Anatomy of the Foot
There is no narration in this one-minute video that show the 'layers' of the foot from three different angles: the surface, vascular, muscular, and the skeletal anatomy.
Margarita Engle: 2010 National Book Festival
Author Margarita Engle appears at the 2010 National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: Margarita Engle is a Cuban-American author of young adult novels in verse. "The Surrender Tree" received a Newbery Medal, Pura Belpre Medal, Jane Addams Award, Americas Award, Claudia Lewis Award and Lee Bennett Hopkins Honor. Her first picture book was "Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian." Her most recent work is "The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba" (Henry Holt). Based on the diar
Sesame Street: Gift to Dorothy
Elmo gives Dorothy the fish a gift of a book called, Dorothy's World.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas, picture book by Dr. Seuss, Part 2 of 2
This video is the conclusion of the often televised picture book animation How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss, narrated by Walter Matthau, with music. Part 2 of 2 (4:15)
Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving Read Aloud
This video is a read aloud of the Hayes Elementary School Book of the Month "Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving" by Dav Pilkey. The teacher reading the book mentions that the book rhymes and reads information from the back of the book as well. The book is patterned after "'Twas the Night Before Christmas". The book does mention what usually happens to turkeys at Thanksgiving, but ends with a twist as the turkeys are rescued by the kids in the book.
Rapunzel, Part 1 of 2
This classic story of a lonely long-haired maiden held captive in a tower by a selfish sorceress is retold and beautifully illustrated in the Caldecott Medal prize-winning picture book by Paul Zelinsky.  Zelinsky's retelling of the fairy tale, left to us by the Brothers Grimm, is read by a pleasingly warm female voice as the book llustrations are shown in iconographic video (wide and tight camera shots). With music. Part 1 of 2 ends with Rapunzel alone in a wilderness; this cli
The Empty Pot
Book by Demi. Wonderful chinese story with nice artwork (you'll have to buy the book to really enjoy the artwork). Music from: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
The moral of the story tells us of how important is to be honest.
Lulu the Big Little Chick, picture book by Paulette Bogan
The author and illusstrator, a Children's Choice Book Award finalist, reads her picture book, Lulu the Big Little Chick. The viewer can turn the pages of the book by clicking on them, and can read along with the author, who is seen in a side window, reading and talking to the viewer. One of the "A Story Before Bed" author read-alouds. (4:23)
How to Use the Slash Punctuation
Here is a useful guide to using the slash punctuation mark. Make sure
you know where to appropriately place this punctuation mark, and use
your slashes properly in your English writing.
Sex, Money, Happiness and Death: The Quest for Authenticity
Manfred Kets de Vries, Raoul de Vitry d’Avaucourt Clinical Professor of Leadership Development and Director of the INSEAD Global Leadership Centre, takes readers out of their comfort zone in his latest book, which has grown out of his conviction that many business academics have lost touch with the people they should be trying to help. His aim is twofold: to persuade executives to take time out to reflect on what really counts in their lives and to shake academics down from their ivory to
Cells - Centers for the Week of 8/30/10
Mrs. Matthews students rotate through science centers each week. This week, the class is learning about living things, the parts of a plant and animal cell, and unicellular organisms. Their centers for the week include (1) a video about microbes found on Watchknow called Magic School Bus is in a Pickle (2) three interactive microscope websites on the Whiteboard (3) an experiment with a chicken egg (one large cell) soaked in vinegar to reveal the membrane (4) an art activity where the stud
Children in Shakespeare
The director of the CAPITAL centre at Warwick, Professor Carol Rutter, talks about her book entitled Shakespeare and Child's Play: Performing Lost Boys on Stage and Screen.
Conservation Laws
Some of the topics addressed in this book are: Conservation of energy; the transfer of mechanical energy; conservation of momentum; conservation of angular momentum; thermodynamics.
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Alphabet Song
Singing the lyrics from the book "Chick Chicka Boom Boom with pictures from the book. The 26 characters in this rhyming book are a lowercase alphabet with attitude. "A told b, and b told c, 'I'll meet you at the top of the coconut tree'"--which probably seemed like a good idea until the other 23 members of the gang decided to follow suit.
Essential Science for Teachers: Earth and Space Science
In-depth interviews with children that uncover their ideas about the topic at hand.,The segment shows the interviewer providing the student with a sample of sand and asking her what it is. When she correctly identifies it as sand, he continues to ask questions which show that she has the prior knowledge that sand comes from rock and that it is made up of tiny pieces of rock.
Odysseus's Ship
In 1988, scientists discovered an ancient ship that may have been sailed by Odysseus, Homer's legendary Greek King.
Fréjus: Monument to the Heroes of the 'Black Army'
Fréjus: Monument to the Heroes of the 'Black Army'
Andrew J. Bacevich
Is an imperial presidency destroying what America stands for? Bill Moyers sits down with history and international relations expert and former US Army Colonel Andrew J. Bacevich who identifies three major problems facing our democracy: the crises of economy, government and militarism, and calls for a redefinition of the American way of life. "Because of this preoccupation with the presidency," says Bacevich, "the president has become what we have instead of genuine politics, instead of genuine
Jill Scott Artist Talk
Jill Scott discusses her work featured in the Super Human exhibition.
