7 by 7 ways to be creative with geography.

Actividades que se proponen a los alumnos para aumentar su capacidad de hacer preguntas y desarrollar varias habilidades en el contexto de respuestas creativas de geografía.

How to teach English with technology.

El recurso trata sobre el lenguaje y la enseñanza del inglés como segundo idioma utilizando el ordenador y la tecnología de Internet. Tiene dos objetivos principales: introducir una amplia gama de posibilidades de enseñanza tanto para profesores con y sin experiencia profesional, como para estudiantes de magisterio; proporcionar ideas para las actividades de clase. El recurso tiene doce capítulos, además de cuatro anexos, que describen en primer lugar los fundamentos teóricos de cada tema, seguido de una descripción de los dispositivos técnicos, software o hardware, utilizados en el capítulo y algunas sugerencias para actividades de clase.

The trouble with maths : a practical guide to helping learners with numeracy difficulties.

Este manual ofrece importantes ideas sobre el mundo, a menudo confuso, de la aritmética elemental. Examina las dificultades de aprendizaje en matemáticas desde varias perspectivas, incluye el lenguaje de las matemáticas, estilos de pensamiento y las peticiones de cuestiones individuales. Tiene en cuenta todos los aspectos sobre matemáticas y aprendizaje, y ofrece asesoramiento, orientación y actividades prácticas, que permiten: desarrollar habilidades de pensamiento flexible; utilizar estrategias alternativas para los alumnos para acceder a datos básicos; implementar medidas preventivas eficaces antes de que se establezca el descontento; reconocer la ansiedad con las matemáticas y problemas de autoestima; realizar evaluaciones precisas de las dificultades de los alumnos; diseño informal de procedimientos de diagnóstico. Es un manual que puede proporcionar una visión general de dónde y cómo pueden surgir los problemas, que ofrece información sobre posibles dificultades, o centrarse en un problema particular y sugerir orientaciones que pueden ayudar a los alumnos a aprender.

Meeting special needs : a practical guide to support children with dyslexia.

Manual práctico para profesionales, no especializados, con sugerencias e ideas sobre cómo trabajar con niños que tienen dislexia, y cómo asegurarse de que están plenamente integrados en el entorno. El folleto incluye: una comprensión de la dislexia; formas prácticas para ayudar y apoyar a estos niños ya que la mayoría tienen dificultades con el lenguaje, la memoria, la organización y la secuenciación; estudio de casos; un ejemplo de plan de educación individual; cómo funciona el entorno de trabajo con otros profesionales y contactos útiles.

The equity aspect within the framework of the assessment of the quality of Higher Education : developing indicators to identify students with a higher risk of failure at university with a view to improving equality of chances of succes

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Robust dynamics of Amazon dieback to climate change with perturbed ecosystem model parameters

Climate change science is increasingly concerned with methods for managing and integrating sources of uncertainty from emission storylines, climate model projections, and ecosystem model parameterizations. In tropical ecosystems, regional climate projections and modeled ecosystem responses vary greatly, leading to a significant source of uncertainty in global biogeochemical accounting and possible future climate feedbacks. Here, we combine an ensemble of IPCC-AR4 climate change projections for the Amazon Basin (eight general circulation models) with alternative ecosystem parameter sets for the dynamic global vegetation model, LPJmL. We evaluate LPJmL simulations of carbon stocks and fluxes against flux tower and aboveground biomass datasets for individual sites and the entire basin. Variability in LPJmL model sensitivity to future climate change is primarily related to light and water limitations through biochemical and water-balance-related parameters. Temperature-dependent parameters related to plant respiration and photosynthesis appear to be less important than vegetation dynamics (and their parameters) for determining the magnitude of ecosystem response to climate change. Variance partitioning approaches reveal that relationships between uncertainty from ecosystem dynamics and climate projections are dependent on geographic location and the targeted ecosystem process. Parameter uncertainty from the LPJmL model does not affect the trajectory of ecosystem response for a given climate change scenario and the primary source of uncertainty for Amazon 'dieback' results from the uncertainty among climate projections. Our approach for describing uncertainty is applicable for informing and prioritizing policy options related to mitigation and adaptation where long-term investments are required.

Using idealized snow forcing to test teleconnections with the Indian summer monsoon in the Hadley Centre GCM

Anomalous heavy snow during winter or spring has long been regarded as a possible precursor of deficient Indian monsoon rainfall during the subsequent summer. However previous work in this field is inconclusive, in terms of the mechanism that communicates snow anomalies to the monsoon summer, and even the region from which snow has the most impact. In this study we explore these issues in coupled and atmosphere-only versions of the Hadley Centre model. A 1050-year control integration of the HadCM3 coupled model, which well represents the seasonal cycle of snow cover over the Eurasian continent, is analysed and shows evidence for weakened monsoons being preceded by strong snow forcing (in the absence of ENSO) over either the Himalaya/Tibetan Plateau or north/west Eurasia regions. However, empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis of springtime interannual variability in snow depth shows the leading mode to have opposite signs between these two regions, suggesting that competing mechanisms may be possible. To determine the dominant region, ensemble integrations are carried out using HadAM3, the atmospheric component of HadCM3, and a variety of anomalous snow forcing initial conditions obtained from the control integration of the coupled model. Forcings are applied during spring in separate experiments over the Himalaya/Tibetan Plateau and north/west Eurasia regions, in conjunction with climatological SSTs in order to avoid the direct effects of ENSO. With the aid of idealized forcing conditions in sensitivity tests, we demonstrate that forcing from the Himalaya region is dominant in this model via a Blanford-type mechanism involving reduced surface sensible heat and longwave fluxes, reduced heating of the troposphere over the Tibetan Plateau and consequently a reduced meridional tropospheric temperature gradient which weakens the monsoon during early summer. Snow albedo is shown to be key to the mechanism, explaining around 50% of the perturbation in sensible heating over the Tibetan Plateau, and accounting for the majority of cooling through the troposphere.