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Human Planet Explorer - Homepage (pictures, video, facts & news)

Human Planet Explorer - Homepage (pictures, video, facts & news)
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ArcGIS Explorer: New version now available | GIS Education Community A new version of ArcGIS Explorer is now available to download at: What’s New in ArcGIS Explorer ArcGIS Explorer is a free, downloadable GIS viewer that provides an easy way to explore, visualize, share, and present geographic information. The new features are described below and you can also view the online slideshow. Read the full blog at the ArcGIS Explorer Blog Tom Baker is an Esri Education Manager, specializing in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education, teacher education, and educational research.

Wild Illinois History - Illinois Department of Natural Resources Teaching resources Individual and multiple class sets of excellent resources produced by the Global Education Project are currently available – while stocks last. These resources are relevant to primary and secondary Geography courses across Australia. Resources ordered will be available for collection from the GTAV Office in Camberwell South, Victoria. If not collected, there will be a postage and handling fee for each delivery. A number of these resources are also available at the Global Education website as free downloads – www.globaleducation.edu.au. >> Further details and order form Being a Citizen A new innovative product to help teachers provide opportunities for students to explore the Australian Curriculum: Civics and Citizenship. Content of the 'Being a citizen' resource: Links to civics and citizenship teaching materials. >> Brochure Australian orders: AUD$99.00 postage & GST included International orders: AUD$109.00 postage included Thinking Geographically DVD — Updated 2015 edition >> Brochure

EnvLit - Home Page The goal of our project is to develop learning progressions leading toward environmental science literacy—the capacity to understand and participate in evidence-based discussions of socio-ecological systems and to make informed decisions about appropriate actions and policies—for students from upper elementary school through college. Our work is organized into four strands, each representing an important part of school science curricula and of environmental science literacy Carbon. This website includes three kinds of products from our work: Research reports and publications, that describe learning progression frameworks for each strand and analyses of data from assessments and teaching experiments.

Australian Geography Teachers Association Life Lab Science Program Geogaction National Marine Educators Association GCSE Bitesize: Synoptic charts Where the Other You Lives - Home TakingITGlobal for Educators Curriculum Find links to U.S. Common Core Standards here: Teaching Process Write up a list of sentences (written large enough for the whole group to see) that include “questionable” word choices – those that assign value (usually negative) to someone or something. 1. A. 2. A. 3. 4. • What word(s) would they have chosen and why – who had a different choice? 5. 6. The examples in this activity have primarily used animal-focused words and phrases.

Jonathan Klein: Photos that changed the world | TED Talk Subtitles and Transcript In my industry,we believe that images can change the world.Okay, we're naive, we're bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.The truth is that we know that theimages themselves don't change the world,but we're also aware that, since the beginning of photography,images have provoked reactions in people,and those reactions have caused change to happen. So let's begin with a group of images.I'd be extremely surprisedif you didn't recognize many or most of them.They're best described as iconic:so iconic, perhaps, they're cliches.In fact, they're so well-knownthat you might even recognize themin a slightly or somewhat different form. (Laughter) Well, I think what is far worseis man's destructive power over man.Samuel Pisar, an Auschwitz survivor, said,and I'll quote him,"The Holocaust teaches us that nature,even in its cruelest moments,is benign in comparison with man,when he loses his moral compass and his reason." And thank you to all the photographers. (Applause)

7–10 Geography - The Australian Curriculum v8.3 absolute location Location measured by the coordinates of latitude and longitude. Also see relative location. aerial photograph A photograph taken from the air, which can be oblique (taken at an angle) or vertical (taken from straight above the ground); the former being easier for young students to interpret. anomaly (Termed outlier in mathematics). attachment to place People’s emotional feelings about and identification with places, which can contribute to their personal wellbeing and sense of identity. biodiversity A variety of living organisms and ecosystems they form. biomass Total mass of living organic matter in a particular area. biome A major terrestrial vegetation community, for example, a tropical forest, a temperate grassland or a desert. biophysical process blue water In geography, fresh water in rivers, lakes and dams. cartography characteristics of places choropleth map A thematic map in which areas are shaded to show higher and lower values. climate climate graph climatic zones Country/Place

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