Tuesday, March 29, 2011

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:




Tuesday, March 15, 2011

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!

Thursday, March 03, 2011

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".