How Old Should Kids Be When Learning to Read?
There are a wide range of ages for children to start learning how to
read, but children usually start learning how to read in the first
grade. Discover ways to teach pre-reading skills to children who are
four or five years old with help from an English specialist in this video.
How to Focus in Reading
Teaching children how to focus when reading is very important, kids get distracted easily and keeping them concentrated on the book is key. Learn from an award winning teacher how to teach kids to focus.
Teadching Reading With Children's Rhymes
In this clip learn some examples of children's rhymes such as having kids clap with the rhymes. An award winning teacher talks about teaching kids how to read using rhymes.
Remembering Amelia Earhart
This video is vintage newsreel footage with narration briefly describing Amelia Earhart's short career. The information presented in the video makes the viewer wants to know more.(Very short)
The Legend Of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Part 2
This video follows the basketball legend from the beginning of his career to the end. During his career with the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers from 1969 to 1989, Abdul-Jabbar scored more points than any player in league history and won a record six MVP Awards and six NBA championships. In college at UCLA, he played on three championship teams, and his high school team won 71 consecutive games.
Aviation History
This is a segment tracing the history of human flight. Produced specifically for students and is suitable for elementary and older students.Â
(This is an Emmy award-winning series of instructional programs that introduces students in grades 3-5 to NASA and integrates mathematics, science, and technology through the use of Problem-Based Learning (PBL), scientific inquiry, and the scientific method. The series seeks to motivate students to become critical thinkers and active problem solver
Gift of Music
At the Kiran Centre in Varanasi, music classes for differently-abled
people serve to unlock their talents. Students not only discover a new
form of artistic and emotional expression, but many turn their new
skills into a way to support themselves.
Dr. Dog
Education and personal growth can come in many forms. The Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation brings dogs into schools to help children break through their shyness, especially the developmentally challenged. Children with ADD, autism, and other developmental disabilities improve their speaking and social skills with the help of the program.
Stick Fight
Kalarippayattu is an ancient martial art originating near the state of
Kerala in southern India. It incorporates strikes, kicks, grappling,
choreographed martial arts sequences, and weaponry. Here, see two young initiates hone their skills with long flexible sticks in a complex and dynamic series of leaps and rhythmic strikes.
Introduction to Evolution and Natural Selection
This video offers an introduction to evolution and variation in a population and natural selection. Mr. Khan uses the Paint Program (with different colors)Â to illustrate his points. Sal Khan is the recipient of the 2009Â Microsoft Tech Award in Education. Suitable for high school students.
Evolution Clarification
In this video, Sal Khan, clarifies some points on evolution and intelligent design. Mr. Khan uses the Paint Program (with different colors)Â to illustrate his points. Sal Khan is the recipient of the 2009Â Microsoft Tech Award in Education. Suitable for high school students.
Evolution: Variation in a Species
This instructor in this video, Sal Khan, discusses how variation and mutation is introduced into a species. Mr. Khan uses the Paint Program (with different colors)Â to illustrate his points. Sal Khan is the recipient of the 2009Â Microsoft Tech Award in Education. Suitable for high school students.
Natural Selection and the Owl Butterfly
In this video, Sal Khan, discusses how the Owl Butterfly may have gotten the spot on its wings. Mr. Khan uses the Paint Program (with butterfly photos inserted) to illustrate his points. Sal Khan is the recipient of the 2009 Microsoft Tech Award in Education. (13:29)
How to Become a CEO
The best ways to become a CEO are by starting a company or joining one in which there is room for movement and growth. This video explains what a CEO does, but never tells the student what CEO means (Chief Executive Officer). Best used on career day, perhaps.
Class is in Session - Retail Strategy: Retail Market Strategy and Retail Location
Using examples from Los Angeles, CA, this video explains the concepts of retail strategy and retail location. The video focuses on retail management strategy to build sustainable competitive advantage.
Welcome to North Korea
The winner of the 2001 International Emmy award for Best Documentary, Welcome to North Korea is a look at the conditions in modern-day North Korea. Dutch filmmaker Peter Tetteroo and his associate Raymond Feddema spent a week in and around the North Korean capital of Pyongyang to produce this outstanding film. Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs; from www.archive.org.
How Far Smells Travel
A short segment describing how NASA scientists track smells around the globe. Produced specifically for students and is suitable for elementary and older students.Â
(This is an Emmy award-winning series of instructional programs that introduces students in grades 3-5 to NASA and integrates mathematics, science, and technology through the use of Problem-Based Learning (PBL), scientific inquiry, and the scientific method. The series seeks to motivate students to become critical thinkers an
Pythagorean Theorem
The instructor in this video demonstrates how to find the distance between lines using the Pythagorean Formula. Mr. Khan uses computer software (with different colors) to illustrate his points. Sal Khan is the recipient of the 2009 Microsoft Tech Award in Education.Â
Rural Women in China
Women in rural China have one of the highest suicide rates in the world. Wu Qing at the Development Center for Rural Women believes that empowering women with the idea of equality, giving them out-of-home work skills, and instilling a sense of social responsibility will increase their feeling of self-worth and improve quality of life. To plant the desire for knowledge, the center also started a grassroots literacy program.
What Is Renaissance Art?
Discover the origins of famous Renaissance art with information from
an art historian, critic and curator in this video clip. The Renaissance period of art was full of great innovations as artists expanded their technical skills of making super-realistic images both in paint and in sculpture. Lecture format.
