Totem Pole Sculpture


 

The Art of Totem Poles




Raven Steals The Light


 



The Great and Terrible Raven


 

Ravens and Crows

Audubon Society: Ravens vs Crows 

Click the link above.





Ravens: The Legend of the Tower of London

 

The legend of the Tower ravens

It is said that the kingdom and the Tower of London will fall if the six resident ravens ever leave the fortress. There are seven ravens at the Tower today,  plus one spare!

Charles II is thought to have been the first to insist that the ravens of the Tower be protected after he was warned that the crown and the Tower itself would fall if they left.





Lucas the Spider

 


Why Spiders Don´t Stick to the Web?


 

Spider Web Time Lapse

Orb Weaver Spider
 



Two Spider Stories


 Eric Carle´s "The Very Busy Spider"

This Incy Wincy Spider


 

Spider Facts 101


 

The Ten Most Beautiful Spiders in the World




 

The Tarantula, Goliath Bird Eating Spider and Malaysian TrapDoor Spider

 Tarantula
Goliath Bird Eating Spider
Malaysian TrapDoor Spider


Arachnids


 

Spider´s Three SuperPowers


 

Pumpkin Carving

With Ray Vallafane
Time Lapse 
DIY Pumpkin CARVING TOOL


The BreakFast Machine with Pee Wee Herman

What is he eating for breakfast?
A. Bacon and eggs 
B. Pancakes
C. Cereal
D. Toasts with butter
E. All of the above
What is he drinking?
A. Nothing
B. Orange juice

The New York Times Magazine: What Kids Around the World Eat For BreakFast


CLiCK To LEaRN
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/08/magazine/eaters-all-over.htmlBREA

Kids Try 100 years of LunchES


Candy & Cake: Around the World

And Cake...

Christmas & New Year´s Food from Around the World

And New Year´s 

Try EATing iNSECTS!!!


BirthDay Food from Around the World


School LunchES from Around the World


Breakfast from Around the World


Prison Food from Around the World


Food from Children´s Books


Haka Female Rugby Team: Ferns


Ko Uhia Mai

Kaea:   Ko nga Mamaku o Aotearoa Kia mau - Black Ferns of NZ be ready and alert
Les fougères noires de NZ prêtes et alertes

Katoa: Hi - Ready (hands on hips)  Salut - Prêt (mains sur les hanches)
Kaea: Torona titaha - Say in passing Dire en passant
A uhia mai - Who these women
 are Qui sont ces femmes

Katoa: Ko nga Mamaku e ngunguru nei - It is the Black Ferns boom
 C'est le grondement des fougères boom
Hi au, au, aue ha

Ko Hine Nui te po - Hine Nui te po
 we came nous sommes venus

Ki te whaiao, ki te ao marama e -
 To change from the supernatural world of nothing
To the World of information 
Pour passer du vnide monde surnaturel au Monde d´information 

Katoa: Hi a haha - Life force from above -- the sky La force vitale d'en haut -- les cieux
Mauri ki te rangi - Life force from below -- the land La force vitale d'en bas -- la terre
Me te whenua - The meeting clouds les nuages de rencontre
Nga kapua whakapipi - The mountains that penetrate the sky 
Les montagnes qui pénètrent le ciel
Mai nga Maunga titia e 
Hi a haha

Kaea: He tia he tia - Let us go Allons-y
Te Moana nui--a--Kiwa - To the seas Vers les mers
Mai nga topito -  From the corners of the island Des coins de l'île
Ki nga moutere - to the next door islands vers les îles voisines
O te ao whanui e - And around the world Et autour du monde
  
Katoa: Hi a haha - You stand tall and proud Tu te tiens haut et fier 
Tumai ra koe - women of strength and prestige des femmes de force et de prestige
Te mana wahine - Who will bring the future Qui portera l'avenir

He tia he tia - Go on, go on Continuez, continuez
He ranga he ranga  
Kaea: Turuki turuki - Yes, move it, move it Oui, allez-y, allez-y
Katoa: Paneke, paneke - Move forward, forward Avancer, avancer
Kaea: Turuki, turuki - Move it, move it bougez-vous, bougez-vous

Haere mai te toki - When the challenge arrives  Quand le défi arrive
Haumi ee, hui e - We´ll meet and unite together 
Nous allons nous rassembler et nous unir 
Taiki ee - strong together  forts ensemble


Composed by Whetu Tipiwai

All Blacks Haka: Read!





