How To Build a Campfire
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Sesame Street Sings About Danger
The muppets in this video teach children the meaning of the word "Danger." The song is very animated and I think children will enjoy. (2:20)
Organization for Kids
This video shows students how be organized and how to organize supplies.
Teaching a Child Not to Bite
This short video addresses strategies for teaching a toddler not to bite. Some of the ones mentioned are: consistency, not giving the child too much attention, keeping a close eye on the behavior, and consulting a physician. (02:19)
Childcare: Babies & Toddlers : How to Teach a Child to Tie Shoes
Teaching a child to tie shoes can incorporate how the parents were taught, whether using a bunny-ear approach or a different method. Make shoe tying a fun experience for your child.
Teen pregnancy on the rise
Health experts across the country are trying to understand a sudden and disturbing uptick in teenage pregnancies. NBC's Tom Costello reports in this video that uses government data and interviews to show the situation. Important video for older students. Remarkable interviews that can generate a lot of discussion.
Coping With Stress
Stress is a spiral, and to decrease its effect, you'll have to alter your stress reactions. This video offers many suggestions for dealing with stress such as exercising, getting adequate sleep, setting realstic goals, and acquiring a hobby to create balance in life. ( 3:45)
How To Communicate Your Strengths in a Job Interview
This video provides suggestions for highlighting strengths in job interviews such as relating strengths to job requirements, giving concrete examples of attributes, and turning negatives into positives.
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Least Common Multiple
The instructor in the video walks you through several examples of figuring out the least common multiple of two nunmbers on a chalkboard.
The Planet Mercury
A brief look at The Planet Mercury and some interesting facts. This video includes images and new video from the messenger probe. The video is set to music as images and facts are posted on the screen. Run time 06:21.
Mercury Exploration
Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the Solar System, orbiting the Sun once every 87.969 days. The orbit of Mercury has the highest eccentricity of all the Solar System planets, and it has the smallest axial tilt.
Greatest Common Factor (GCF)
A student shows how to find the GCF of two numbers
The Story of Nicola Tesla, Part 9 (Re-enactment)
Our lives today are dependent upon a bewildering amount of technology, much of which we take for granted. Indeed, some of that technology is so pervasive that we forget it even is technology.
Perhaps that's one reason why so many have forgotten the name of Serbian-born inventor Nikola Tesla.
Tesla endured a frightening number of injustices during his life. This is a story about Tesla, one of his inventions, and his extraordinary generosity, in hopes that he will not fa
Hubble Telescope Uses Algebra
NASA Connect Segment explaining the design and upkeep of the Hubble Space telescope. Also explains how algebra is used with the telescope.
Learn About Allen Allensworth
Learn about the role of Allen Allensworth, an African American Colonel in the Union army, in California's history. (05:01)
How to Paint Sky into a Landscape Painting
Learn how to paint the sky when painting a landscape with oils. Underpaint the entire canvas then underpaint the different layers. Don't worry about details-have nice horizontal stokes across the page. Next add in some highlights. Push the paint around. English cpations. (2:57)
Easy Ways to Learn Fractions
In math, fractions can be thought of as proportions of a shape.
In this clip discover easy ways to learn fraction from a mathematics
teacher. The math teacher shows examples on a whiteboard of shapes representing the fractions.
Trapezoid Midsegment
This video explains how a midsegment of a trapezoid is the line segment connecting the midpoints of the two non-parallel sides of a trapezoid. A trapezoid midsegment is parallel to the set of parallel lines in a trapezoid and is equal to the average of the lengths of the bases. A trapezoid midsegment is related to a triangle midsegment given that both of their lengths are proportional to the bases. (2:51)
Changing Decimals to Percents (sv)
How to convert decimals to percentages.This video by Duane Habecker is part of the video collection at NextVista.org (http://nextvista.org), a proud partner of Curriki.
Converting Between Decimals and Percents
Instructor uses a white board to demonstrate how to write percents as decimals and decimals as percents. For example, to write 82% as a decimal, think of 82% as 82/100, and remember that dividing by 100 moves the decimal point two places to the left, to get 0.82. So 82% can be written as the decimal 0.82. Since a percent can be written as a decimal by moving the decimal point two places to the left, a decimal can be written as a percent by moving the decimal point two places to the right. For ex
