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Language
English
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Data is fundamental to the modern world. We rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this bias, in time, money, and often with their lives. Criado Perez investigates the shocking root cause of gender inequality in an exposé...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"As we've come to learn more and more about dissociation, we've come to recognize that for highly traumatized individuals, that's a pretty normal process that many go through in order to defend themselves or maintain their safety, or to keep material split away because it's much too difficult to integrate it." Christine Courtois. Since dissociative disorders were rediscovered in the 1970s, enormous progress has been made in understanding how best...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The ultimate test of a student's knowledge about words is the ability to transfer this information to reading and writing. A word study intervention must include opportunities for students to apply word-solving strategies to connected texts. Organized around 11 teaching episodes, including assessing word knowledge, modeling the word-solving process, providing guided practice, and prompting students to apply strategies during reading and writing, Small...
7) Hello Photo
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In her startling, exquisitely shot Hello Photo, documentarist Nina Davenport turns the conventions of the travelogue inside out. She takes us to India and abandons us there, leaving us to believe what we see through her eyes. Her movie replicates the experience of being a traveller and thus a voyeur, of taking in sights without necessarily understanding their meaning.
Author
Series
Ada Lace adventures volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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"Eight-year-old Ada, who has a knack for science, math, and solving mysteries, teams up with her best friend, Nina, to find a missing dog."--
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Design & Thinking is a documentary exploring the idea of "design thinking." How do we fully engage organizations to think about the changing landscape of business, culture and society? Inspired by design thinking, this documentary grabs businessman, designers, social change-makers and individuals to portrait what they have in common when facing this ambiguous 21st century. What is design thinking? How is it applied in business models? How are people...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"For well over a century, cultural anthropologists have circled the globe, from Papua New Guinea to suburban England and from China to California, uncovering surprising facts and insights about how humans organize their lives and articulate their values. In the process, anthropology has done more than any other discipline to reveal what culture means--and why it matters. By weaving together examples and theories from around the world, [the author]...
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Science detectives follows fearless and dedicated science sleuths tracking down leads and solving cases all over the world, in cities and in deserts, deep underground, high in the sky and even in your DNA.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grade sleuths and science experts Drake and Nell solve four challenging cases involving a werewolf at a campsite, a faked tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, a talking oven, and a polluted stream full of dead fish.
14) Exploratopia
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Learn about science experiments and how and why they are done.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
At a street festival in West Africa, a young girl is delighted to discover a video camera trained on her. But her exuberant display is quickly cut short when she recognizes that the cameraman has already lost interest in her. But all is well: he has a document of the moment. Video has tipped the balance in another human interaction, and turned it into a curio.
16) Forensic art
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Examines the technique of forensic art, how it is used to solve crimes, and how it contributes to the conviction of criminals.
Author
Series
Student handbook to psychology volume 2
Publisher
Facts on File
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Highlights the different ways that psychology researchers ask questions and how they attempt to answer them.
18) Rouch's Gang
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
In 1991, Jean Rouch started work on his new feature film Madame l'Eau, much of which was shot in Holland. The documentary Rouch's Gang follows the film crew and provides a glimpse behind the scenes as Jean Rouch and his four friends from Niger make their film. By providing an outsider's view of Madame l'Eau, the documentary provides insight into how Rouch approaches his films.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Learn how monitoring the night sky, mapping trees, photographing dragonflies, and identifying mushrooms can help save the world! Citizen science is the public involvement in the discovery of new scientific knowledge. A citizen science project can involve one person or millions of people collaborating towards a common goal. It is an excellent option for anyone looking for ways to get involved and make a difference. The Field Guide to Citizen Science,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Kelly Gallagher's Twenty questions is an alternative to traditional high school homework assignments that fosters greater text comprehension. The simple design - students write twenty questions as they read assigned text - belies the complexity of the discussion fostered by the student-generated questions. On this day, students use the assignment to respond to George Orwell's 1984 in small-group and whole-class discussions. About the author: Kelly...
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