A FREE lesson your learners will always remember! A New DVD Film, Death March from Bataan to Manchuria: Raising a Survivor's Voice Bloom's Taxonomy Back to Free Resources and Lessons 2 Brains Never Stop Learning, especially if they use synthesis and evaluation. Wired To Win Playing At IMAX Theatres How the brain copes with trying to avoid danger, denying crushing pain, handling fatigue, coping with emotions, pushing your body. 1 min 41 sec - Sep 24, 2006 Wired to Win takes you racing a 2,112 mile course where you never know what might happen next. A single rider crashing can all bring down as many as 100 riders. Injuries can be severe. The film puts you right in the middle of a tightly packed group called a peloton. In fact the camera filming these groups is attached to a motorcycle and is controlled remotely from a helicopter flying above the group. You experience the race as closely as you can without actually riding in it. But there is another level to this film. Wired to Win uses the race as the ultimate test of the human brain. Computer graphics to show you how the brain copes with trying to avoid danger, denying crushing pain, handling how the brain copes with trying to avoid danger, denying crushing pain,handling fatigue, coping with emotions, pushing your body fatigue, coping with emotions, pushing your body to complete the race and staying highly motivated. The brain controls it all. “We knew from the start that we didn’t want this to be a textbook approach to neuroscience,” says senior producer JoAnna Baldwin Mallory. “The science had to flow naturally from the drama, from the human story. We wanted to move seamlessly from live-action to computer generated imagery of the inner workings of the brain.” The film opens with a six-year old boy learning to ride a bike. Narrator and British actor Alfred Molina says each new moment and each new experience stimulate growing networks of brain cells. “We used to think these changes happened only in childhood,” continues Molina. "But now we know that our brains never stop developing wiring and rewiring themselves with every experience and every challenge.” Wired to Win is produced by Partners HealthCare System. The film is funded in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation. It is sponsored by Ortho-McNeil Neurologics Inc. It is distributed by National Geographic Giant Screen Film Distribution. Go back to: Resource Page SUPPLEMENTARY OBJECTIVES The Dimensional Thinker: From Building a Constructivist Edge to Finding Bloom on Mars (CD-ROM)   By William C. Bruce and Jean K. Bruce   Bloom's Taxonomy   All Categories and all Disciplines     William C. Bruce Associate Dean and Professor College of Education and Psychology Phone: (903) 566-7048 e-mail: wbruce@uttyler.edu Home Tree Media Fax: (903) 566-7036     Web Address of a "teacher must have" Power Point, 120 Slides Presentation: Lesson Planning By Professor William C. Bruce Lesson Planning       Note from the authors: You may use the following objectives as practice or with your students in your classroom.   Practice   Test your taxonomy skills.    These objectives have been categorized according to Bloom's taxonomy:   1.1 Given a list of four units of measurement, identify familiar factors that approximate these measurements. (M) BASIC MATH   1.2 Given the required data, complete 20 IRS forms that are W-4 Withholding Exemption Forms. (C) APPLIED MATH   1.3 With the use of a computer, answer division problems that involve how to solve the dilemma of the greenhouse effect, the carbon dioxide buildup in Earth’s atmosphere. (AP) CYBER SCIENCE   1.4 Using computers and computerized simulators, organize and write suitable terms for the measurements taken from stress tests on materials to be used for future hypersonic jet flights that will travel beyond the speed of sound. (AN) CYBER SCIENCE   1.5 Find the derivative of a trigonometric function, logarithmic, algebraic, inverse trigonometric, or an exponential, and produce formulas for these and other types of functions. (SY) TRIGONOMETRY   1.6 Given two mathematical systems defining elements and properties, write a decision showing which system meets a more valuable standard. (E) ALGEBRA   2.1 Identify the materials that cells require to maintain life. (M) BIOLOGY   2.2 Inspect plant and animal cells under the microscope, verbalizing the observable differences. (C) BIOLOGY   2.3 Describe and locate on a hypothetical