3... 2... 1... Liftoff! Educator Guide
Introduces children to the International Space Station (ISS), the most complex international scientific endeavor in history. Activities focus on the purpose and construction of the ISS, the history of rockets, and the role of rockets in space station assembly. Activities emphasize hands-on involvement, data collection, observation, exploration, prediction, interpretation, problem solving, and language skills.
Social Justice Education: Facilitator's Guide
This curriculum appears in an era of heightened violence around the world and increasingly visible inequalities of wealth among world nations and world peoples. In several months in mid and late 2001 we have witnessed the limited success of the U.N-sponsored conference on racism and other forms of oppression in Durban, South Africa; the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York; the mounting of international conflict centered in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Iraq and neighboring states,
eMarketing: the essential guide to online marketing
According to these authors, currently available online marketing textbooks are largely inadequate and outdated and lack the technical know-how and practical background that would make them applicable to students, educators and practitioners in the corporate sector. Quirk offers a dynamic and integrated learning experience that will ensure that students, educators and companies using the guide to eMarketing, will be in the know regarding the latest trends and best practices in this exciting spher
A Beginners Guide to Second Life
Textbook for a Summer School Course about Virtual Worlds at UOC Barcelona.
The textbook offers a glimpse into virtual worlds in general and Second Life in particular. Titled “Mundos virtuales. Un paseo por Second Life” (“Virtual worlds. A stroll in Second Life”), the course (and book) covers a range of topics ranging from basic movement and building techniques to some theories on virtual identities.
Edna's Guide to Networking
If you’re shy or this is your first time trying out professional networking, then I have 3 useful tips that will help you network at conference, workshop or trade show.
Dissection - 17 - The Ear
Dissection - 17 - the ear. An unusual section of the skull for dissection.
Dissection - 03 - the anterior body wall
Dissection - 03 - the anterior body wall. WARNING! Not for the faint hearted!!
Dissection - 02 - intrinsic muscles of the back
Dissection - 02- intrinsic muscles of the back - vertebral column - spinal meninges - spinal cord WARNING! Not for the faint hearted!!
Dissection - 01- Skin and subcutaneous tissue of trunk and up
Dissection - 01- Skin and subcutaneous tissue of trunk and upper thigh. WARNING! Not for the faint hearted!!
Carex squarrosa habit and dissection
Carex squarrosa habit and perigynium dissection. For context, see: Carex squarrosa species page and Carex Interactive Identification Key.
Carex pachystachya habit and perigynium dissection
Carex pachystachya habit and perigynium dissection. For context, see: Carex Interactive Identification Key.
Carex oligosperma habit and perigynium dissection
Carex oligosperma habit and perigynium dissection. For context, see: Carex oligosperma species page and Carex Interactive Identification Key.
Carex lupulina habit and dissection
Carex lupulina habit and dissection. For context, see: Carex lupulina species page and Carex Interactive Identification Key.
Carex intumescens habit and dissection
Carex intumescens habit and perigynium dissection. For context, see: Carex intumescens species page and Carex Interactive Identification Key.
Carex davisii habit and perigynium dissection
Carex davisii habitat, habit, and perigynium dissection to expose achene. For context, see: Carex davisii species page and Carex Interactive Identification Key.
Space Travel Guide
This OLogy activity offers kids a fun way to use their astronomical knowledge to create a comic-book travel guide that blends science and fiction. The activity begins by telling kids that the best science fiction writers play with scientific facts to make a story more exciting. It then challenges them to write a travel guide for their favorite destination in space that will convince their Earthling pals to visit. To help inspire and direct kids, the activity includes examples of science fiction
Gettysburg National Military Park Teacher's Guide
provides sample lesson plans, essay questions, ideas for bulletin boards and student projects, a Civil War reading list, and other resources teachers may use to guide students through the Battle of Gettysburg.
Effigy Mounds National Monument Teacher's Guide
This site provides more than 40 lesson ideas developed by teachers to help students learn about Eastern Woodland Native Americans who lived in the upper Mississippi River valley (southwestern Wisconsin and northeast Iowa) from about 500 BC to 1300 AD and who built effigies -- ceremonial burial mounds shaped to represent bears, eagles, falcons, bison, deer, turtles, lizards, and other creatures.
Educator's Guide: Vicksburg National Military Park
This guide was written to help you bring to life the human struggle that was endured in the Campaign for Vicksburg. The guide can help you bring a complex subject to your students. You and your students will probably come up with new and different ways to see the Park. We hope this guide will give you a few new tools to teach and enlighten your class. After all, the Campaign for Vicksburg was more than generals and maps, it was the common soldier, sailor and civilian who witnessed a lifetime in
Archeology for Interpreters, A Guide to the Knowledge of the Resource
Help students learn about archaeological methods and how archaeological interpretations are made. It is organized around questions that include: What is archeology? What do archaeologists do? How do archaeologists determine how old things are?
