Weston Woods Animated Children's Books
Weston Woods Animated Children's Books
Media Arts Center Showcase highlights media created by the Media Arts Center San Diego
Ninth-grade civics teacher Kristen Borges involves her students at Sou thwest High School in Minnesota in a simulation of a U.S. Supreme Cour t hearing on a First Amendment case. Students assume the roles of Supr eme Court justices, attorneys for the school district, and attorneys f or the families. They first work in groups to prepare for the hearing, then participate in the hearing, and finally, debrief their experienc es and write short papers stating their positions on the case. The met hodologies highlighted in this lesson include questioning strategies a nd mock trials.
The flapping of a butterfly's wings over Bermuda causes a rainstorm in Texas. Two sticks start side by side on the surface of a brook, only to follow divergent paths downstream. Both are examples of the phenome non of chaos, characterized by a widely sensitive dependence of the fu ture on slight changes in a system's initial conditions. This unit exp lores the mathematics of chaos, which involves the discovery of struct ure in what initially appears to be random, and imposes limits on pred ictability.
Weston Woods Animated Children's Books
Learn about the classifications of triangles, their different properti es, and relationships between them. Examine concepts such as triangle inequality, triangle rigidity, and side–side–side congruence , and look at the conditions that cause them. Compare how these concep ts apply to quadrilaterals. Explore properties of triangles and quadri laterals through practical applications such as building structures.
Arts teachers communicate with students, and students communicate with each other, in respectful ways that encourage communication of origin al ideas through the arts. In this session, participants meet a dance teacher whose students draw choreographic inspiration from poetry and sign language. A visual art teacher gives her commercial art class a f anciful assignment that enables them to communicate a concrete idea th rough several visual media. A theatre teacher encourages student inter action around the dramatization and staging of fables. Finally, a voca l music teacher asks her students to use
Weston Woods Animated Children's Books
Refugee students in San Diego experience the challenges and rewards of an American education.
In Jamestown, Virginia, Dave recalls the hardships encountered by English settlers who established the colony in 1607. He reviews the biography of Pocahontas and credits the Powhatan Indians with saving the colony from certain disaster. A tour of Colonial Williamsburg allows Dave to explore life as lived in Colonial Times. Standing near canon emplacements at Yorktown, Dave recalls details of the British surrender and Thomas Nelson's role in the Battle of Yorktown.
Liberty, equality, and fraternity skidded into a reign of Terror.n
Global 3000 is Deutsche Welle's weekly magazine that explores the intersection of global development and the environmental and social conditions of the diverse cultures of the world. In each program, host Michaela Kufner presents three to four video-rich segments that profile a different part of the planet where man's quest for economic and industrial strength is jeopardizing the ecosystems and the social and economic structures of people thousands of miles away. The program not only documents where those struggles are taking place - but how some groups and individuals are finding solutions to the growing problems of global development.
Vocabulario: clothing; numbers (21-99); interrogatives; months; nseaso ns; colors; descriptive adjectives.nGram
How do we connect social studies to life beyond the classroom? In this culminating session, the teachers demonstrate the major concepts they
How did people begin to understand themselves in relation to the natur al world and to the unseen realms beyond, and how was religion a commu nity experience? In this unit, animism and shamanism in Shinto are con trasted with philosophical and ethical systems in early Greece and Chi na, and the beginnings of Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, and Judaism.