map, where you would likely find active earthquake areas, ocean ravines, and volcanoes. (AP) EARTH SCIENCE   2.4 Given a graph of the result of an experiment using table salt and vinegar, study the results, and based upon the results show whether the results support, or disprove, the theory tested. (AN) CHEMISTRY   2.5 Unite principles, ideas, and generalizations by preparing and showing the conduct and nature of light in an experiment. (SY) PHYSICS   2.6 Given a description of an experiment, using healthy cactus plants, kudzu vines, and earth worms, decide which one you would use to better process organic compounds, and specify why you made your choice. (E) BIOLOGY   3.1 Match each of the following terminology items, from areas of linguistic specializations, with a statement describing them accurately: grammar lexicography, semantics, descriptive linguistics, psycholinguists, and language history. (M) LANGUAGE ARTS, LITERATURE   3.2 Given a column of five nouns and a column of five adjectives associated with Scotland, describe the etymology of the words; explain how each word fits our needs nowadays, and substitute each word with a corresponding synonym. (C) LITERATURE   3.3 Present a two-minute talk about your last birthday. (AP) LANGUAGE ARTS   3.4 Working from a list, of 10 or more words that you have occasionally spelled wrong, write reasons you misspelled the words. (AN) WORD SKILLS   3.5 Access and select data from Rome’s Vatican Library via the Internet and, write a research paper according to stipulations from The Chicago Manual of Style. (SY) WRITING SKILLS   3.6 Sum up Emily Dickinson’s book The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H. Johnson, and provide a critique of Dickinson’s work. (E) LITERATURE AND LITERARY CRITICISM   4.1 Write a complete outline of the factors used to calculate the (GNP) Gross National Product. (M) SOCIAL SCIENCE, ECONOMICS   4.2 Reword verbally, three historical sources authored by men that postulate about why women should no longer be denied the ownership of property. (C) POLITICAL SCIENCE   4.3 Convert a sociological definition of power into a three-act play with at least one protagonist and one heroine. (AP) SOCIOLOGY   4.4 Compare inferences of Dr. Ruth Westheimer’s explanations of friendship with Freud’s explanations. (AN) PSYCHOLOGY   4.5 Design a variety of guidelines for the assessment of teachers and professors to be used by school administrators, with each assessment supported by two or more reasons, including your vision of first-rate teaching. (SY) EDUCATION   4.6 Make a decision and explain, regarding the following theory: Charleston, South Carolina’s populace grew quickly because of its pleasant geographic attributes, which in turn advanced the growth of Atlanta, Georgia. (E) GEOGRAPHY     Amazon Review of The Thinker:   Beyond the classroom ....., January 27, 2004 Reviewer:Judi H. Nelson (Tyler, Texas United States)   As a textbook, this was an excellent tool to learn Bloom's taxonomy at a deeper level.  In the classroom the book was a vital helper when working with categorizing the educational objectives.  However, I found it even more indispensable when studying for the Teacher's Certification Examination.  Dr. Bruce's method of explaining the taxonomy levels, combined with his categorization exercises with explainations, served to reinforce what I had learned in my education classes.  This is a book I will keep in my personal library for future reference.     If you think we can assist you, with a customer service, contact us by clicking on the Contact Us link, in our site menu; fill out the Contact form. You'll hear from us soon.     William C. Bruce Associate Dean and Professor College of Education and Psychology Phone: (903) 566-7048 e-mail: wbruce@uttyler.edu Home Tree Media Fax: (903) 566-7036   Dr. Bruce and his wife Jean first authored a discrepant event book entitled: Learning Social Studies Through Discrepant Event Inquiry.  Go to the following URL addresses to learn more about William C. Bruce and Jean K. Bruce through their blogs, too: Go to the following URL addresses to learn more about William C. Bruce and Jean K. Bruce through their blogs: University of Texas at Tyler, EPP University of Texas at Tyler, CPDT http://www.uttyler.edu/c_i/bruce.htm Free discrepant event lesson, 9-11 Blog: Pay Teachers More Blog: Test Scores Did you miss these pages? 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