Attention to Scaling
In this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad adds a scale to their bar graph to give a more accurate picture of the bug infestation at the Cybrary.
Let Your Ears do the Walking
In the previous lesson, students learned about the issue of by-catching by fisheries and how it affects marine habitats. Dolphins are one of the main species affected by by-catching Dolphins use echolocation to identify the location of objects in the water, but they have difficulty identifying nets, and thus can be caught accidentally. Students will learn how echolocation works, why certain animals use it to determine the size, shape, and distance of objects, and how humans can potentially take
9.04.2011 – Langsam gesprochene Nachrichten
Trainieren Sie Ihr Hörverstehen mit authentischen Materialien. Nutzen Sie die Nachrichten der Deutschen Welle von Samstag – als Text und als verständlich gesprochene Audio-Datei.In der ägyptischen Hauptstadt Kairo ist die Militärpolizei mit Gewalt gegen Hunderte Demonstranten auf dem Tahrir-Platz vorgegangen. Mindestens zwei Menschen starben nach Angaben von Ärzten an Schussverletzungen. Die Armee erklärte dagegen, sie habe keine scharfe Munition eingesetzt. Zahlreiche Menschen sollen fe
The Ocean's Role in the Climate System
This online article is from the Museum's Seminars on Science, a series of distance-learning courses that allow educators to discuss scientific ideas and classroom applications with AMNH scientists and educators. "The Ocean's Tole in the Climate System" is part of The Ocean System course.
Audio Gallery: Scientists and Social Responsibility
This online audio gallery is from the Museum's Seminars on Science, a series of distance-learning courses designed to help educators meet the new national science standards. Scientists and Social Responsibility, part of the Frontiers in Physical Science seminar, is available in broadband and modem formats and with a printable PDF transcript. The audio discuss some of the social-responsibility issues that scientists are grappling with today.
Making Rocks
This fun Web article is part of OLogy, where kids can collect virtual trading cards and create projects with them. Here, they learn about volcanoes. The article begins by introducing students to Jim Webster, an Earth scientist at the Museum who studies volcanoes and has re-created the conditions for a magma chamber in his lab. In Visit Jim's Lab, students see firsthand how he studies volcanoes, both in the field and in the lab.
Kids' Guide to the Birds of Central Park
An illustrated guide to birds commonly found in Central Park, and an introduction to birding for young naturalists. The guide also includes information on where to go in Central Park to see birds in various habitats: freshwater, woodlands, and open areas.
Remote Sensing Guides: Viewing Data
These guides offer different options for viewing remotely sensed data. They are presented with some specific instructions on how to view data with common and freely available software. Information is also provided to process satellite imagery to make it easier to identify a variety of land cover features. All guides can be viewed online or downloaded in PDF format.
Remote Sensing Guides: Basic
The Remote Sensing guides are designed for people who want to learn how to benefit from remotely sensed imagery without having to learn the nitty-gritty details of how remote sensing works. All guides can be viewed online or downloaded in PDF format. The guides in the Basicset explain and illustrate fundamentalof remote sensing.
Capturing Time: The New York Times Capsule - Exhibition
This Web site, created to complement an American Museum of Natural History exhibition, reports on The New York Times Magazine's millennium time capsule project and offers insight into the concept of time.
What's the Big Idea? Archeology
This fun Web article is part of OLogy, where kids can collect virtual trading cards and create projects with them. Here, they learn about archeology Piecing Together the Puzzle of History looks at how archaeologists use clues to assemble a picture of the past. Clues to the Past explains that, like all scientists, archaeologists begin with a question they want to explore. Fieldwork Is Where They Dig In explores the challenges of finding a site to excavate. Evidence of an Era has an overview of th
Improved transport shipment of different varieties of bananas
A report on the study done to (1) identify the existing handling practices in the transport shipment of bananas using the modified non-refrigerated vans, (2) determine the profitability of the existing and improved practices in banana transport, (3) reduce losses in mixed varieties of banana through development of local and export-oriented postharvest technology packages, (4) create awareness of the basic concepts of handling, packaging, storage and transport of bananas and; (5) develop product
Exercice 13 (Arithmétique dans Z) [00337]
Exo7. Exercices de mathématiques pour les étudiants.
Bonus (à 2'39'') : lemme d'Euclide, lemme de Gauss
Retrouvez la correction écrite sur http://exo7.emath.fr
Exercice 15 (Arithmétique dans Z) [00349]
Exo7. Exercices de mathématiques pour les étudiants.
Nombres premiers de la forme a^n+1.
Retrouvez la correction écrite sur http://exo7.emath.fr
Bonus (à 3'49'') : nombres de Fermat, exercice.
デザイン思考
Some products or services may give us affective experiences, either in positive or negative way.
We call such products or services "affective", or having affective quality.
In this class, we explore the essences of such "affectiveness", learn its characteristics, and seek for the ways to design such products or services.
(〜2010年)哲学講義
本講義では、古代から現代にいたる哲学的理論を概観するだけでなく、社会や科学における現実的な問題と哲学との関わりに注目しながら、現在を生きる哲学の「仕事」とその「意義」を解説する。
Next steps
What is your experience of work and what did you learn from this experience? This unit will enable you to reflect upon what you have learned from work and support you in improving how you learn at work. It will encourage you to think critically about work-based learning and review your own professional knowledge and skills.
7.4 Are there problems at work that you don't know how to address?
What is your experience of work and what did you learn from this experience? This unit will enable you to reflect upon what you have learned from work and support you in improving how you learn at work. It will encourage you to think critically about work-based learning and review your own professional knowledge and skills.
Tornado Thursday!
Today you will learn about tornadoes, how they are measured, and what to do in the event of a tornado. Using this information, you will create a plan that can be implemented either at home, in school, or in a public place like the mall, library, or movies.
