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Siri Anderson

kernelsoftruth [licensed for non-commercial use only] / FrontPage - 1 views

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SocialStudies environmental-issues history geography economics civics food literacy games

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  • Siri Anderson on 28 Apr 12
     
    A web site built by the amazing students in a Social Studies Methods class at Bemidji State University to help teachers facilitate lessons on themes related to The Omnivore's Dilemma. Lesson plans, materials, games, videos. A great tool for a teacher who wants to jigsaw student learning and is looking for accessible content.
  • Siri Anderson on 28 Apr 12
     
    Check this out!
Joan Ferguson

Purdue OWL: MLA Formatting and Style Guide - 44 views

owl.english.purdue.edu/...2

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  • Joan Ferguson on 02 May 12
     
    Check this one out for the Art History Report
Martin Burrett

Teaching Videos - 178 views

www.teachingvideos.co.uk

teaching videos English maths science ict Geography history art music mfl

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  • Martin Burrett on 10 May 12
     
    A collection of cross curricular videos for teachers to use in class. The videos are sourced from many sites, including YouTube, Teacher.tv and many more. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Video%2C+animation%2C+film+%26+Webcams
Martin Burrett

VideoJug - Education - 106 views

www.videojug.com/...school-subjects

videos education school science maths English history environment

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  • Martin Burrett on 10 May 12
     
    A video sharing website that has a good collection of school subject videos to choose from. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Video%2C+animation%2C+film+%26+Webcams
Martin Burrett

Make your own catapult - 107 views

www.open2.net/...index.html

science history D&T

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  • Martin Burrett on 12 May 12
     
    An interesting construction project to make a catapult from the Open University. View the historical and scientific background. Don't test it near windows.
Steve Ransom

The fantasies driving school reform: A primer for education graduates - The Answer Shee... - 5 views

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  • Richard Rothstein
  • In truth, this conventional view relies upon imaginary facts.
  • Let me repeat: black elementary school students today have better math skills than white students did only twenty years ago.
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  • As a result, we’ve wasted 15 years avoiding incremental improvement, and instead trying to upend a reasonably successful school system.
  • But the reason it hasn’t narrowed is that your profession has done too good a job — you’ve improved white children’s performance as well, so the score gap persists, but at a higher level for all.
  • Policymakers, pundits, and politicians ignore these gains; they conclude that you, educators, have been incompetent because the test score gap hasn’t much narrowed.
  • If you believe public education deserves greater support, as I do, you will have to boast about your accomplishments, because voters are more likely to aid a successful institution than a collapsing one.
  • In short, underemployment of parents is not only an economic crisis — it is an educational crisis. You cannot ignore it and be good educators.
  • equally important educational goals — citizenship, character, appreciation of the arts and music, physical fitness and health, and knowledge of history, the sciences, and literature.
  • If you have high expectations, your students can succeed regardless of parents’ economic circumstances. That is nonsense.
  • health insurance; children are less likely to get routine and preventive care that middle class children take for granted
  • If they can’t see because they don’t get glasses to correct vision difficulties, high expectations can’t teach them to read.
  • Because education has become so politicized, with policy made by those with preconceptions of failure and little understanding of the educational process, you are entering a field that has become obsessed with evaluating only results that are easy to measure, rather than those that are most important. But as Albert Einstein once said, not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted, counts.
  • To be good educators, you must step up your activity not only in the classroom, but as citizens. You must speak up in the public arena, challenging those policymakers who will accuse you only of making excuses when you speak the truth that children who are hungry, mobile, and stressed, cannot learn as easily as those who are comfortable.
  • Steve Ransom on 14 May 12
     
    An important read for anyone who truly wants to understand what's really important in education and the false reform strategies of our current (and past) administration.
dpurdy

Hydrogen vehicle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 13 views

en.wikipedia.org/...Hydrogen_vehicle

hydrogen what form infrastructure current

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      dpurdy on 19 Mar 12
       
      Is hydrogen sustainable? depends on the source. see this highlight.
  • While methods of hydrogen production that do not use fossil fuel would be more sustainable
  • The challenges facing the use of hydrogen in vehicles include production, storage, transport and distribution.
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  • The hydrogen infrastructure consists mainly of industrial hydrogen pipeline transport and hydrogen-equipped filling stations like those found on a hydrogen highway. Hydrogen stations which are not situated near a hydrogen pipeline can obtain supply via hydrogen tanks, compressed hydrogen tube trailers, liquid hydrogen tank trucks or dedicated onsite production.
  • Hydrogen use would require the alteration of industry and transport on a scale never seen before in history. For example, according to GM, 70% of the U.S. population lives near a hydrogen-generating facility but has little access to hydrogen, despite its wide availability for commercial use.[64] The distribution of hydrogen fuel for vehicles throughout the U.S. would require new hydrogen stations that would cost, by some estimates approximately 20 billion dollars[65] and 4.6 billion in the EU.[66] Other estimates place the cost as high as half trillion dollars in the United States alone.[67]
  • Hydrogen fuel does not occur naturally on Earth and thus is not an energy source, but is an energy carrier. Currently it is most frequently made from methane or other fossil fuels. However, it can be produced from a wide range of sources (such as wind, solar, or nuclear) that are intermittent, too diffuse or too cumbersome to directly propel vehicles. Integrated wind-to-hydrogen plants, using electrolysis of water, are exploring technologies to deliver costs low enough, and quantities great enough, to compete with traditional energy sources.[2]
  • dpurdy on 19 Mar 12
     
    Fuel cell cars are expensive.  The fuel cell costs a lot
Cindy Edwards

Fold3 - Historical military records - 6 views

www.fold3.com

History

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  • Cindy Edwards on 23 Jun 13
     
    Yes,this site costs, but it it has an abundance of information.
Jennifer Diaz

Teach with Picture Books: Crossroads of the Revolution - 38 views

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history revolution socialstudies American Revolution

shared by Jennifer Diaz on 11 Mar 12 - Cached
  • picture books about the American Revolution
  • Jennifer Diaz on 11 Mar 12
     
    A list of pictures books for the American Revolution
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