Weston Woods Animated Children's Books
Weston Woods Animated Children's Books
The historical settings of "My Last Duchess," "Theme for English B," and "DovernBeach" convey much about the characters and ideas of these poems. The NewnEngland landscapes of Maxine Kumin echo the themes of her poetry.n
This program discusses how schools can organize for powerful learning through a coherent, connected approach to teaching and learning that is reinforced and supported by structural features. This session features the staff and students of two schools: a public school in Michigan serving grades three through eight and a first-year charter school in California. Host Linda Darling-Hammond provides expert commentary.
Media Arts Center Showcase highlights media created by the Media Arts Center San Diego
This program shows a group of 11th- and 12th-grade students at Anoka High School in Minnesota engaging in service learning
Connections can be physical, as with bridges, or immaterial, as with friendships. Both types of connections can be understood using the same mathematical framework called network theory, or graph theory, which is a way to abstract and quantify the notion of connectivity. This unit looks at how this branch of mathematics provides insights into extremely complicated networks such as ecosystems.
Weston Woods Animated Children's Books
Investigate the circumference and area of a circle. Examine what underlies the formulas for these measures, and learn how the features of the irrational number pi (π) affect both of these measures.
Explore number theory topics. Analyze Alpha math problems and discuss how they help with the conceptual understanding of operations. Examine various divisibility tests to see how and why they work. Begin examining factors and multiples.
Arts teachers are aware of and respond to the many differences they find among their students. In this session, participants meet a visiting theatre artist who takes advantage of the different backgrounds and learning styles of ninth-graders to help them understand and embrace the playwriting process. A visual art teacher brings together honors art students and students with disabilities, so they can learn from each other. As a music teacher works with different classes, she addresses needs common to all students. Finally, in a movement class for non-dance majors, teachers help students explore human anatomy.
Weston Woods Animated Children's Books
Dave recalls the Pilgrim's decision to leave England and find a place free from religious persecution. Dave traces the Pilgrim exodus to Amsterdam, to Leiden, and finally to America where a land patent gives the settlers permission to settle in Virginia. Dave explains that the Mayflower Compact established social order and good government that would ultimately inspire the words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Dave visits Plymouth Rock, and gives some idea of the Native American friendships that resulted in the first Thanksgiving on American soil.
Renaissance humanists made man "the measure of all things." Europe was possessed by a newnpassion for knowledge.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: body parts; medical situations; city locations; stores; geographical features; professions; social life; giving nadvice.nGram
How can students use a variety of resources well? This session focuses on how to make the most of the resources that can be used in teaching social studies, from artifacts and primary sources to children
How was the industrial revolution a global process, not just a European or American story? This unit links Cuba, Uruguay, Europe, and Japan, examining the impact of industry on trade, environment, culture, technology, and lives around the world.