Video Flash Cards: Addition by 5
Sample video using video flash cards to help students learn their Addition Tables. White flashcards appear against a black screen. The flashcards then flip to reveal the answer. Music plays at the beginning and end. Otherwise, no narration or sound. (02:36)
Sheena Iyengar: "The Art of Managing all our Choices": Talks at Google
In this presentation, Sheena explores how to optimize extensive product assortments. Today, the absolute number of products available to consumers is constantly increasing--as a result, ensuring that your products stand out from the competition has never been more important. Sheena answers questions such as: How many options should you offer? Is it possible to give consumers too much choice? How should options be displayed? And finally, how do contextual features affect optimal assortment?
Shee
P1 Time Management
By: srowshan P1 Time Management
Feeling the Heat with Jeff Corwin: Lynx
In this episode Jeff Corwin visits with the New England Zoo's Canada lynx to talk about the problems this species will face as the effects of global warming become more pronounced and what can be done to help them. (1:00)
Platon - La politica parte 15 de 16
Entre sus obras más importantes se cuentan: la República, en la cual elabora la filosofía política de un estado ideal; el Fedro, en el que desarrolla una compleja e influyente teoría psicológica; el Timeo, un influyente ensayo de cosmogonía, cosmología racional, física y escatología, influido por las matemáticas pitagóricas; y el Teeteto, el primer estudio conocido sobre filosofía de la ciencia. (14:57)
FDR Asks Congress to Declare War on Japan
On the day after the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt tells a joint session of Congress that the United States must take up arms in response. (7:45)
"Rainy Day" Song by the Milkshake Kids
Another fun fine animation by Sam Tillman. "Rainy Day" is a song from the Milkshake Kids. Students will learn about all the things you can do in the rain. This is a great resource to help build background knowledge about the weather and to help make real world connections between nature and the classroom. (1:42)
End This Depression Now! [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor Paul Krugman | The Great Recession is more than four years old—and counting. Yet, "Nations rich in resources, talent, and knowledge—all the ingredients for prosperity and a decent standard of living for all—remain in a state of intense pain." In his new book, End This Depression Now! which he will discuss in this event Krugman shows how the failure of regulation to keep pace with an increasingly out-of-control financial system positioned the United States and the worl
31.05.2012 – Langsam gesprochene Nachrichten
Trainiere dein Hörverstehen mit den Nachrichten der Deutschen Welle von Donnerstag – als Text und als verständlich gesprochene Audio-Datei.
Die syrischen Rebellen haben Präsident Baschar al-Assad ein Ultimatum bis Freitagmittag gestellt, um den Friedensplan des Sondergesandten Kofi Annan umzusetzen. Wenn sich die Regierung nicht an die Frist halte, sehe sich auch die Führung der Freien Syrischen Armee an keine Zusage aus dem Plan mehr gebunden, erklärten die Rebellen, die vor allem aus d
12.811 Tropical Meteorology (MIT)
This course describes the large-scale circulation systems of the tropical atmosphere and analyses the dynamics of such systems. Topics include: Radiative-convective equilibrium; the Hadley and walker circulation; monsoons; tropical boundary layers; theory of the response of the tropical atmosphere to localized sea-surface temperature anomalies; intraseasonal oscillations; equatorial waves; El Niño/Southern Oscillation; easterly waves; and tropical cyclones.
Algebra 1 Substitution Method
In this 1:53 video students learn that how to use this method to help simplify their work. Easy to follow, but it moves very rapidly and so the video may need to be stopped to check student understanding.
Hubble Image of Galaxies - Khan Academy
Hubble Image of Galaxies. (04:12)
Nanobots (Interactive Game)
In this game, learners investigate the very different behavior of forces at the nanoscale as they navigate nano-size robots of their own design across a challenging terrain.
Galactic Collisions - Khan Academy
Collision of the Milky Way Galaxy with Andromeda (forming "Milkomeda") (03:34)
Project Detroit, BoxingBots and Kinect at TechEd The Coding4Fun team is packing up and heading to TechEd North America and Europe this year, and we're bringing some of our toys along for the ride. We will also be giving a session on how to build Kinect applications with some great demos at both conferences.
LSE Growth Commission: Evidence Session 2 - Measurement [Audio]
Speaker(s): Sir Tony Atkinson, Paul Schreyer, Jean-Paul Fitoussi | In this session, Tony Atkinson, Paul Schreyer and Jean-Paul Fitoussi will give their views on the best ways of defining and measuring economic growth, including distributional considerations and sustainability issues, drawing on state of the art academic literature.
Beyond efficiency
Dr Jonathan Trevor and Kate Tojeiro argue the traditional, bureaucratic organisation - based on execution and efficiency - is being replaced by network-based, informal structures as the industrial age disappears. Organisations need to cultivate a model of empowerment, development and liberation of talent within an organisation, to go beyond just merely seeking to exploit efficiencies, but to do something fundamentally different without reference necessarily to those above. The key to this empowe
Dr. Carlos Corvalán - Keynote speaker
20th Annual John K. Friesen Conference - 2011
Growing Old in a Changing Climate:
Exploring the Interface Between Population Aging and Global Warming
Dr. Carlos Corvalán
Senior Advisor in Risk Assessment and Global Environmental Change, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)/WHO, Washington, DC, USA
More info: http://www.sfu.ca/grc/friesen/friesen2011/
Chessboard Algebra and Function Machines
Lesson Objective:Students find the rule that determines the number of chessboard squares. Questions to Consider:See how Ms. Bottomley uses a function machine to have students predict the ruleHow does the lesson help students see the difference between additive and multiplicative patterns?What about the lesson helps students be successful with this complex pattern?Common Core StandardsMath.4.OA.2, Math.4.OA.5
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Science Bulletins: Congo Land Cover
Satellite data help scientists evaluate human impacts to ecosystems, especially in remote areas where field surveys are impractical. Researchers from the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) are using satellite data spanning more than three decades to map vegetation and roads in and around protected areas in northern Congo, Cameroon, and the Central African Republic.
