cartoon in teaching?????

How to use cartoon in teaching

Helping children learn to understand political cartoons can also help them develop critical thinking skills, which inevitably will extend to every area of their lives. Political cartoons, and even the “Sunday Funnies”, are wonderful teaching tools that help give children insight into social and political situations. Children can learn to analyze cartoons, look for subtleties beneath the surface of familiar situations, and gain a better understanding of symbolism, satire, and humor.
Cartoons can spark thoughtful conversation, and open the doors for you and your child to discuss current events, social and family life, values, morals, and religious philosophies. They give insight into the world around us, and provide opportunities for genuine and meaningful communication.
Cartoons can also spark a child’s imagination and creativity. You and your child can develop your own cartoons, using them to share your point of view, or depict the situations that symbolize your own family, life, or beliefs.

A Picture Says a Thousand Words

What the author or columnist might say in a thousand words, the cartoonist is able to sum up in a single picture. This wonderful phenomenon is the substance that creates appeal in all cartoons.
In a single image, a cartoon can make us smile, make us laugh, or even make us sigh and shake our heads. The cartoon’s ability to do this often has little to do with the artist’s drawing ability. Instead it is the ability of the cartoonist to make us think, to connect things in new ways, to see below the surface of the picture, and to relate what we see - regardless of the subject matter- to our own lives in some way, that makes the cartoon great.

Resources for Cartooning in the Classroom

Newspapers in Education, or NIE in its abbreviated form, offers wonderful ideas on using cartoons in the classroom. Materials are available for children in all grade levels, and are divided into easy to access sections for grades K-4, grades 5-8 and grades 9-12. Helpful hints for teachers help to ensure that including cartooning as a part of your classroom routine is educational and rewarding, for teacher and student. Illustrated worksheets are available to download. These wonderful activity pages give children information on how to analyze cartoons and develop their own cartooning skills, while using currently relevant materials as a guideline for lessons. Visit Newspapers In Education for more information.

poor?? rich??

who is poor and who is rich??

one day..

A father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the express purpose of showing him how poor people live..

They spent a couple of days ang night on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family..

On their returned from the trip,the father asked his son..

>>How was the trip?

++ It was great Dad

>>Did you see how poor people live?

++ Oh yeah!!

>>So,tell me what you learned from the trip?

++ The son answered..

I saw that we have one dog but they have four..

We have a pool that reaches to the middle of our garden and they have a creek that has no end..

WE have imported lanterns in our garden and they have the stars at night..

Our patio reaches to the front yard and they have the whole horizon..

We have a small piece of land to live on and they have fields that go beyond..

We have servants to serve us,but they serve others..

We have walls around our property to protect us but they have friends to protect them..

The boy's father was speechless..

Then his son added....

++ Thanks Dad for showing me how poor we are..

Isn't perspective a wonderful things??

Makes you wonder what would happen if we all gave thanks for everything we have, instead of worrying about what we dont have...

APPRECIATE EVERY SINGLE THING YOU HAVE!!!!!

CULTURAL SHOCK!!

You may have heard these words -- Culture Shock -- already and possibly within a negative context. Conflict in our lives, however, does not have to be negative or incapacitating. It can be used as a source of motivation, introspection, and change. Keep this in mind as you read on.Culture shock is defined as a psychological disorientation that most people experience when living in a culture markedly different from one’s own. Culture shock occurs when our "...cultural clues, the signs and symbols which guide social interaction, are stripped away. ...A difficult part of this process for adults is the experience of feeling like children again, of not knowing instinctively the ‘right’ thing to do."

Symptoms of culture shock include:
Homesickness
Boredom
Withdrawal
Excessive sleep
Compulsive eating/drinking
Irritability
Stereotyping host nationals
Hostility towards host nationals

Everyone experiences culture shock in different ways, at different times and to different degrees. Since you will be spending a lot of your time with other Americans, the culture shock you should expect would be minimal compared to someone who is going to live with a Swiss host family and attend a Swiss university without any other Americans around.

Usually the cultural adjustment process follows a certain pattern. At first, you will be excited about going to Europe and starting a new adventure. When you first arrive, everything will appear new and exciting. However, after some time, you may start to feel homesick and question why the Swiss (or Italians or French) do things differently than Americans do. You may even become irritated with these differences. However, you will eventually get used to this new way of life. And before you know it, you will be getting excited about the return home to your family and friends.* An orientation will be provided for you upon arrival to the Center. This orientation will include information regarding culture shock and how to cope with it. In addition, the Student Affairs Coordinator is available to assist students with the cultural adjustment process.

~~PUBLIC TRANSPORT~~

Public transport is the primary form of motor transport. Whilst in the western world private cars dominate, in the developing world, which represents the majority of the global population, private car ownership is prohibitively expensive (for example, in dense urban areas through the high cost of parking), and walking, (motor)cycling, and public transport are often the only practicable options, with only the latter being viable for longer distances. This often takes the form of mini-buses that may follow fixed routes but are usually flexible, including taxi-style door-to-door transportation


Public conveyances that travel on roads alongside private traffic are often slower than private transport because ordinary vehicular speed of travel is further burdened, in the case of public transit, by service headways (wait times for passenger vehicles), connections, and frequent stops to board additional passengers. Use of some public transport systems may take up to two or even three times longer than an equivalent trip in a private vehicle, especially where transfers are required or headways are long. The challenge of headways, connections, and stops generally cannot be alleviated, so improvements to the speed of public transit often have focused on increases to vehicular speed beyond that of private traffic by means of the use of dedicated or semi-dedicated travel lanes (grade-separated, elevated, or depressed rights-of-way) and traffic light preempts


Public transport in general has a smaller footprint per rider than private motor transit, and thus has a significant advantage in areas with higher population densities because land space in such areas is at a premium. Cost is not the only relevant factor. In densely settled areas, traffic congestion frequently slows private motor transit to a crawl.


