http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Sat, 18 May 2013 05:46:21 PDT Sat, 18 May 2013 05:46:21 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=327055 This lesson encourages students to work in a group to use Web 2.0 applications such as Google Earth, TripAdvisor.com, Expedia.com, Pageflakes.com, and Photobucket.com to plan a trip to anywhere in the world, highlighting 10 or more places of historical interest. This project not only promotes collaboration and student choice, but also teaches them to use Web 2.0 applications in real life situations, such as trip planning, reading reviews, maintaining a budget, and uploading photos to create slide shows. This project is designed to familiarize students with places of historical interest around the world as well as allow them practice in using current Web 2.0 applications. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=83979 A database containing over 150 projects describing assignments developed to help students improve information technology proficiency as well as learn the subject matter. Assignments are grouped by year, department or by IT goal or may be searched independently on various fields. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=436126 In 2008 University of Florida's Center for Latin American Studies was awarded Fulbright Hays Group Project Abroad funding to take twelve K-12 teachers to Ecuador and Peru for four weeks. During that time teachers attended seminars, met with local indigenous communities, and visited a variety of cultural sites. From their experiences, teachers developed lessons plans and materials pertinent to their interests.This page lists all the teaching resources these teachers created. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=333723 This resource will enable students to: enhance their understanding of the US Presidential election using a visual, map-based approach; deconstruct the simple red state/blue state dichotomy used by the mass media; improve their geographic information literacy; identify patterns and trends that impact the election process; discover quantitative data sources that are useful for political and social analysis; and explore different election scenarios with an interactive map. This resource will enable faculty to supplement and enhance instruction about the upcoming election with materials to integrate into their course work, and help students conceptualize the election in a visual format. Maps for the project were designed in ArcGIS 9.2 using the US Census Bureau's Generalized Cartographic Boundary Files. State-level election data was collected from the US Federal Election Commission's Online Library. County-level election data was downloaded from the Geovisualization of the 2004 Presidential Election project at Penn State, and was improved with minor additions and error corrections. The interactive 2008 election prediction map is being licensed from Creative Ventures LLC and is copyrighted. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=80373 Travel guide for France: landscapes, information, culture, monuments, architecture of cities and villages, gastronomy, history, map... http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=79749 This online collection is maintained on the website of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. It contains digitized visual images and sounds of Africa contributed over the years to the African Studies Program of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. These digital files are stored in an accessible database and provided for personal use or educational presentations. The project was developed through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The completion date was March 1, 2000, at which time the site contained in its searchable database the digital representations of more than 3000 slides, 500 photographs, and 50 hours of sound from forty-five different countries. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=75805 The photographs in this Educator's Guide represent images in the traveling exhibition Sea Change: The Seascape in Contemporary Photography, which was organized by the Center for Creative Photography. The exhibition brings together work by eighteen photographic artists from all avenues of contemporary practice who share the same classical subject--the sea. This guide will complement study in many subject areas, including art, natural history, science, environmental studies, history, philosophy, geography, literature, poetry, and creative writing. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=75807 The Ansel Adams Archive Educator's Guide features photographs of intimate details of nature and complements study in many subject areas, including art, photography, natural resources, geography, writing, composition, and poetry. Suggested issues include the beauty of the natural world, interaction with nature on a direct and human scale, and nature as abstraction. Related topics include visual perception, the reinterpretation of details, popular appeal of the dramatic versus the subtle, the effect of artistic images on the treatment of our natural resources, the view camera, and the zone system. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=75710 ?Whose Mummy Is It?? is a new way to learn about an old subject. It is a complete mini-course in Egyptology and covers topics such as Mummification, the Egyptian Pantheon, Hieroglyphics, and Daily Life. It is designed to be ?played? by novice Egyptologists working on their own or used by World History and/or Anthropology teachers as a supplement to courses on civilization. The CD-ROM opens with an invitation to accompany three students on a tour of Egypt. Early on, the tour becomes a mystery adventure whose goal is the discovery of a previously unknown tomb and the identification of its mummified inhabitant. As the student player and his/her peers visit important sites in Egypt, accompanied by knowledgeable guides, they also pick-up clues to the location of the tomb. To make sense of the clues they must draw on resources provided in a virtual backpack, including a map of Egypt, a chronology of her history, and a hieroglyphic ?decoder,? among others.?Whose Mummy Is It?? is the brainchild of David F. Lancy, Professor of Anthropology at Utah State University, and his students. The project was conceived in the Fall of 1995 and a team of 20 worked on it for 5 years. We have made two trips to Egypt to gather material for the CD-ROM which includes video clips, movies, and sound effects. The CD has been used in college and high school classes for 14 months. Contact dlancy@cc.usu.edu for review copy. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=78789 VERY extensive database of population and demographic statistics regarding thousands of religious groups throughout the world.״Adherents.com is a growing collection of over 41,000 adherent statistics and religious geography citations -- references to published membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for over 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc." Material is presented in a strictly factual fashion.