Remember that guy from 300? What was his name? ARG!!! It turns out our brains make and recall memories in different ways. In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank talks about the way we do it and what damaging that process can do to us.
This novice mid to novice high Spanish activity requires students to use interpretive listening skills as they listen to an authentic resource. The included video is an interview with a native speaker from Madrid. Students are encouraged to gather basic information such as name, nationality, and greeting styles. After gathering this information students participate in an interpersonal communicative task as they hold a similar conversation with a partner. Finally, they use presentational skills to present to one of their classmates.
In these Hero Elementary activities, children explore the ways that a strong push or a weak push makes an object move. They investigate how fast an object moves after a strong push or a weak push. As children observe different types of pushes and pulls, they discover that objects move in different directions. This collection includes a video and two learning activities.
In these Hero Elementary activities, children explore solid and liquid materials. They observe, compare, and describe solid and liquid materials. They sort materials as solid or liquid. They find out how hot and cold can change the state of materials.
In these Hero Elementary activities, children explore how materials change when heated and cooled. For example, if you cool a liquid, it may become solid. What happens when you reverse the process and heat the solid—does it become liquid again? Or, if you heat a solid, it may become liquid. If you cool the liquid, will it get solid again? Children will discover that some changes are reversible and others are not. You can heat ice and it becomes liquid water. If you cool the water, it freezes and becomes ice again. If you heat popcorn, it pops and it does not “unpop” if you cool it. There is no way to unpop popcorn.
In these Hero Elementary activities, children explore the variety of materials that make up the world around them. Through investigating and describing the properties of materials in their everyday world, children’s ideas about the way materials are and the ways that materials respond to tests give them insight into the complex idea of matter.
In these Hero Elementary activities, children learn about materials that make up the world around them. They investigate and describe the properties of materials in their world. They find out which materials have properties that will make them work well for a specific purpose.
In these Hero Elementary activities, children learn about different materials that make up the world around them. They observe and describe the properties of the materials. They compare how materials are alike and different. They sort materials into groups based on their properties. What children learn about the properties of solids and liquids can help them make sense of their world.
In these Hero Elementary activities, children learn about the things that animals and their offspring do that help the young survive. Children observe and gather information from texts and media. They look for patterns and kinds of behavior. What do some animals do to help their offspring survive? What don’t some animals do?
In these Hero Elementary activities, children learn that animals have offspring that are very much—but not exactly—like their parents. This includes humans too! Children observe and describe how animal parents and babies are alike and not alike, and they look for patterns.
In these Hero Elementary activities, children learn about plant parts. As they observe different plants, they notice how the parts are alike and not alike. They compare plant parts and notice patterns. Children gather and record information about the parts of plants. They describe how the parts work to help plants live and grow.
In these Hero Elementary activities, children explore the science of the way things move with a push or a pull. They discover that a push or a pull can move an object from one spot to another. They observe that objects move in many different ways with different pushes or pulls.
In these Hero Elementary activities, children find ways to control how an object moves. They make objects move by pushing or pulling. They push with different amounts of strength, and they aim their pushes in different directions. They make their object bounce off other objects. They use cause-and-effect thinking, and they figure out how to move the object to reach a target.
In these Hero Elementary activities, children learn about animals’ body parts. This includes humans! Children observe different animals. They notice how animals’ bodies are alike and not alike. They compare animals’ body parts and notice patterns. They find a way to solve a problem by copying how animals use their body parts.
In these Hero Elementary activities, children investigate what makes objects easier or more difficult to move. They try to build structures that are well-balanced and don’t fall down, and they test their structures with a push.
In these Hero Elementary activities, children learn about the way they can use their five senses to help them in everyday life. Children also think about the ways that animals use their five senses to survive. They name the body parts for each of their five senses.
This intermediate mid to intermediate Spanish activity allows students to gather information from an authentic resource, specifically focusing on informal commands. Students start this activity by participating in an interpersonal conversation about their grandparents. Then they use interpretive skills to gather information as a native speaker describes their grandparents and the advice that their grandparents would give. Finally, students work in groups to present a list of affirmative and negative informal commands that grandparents would give to their grandchildren.
This intermediate low to intermediate mid Spanish activity focuses on identifying a person or object that most influenced them in their childhood. Students start by looking at a photo of a mural and participate in an interpersonal conversation about influences in their life. Second, students listen to the provided interview to gather information about what most influenced the speaker's life. Finally, students complete a quick presentational writing activity in which they share the most influential thing in their life. Optional extension activities are also provided.
This novice mid to novice high Spanish activity introduces students to transportation-related vocabulary using authentic resources. The activity is geared toward younger learners and is separated into three tasks: interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational. Students start by examining a photo of public transportation in Chile. They then identify key vocabulary words while watching a short video clip. Once the words are collected, they conduct a brief poll among classmates regarding transportation preferences. Finally, students illustrate their preferred mode of transportation along with a written caption describing this chosen vocabulary word.
