Thursday, 3 November 2011

WEATHERING AND EROSION

Watch the video and take note of the most important information.


Wednesday, 2 November 2011

CLASSROOM GAMES



Do you need ideas for occupying students during the last ten minutes of a busy day? Perhaps you want to reward kids at the end of a particularly productive day. These ten games are great for end-of-the-day fun. You can link many of them to classroom curricula too.

http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/field_day_games.shtml

THE EARTH



The Earth (2006)
This animation includes a sound track dealing with the following concepts:
  • History of the Earth
  • Earth's Internal Dynamics
  • The Material of the Earth 
  • Earth's External Dynamics 
  • Earth-Moon movements



THE WATER CYCLE





Animation dealing with the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, cloud, rain, trickling, return to the body of water)


View this animationhttp://www2.cslaval.qc.ca/cdp/UserFiles/File/previews/water_cycle.swf

TEST your knowledge: http://www.get2knowh2o.org/student/cycle-test.html

INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES



Industrial processes (2008 - revised 2010)
This animation includes a sound track dealing with the following concepts:
  • Metal forming
  • Machining
  • Forming plastics
  • Machining ligneous materials
  • Forming composite materials
  • Forming glass and ceramic
  • Indirect and direct assemblies
  • Heat treatments (to come)

7 billion people and you: What's your number?




The world's population hits seven billion in 2011. How do you fit in? Use our app to find out.
I'm the 4,026,296,062nd. And you?
 

Friday, 23 September 2011

WEBTASK ABOUT ANCIENT EGYPT


Lola Aceituno is the creator of a beautiful webtask very helpful to understand life in the Ancient Egypt.

We are going to use it at class in order to review before the exam.

Good luck!



http://sites.google.com/site/lolaceituno2/ancientegypt