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
This program shows the conclusion of a 12-week civic engagement unit d eveloped by the national Student Voices program. Jos
The properties and patterns of prime numbers
Weston Woods Animated Children's Books
Explore the properties of polygons through puzzles and games, then pro ceed into a more formal classification of polygons. Look at mathematic al definitions more formally, and explore how terms can have different but equivalent definitions.
Arts teachers develop relationships with community members and organiz ations by bringing artists into the classroom, taking students beyond school walls, and asking students to draw inspiration from the voices of their community. In this session, participants see a guest choreogr apher who challenges the students with her working style and expectati ons. A visiting theatre artist helps playwriting students develop mono logues based on interviews with people in the neighborhood. A visual a rt teacher and her students work with community members to create a sc ulpture garden in an empty courtyard at their school, drawing inspirat ion from a nearby sculpture park. A band teacher invites alumni and lo cal professional musicians to sit in with her classes, giving students strong musical role models.
Weston Woods Animated Children's Books
Discover how Sonoma schools are recovering from devastating fires that displaced thousands of students. Meet the state's Teacher of the Year who overcame childhood trauma and homelessness to teach in his hometown of Desert Hot Springs. Professionals leaving the corporate world are helping fill the teacher shortage in Sacramento.
Standing on the banks of the Delaware near Philadelphia, Dave recalls the victory at Trenton, New Jersey when the Continental Army crossed the Delaware and overcame the Hessian troops under the command of Colonel Rall. At Monmouth Battlefield State Park Dave introduces the "first Pentagon", a dining room at Ford House that served as meeting place for the leaders of the Continental Army in the two winters that Washington and his troops prepared for the final battles of the Revolutionary War.
Technology and mass production reduced famine and ushered in higher st andards of living.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: numbers (100-1000); food groups (meat, fish, fruits, vege tables, others); writing and written works.nGram
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.
How do diverse political structures and relationships distribute power and material resources? Through the rise of the Chinese empire, Mayan regional kingdoms, and the complex society of Igbo Ukwu, this unit co nsiders the origins of centralized states and alternative political an d social orders.