Posts Tagged ‘Educational’

Assembling a Puzzleball Globe

August 13, 2009 - 4:20 am 1 Comment

Timberdoodle’s Puzzleball globes are a 3D spherical puzzle, perfect for homeschoolers looking for innovative and memorable ways to teach geography or anyone looking for a novel educational jigsaw puzzle. Use the sturdy plastic pieces to emble your own political globe, then display it on the included stand.

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Continental Drift – Lesson 9 – Part 2 of 7

July 29, 2009 - 4:44 am 1 Comment

Continental Drift Part 2 Planet of Man — Beyond a doubt – revolution
Host Tuzo Wilson
•Steady state — Uniformtarism
•Alfred Wegner
•1915 Wegner published a book of drifting like a piece of cracked ice flow.
•Wegner thoughts and reasoning on continental drift
• Wegner concluded 200 million years drifted and they are in their current positions.
•Science and religious comment on continental drift theory
•World War II brought a change in continental drift ideas – instrumentation

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Today, continental theory is superseded by plate tectonics.
Continental drift treated only the continents as jigsaw puzzle whereas plate tectonics treats the continents, oceans and the earth’s crust as pieces of jigsaw puzzle.
These segments are a flashback to part of the development of the current theory

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Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?

July 29, 2009 - 4:44 am 25 Comments

http://www.ted.com Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes — including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

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Word World – Full Episode Part 1/2- Runaway O (Cat Nap) WordWorld

July 28, 2009 - 6:42 pm 3 Comments

Part 1 of 2.
My Kids Love This Stuff.
This is a great show, been running for a few years now.
This is the free episode you can download on www.pbskids.org
Everytime my daughter asked me to search for word world, we never found anything, so this one’s for the kids!
you can find more about word world at www.pbskids.org
or at www.wordworld.com

Enjoy!

Duration : 0:7:2

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