RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
This ten minute video reviews what really motivates people and what does not help. The results are of note to teachers and others at it shows that higher grades may not be motivating when creative thinking is being encouraged. Mastery is motivated by tangible things in some instance
Circles and Pi
Investigate the circumference and area of a circle. Examine what
underlies the formulas for these measures, and learn how the features of the irrational number pi (Ï€) affect both of these measures.
Maccabees, Part 6
This is an animated biography of the Macabees from the Discovery Channel Education series. This series is aimed at older elementary school children.
What Happens On Wall Street - Song
This is an animated video for the song Walkin' On Wall Street. It explains what Wall Street is and how everything works there. The singing character is a dove who gives advice on how to learn about wall street life. It presents useful specific vocabulary such as "to investment", "buy low sell high", etc.
How's the Weather?
Here is a song that allows children to learn about different types of weather. Great video for learning the weather.
The Arts in Every Classroom: Working With Local Artists
Students and teachers at P.S. 156 (The Waverly School of the Arts) in Brooklyn, New York, benefit from the school’s established relationships with artists from local organizations. This program focuses on a first–grade class creating original works with visiting artists — a dancer and a writer.
Assessment in Math and Science-That Would Never Work Here, Either!
Workshop 7. That Would Never Work Here, Either!: Seeing Assessment Reform in Action, Part II (90 min.)
'Involving students in assessment is often the key to engaging them in learning. This workshop will continue to follow Barbara and Scott as they use assessment to encourage their students to improve their performance. Providing opportunities for students to assess their own work and that of their peers will be the focus of this workshop. Content Guides: Mary Hibert Neuman and Jude
How to Calculate Sales Tax
This two minute video teaches how to find the sales tax. To find the sales tax you multiply the sales tax rate by the price before tax. Also, to find the final price, you add the price before the tax with the sales tax. The video uses animation. Teachers may wish to use the area's sales tax base for practice after students view this video.
Penicillin
In this video clip from Modern Marvels we learn about how penicillin
became available to the masses. During World War II, the militaries
were in desperate need of a drug that would cure infection. Penicillin
was the answer. Run time 2:56
Pre-writing-A Visit to the Firestation
Before starting to write a story it is helpful to think about what to
say. One way to organize ideas is to draw pictures about what you want to write about. Watch a story about a fire station, thinking about what pictures you could draw. On their own, students are encouraged to pretend they spent a day at the fire station, draw a picture about their day and write a story to go with it.
Before You Begin to Write
A short common sense video that goes over the basics of what to know before writing the essay. There are a few other videos in this series that might also be of some value: Three Main Paper Types
Thesis  Outlines  Structure Summary
Coroner's Report Plague
In the 14th century, a plague known as the Black Death claimed 75 million lives. Forensic medical investigator Shiya Ribowsky explores how exactly they died. Run time 02:37.
How to Use FOIL to Distribute Two BinomialsÂ
This video demonstrates how to use FOIL to distribute two binomials. The FOIL method — which stands for first, outer, inner, and last — takes two binomials and multiplies them for a single quadratic equation. Run time 03:23.
Counting By Two Song
This animated video will help children learn to count by twos. The lyrics repeat themselves several times. The monkey characters count to 100 while the numbers are displayed on the screen. Some of the lyrics include "We're gonna count by two's. Me and you. All numbers will be even. That's just what we do". (02:53)
Graph of the Sine Function - Khan Academy
Using the unit circle definition of the sine function to make a graph of it. In an easy conversational tone, the instructor uses the computer screen as his 'blackboard' and different colors to emphasis his points. For high school students. (07:45)
Dark Chocolate Health Benefits - www.MyChocolateMedicine.com
 Dr. Steve Warren talks about the health benefits of cold processed dark chocolate. He explains the function of anti-oxidants and bioflavonoids and the fact that cold processed dark chocolate is the #1 superfood in the world. There is only one company in the entire world that makes cold processed dark chocolate and has the worldwide patent on this process.
Shurley English Sentence Rap
This teacher-made video uses the Shurley method to sing a short rap on sentence structure and the 5 keys to making a sentence. The five keys include: (1) A sentence must have a subject. (2) A sentence must have a verb. (3) A sentence must make sense with every single word. (4) The first word in a sentence must start with a capital letter. (5) THe end of a sentence must have an end mark. Run time 02:24.
Statistics: Variance of a Population - Khan Academy
Mr. Khan continues his discussion about statisitics. This is the video after Sample vs. Population Mean. In this video, he discusses the variance of a population. (12:22)
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Calisphere Themed Collection - 1929-1939: The Great Depression: Everyday Life in Hard Times
The images in this topic provide a look at the everyday lives of Californians during the decade of the 1930s. Although many people struggled to survive during the Great Depression, these photographs also show that some still found employment, and many managed to enjoy themselves despite the hard economic times.
