Video Flash Cards: Multiplication by 6
This video uses white flash cards on a black screen to help students learn their times tables. Facts 1-10 are illustrated. No narration, only a short amount of music at the beginning and end of the video. (02:34)
Helping Without Hurting: Leadership During Adversity
The Honorable LaJune Thomas Lange is a retired District Court Judge and President of the International Leadership Institute in Minneapolis, MN. Her presentation at the University of St. Thomas provided attendees with real-life examples of her leadership in the court system and abroad with the International Leadership Institute and reminded those present to develop relationships, spend time listening, and above all to "lead with love."
Photo Slideshow: A Regional History of Basketry
At the University of Arizona, the Arizona State Museum's exhibition, "Basketry Treasured" includes pieces by ancient Southwest cultures, and historic and contemporary Tohono and Akimel O'odham, Hopi and Apache basket weavers. The exhibition also includes examples of basketry from other tribes in North America, providing a glimpse of the ASM's vast basketry and fiber collection, which spans thousands of years. On display through June 1, 2013, are containers, sandals, cradleboards, mats, preserved
Essential Science for Teachers: Life Science: Session 1. What Is Life?
What distinguishes living things from dead and nonliving things? No single characteristic is enough to define what is meant by life. In this session, five characteristics are introduced as unifying themes in the living world.,A scientist discusses his work to detect life on Mars. We also look at how the information passed from parents to offspring is coded in DNA molecules.
Essential Science for Teachers: Life Science: Session 1. What Is Life?
What distinguishes living things from dead and nonliving things? No single characteristic is enough to define what is meant by life. In this session, five characteristics are introduced as unifying themes in the living world.,Children are given a plant and are asked to determine if it is living.
Essential Science for Teachers: Life Science: Session 1. What Is Life?
What distinguishes living things from dead and nonliving things? No single characteristic is enough to define what is meant by life. In this session, five characteristics are introduced as unifying themes in the living world.,This segment shows children's ideas on what objects are living, not living(dead),and things that were never living. Students are asked if a burning candle is alive. Orange peel? Dried peas? The teacher reflects on her students' answers and how they relate to the resear
Essential Science for Teachers: Life Science: Session 1. What Is Life?
What distinguishes living things from dead and nonliving things? No single characteristic is enough to define what is meant by life. In this session, five characteristics are introduced as unifying themes in the living world.,This segment shows children's ideas on what objects are living, not living (dead), and things that were never living. The narrators refer to Roslyn Driver's research and that very young children think "If it moves, it is alive." Pairs of students are given mice, dead cr
Oregon Stater Honoree: Ian Wendler
Each year, the College of Engineering at Oregon State University honors outstanding alumni and friends with the Oregon Stater Awards for their contributions to the engineering profession and to Oregon State University. Several of the 2012 honorees offered words of wisdom to the next generation of engineers.
Roly Poly Roundup- (Interactive Game)
Play this interactive game to observe roly-poly locomotion and defensive behavior as the player tries to direct them to their home in the log. The player also see that all living things (even roly-polies!) need shelter, food, and water to live. This game can be used to support the Sid the Science Kid episode, Home Tweet Home.
Authors at Google: Ed Yourden, "CIOs at Work"
In CIOs at Work, noted author Ed Yourdon interviews many of the world's most influential chief information officers. You will gain insights from the first CIO of the USA, take a peek into the future with the CIO at Google, learn the unique role IT plays in testing Microsoft applications, and much more.
Yourdon focuses on how his interviewees tackle the day-to-day work of managing information in their organizations while revealing much more: How they got there, how they manage and allocate reso
Proefjes : Onderzoek en ervaar de vier elementen Het doel van deze site is kinderen vanaf 8 jaar kennis te laten maken met natuurkunde, scheikunde en biologie. Deze site bevat tal van proefjes over de vier elementen, daarnaast zijn er vele andere mogelijkheden tot onderzoek. Voor …
2.5 Defining surfaces
Surfaces are a special class of topological spaces that crop up in many places in the world of mathematics. In this unit, you will learn to classify surfaces and will be introduced to such concepts as homeomorphism, orientability, the Euler characteristic and the Classification Theorum.
1.3.1 Introduction Holding up the East Asian success story as the way forward has, as I indicated above, little appeal for the antisweatshop movement. For its members, a different image comes to mind of thousands of workers eking out a living from the numerous sweatshops which dot that part of the world: one that involves the perpetuation of poverty wage levels, the use and abuse of poor communities, and the constant taking advantage of what is ready to hand, followed by withdrawal and abandonment. What they se
Introduction Sweatshops and the exploitation of workers are often linked to the globalised production of ‘big brand’ labels. This unit examines how campaigners have successfully closed the distance between the brands and the sweatshops, while others argue that such production ‘kick starts’ economies into growth benefiting whole communities. This unit is an adapted extract from the Open University course Author(s):
PubPol 580 - Values, Ethics, and Public Policy Prince William, Kate greet Canadians at barbecue What makes countries competitive in the world economy? China's factory output slows further William and Kate meet Canadians Introduction The unit uses the example of climate change to highlight the dynamic and volatile character of the planet, and how globalisation links together, in often unequal ways, people and places across the world. The unit focuses on the potentially momentous impact of global environmental change on Pacific Islands like Tuvalu. It introduces students to geographical ways of thinking about the world. This unit is an adapted extract from the Open University course
June 30 - Britain's Prince William and his wife, Catherine, The Duchess of Cambridge, attend an official barbecue at Rideau Hall in Otawa. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
June 30 - Chrystia Freeland talks with Siemens CEO, Eric Spiegel, and Atlantic senior writer, James Fallows about competitiveness in today's global economy and the German exception.
July 1 - Chinese factory output lower-than-expected in June, but still higher than earlier private HSBC survey that indicated a near stalling of production. Arnold Gay reports.
July 1 - The Duke and Dutchess of Cambridge meet with Canadians at the start of their first official trip abroad. Julie Noce reports.
