The city of Mecca

Paradoxes

About Arequipa

In the National Geographic: video

Ask you questions

This is one of the first aspects of education: we are here so that you ask questions...

A man's whole life in 40 seconds

Norwegian Social Security Agency TV Commercial showing a man's whole life aging in 40 seconds.



A version:

Your life in 30 seconds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKNURefApfQ&feature=related

You better get started!

Anyone can say me a latin word that fits exactly with the video?

A help: it was my favourite one! ;)

Think again

What do you think is the meaning of this video?

Live curious, National Geographic

Great video about human being.

I copy this from one of my blogger students. She always have good videos in her blog, still has to improve her blog format, but I encourage you all to take a look to her posts. Thank you, Samantha! ;)

About Tsunamis

Looking things for 1st Year: here a video about tsunamis in Japan and Hawaii.

And what happens if you are beneath the water (diving in a tsunami): here.

And this one is about the Canary Islands and a megatusnami?

About the Hawaiian Islands

We were talking today about Hawaii: I found this video I hope you will enjoy!




And this other video, about volcanoes in Hawaiii (uaouhhh!!!): Click Here

Primary History

You can look for info here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/

7 Billion, National Geographic

Interesting video about population.

Where the hell is Matt?

About Romans

About Romans

About the Middle Ages

Nice info about the Middle Ages: here.

Travellers: The Odyssey. Reading

Travelling around the world: the Mediterranean.

The Odyssey.

Poem of Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh

Reading: The thousand and One nights

http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
About the Tousand and One Nights

A real interesting link about the book.

Inside a tomb: egyptians

http://www.nms.ac.uk/education/kids/egyptian_tomb_adventure.aspx

About egyptians

Great adventure!!!!

Ancient Art: All Creative Work is Derivative

Ancient Art History

http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/menu.html

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html

Homer's evolution

Just for laughs...

FIRST CIVILISATIONS

http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/menu.html

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html

About our story, Human Being

This is a marvellous interactive documentary by Donald Johanson about the origin of human beings.

*Donald Johanson is an american paleoanthropologist known for the discovery of Lucy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Johanson

Really interesting! I really recommend it:

http://www.becominghuman.org/node/interactive-documentary

And int he same link you have this timeline:
http://www.becominghuman.org/node/human-lineage-through-time


Here you have some games about the evolution and similiarities between humans and apes:

http://www.becominghuman.org/node/chromosome-connection

http://www.becominghuman.org/node/building-bodies

Isis and Osiris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcxgzMwcqN8

http://www.mythicjourneys.org/bigmyth/2_eng_myths.htm

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/gods/story/main.html

THE HISTORY OF INVENTION AND TECHNOLOGY: FIRE

From: http://biombohistorico.blogspot.com/2011/02/en-busca-del-fuego.html

Stone Age tools

From: http://biombohistorico.blogspot.com/2011/02/industrias-liticas.html

I'm sorry it is in Spanish, but I think it is worth watching!

Using measurements of time and chronology

COUNTING YEARS

WHEN we count the years we establish a chronology. The British system uses ordinal numbers (1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 14^th, 21^st…) while the Spanish system uses Roman numbers (s.I, s.II, s.III, s.XIV, s.XXI)

10 years - a decade

100 years – a century (e.g. 1^st century-s.I from the year 101 to 200)

1,000 years - a millennium (e.g. 2^nd millenium-s.XX from the year 1001 to 2000)

Today we are in the CHRISTIAN ERA. Our era began 2006 years ago, when Christ was born.

Dates before Christ: BC

Dates after Christ: AD (Anno Domini)

PLACING EVENTS IN TIME: the timeline

6000.BC 476.AD 1492 1789

Writing appears Collapse Discovery French Revolution

Year 0 Roman Empire America

/ / / / /

Prehistory Ancient Age Middle Ages Modern Age Contemporary Age

Exercises:

1. Write down the centuries for these years (use both the English and the Roman systems):

e.g.: 124 = 2^nd century - siglo II

370 BC 84 BC 2100 BC 683 BC

739 215 BC 181 100

1767 1323 BC 500 1817 BC

900 1500 1618 873

2. Write down any year for these centuries:

15^th cent - s. XV 26^th BC - s. XXVI a.C. 11^th cent - s.XI

19^th BC - s.XIX a.C. 20^th cent - s.XX 1^st BC - s.I a.C.

12^th cent - s.XII 7^th BC - s.VII a.C. 16^th cent - s.XVI

3. Which of these years is nearer our time: 1132 BC or 1194 BC?

4. What century was it 2357 years ago?

5. How many years are there from 958 b.C. to 1311?

6. What's the 11^th - XI century's first year and 10^th - X century's last year?

7. Write down the first and the last year for these dates:

The second milenium b.C. 15th century

2nd century b.C. 18th century

From http://www.google.es/#sclient=psy&hl=ca&site=&source=hp&q=YOU+KNOW+MORE+THAN+YOU+THINK&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&pbx=1&fp=d7d0e5705c25d999

Elena del Pozo

PREHISTORY

Introduction to Prehistory

What’s the difference between Prehistory and History?

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What does Palaeolithic mean?

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Go to www.atapuerca.com and find out:

What is Atapuerca? Why is it important?

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Where is it? ____________________________________________________________

What can you find there?

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Write about the most important fact you think it is there.

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I took this link from: http://www.historiasiglo20.org/MEC-BC/8.htm

Thank you!

THE HISTORY OF WRITING

I hope you liked doing clay tablets and cuneiform writing today!

I will make some photos of your tablets and I will put them in the blog.

