Dealing With Controversial Issues
This program examines how social studies teachers in any grade level can encourage open and informed discussions with their students while dealing with controversial issues. Topics range from stereotypes and gender–based discrimination to the conflict in the Middle East. Through clearly identifying issues, listening to multiple perspectives, and formulating personal positions, teachers can explore a variety of
strategies that can be used to teach challenging issues such as these in thei
Hull Fair, Fun for all DVD: Introduction
Hull Fair, Fun for all DVD: Introduction
Pill bug curled up on back
Many pill bugs curl up in a ball to protect themselves. Pill bugs use their antennae to feel around their environment. They use their eyes to see where they are going. They use their legs to walk or crawl around.
Sumer y el templo oval de Khafadye
Descripción escrita por Arte Historia.
Hacia el año 2900 a.C., la Mesopotamia meridional estaba dividida en dos regiones: Akkad, al N, desde Abu Salabikh hasta el límite norte de las llanuras aluviales, y Sumer, al S, desde Eridu hasta Nippur. Las primeras tablillas en barro traducidas por los arqueólogos descubrieron que los escribas llamaban Sumer a la tierra situada entre los ríos Tigris y Eúfrates. Con el paso del tiempo, esa mi
Westward Expansion
By the mid-nineteenth century, the American economy that had been based on local commerce and small-scale farming was maturing into a dynamic, wide-reaching capitalist marketplace. As the industrial revolution in the northeast altered the economy and intensified the process of urbanization, an agricultural empire began to emerge in the west, and westward expansion began. In this video you will learn about westward expansion and it's trials and tribulations. (Video is of high q
Farewell2iCube
Announcing the end of iCube. Thanks to all of our listeners throughout the 9 years of our podcast series. Visit our new series, Psychological Science, at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/psychological-science/id1016929637.
18.315 Combinatorial Theory: Introduction to Graph Theory, Extremal and Enumerative Combinatorics (M
This course serves as an introduction to major topics of modern enumerative and algebraic combinatorics with emphasis on partition identities, young tableaux bijections, spanning trees in graphs, and random generation of combinatorial objects. There is some discussion of various applications and connections to other fields.
What Is Broadcast Journalism?
Broadcast journalism used to be restricted to TV and radio
only, but now the Internet plays an integral role in the field of
broadcasting the news through blogs, videos and station Web sites.
A former TV news anchors explains the the definition of broadcast journalism with insider information in this clip. Words shown on bottom of screen as we see the head shot of the CEO speaking. (1:13)
Menu costs at work : restaurant prices and the introduction of the Euro
This paper on menu costs by Bart Hobijn, Federico Ravenna and Andrea Tambalotti was originally published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 121, August 2006. "Restaurant prices in the euro area increased dramatically after the introduction of the euro. We argue that this increase can be explained by a common model of menu cost pricing, extended to include the state-dependent decision of firms on when to adopt the new currency. Two mechanisms drive this result. First, firms concentrate
IAS Plus
'The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), formerly International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC), sets standards for business financial statements. This website, maintained by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, provides free comprehensive information about international financial reporting. ' It is presented in blog-style format, with the latest standards news, plus giving many useful links to more information or other finance websites. for example, there is information on major bodies
1.9.6 On the right lines: summing up Timetables and distance-time graphs are different representations of scheduled train movements. They are both models which can be used to predict when trains will run, to analyse and compare different schedules when problems occur, and to design new operating schedules to meet new demands. Both models provide information which allows the company to operate safely and flexibly. The information is used by different groups of people:
Microsoft Campus Tours - The Connector With thousands of employees coming to the Microsoft Redmond campus every day, getting around can be a challenge. The Microsoft Connector team manage a large fleet of buses, vans and on-demand cars to get people to and from their meetings, their offices and back home again.
Season 3 – Lesson 27 – Coffee Break Spanish This week we return to a topic we covered previously – in response to listeners’ requests. It’s time to look at your tricks and tips for language learning. Mark and Alba talk about the suggestion of one of our listeners which involves printing out internet texts and cutting out the words. Listen to the episode for more information and further suggestions! Language topics this week include the alternative forms of the possessive adjectives including mÃo,
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4.6 Gender and power in the workplace If you are, or have been, employed in a health and social care service, think about the ways in which gendered power ‘works’ in that setting. If y Researcher attacking Zika virus by stirring up mosquitoes’ taste buds 5.4 Social bookmarks If you find you have a long unmanageable list of favourites/bookmarks you might like to try social bookmarks as an alternative. Read 7 things you shou United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia The dynamics in the details: An ethnography of food aid, weights and measures in South Sudan. 6.1 Introduction This section is concerned with the plant used in carrying water from the treatment works to houses, farms, blocks of flats and other buildings of a community. The major components of this distribution network are shown in Figure 37 and comprise: the service reservoir, which must balance the fluctuating demands of the users against the steady output from the source of supply, as well as provide a back-up supply should there be a breakdown at the source The Power and Politics of Flags [Audio]
Activity 16
Summer is here, and the United States is bracing for the mosquito-transmitted Zika virus. A Vanderbilt researcher is working on one way to stop the spread of the disease – by revving up the mosquito’s taste buds.
Activity 14 - what you need to know about social bookmarks
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA) is one of five regional commissions created by the United Nations (UN) in order to fulfil the economic and social goals set out in the UN Charter by promoting cooperation and integration between the countries in each region of the world. The UNESCWA website provides details of its activities including its focus acreas of sustainable development and productivity, social development, economic development and globalisation
Darryl Stellmach, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series.
Speaker(s): Tim Marshall | There will be a short LSE100 Award Ceremony for outstanding achievements on the LSE100 course followed by a talk and Q&A session with Tim Marshall. For thousands of years, flags have been the visual representation of our hopes and our destinies. We wave them. Burn them. March under their colours..... and still in the 21st Century we die for them. They represent the politics of high power and the politics of the mob. In his lecture, based on his latest book Worth Dying
