Poisoned Waters: What is the Biggest Polluter of Water?
More than three decades after the Clean Water Act, iconic American waterways like the Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound are in perilous condition and facing new sources of contamination. In this special collection of educational resources from FRONTLINE Poisoned Waters, correspondent Hedrick Smith investigates the growing hazards to our waterways and emerging threats to human health. Run time 05:15.
Poisoned Waters: What Warning Signals Does Nature Give Us?
More than three decades after the Clean Water Act, iconic American waterways like the Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound are in perilous condition and facing new sources of contamination. In this special collection of educational resources from FRONTLINE Poisoned Waters, correspondent Hedrick Smith investigates the growing hazards to our waterways and emerging threats to human health. Run time 05:05.
Poisoned Waters: Why Is Stormwater Runoff a Major New Threat?
More than three decades after the Clean Water Act, iconic American waterways like the Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound are in perilous condition and facing new sources of contamination. In this special collection of educational resources from FRONTLINE Poisoned Waters, correspondent Hedrick Smith investigates the growing hazards to our waterways and emerging threats to human health. Run time 05:05.
The water cycle: what goes around comes around
The resources here will provide you with content information as well as lessons and activities to guide your students to deeper understandings of the nature of water, the need for and intricacies of its management, and why water management issues can be divisive.
The Importance of River Water
The Importance of River Water - Learn about how vital the fresh water is coming from rivers. Also learn about the importance of river water for agriculture. A seven minute video that teaches students about the limited amount of fresh water available and the importance of rivers for transportation. Would be good if the students had maps of major rivers and know about the water cycle. Run time 07:15.
Mount Pinatubo: The Aftermath of a Volcanic Eruption
The eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 was the largest volcanic eruption in 80 years. The explosive eruption deposited tons of ash on the towns and villages near the volcano's base. Even more devastating than the eruption, however, were the devastating flows of water and debris that resulted when monsoon rains mixed with the accumulated volcanic ash. This video segment adapted from NOVA depicts some of the impact of these events on the communities surrounding the volcano. Closed captioning.
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Bengali fill in the blanks with names.
Placing Words: Symbols, Space, and the City
The evolution of architecture resembles nothing so much as the fleshing out and refinement of an organism, in William Mitchell’s condensed account. In pre-industrial times, architecture was “fundamentally skeleton and skin—a structure that protects and keeps out the weather.” The industrial era brought an incre
Global Resources and the Built Environment
With staggering statistics, John Fernandez persuades his audience that rapidly expanding urban centers are consuming too much of the world’s resources, setting the stage for global crisis. Yet Fernandez counters his own bleak picture with some bright examples of design that could help humans live within thei
Studying mammals: Return to the water
Some of the most unusual and versatile of all the mammals are the groups that live, feed and reproduce underwater. In this unit we will see how these formerly land-based mammals adapted to a return to the water, discussing such challenges as breathing, movement and communication. This is the seventh unit in the ‘Studying mammals’ series.
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A global dimension to science education in schools
Is your science teaching very ‘Western-oriented’? This unit is aimed at those teachers who would like to give a more global feeling to their teaching. You will learn how to source scientific articles with a greater emphasis on science and technology beyond the Western world and experience how such articles can be incorporated into teaching within the National Curriculum.
Honors Colloquium: "Why Immigration Reform Is So Difficult: Latinos as Threat in the Media"
Speaker Leo R. Chavez is a Professor of anthropology at University of California, Irvine and Director of the Center for Research on Latinos in a Global Society. Perceptions about race shape everyday experiences, public policies, opportunities for individual achievement, and relations across racial and ethnic lines. URI's Fall Honors Colloquium will explore key issues of race, showing how race still matters.
Essential Science for Teachers: Earth and Space Science
In-depth interviews with children that uncover their ideas about the topic at hand.,The interviewer provides the student with a real rock sample to observe and describe, helping the student notice that rock is composed of different combinations of minerals.
Panel #1 - U.S.-Asia Relations in the 21st Century
Asia's Global Influence: How Is It Exercised? What Does It Mean?
Moderator:
T. J. Pempel, University of California-Berkeley
Presentations:
Challenges in Asia's Regional Security Environment - Christopher Twomey, Naval Postgraduate School
The Instability of China-U.S. Relations - Yan Xuetong, Tsinghua University
Discussant:
John Brandon, The Asia Foundation
This conference is jointly sponsored by the Institute of East Asian Studies, National Bureau of Asian Research, The Asia Foundation and W
Panel #3 - Governance in Asia: Emerging Political Elites
Asia's Global Influence: How Is It Exercised? What Does It Mean?
Wen-hsin Yeh, University of California-Berkeley
Presentations:
Political Stability and Reform in China
Susan Shirk, University of California-San Diego
Japan's New Asianism: Threat or Opportunity?
Daniel Sneider, Stanford University
Discussant:
Peter Lorentzen, University of California-Berkeley
Panel #4 - Natural Resource Trends in Asia
Asia's Global Influence: How Is It Exercised? What Does It Mean?
Moderator:
Robert Hathaway, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Presentations:
Energy Resources and China's Economic Growth
David Roland-Holst, University of California-Berkeley
Energy Cooperation in Northeast Asia
Se Hyun Ahn, University of Seoul
Closing remarks and acknowledgements:
Robert Hathaway, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Panel #2 - Globalization and Regionalism in Asia
Asia's Global Influence: How Is It Exercised? What Does It Mean?
Moderator:
Bruce Tolentino, The Asia Foundation
Presentations:
An American Place at an Asian Table? Regionalism and its Reasons
Donald Emmerson, Stanford University
The AMF Reborn? Implications of the Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralization
William Grimes, Boston University
The Limits of Regionalism in East Asia Today
David Kang, University of Southern California
Discussant:
AnnaLee Saxenian, University of Califo
Carnegie Mellon in Silicon Valley - Research
Carnegie Mellon University is top-tier research institution. The research at CMU's Silicon Valley campus takes advantage of its location by partnering with local companies, government agencies and community leaders to investigate ways to provide the technology needed in instances where globalized efforts and high tech support are necessary. Mobile devices, network security, robotics and disaster management concerns are just a few of the many research areas in Silicon Valley that make a global i
Thunderbird Question: Tim Sullivan '76
Bucyrus International CEO Tim Sullivan, a 1976 graduate of Thunderbird School of Global Management, answers the Thunderbird Question. http://thunderbird.edu
