Living in a globalised world
Using the US and Mexico as the main example, this unit examines how inequalities in access to material wealth can lead to border tensions. You will also learn how many developed economies are now reliant on immigrant labour to perform jobs that their own citizens do not want to consider. How equal is the globalised world?
Give It A Shake, Cornstarch Comes Alive
Science Friday brings you a science fair project for the recession: combine cornstarch and water and make a fluid with bizarre physical properties, on the cheap. Physicists Robert Deegan, of the University of Michigan, and Harry Swinney, of the University of Texas at Austin, explain why the mixture comes to life under the right conditions. (3:40)
Set Culture Free Recently Salon featured an interview with author Robert Levine, entitled "Does culture really want to be free?" Levine has written a new book, Author(s):
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Beginner - Fisherman and the fish A successful relationship usually entails both people trying hard at it during its lifetime. However, what usually happens after a while is neglect. Today we will teach you how to complain if the other person falls short, and also how to reply if you have been accused of neglect!
Over 1,200 plunge in the Atlantic
Jan. 3 - Over 1,200 brave swimmers take to the winter waves at Coney Island Beach in New York to ring in 2012 with good intentions and a cold splash. Elly Park reports.
Filtering and Analysis of Heart Rhythms
This course outlines the steps in a Elec 301 project for Fall 2005. The projects takes in heart rhythms and analyzes them. Group Members: Grant Heberton, Robert McArthur, Anish Patel, and Erick Tournier.
Signals and Systems
This course deals with signals, systems, and transforms, from their theoretical mathematical foundations to practical implementation in circuits and computer algorithms. At the conclusion of ELEC 301, you should have a deep understanding of the mathematics and practical issues of signals in continuous and discrete time, linear time invariant systems, convolution, and Fourier transforms.
Connexions Tutorial and Reference (Japanese version)
Connexions Tutorial and Reference in Japanese.
Adaptive Filters
Covers different types of adaptive filters and their implementations. In depth analysis is done of the Wiener Filter algorithm and the LMS algorithm.
Little and big houses
Using the book "Little House on the Prairie" and international keypals, students will learn about similarities and differences among children at different times and in different places.
Around the world, a multicultural unit
The students will listen to stories from different cultures. They will participate in directed discussion, followed by a related art activity.
Motor Exam: Anatomy: UMN Syndrome
The UMN syndrome is a combination of loss of the direct corticospinal tract effect on the LMN and the loss of regulation of the indirect brainstem motor control centers. The first principle of neurologic diagnosis is regional or anatomical localization. In order to become skillful the student must understand how structure relates to function of the nervous system. The neurologic examination permits "dissection" of the nervous system and localizes the disease when present. Instead of simply memor
Ku Klux Klan Flyers
This flyer advertises a 1963 white supremacist Ku Klux Klan meeting; from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.
Rev. Frank Dukes: Selective Buying Campaign
In this oral history from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Frank Dukes describes his role in the 1962 boycott of discriminatory stores and businesses.
Virtual Lava Tube
This interactive resource adapted from The Virtual Lava Tube by Dave Bunnell, presents images of different features found in lava tube caves and includes detailed information on how these features are formed and where they occur.
Dating Lava Flows on Mauna Loa Volcano, Hawaii
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, scientists search for carbonized remains of plants preserved in lava flows to find out how long it has taken rain forests on Hawaii to regenerate after a volcanic eruption.
African American Daily Conditions
These photographs depict typical daily activities of African Americans before the Civil Rights movement gained force. From the segregated schools of the Deep South to the bustling cities of the North, the backdrop of different communities reveals a range of experiences.
Recommended for: Grades 6-12
Question on Materials Technology
Sample exam question with some suggested solutions and marks that would be awarded for those solutions.
Making a Video Microscope System
Instructions for making an adapter for a home video camera so that it can be used with a microscope in a school laboratory.
