In this video, you will learn how to make a plan for your imaginative narrative using a story map! We will plan the characters, setting, and events, including the problem and solution.

In this video, you will learn how to brainstorm an imaginative narrative or fantasy story using a graphic organizer. We will learn how to brainstorm different ideas for the character and setting, and then choose the ones that are best...

A broad introduction maps and their purposes.
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Ordnance Survey has been creating maps for hundreds of years. How have their mapping methods changed since the first Ordnance Survey maps were made? Human Geography - Orientation And Settlements - Learning Points. The British Ordnance...

Charting the waters around the Scottish island of Orkney was a pivotal moment in maritime mapping. But a reliance on outdated maps places modern ships in danger. Human Geography - Orientation And Settlements - Learning Points. Before...

A brief history of the map, from prehistoric cave paintings to modern maps of the world.
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Claudius Ptolemy's grid system...

Discover how techniques for mapping the seas have changed throughout history.
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The technique of measuring the sea's depth...

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A Twig Tidbit Film - True or False? The children have to determine if a statement is true or false.

Find out how maps are used to show political divisions within a country.
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Find out how our maps have become more accurate as technology had progressed.
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Find out how Greek mathematician and astronomer Eratosthenes came to be known as the Father of Geography.
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True or false ... Once opened, the largest atlas in the world is bigger than an adult?
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What's that noise? ... It's seagulls! <br<b<br/>r/>/>


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What is it? ... It's a compass!
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A Twig Tidbit Film - Jigsaw. An image is slowly revealed as pieces of the jigsaw are removed. The children have to...

What is it? ... It's a globe!
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A Twig Tidbit Film - Jigsaw. An image is slowly revealed as pieces of the jigsaw are removed. The children have to...

What is it? ... It's a tall ship! <br<b<br/>r/>/>


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A Twig Tidbit Film - Pixelate. A pixelated image unscrambles. The children have to guess what it is.

Four images are shown on screen, but which is the odd one out?
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A Twig Tidbit Film - Clip. A short film that extends the learning beyond the curriculum.

Four seas are shown, but which is the odd one out?
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Did you know that navigating by using the Moon, Sun, and other stars is called celestial navigation?
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A Twig Tidbit Film - Did you know? A fascinating...

A restriction map is a map of known restriction sites within a sequence of DNA. Restriction mapping requires the use of restriction enzymes. In molecular biology, restriction maps are used as a reference to engineer plasmids or other...

Henry meets a Parrot who has been left a secret treasure map by his grandfather and with Henry's help they decide to go and find it. Henry becomes a Pirate for the day and encounters a sea monster before unearthing the pirate treasure!

It was a feat of technological and symbolic imagination. And it was pretty accurate, too. Join the Video Lab to see Phil's Q&A! href='http://bit.ly/video-lab' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>A! Leonardo da Vinci’s known for his art...

Scientists are attempting to map the wiring of the nearly 100 billion neurons in the human brain. Are we close to uncovering the mysteries of the mind or are we only at the beginning of a new frontier? PARTICIPANTS: Deanna Barch, Jeff...