Tools to Aid Telescope Viewing
Tools to Aid Telescope Viewing. Part of the series: How to Use Telescopes. Try red lights and binoculars when telescope viewing to keep up night vision and home in on star clusters. Use tools that help telescope observations with an observatory director in this video. (01:11)
Articles-How to use A, An, The
This English lesson teaches you how to use 'a', 'an', and 'the' correctly. Many students make mistakes with these simple words (articles), so make sure you learn how to use them correctly.
National Geographic-Bird and Butterfly Swarms
In this video students will get to see swarms of flamingos and butterflies. The video identifies various reasons why these animals swarm and stick together. This video is a good teaching resource for students as it would help to build background knowledge. This would work well in conjunction with a unit on migration, birds, and/or butterflies. Students will enjoy this colorful video (2:18).
Overcoming Dyslexia
Overcoming Dyslexia. Part of the series: Dyslexia. Overcoming dyslexia involves a great deal of patience, time and commitment to achieve the same level of education as those without dyslexia. Learn about overcoming this condition from a recognized expert. (2:23)
Ten Things I Hate About You/Taming of the Shrew
This is a clip from the film remake of the the Shakespeare play starring Heath Ledger. He is serenading Julia Stiles' character and can be used in a unit on persuasion or changes in plot.
Introduction to Centripetal Acceleration (Part 1)
Intuition behind what it takes to make something travel in a circle. This video, which is suitable for high school students, starts with a black screen because the instructor, in his conversational tone, uses it as a 'chalkboard.' Instructor uses different colors for clarification. Run time 10:07.
Learn about the Nature of Fluids
Learn about the Nature of Fluids - Kitchens are full of fluids you might never have known were there. A fluid can be a liquid, gas, solid, or even plasma. Check out this episode of Food Science, as Dr. Kiki drops some knowledge regarding viscosity and her main man Sir Isaac Newton. Run time 03:49.
Why Does Water Rise?
This short video shows an experiment where water is drawn up into a container as the oxygen is burned off. The water rises because they're heating up the air inside the beaker. As the heat went out, the air pressure start pushing the water up. the beaker exploded because it had so much force, that it bounced on the table. Run time 03:59.
How To Spot the Milky Way Galaxy
Crazy Chris from So Cool Science explains how to spot the Milky Way Galaxy. He answers the question "How are we able to see the galaxy when we are inside it?" He aslo briefly explains irregular, spiral, and elliptical galaxies. Run time 03:31.
Top 10 Worst Foods - Nutrition By Natalie
Counts down the ten worst foods due to high sugar, fat, and sodium content. Explains how these foods are not hutritious. Done in a lecture format.
Animated- The Endocrine System
Discusses using the Super Hero "Glandman." Gives details about the glands. Gives functions and detailed descriptions and locations of glands. Discusses 4 major glands, (pituitary, thyroid, adrenal, pancreas).
Pronounce the Muscles (Part 4)
Video has a list of major muscle names, beginning with letters S through Z. The narrator pronounces the muscle names, and then allows the student to practice pronunciation. Words are a little blurry. Grades 9-12. 4:21 min.
Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World Video is a tour of the ancient wonders of the world. Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt, c.2650 BC., Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Babylon (Iraq), 600 BC, Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, Turkey, 550 BC, Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Greece, 435 BC, Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus, Turkey, 351 BC, Colossus of Rhodes, Greece, c.280 BC, and Pharos of Alexandria, Egypt, c.285 BC. This video also includes how the wonders were destr
Line Segments
In this very brief video, students learn the definitions of a point, a line, a segment, and a ray in this video. Instructor uses a whiteboard.
(Part 1) Lenin: Revolutionary - Documentary
Part 1 to a documentary about Vladimir Lenin. Life of Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, Bolshevik leader, communist politician, principal leader of the October Revolution and the first head of the Soviet Union. In 1998, he was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century. His contributions to Marxist theory are commonly referred to as Leninism.
Battle of Hastings: Part 4
To better understand what happened, leading up to (and during) the
famous battle of 1066, one needs to examine where the soldiers fought.
The area today is different from the way it appeared in the 11th
century.
In this clip, see how scholars, using modern
technology, have uncovered information about a battle which changed the
course of Britain's history.
Algebra: Solving Linear Equations - Part 2: Applications The Mark Steel Lectures- Descartes 2/3 Written and delivered by Mark Steel, lecture presents persuasive, yet witty, arguments for the importance of Descartes. This episode discusses Descartes daughter who dies when she is five and he becomes devastated. He starts to write “the Meditations,” which is a theory of the universe. Video does not show historical pictures, it uses current background and people to help with the lecturers ideas. Why we have a Census v - Initial Sounds
A short video that explains what a Census is and what purpose it has. More for older students with nothing about House of Representatives.
This short clip introduces a selection of images to kick start learning the v phoneme and V grapheme. Slides are shown of words beginning with the letter v.
