Open Classroom 2/22/12 #2 Sarah Dwyer
Food and American Society an Urban Perspective
Topic for 2/22/12: What we eat: The role of culture
Lectures:
Sara Dwyer - Program Manager, Oldways -- Culture and Food
Lori Lefkovitz - Ruderman Professor and Director of Jewish Studies, Northeastern University
Robert Hall - Associate Professor of African American Studies, Northeastern University
The Open Classroom Policy Series is a graduate-level public policy seminar that is open to the public. Each semester, the School of Public Policy and
UW 360 February 2011: Fish Collection
The Burke Museum and the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences maintain a collection of fish and larvae that's been growing since 1919. There are many thousands of specimens; in fact, it's one of the largest collections in the world.
Mole Cricket in Burrow
This short video gives excellent real life, close up footage of a Mole Cricket in burrow. This is our largest native orthopteran and one of our most impressive and unusual looking insects. The body is brown in color and covered with fine velvety hairs, and the forelegs are greatly modified for digging. Only the adult stages are winged, and flight is said to be clumsy, directionless and only performed on rare occasions at night. Males can be distinguished from the females by the op
Squares
In this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad must build a raft to cross a river. The first raft they build floats, but there are gaps between the pieces of the raft that allow biting piranhas to jump through the holes. The CyberSquad uses their knowledge of tessellations to build a second raft that has no gaps or overlaps. (2mins)
Pizza Toppings Using a Venn Diagram
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Bianca wants to pick up a pizza to share with her two friends. Each of the three friends has topping preferences, so Bianca hopes to create a pizza that will satisfy all of their requests. In order to organize the preferences, Bianca draws a Venn Diagram and then arranges the pizza toppings according to the diagram. (3:25)
Pull 'Er Up
In this video segment from "Eureeka!", the CyberSquad pulls up the flat sides of a 2-dimensional net to make a 3-dimensional building. (1:02)
Creating People Centred Schools: Section 2. School organization: a brief history
This provides an overview of organizational styles and the importance of cultures as well as structures in organizational models and change.
Photostory Tutorial
This tutorial video gives step by step directions to creating a photostory using windows. Visuals are given for each auditory step. This is a great resource to enhance classroom instruction and to motivate students. (8:14)
SMART Notebook Tutorial for Smartboard Side Tabs
This video tutorial shows how to use the Smartboard Side Tabs for various Smartboard activities. Some of the features include gallery, lesson activity toolkit, gallery sampler, online resources, paper clip links, properties, etc. (13:27)
LLAS/Why study...? downloadable calendar - March 2012, Urdu
LLAS/Why study...? downloadable calendar - March 2012, Urdu.
French grammar exercise on different forms of the conditional
French grammar exercise on different forms of the conditional.
LGO13 Off-Cycle Internship Supervisor Orientation
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BLOSSOMS - The Towers of Hanoi: Experiential Recursive Thinking This lesson is about the Towers of Hanoi problem, a classic famous problem involving recursive thinking to reduce what appears to be a very large and difficult problem into a series of simpler ones. The learning objective is for students to begin to understand recursive logic and thinking, relevant to computer scientists, mathematicians and engineers.
The Amazing Fact Generator is a great writing prompt for students I came across the amazing fact Generator a little while back which has a great collection of both useful and useful facts. The great thing about the amazing fact generator is that regardless of the facts being shared they generally produce a great deal of discussion with my students. Most of the time this leads to getting students to produce s
A Day In the Life of a Manhattan Architecture Student
Visit http://www.nyit.edu/admissions to create your own adventure!
PMAD Connie Hebert
People Make a Difference with Danny Brassell
Guest: Connie Hebert
Authentic Arrows
Charles Acuna of the White Mountain Apache Tribe takes a look at how Native Americans made their arrows in a video clip with host R. Lee Ermey of History's Mail Call. (4:33)
Declaration of Independence
In this video clip the Declaration of Independence is explained. To many in the Continental Congress, war was unthinkable. The Declaration of Independence is a revolutionary document for a revolutionary unified statement, the idea of being independent from Britain. Thomas Jefferson composed the foundation for one of America’s most sacred documents. (3:49)
Mixie Reports – Whole Grains
Mixie visits a bakery and learns how whole wheat bread is made (2:21)
Said Song
Said Song is a Sight Word Song by Have Fun Teaching. This Sight Word Video teaches the word SAID. These Sight Word Songs teach the sight words by showing the word, repeating the word, spelling the word, using the word in a sentence, and typing the word on a keyboard. Sight words are the most commonly used English words that a beginning reader must know when learning how to read. (02:13)
