2.5 Mind mapping

The focus of this section has been on encouraging you to gather evidence about what qualities, knowledge and skills you have already. This is an important first step, especially if it helps you to realise that you have more than perhaps you realised. It is also an important step as it starts to make the case that it is important to value your qualities, knowledge and skills. If you value them, it is far more likely that other people will value them too.

However, it is also important to
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Collisions and Momentum: Bouncing Balls
As a continuation of the theme of potential and kinetic energy, this lesson introduces the concepts of momentum, elastic and inelastic collisions. Many sports and games, such as baseball and ping-pong, illustrate the ideas of momentum and collisions. Students explore these concepts by bouncing assorted balls on different surfaces and calculating the momentum for each ball.
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Sideshow: dumbing down democracy - Lindsay Tanner
Lindsay Tanner in Sideshow, lays bare the relentless decline of political reporting and political behaviour that occurred during his career. Part memoir, part analysis, and part critique, Sideshow is a unique book that tackles the rot which has set in at the heart of Australian public life. 'Lindsay Tanner does us all a service in underlining the inadequacies inherent in the relationship between politicians and the media. These circumstances degrade public life and diminish our future. It must b
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Virginia Hamilton
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Intellectual Property Rights for Educational Environments (IPR4EE) Template - Collaboration Planning
A checklist for working with partners when developing educational resources.
Author(s): Alex di Savoia

Gold: A Period Table Element
This 3:35 long video explains how gold is used and why it is valuable. It is an excellent overview.
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79
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The first wins!
After reading an article about Justine Henin you can classify players in the world ranking. This involves revising numbers. In the next exercise you learn to use ordinal numbers.
Author(s): Vlaams Ministerie Van Onderwijs En Vorming

Greek Sculpture (BBC: How Art Made The World)
This ten minute video is about how Greek art was created as something more human than human. This is an excerpt from the BBC documentary "How Art Made The World" and contains a narrator and images of Greek sculptures. Be aware that this are real images of nude bodies.
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Win that Bid! Selling Your Power Solution
A large part of engineering involves presenting products, concepts, and proposals to others in order to gain approval, funding, contracts, etc. The purpose of this activity is to fine-tune students' presentation skills while allowing them to independently investigate one type of power production to meet the needs of their region of choice. Students also learn problem solving skills in examining the advantages and disadvantages of particular methods of power generation.
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L'histoire du cinéma sonore est-elle seulement technique ? Une conférence de Claude Bailblé

Depuis le phonautographe de Léon Scott (1857), nombre d’inventions techniques en cascade (microphone, lampe triode, haut-parleur, modulateur optique…) finissent par se rencontrer en un seul dispositif : le cinéma sonore des années 1930. Commence alors l’exploration des possibilités expressives de la monophonie, que d’autres progrès technologiques (l’enregistrement magnétique, la caméra silencieuse, le montage et mixage multipistes) viennent faciliter.

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Inequalities and Absolute Value Concepts -- Graphing Absolute Values
This module describes how to graph absolute values.
Author(s): Kenny Felder

Sleeping Bunnies
Very cute computer animated song.  Would be great as a transition song for young learners because of the action involved.(2:13)
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2.6 New media
www……..gov.uk You can now access government directly through the web. E-government in action. While studying this unit you look at the scope of e-government, the databases that are necessary, the use of biometrics in identification and verification of identity and assess the usability and accessibility of websites.
Author(s): The Open University

How Airplanes Work
This is a computer-animated, one-minute video that discusses the forces that enable an airplane to  fly. (01:12)
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