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The Sustainable Learning Space is a plot of land in the Fisheries courtyard dedicated to Tikvah Weiner, the 2013 PoE Administrator, who passed away from breast cancer. With funding from CSF, the plot is now used as an outdoor classroom with features like native plants, pollinators, and bioswales.
Photos by Jayna Milan.
Aviation buffs will probably like this. The image depicts Heathrow 27L at sunrise. Note the end of runway lights in the distance...
Note: The image is a bit blurred due to the low shutter speed. I did my best to recover detail, but my trusty old SLR isn't very comfortable at ISO 3200.
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Cooperative Learning Training at Dewars, Perth
Cooperative Learning Training at Dewars, Perth
APHA's 2017 Annual Meeting and Expo is being held Nov. 4-8 in Atlanta with a theme of "Building the Healthiest Nation: Climate Changes Health." (Photo by Michele Late, The Nation's Health/APHA)
The Residence in Science and Technology Program, sponsored by the Department of Energy, provides teachers with an opportunity to refresh their skills in a laboratory setting. Yakima High School teacher Pat Ehram worked with Battelle staff member Lucie Fritz to develop a high school genetics course.
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You may think that the Hula Hoop was a fad born in the 1950s, but in fact people were doing much the same thing with circular hoops made from grape vines and stiff grasses all over the ancient world. More than three thousand years ago, children in Egypt played with large hoops of dried grapevines. The toy was propelled along the ground with a stick or swung around at the waist.
During the fourteenth century, a "hooping" craze swept England, and was as popular among adults as kids. The records of doctors at the time attribute numerous dislocated backs and heart attacks to "hooping." The word hula became associated with the toy in the early 1800s when British sailors visited the Hawaiian Islands and noted the similarity between "hooping" and hula dancing. In 1957, an Australian company began making wood rings for sale in retail stores.
The item attracted the attention of Wham-0, a fledgling California toy manufacturer. Richard P. Knerr and Arthur K. Melin, of Wham-O, manufactured a plastic hoop in a variety of bright colors. Knerr and Melin promoted it for months in 1958 on Southern California playgrounds where they would do demonstrations and give away hoops to get the children to learn and play. Their perseverence turned HULA HOOP into the greatest fad the country has ever seen. Twenty-five million were sold in four months!
The Hula Hoop was introduced in 1958 and made the two men very rich indeed.
We watched a really good instructional video on how to dress in kimono, and also read a whole lot of kimono books too.
September 17 2015
There was a great turn out of education stakeholders from accross industry & education at our Learning Edge Conference. Attendees heard a range of interesting presentations and panels.
This conference was part of the HR Leadership Group Programme 2015 which is kindly sponsored by Aviva Health.
This kitten at the shelter is wearing a blue collar because she looks exactly like 3 other black kittens there.
More than 2,000 people flocked to Comstock Hall on Oct. 29 for the Department of Entomology's popular annual event, Insectapalooza, where the curious can see creepy crawly creatures of all varieties and learn about the good, bad, ugly (and beautiful!) nature of bugs in hands-on exhibits and education stations.
Here, event organizer Prof. Linda Rayor, shows off a bug.
Photo by Chris Kitchen
Learning Route on Natural Resources Management and Climate Change Adaptation best practices covered several districts in Kenya. The event was organized by Procasur with the support of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
The objective was to scale up through peer to peer learning the Kenyan best multi stakeholders’ strategies, tools and practices to fight environmental degradation and to adapt to climate change with the aim of improving the livelihoods of people living in affected territories.
Photos: P. Kimeli (CCAFS)
We offer interactive courses online in real time with on of our highly qualified staff. With flexible schedules, students can learn Spanish from anywhere in the world!
Machine Learning is the ability of a machine to learn on its own from the past experience. It is a technology that reads and understands raw data and statistics and extracts meaningful insights from this data. This helps solve complex business problems that are data-rich.
This piece is part of an art installation called Dominant Culture: Outside and Other by Gail Watson at Platte Forum.
The questions under discussion at #edCampTO were current and representative of major themes in education today. What a great opportunity for educators to collaborate and explore their role in learning in these days of change!
Our Grants for Kids grants continue to provide support for local schools and summertime programs. A 2013 Learning Links grant allowed Milford High School students to work on a photography project with clients of City Gospel Mission.
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Washington, DC. Jun/2017
he National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) is part of the Smithsonian Institution, the world’s preeminent museum and research complex. The Museum is dedicated to inspiring curiosity, discovery, and learning about the natural world through its unparalleled research, collections, exhibitions, and education outreach programs. Opened in 1910, the green-domed museum on the National Mall was among the first Smithsonian building constructed exclusively to house the national collections and research facilities.
Cretaceous Diorama, Dinosaur Hall, National Museum of Natural History
Cretaceous Diorama, Dinosaur Hall, National Museum of Natural History
Whether looking at the history and cultures of Africa, describing our earliest Mammalian ancestor or primate diversity around the world, examining ancient life forms including the ever popular dinosaurs, or exploring the beauty of rare gemstones such as uniquely colored diamonds, the Museum’s temporary and permanent exhibitions serve to educate, enlighten and entertain millions of visitors each year. The main building on the National Mall contains 1.5 million square feet of space overall and 325,000 square feet of exhibition and public space; altogether the Museum is the size of 18 football fields, and houses over 1000 employees. With a growing network of interactive websites, the Museum is transforming itself into a hub for national and international electronic education, accessible to anyone with access to the internet.
O Museu Nacional de História Natural (em inglês: National Museum of Natural History) é um museu administrado pela Instituição Smithsoniana, localizado no National Mall, em Washington, D.C., Estados Unidos.
A coleção do museu totaliza mais de 125 milhões de espécies de plantas, animais, fósseis, minerais, rochas, meteoritos e objetos culturais humanos. O museu é o segundo mais visitado dos Smithsonianos. No museu trabalham mais de 185 profissionais especialistas em história natural, o maior grupo dedicado ao estudo cultural e natural de todo o mundo. O museu foi fundado em 1910, num edifÃcio projetado por Hornblower & Marshall. O edifÃcio, de estilo neoclássico, foi o primeiro a ser construÃdo na região norte do National Mall, ao longo da Constitution Avenue, como parte do plano da Comissão McMillan, em 1901.
As amostras mais importantes do piso inferior (entrada pelo National Mall) estão no salão de mamÃferos Kenneth E. Behring, que expõem mamÃferos dessecados de todo o mundo, alguns dos quais foram colecionados pelo Presidente Theodore Roosevelt. Também no piso inferior está a sala dos dinossauros. Ao lado desta sala fica a exposição sobre a evolução da Terra, que leva até o Pré-Cambriano. Neste piso também podem ser observados objetos das culturais orientais.
O primeiro piso contém a Coleção Nacional de Gemas, na sala de geologia, gemas e minerais Janet Annenberg, onde a peça de maior destaque é o Diamante Hope. Ainda, neste piso, está o zoológico de insetos Orkin. O resto do piso está ocupado pelo cine IMAX que projeta filmes sobre a vida selvagem, geografia e natureza.
No piso superior ficam as lojas do museu, a cafeteria e o auditório. Neste piso pode-se contemplar uma coleção de 100 pássaros que vivem na zona metropolitana de Washington D.C.