Bill of Rights Institute
Constitutional Principles: Separation of Powers
Why is separation of powers within a government important for protecting freedom? How does the United States Constitution organize the nation's governing bodies in order to ensure powers are limited and balanced? This video illustrates...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making
A course for middle and high school teachers explores American history from the Pre-Columbian era through Reconstruction. Utilize provided video, online text, classroom activities, and Web-based activities to teach materials. The online...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Learner: Bridging World History
An inquiry-based, multimedia course aiding in the instruction of world history. Understand the impact of primary sources, time and space, human relationship, and many other aspects over the entire history of the world. Units are...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Academic Vocabulary in the Common Core: An Introduction
This series of video segments explains the importance of academic vocabulary in the common core curriculum. The video segments included highlight the three tiers of vocabulary [1:35], the role of vocabulary in the common core curriculum...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Vocabulary
This is a collection of four videos about teaching vocabulary. The first is a principal discussing a school-wide approach to vocabulary improvement; the second is a director of the academic English at the University of California...
PBS
Academic Vocabulary in the Common Core: High School Career & Technical Ed.
These video segments examine the integration of domain-specific vocabulary in technical education course, a construction core class. The teacher demonstrates how to introduce the new vocabulary in the first segment via a complex course...
Crash Course
Crash Course Psychology #16: Language
Crash Course video and Hank Green teach us about language development and how language is acquired. [10:01]
Crash Course
Crash Course Philosophy #26: Language and Meaning
In this video episode of "Crash Course Philosophy #26: Language and Meaning," Hank starts a unit on language with a discussion of meaning and how we assign and understand meaning. It covers sense and reference, beetles in boxes, and...
Crash Course
Crash Course Sociology #15: Social Interaction & Performance
This video focuses on social interaction and performance; it is the 15th episode of the Crash Course Sociology. How do sociologists study and understand social interaction? Today we'll explain the language sociologists use to discuss how...
PBS
Academic Vocabulary in the Common Core: High School Social Studies
This video [5:06] provides research related to the Common Core approach to vocabulary, footage of classroom teachers engaging students in vocabulary instruction, and sample vocabulary assessments.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Academic Vocabulary Common Core: Hs English Language Arts
This series of video lesson segments demonstrates a teacher engaging students in strategies that help high school students explore a passage from Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, The Scarlet Letter. These video segments include a bell ringer...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Theories of Lang Development: Nativist, Learning, Interactionist
Learn about the nativist, learning, and interactionist theories of human language development. [4:00]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Fundamentals: Normative and Descriptive Claims
We humans are a chatty bunch--we talk A LOT. But each claim we make can be sorted neatly into one of two categories: it either describes something or it evaluates something (philosophers call these descriptive and normative claims...
PBS
Pbs: Indian Pride: Spirituality, Part 4
A member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of Montana tells about the origins of a song, then shares the song using a traditional instrument.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Jonathon Keats and "Virtual Words"
We'll talk about how the rapid pace of technology is creating new words and how new ideas drive new language.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Vocab Tip: Ask a Question
This lesson explains how to remember vocabulary by asking questions. This tutorial lesson shares a short screencast with the lesson's content. [4:37]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Vocab Tip: Find Similar Words
This lesson explains how to remember vocabulary by finding similar words. This tutorial lesson shares a short screencast with the lesson's content. [3:44]