"Add 'Em Up"- A Song About Basic Addition
This computer-animated song shows students how to add one to one-digit numbers. The video strives to provide a conceptual understanding of the concept by showing each problem with cubes and numbers. Students can use cubes to demonstrate the problems as the video plays. ( 3:18)
Five In The Bed - A Subtraction Song
A librarian uses a felt board show what happens when there are "Five in the Bed" and one says, "Roll over." Â The children sing and perform the actions with the librarian during a story time. (1:35)
Dr. Seuss Documentary, Part 7 of 9
This is a History Channel documentary about Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. (This part of the series had a song about the Grinch removed due to copyright infringement, so that segment has no sound.)
Dr. Seuss Documentary, Part 8 of 9
This is a History Channel documentary about Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss.
Dr. Seuss Documentary, Part 9 of 9
This is a History Channel documentary about Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss.
The Life of Dr. Seuss: Oh, The Places He Went
A male teacher, dressed as The Cat In The Hat, produced and narrates this video for the Dr. Seuss birthday celebration. Standing in front of a wall-size copy of an illustrated page from Oh, The Places You'll Go, he talks about the life and work of Dr. Seuss. It took Dr. Seuss ten months to write The Cat In The Hat. The teacher mentions the importance of revising and editing one's writing.Â
Dr. Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham
This is an animated version of Dr. Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham! (07:56) The image quality is not the best.
The Foot Book
Dr. Seuss' The Foot Book is read with views of the book's pages and music. Static on sound track. (3:52)
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
This a video of the famous rhyming story and beginner reader by Dr. Seuss. Â Primary teachers, and parents, can use Dr. Seuss's text filled with rhyming, and high frequency words to teach language skills.
Fox In Socks,
This video features the rhyming story of Fox in Sox by Dr. Seuss. Â The brightly colored illustrations are shown on the screen as the story is narrated.
Dr. Seuss's Scrambled Eggs Super.
The reading of the Dr. Seuss's Scrambled Eggs Super is illustrated in this five minute video and shows that Seuss likes to use many rhetorical strategies in stories. Also shown in this animation of colorful cartoon characters Dr. Seuss uses.
Justin Bieber Reads The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
Join Justin Bieber as he reads The Cat in the Hat. The images are animated behind Bieber as he reads. (8:28)
Scales: Major Scales, Minor Scales, Modal Scales
There are many different types of scales that musicians have used down through the years, but the most-used scale is the major scale, followed by the minor scale. Other scales include all the "Modal Scales" such as Dorian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, etc. This short video is an overview of these scales.  Run time 12:51.
Elgar Cello Concerto, 1st mvmt played by Yo-Yo Ma
This concerto was composed in 1919 and is considered to be a conersone of cello repetoire. This is a live 1997 performance of Yo-Yo Ma with Daniel Barenboim and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on stage at Carnegie Hall. Their is a brief, narrated introduction at the beginning.
Dvorak Cello Concerto played by Yo-Yo Ma.
This is a live performance of Dvorak's Cello Concerto on stage by Yo-Yo Ma and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. The video begins with some background on Dvorak. This Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, B. 191 by AntonÃn Dvořák was the composer's last solo concerto, and was written in 1894–1895 for his friend, the cellist HanuÅ¡ Wihan.Â
Rostropovich plays the Prelude from Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major
In this famous Prelude from Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 (BWV 1007), cello master Mstislav Rostropovich plays at the Basilique Sainte Madeleine, Vézelay, Yvonne, France in 1991. Sound and video quality are both fine. Compare with Yo-Yo Ma's more legato performance.
Dvorak-Cello Concerto
Yo-Yo Ma solos with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, playing Dvorak's Cello Concerto in b minor opus 104. The piece is one of Nathaniel Ayers' favorites.
Ernest Bloch-Cello Solo "Prayer"
Nathaniel Ayers is particularly fond of composer Ernst Bloch. This cello soloist, accompanied by piano, performs the Prayer, Supplication and Jewish Song from Bloch's "Jewish Life." Wassily Gerassimez plays the cello, accompanied by Nicolai Gerassimez.
Yo-Yo Ma -Tchaikovsky's Variations, Rococo Theme
In this video excerpt, celebrating the composer's 150th birthday, Yo-Yo Ma plays the ending of Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme at the Gala in Leningrad (in 1990). Watch for Yo-Yo Ma's wink at the conductor, about 1:17 into the clip. (2:27)
Yo-Yo Ma
This Brain Pop video discusses the life of Yo-Yo Ma. Some key terms include cello, Chinese-American, orchestra, symphony, child prodigy, Carnegy Hall, and The Silk Road Project. (4:28)
