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Connecting with colleagues: No tricks, all treat!: In The First Year, page 2.4; You're busy, but making time for conversation with colleagues will pay off in the long run.; Format: article; By Kristi Johnson Smith.

Controlled burn: In Forests and fires: The longleaf pine savanna, page 10; Figure 9 shows a longer distance view of the same controlled burn shown in Figure 8. Note that visible fire can only be seen behind the mature tree in the center. Otherwise, the only indication of the fire is the smoke in the background....; By Dirk Frankenberg.

Two paths to knowledge: For students who who always finish their class work early or want more information than you have time to give, try curriculum compacting.; By Waverly Harrell.

A Siouan village: In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.6; In their study of an excavated village site, students will record observations about a site feature and infer how past peoples used individual features and the site as a whole. They will also summarize how archaeologists use observation and inference to determine past lifeways.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)

Quick study: Woodland Period: A “cheat sheet” covering basic information about the Woodland Period and its key characteristics.

Ravana's palace complex in flames (Thai Ramayana mural): Ravana's blue tiered roof palace and white walled city is set on fire by Hanuman, leading Ravana and other demons to flee. Around a single dense complex of palace buildings, several sequential scenes are depicted by repeating characters. At the lower left,...; Format: image/photograph

The “Old Fire”: Smoke billows from the “Old Fire,” a wildfire that raged in the San Bernardino Mountains of California in the fall of 2003. In this view from a distant peak, gray-white smoke rises in great clouds from green mountains, partly obscuring a sky with...; Format: image/photograph

Vietnam train experience: Though I usually took the bus to travel over longer distances in Vietnam, I had hoped to save time during one part of my trip by taking the train. The larger windows, the roomier seating and the speed usually make the train a better ride. This did not prove...; Format: audio

Outside Buddhist temple, firecracker preparations: Part of a ten day vegetarian festival. In the Buddhist temple courtyard, boys are putting firecrackers onto long bamboo poles. Later, during a different part of the festival, these strings of firecrackers will be detonated, creating a deafening noise, lots...; Format: audio

Buddhist festival ceremony, climbing the razor ladder: Part of a ten day vegetarian Buddhist festival in Trang, Thailand. This is an evening fundraiser event held at the temple, and is well attended by the local townspeople. In this clip, you can hear the announcer, and the general audience sounds. The drums play,...; Format: audio

Buddhist festival ceremony, percussion for climbing ladder: Part of a ten day vegetarian Buddhist festival in Trang, Thailand. This is an evening fundraiser event held at the temple, and is well attended by the local townspeople. In this clip, you can hear the musical percussion that accompanied the night's performance,...; Format: audio

Buddhist festival ceremony, firework finale: Part of a ten day vegetarian Buddhist festival in Trang, Thailand. This is an evening fundraiser event held at the temple, and is well attended by the local townspeople. In this clip, you can hear the sound of firecrackers exploding, followed by recorded music....; Format: audio

Buddhist festival ceremony, raising funds: Part of a ten day vegetarian Buddhist festival in Trang, Thailand. This is a recording of an evening fundraiser event held at the temple, and is well attended by the local townspeople. Men at the event are considered to be in "trance," or occupied by the spirits...; Format: audio

Buddhist festival ceremony, fundraising: Part of a ten day vegetarian Buddhist festival in Trang, Thailand. This is an evening fundraiser event held at the temple, and is well attended by the local townspeople. In this clip, you can hear an announcer's voice through a megaphone, and he is presumably...; Format: audio

Pashupatinath tour: Temples, Hindu religion and cricket: In this recording, Ajit introduces himself, and begins his tour of the various temples and sites in Pashupatinath. He starts with a description of a Hindu temple of Kali, a wife of Shiva. He describes animal sacrifices that were considered necessary to keep...; Format: audio

Evening in Nayathanti: In Nayathanti, Nepal, smoke drifts out from the roof of a house where food is probably being prepared for trekking tourists and their guides and porters. In the background, an elderly women washes pots and plates at the edge of the stone porch. A tourist with...; Format: image/photograph

Women cooking in a mountain house in western Nepal: In Nayathanti, Nepal, an elderly woman sorts through a bunch of broad-leafed mustard greens while a young woman works over the hearth. They are probably cooking food for the trekking tourists and their porters. The smoke from cooking and heating the home is...; Format: image/photograph

Preparing the meal with a smokeless wood-stove: A woman wearing a saari stands behind a raised earthen wood stove. It is a smokeless stove, introduced as an improvement on the traditional earthen stove which generates a lot of smoke inside the kitchen and the house. Kitchen work is usually carried out by...; Format: image/photograph

Cooking in Tukche: In Tukche, Nepal, a woman stands in front of a raised stove platform and cooks food. Lying on the platform are some tin cans, pots and pans and other kitchen paraphernalia. The stove is a "smokeless" variety. This stove is an improvement from the traditional...; Format: image/photograph

Wind-blown trees on the banks of the Kali Gandaki: In the western mountains of Nepal, a forceful wind bends trees on the bank of the Kaali Gandaki River. Rocky mountainsides can be seen across the river. At some places the Kaali Gandaki also floods the land, causing landslides and washing away terraced rice...; Format: image/photograph

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