Curriculum Integration in a Standards-based World
Curriculum integration involves not only helping students make connections across content areas, but also promoting democracy in the classroom. The concepts of curriculum integration are discussed. The reactions of teachers, students, and parents to curriculum integration are reported.,Volume 7, Number 1
The Digital Learning Farm
Across the country, teachers are providing students with the opportunity to use technology to make valuable contributions to their learning communities. Six types of jobs are described in this article: tutorial designers, official scribes, researchers, collaboration coordinators, contributing to society, and curriculum reviewers.,Volume 12, Number 1
Differentiating Instruction: Why Bother?
Differentiating instruction is suggested to meet the needs of different students in a classroom. Strategies for conducting differentiating instruction are provided.,Volume 9, Number 1
Online News: Public Sphere or Echo Chamber?
Two panelists debate whether journalism in a digital age amounts to feast or famine, and differ on even basic questions: Are people just snacking on the news equivalent of junk food, and starving for the kind of information they need to be informed citizens? Alternatively, doesn’t the abundance of information on the internet make
Politics around the wine table: The political nature of a symposium in Plato's laws
Part of the Politics in Strange Places conference held n Oxford University, September 2010.
Nietzsche, Plato, Dance, Politics: Two interpretations of the relationship between politics and danc
Part of the Politics in Strange Places conference held in Oxford in September 2010.
Telling Stories about Politics; The concept of political narrative and the case of 'Left versus Righ
Part of the Politics in Strange Places conference held in Oxford in September 2010
Celebrations of Democracy and the rise of the Political Festival
Part of the Politics in Strange Places Conference held in Oxford in September 2010
Crack tip strain field around a growing crack: 2D simulation
This resource is a video, illustrating how the stress field around a crack grows with the length of the crack, presented as a contour map. It was obtained by stitching together maps of the surface temperature (amplitude) captured with an infra-red camera during cyclic loading; and the temperature amplitude is directly proportional to the amplitude of the first stress invariant (sum of principal stresses), which drives the crack forward, based on the classical Paris law. So the crack growth will
Crack tip strain field around a growing crack: 3D simulation
This resource illustrates how the stress field around a crack grows with the length of the crack, presented as a three-dimensional plot. It was obtained by stitching together maps of the surface temperature (amplitude) captured with an infra-red camera during cyclic loading; and the temperature amplitude is directly proportional to the amplitude of the first stress invariant (sum of principal stresses), which drives the crack forward, based on the classical Paris law. So the crack growth will ge
BooksPicker
5minute pitch for the Spring 2011 iCampus Prize First Round competition.
BooksPicker was selected as one of five First Round iCampus Student Prize winners for Spring 2011. See http://icampusprize.mit.edu/ for more information.
Bookxor
5 minute pitch for the Spring 2011 iCampus Prize First Round competition.
Bookxor was selected as one of five First Round iCampus Student Prize winners for Spring 2011. See http://icampusprize.mit.edu/ for more information.
CrowdSkimmer
5 minute pitch for the Spring 2011 iCampus Prize First Round competition.
CrowdSkimmer was selected as one of five First Round iCampus Student Prize winners for Spring 2011. See http://icampusprize.mit.edu/ for more information.
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P-set Central
5 minute pitch for the Spring 2011 iCampus Prize First Round competition.
P-set Central was selected as one of five First Round iCampus Student Prize winners for Spring 2011. See http://icampusprize.mit.edu/ for more information.
The Squeeze is On
Students will learn about the force of compression and how it acts on structural components through a hands-on group project. Using everyday products such as paper, toothpicks, and tape they will construct a structure that will support the weight of a cinder block for 30 sec.
Engineering and the Human Body
The Engineering and the Human Body unit covers the broad spectrum of topics that make-up our very amazing human body. Students are introduced to the space environment and learn the major differences between the environment on Earth and that of outer space. The engineering challenges that arise because of these discrepancies are also discussed. Then, students dive into the different components that make up the human body: muscles, bones and joints, the digestive and circulatory systems, the nervo
Lights Out!
This lesson introduces the concept of electricity by asking students to imagine what their life would be like without electricity. Two main forms of electricity, static and current, are introduced. Students learn that electrons can move between atoms, leaving atoms in a charged state.
Micromechnical Biosensors and their Integration with Aptamer-based Receptor Molecules
This site is one of many on \\\\\\\"nanoHUB.org\\\\\\\" which highlights availability of on-line simulations. This particular one provides a video of a research seminar on the topic of micromechanical biosensors focusing on aptamer-based receptor molecules. The quality of the graphics in the video is not high - mainly, the smallness of the visuals makes it difficult to decipher the contents. However, the information content, as delivered and described verbally, is coherent and useful. The i
Which Roof is Tops?
When you walk or drive around your neighborhood what do the roofs look like? What if you lived in an area with a different climate, how would that effect the style of roof that you might find. This is an introductory activity to explore the advantages of different roof shapes for different climates or situations.