The term rapid transit, is often used to distinguish modes of transit possessing a dedicated right of way and having frequent, continuous service. Still, rapid transit often fails to live up to the name, as there are no firm guidelines as to how fast transit must be to be rapid.Light rail is another form of public transit, comprising of a tram or trolley operating on a rail line.

Emissions from road vehicles account for over 50% of U.S. air pollution. For every passenger mile traveled, public transportation uses less than one half of the fuel of private automobiles, producing 5% as much carbon monoxide and less than 8% as much as the other pollutants that create smog such as nitrogen oxides. Scientists estimate that public transportation already reduces emissions of carbon dioxide, which contributes to global climate change, by over 7.4 million tons annually.

If Americans were to use public transportation at equivalent rates as Europeans, scientists estimate that U.S. dependence on imported oil would decrease by more than 40% and that carbon dioxide emissions would be reduced by more than 25%. However, in almost all cases, public transit systems in the United States have had almost no impact on the number of drivers.

human activity VS nature

In many respects, human activity is to blame for global warming. Burning of oil and coal are obvious human activities that result in global warming. While nuclear power plants may look better in terms of greenhouse gases compared to burning of fossil fuels, nuclear plants will also directly add extra heat into the atmosphere. In the light of the accelerated greenhouse effect, such extra heat remains - even more than before - trapped in the atmosphere, adding further acceleration to the already accelerating global warming. As said, extra heat may seem insignificant compared to natural heat, but it may just tip the balance when deciding how to allocate subsidies to combat global warming. Similarly, where geothermal schemes extract heat from the depths of Earth, this may also constitute extra heat that wouldn't be added naturally.

Agriculture can also add substantial amounts of extra heat: animals release methane gas, clearing land for agriculture by burning forests releases carbon dioxide, inefficient farming practices result in release of nitrous oxide, etc. In Australia, greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture constituted 16% of total emissions in 2004 (source), while agriculture was largest source of nitrous oxide and methane emissions (source).

But that doesn't mean that all human activity was bad and that all farms needed to be transformed into forest overnight. Bad forestry practies also add extra greenhouse gases, due to composting and formation of swamps resulting in methane, and due to natural burning and firestorms. Many forests would burn naturally and this can be minimised with good forestry management. Similarly, termites release methane gasses, so it makes sense to avoid this.

Banning all human activity and letting nature go rampant is not the answer. The big challenge is to find ways in which we can live, work, travel and do things we want to do while minimising our contributions to further global warming. Capturing the heat of the sun and geysers, and capturing the turbulance of wind, waves and rivers is not only a way to use energy that is already present naturally, it can also flatten wild weather patterns that could do a lot of damage.

...GLOBAL WARMING VS GREENHOUSE EFFECT...

The atmosphere works like a greenhouse, shielding us from too much sunshine during the day, while also keeping heat trapped so that we do not freeze at night. In other words, the greenhouse effect shields us from both extremely high and low temperatures.Greenhouse gases such as methane and carbon dioxide, as well as water vapor, trap such heat in Earth's atmosphere. The more greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere, the stronger the greenhouse effect.As said, activities such as burning of fossil fuels add extra greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, resulting in a stronger greenhouse effect. This will both result in both less sunshine getting through and less heat escaping the atmosphere, but the combined effect is a relatively higher overall temperature on Earth. Over the years, human activity, specifically burning fossil fuels, has substantially increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, resulting in a stronger greenhouse effect, causing global warming and climate change.

So,the conclusion is all of us have to play our role to the next generation. This is very crucial for our beloved earth...

HAPPY EID MUBARAK TO ALL...~~

ASSALAMUALAIKUM....

hooray...!!! raya comes again..I was so happy as I could return to my lovely home..huhu..~~thats the point!! everyone becomes children for the second times..=p..

>>for the first day..

my family and I went to mosque for having "solat raya"..there are crowded at the mosque..I was very very excited..then,all of us listened to the "khutbah" delivered by "khatib".then we returned home and forgive each others.. suprisingly,I got "angpau" from my Mom,Dad and also my oldest sister..hehe~~=p after that,we went to visit our relatives such as "mak teh","mak long","pak ngah" and "mak ucu".. then all of us gathered togethter at "tok wan's" house and walking together to the grave to recite yasiin and "doa" to whom are not with us anymore...

>>second day...

I woke up early because today we had to get ready to prepare food such as satay,rendang,ketupat and etc because we had an open house on that day.. almosrt all of my cousins,my friends and my relatives to our open house.. we were so overjoy and enjoy ourselves eating all the delicious meals.. i were so tired in that evening because i have to do my job such as to wash all the plates and to treat all my guest..although i was so tired, i felt very happy and enjoy on that day..because of so tired on that day,i sleep early at night...