Pentominoes - A Virtual Manipulative
Add a pentomino to the workspace
Click on the button of the shape you want. You can move a pentomino by clicking and dragging it to a new location. When you place a pentomino next to another one, their edges will snap together.
Rotate
Click on the corner of the pentomino. Hold down the mouse button and move the mouse in a circular motion to rotate the pentomino. Then release the mouse button.
Point Plotter
Three points are given and your objective is to plot them by clicking on the grid. When you check your answer, the points that are correct will be green colored, those that are incorrect appear in red.
Beginning, Middle and End Song
A muppet monster and his backup singers demonstrate the beginning, middle and end of the song. Classic Sesame Street snippet (2:42)
English as Second Language Vocabulary Lessons-Vegetables
This video is to help to improve English vocabulary and pronunciation. The focus of this video is vegetables (carrots, mushrooms, tomato, etc.). A matching picture is shown as the commentator repeats the word twice. This is a good teaching resource for our English as Second Language learners, our youngest learners, and for our special education students (2:10).
How to Organize Facts for an Essay
How to Organize Facts for an Essay. Part of the series: How to Write an Essay. Learn how to organize facts for essays in this free video on writing essays.
Example of a Student Made Lung
This is a cute, accurate example of a student's project of the Lung Function Model using plastic container, ballons, ballon tubings, plastic bag. See kiddyhub.com for specific instructions on how to make this model. Run time 0:31.
Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
This is a male voice reading "Young Goodman Brown," showing one still image of a dark forest path on a moonlit night. Written by American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1835, the story takes place in Puritan New England, a common setting for Hawthorne's works, and addresses one of his common themes: the conflict between good and evil in human nature and, in particular, the problem of public goodness and private wickedness. This literature is appropriate for high school students. More valu
Megan Follows: The Many Mauds: The Life and Times of Lucy Maud Montgomery (1996)
Megan Follows, the actress who played Anne in the "Anne of Green Gables" movies, talks about Lucy Maud Montgomery, the author of the books on which the movies are based. The actress details her intellectual, emotional and psychological empathy with the author in the historical period in which Ms. Montgomery lived: L.M. Mongomery "allowed a child to have a voice that was of equal importance to the grownups around her." Photos of the author, clips of animated film and live action film base
The Sleep Book by Dr. Seuss, Part 1 of 2
Narrated by Madeline Khan, this animated video of Dr. Seuss's illustrations does not show the words from the book. Part 1 of 2 (8:53)
The Genius of Mozart (Part 15 of 18)
"The Genius of Mozart" (2004) (9:55)
Solving Equations 2
In this video, Sal Khan demonstrates how to solve 20-7x=6x-6. Mr. Khan uses the Paint Program (with different colors) to illustrate his points. Sal Khan is the recipient of the 2009 Microsoft Tech Award in Education. (04:06) There is a lot of information on the screen--the viewer may want to open the video to 'full screen.'
The Family (Animation)
Family means parents and their children living in one house. A family is divided into three types- a small family, large family and a joined family. Indian video.
Theo Jansen - Kinetic Sculptor
Theo Jansen is the Dutch creator of what he calls Kinetic Sculptures; where nature and technology meet. Essentially these sculptures are robots powered by the wind. The video was an ad for BMW in 2007 and could be used for various lessons on scientific inquiry, wind power, or engineering. Run time 01:05.
Sesame Street Keep Christmas With You All Through The Year
Sesame Street characters sing, Keep Christmas With You All Through the Year.
Christmas Eve on Sesame Street, Part 2
The original special from 1978 featuring old school Sesame Street humans and Muppets.
History of music - Part IV (Classical)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Quartet in A minor
Christoph Willibald Gluck: Melody for violin and piano (from Orpheus and Eurydice), Dance of the blessed spirits (from Orpheus and Eurydice)
Jan Václav Stamic: Symphony in A major
Jiří Antonín Benda: Symphony in B flat major
Joseph Haydn: Trumpet concerto, Symphony nr. 94 "Surprise", Cello concerto in C major, Quartet in C major "Emperor", Quartet in D minor "Quinten", Symphony nr. 104 "London"
Josef Mysliveček: Il
How To Use a Flash Drive or Memory Stick
How To Use a Flash Drive or Memory Stick. Learn how to use a flash drive or memory stick.
Plug the flash drive into the computer in one of the USB ports on the side or on the back of your computer.
Open My Computer on a Windows machine to find the flash drive. It may be called drive D, E, or F depending on how many other drives are on your computer.
C++ Console Lesson 14: Increment and Decrement Operators
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This C++ tutorial shows how to use the increment and decrement operators in prefix or postfix. (3:44)
" The Needs of a Plant"- Song About What Plants Need to Thrive
This computer-animated video contains a lively song which teaches young children the needs of a plant : water, soil, space, sun, and air. (1:04)
The Busy World of Richard Scarry-Imagine That - Ancient Ruins
In this video Huckle and Lowly Worm learn about ancient ruins. A long time ago people built pyramids and statues and are now ruins. We can learn from ruins of how people lived long ago. Ruins are wonderful things to explore but they need to be kept safe. This is a good teaching resource for teaching about history and people of long ago. This video would work well in conjunction with a story on ancient times and is an additional resource to help build background knowledge for students (1:06)
