Sitting Bull
The tragic, yet true tale of Sitting Bull, the leader of the Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux tribe who led his people's resistance against the United States, sung by musician and artist Jeffrey Lewis using cartoon book type art. Good for students as it explains this important historical figure and what happened at Little Big Horn. An inspiring video about standing up for your rights.
Subject and Verb Agreement
This lesson is on finding subjects and verbs & subject and verb agreement. Jane Straus, foremost expert, answers your burning English grammar and punctuation questions. To see the entire contents of The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation online and to take online quizzes, go to www.grammarbook.com
Design by the Book - Episode 1
The New York Public Library holds a wealth of unexpected sources of inspiration for artists and designers—from vintage valentines and textile patterns, to fabric samples and turn-of-the-century menus from around the world. For this online-only miniseries, Design by the Book, the Library partnered with the leading design blog Design*Sponge to invite five New York City–based artists to sift through our collections in search of inspiration. Watch as the artists, who range from a glassblower to
Design by the Book - Episode 2
Episode 2 - The New York Public Library holds a wealth of unexpected sources of inspiration for artists and designers—from vintage valentines and textile patterns, to fabric samples and turn-of-the-century menus from around the world. For this online-only miniseries, Design by the Book, the Library partnered with the leading design blog Design*Sponge to invite five New York City–based artists to sift through our collections in search of inspiration. Watch as the artists, who range from a gla
Design by the Book - Episode 3
Episode 3 - The New York Public Library holds a wealth of unexpected sources of inspiration for artists and designers—from vintage valentines and textile patterns, to fabric samples and turn-of-the-century menus from around the world. For this online-only miniseries, Design by the Book, the Library partnered with the leading design blog Design*Sponge to invite five New York City–based artists to sift through our collections in search of inspiration. Watch as the artists, who range from a gla
Design by the Book - Episode 4
Episode 4 (last episode) - The New York Public Library holds a wealth of unexpected sources of inspiration for artists and designers—from vintage valentines and textile patterns, to fabric samples and turn-of-the-century menus from around the world. For this online-only miniseries, Design by the Book, the Library partnered with the leading design blog Design*Sponge to invite five New York City–based artists to sift through our collections in search of inspiration. Watch as the artists, who r
How To Animate in Adobe Flash
Static images can cause your web site to fade into the background. Learn the basics of animating them using Adobe Flash CS4. Step-by-step guide to animate text and videos in flash. Animation is narrated in detail.
Illustrated Rhyming Song Book - HeidiSongs.com
This catchy tune from HeidiSongs.com uses a rhyming book to highlight pairs of rhyming words. Â The book is a "lift the flap" book and the rhymes are shown by flipping the pages. The beginning and ending of the song describes how to recognize rhyming words. (1:32)
Rhyming Poems for Children
Narrator reads a book of short poems that rhyme in this video. The book's pictures each page and teaches children about rhyming. Illustrations depict daily life in Sri Lanka. (8:33)
Virtual Frog Heart Dissection
This 45 second video demonstrating the dissection of a frog heart. It demonstrates how cuts are made to the pericardium, truncus arteriosii and the caudal vena cava to remove and open the frog's heart to see its internal structure. This is a small clip from the Digital Frog Virtual Disssection program.
Anatomical Position
A short video clip of an anatomy model in the proper anatomical position. Starts as a skeletal view and then overlays with muscle. This video could be a nice introduction to a lesson on the skeletal or muscular system and how the two systems work together for movement and support. No sound. Run time 0:59.
Integrative Biology 131 - Lecture 01: Organization of Body
Integrative Biology 131: General Human Anatomy. Fall 2005. Professor Marian Diamond (UC Berkeley). The professor discusses the functional anatomy of the human body. This is Lecture 1: Organization of the Body. This college course video is 45 minutes long.
What is a Cloud?
Some amount of the water in lakes, oceans, and even the water we use to cook, clean and drink at home; escapes into the atmosphere as water vapour. When this gaseous form of water cools down, or condenses, around tiny particulate matter like dust in the atmosphere, it forms little ice crystals that aggregate to form clouds.
The study of clouds is called nephology, and different kinds of clouds
are classified according to how ‘high’ they reach, or the length from
their bas
Juvenile Court: A Judge's Guide for Young Adults and Their Parents, book trailer
Each year, there are over 100,000 teens cited to court in Los Angeles County, United States, alone. Juvenile Court: A Judge's Guide for Young Adults and Their Parents uses real-life examples to show the court process. What happens when we don't follow the rules? The book includes tools to prepare for your court hearing. Music: "Roxxsteady" by the Noisemakers. (1:30)
Buckley, Michael - author of The Sisters Grimm - Today Show
The author of the Sisters Grimm Michael Buckley sits down with Al Roker on The Today Show 2/1/08, Al's Book Club for Kids. Five children listen and ask questions. Michael introduces his grandmother from West Virginia, Rilda, who is a character in the books. (3:53)
Using Models in Writing Instruction
In this video, a teacher uses the book Tar Beach as a starting point for a writing lesson for his class of students. The part of the lesson that is seen is short, but helps students to recognize the important of word choices in writing by looking at the writing in Tar Beach.Â
Eric Carle on The Very Hungry Caterpillar's 40th Anniversary
The 40th anniversary edition of the classic bestselling story written and illustrated by Eric Carle is published when the author is 80 years old.  In this short videotaped message, Carle thanks the audience for celebrating his book, and describes how the idea for it began and grew. He lists his artistic methods and tells us how important it is to him to help children with the challenge growing up. The book has been translated in 46 languages.
Give My Poor Heart Ease: Mississippi Delta Bluesmen An account of the blues experience through the recollections and performances of B.B. King, Son Thomas, inmates from Parchman prison, a barber from Clarkesdale, a salesman from Beale Street, and others. Give My Poor Heart Ease is one of a series of films made in Mississippi in the mid 1970s by William Ferris and the Center for Southern Folklore and produced in association with Howard Sayre Weaver. This field work is the ba
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.
Milk Fireworks
Dorie Dilts, the star of P.G. Kain's hit book series "The Social Experiments of Dorie Dilts" shows you how to take a few simple household items to create eye-popping Milk Fireworks. Â She also explains clearly what causes the milk fireworks to occur. Â A fun and easy experiment involving chemical reactions.
