Teaching Grammar with Board Races - TEFL ESL
This six minute video shows how to make a board race game to help students learn basic ESL skills. It is well done with both graphics and a narrator that slowly goes over the material.The game is demonstrated using older students. In this game students must categorize the two forms of comparative adjectives.
TWC9: Windows 8 Release Preview, SkyDrive, PhoneGap Build and more This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including:
Science and Religion in the Writings of C. S. Lewis
Dr Michael Ward: Seminar
Pervious concrete for stormwater management
Liv Haselbach, associate professor with Washington State University's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, researches concrete surfaces that can absorb water, rather than allowing water to run off and cause pollution, flooding, or other problems.
Haselbach says, "WSU has been installing various sections of pervious concrete and porous asphalt on the Pullman campus to see how they might help with stormwater management on campus and prevent icing conditions in the winter. Researcher
Students Can Do Anything in Hamilton
On April 25th and 26th, a hundred and fifty students participated in the Hamilton Employment Crawl (HEC). Students and team leaders traveled to organizations around the city to uncover why Hamilton is their city to live, work and play.
As a project of HEC, a video interview was conducted among employers and young professional in Hamilton. The video asks interviewees about their living and working experiences in the city, as well as their relationship with the community slogan, "You Can Do Anyth
'The Very Lonely Firefly' by Eric Carle Story Book Read Along
In this Story Book Read Along, students will hear "The Very Lonely Firefly" written by Eric Carle. Students will enjoy seeing the illustrations and listening to the sound effects. This is a great resource for the elementary classroom. (4:11)
Recognizing Rectangles and Squares
Tim Bedley, veteran teacher, gives a mini lesson to remind students how to find a rectangle and a square. How are they the same? How are they different? Squares are Rectangles with Congruent sides. All squares are rectangles. All rectangles are not squares. This is a great resource to introduce and/or to review geometric shapes in the classroom. (2:17)
Author Natalie Babbitt
In this short video, children's author, Natalie Babbitt, talks about children's literature and why she is write books for children. (00:30)
Space Station Live: Preps for Deep Space Exploration
Space Station Live commentator Pat Ryan interviews Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA's Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operation Directorate about the work that the agency is doing to prepare for deep space exploration missions of the future. This interview aired during Space Station Live on June 5, 2014.
Truman Survives Assassination Plot
Secret Service agents battled two gunmen during a failed attempt to assassinate President Truman in 1950. In this video clip, learn more about the assassination plot and what happened to the two assassins. (03:35)
Compare the Poles (Interactive)
In this interactive activity adapted from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, compare characteristics of the Arctic and the Antarctic. Explore differences in physical features, weather, plants, wildlife, and human impact.
Cambodia Trash Mountain
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6 Hospital care In most aspects of medical care, the rich generally enjoyed better access to medical services and better-quality services than the poor. The only exception to this rule was hospital care. In the nineteenth century the ‘deserving’ poor – whose respectability was guaranteed by the need for them to have a letter of admission from a subscriber or employer – could receive medical and surgical treatment in charitable hospitals. The very poor could obtain care through Poor Law hospitals, whi
Retailing in Leeds - Consumer Shopping preferences
Leeds is a major city in the UK and as such is a magnet for shoppers from the surrounding region. Around 1.7 to 1.9 million people are in the catchment area as shoppers in Leeds city centre. Consequently retail is an important business for Leeds.
John Temperley Senior Lecturer in Marketing in the Business School and a retail specialist, explains the choices that face consumers and what their preferences are, based on research by students sponsored by Leeds city centre management.
The results ar
School of Science Dean's Colloquium: Ted Kelly
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Durden Appreciation Day
"You aimed well," too. The Student Body thanks President William Durden for his service to the college on the Steps of Old West.
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Your Health: Liver Transplants
More than 100,000 Americans are on the organ transplant list. Advances in medicine now mean that living donation may be an option to get kidney and liver patients off the wait list sooner, but what are the benefits and risks? And could more baby boomers be looking at the possible need for a liver transplant with the increases in Hepatitis C?
In this "Your Health" interview, Dr. Benjamin Philosophe and transplant coordinator Linda Ridge of the University of Maryland Medical Center talk about org
StreetSmart SchoolSmart
CLPR Spring 2011 Speaker Series:
StreetSmart SchoolSmart: Urban Poverty and the Education of Adolescent Boys
James Diego Vigil
Professor, Department of Law
Criminology and Society
University of California, Irvine
Gilberto Q. Conchas
Associate Professor
Department of Education
University of California, Irvine
Date: December 9, 2010
Time: 3:00 PM -- 5:00 PM
Location: Shorb House, 2547 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
Description: This case study explores how a community-based truancy preventi
Inaugural Address: Harry Truman
In this video clip, hear excerpts from Harry Truman's inaugural address on Thursday, January 30, 1940. (2:49)
Advanced Audio Blog S5 #9 - Top 10 Japanese Foods: Udon and Soba
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Your stomach is upset from everything you ate last night in Japan. Next time, you’ll remember that since you’re in Japan for a month, you don’t have to try everything in just one sitting. When your friend offers some noodles to you that he says will help settle your stomach, you [...]