The School of Life
Machiavelli’s Advice for Nice Guys
Scholars analyze the concepts of success, ethics, and Machiavelli's philosophy with an enlightening video. The narrator explains the main theories of Machiavelli in an easy-to-understand method and makes use of visual aids to enhance...
PBS
The Pilgrims: Native American Relationship to the Land
An informative video sets the context for a lesson that asks young historians to consider how cultural values influence perspective. Groups compare the attitudes reflected in a journal entry of a member of the Plymouth Colony to those of...
Channel Islands Film
First Contact
America began well before Jamestown, well before Plymouth Rock. An informative video introduces the 1542 Spanish expedition that explored the Channel Islands off the coast of southern California. The voyage started with the attempt...
Tangient
Glory: The Movie Study Guide & Discussion Questions
Check out this simple and organized viewing guide for the film Glory! Questions prompt learners to consider the evolution of characters over the course of the film, and to analyze the effects of the film and the efforts of the 54th...
PB Works
Film Viewing Guide for the movie “Glory” (1998)
Check out this simple, ready-to-use worksheet that your young historians can complete as they watch the motion picture Glory. It begins with a very brief list of characters to track, followed by seven short-answer questions to be...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Women's History: Activity Pack | History Detectives
This is a collection of lesson plans and activities to learn about the history vital but often little-known contributions of women to American history. They are based on History Detectives episodes that examine artifacts of how women...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Headings and Subheadings
This tutorial provides two videos focusing on using headings and subheadings in paper writing: the first video discusses the purpose and when to use them; the second discusses how to format them. Textual information is also provided...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Headings and Subheadings
This tutorial focuses on headings and subheadings in papers; it provides textual information on headings, subheading, and general tips and suggestions for their use. It also offers a YouTube video demonstrating, in step-by-step fashion,...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: How to Read a Writing Assignment
This video lesson focuses on how to read and understand a writing assignment. It begins by defining keywords used in assignments: analyze, compare and contrast, evaluate, describe, and propose. Then using a sample assignment, it...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: List Style Comparison/contrast Papers
This tutorial focuses on how to write a list style comparison/contrast essay using a step-by-step video demonstration of how to write one. It starts at the beginning with brainstorming topics, choosing organization methods, adding...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Revision Techniques: Using a Professor's Notes
This video lesson focuses on using the notes and comments written on returned papers to improve future writing. It includes why you should look at them, common symbols and proofreaders marks and their meanings, the order of importance to...
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...
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Constitutionalism: Written vs. Unwritten
Presents questions about constitutions, and discusses countries that have written constitutions and those that have ones that are not single, written documents.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Comparison Papers
This lesson introduces the comparison and contrast writing, a type of informative writing. [11:46]
Other
Gerald Oehler: Bias the Art of Historical Inquiry
This video provides an examination of bias and point of view and why this is an important skill to know when studying his/her story. [5:30]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Basic Capital Structure Differences
A video investigating how two businesses have different capital structures. Understand that a capital structure shows how a business is financing their operations through equity, debit, and other costs. [4:00]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Compare One Character's Point of View With Another's
In this lesson, you will learn how a complex character is developed by contrasting that character's perception of themselves with the perception of others. [7:03]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Comparison Papers: Organization
This lesson discusses structuring an outline for a comparison contrast paper.