Five-Minute Film Festival: School Gardens Spring has sprung, and it's time to start thinking about getting outside and planting green things! School gardens are a great way to teach kids hands-on science. Whether you have a full garden where the kids produce their own cafeteria food, or you're just getting started and egg-crate seedlings are more your pace, you can pull valuable lessons in ecology, sustainability, healthy food habits, and teamwork out of the dirt. Video Playlist: Great School Gardens Watch the player below to see the whole playlist, or view it on YouTube. Starting a School Garden (06:38) A fun video with nuts and bolts details on how to lay the groundwork for a new school garden. More Resources for Learning from School Gardens Online resources are bountiful, for novice dirt-diggers and advanced green thumbs alike. see more see less
Canterbury Environmental Education Centre ImageSpike - Image Hotspot Generator Domo Animate - Make your own Domo Animations and Slideshows with GoAnimate's super easy to use tools. Mini Rube Goldberg Machine Makes Cool Travel Companion Mini Rube Goldberg Machine Makes Cool Travel Companion Article by Steph, filed under Gadgets & Geekery in the Technology category. A man takes a seat on a park bench and opens a pair of suitcases, carefully adjusting a few things inside, placing a few small objects in just the right spot. Then an alarm clock sounds, a pencil comes down onto a trigger and the most entrancing sequence of events takes place, one after the other. As music starts playing, the choreographed movements begin, flinging objects from one of the suitcases to the other, making their own little sounds. Melvin the Magical Mixed Media Machine was a room-sized exhibit made for 2010 Dutch Design Week, and as cool as it was, it had one big limitation: it couldn’t be moved. In addition to the many Rube Goldberg machines that came before them, both Melvins were inspired by the cult 1987 art film ‘The Way Things Go’ by Peter Fischli and David Weiss.
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Bugscope: Home 15 herramientas para elaborar visualizaciones gráficas Las visualizaciones gráficas son herramientas poderosas para mostrar conceptos e ideas. Son útiles para atrapar a los usuarios en un gráfico con la información que compilamos para elaborarla. La mayoría de ellas está pensada para transmitir contenido relevante. Reunimos una serie de recursos gráficos para tener en cuenta 1-Piktochart Esta herramienta transforma la información en atractivas historias visuales. 2-Visual.ly Útil y rápida para generar infografías usando los datos de redes sociales como como Twitter y Facebook. 3-Fluxvfx Es eficaz a la hora de crear infografías en video. 4-Many Eyes Promete ordenar los datos en gráficos profesionales. 5-Vizualize.me La aplicación beta crea una inforgrafías en base a nuestra hoja de vida. 6-Infogr.am Una herramienta muy útil para crear gráficos interactivos e infografías. 7-Vizify 8-Photo Stats Es exclusiva para el iPhone. 9-Creately Ayuda a crear diagramas profesionales y diagramas de flujo. 10-Stat Planet 11-Hohli 12-Google Public Data Explorer 15-Cacoo