Biography: Albert Einstein
Biography of Albert Einstein. He was the twentieth century's greatest thinker. An immigrant who fled Nazi oppression and re-invented himself as a political idealist and humanitarian.
Primes StopAction
This is one of three videos a team and I did to try using video to convey prime number ideas to middle school students. This one is music and stop action, with text to read as it goes along. This video is part of the video collection at NextVista.org (http://nextvista.org), a proud partner of Curriki.
Primes Explained
This is one of three videos a team and I did to try using video to convey prime number ideas to middle school students. This one takes a more traditional approach, with me at a whiteboard explaining what primes are. A goal was to jazz it up, in terms of sound effects and the like, just enough to get the message across. This video is part of the video collection at NextVista.org (http://nextvista.org), a proud partner of Curriki.
Primes Sieve (sv)
This is one of three videos a team and I did to try using video to convey prime number ideas to middle school students. This one uses the Sieve of Eratosthenes as a graphic visual (get it?) to help students see how one might reduce the numbers from 1-100 to just the primes.This video is part of the video collection at NextVista.org (http://nextvista.org), a proud partner of Curriki.
Considering Communism
This video, done by a high school student in Santa Clara, California, attempts a balanced exploration of the strengths and weaknesses of communism as a political philosophy. This video is part of the video collection at NextVista.org (http://nextvista.org), a proud partner of Curriki.
Communism: The Promise and The Reality - Red Flag [pt 1/6]
Communist regimes around the Globe are responsible for a greater number of deaths than any other political ideal or movement, including Nazism (death toll totals more than 94 million people). In the USSR alone communists killed more than 20 million people. Despite that Western world refuse to accept the fact that their Allie, the Soviet Union in fact committed war crimes and genocide even larger in scale than that of Nazi regime. Communism - the extraordinary social experiment promising equality
Communism: The Promise and The Reality - Red Flag [pt 2/6]
Communist regimes around the Globe are responsible for a greater number of deaths than any other political ideal or movement, including Nazism (death toll totals more than 94 million people). In the USSR alone communists killed more than 20 million people. Despite that Western world refuse to accept the fact that their Allie, the Soviet Union in fact committed war crimes and genocide even larger in scale than that of Nazi regime. Communism - the extraordinary social experiment promising equality
Communism: The Promise and The Reality - Red Flag [pt 3/6]
Communist regimes around the Globe are responsible for a greater number of deaths than any other political ideal or movement, including Nazism (death toll totals more than 94 million people). In the USSR alone communists killed more than 20 million people. Despite that Western world refuse to accept the fact that their Allie, the Soviet Union in fact committed war crimes and genocide even larger in scale than that of Nazi regime. Communism - the extraordinary social experiment promising equality
Communism: The Promise and The Reality - Red Flag [pt 4/6]
Communist regimes around the Globe are responsible for a greater number of deaths than any other political ideal or movement, including Nazism (death toll totals more than 94 million people). In the USSR alone communists killed more than 20 million people. Despite that Western world refuse to accept the fact that their Allie, the Soviet Union in fact committed war crimes and genocide even larger in scale than that of Nazi regime. Communism - the extraordinary social experiment promising equality
Communism: The Promise and The Reality - Red Flag [pt 5/6]
Communist regimes around the Globe are responsible for a greater number of deaths than any other political ideal or movement, including Nazism (death toll totals more than 94 million people). In the USSR alone communists killed more than 20 million people. Despite that Western world refuse to accept the fact that their Allie, the Soviet Union in fact committed war crimes and genocide even larger in scale than that of Nazi regime. Communism - the extraordinary social experiment promising equality
Communism: The Promise and The Reality - Red Flag [pt 6/6]
Communist regimes around the Globe are responsible for a greater number of deaths than any other political ideal or movement, including Nazism (death toll totals more than 94 million people). In the USSR alone communists killed more than 20 million people. Despite that Western world refuse to accept the fact that their Allie, the Soviet Union in fact committed war crimes and genocide even larger in scale than that of Nazi regime. Communism - the extraordinary social experiment promising equality
Germans
This program tells the fascinating story of the socialist political movement as part of the history of German immigration to Pennsylvania. Video is of average quality and appropriate for middle elementary and middle school students.
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.
The Mark Steel Lectures- Descartes 3/3
Written and delivered by Mark Steel, each scripted lecture presents persuasive, yet witty, arguments for the importance of Descartes. This episode continues with the discussion of God in Descartes thoughts. Mr. Steel then discusses Descartes new topic, which was anatomy. He discovered that the senses work through the nervous system. He then continued that our minds are separate from our
Chinese Immigrants - mid 1800s
This video is accompanied by text. "The discovery of gold in California in 1848 prompted people from all over the world to seek their fortunes on the Pacific Coast of the United States. The discovery came during a period of political turmoil and economic hardship in China. The Chinese Empire was losing control of the nation and imperial powers from Europe were forcing their way into the country. As a result, many Chinese left their homeland to make a living in America. They sailed to San Francis
Sartre 2 of 7 Video starts when Sartre is a school teacher, in his spare time he developed a strong interest in phenomenology, a new branch of philosophy that offered a radical account of the workings of human conscience. In 1933 he went Berlin to study with a leader in that field. When he came back to Paris, the big idea he came back with was to relate to an item in the world rather than a representation of it in your he
Sartre 1 of 7 Video states French philosopher, Jean Paul Sartre, spent a lifetime defining conventional logic. The man who never felt so-free as under German occupation would go on challenge almost every assumption about the way live and the our search for freedom. He looked at the physical sense of freedom. It was in a Prisoner of War camp that he realized the potential of his ideas of personal freedom. He did not kn
Teaching Teachers How to Teach
A Ted presentation with Alan Kay. A 20 minute video with lots of insights, but is best used for teachers in a group setting to decide which ideas they feel are worthy of pursuing. Lots of interesting tidbits worth more time. Best for older students and teachers. Raises questions about one's perspective.
Sand Fantasy - Art on sand
Ilana Yahav is a sand animation artist. Using only her fingers, Ilana draws with sand on glass table. Provides teachers with some ideas of what they can do with limited funds. Great for hand-eye coordination, too. 04:25 run time
