Art and Design - Latest news and updates about | Living | Living. These funny animal photos are combining comedy with conservation | Living. A turtle with attitude, puking penguins and a bird on a bad hair day - these are just some of the 44 finalists from the sixth annual Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards. It hasn’t exactly been an easy year for anyone.
With growing concerns about the future of our planet, smoke filled-skies turning orange across the US and environmental activists filling our streets, we could all do with a break from the onslaught of images filling us with dread. What better way to give our brains a rest than the tried and tested internet phenomenon of funny animal photos. And these, according to experts in both photograph and comedy, are some of the best. The photography awards had a record 7000 entries in 2020, despite many of us being stuck at home for months on end. There are usually only 40 finalists, but this year’s contributions were so good, there were four more images that the team couldn’t bring themselves to leave out. The public will get a say too. Comedy and conservation. Student's invention to stop microplastic pollution wins Dyson Award | Living.
We all know tyres wear down, but have you ever considered where all those particles go? Pollution from tyre wear could be 1,000 times worse than what comes out of a car’s exhaust, Emissions Analytics has found. Now, a group of British students have developed a tyre attachment to reduce the microplastic pollution caused by tyre wear, half a million tonnes of which is produced in Europe every year. The innovative device removes 60 per cent of tyre wear particles on the roads. The Tyre Collective's design has won a prestigious UK international design competition, the James Dyson Award.
Places Sustainable Destinations & Trends | euronews Living. World’s first electric boat race series wants protect our oceans from pollution | Living. The first ever electric-powered boat championship launches today in Monaco. The UIM E1 World Electric Powerboat Series hopes to bring the electric vehicle revolution to our seas and lakes to help protect the health of marine environments. “The earth’s oceans, lakes and rivers are under huge environmental pressure from fossil fuel spills and plastic pollution,” says co-founder Alejandro Agag.
This new clean form of boat racing will “lead the way in electrifying water mobility for future generations” he adds. “Right now the use of electric power on the water is still at an embryonic stage. “My ambition is for the E1 Series to accelerate the adoption of electric boats, to demonstrate how exciting they can be and to promote electric solutions and clean water mobility to marine travel worldwide.” The series’ futuristic looking boats were dreamt up by designer Sophi Horne who was inspired by the Stormtroopers’ Speeder Bikes from Star Wars. The architect who wants to build cities with a million trees | Living. Italian architect Stefano Boeri has launched a global campaign to promote urban forestry. Boeri wants to see more forests and trees in cities, to reduce pollution and reverse climate change. The campaign invites all those with influence on the matter, including architects, researchers, real estate developers and NGOs to consider the multiple advantages of greener cityscapes.
Currently, cities account for more than 70 per cent of global CO2 emissions. More forests have been shown to improve quality of life in these areas. Urban forestry also provides an ecosystem, it cleans the air and helps the fight against rising temperatures. Having access to green spaces can reduce your risk of certain diseases as well as having a positive impact on your life expectancy. The architect is known for his urban forestry designs, including the Vertical Forest Towers in Milan, Italy and the Liuzhou Forest City in China. The original campaign video was commissioned by: Stefano Boeri Architetti. Barcelona opera house opens with concert exclusively for plants | Living. In pictures: how COVID-19 face masks are becoming canvases for self-expression. Water Tank Engineering with Newspaper, Part 1 - VistaThink. MYP Design Cycle – Getting Started In July of 2015, I taught my first design unit in grade: water tank engineering from newspaper. Middle school design teachers and colleagues Jessie M. and Angie U. created the first version of the unit.
It was intended to be an introduction to MYP Design and the MYP Design Cycle via a hands-on and easy-to-comprehend engineering problem. This unit was also my first experience with Year 1 (grade 6) MYP Design. I was expecting a greater emphasis on rapid prototyping and concerned about a loss of engagement by students. After completing the unit the first time, I see now that I had begun to appreciate the sequential guidance and reliable authority of the four-part MYP Design Cycle. Lesson Plan Model Background After four years, I was fortunate to have taught the unit to over 300 sixth graders. What were the intended skill outcomes? Connections to Standards Another pro is the straightforward science connection. A Performance Task Scenario Statement of Inquiry. Sustainable Development Report 2020.