British Museum video:

Here you have the pdf about writing I showed you.

And finally, here you have the other video about the starting of writing:

TIMELINES

If you want, you can try and do some timelines at home.

You can use new technology for it. As you can see there are lots of ways of doing a timeline. Choose the one that suits the best for you and create your own timeline:

http://timerime.com/en/
For looking at timelines

http://www.dipity.com/
If you want to do it with images

http://www.xtimeline.com/index.aspx
Wonderful looking timelines

http://timeglider.com/?tab=free
Interactive timelines

http://www.timetoast.com/
Another way of doing timelines

http://www.preceden.com/
And more

http://veerasundar.com/timelinr/
And here more

Here you have other timelines examples:







You can link in your blogs the timeline you have done or that you liked the most!

FROM POLE TO POLE

First part of the video

Second part

Third part

WEATHER AND CLIMATE EXAM

The exam will have two parts:

First part: units 5 and 6 theory "Weather and climate"
Vocabulary: you can study with flashcards (look for help in this blog, in the left column
Questions.
Multiple chice tests.
Label diagrams.

Remeber to answer in complete sentences when you're asked to!

Second part: practice.
Describe and analyze landscapes/ Create and analyze climate graphs/ Situate climates in maps.
For testing yourselves/Climate graphs: Here you can find the application we used in class. You have to clik in the right column in "generador de climogramas".

Curiosity- Möbius strip

Hello everyone!

I want to post you this video, because I think is really interesting.

The video is about Möbius strip.

A Möbius strip is a surface with only one side. And we say it is "handedness" (it is nor right-handed nor left-handed). Möbius is the surname of a 19th Century mathematician. He discovered that this special figure had some curious properties. Some of them you will find them in the video.



You can try in your houses if you like. You can do a model by taking a paper strip and giving it a half-twist, and then joining the ends of the strip together to form a loop.

I am sure you can ask in class about this string in science classes and maybe someone could explain you more things. If you want more info you can look here.

This figures are also related with an artist called Escher. Here you have some information about him. And I post you some images I like:

Listen to music while studying, writing, or reading

What do you listen to when you are studying?

Something relaxing or that makes you move?

Have you ever noticed how your favorite music can make you feel better?

Well, new research studies now show how music can make you smarter too!

This is what experts think about music while studying or reading:

"Music stabilizes mental, physical and emotional rhythms to attain a state of deep concentration and focus in which large amounts of content information can be processed and learned. Baroque music, such as that composed by Bach, Handel or Telemann, that is 50 to 80 beats per minute creates an atmosphere of focus that leads students into deep concentration in the alpha brain wave state. Learning vocabulary, memorizing facts or reading to this music is highly effective."

If you want to read more: click here It is a teacher's article, but it is really interesting and I think it will be useful for you also. And, of course, after reading it, you could pass the info to your friends and your parents!

In this article they also mention another composer, Mozart: "Energizing Mozart music assists in holding attention during sleepy times of day and helps students stay alert while reading or working on projects." And in this other page they say about Mozart: Scientists at Stanford University, in California, have recently revealed a molecular basis for the "Mozart Effect", but not other music.

For further information you can also look here.

Here you have the web page I showed you in class today about Baroque music:



http://www.baroquemusic.org/

I really encourage you to listen to baroque music!!!

Love this sentence I found about music: "Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it even if we so desired" (Boethius cited by Storr).

Humans and Planet Earth- music

Here is one of my favourite songs... I post you the video with the lyrics so you can sing together if you want... You will practice your English!!!

This song is from Israel Kamakawiwo Ole. He was a Hawaiian musician.

The song is called "Somewhere Over The Rainbow", and its a mix from The Wizard of Oz "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" song and the Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful world" song.

This song is about life, humans and nature...

We live in a Wonderful World...don't you think?

Open Class Forum

A place to write your opinions, give ideas, say hello, recommend internet sites, congratulate your mates, or chat with the Teacher!

It won't be an online discussion site, nor a chat room (as msn is) but if you want we can hold conversations in the form of posted messages.

Any question about blogs?

We are going to use this post to share our opinions and our knowledge in how to create blogs.

If you have any doubt after our class explanation about 'how to create a blog' this is the place to ask!

Some important issues about your social studies blogs:

1. You can organize your blog however you want.
2. It is not compulsory to attach homework, exams or important links; they are just useful ideas.
3. Try to be clear and organised.
4. Presentation is important, but it should show a clear mind.
5. Try to reorganize your blog as you are using it.
6. English is compulsory.
7. Write in a correct and formal way.
8. The blog should show your interest in the subject.
9. Visit regularly our Social Studies general blog, there will be useful class information.
10. Visit your mate's blogs, they will give you some good ideas!

How is it going to be marked:

- Completed tasks
- Organisation
- Interest for the subject
- Internet research
- Use of the blog (practice & innovation)
- Creativity and presentation
- Use of English

From now on, your blog will be your noteblog.

*IMPORTANT: If you don't have internet, you should complete your homework in your notebook. Not having internet is not an excuse for not having it done and it will mean a negative point in your final mark.

You should still use your notebook. I will be collecting notebooks in each exam and at the end of the term. Exercises, class notes or unit summaries should still be included in your notebooks. A noteblog will be an addition to your notebooks.

Around the world

Next 17th January we have an exam!

Please bring the book this week.

H/W (for Monday): write your trip around the world.

- Places you will visit
- Images
- Food, costumes, dress style, traditions
- Adventures

You can search info about conuntries here:
http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/
http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonation/index.asp