Middle School Portal: Math and Science Pathways (MSP2)
This is a great resource containing thumbnail sketches of great inventors and their inventions. Copyright 2005 International Technology Education Association
You Are There: First Flight
Students learn about archives and primary sources as they research original historical documents. While preparing an imaginative first-person account as if witnessing an historical event, they learn to appreciate the value of the first-person, eye-witness account and understand its limitations. Note: The literacy activities for the Mechanics unit are based on physical themes that have broad application to our experience in the world concepts of rhythm, balance, spin, gravity, levity, inertia, mo
Environmental History Timeline
Students develop critical thinking skills by interviewing a person who has perspective on environmental history. Students explore the concept of a timeline, including historical milestones, and develop a sense of the context of events.
History and Civilization
The purpose of this course is to survey the development of various Western civilizations and the ways in which culture translates, transforms, and transcends the world around it.
The state of Russia
Professor Christopher Read examines the current state of Russia and its changing political and economic position.
Length: 22 minutes
How Angels nearly disappeared from our culture.
Professor Peter Marshall discusses how the protestant reformation nearly removed Angels from our culture and how they managed to survive into the modern era.
Length: 27 minutes
America's military strategy for Iraq
Dr Rob Johnson talks about the implications of President Bush's recent announcement that an additional 20,000 troops will be heading to Iraq.
Length: 26 minutes
The history of working men's clubs
At the height of their popularity there were more than 4,000 working men's clubs across the UK.
Now there are just over half that number.
Dr Ruth Cherrington, lecturer in cultural studies, talks about her research into how the club movement started and why it has declined.
Making history live through improvisational theatre
How improvisational theatre is providing a new insight into the history of capital punishment.
Parish pieties
The sixth Warwick Symposium on Parish Research, held in the humanities research centre on May 17, 2008, drew together scholars from the UK, Europe and North America to consider religious devotion in late medieval and early modern parishes. Here the organisers, speakers and postgraduates talk about the symposium and different approaches to the theme of parish pieties.
Parish pieties
The sixth Warwick Symposium on Parish Research, held in the humanities research centre on May 17, 2008, drew together scholars from the UK, Europe and North America to consider religious devotion in late medieval and early modern parishes. Here the organisers, speakers and postgraduates talk about the symposium and different approaches to the theme of parish pieties.
Chilli, Chocolate, and Chips: Foods that Originate from the New World
Dr. Rebecca Earle from the Department of Comparative American Studies talks about the importance of diet in creating the Indian and Spanish identities in the early modern era, and how the foods that the Spanish once avoided in the New World are now ingrained in many cultures.
Guns and Rubles
Professor Mark Harrison discusses Stalin, the Great Terror, and how defense was at the core of Stalin’s system of rule.
Professor Wyn Grant Discusses UK Election Politics
In the year of a General Election, Professor Wyn Grant from the Department of Politics and International Studies discusses the complexities of UK election politics
SP.2H3 Ancient Philosophy and Mathematics (MIT)
Western philosophy and theoretical mathematics were born together, and the cross-fertilization of ideas in the two disciplines was continuously acknowledged throughout antiquity. In this course, we read works of ancient Greek philosophy and mathematics, and investigate the way in which ideas of definition, reason, argument and proof, rationality and irrationality, number, quality and quantity, truth, and even the idea of an idea were shaped by the interplay of philosophic and mathematical inquir
Medieval mason's marks could spell the end of flat-pack furniture misery
A medieval system of marking stone in building work could be a cheap and effective way of ending the modern day frustration of constructing flat-pack furniture, according to a University of Warwick academic.
