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This rhyming children’s book is a peacemaking tool that helps gently explain the terrifying phenomenon of war without continuing the cycle of fear and hate. It teaches children not just the root causes and effects of war, but also their own role in preventing future wars.

A not-for-profit community initiative that uses professional puppetry and meta-cognitive art to expose disadvantaged children to the innovative thinking skills that will enable them to think "around" their obstacles to success.

Originally or historically speaking partial and total solar eclipses (TSE) have been the exclusive concern of astronomy and astrophysics (Bhattacharyya, 1990; Anderson, 1999a; Stoev & Stoeva, 2008; Pasachoff, 2009a, b). However over the decades of the last two centuries these phenomena have been taken seriously into account by the atmospheric and environmental sciences to study the response of the terrestrial atmosphere during the interesting and particular circumstance in which solar light is partially or totally blocked by the Moon [Silverman and Mullen, 1974; Saha, 1982; Anderson, 1999b; Gross & Hense, 1999; Prenosil, 2000; Tsanev, 2002; Gerasopoulos et al., 2008; Pe?aloza-Murillo & Pasachoff, 2015 (table S1 in supplementary on-line material); Aplin et al., 2016] .

The present research, based in the School of Humanities and Education of the University of Montevideo, focuses on video games as cultural and educational tools in the three levels of primary, middle and higher education. It is a comparative and prospective study that incorporates the future in order to better acknowledge the present possibilities. The main problem is that multimedia learning systems based on games and educational video games in particular tend to be more like video-games than educational tools or vice versa, which leaves either students or teachers dissatisfied with their use.