TEACH SDGs - Home. UN Global Goals: MYP Design Unit. A while back I shared my UN Global Goals Design Challenge Cards, which were used for a mini unit with my students. This year my Grade 8s did a complete UN Global Goals unit, which included every stage of the Design Cycle. In this version, students could pick a goal they wanted to focus on - I was impressed that the students selected a range, including no poverty, quality education, clean water and sanitation, affordable and clean energy, sustainable cities and communities, climate action, life below water and lofe on land! We also used one-pager summative assessments, where students would create a one page document for each criterion. This really made students go back to the expectations, objectives and the command terms, to make sure they are carefully selecting the write information. Students are just finishing up Criterion B, but I wanted to share out the work now, as lots of people have been asking for more information!
Here's the complete slide deck. UN GLOBAL GOALS: Design Thinking Challenge. I printed mine out with four slides per page. I think this is the perfect size. Join Kiva's Global COVID-19 Response | Kiva. You're invited to Join Kiva. ATL Water Challenge. I recently became the ATL coordinator at my school, and part of that is designing activities for our core/advisory programme. Here I have some digital citizenship lessons, some from Common Sense Media, then I have lots of different sessions, covering everything from international mindedness, to human rights, through to LGBTQ issues.
It's been a lot of fun to design, and I am trying to get a lot of the sessions done over the summer, so I just roll them out next year. The sessions are all designed so they are mostly discussion led, so the advisory and advisory get to know each other well, and also flexible, so they can be done in 25 minutes, or for the whole lesson. I have a teacher slide as the opening slide for each presentation, with information for the advisor, including if they have to print anything (rarely). I also have a few longer projects, which happen over several classes. Lesson Plan: Rhetorical Devices. “Democratic Debate & Rhetorical Devices” The first Democratic presidential debate is scheduled for October 13. Political speeches and debates provide opportunities to explore current events and the political process with your students. They can also illustrate the power of strong persuasive writing and public speaking skills. This lesson spans two class periods.
Watch. The Present - OFFICIAL. Games: Attention Getters. Classroom Attention Getters. Each year I seem to settle into one signal to regain my students’ attention throughout the day. Last year, I would say “class, class” and they would respond “yes, yes.” I fell into a routine of using the same attention signal all year long and my students started to dread the “yes, yes” response. Honestly, after the first month or two, they very seldom responded or if they did it would be with very little enthusiasm. I knew I had to change it up because my classroom climate was diminishing. I started to brainstorm ways to positively rebuild my classroom climate. These attention signals all start with an action initiated by me (the teacher) and are followed by a reaction from the students.
I promise these Attention signals are so easy to implement during the school day and they are a positive way to regain or redirect students’ attention. Here are some more examples of these fun Attention Getters: Teacher says, “Freeze!” Teacher says, “Brush your teeth.” Like this: Like Loading... Pacing & Sequencing - CISD Center for Teaching and Learning. Erin Kveton- Summer Creek Middle School Jessica Hilbert- Crowley Middle School Natalie McDaniel- Summer Creek Middle School Natasha Wilson- Crowley Middle School Jessica Salge- HF Stevens Middle School Aida Mujagic- Oakmont Elementary Karen Bayless- Dallas Park Elementary David Maddox- HF Stevens Middle School Ann Parker- Dallas Park Elementary Jennifer Stroud- Oakmont Elementary Ryan Wiggs- Sue Crouch Intermediate School Sharla Williams- Crowley Middle School.
Business and non-profit plans | Poll Everywhere. Gray Matter – What is a Mind Map in the Design Process? When brainstorming a new product concept or evaluating a new feature idea during product design, note-taking sometimes gets out of hand—one can end up with pages of scribbles which are often more confusing than helpful. Mind maps are a great way to organize thoughts more productively. What Is a Mind Map? Mind maps are also called spray diagrams and spider diagrams (or spidergrams, for short) because of how they look. This method and the term “mind map” started becoming popularized in 1974 by Tony Buzan, a British psychologist, author, and educational consultant during a BBC TV series titled Use Your Head.
