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
The students in this program are seniors at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, a public magnet school in Washington, DC. In this lesson, U.S. government teacher Alice Chandler has her students create a Muse um of Patriotism and Foreign Policy. The lesson alternates between who le-class discussion and small-group committee work as students create a gallery for the museum using their respective arts concentration as the medium. The lesson concludes with students presenting their galler y contributions in dance, music, theatrical performances, and visual p resentations, along with rationales for their selections. This lesson highlights small-group work as a constructivist methodology.
Topology, known as "rubber sheet math," is a field of mathematics that concerns those properties of an object that remain the same even when the object is stretched and squashed. In this unit we investigate top ology's seminal relationship to network theory, the study of connected ness, and its critical function in understanding the shape of the univ erse in which we live.
Weston Woods Animated Children's Books
Continue to examine the idea of mathematical proof. Look at several ge ometric or algebraic proofs of one of the most famous theorems in math ematics: the Pythagorean theorem. Explore different applications o f the Pythagorean theorem, such as the distance formula.
Learner Team members and students compare two multi-arts performance p ieces from different eras, Quidam (1996) and Parade (1917). They disco ver how our perception of a work of art is influenced by what we know about the time and place it was created. They also explore how music c an establish a mood, create their own vaudeville acts, and learn a pro cess of critical evaluation.
Weston Woods Animated Children's Books
Yurok tribal members help save their native language from extinction by teaching it to public school students near Humboldt County. A new push to get more foster youth in college is paying off in Santa Clara County. A performing arts program in Modesto inspires kids to discover new talents and improve their self-esteem.
The great powers cooperated to quell internal revolts, yet competed to acquire colonies.n
As the American character begins to take shape in the early seventeent h century, English settlements develop in New England and Virginia. Th eir personalities are dramatically different. Professor Miller explore s the origins of values, cultures, and economies that have collided in the North and South throughout the American story.
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.
When British colonists landed in the Americas, they created communitie s that they hoped would serve as a "light onto the nations." But what role would the native inhabitants play in this new model community? ; This program compares the answers of two important groups, the Purit ans and Quakers, and exposes the lasting influence they had upon Ameri can identity.
Vocabulario: directions; more family members; weather; changes in stat es and condition; parts of a house; domestic appliances; more ndescrip tive adjectives.nGram
Matt Johnson teaches an AP Comparative Government class to seniors at Benjamin Banneker Senior High School in Washington, DC. In this lesson , his 12th-grade students create a constitution for a hypothetical cou ntry called Permistan. Matt Johnson uses this lesson to help students review for their final exam and the AP exam by having them draw on wha t they have learned during the semester about international government s. Students work in cooperative learning groups to discuss and debate issues relating to the executive and legislative branches of governmen t. The lesson closes with a simulation of a constitutional convention. Simulation is the primary methodology highlighted in this lesson.
How were land-based trade routes conduits of both commerce and culture ? The Eurasian Silk Roads, the trans-Saharan Gold Roads, and the Meso- American Turquoise Road trace the transmission of commodities, religio ns, and diseases, as well as the movements of people.