosi
Momofuku Milk Bar
All of the bakery's cult favorites are here, including the crack pie, a sugary-buttery confection as craveable as the name implies, along with recipes for savory breads, some of which take a page from Dave's Asian-flavored cuisine, such as Kimchi Croissant with Blue Cheese. From the compost cookie (my personal favorite), a chunky chocolate-chip cookie studded with crunchy salty pretzels, potato chips and coffee grounds, to the cereal milk ice cream, made from everyone's favori
Adolphe Pacault. Des livres, Une histoire
« "Adolphe Pacault. Des livres, Une histoire", un documentaire écrit et réalisé en 2011 par Claire-Lise Gauvain (SCD Bordeaux I), Yves Gloinec, Nadège Pré, Agnès Larcher (DCAM). Musique : Olivier Oguez ( 18 min 30, VF).
Dans le cadre de l’année internationale de la chimie 2011 et de l’exposition réalisée par le SCD de l’Université Bordeaux I « Itinéraires d'un scientifique : autour des bibliothèques d'Adolphe Pacault (1918-2008)&qu
North Carolina Women and the Progressive Movement
This lesson includes primary sources from Documenting the American South specifically related to North Carolina women involved in reform movements characteristic of the Progressive era. For the most part, these documents detail women's work in education-related reform and describe the creation of schools for women in the state. They also demonstrate that, as was true in the rest of the nation, the progressive, female reformers of N.C. were segregated based on race and socio-economic status.
The Great Depression and the 1990s
This lesson asks students to research a modern government program having roots in the New Deal. Following their research, students participate in a congressional forum where they debate which programs should be continued. Recommended for grade 11, can be adapted for other grades.
Did democracy cause the US Civil War? (UCL)
Dr Adam Smith (UCL History) describes how 150 years ago, the first shots of the American Civil War were fired, yet the United States was the world's first modern democratic nation - a place in which virtually all white men could vote and in which mass political parties vied for votes. What was the relationship between the coming of the war and this kind of democratic politics?
Further information:
Dr Smith: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/about_us/academic_staff/dr_adam
Lunch Hour Lecture: http://
Japan History and Today
This 2:35 video is an overview of the history of this country. It does not deal with any controversial issues and glosses over statistics. Strongest suit is the early history segment.
Saif al-Islam gives interview
Nov. 20 - Saif al-Islam Gaddafi discusses the attack that led to his injuries and why he is being treated in Zintan. Rough Cut (no reporter narration)
SFSP Lille 2011 – Expertise éthique et expertise profane en santé publique.
Titre : SFSP Lille 2011 – Expertise éthique et expertise profane en santé publique : enjeux pour une éthique de la discussion
Intervenant(s) : Raymond Massé, Département d’anthropologie, Université Laval, Québec
Résumé : Au Québec, comme ailleurs, pour faire face aux défis éthiques posés par la prévention et la promotion de la santé, les autorités de santé publique auront tendance à s’en remettre aux experts éthiciens pour juger de l’acceptabilité d
Información personal para principiantes
Jumbled up dialogue for students to practise personal information. Ask them to unjumble it and then practise the dialogue in pairs with their own personal details (or not). Based on L194 Libro1 Unidad1 Preparación Estudiantes.pdf on the module website.
