Amazing Places To Experience Around The Globe (Part 1) 98 Flares Facebook 13 Twitter 15 Google+ 60 StumbleUpon 0 Pin It Share 10 10 98 Flares × Kayangan Lake, Coron islands, Palawan, Philippines Preachers Rock, Preikestolen, Norway Blue Caves – Zakynthos Island, Greece Skaftafeli – Iceland Golden Eye Hotel – St. Plitvice Lakes – Croatia Crystalline Turquoise Lake, Jiuzhaigou National Park, China Devetashkata Cave – Bulgaria Four Seasons Hotel - Bora Bora Ice skating on Paterswoldse Meer, a lake just South of the city of Groningen in the Netherlands. Marble Caves, Chile Chico, Chile YingXi Corridor of Stone Peaks, China The Gardens at Marqueyssac Ice Canyon – Greenland Coron Palawan, Philippines Capilano Suspension Bridge, Vancouver, British Columbia Awapuhi Trail Kauai, Hawaii Valley of the Ten Peaks, Moraine Lake, Alberta, Canada Multnomah Falls, Oregon Seljalandsfoss Waterfall on the South Coast of Iceland Petra – Jordan (at night) Madeira, Portugal Wineglass Bay, Freycinet National Park, Tasmania, Australia
Some awesome pictures from the National Geographic’s Photography Contest 2010 Some awesome pictures from the National Geographic’s Photography Contest 2010 - WATCH THE 2011 SELECTION : National Geographic’s Photography Contest 2011 - Here is some awesome pictures from the National Geographic’s Photography Contest 2010, published by The Big Picture website. Some pictures are really amazing ! The deadline for submissions coming up on November 30th, and you can rate your favorite here : National Geographic Credits : Alex Tan, Sean Heavey, Hongsik Kim, Jesus Oranday, Ario Wibisono, Freddy Cerdeira, James Haskins, Fred Turck, Nikki Krecicki, Mats Almlöf, João Vianna, Patrick John O’Doherty, Amy Helene Johansson, Jay Fine, Glen Hush, Stan Bouman, Rolf Skrypzak, Aniko Molnar, Stephen Hocking, Olafur Ragnarsson, Karolis Milasevicius, Kostadin Luchansky, John Palmer Gregg, Michael Siward, Nam In Geun, Natalia Luzuriaga, Janet Chester, Ario Wibisono, Linh Dinh, Audun Wigen, Sukru Mehmet Omur via
10 Ways to Teach Innovation Getty By Thom Markham One overriding challenge is now coming to the fore in public consciousness: We need to reinvent just about everything. Whether scientific advances, technology breakthroughs, new political and economic structures, environmental solutions, or an updated code of ethics for 21st century life, everything is in flux—and everything demands innovative, out of the box thinking. The burden of reinvention, of course, falls on today’s generation of students. This is hardly the case, as we know. Move from projects to Project Based Learning. Teach concepts, not facts. Distinguish concepts from critical information. Make skills as important as knowledge. Form teams, not groups. Use thinking tools. Use creativity tools. Reward discovery. Make reflection part of the lesson. Be innovative yourself. Related
Marvel at the Magnificent Marble Caves [35 PICS] Can you imagine something happening that would endanger these exquisite azure caverns? It might if Chile continues with plans to build five hydro-power dams in Patagonia. Photo #7 by © Jorge Leon Cabello The water has eroded the marble to create cavities and marble caves. There are different color shades, depending on the contents’ impurities. There are white banks of great purity, but it is also possible to find blue and pink marble banks due to the presence of other minerals. Amazing geological formations on Chilean side of Lake Carrera. It would be a real shame if the hydro-power dams damage the lake and the marble caves on top of the surrounding natural habitats for wildlife. View of the lake and where to find the marble caverns in the Aysen region of Chile.
35 Breathtaking Aerial Photographs: Pics, Videos, Links, News The Spag test is a hoax. Many Year 6 teachers coming back to school after the break may well be fed up and anxious about the Spag Test. 1. In January 2013 on this blog, I wrote a series of blogs about grammar for your use. These aren't for children. They are meant as a kind of rough guide to grammar for you as adults and as teachers. Please use them, print them off, circulate them. 2. Please note, this section has no references, no evidence. 3. That's how policy is being made by this government. 4. As an exercise, if you are interested in language, you might like to keep a note of these 'legitimate alternatives' in spelling, punctuation and grammar as you read newspapers, text books, fiction and the like. 5. So the Spag test will be used to build in failure. 6. Language proceeds through 'agreements' between its users. 7. 8.
Islands | Beautiful Places to Visit - Part 2 The island nation known as the Seychelles can be found in the Indian Ocean off the East coast of Africa, North of Madagascar. There are 115 islands in the archipelago. Seychelles has become a popular tourist destination, thanks to its stunning tropical beaches and interesting wildlife. Popular activities include diving, fishing, sailing, and laying around on amazing white sand beaches. Once a backpacker’s secret, Thailand’s Phi Phi islands exploded onto the tourist map after the release of The Beach , a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio that was filmed on one of the islands. Southwest of Sri Lanka in the Laccadive Sea lies a paradise like no other, the island country of the Maldives. Credit: Silvery Credit: deckchair Credit: Jinaa Nosy Iranja is a small tropical island located off the Northwestern coast of Madagascar, 45km (28 miles) South of Nosy Be, a slightly larger and more popular island.
