Refugees

Subjects such as refugees
 deserve to be treated
despite being so delicate.

It is more easy to speak about climate change and pollution
than discuss issues involving the suffering of so many people
but children should know what awaits his generation.

In a century so fast where events accumulate
the history should not be satisfied with past knowledge
because the present is so ephemeral
 that not enough time for processing.

Children can imagine possible solutions
in their discussions or conversations
and can surprise us with their views.

Unicef | Malak and the Boat from André Holzmeister on Vimeo.


The published data and maps are quickly outdated
but this interactive map can be very enlightening.

 World Migration IOM 

Interesting links:

 How to work the Refugee Issue with the children?

 12 ways of working the Solidarity and Global Citizenship 

Aquatic Treasure

The water changes its color
pursuant to everything having around
for though it is transparent
behaves as a lens
and produces light refraction
or even as a mirror with reflection
depending on the position
of the eye that makes the observation.

Its behavior as a lens
is very evident
when it has drop shape
where the image having bounces
and looking with precision
you can see inversion.

 

 Water is the most indispensable element for the life,

However many harmful elements are discharged in it.
In fact, water bodies don't have borders.
Perhaps the problem is unsolvable and heal the water is a chimera.
Neither groundwater are safe because there is leaks

 through the permeable layers of soil and increase the damage.

Another problem is appears new problems
for instance others origins of pollution
while the old difficulties haven't  solution.
The progress suffers such an acceleration
that the use of expendable items generalizes
without weighing the detrimental effects.


More about it on:

How water works

Fresh water supply

 Water drop as lens

Los problemas del agua

L'aigua al món


Some interesting aquatic videos
on these of    VIMEO  


Fish, Sea Life & Oceans

Land and Water


Animation adout the trip of a drop:


If Water Had Eyes from Alan Becker on Vimeo.


Some considerations about water's equilibrium on
    Hydrosphere    

World National Parks

Maybe one of our best progress

 is on braking to the progress:

Putting limits on the growth of large living areas
and creating parks where Nature lives calm.

Some of the best Nationals Parks the world.

 You can enjoy a collection of great filmations

from various natural parks across the globe on

   National Parks HD   

Have a nice travel.

How about starting this journey 

with this great compilation of America?

PureAmerica - National Parks TimeLapse from PrimoMedia on Vimeo.

Video consists 9 National Parks:
Yellowstone NP, Bedlands NP, Cuyahoga Valley NP,
Grand Teton NP, Haleakala NP, Kings Canyon NP,
Sequoia NP, Yosemite NP, Gateway to Channel Islands NP.
In addition Niagara Falls and Devils Tower National Monument.

Thanks to   PrimoMedia   for sharing two years of work.



How about finish the journey on New Zealand?

Mountains to Sea from Stephen Patience Photography on Vimeo.

"Some of New Zealand's stunning wilderness areas.
• the volcanic land forms in Tongariro National Park,
a World Heritage Site;
• coastal scenes, rock formations and a rain forest
 in the Paparoa National Park
on the South Island's West Coast;
• the limestone arches and tannin waters of the Oparara River
 in Kahurangi National Park;
• the back country and alpine areas of Nelson Lakes National Park; and
• other iconic scenes found on some of New Zealand's tourist routes."

Thanks to   Stephen Patience Photography
 for sharing his great work.

The Giants of Ireland

A raised  track across
northern coast of Ireland
is a spectacular land
 of basalt columns:
The Giant's Causeway

This short video shows you his beauty. Enjoy it.

Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast World Heritage Site from CCGHT on Vimeo.




Do you want a flight for watching this land from the air ?

90 Seconds at The Giant's Causeway from Skyline Aerial on Vimeo.

More about the floklore and the curious legend on

Causeway Coast and Glens

Wonderland of islands

You can practice reading,
 when you watch documentaries subtitled.

It will be like a travel throgh the world
if you choose geographic reports.

There's a interesting video about Tetepare, the last wild island.

TETEPARE // JAMES MORGAN // 1080p from James Morgan Photography on Vimeo.

Every island is unique because
is a tract of land surrounded by water,
 and smaller than a continent,
and so evolves different.

More about islands of the world on

  Alphabetical Selection  

Enjoy it.

Solar Eclipse

Yesterday there was a solar eclipse that was very special.

Started as an annular eclipse and ended as one total.

Is called hybrid. It's so original and unusual.

Nature gives us great shows like this

  where the planets show us  interference

  of their orbits live and direct.

The vision of this phenomenon 

varies with the location of the observation.

This video is an interesting and
animated map that shows us the path.

Annular-total solar eclipse of 2013 November 3 from Michael Zeiler on Vimeo.

If you could not see it yesterday,
here's a video of a partial view of the eclipse.


Solar Eclipse - November 3, 2013 from Yosuke Kobayashi on Vimeo.

More about on 

   eclipse-maps    

Adventure of an audacious nature

There are adventure films based on historical events
than are a source of knowledge through entertainment.

This is the case of:"KON-TIKI putting us in 1947

  when the world was surprised 
by the enthusiasm of the young
  Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer
 Thor Heyerdahl, who is undertaking 
an surprising expedition and dangerous:
 a journey of 8,000 km across the Pacific Ocean
  aboard the Kon-Tiki boat
that built for himself.
One the best epic adventures of the XXI century."

Kon-Tiki - Trailer #2 from Storm Studios on Vimeo.

This is the route followed.

On the page of his museum in Norway

you can find interesting information.

    kon-tiki.no    

Knowing this adventure you can learn
a lot of things about the world.
Especially interesting is the importance
 of ocean currents.

More about ocean currents around the world:

  Academic Kids   

Mountains of the world

What about to travel above mountains of the world?

Just choose a destination on 

    euratlas   

and flying with your imagination.

So you can learn about your planet.

On this great video  represents some stats from mountains

 around the World from Everest to Kilimanjaro. 

 
For the Love of Mountains from Al Boardman on Vimeo.

Awesome translators

The world changes very fast since that Internet exists.

Currently one third of the world population still lives disconnected.

However, the  number of users is constantly increasing.

All progress has advantages but also disadvantages.

There are many advantages if you use talented.

You have available resources of worldwide and of all time.

You have available connection with people from anywhere at any time.

In addition you can access in any language thanks to the great translators.

 Many people and many hours of work are needed for to make translators.

Another day we talk about the precautions in technology.

Virtual world tour

Imagine a trip to anywhere.
First trains with this interesting game.

You can choose your destination
in this interactive map with interesting information.

You can start from  a country with English
as official (or Main) Language.
Find the flags to paint.