The Golden Door - Immigration Documentary Part 1 Part 1 of 2. Documentary on immigration to the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Video is hosted by a group of students. In this video the narrator discusses the early immigration into the United States. They also discusses why people left their home country, how people came to America, Ellis Island and what happened there, movement of people into the cities and how they lived, and
The Golden Door - Immigration Documentary Part 2 Video is hosted by a group of students. Video discusses the 1882 Emigrant Act and 1917 revision of the act. The 1882 Emigrant Act charged fifty cents for each immigrant. This money was to be used for the care of the immigrant. In 1907 the law was revised, $4.00 was charged on any immigrant for the first time. The increase in immigration changed education in America. Immigrants nee
Ep.1, PBS Napoleon (To Destiny) Part 2
This excellent PBS series, filled with historical re-enactments and narrated by David McCullough, starts with Napoleon receiving the crown of France. This documentary is suitable for high school students.
Ep.1 ,PBS Napoleon (To Destiny) Part 3
This excellent PBS series, filled with historical re-enactments and narrated by David McCullough, starts with Napoleon receiving the crown of France. This documentary is suitable for high school students.
Ep.1, PBS Napoleon (To Destiny) Part 4
In this episode, Napoleon meets Josephine. This excellent PBS series, filled with historical re-enactments and narrated by David McCullough, starts with Napoleon receiving the crown of France. This documentary is suitable for high school students.
Ep.1, PBS Napoleon (To Destiny) Part 5
This excellent PBS series, filled with historical re-enactments and narrated by David McCullough, starts with Napoleon receiving the crown of France. This documentary is suitable for high school students.
Teaching The Silent E Rule Word Work
In Responsive Reading Instruction, a reading intervention
published by Sopris West, teachers use a variety of strategies to
develop students' understanding and skills in phonemic awareness, the alphabetic principle, letter-sound correspondence, sight word
recognition, decoding, and spelling. Watch this clip for a sample of
"Teaching The Silent E Rule", one of the activities in Responsive
Reading Instruction. For more information on Responsive Reading
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Bad Treatments for Dyslexia
Bad Treatments for Dyslexia. Part of the series: Dyslexia. Bad treatments for dyslexia do not directly address the skills that are impaired by dyslexia, and therefore become less effective. Avoid ineffective dyslexia treatments with tips from a recognized expert. (1:23)
Sign Language Made Easy
The award winning, American Sign Language Made Easy Series is the most complete series on signing ever produced. This 40-volume, educational video and DVD series teaches conversational sign language, in a fun and easy manner and is ideal for students, teachers and parents. The focus of this series is to teach students basic to advanced communication skills, vocabulary, finger spelling, the alphabet and grammar principles to be able to start signing and communicating easily and quickly.
Parents and Preschoolers Reading Together
In this professionally-produced video, learn why reading with pre-schoolers does more than get kids interested in reading. Parents and pre-schoolers need to read together because it helps their pre-schoolers' language and comprehension skills, among other things.
Symbol Imagery Assessment
This short video shows a teacher administering a symbol imagery assessment to a seven-year-old student. The video connects the results of the student's assessment to his decoding skills. As his recognition of letters grows stronger, that will in turn help with his decoding of words. When decoding becomes more automatic, it will help the student's reading comprehension.
Children's Addition
This children's educational video teaches kids basic addition
skills. The concept is presented simply with numbers and picture
representations of numbers 0 though 10. Lesson page:
http://xoax.net/childrens/Addition.php
My Hero, Zero - Song
This animated video presents number zero. It explains why the invention of the number zero matters so much. There are illustrations based on historical facts and reference to the way in which we can use zero for multiplications by ten and a hundred.
Easy Division Shortcuts
Learn to improve your math skills using mental math tricks. See how to divide numbers by 5, 50, and 500 quickly and easily. Teacher demonstrates the shortcut on an interactive white board. (2:36)
Richard III by William Shakespeare, Part 2 of
A historical tragedy -- the villainous Richard, the duke of Gloucester, schemes to inherit the crown, ruthlessly eliminating anyone who hinders his progress. This animated version of the great classic by Shakespeare brings his words to life. Animation brings these stories to younger students. It uses Shakespeare's words and has the words at the bottom of the screen. Educators can pause the film to discuss the different passages. Suitable for older middle school and high school students.
Basic Calculations in Mathematics : Calculating the Perimeter of a Circle
The perimeter of a circle is calculated by measuring the radius and multiplying it by 2 pi. Calculate the perimeter of a circle with a professional math tutor in this video on math skills. There are English captions at the bottom.
Expert: Fernando Millan
Contact: www.tutormath.info
Bio: Fernando Millan is the owner and founder of Math Specialists LLC and has taught college mathematics courses at Miami Dade Community College, Barry University and University of Florida, am
Second Grade | Story Elements | Reading Comprehension
This is a short story about a young girl with a disability. There are no moving images in this video; it just has narration. (02:16) Great for improving listening skills. There are comprehension questions at the end of the story.
Biography: Vladimir Lenin: Voice of Revolution
Called treacherous, deluded, out-of-touch, insane, Lenin might have been a minor historical footnote but for the Russian Revolution, which catapulted him into the headlines of the 20th century.
The Mark Steel Lectures-Descartes 1/3 Written and delivered by Mark Steel, each lecture presents persuasive, yet witty, arguments for the importance of Descartes. Mark Steel looks at Descartes life and philosophy. He starts with some background about Descartes. He also discusses Aristotle and his thoughts and how Parliament instructed people not to attack his thoughts. Descartes said his best ideas would come if he was clear of all distractions, he said his clea
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.
