Lewis and Clark's Expedition to the West
Video accompanied by text. "The Louisiana Purchase offered the United States much needed room to grow and access to an abundance of natural resources, waterways, and fertile farmland. Countless opportunities awaited the Americans, but they would first have to locate them. The Louisiana Territory was so large that France could not accurately define its contents or borders. Jefferson took advantage of the ambiguous agreement and asserted that it included the Missouri River, western Florida, New Or
Lewis And Clark
Learn about Lewis and Clark in this student-made, BrainPOP-inspired video by Robert Miller's 4th & 5th graders from Port Orange, Florida.
K-2 Literacy Centers- Hands on Learning
Teacher-Created Slide Show Video- See descriptions and see literacy centers that can be used in the primary classroom: Magnet Names, Scribble Art, Books and Baskets, Making Words, Look, Think and Write, Science Center, Real or non-Sense, Stamp and Write. No audio. (02:16)
How to Mask When Painting
Masking is tape applied to your canvas. Fill around there with a think layer of paint. Fill in all around the taped area-nothing should be showing. Take the tape off gently. This gives you straight lines. (2:25)
The Chemistry of the Earth Geographic distribution of specific resources determines global economics. The program highlights how specific deposits of resources came to be located in specific places. Rare resources inspire the search for alternatives in industry. Silicon, a cornerstone of the high-tech industry, is one of the elements of the Earth highlighted in this program.
Astrospies
A govenment program in the 1960's to put astronauts in space to spy on the Soviet Union.
Tips on Teaching in a Special Education Classroom
(NOTE: There is a caption mistake in the first of four steps. The directions say "STEP up your classroom; the line should read: SET up your classroom.) When teaching in a special education classroom, you want to make sure you have your room set up to accommodate all the needs of the students. Set your special education classroom up with help from a special needs teacher in this minute-and-a-half video on special education.
Expert: Krista Blessing
Bio
How to Draw a Cartoon Character Outline
Outlining helps you get a good foundation for the character you will draw. Work on finding the dimensions: how tall, how wide, and create a road map to draw your cartoon. Step-by-step narration by artist Danny Page. English captions. (02:06)
Twelfth Night, Part 2 of
This animated cartoon abridgment of the great classic play by Shakespeare brings this story to younger students. Some of Shakespeare's words appear at the bottom of the screen. Part 2 of ends in mid-sentence. (8:16)
Sign Language Lessons: Common Phrases : Cleaning Phrases in Sign Language
Learn how to sign wash, clean, dirty, comb, soap, and toilet with American Sign Language (ASL) tips in this free online sign language video tutorial clip.
105 Minutes to Learn French
Learn French in 105 minutes? This is the creator's title, but of course, one can not learn French in such a short time. However, with this video, one can get a head start with some of the vocabulary words. The words are highlighted by a transparent red bar or red circle. The words are said once by a native speaker and there is no English definition, but the red indicators tell you what the words mean. (01:45:21)
FROM ENGLISH TO FRENC, Part #4 (starts with the letter 'L')
Each word appears on the screen in both English and French. Each word is said four times by a native French speaker. (33:47)
I Like Spring - Song
What season do you like? This song - with the text on screen - sings about the four seasons, and the types of weather that accompanies each.... The singer in this song - likes different Korean foods - depending upon what season it is! The lyrics run across the screen as they are singing. (01:33)
Collective Nouns
This video defines collective nouns and then gives examples of collective nouns and how they are used. It specifically talks about how to determine what kind of verb to use with collective nouns. (02:01)
English as Second Language Vocabulary Lesson-Verbs
This video helps to improve English vocabulary and pronunciation. The focus of this video is verbs (playing, cleaning, climbing, cooking, etc.). A matching picture is shown while the commentator says the verb and then uses the verb in a very simple sentence (He's climbing). This is a good resource for our English as Second Language Learners and for the typical classroom as an introductory lesson for verbs (01:52).
Helping Verbs Lecture
This lesson is a lecture about helping verbs. The instructor discusses different helping verbs and provides examples and a few chances to practice selecting helping verbs to complete a sentence.
IRREGULAR VERBS - Past and Past participle form
A slide show which lists the base form the past form and the past participle form of irregular verbs. There are images that show the meaning of the verb. (05:32)
Irregular Verbs-The Past Tense
An English teacher shows the simple and past tense forms of irregular verbs. The video is in lecture format with an instructor standing in front of a dry erase board. (05:44)
Spoken List of Irregular Verbs
This is a video clip that teaches about irregular verbs by showing examples of irregular verbs. Irregular verbs are shown on screen and turn red as speaker says the word. (03:04)
Washington's Birthday
This is a video clip about George Washington. George Washington was born on February 22nd, 1732. His birth date is a holiday. (Amateur video aimed at ESL students.) (04:32)
