Geography
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Navigation
Vom Sextanten zum Satelliten
Die Geschichte der Navigation findet ihren Ursprung in der Seefahrt. Während die Menschen einst ihre Erfahrungen mit Sonne, Mond und Sternen mündlich überlieferten, begannen sie im 13. Jahrhundert mit den ersten Aufzeichnungen. Der Film beschreibt den Weg der Navigation mit dem Beginn der Erfindung des Jakobsstabs als erstes Messgeräts und Vorläufer des Sextanten bis hin zu künstlichen ins Weltall geschossene Satelliten. Auf der Basis der zwei- und dreidimensionalen Triangulation beschreibt er die Entwicklung beispielsweise der Landvermessung oder GPS-Systeme. Neben der praktischen Anwendung wird jedoch auch die kritische Frage beleuchtet, inwieweit der angeborene Navigations- und Orientierungssinn bei Vögeln oder auch dem Mensch durch den Einsatz der künstlichen Navigationssysteme beeinträchtigt werden kann.
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Today, the use of new media has become a matter of course not only in everyday life – schools and teaching, too, benefit from the new technologies and methods, which support active and independent learning. Especially in computer science, ethics and language courses but also in all other subjects, modern media are a valuable pedagogic and didactic asset. This DVD uses the example of podcasts to demonstrate how the possibilities opened up by new media can be applied in the classroom and how the pupils can be taught to handle them in a competent and target-oriented manner. The film is aimed at supporting the use of podcasts at school and encourages making them. This also requires the ability to find information on the Internet and assess it. The film informs on the functionality of podcasts and technical background as well as on the teaching and learning possibilities offered by podcasts – ranging from specific contents to superordinate learning targets such as the advancement of creativity and team spirit. The DVD is a useful support for teachers applying new media and wishing to show their pupils how to handle Running Time: 20:29 ms them in a sensible way.
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Being able to fly has been a dream of humanity from time immemorial. But it does not even date back a century that people actually started being able to travel through the air. Since the 1960s, the number of flight passengers has been constantly increasing. Thus, the airspace is no longer dominated by birds but by man-made flying objects.