Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The Making of the Fittest: Natural Selection and Adaptation
The pocket mouse can be light brown like the sands of the desert, or dark brown like the volcanic lava flows that are interspersed throughout New Mexico's Valley of Fire. It seems that predators have weeded out light colored mice in this...
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Sophia: Cause and Effect Papers
This video lesson focuses on cause and effect papers. It begins by defining the terms and purpose for cause and effect writing and then moves on to planning, organizing, and writing the paper. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Organizing Your Paper
This tutorial focuses on organizing a paper. It provides three videos: the first video covers graphic organizers and how each is best used; the second one discusses the purpose, audience, and context of the writing and offers 5 methods...
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Sophia: Argumentative Papers
This video lesson focuses on argumentative papers; it begins by defining argument and an argumentative paper including its purpose. It then discusses what is included in an argumentative paper: a thesis statement showing topic and...
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Sophia: Argumentative Papers: Key Elements
This lesson focuses on the key elements of argumentative writing. It lists and defines the key terms: claim, opposing argument, evidence, and call to action. These are also the key elements which are discussed individually including what...
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Sophia: Argumentative Papers: Opposing Arguments
This video lesson focuses on when and how to address opposing arguments in an argumentative paper. It begins with a warning about acknowledging opposing viewpoints and then offers a method if you choose to do so: build common ground,...
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Sophia: Anticipating a Reader's Counterarguments
A screen cast lesson explaining how to anticipate when a reader might disagree with the author and how, as an author, to address the counterarguments when writing a persuasive/argumentative piece. [6:48] CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.W.1,...
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Support Your Claim With Reasons and Evidence From the Text
In this lesson, you will learn how to develop your claim by outlining your essay and making sure each reason has sufficient evidence. [6:27]
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Sophia: Narratives: Organization: Lesson 1
This video tutorial discusses how narratives are organized including beginning, middle, end and types of organizational patterns. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Narratives: Organization." [10:06] W.11-12.3c Narrative Org
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Sophia: Logical Fallacies: Lesson 2
This text and audio tutorial discusses 10 common logical fallacies. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Logical Fallacies."