A Tour of the White House with Jackie Kennedy (Pt. 4)
A black and white video tape of a tour of the White House with Jackie Kennedy by CBS in 1962.
The Concentration Camps in World War Two and Roosevelt's Death
In this five minute video students learn about the German concentration camps and shows the piles of bodies left in the camps. This video has many disturbing images and is NOT for younger students. A teacher review is a MUST. However, this video does show exactly what the Germans and others did to the Jews. The video ends with the death of President Roosevelt and its impact.
Mississippi Map
This National Geographic maps allows students to explore the relative location of places in Mississippi and Mississippi's relative location to other states.
Homes and Houses
This video is a slide show that presents vocabulary related to homes, houses and buildings. The words are written and and read out twice.
Web Site Evaluation
Short video shows how to evaluate a web site for quality. It discusses all the important points for evaluating a website for crediability. (1:53)
What is a Primary Source
Geisel Productions Web Series Defines primary (versus secondary) sources of information. UCSD Social Sciences & Humanities Library http://sshl.ucsd.edu
This video uses the assassination of JFK as examples, including some of the live video and radio footage. May not be suitable for young students.
Rectangle Division - Virtual Manipulative
Use this virtual manipulate to explore and practice division using pictures.
The grid shows a big number divided by a little number. The big number is the total number of blue and red blocks. The little number is the height of the blue rectangle. The number of red blocks is the remainder left over when the big number is divided by the little number
How to Become a Psychotherapist
Becoming a psychotherapist requires a bachelor's degree in psychology, and a master's or doctorate program in a specific field before completing required supervised hours in the field are discussed as part of four ways to become a psychotherapist are explained in this 2:27 minute video. Some of the terms may have to be explained by the teacher or researched by the students.
Steps for Becoming an Optometrist
The steps for becoming an optometrist start in high school, continue with a college education geared towards optometry school, and finish with completing an
Optometry Admissions Test and going through four years of optometry is the subject of this three minute video. A good review of what is needed and the time requirements.
school. Learn about residency programs and board exams that must be completed before practicing optometry in this interview.
Physical Therapist Job Description
Physical therapist job descriptions focus on using functional exercises
and stretches used to heal people with a variety of injuries. This two minute videos teaches students about what a physical therapist does and provides some examples of what the speaker's work day is like.
Biomedical Technician Career
This three minute video explains what biomedical technicians, also called biomedical equipment technicians, or BMETs, are medical equipment maintenance and repair specialists. They work with a wide variety of biomedical devices that diagnose, treat or assist patients. This video provides insights into what is required in this job, but it is also good to show students that there are a variety of occupations available that they might not have thought about previously.
Physical Therapist Pros & Cons
This 2:33 long video is about the positive and not so positive sides to being a physical therapist. The positive sides of becoming a physical therapist is that you get to help people get better and you get to keep active at the same time of helping the patient keep active. You are able to interact with the people and see how they are doing and help them improve on whatever issue they may have on their body.
But the not so positive sides of being a PT is that sometimes
Physical Therapist's Hardest Day
This three minute video is about one of the hardest days of being a physical therapist. It may be dealing with the paper work because it has to be very organized for the medical insurance companies, or many phone calls from doctors, patients, the patients' coaches, etc because they want to know every detail in the process or also notify the physical therapist about the patients disabilities or lack of supplies.
Keeping the schedule up to date because sometimes in a
Salary Range for Physical Therapy Assistants
This two-minute video is about the salary range of a physical therapist assistant. The salary ranges from about 20 to 30 dollars per hour, whereas an actual PT salary ranges from $90,000 to $100,000 dollars a year. Both do just about the same thing but the main difference is that the assistants prepare the patients for the actual PT.
Design and Technology
A clever student produced slide show with musical accompaniment showing the many fields within Design and Technology. Â A very good introduction to Career and Technical courses. Â
Food Scientists Make Smoother Ice Cream
Food chemists add a tasteless edible protein called gelatin hydrolysate to ice cream find that it keeps ice crystals small, resulting in a smoother, more pleasing product. The protein inhibits the growth of ice crystals, keeping them small and preserving the creamy texture of ice cream. (1:33)
Sesame Street Keep Christmas With You All Through The Year
Sesame Street characters sing, Keep Christmas With You All Through the Year.
Traveling - Toot Toot Chugga Chugga big red Car
The popular singing group, The Wiggles, sings about daily life and things they do in the big red car. Catchy tune. (2:25)
The Purple Song
This preschool video introduces the color purple. Words appear at the bottom of screen and each word is highlighted as it is sung. Photographs that match song are shown on the screen. Pictures include purple plums, flowers, eggs, and grapes. Some of the lyrics include "P-U-R-P-L-R-E, I like purple things I see". Content is appropriate for young learners. (0:37)
Television News Careers : What Is Hard News?
Hard news describes stories that are featured at the top of a newscast or on the front page of a newspaper that are usually very serious, time-sensitive and often negative in nature. Hear examples of hard news, as opposed to fluff or soft news, with insider information from award-winning former TV news anchor, Glenn Selig, in this video on television jobs.
