Football player, Sherman Institute
An unidentified Sherman Institute football player stands in his uniform holding a football in front of a wooden fence. [This photograph was taken before a game between Pomona College and the Sherman Institute, a Native American high school in Riverside.]
Football coach, Sherman Institute
The coach of the Sherman Institute football team stands in front of a wooden fence wearing a pea coat and bow tie. [This photograph was taken before a game between Pomona College and the Sherman Institute, a Native American high school in Riverside.]
Smithsonian Source: Transportation
This section is intended to supplement the curricula, textbooks, and materials you currently use for lessons that demonstrate the importance of travel and transportation in American life. The teacher-developed resources will enhance the classroom experience for both you and your students. You might start by viewing the short video, in which curators at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum discuss the achievements and legacy of Amelia Earhart.
The Centennial of Flight -- The Future of Flight
This site is dedicated to the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first powered flight and the development of aviation over the past century. It offers aerospace-related products and programs that help connect students and teachers to aeronautics and space flight.
History of the Mac OS; part 2
This is just a very very very quick summary of what transpired in the 90s between Apple and Microsoft. A quick slideshow that shows how the Apple OS developed in the late 1980's and early 1990's. (10:01)
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This lesson presents documents pertaining to the treaty that brought an official end to the Mexican-American War. Materials for teachers and links to other resources accompany the documents.
Money Math: Lessons for Life
In these four lessons students learn: 1. How saving helps people become wealthy. They develop "rules to become a millionaire" as they work through a series of exercises, learning that it is important to: save early and often, save as much as possible, earn compound interest, try to earn a high interest ...
Photographs of Lewis Hine: Documentation of Child Labor
This lesson encourages students to analyze dozens of photographs taken in the early 1900s depicting working conditions for child laborers. This lesson correlates to the National History Standards and the National Standards for Civics and Social Sciences. It has cross-curricular connections with history, government, language arts, and business law.
Barack Obama and the World: Saviour or Lame Duck
November 4th 2008 marked one of the great political moments in American history when the first black man was elected to the White House. Immensely charismatic and politically astute, Barack Obama immediately raised US standing around the world. However he also confronted the most daunting set of challenges. Catapulted into office as America's answer to George W. Bush and the near collapse of the world financial system following the fall of Lehman Brothers, President Obama faced at least six big
The Defence of the Realm
For the first time, the British Security Service to mark the centenary of its foundation has opened its archives to an independent historian - Christopher Andrew. He will be at LSE to speak about his book, The Defence of the Realm. The book reveals the precise role of the Security Service in twentieth-century British history, from its foundation by Captain Kell of the British Army in October 1909, through two world wars, up to and including its present roles in counter-espionage and counter-terr
Islam Quintet: Night Of The Golden Butterfly.
Night of the Golden Butterfly concludes the Islam Quintet-Tariq Ali's award-winning series of historical novels, translated into more than a dozen languages, that has been twenty years in the writing. Completing an epic panorama that began in fifteenth-century Moorish Spain, the latest novel moves between the cities of the twenty-first century, from Lahore to London, from Paris to Beijing.
Creativity and Entrepreneurship
This course has been designed to provide students with an overall understanding of entrepreneurship and to prepare them for developing a mindset for thinking creatively. Targeted at students who would like to create their own businesses, it is meant to teach students how to live and work outside of the bureaucracy, to learn to dream about new ideas and new ventures, to push the edges of the envelope, and to see entrepreneurship as reality. The focus of the course is to start small and grow big--
Charles Howard Ross
C. Howard Ross stands in front of a tile roofed building wearing a fishman's cap and suit.
Interior of Jacobs house
A room with a piano in W. F. Jacobs' house at 502 West 21st Street in Los Angeles. Jacobs was a worker at the First Baptist Church of Los Angeles.
Mountain stream
A scenic mountain stream in the San Gabriel range north of Claremont. Photograph taken on a camping trip in July 1903.
ACS Talk on Teaching Chemistry with Second Life
I present on using Second Life to teach chemistry at the American Chemical Society meeting in New Orleans April 7, 2008. Examples include using quizzes, generating 3D molecules, visualizing docking, proteins and reactions. An overview of ACS island is also given, with a focus on the Sci-Mix virtual poster session. Much of this work was
Second Life and Social Media: Networking Goldmine or Time Sink?
Update: transcript available
This talk was presented by Jean-Claude Bradley at the American Chemical Society meeting in Philadelphia on August 18, 2008.
This is an overview of how social media and Second Life can be used to productively network. Prominent recent examples involving Deepak Singh
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Fotografija je posneta v Škocjanski jami. Učencem jo lahko pokažemo pri pouku zemljepisa in tudi fizike pri obravnavanju širjenje svetlobe.,Photo taken in Škocjan Caves.
Video Interview - 19th Century Czech Literature
Video Interview - 19th Century Czech Literature
Video Interview - 20th Century Czech Literature
Video Interview - 20th Century Czech Literature
