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Wade Laughridge

The History of Ancient Rome - 0 views

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  • Wade Laughridge on 14 Feb 13
     
    Tons of Facts on Ancient Rome. Includes history, battles, government, rise and fall, and facts.
Thaddeus White

Sharks | Basic Facts About Sharks | Defenders of Wildlife - 0 views

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  • Thaddeus White on 16 Sep 14
     
    A quick set of facts about sharks
  • Thaddeus White on 16 Sep 14
     
    A quick set of facts about sharks
Brighid DuBon

Summaries of Ancient Greek Time Periods - 0 views

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  • Brighid DuBon on 29 Jan 14
     
    If the Odyssey has any basis in fact, it describes events of the end of the Mycenaean age. It was composed in the dark ages and/or archaic period, and finally written down in the archaic period as well.
  • Brighid DuBon on 29 Jan 14
     
    If the Odyssey has any basis in fact, it describes events of the end of the Mycenaean age. It was composed in the dark ages and/or archaic period, and finally written down in the archaic period as well.
puzznbuzzus

Some Interesting Health Facts You Must Know. - 0 views

1. When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, and they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate. 2. The human head is one-quarter of our total length at birth but on...

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Robin Galloway

Not Just the Facts, Ma'am - 2 views

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  • Robin Galloway on 08 Oct 11
     
    How can you connect your students to the wider world around them?
Kim McCoy-Parker

Sir Ken Robinson: Why We Need to Reform Education Now - 0 views

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  • In 1970, the U.S. had the highest rates of high school graduation in the world, now it has one of the lowest.
  • now around 75 percent, which puts America 23rd out of 28 countries surveyed.
  • They are mentors, coaches, motivators, and lifelong sources of inspiration to their students.
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  • 'drop out'
  • high schools every day, close to 1.5 million a year.
  • According to one estimate, if the numbers of young people leaving school early could be cut by 50 percent, the net gain to the U.S. economy from savings in social programs and gains in additional tax revenues could be around $90 billion a year - that's almost $1 trillion in just over ten years.
  • One of the themes of TEDTalks Education is that current policies are based on a tragic misdiagnosis of the problem. They treat education as an industrial process rather than as a human one. They are driven by a culture of testing and standardization that has narrowed the curriculum and sees students as data points and teachers as functionaries rather than as living breathing people.
  • To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system.
  • The key to personalizing education is to invest properly in the professional development of educators. As Bill Gates argues, teachers need mentors too.
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  • Teaching is an art form. Great teachers know they have to cultivate curiosity, passion and creativity in their students.
  • achievement soars when teachers fire the imaginations of their students with a true spirit of inquiry.
  • All students have their own stories, motivations and circumstances and teachers have to connect with them personally.
  • "Everyone has a story," she says. "Everyone has a struggle and everyone needs help along the way."
  • We have millions of young people walking away from education, he says. But "right now, we could save them all," if we're prepared to innovate fundamentally and not just do more of the same.
  • "Every child," she says, "deserves a champion who will never give up on them... and insists they become the best they can possibly be."
  • give them the creative freedom to innovate and do their jobs within a proper framework of public accountability.
  • There are those who say that we can't afford to personalize education to every student. The fact is that we can't afford not to.
RaeAnne Mason

Apps in Education: Around the World with 15 Cool Geography Apps - 0 views

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shared by RaeAnne Mason on 30 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Google Earth: FREE With Google Earth for iPad, you can fly to far corners of the planet with just the swipe of a finger. Explore the same global satellite and aerial imagery available in the desktop version of Google Earth, including high-resolution imagery for over half of the world's population and a third of the world's land mass. You can swipe with two fingers to adjust your view to see mountainous terrain.
  • GeoWalk HD: $2.99 AU We are all used to the idea that encyclopedias are pretty boring and usually too overloaded with information, that's why we decided to squeeze the most essential and exciting info about our planet into a brief, informative and illustrative 3D Fact Book to explore the world in a playful way.
  • National Geographic World Atlas: $1.99 AU National Geographic World Atlas HD utilizes the highest resolution images, providing you detail, accuracy, and artistic beauty normally found in wall maps and bound atlases. Preloaded with 3 different styles of world maps with an internet connection, you can continue zooming through continent-level maps into Bing maps - close enough to see your home!
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  • Living Earth: $1.99 AU Enjoy a stunning live 3D simulation of our planet at our current moment in time with global weather, forecasts and world clock for cities around the world. View live global cloud patterns along with the most realistic 3D rendering of our planet available. A humbling view of our home in your hands or a strikingly beautiful nightstand or desktop clock.
  • MapBox for iPad allows you to use your iPad to view, create, and share beautiful maps made with the MapBox suite of open source map-making tools. Use this app to take your maps offline and on the go as fast and interactive as ever. Make new maps by combining offline map layers with online maps from MapBox, OpenStreetMap and MapQuest. You can even overlay GeoRSS data layers.
Haley Ross

Dinosaurs! Teacher's Guide | Scholastic.com - 0 views

www.scholastic.com/...dinosaurs-teachers-guide

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shared by Haley Ross on 11 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • Build-a-Dinosaur! (Grades K-2) Students familiarize themselves with dinosaur anatomy by taking part in an interactive dinosaur-assembly game. Students learn dinosaur facts and create six different types of dinosaurs from their component parts: head, body, tail, and legs. They can also create an imaginary dinosaur of their own.
    • Haley Ross
      Haley Ross on 11 Jun 14
       
      I enjoyed this activity because it gets you thinking about the different parts on dinosaurs and why they might have those adaptations.
  • Haley Ross on 11 Jun 14
     
    A fun and engaging site to get kids learning about dinosaurs. Even includes grade levels by activities.
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