1) In ancient times, Greeks believed that the Earth needed to be balanced and there must be land in the Southern Hemisphere to counterbalance the Northern Hemisphere.
2) During the Age of Exploration, many sailors tried to find the southern landmass but icebergs and sea ice prevented them from discovering Antarctica.
3) In the early 1800s, sealers and whalers who were hunting for seals and whales in the Southern Ocean began finding and killing thousands of fur seals, elephant seals, and southern right whales for their oil, skins, and meat.
PowerPoint: Top 10 Australian Landforms
includes:
* Australian States and Territories and their Capital Cities;
* Answers: What is a 'Landform'?
* Answers: What is a 'Landmark'?
* Answers: What is a 'Landscape'?
From number 10 - Number 1 (countdown):
Katherine Gorge, The Twelve Apostles, Flinders Ranges, Horizontal Falls, The Three Sisters, Daintree Rainforest, Cradle Mountain, Bungle Bungle Ranges, Heart Reef, Uluru (Ayers Rock)
Worksheet for PowerPoint: Top 10 Australian Landforms at:
http://www.slideshare.net/yaryalitsa/worksheet-top-10-australian-landforms
PowerPoint: Top 10 Australian Landforms
includes:
* Australian States and Territories and their Capital Cities;
* Answers: What is a 'Landform'?
* Answers: What is a 'Landmark'?
* Answers: What is a 'Landscape'?
From number 10 - Number 1 (countdown):
Katherine Gorge, The Twelve Apostles, Flinders Ranges, Horizontal Falls, The Three Sisters, Daintree Rainforest, Cradle Mountain, Bungle Bungle Ranges, Heart Reef, Uluru (Ayers Rock)
Worksheet for PowerPoint: Top 10 Australian Landforms at:
http://www.slideshare.net/yaryalitsa/worksheet-top-10-australian-landforms
This was originally prepared to educate school and college students during Darwin birth bicentenary but I continued to make presentations for the children.
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http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/03/people-pacific/smith-text
Smith, Roff
2008 Beyond the Blue Horizon: How Ancient Voyagers Settled the Far Flung Islands
of the Pacific. National Geographic March 2008.
Beyond the Blue Horizon: How Ancient Voyagers Settled
the Far Flung Island of the Pacific
By: Roff Smith
Much of the thrill of venturing to the far side of the world rests on the romance of difference. So
one feels a certain sympathy for Captain James Cook on the day in 1778 that he "discovered" Hawaii.
Then on his third expedition to the Pacific, the British navigator had explored scores of islands across the
breadth of the sea, from lush New Zealand to the lonely wastes of Easter Island. This latest voyage had
taken him thousands of miles north from the Society Islands to an archipelago so remote that even the
old Polynesians back on Tahiti knew nothing about it. Imagine Cook's surprise, then, when the natives of
Hawaii came paddling out in their canoes and greeted him in a familiar tongue, one he had heard on
virtually every mote of inhabited land he had visited. Marveling at the ubiquity of this Pacific language
and culture, he later wondered in his journal: "How shall we account for this Nation spreading it self so
far over this Vast ocean?"
That question, and others that flow from it, has tantalized inquiring minds for centuries: Who
were these amazing seafarers? Where did they come from, starting more than 3,000 years ago? And
how could a Neolithic people with simple canoes and no navigation gear manage to find, let alone
colonize, hundreds of far-flung island specks scattered across an ocean that spans nearly a third of the
globe?
Answers have been slow in coming. But now a startling archaeological find on the island of
Éfaté, in the Pacific nation of Vanuatu, has revealed an ancient seafaring people, the distant ancestors of
today's Polynesians, taking their first steps into the unknown. The discoveries there have also opened a
window into the shadowy world of those early voyagers.
At the same time, other pieces of this human puzzle are turning up in unlikely places. Climate data
gleaned from slow-growing corals around the Pacific and from sediments in alpine lakes in South
America may help explain how, more than a thousand years later, a second wave of seafarers beat their
way across the entire Pacific.
On a lonely sun-drenched knoll on Éfaté, about half an hour's drive east of Port-Vila, the old
colonial capital of Vanuatu, Matthew Spriggs is sitting on an upturned bucket, gently brushing away
crumbs of dirt from a richly decorated piece of pottery unearthed only a few minutes earlier. "I've never
seen anything like this," he says, admiring the intricate design. "Nobody has. This is unique."
That description fits much of what is coming out of the ground here. "What we have is a first- or second-
generation site containing the graves of some of the Pacific's first ...