Haka: A New Zealand Maori Tradition


Make and Female


Cheer Chants: CheerLeading


Basic CheerLeading Positions

Rollforme on | Cheer tryouts, Cheer workouts, Cheer routines

Cheer Motions & Jumps


Cheers vs Chants in CheerLeading


Carl Sagan Explains Voyager I & II Missions

(Subtitled in Spanish)
(Sous titres en français)

Voyager´s Travels & Lego

At the beginning of the eighties I saw the television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan. Cosmos gave birth to my interest in history, space and science. 
The sixth episode of the series is called "Travellers' Tales" and is focused on voyages of discovery, mainly on the journey that has taken us farther than any: the space travel of Voyager spaceships. That's why one of the first models that I designed and built with LEGO pieces (and one of the most loved by me) is the Voyager spacecraft and this is the last version of my design of the ship.
Voyager is my favorite spacecraft. It is the one that has gone farther. It was the first to leave the solar system and become a real interstellar ship. Voyager 2 visited four planets in its Grand Tour: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Besides it is not just an exploration ship, its Golden Record contains a message from humankind, a message addressed to the Universe.

Prior to the launch of the Voyager (in August and September 1977), little was known about the outer Solar System. But in the years that followed, between 1979 and 1989, these spaceships reached Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, they sent a flood of very detailed information about these planets, their moons and rings. This is already a formidable achievement, but the Voyager mission did not end there. They reached the limits of the solar system. Voyager 1 passed the helipausa in 25 August 2012, transforming into the first man-made object to reach interstellar space.
This model of the Voyager spacecraft is very accurate and you can see numerous details of their communications systems, sensors and power generators.
Golden Record
The golden record, deserves special mention. It is a 12-inch gold-plate cooper phonograph record, containing some sounds and images of our planet, the instructions to play the record, and the location of our solar system. This album is aimed to the intelligent beings that the Voyager can find in its path in the future. Therefore, the Voyager is not only a space probe but a time capsule, a message of humankind thrown into deep space, into the future, into the unknown.
Jimmy Carter (President of the United States of America when the Voyagers were launched) said about the Golden Record of the Voyager: "This is a present from a small distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings" (and his words were also recorded in the actual disc).
Minifigures
The project includes two minifigures, a planetary scientist and a female member of the creative team of the Golden Record. My proposal is that these minifigures can be customized as Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, if the necessary permits can be obtained. Ann Druyan was the Creative Director of the Golden Record project and later worked with Carl Sagan and Steven Soter on the creation of the television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980). My personal opinion is that Cosmos has been one of the best science popularization television series ever made, and Carl Sagan is one of the best science communicators, not only for his television series, but also for his numerous books aimed at the general public.
The minifigures are part of a small vignette that represents an office in the JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) with computers from the eighties. On the blackboard there is a photograph of a small moon of Saturn called Mimas (it is not a combat station). Above the chalkboard and computers there is a small scale replica of the Voyager. The female minifigure holds a copy of the golden disc and the male minifigure examines a map of a distant world.
I used a photograph of Saturn (from the website of NASA that are in the public domain) as background of main picture of this project. This background pictures was taken by the actual Voyager spacecraft.
You can find high resolution pictures of the model and additional photos in my flickr album:
The pictures of the LEGO model of the Voyager were taken with a SONY HX400V camera.
I have also included a stand for display of the ship Voyager. The project uses about 200 bricks in total.
I am convinced that this project has a high historical and educational value and I hope you like it and support it.
This project could become an official Lego set if it gathers 10,000 votes. Voting is easy, free and without any obligation, you just have to press the blue button "Support". If you do not have an account on LEGO Ideas, you must register, you will receive an email to activate your account and then you can already vote. Also you can help a lot by sharing the idea in Facebook and Twitter with your friends and invite them to vote.
Thank you very much for visiting this project.
Kind regards
Luis

Voyager I & II Explorations Explained


Built a Voyager Space Probe

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/spacecraft/interactive.php
Click above to see a 3D model of the Voyager
Make it!

The Golden Record Voyager Music: Louis Armstrong

"Heebie Jeebies"

NASA Voyager Mission Discoveries: Solar System


Voyager´s I & II Golden Record: Chuck Berry

"Johnny Be Goode" Live

"Johnny B. Goode"
Deep down in Louisiana close to New Orleans
Way back up in the woods among the evergreens
There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood
Where lived a country boy named Johnny B. Goode
Who never ever learned to read or write so well
But he could play a guitar just like a-ringing a bell

Go go
Go Johnny go!
Go
Go Johnny go!
Go
Go Johnny go!
Go
Go Johnny go!
Go
Johnny B. Goode!

He used to carry his guitar in a gunny sack
Go sit beneath the tree by the railroad track
Oh, the engineer would see him sitting in the shade
Strumming with the rhythm that the drivers made
The people passing by, they would stop and say
"Oh my, but that little country boy could play"

Go go
Go Johnny go!
Go
Go Johnny go!
Go
Go Johnny go!
Go
Go Johnny go!
Go
Johnny B. Goode!

His mother told him, "Someday you will be a man,
And you will be the leader of a big old band
Many people coming from miles around
To hear you play your music when the sun go down
Maybe someday your name'll be in lights
Saying 'Johnny B. Goode tonight!'"

Go go
Go Johnny go!
Go go go Johnny go!
Go go go Johnny go!
Go go go Johnny go!
Go
Johnny B. Goode!


NASA´s Interstellar Voyager I & II Missions

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/