Lesson Planet
EdTech Tuesday: Becoming a Lead Learner with Todd Nesloney
How is a fifth-grade teacher with no administrative experience planning to transform a low socioeconomic school as its principal or "lead learner" using project-based learning?
PBS
Preaching the Gospel of the Revolution
Articulate and determined, passionate about equal treatment for all Americans, James Baldwin was an early spokesman for the Civil Rights Movement. The short PBS video provides viewers with the opportunity to hear Baldwin share his ideas...
PBS
A Black Writer in the South | American Masters: Alice Walker
Alice Walker discusses the influence the strong women in her family and her experiences growing up on a plantation in Eatonton, Georgia had on her writing. Part of the American Masters series, the short video includes images of her...
PBS
Public Reaction to Their Eyes Were Watching God
While white literary critics praised her work, the black literary establishment trashed Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. See what other writers have to say about the novel in a short video from the PBS Masters series.
PBS
Documenting the Dust Bowl
Paul Taylor's interviews and Dorothea Lange's photographs bring to life the unimaginable devastation of the Dust Bowl. After watching a short video from PBS, viewers are asked to imagine how they would react, whether they would stay or...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Prewriting: Asking Questions
This video lesson focuses on asking questions as a prewriting activity. It explains why questioning is a good prewriting technique, discusses the types of questions to ask, focuses the questions to fit the topic, and provides a specific...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Argumentative Papers: Topics and Thesis
This lesson focuses on selecting a topic and writing a thesis for an argumentative paper. It explains the purpose of argumentative writing, lists the aspects of a strong topic, suggests ways to find a topic, discusses the purpose and...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Research Questions
This video lesson focuses on research questions including the definition, purposes, how it helps the research project, how to choose one, sample research questions, and how to narrow the focus. Real Player is required.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Picking a Research Topic
This tutorial focuses on picking a research topic by brainstorming and freewriting about what interests you or what you want to learn more about and doing background reading to see what information is available for your possible topics....
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Develop Counterclaims Fairly and Thoroughly
In this lesson, you will learn how to develop a counterclaim fairly and thoroughly by supplying the most relevant evidence and considering readers' knowledge and biases. [5:47]
Crash Course
Crash Course Study Skills #9: Papers and Essays
Writing research papers is an essential skill in your career as a student, and this week we're going to help you do that like a pro. From figuring out where to begin to finding the best systems, to breaking out of "research recursion...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Research Methods: Lesson 5
This lesson will explore research methods, delineate the steps of the scientific method. It will also discuss experiments, survey research, focus groups, participant observation and using secondary sources for analysis. It is 5 of 9 in...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Research Methods: Lesson 2
This lesson will introduce guidelines for scientific research, as well as common research methods in the field of psychology. It is 2 of 9 in the series titled "Research Methods."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Research Methods: Lesson 9
This lesson will explore research methods, delineate the steps of the scientific method. It will also discuss experiments, survey research, focus groups, participant observation and using secondary sources for analysis. It is 9 of 9 in...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Research Papers: Lesson 1
This lesson introduces research papers and their goals. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Research Papers."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Research Papers: Lesson 3
This lesson introduces research papers and their goals. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "Research Papers."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Research Questions: Lesson 3
In this lesson, different types of questions useful when conducting research are discussed. It is 3 of 6 in the series titled "Research Questions."