Meet the World's Biggest Bat
With their giant wingspans, flying foxes are the world's biggest bats. Australia's black flying foxes are a prime example, with wingspans up to six feet (or two meters). (02:21)
Global Warming: Carbon Dioxide and the Greenhouse Effect
This video segment adapted from NOVA/FRONTLINE demonstrates the physical property of carbon dioxide that causes the greenhouse effect.
Wildlife Management Activity Guide for Teachers
Whether your school has a 40 acre school forest or a 40 square foot school yard lawn, we urge you to get your students involved in some hands-on wildlife management. It is a relevant real world issue that will also expose them to disciplines other than science as they learn all the complexities of land management. A few teachers are teaching about a variety of game species and habitats. Others are developing small native plant gardens which provide basic needs for native butterflies and birds. P
Ampere’s Law
The lesson begins with a demonstration introducing students to the force between two current carrying loops, comparing the attraction and repulsion between the loops to that between two magnets. After formal lecture on Ampere’s law, students begin to use the concepts to calculate the magnetic field around a loop. This is applied to determine the magnetic field of a toroid, imagining a toroid as a looped solenoid.
Annually Occurring Aerosol Features: Biomass Burning in Southern Africa from July to September 1986
Aerosol index over Africa from July 2, 1986 through September 7, 1986 as measured by the Nimbus-7 Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS)
Heads Up
The purpose of this activity is to demonstrate some of the different parts of an airplane through the construction of a paper airplane. Students will build several different kinds of paper airplanes in order to figure out what makes an airplane fly and what can be changed to influence the flying characteristics of an airplane.
WSU employee trains service dogs
Sierra is a wiggly bundle of energy that loves people. But once the 9-month-old black lab/golden retriever cross dons her cape, she tries to be all business.
She is the 10th service dog that Washington State University employees Dan and Linda Hardesty have raised over the past 12 years. Dan is the agricultural land coordinator in the Office of Real Estate and Linda is an associate professor and scientist in the School of the Environment.
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Opzeggingstermijnen : Aanvullend ICT-materiaal Hier vind je een leerpad via Google Sites over opzeggingstermijnen: vorm, begin, duur, arbeiders-, bedienden- en studentenarbeid, recente ontwikkelingen (IPA, Grondwettelijk Hof).
TWC9: Windows Store for Win8 Dev's, Faster IE, Cheaper Azure, New EF and more This week on Channel 9, Dan and Duncan discuss the week's top developer news, including:
Méga usine, méga défi : l'usine de gaz naturel liquéfié (video)
Les avancées technologiques, la mise en valeur du développement durable, la prise en compte d'un contenu local, la forte demande mondiale en énergie par rapport aux capacités de production ainsi que les regroupements récents des grands donneurs d'ordre sont autant d'éléments qui font que les nouvelles usines sont de plus en plus grandes, intégrées et complexes. Ainsi la méga usine, qui était une exception il y a dix ans, est devenue monnaie courante. Pour relever ces nouveaux déf
Making Rain at Home
This cartoon animation shows you how to make "rain" at home and explains the water cycle. Key words like evaporation, condensation, precipitation, hail stones, and water vapor. (02:48)
Analyze the Data
Students go through the logical process of quantitatively analyzing data from the FasTracks system. They gain experience identifying problems with the current design based upon their earlier observations and experiences in activities 1 and 2. Students discuss the flaws that they find in the system. This activity requires the use of the FasTracks Living Lab, a web portal to interactive train (transit) traffic data for a major metropolitan city.
Graphing Equations on the Cartesian Plane: Slope
The lesson teaches students about an important characteristic of lines: their slope. Slope can be determined either in graphical or algebraic form. Slope can also be described as positive, negative, zero, or undefined. Students get an explanation of when and how these different types of slope occur. Finally, students learn how slope relates to parallel and perpendicular lines. When two lines are parallel, they have the same slope and when they are perpendicular their slopes are negative reciproc
IDS350 Session 2 Spring 2012
IDS350 Session 2 Spring 2012
Gardens of California
Jerry Turney
The Space For Nature Wildlife Gardening Forum
This informative Space For Nature Wildlife Gardening Forum website was developed for naturalists, horticulturalists and others interested in creating garden habitats for wildlife. The site editor is Richard Burkmar, who received his PhD from University College of Cardiff in avian ecology, and believes "that gardens are an increasingly valuable habitat in real terms for wildlife, and that they are uniquely positioned, as accessible natural spaces, to influence our behaviour and attitudes towards
Digital Promise Project: Proposal for the Digital Opportunity Investment Trust (DO IT)
The Digital Promise Project, led by leaders in fields of communications and humanities (whose extensive backgrounds are described in the Principals section), has spearheaded a proposal to the U.S. Congress to create the Digital Opportunity Investment Trust (DO IT). Addressing the technology needs of learning in the 21st century, the charge of this nonprofit, nongovernmental agency would be "to unlock the potential of the Internet and other new information technologies for education in the broade
Construction Technologies: Create the Strongest Bridge
Students work in pairs to create three simple types of model bridges (beam, arch, suspension). They observe quantitatively how the bridges work under load and why engineers use different types of bridges for different places. They also get an idea of the parts needed to build bridges, and their functions. The strength of model bridges is mainly a factor of the quality of materials used, and therefore they do not provide a clear visual representation of tension and compression forces involved. Ye
Fish-Friendly Engineering
Students further their understanding of the salmon life cycle and the human structures and actions that aid in the migration of fish around hydroelectric dams by playing an animated PowerPoint game involving a fish that must climb a fish ladder to get over a dam. They first brainstorm their own ideas, and then learn about existing ways engineers have made dams “friendlier” to migrating fish, before being quizzed as part of the game.
History to Enrich Mathematics Learning
This resource guide highlights online resources that talk about the history of mathematics in a way that can help students see real-world connections in mathematics.
De wereld in 360° panorama's Op deze site vind je vele foto's die gemaakt zijn op bijzondere plaatsen op aarde. Wat te denken van Times Square New York, Death Valley, the Mount Everest of Carnaval in Rio. De foto's zijn gemaakt met een bepaalde techniek zodat je echt 360 …
