Contains two databases for you to use: Ancient and Medieval History and Modern World History
user name: clonard password: geelong
username: Clonard
password: history
In 10 episodes John Green, Hank Green, and Emily Graslie teach you about, well, everything. It’s Big History! This course will take you on a whirlwind journey from the creation to the death of the universe and is based on the Big History Project (https://www.bighistoryproject.com/about) social studies curriculum.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
*Integrate physics, math, history, and more to tell a single story about people, civilizations, and how we are connected to everything around us
*Zoom out to pose and refine scientific and historical questions
*Contextualize the tremendous scale of existence
*Outline the most powerful and important breakthroughs
*Evaluate how we know what we know and why we’re sure we know it
6 episodes continue telling you the story of “life, the universe, and everything” in Big History 2! This course challenges you to ask “why this stuff matters” and is based on the Big History Project social studies curriculum.
This course will be split into two parts. In the first half, we will focus on physical geography or the processes and phenomena of the physical world both above and below the Earth's surface. We'll ask questions like, "why is the seafloor so young when the Earth is so old?" or try to identify why winds and ocean currents are so important to life on Earth. Then we'll turn our focus to human geography and explore the ways people occupy the Earth's surface. Like how we've moved, settled, and used the land, resources and space. But they're not always a clear line dividing the physical and human, because really, geography is telling the story of the Earth.
The Map
by Elizabeth Bishop
Land lies in water; it is shadowed green.
Shadows, or are they shallows, at its edges
showing the line of long sea-weeded ledges
where weeds hang to the simple blue from green.
Or does the land lean down to lift the sea from under,
drawing it unperturbed around itself?
Along the fine tan sandy shelf
is the land tugging at the sea from under?
The shadow of Newfoundland lies flat and still.
Labrador’s yellow, where the moony Eskimo
has oiled it. We can stroke these lovely bays,
under a glass as if they were expected to blossom,
or as if to provide a clean cage for invisible fish.
The names of seashore towns run out to sea,
the names of cities cross the neighboring mountains
-the printer here experiencing the same excitement
as when emotion too far exceeds its cause.
These peninsulas take the water between thumb and finger
like women feeling for the smoothness of yard-goods.
Mapped waters are more quiet than the land is,
lending the land their waves’ own conformation:
and Norway’s hare runs south in agitation,
profiles investigate the sea, where land is.
Are they assigned, or can the countries pick their colors?
-What suits the character or the native waters best.
Topography displays no favorites; North’s as near as West.
More delicate than the historians’ are the map-makers’ colors.
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From North and South, Houghton Mifflin, 1946
The Australian Web Archive captures over twenty years of website snapshots of our cultural and social history.
The material includes:
4 million+ pages cover exact copies of Australian newspapers including advertisements, comics etc... from nearly every State and Territory newspaper from 1803 to the mid 1950's and the Australian Woman's Weekly from 1933 to 1982.
What is a Digital Breakout?
A digital breakout uses the same concept of solving a series of clues to unlock locks as the physical breakout does. However, with a digital breakout, it's all done on your computer.
A collection of digital breakouts and other resources for creating your own. Watch the video to learn how it works. Most of these digital breakouts help students learn history content.
Build your own resources Here you’ll find a list of screen casts designed to help you begin building your very own Breakout EDU Digital site!
Brian is an Uber driver in New York City, New York. He loves his job, but has been having a difficult month at work. First, he got the flu from one his passengers. It has taken him the entire month to even start to feel better! Second, its seems like he is getting more notifications to pickup passengers than he has ever seen. He can barely keep up with all of the notifications he is receiving for pickup. Finally, he dropped his phone into the toilet and it has not been working well since that moment.
Brian's boss has not been happy with him missing appointments to pickup passengers and has told him that he has one more day to prove that he can a good Uber Driver. Unfortunately, Brian does not know any of the times for his five passengers today.
Can you save the Uber Driver?!?