How can I use specific nouns to enhance my writing? This presentation discusses use of specific nouns for word choice and capitalization of proper nouns.
This presentation introduces point of view in stories. First person and third person are introduced, with review and questions. Suitable for students ages 8-12 or those learning English as a second language.
Find more stories and activities for teaching point of view here:
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Exploring-Point-of-View-Stories-and-Activities-1632599
This presentation includes only historical fiction and realistic fiction. Find the full presentation here:
http://www.slideshare.net/elkissn/fiction-genres
Grade 3 text structure assessment teaching guideEmily Kissner
Use this teaching guide for the Grade 3 Text Structure Assessment on Frolyc. You can find the assessment, ready to publish to student iPads, here:
https://www.frolyc.com/acdetails/502/
This is an example of a writing from sources task. After reading several texts on the same topic, students compile information to state a position.
Use with:
https://www.frolyc.com/acdetails/52/
https://www.frolyc.com/acdetails/80/
https://www.frolyc.com/acdetails/52/
The Art Pastor's Guide to Sabbath | Steve ThomasonSteve Thomason
What is the purpose of the Sabbath Law in the Torah. It is interesting to compare how the context of the law shifts from Exodus to Deuteronomy. Who gets to rest, and why?
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
For more information, visit-www.vavaclasses.com
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
How to Create Map Views in the Odoo 17 ERPCeline George
The map views are useful for providing a geographical representation of data. They allow users to visualize and analyze the data in a more intuitive manner.
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
Palestine last event orientationfvgnh .pptxRaedMohamed3
An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Ethnobotany and Ethnopharmacology:
Ethnobotany in herbal drug evaluation,
Impact of Ethnobotany in traditional medicine,
New development in herbals,
Bio-prospecting tools for drug discovery,
Role of Ethnopharmacology in drug evaluation,
Reverse Pharmacology.
1. E. Kissner 2015 For classroom use only
Antarctica has always been cold and isolated. In ancient
times, the Greeks thought that a huge southern land mass must
exist. They believed in symmetry and thought that the Earth
needed something in the south to balance all of the land in the
north. In the Age of Exploration, many sailors tried to find a
southern land mass. They found islands off the coast of
Antarctica, but icebergs and sea ice kept them from finding the
continent.
Visualize: How did people try to find a southern land mass?
Underline words from the text that you included in your picture.
Making Inferences:
Antarctic History
2. E. Kissner 2015 For classroom use only
Hunters looking for seals and whales sailed in the Southern
Ocean in the early 1800s. They found—and killed—thousands of
fur seals, elephant seals and southern right whales. People used
the whale oil for lamps, soap, and margarine. People used
sealskins for coats and jackets.
On February 7, 1821, men from an American sealing ship
landed on Antarctica. They were the first people to ever set foot on
the continent. They stayed for only an hour before they sailed
away.
Think: What were the men from the ship probably looking for?
Why did they probably leave so quickly?
The men who hunted seals often kept careful notes. Some of
them were scientists. Nathaniel Palmer, the captain of a sealing
ship, explored the area around the Antarctic Peninsula. Today,
one of the three research stations operated by the United States is
named for him.
Circle the word “him” in the sentence above. Draw an
area to show the antecedent to this pronoun. (The
antecedent is the person to whom this word refers).
Think: What is the name of one of the three research stations?
3. E. Kissner 2015 For classroom use only
James Weddell was another famous sailor and scientist. In
1823, his ship sailed farther south than any other up to that time.
Weddell brought back six samples of skins from a kind of seal that
no one had ever seen before. Although they searched for land—
and more of the new seals—they had to return north before they
could succeed. Weddell’s name is still given to the Antarctic seal
he discovered.
The sealers and whalers explored the Southern Ocean and
found many new islands. However, they also caused great harm to
the animals of the area. By 1825, seal populations had crashed.
Think: The seals that James Weddell found are now called
seals.
Why did the seal populations crash?
For several decades, many sealers and whalers found their
prey in other places. Not as many ships made the trip to the
waters around Antarctica. A few expeditions tried to find the
magnetic South Pole. However, the magnetic South Pole is far
inland. Sailors abandoned the search.
Why did sealers and whalers stop visiting Antarctica?
Why did sailors stop looking for the magnetic South Pole?
4. E. Kissner 2015 For classroom use only
Teacher Notes
For more on how I used this resource in the classroom, visit the
post on my blog.
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inferences. Stories and lesson plans included.
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