030 GG Sentence Fragments
Learn to recognize them.
304 GG Should You Point Out Errors?
How can you correct people's errors without coming off like a jerk?
305 GG Where Did the @ Symbol Come From?
Why does it look like a snail?
306 GG "The Night Circus": Well Done Second Person Narrative
Did you know there are three kinds of second person?
307 GG Omitting "That"
When you can and when you can't
Marbled Duck--An Overview
This short video gives excellent real life, close up footage of Marbled Ducks. Students will enjoy the sights and sounds of these birds as they interact in their natural environment. An elegant bird, the marbled duck suits its name, having a brown body speckled with cream. Its dark eye-patch blends into a broad stripe from the eye to the nape, including a slight crest on the back of the head. This is a great resource to help build background knowledge and to help make real world connections
Crested Duck--An Overview
This short video gives excellent real life, close up footage of Crested Ducks. Students will enjoy the sights and sounds of these amazing birds interacting in their natural environment. This is a great resource to help build background knowledge and to help make real world connections between nature and the classroom. (0:47)
Crested Duck Feeding Along the Shoreline
This short video gives excellent real life, close up footage of Crested Ducks feeding. Students will enjoy the sights and sounds of the Crested Ducks interacting in their natural environment. This is a great resource to help build background knowledge and to help make real world connections between nature and the classroom. (0:44)
How to Make a Milk Jug Bird Feeder
This short video gives excellent step by step directions on how to make a bird feeder using simple household objects including the following: empty milk gallon jug, wire, dowel rod, and scissors. This would be a great project for home or for school. This project can help students make real world connections between nature and the classroom. (2:59)
Science Bob--How to Make an Easy Lava Lamp
This video gives excellent step by step directions to make an easy lava lamp. Chances are you have almost everything that you need at home, so try it out. Supplies are simple including the following: food coloring, antacid fizzing tablets, bottle, and oil. This would be a fun project for home or for school. Science Bob gives several examples with different types of bottles and colors. (3:49)
Science Bob--Make an Instrument From a Straw
Never get bored at the restaurant again. Use a regular straw to sound like a duck or a fog horn. This would be a fun project for home or for school. Students will enjoy this fun activity. (2:40)
Science Bob--Chicken Sounds From a Plastic Cup-Sounding Boards
Use items you have at home to make the sounds of a chicken while learning about sounding boards. Supplies are simple and include string, plastic cup, paper towel, and paper clip. This would be a great project for home or for school. Students will enjoy this fun activity. (2:04)
Science Bob--How to Make Slime--Method 3
This short video gives easy step by step directions on how to make classic slime. This slime uses polyvinyl alcohol and borax. Science Bob does a good job on explaining what slime by discussing polymers. This would be a fun project for home or for school. Students will enjoy this activity. (2:21)
Science Bob--How To Make Slime--Method 2 (Borax and Glue)
This video gives easy step by step directions to make slime using glue and borax. This would be a fun project for home or for school. Students will enjoy this fun activity. (1:53)
Science Bob-Dry Ice Experiment--The Screaming Quarter
This little demonstration shows what happens as dry ice sublimates (turns to a gas) and then tries to escape around a quarter. The gas causes the quarter to vibrate very fast and create a rather humorous screaming sound. Caution: Only handle dry ice with gloves...it's -109 degrees F! This would be a fun project for home or for school. (1:34)
White-Winged Duck--An Overview
This very short video gives excellent real life, close up footage of a White-Winged Duck. Students will enjoy the sights and sounds of this amazing bird. This large, dark, forest duck has white wings when open, with only small patches of white visible when the wings are closed. Most of the body is a dull brown, but the head and upper neck are speckled with white, more densely on females than males. This is a great resource to help build background knowledge and to help make real world conne
White-Winged Duck Adult Entering Nesting Hollow Containing Eggs
This very short video gives excellent real life, close up footage of an adult White-Winged Duck entering a nesting hollow that contains eggs. Students will enjoy the sights and sounds of this amazing bird as it interacts in its natural environment. This large, dark, forest duck has white wings when open, with only small patches of white visible when the wings are closed. Most of the body is a dull brown, but the head and upper neck are speckled with white, more densely on females than males
White-Winged Duck Adult and Ducklings Leaving Nesting Hollow
This short video gives excellent real life, close up footage of an adult White-Winged Duck and its ducklings leaving the nesting hollow. Students will enjoy the sights and sounds of these amazing birds as they interact in their natural environment. This large, dark, forest duck has white wings when open, with only small patches of white visible when the wings are closed. Most of the body is a dull brown, but the head and upper neck are speckled with white, more densely on females than males
18.03.2012 – Langsam gesprochene Nachrichten
Trainiere dein Hörverstehen mit den Nachrichten der Deutschen Welle von Sonntag – als Text und als verständlich gesprochene Audio-Datei.
Die Bundesversammlung wählt an diesem Sonntag in Berlin den Nachfolger für den im Februar zurückgetretenen Bundespräsidenten Christian Wulff. Als Favorit gilt der ehemalige Leiter der Stasiunterlagenbehörde, der ostdeutsche Theologe Joachim Gauck. Der 72-Jährige wird von einer Fünf-Parteien-Koalition aus CDU, CSU, SPD, Grünen und FDP unterstützt.
Biome in a Baggie
The distribution of plants and animals around the world corresponds closely to global patterns of temperature and rainfall. This is why two forests half a world away from each other will often have very similar organisms living in them. In this ZOOMScivideo segment, a cast member of ZOOM creates a self-contained biome and explores evaporation, condensation and precipitation. (3:24)
