I Dreamed a Dream from Les Misérable sung by Kiri Te Kanawa
This is a video of a live performance by Kiri Te Kanawa on stage accompanied by the Australian Pops Orchestra conducted by John Hopkins. It was recorded at State Theatre Victorian Arts Centre Melbourne, Australia, 1993. The picture quality is good, but a little dark to the stage lighting. The sound is okay and has some crackling sounds throughout.
Busy Prepositions
SchoolHouse Rock video on prepositions. Catchy song! Defines prepositions and shows examples. Shows how prepositions show relationships between objects. These concepts are very important in mathematics and in language arts. (3:01)
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.
Musical Instruments from Recycled Materials
This six minute video shows the group "Bash the Trash" who create musical instruments created from trash. The video shows clips of performances and workshops using these instruments emphasizing the three Rs: Recycle, Reduce, Reuse. Performances are geared to children and are quite humorous. "Bash the Trash" is a group of artists and educators using the arts to encourage environmental awareness. The video ends with clips from several developed musical performances.
Introduction To Personal Pronouns
Geared for 8th grade language arts students. This video provides a,n introduction to personal pronouns including subjective, objective, and possessive pronouns. Examples of paragraphs are read with pronouns highlighted in the in the text and nouns are replaced with pronouns to improve the paragraph.
Pronoun Review-Personal, Intensive, Reflexive, Demonstrative, Indefinate Pronouns
The teacher reviews pronouns for his students using a smart board. This clip shows a shortened version of a lesson that the teacher taught for his language arts class. It covers persona,l intensive, reflexive, demonstrative, and indefinite pronouns.
Gravel Springs Mississippi Fife and Drum Music Traditions
A compelling and award-winning portrait of Othar Turner, his music and their role in the Gravel Springs community. The film not only demonstrates how to make a cane fife, but also gets to the heart of both Turner and his fife and drum music as he's shown performing at an annual Fourth of July picnic. Quick cuts between dancing band members and the rhythmic movements of Turner's family going about their daily chores capture the mounting excit
Teaching Reading Literacy Skills, Grade 3
Teacher presenting a language arts lesson from the Language
strand of SRA Reading Mastery Signature Edition. The program uses
language arts activities including passage writing and editing to
improve student literacy and reading comprehension skills.
Stick Fight
Kalarippayattu is an ancient martial art originating near the state of
Kerala in southern India. It incorporates strikes, kicks, grappling,
choreographed martial arts sequences, and weaponry. Here, see two young initiates hone their skills with long flexible sticks in a complex and dynamic series of leaps and rhythmic strikes.
The Money Museum of Colorado Springs Colorado
MEET ME AT THE CORNER, Virtual Field trip for Kids takes you to the Money Museum in Colorado Springs. This episode features coin collecting and informationabout the new Lincoln penny.
For more Virtual Field Trips for kids visit our website at www.meetmeatthecorner.org. Each episode includes links to fun websites and a Learning Corner of questions and extended activities.
Figures of Speech Song
Written by Gary Eisenberg, Math and Language Arts Enrichment Teacher. Padan Elementary, Vacaville Unified School District. Vacaville, CA. Help your students learn figures of speech such as simile, personification, etc. There is no instructor voice, just music and words displayed on the screen. Suitable for elementary students and older.
Interview with a Veteran: Evacuation of Saigon
(Professionally produced video with both history and present-day
information.)
This video is a virtual field trip of the U.S.S. Midway with s retired naval officer who was involved in the evacuation of Saigon. It is a great story!
Fantasie-Impromptu Op. 66 by Chopin
This is a recording of Vladimir Horowitz performing Chopin's Fantasie-Impromptu Op. 66. There is only a still photo of Horowitz to watch while music plays in the background. The sound quality is excellent.(4:32)
Chopin Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 53 performed by Vladimir Horowitz
This is a live stage performance of Vladimir Horowitz performing in Musikverein, Vienna, Austria on May 31, 1987. The picture is decent quality, but the sound quality is excellent. (7:25)
Symphony No 2, 3rd movement by Mahler
This is a live stage performance of Valery Gergiev conducting the London Symphony Orchestra performing Mahler's second symphony. It was recorded in April, 2008. The picture and sound quality are excellent. (4:40)
The New York Subway: Art Under Your Feet
A special episode featuring the art work found in the New York City
subway system. Join Amy Hausmann, Assistant Director MTA Arts for
Transit, for a tour of this famous underground art museum.
The Top 5 Things to Do in Nashville
This professional, travel video gives you their top 5 tourist attractions when visiting Nashville, Tennessee. The video includes: Ryman Auditorium, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Centennial Park, Tennessee State Capital, and Frist Center for the Visual Arts. Run time 01:20.
Edgar Allan Poe Biography, Part 1
Part 1 of the life of the literary great, Edgar Allan Poe. Who was Poe, the man both blessed and cursed by genius? Arts and Entertainment television program audio track, without video, played over a still image of Poe. Well documented, well written historical biography includes some parts of primary documents, e.g. letters, read by professional actors. Includes portions of interviews with Poe scholars. (9:19)
Warm-up Drills For Basketball
Learn a few great exercises to help perfect your basketball skills on the court. Short video shows students performing a few drills as a warm-up. . 1:12 min.
Jack and Jill Simple animation
A simple colorful animation for the popular nursery rhyme Jack and Jill. The animation shows Jack and Jill performing some of the actions named in the song. The song is repeated twice.
