Birth of a Great Observatory
For many centuries, maps of the southern sky showed extensive blank areas -- the Terra Incognita of the heavens. The year 1595: For the first time, Dutch traders set sail to the East Indies. At night, navigators Pieter Keyser and Frederik de Houtman measured the positions of more than 130 stars in the southern sky. Soon, celestial globes and maps showed twelve new constellations, none of which had ever been seen before by any European. (05:53)
The Impossible Bridge
This three minute video shows the challenges of building an enormous bridge. It explains the benefits of several types of bridges and the weaknesses. The students could watch most of the video and make their own choices before the final answer is given.
De zintuigen Een interactieve oefeningen over de zintuigen. De leerlingen krijgen onmiddellijk feedback, waardoor ze zelfstandig deze opdrachten kunnen maken.
Open Font Library De Open Font Library verzamelt lettertypes die Open Source zijn. Gebruik deze lettertypes geheel gratis en vrij van rechten om ze te verspreiden.
Il était une histoire : Databank met Franse verhalen Deze site met verhalen, sprookjes, versjes, liedjes voorzien met enkele tekeningen is echt fijn om te gebruiken tijdens (facultatieve) lessen Frans.
Romeu e Julieta (Gabriel Villela)
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The Love-Story of Romeo and Juliet (Elza Andrade)
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TED415 Session 10 Spring 2012
Multicultural Education with Jeff Miller 04/01/12
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Mexican Sheartail Hummingbird
This short video gives excellent real life footage of a Mexican Sheartail Hummingbird. Students will enjoy the sights and sounds of this beautiful hummingbird as it interacts in its natural environment. This is a great resource to help build background knowledge and to help make real world connections between nature and the classroom. (0:41)
The Final Defeat of Hitler in April 1945
In this video clip, from Indigo Film, learn how the Nazi Furher had given up on his 1000 year Reich and had committed suicide knowing that the war was coming to an end in Germany’s defeat. (11:49)
Juan Fernandez Firecrown Hummingbird--An Overview
This short video gives excellent real life footage of Juan Fernandez Hummingbirds. This strikingly colored and big-footed hummingbird shows a pronounced difference in physical appearance between males and females. The male Juan Fernández firecrown is fiery reddish in color, particularly the iridescent forehead and crown, and the wings are a dark coppery-grey. The female has an iridescent bluish-purple crown and slate green wings. The upperparts are blueish-green and the underparts ar
The Push for Berlin in 1945
Allied forces were entering Nazi Germany from the east and west with victory literally within their grasps. Adolf Hitler knew the end had arrived and secured himself in an underground bunker surrounded by his most loyal supporters. In this video clip, from Indigo Film, learn more about how the Allied forces were racing each other on their push towards the occupation of Berlin. (9:18)
Juan Fernandez Firecrown Hummingbird
This short video gives excellent real life footage of Juan Fernandez Hummingbirds. Students will enjoy the sights and sounds of these beautiful birds in their natural environment. This strikingly colored and big-footed hummingbird shows a pronounced difference in physical appearance between males and females. This is a great resource to help build background knowledge and to help make real world connections between nature and the classroom. (2:57)
La gravedad (The History Channel) - parte 1 de 5
La gravedad es la fuerza más poderosa y precisa del Universo, que todo lo domina y atraviesa. La fuerza de la gravedad nos mantiene unidos, sostiene a las estrellas en el cielo y aplasta la luz. La gravedad también mantiene a los planetas unidos y hace que orbiten alrededor de sus soles. Sin la gravedad, las estrellas, los cometas, las lunas, las nebulosas e, incluso, la propia Tierra, no existirían. (10:00)
5.2 Energy sources in torpor and hibernation
Hibernation is an ingenious adaptation that some animals employ to survive difficult conditions in winter. This unit examines the differences between hibernation and torpor, and discusses the characteristic signs of hibernation behaviour. It explores the triggers that bring on hibernation, and whether internal signals or external season cues are predominant. It also examines the physiological adaptations that occur in hibernating animals. This unit builds on and develops ideas introduced in the
CNIPsy 2010 Marseille - Guérir ou accompagner les sept péchés capitaux de l’amour. (audio)
CNIPsy 2010 Marseille : 7ème Congrès National des Internes en Psychiatrie (CNIPsy). Thème : «Mauvais genre»
Titre : CNIPsy 2010 Marseille - Guérir ou accompagner, les sept péchés capitaux de l’amour.
Session : Sexualité et psychiatrie : un mélange des genres.
Résumé : Le sexe est un sujet dont tout le monde parle. Comment aborder ce sujet en tant que psychiatre face à un patient est un problème autrement plus complexe. Pour un prescripteur, le sujet pou
Book Launch: The Politics of Business in the Middle East After the Arab Spring [Audio]
Speaker(s): Dr Steffen Hertog, Professor Giacomo Luciani, Dr Marc Valeri, Dr Khalid AlMezaini | Although most Arab countries remain authoritarian, many have undergone a restructuring of state-society relations. Lower and middle class interest groups have lost ground, while big business has benefited in terms of its integration into policy-making and the opening-up of economic sectors that used to be state-dominated. Arab businesses have also started taking on aspects of public service provision
How Do Western Democracies Cope with the Challenge of Diversity? [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor Sammy Smooha | The contemporary Western world celebrates ethnic and cultural diversity, apparently cherishing multiculturalism and shared society. A review of the historical record of Western democracies reveals their effort to reach national uniformity and unity by using various coercive means to reduce or eliminate diversity (genocide, population control, involuntary assimilation, segregation, partition). The different strategies of three types of democracy (liberal, cons
LSE Night of Ideas | Session 2 | Citizens of Nowhere, Post-Truth Politics [Audio]
Speaker(s): Mukulika Banerjee, Jean-Claude Monod and Richard Bronk | Hosted by the London School of Economics and Political Science as part of a worldwide series of events coordinated by the Institut français, the Night of Ideas will bring together leading researchers from France, the UK and Europe to discuss changing ideas of democracy, citizenship, and truth. What conceptual frameworks can we apply to understand “post-truth politics”? What light can an exercise in comparison shed on the q
