Something one of my students shared with me today:
The most insane search suggestions ever seen on Google
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October 26, 2011
Khrushchev: the Berlin Crisis and beyond
After watching a video on the Berlin Wall one of my students commented that the Americans didn’t need any more propaganda than the wall to show the difference between communism and democracy. In a recent post I remarked that August was the 50th anniversary of the erection of the Berlin Wall, but the wall was only part of the story.
In fact, Berlin remained a center of tension in the Cold war, and a number of historians on both sides of the wall saw it as allaying those tensions. With the Wall, all was fixed it would seem.
October 24, 2011
Topic 3 : Human Population – How many people????
The Guardian online has created an very interesting interactive – type in your birth date (after 1951) and find out what the world population was on that day. If anybody is teaching Topic 3 right now could be a very nice little resource to help illustrate how the rate of increase is increasing.
Topic 2 – Atomic Structure – Student Resources
Following on from Fridays posting, here are some links to some good student resources that you may find useful to use with your classes:
Atomic structure – this is a pretty good resource – a mind map showing all the key facts to do with the structure of the atom:
October 23, 2011
A Great Way to Teach Musical Structure (and more)…
Dear Friends,
Not long ago I was made aware of a great site that can be used as a teaching tool for Music Structure. The name of the site is Variations Audio Timeliner. Here is an extract of the site:
A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall
My family has been on a slow and steady flood watch here in Bangkok for the past two weeks. You can only hear the airline pilot declare “brace brace” so many times before you poke your head up and look out the window. You start letting your guard down a bit and just living like a regular family until the next big piece of information – usually misinformation – comes down the pike and the pilot starts screaming “brace brace” again.
We’ve kind of resigned ourselves to the fact that eventually our soi is going to have a half-metre of water or so. How long it stays and what it will do to the downtown is anybody’s guess however.
October 22, 2011
The Worlds First Straw powered power station: Topic 3.3 : Energy Resources
Have just started to write a vcase study about alternative sustainable energy supplies – I have come across the Elean Straw Powered Power station. I seems that it is the first in the world, which I find a real surprise given the amount of grain straw produced around the world each year. Anyway links below lead to the FACE page about the project which has a great graphic of the process and the page for the company which runs the power station.
Might be an interesting basis for a real life IA concept in sustainable energy!!!!!!!
6,999,999,999+1 – Topic 3: Human population, carrying capacity and resource use
6,999,999,999+1
Well its almost here some estimates believe that by the end of the month the human population of our planet should surpass the 7 billion mark.And most believe that if not this month then certainly before the end of the year
Quick Tips for Paper 1
As the southern hemisphere quickly approaches their examination time, it seems like an appropriate moment to post a few quick examination tips. For those in the northern hemisphere, it is always a good idea to hone student writing skills. This time around, I will turn my attention to Paper 1.
Here are 5 quick tips…
