Arrests at gunpoint in Syria
Dec. 31 - Amateur video purports to show Syrian security forces making armed arrests as protests continue and Arab League observers patrol the country. Katharine Jackson reports.
Iris Recognition
A project by Rice University students done in Fall 2004 for ELEC 301. An investigation of signal processing techniques applied to iris recognition.
The Jet Stream and Horizontal Temperature Gradients
Explore and manipulate the relationship between wind speed and temperature gradients in this interactive activity adapted from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Cloud Poems
This lesson for the first grade will have students plan and conduct weather investigations and write a poem about clouds.
The Lifestyle Project
This innovative project offers a way for students to learn about environmental alternatives by modifying their own lifestyles. It is a three-week exercise for students to reduce their impact on the environment by changing the way in which they live from day to day. This website contains an article about the Lifestyle Project and all the materials needed to teach the project. Materials include a baseline quiz, worksheets, energy facts and figures, and an Excel spreadsheet for students to calculat
Observing other teachers
Learning from other teachers is an important means of professional development. Here are some suggestions for observing successful teachers in your school, in other schools, and on the web.
Greeting your Limited English Proficient (LEP) students in their own language
Even a simple "Hello" or "How are you today?" can help to integrate a student into a new environment. This article offers strategies and tools for teachers wishing to learn a few words of a new language.
Connecting with community through oral history
Through interviews and photographs, Harnett County students learn about their community's agricultural past.
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Plant Hormones: Bioassay for Gibberellin
This simple assay makes use of the ability of the plant hormone GA3 to induce starch breakdown in the endosperm of a barley seed from which the embryo has been removed. The effect of the hormone is clear and repeatable. This exercise can be used in introductory biology courses to demonstrate a basic plant process, or can be modified and used to investigate more sophisticated questions in a developmental biology course.
School Governors: being strategic
Why are schools in the UK run by school governors? This unit will examine how the role has developed and the main tasks and responsibilities that exist today. We will also look at the need for self-evaluation and how the setting of a clear strategic direction can help governors achieve the required targets.
Experimental Projects I, Spring 2003
Introduces laboratory experimental techniques. Principles of experimental design and reliable measurement. Laboratory safety. Instruction in effective report writing and oral presentation, including revision of written work. Selection and detailed planning of an individual research project, including design of components or equipment. Preparation of a detailed proposal for the selected project carried through to completion under 16.622.
Lecture by Cuny Janssen
Presented as part of the CCA Photography Lecture Series, this lecture was filmed on Wednesday, November 16, 2011, at California College of the Arts in Timken Lecture Hall on the San Francisco campus.
Dutch photographer Cuny Janssen's landscapes and portraits of children track her travels from Iran to India, Macedonia, France, and back to the Netherlands. Her social concern is evident in the choice of locations and subjects, and even in her timing: she went to Macedonia after ethnic violence had
Lecture by Cristina Diaz Moreno and Efren Garcia Grinda, AMID.cero9
Presented as part of CCA's Architecture Lecture Series, this lecture was filmed Monday, October 17, 2011, in Timken Lecture Hall on the San Francisco campus of California College of the Arts.
Info: 415.703.9562 or architecture@cca.edu
AMID.cero9 is Cristina DÃaz Moreno and Efrén GarcÃa Grinda. Their works include the Opera Prima 2010, a prize-winning Industrial Building for Diagonal 80 in Madrid, and the Cherry Tree Blossom Pavilion, which was exhibited in the 12th Venice Architecture Bienn
Proof by Induction -- Example 2
This video uses Proof by Induction to show that the sum of three consecutive cubes is divisible by nine.
Fruit Fractions -- animated maths lesson
Learn the basic principles of fractions with this fresh abd fruity animation. The three minute video may move too rapidly for some students and the music may be distracting.
How Much Water Do You Use?
Students keep track of their own water usage for one week, gaining an understanding of how much water is used for various everyday activities. They relate their own water usages to the average residents of imaginary Thirsty County, and calculate the necessary water capacity of a dam that would provide residential water to the community.
Ann Cooper Talks School Lunches
19:38 Video Speaking at the 2007 EG conference, "renegade lunch lady" Ann Cooper talks about the coming revolution in the way kids eat at school -- local, sustainable, seasonal and even educational food.
More: http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/NCFR/health.html
Health Care Leadership, a growing field
Kathleen Holycross, president and CEO of the Porter County VNA, discusses the demands for leaders in the health care industry, and the value of a degree in that field. More at valpo.edu/nursing.
Ocean Water Desalination
Students learn about the techniques engineers have developed for changing ocean water into drinking water, including thermal and membrane desalination. They begin by reviewing the components of the natural water cycle. They see how filters, evaporation and/or condensation can be components of engineering desalination processes. They learn how processes can be viewed as systems, with unique objects, inputs, components and outputs, and sketch their own system diagrams to describe their own desalin