Mystical, Magical & Magnificent Monasteries in Meteora (20 Pics) The caves in Meteora, Greece, had inhabitants for fifty millennia, but due to raids, “hermit monks” moved to the safety of sandstone rock pinnacles in the 9th century and began building monasteries. More monks and nuns came, building more monasteries perched high upon the cliffs. Wikipedia reports, “Access to the monasteries was originally (and deliberately) difficult, requiring either long ladders lashed together or large nets used to haul up both goods and people. This required quite a leap of faith — the ropes were replaced, so the story goes, only ‘when the Lord let them break.’” A view of Meteora monasteries in Greece. The Holy Monastery of Varlaam is the second largest monastery in Meteora, Greece. Meteora – The nunnery of Roussanou was built during the 16th century and remodeled and decorated as recently as 1560. Photo #5 by Gabriele Quaglia The Holy Monastery of St. The Holy Monastery of Varlaam in Meteora. Meteora – jumping from one high clifftop to another.
Foundation Subjects with a Twist - the IPC - Sway Grantham Firstly, as is always the case, these are my own opinions and experiences based on a teacher in a classroom. I am not senior management so those aspects of the implementation and organisation are beyond my knowledge. In September my school started in International Primary Curriculum (IPC), something that we’d been preparing to do for a while. This curriculum focuses of cross-curricular teaching through topics covering the National Curriculum skills and learning objectives over a two year rolling cycle. As we are just a junior school we are only focusing on the milepost 2 and 3 units. The structure on the curriculum begins with an ‘entry point’ this is a hook to get the children interested and excited about the new topic. The curriculum then progresses through a series of ‘tasks’, or lessons, moving through the subjects in groups. The IPC states that each week there is 8 hours of curriculum content to be covered which can be tricky when juggling other curriculum areas.
The 40 Most Spectacular and Mindblowing Photos of Nature A lifetime is not enough to see what nature has to offer and all its beauties, along with its weirdness at times. There’s always something new happening in the world that people can hardly explain and sometimes mysteries are never solved. Pxleyes presents a stunning showcase of 40 images dedicated to the spectacular nature events from all over the world: a show of natural lights and colors, impressive rocky mountains and structures, tons of beautiful blue eyes and many other interesting elements, some almost unheard of. All images show only NATURAL elements, non altered by human hand or post editing software! It is all genuine and happening somewhere in the world. The Great Blue Hole – Belize Yellowstone Northern Outburst Wall of Light Cappuccino Coast – Pacific When Light Meets Ice Light Pillars, Jackson WY Light Pillars – from a distance Cave of Crystals, Mexico Pink and White Terraces Ice Circle – River Otter Penitentes – Ice Spikes in Argentina Rare “Rainbow” Spotted Over Idaho Maras, Peru
Mt Roraima, Venezuela (pic) A word from Ruth Merttens on the Draft Programme of Study for Primary Maths In the past few months you will have heard about the draft Programmes of Study for the new curriculum which the government released for a period of pre-consultation before the formal consultation early in 2013. As a member of the small group advising the DfE on primary mathematics, author of Abacus and Hamilton plans, and as a teacher working with actual children in real classrooms, I am completely aware of both the implications and the challenges represented by such a drastic shift in coverage, content and expectation. What are the key changes in the draft Programme of Study for Maths? It goes further in that there is quite a bit of new content, such as addition and subtraction of fractions, which, up until now, has been regarded as the province of ‘secondary maths’. The pace of teaching and learning is greatly accelerated – many topics are introduced earlier and are taught faster. It is a ‘mastery curriculum’ - the current system of levels of achievement will no longer be used.
Un lugar de ensueño: La Falla de Richat Desde nuestros inicios los seres humanos hemos buscado las respuestas de nuestra existencia en nuestro propio entorno: la naturaleza, la conciencia y la duda forman parte de nuestra esencia. Sin embargo, hay cosas que definitivamente no tienen respuesta —hasta el momento— como es el caso de a “Estructura de Richat”, también conocida como “El ojo de la Tierra”. Esta impactante falla geográfica nos demuestra una vez más que los seres humanos somos una especie novata en este gran planeta. La Estructura de Richat, apodado por otros “el espejo de Dios”, se encuentra ubicada en el Desierto del Sahara, en Mauritania, y se le considera uno de los puntos energéticos más importantes de la Tierra. Físicamente hace alusión a una espiral gigantesca multicolor —casi de otro planeta— y visualmente su gama de texturas es sorprendente. Su espiral interna parece un infinito, un pozo sin fondo con formas de huracán donde podría caber cualquier cosa, ondas interminables con memoria.