Pripravila: Vlasta Rudar-Nenadović

Gimnazija Antona Aškerca, Šolski center Ljubljana

Wonders of the Natural Wonders of the Natural WorldWorld

There are many lists – this one was made by CNN

Victoria Falls: The Smoke That Thunders

• On November 17th of 1855 David Livingstone became the first European to see them. Afterwards he wrote: "No one can imagine the beauty of the view from anything witnessed in England. It had never been seen before by European eyes; but scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight."

Mount Everest

The Grand Canyon

• Despite being more than a mile* to the bottom, the Grand Canyon isn't the deepest gorge in the world, but it certainly is the most spectacular.

*1 mile = 1.6 km

The Northern Lights

What was the Vikings’ explanation?

• In Norse mythology the Valkyries* would come galloping across the night sky upon their horses equipped with helmets, spears and armour that would glow and shimmer in the darkness.

• These lights, coloured red, blue, violet and green, would spread in curtains from horizon to horizon, amazing the mortals below.

* immortal, war-like virgins, maidens of Odin, immortal, war-like virgins, maidens of Odin, who bring the souls of slain warriors to Valhalla who bring the souls of slain warriors to Valhalla

Another name for The Northern Lights is?

• Aurora BorealisAurora Borealis

• The name of the effect itself comes from the Roman goddess of the dawn, Aurora, and the Greek name for the north wind, Boreas. 

The Harbour at Rio de Janeiro

• Three months after leaving Lisbon, on January 1st, 1502, the Portuguese explorer Gonçalo Coelho on his ship reached what seemed to be the entrance to an enormous river.

• The bay they found was spectacularly surrounded by huge, oddly shaped mountains that astounded the European explorers. Taking a cue from the date on which they'd found this amazing harbour, they named it the "January River" or Rio de Janeiro.

The Great Barrier Reef 

• Just before 11 pm on June 11th, 1770, the HMS Endeavour*, captained by Lieutenant James Cook, ran aground.

• Though Cook didn't realize it at the time, the coral reef he had run onto was part of a vast system of 3,800 coral banks and islands that ran along the coast of Australia.

• Known as the Great Barrier Reef, it is the largest structure in the world created by living organisms.

* =Attempt, effort, enterprise* =Attempt, effort, enterprise

Paricutin: The Volcano in a Cornfield

• On February 20, 1943, Dionisio Pulido was working in his cornfield just outside the Tarascan Indian village of Paricutin, Mexico, when suddenly a volcano appeared.

• This was the first time scientists would be able to observe a volcano from birth through extinction.

Locations

• Do you happen to know any?• How are they different from the natural

wonders?• Do you happen to know what kinds of

structures these Ancient wonders were? • Where were they?• Can we still see them today?• Can you name any of them?

The Great Pyramid - Egypt

• http://www.unmuseum.org/kpyramid.htm

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

• http://www.unmuseum.org/hangg.htm

The Statue of Zeus at Olympia

• http://www.unmuseum.org/ztemp.htm

The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus

• http://www.unmuseum.org/ephesus.htm

The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

• http://www.unmuseum.org/maus.htm

The Colossus* of Rhodes

• http://www.unmuseum.org/colrhode.htm

*A colossus = any statue of gigantic size./ anything colossal, gigantic, or very powerful.

The Great Lighthouse at Alexandria

• http://www.unmuseum.org/pharos.htm

Locations

• Since it was the Greeks who made the lists it is not unusal that many of the items on them were examples of Greek culture.

• The writers might have listed the Stonehenge if they'd seen it, but this place was beyond the limits of their world.

The timeline

Sources:• http://www.zgodovinarka.si/sedem-svetovnih-cudes-antike/• http://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedem_%C4%8Dudes_starega_veka• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Wonders_of_the_Ancient_World • http://216.20.5.151/higgins/cullen/higgspath/panthers/maclean12.htm• http://projekti.svarog.org/7wonders/index.html• http://projekti.svarog.org/7wonders/viri.html• http://projekti.svarog.org/7wonders/kazalo.html• http://projekti.svarog.org/7wonders/galerija.html• http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/

http://www.unmuseum.org/wonders.htm http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/3225/wonder.htm http://www.fgsd.winnipeg.mb.ca/vmc/swaweb/cc/ccswow1.htm http://123world.com/wonders/ http://www.cleveleys.co.uk/wonders/sevenwondersoftheworld.htm http://www.wonderclub.com/AllWorldWonders.html http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/modern/ http://www.globalnets.com/wonders/modern.htm http://www.civl.port.ac.uk/comp_prog/wonders/Severn%20wonders%20of%20the%20world.htm http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/huntwondersmr2.html

• http://216.20.5.151/higgins/cullen/higgspath/panthers/maclean12.htm)

Refleksija / Poročilo / Komentar o uporab(nost)i:

• Pričujoča predstavitev je bila uporabljena enkrat, februarja 2015 v prvem letniku gimnazije, v okviru učnega sklopa o naravnih, antičnih in modernih čudesih sveta, povezanega z Module 3 v učbeniku On Screen B2: Travel & Holidays (Victoria Falls).

• Dijaki so se izredno dobro odzvali na slikovne iztočnice in zelo sodelovali pri uri.

• Sama predstavitev je zastavljena tako, da dopušča učitelju izbiro, saj hiper-povezave na spletne strani o čudesih antičnega sveta dajejo možnost izbire: tam lahko preberejo opis čudes, legende in zgodbe o njihovem nastanku, pomenu in usodi, lahko pa si ogledajo samo video posnetke o njih. Učitelj lahko izbere glede na to, koliko časa ima na voljo in kako podrobno želi obravnavati to tematiko, sekakor pa naj bi predvidel za to vsaj dve uri.

• Ogledu te predstavitve sledi reševanje učnega lista o antičnih čudesih sveta, ki je tudi priložen.