Ramsar Sites of Nepal
This article provides an overview of Ramsar Sites of Nepal
Hayden Planetarium: Educator's Activities
This series of activities provides a sample of possibilities for using the Digital Universe with your students. The activities were drafted in consultation with classroom teachers and museum experts, but have yet to be pilot tested in classrooms. They are an initial exploration into the educational possibilities for using the Digital Universe data set in the classroom.
The Perfect Purple Feather Read-Aloud Online Storybook
This read-aloud is The Perfect Purple Feather written by Hanoch Piven. Feeling a poke from within his pillow during the night, Jacob maneuvers a fluffy purple feather to the surface. Beginning with a bluebird in a nearby tree, various animals explain how they would put it to good use-as a wing, a pen, a tail, etc. When a tick tickles an elephant's nose with it, the elephant sneezes, causing the feather to fly through the sky, suggesting the possibility that it may land in the reader's bedro
Brain: The Inside Story's "Your Sensing Brain"
Wherever you go, whatever you do, the world stirs your senses. It is there in the sparkle of fireworks, the flavor of watermelon, the crack of a baseball bat and the scent of summer rain. Sensations like these may seem to come to you automatically. But you only perceive them thanks to an intricate chain reaction of signals inside your brain.
The exhibition, Brain: The Inside Story, which is on view at the American Museum of Natural History from Saturday, November 20, until August 14, 2011, brin
Endangered Species Game
This OLogy board game is a fun-filled way to help kids understand that once a species is extinct, it's gone forever. And that there are lots of things they can do to help preserve biodiversity. The activity begins by introducing kids to the difference between endangered and extinct animals, as well as to the U.S.'s Endangered Species Act. A colorful game board is included as a printable PDF file. You'll need a pair of dice and a marker of your choosing for each player. Simple directions for asse
Fish Skull Animation: Jaw Protrusion
This collection of fish-skull animations is from Diversity of Fishes, part of the Museum's Seminars on Science series. These distance-learning courses are designed to help educators meet the new national science standards. The three QuickTime movies take a look at the following aspects of jaw protrusion: how this feeding mechanism allows fish to extend their reach in order to envelope prey; how jaw protrusion increases mouth volume and forces water and prey into the fish's now tube-like jaws; th
Hurricane Gert from TRMM: September 16, 1999
A fly-in to Hurricane Gert on September 16, 1999, showing the three-dimensional structure of the precipitation as measured by the Precipitation Radar instrument on TRMM. In this animation, a surface of constant precipitation is colored by the value of the precipitation on the ground under the surface. The global cloud cover data was measured by GOES.
Se marier dancing sa ville natale: Reading exercise
Your will know what the requirements are to get married in a particular city and the administrative route you will have to go through. You will write what your expectations are of a civil marriage and answer questions about a given text.
Our Solar System:Â Outer Planets - by StudyJams
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are all of the outer planets in our solar system. There is a planetoid called Pluto out there too! Learn more about our outer planets with this slide show from StudyJams. Vibrant images are set to music while information is written under each photo. A short, self-checking quiz is also included with this link.
Part 1: Secrets from Ancient Egypt
This 5:32 minute video documentary is about a visit to the ancient sites of this country. It is a travel show without much data. It is best as a video that shows close views of some of the structures to help studets gain a better understanding of how these monuments were built.
Leçon 2 : Tentatives de définitions du film documentaire (partie 1 et 2)
Leçon 1 : définitions
Partie 1 : Tentatives de définition du film documentaire
- définir le documentaire occasionne un débat sans fin :
- est-ce simplement l’« interprétation créative de la réalité » ?
- le documentaire n’est pas un genre au sens des films de genre, caractérisés par leurs sujets ou leurs effets sur les spectateurs
- il a une généalogie, il évolue au cours de l’histoire
- il a une finalité particulière
How hummingbirds drink
Read more:
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/05/how-the-hummingbirds-forked-tongue-traps-sweet-nectar.html
Predit 4 : Cérémonie de remise des prix
Mi-parcours du Predit 4
Cérémonie de remise des prix
Les prix du Predit sont décernés, à mi-parcours et en fin de programme, à des recherches dont la qualité et les impacts font référence
Le Carrefour de la recherche et de l'innovation dans les transports terrestres
10-12 mai 2011 (Bordeaux)
pour le programme au regard de ses différentes priorités. Soixante-sept projets nommés et seize primés seront ainsi mis à l’honneur dans
les c
Leçon 3 : Théorie du film documentaire
THEORIE DU FILM DOCUMENTAIRE
Jean Luc Lioult
Professeur à l'Université de Provence
- il n’existe au fond qu’une seule modalité de représentation du monde réel, auquel l’immense majorité des films renvoient en dernière analyse
- il existe néanmoins diverses formes de mimesis qui remplissent différentes fonctions
- ainsi, les activités fictionnelles ont partie liée avec une dimension ludique de la mimesis : on accepte de sus
STS-134 Daily Mission Recap - Flight Day 8
A video recap of flight day 8 of the STS-134 mission of space shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station.
Expedition 27 Says Goodbye
At 2:45 p.m. EDT on May 23, 2011, hatches were closed between the International Space Station and Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft. Expedition 27 crew members Dmitry Kondratyev, NASA Flight Engineer Cady Coleman and European Space Agency Flight Engineer Paolo Nespoli undocked at 5:35 p.m. for their return home.
Mobilités, technologies et services pour des transports sobres
Mi-parcours du Predit 4
Mobilités, technologies et services pour des transports sobres
Le Carrefour de la recherche et de l'innovation dans les transports terrestres
10-12 mai 2011 (Bordeaux)
Le Grenelle de l’environnement a donné une forte impulsion pour l’évolution du système de transport vers plus de sobriété, en énergie
mais aussi en matières, pour les transports de marchandises comme de voyageurs, pour les transports collectifs comme indiv
Chimie et défis énergétiques du 21ème siècle: des carburants à partir d’eau et de soleil
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Politiques de transport, quel chemin vers 2050 ?
Mi-parcours du Predit 4
Cérémonie d'ouverture : Politiques de transport, quel chemin vers 2050 ?
Le Carrefour de la recherche et de l'innovation dans les transports terrestres
10-12 mai 2011 (Bordeaux)
La France s’est donné comme objectif de diviser par 4 ses émissions de gaz à effet de serre d’ici 2050 par rapport à 1990. Cet objectif ambitieux ne pourra être atteint qu’en combinant un ensemble de leviers : la technologie certes, mais aussi des rég
Intelligent video surveillance system
http://www.bespy.be/Video-Audio-recorders/ - Intelligent video surveillance enables the user to get real time video. Security alerts that one sets are also real time. Whenever there will be any threat or potential threat, these alerts will inform the person at once. One can set up various alerts. These alerts include SMS messaging, email notification, triggers, on screen alerts and even they can contact the proper authorities.