This Canvas-based site is perfect for quickly assessing a variety of Spanish grammar activities either as a pre-assessment bell ringer or as a post-assessment exit slip. Each grammar concept links to a 3 point quiz. Students do not have to have a canvas account to take these quizzes. Teachers can provide the links and have students take screenshots of their results at the end. Each quiz should take less than 5 minutes from start to finish. Grammar topics included are Adjectives, Adverbs, Conjunctions, Determiners, Negation, Nouns, Prepositions, Pronouns, and Verbs. These brief assessments will be most useful for novice-level learners who are learning to identify characteristics of the target language.
This site is perfect for novice mid to novice high students that need a little extra help in grasping key characteristics of the Spanish language. Here students will find detailed explanations of key grammar concepts. What makes this site unique is that each topic is explained using authentic video examples allowing students to hear the grammar concepts in action rather than just study written rules. The grammar concepts covered are Adjectives, Adverbs, Conjunctions, Determiners, Negation, Nouns, Prepositions, Pronouns, and Verbs.
Students will investigate weather as a short-term and long-term phenomenon by reading about how daily weather data is collected, organized, and analyzed to look for patterns in order to predict seasonal weather. They will use data maps showing daily weather conditions, average monthly temperature, and total monthly precipitation. This lesson can be used to provide foundational knowledge before using the lesson Investigating Seasonal Temperature and Precipitation Variations, in which students gather, plot, and analyze data.
Students interpret and organize temperature and precipitation data into tables, plot graphs, and compare the data across different locations and times of the year. They look for patterns and support claims about temperatures and precipitation across different seasons and locations.
Students have likely observed that the Moon is at different positions throughout the day. However, they likely have not seen the full arc of its path in a day to recognize a pattern. In this lesson, students will build on their own observations and previous learning of Earth’s rotation, observe a time-lapse video of a moonrise to moonset, explore a simulation of the Moon’s path, and interpret physical and digital models. By the end of the lesson, students will be able to construct an explanation about why the Moon appears to moves across the sky from east to west, and recognize that the phenomenon is a pattern.
Students investigate why summer days have more daylight hours than winter days, using data, observational videos, models, and informational text. They relate quantitative and qualitative data to models of the Earth-Sun system to discern a reason for the difference in the amount of daylight on a summer day and on a winter day. An extension activity enables students to apply learning to explain daylight differences in a southern hemisphere location. Investigating Daylight Throughout a Year can be used to provide foundational knowledge for this lesson. In that lesson, students use observations and quantitative data to characterize the differences in the amount of daylight in summer and in winter.
Students investigate the changing duration of daylight in a year, using data tables, observational videos, and informational text. They build off their own experiences with daylight throughout a year as they plot and analyze data for either their location or for New York City and compare it with observations of daylight on summer and a winter day. This lesson can be used to provide foundational knowledge before using the lesson Investigating Why Summer Days Have More Daylight. In that lesson, students consider Earth’s tilted axis as a reason for the differences in the amount of daylight in summer and winter.
Students will play three rhythms inspired by music from around the world. Students will compare and contrast the rhythms. Students will perform using different tempos, dynamics, and instruments. Finally, they will create an arrangement for a performance. A student worksheet is provided.
Students will create a theme and variations using a simple sentence. Students will compare and contrast themes and variations while listening to Mozart's variations on "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star." Listening examples are provided.
Students will listen and evaluate blues music. The teacher will play C-major, C-minor, and Blues scale on C. Students will compare and contrast the scales. Students will use the Blues scale to compose a song.
Song Maker is a part of Google's Chrome Music Lab. Students can compose their own songs using electronic instruments. Compositions can be saved and shared.
Today we kick off Crash Course Sociology by explaining what exactly sociology is. We’ll introduce the sociological perspective and discuss how sociology differentiates itself from the other social sciences. We’ll also explore what sociology can do, and how a concern with social problems was at the center of sociology's beginnings.
This week we introduce sociology’s three major theoretical paradigms, and some of the advantages and disadvantages of each paradigm.
What puts the “science” in social science? Today we’ll explore positivist sociology and how sociologists use empirical evidence to explore questions about the social world. We’ll also introduce two alternatives: interpretative sociology and critical sociology.
Today we’re talking about how we actually DO sociology. Nicole explains the research method: form a question and a hypothesis, collect data, and analyze that data to contribute to our theories about society.
Now that we’ve talked a little bit about how sociology works, it’s time to start exploring some of the ideas of the discipline’s founders. First up: Émile Durkheim. We’ll explain the concept of social facts and how Durkheim framed sociology as a science. We’ll introduce the idea of common consciousness and how Durkheim believed it binds society together. We’ll also talk about Durkheim’s studies on suicide and how he applied his concepts to a specific social problem.
