How to Find Volume in Cubic Feet
To find the volume of an object in cubic feet, multiply the height, the length, and the width together and convert the resulting value into feet if necessary. The instructor uses a document camera to aide his lecture and model examples.
What Is the Volume of a Cylinder?
The volume of a cylinder can be calculated by using the formula for the area of a circle multiplied by the height of the cylinder, expressed as pi R squared H. The instructor uses a document camera to model how to find the volume of a cylinder using a step by step approach.
Semitic Empire: The Akkadian Empire
A very in-depth look at the first empire in the Fertile Crescent area. It is not narrated so the viewer must read the text that accompanies the pictures of artifacts. The maps used with the colors showing the spread of the empire through modern day Iraq and the rest of the Middle East are helpful in giving perspective to the history of the area.
07:04 run time..
How to Write a Letter of Intent
Learn to write a letter of intent, address it to the correct person, be clear about the purpose of the document and give a detailed biography in this video. Include contact information in a letter of intent using advice from a playwright in this video on writing.
Reading About the Busy Frog
HighScope shows strategies for reading a nonfiction book with preschoolers. Uses strategies to support literacy and develop language skills. Sound quality is average. (3:04)
The New Media Literacies
Social skills and cultural competencies needed to fully engage with today's participatory culture.
Mississippi Map
This National Geographic maps allows students to explore the relative location of places in Mississippi and Mississippi's relative location to other states.
Careers in Film, Television and Animation
VERAa Academy of Animation tries hard to communicate education & spread awareness of 3d Animation mainly for Production.This video quickly demonstrates some of the skills as well as technical skills that you will need to work in this business. (1:00)
05 - Ball & String
ASTRO001:005 - Podcasts - 05 - Ball & String - Pennsylvania State University > Courses on iTunes U > Available Courses > Public Courses > ASTRO 001.005 SP2008: UP > Podcasts > 05 - Ball & String
Legislative and Presidential Politics
Democracy entails a complicated process of dynamic interactions between diverse actors pursuing often-conflicting interests. Politics in a democratic system is thus naturally messy, complicated, and confusing. This is exemplified most clearly by the two national institutions, i.e., legislature and the Presidency.
Barroso makes the case for conclusion of Doha Round
The world should embrace free trade and repudiate protectionism, urges José Manuel Barroso, European Commission president, adding that completing the Doha Round on global trade would send a “very important signal” that free trade is vital in lifting the international economy from the current deep recession.
The promise of India
The day before she was to launch her new company, Maya Hari found that she was expecting her first baby. She decided to put the launch on hold. Two years later, in August 2008, Stylkist was set up, but this came just days before Lehman Brothers went under and the financial meltdown began.
How Earthworks Trains Teenagers to Grow Food
John Burrous shows you around the Earthworks training program for teenagers, a program that teaches them to grow organic vegetables and gain skills. Run time 04:35.
Listening Quiz #9
Improve English listening skills with a short story that is read called
"Johnny the Trouble Maker" There is a blank screen during the reading of the story. After the short story is read the presenter asks five questions to test listening skills. Questions and answers can be found at: www.eslmastery.wordpress.com
Listening Quiz 11
Improve English listening skills with a short story that is read called
"The Smith's and the Thieves" There is a blank screen during the reading of the story. After the short story is read the presenter asks five questions to test listening skills. Questions and answers can be found at: www.eslmastery.wordpress.com
"Two Tramps in Mud Time" by Robert Frost (poetry reading)
This was written in 1934
The old picture of lumberjacks comes from this site:
http://www.antiquephotographics.com/Format%20Types/Tintypes/occupationalstt.htm
The Chopping Block - Jesslyn Fraser
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-chopping-block-jesslyn-fraser.html
Plenty of analysis here:
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/frost/tramps.htm
Out of the mud two strangers came
And caught me splitting wood in the yard,
And one of them put me off my aim
By hailing cheerily "Hit them
Documentary: The Adolf Hitler Schools (Part 1 of 6)
Part 1 of this documentary talks about how Hitler's school was started and the education they would learn to be the Master Race. Quotes and videos of Hitler and the German peoples' desire and methods to create this Pure Race by brainwashing the children and how these non-thinkers were used.
Gray Langur Monkeys
This short video is all about the Gray Langur Monkeys of India. Travel
with the explore team of explore.org as they document these incredible
creatures, native all across India. They can be spotted in the jungle,
countryside, or rooftops and streets of the city. Enjoy!
Les volcans (video)
Les volcans sont responsables de la formation de notre atmosphère et des continents, qui sont en quelque sorte l'écume magmatique de la Terre. Ils sont aussi un précieux outil d'échantillonnage de l'intérieur de la Terre, et leurs laves portent des informations précieuses sur la composition des roches profondes et inaccessibles dont elles sont issues. Il faut enfin voir chaque volcan comme le résultat superficiel des mouvements internes de grande ampleur qui affectent notre planète d
Gorillas... 98.6% Human
On a trip to Rwanda, explore had the opportunity to visit four families of wild mountain gorillas, a species with only 720 remaining members. Their guide is ...