However, the use of diagrams that visually map information existed long before that. Because mind maps are two-dimensional in structure, they show us the shape of the subject, the relative importance of each point, and how the facts relate to each other. The Anatomy of a Mind Map Mind maps always start from a central point, which is the main topic, and branch out into subcomponents. How to draw to remember more | Graham Shaw | TEDxVienna. TEACH SDGs - Home. SDGs For Children | Community. Frontiers for Young Minds: Science for kids, edited by kids. Science Journal for Kids and Teens. :: Design for Change :: :: Design for Change :: Kit pédagogique clefs en mains Bâtisseurs de possibles ! :: Design for Change :: THE 17 GOALS | Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
Do you know all 17 SDGs? History The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries - developed and developing - in a global partnership. They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.
The SDGs build on decades of work by countries and the UN, including the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs Follow DSDG on Facebook at www.facebook.com/sustdev and on X at @SustDev. Implementation Progress Please, check below information about the SDG Progress Report: SDGs Icons. Research. Encyclopedia of Sustainable Technologies | ScienceDirect.
Encyclopedia of Sustainable Technologies provides an authoritative assessment of the sustainable technologies that are currently available or in development. Sustainable technology includes the scientific understanding, development and application of a wide range of technologies and processes and their environmental implications. Systems and lifecycle analyses of energy systems, environmental management, agriculture, manufacturing and digital technologies provide a comprehensive method for understanding the full sustainability of processes. In addition, the development of clean processes through green chemistry and engineering techniques are also described. The book is the first multi-volume reference work to employ both Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) and Triple Bottom Line (TBL) approaches to assessing the wide range of technologies available and their impact upon the world.
Homepage - Practical Action. Sign in to your account. Science Concept Cartoons. Design Guides. Nature Reinvented *suitable for home teaching* Design Kit. Product Design: Design Guides. Designers using their talent to help refugees. The finalists of this year’s What Design Can Do Refugee Challenge may have been announced, but there are still some brilliant resources that can be used for you to run a similar challenge with your own students. “Nearly 40,000 people a day are forced to leave their homes because of conflict and persecution. Among them are nearly 21.3 million refugees, over half of whom are under the age of 18.” – The United National Refugee Agency The What Design Can Do Refugee Challenge asks designers from across the world to use their creative skills for the benefit of society, submitting ideas that will improve the lives of refugees in urban areas.
The challenge is backed by the UN Refugee Agency and the IKEA Foundation in partnership with What Design Can Do. This year, designers were given five briefs to choose from: To guide the designers in their research, eight themes were identified by experts as the different areas in need of urgent attention: This webpage contains the five downloadable briefs. Biomimicry - design challenge. Sign in to your account. Steve Jobs introduces iPhone in 2007. Topophile — l'ami·e des lieux | la revue des espaces heureux. Water Tank Engineering with Newspaper, Part 1 - VistaThink. The Windle Workshop: Ancient Egypt using Pneumatics.
Une Game Boy alimentée par l'énergie... des doigts. Science & Vie : premier magazine européen de l’actualité scientifique - Science & Vie. How Does Nature Encourage Resilience? - AskNature. New NASA Venus Mission Will Lead to Mind Blowing Technology. Is a digital workspace for visual collaboration. Why Tokyo’s New Transparent Public Restrooms Are A Stroke Of Genius. The Windle Workshop: The Viking Longship Mechanisms Project. Coming soon. Paper Airplane Design, Data, and Discovery - VistaThink.
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The world is poorly designed. But copying nature helps. Abstract: The Art of Design | Season 2 Trailer | Netflix. How to solve problems like a designer. How to solve problems like a designer. Creatability. Creatability. FutureMe: Write a Letter to your Future Self. Design Cast Episode 7 - Distance Learning Due to School Closure. Father mods Xbox Adaptive Controller so daughter can play Zelda: Breath of the Wild. When fonts fight, Times New Roman conquers | Publishing. Svenska IKEA kataloger | IKEA Museum. Father mods Xbox Adaptive Controller so daughter can play Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
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