TED Talks
Tyler DeWitt: Hey science teachers -- make it fun
High school science teacher Tyler DeWitt was ecstatic about his new lesson plan on bacteria (how cool!) -- and devastated when his students hated it. The problem was the textbook: it was impossible to understand. He delivers a rousing...
Curated Video
Drafting
Drafting explores the important elements of the drafting step of the writing process.
Curated Video
Studying Your Notes: How to Write a Summary and Reflection
Are you trying to figure out how to study your notes? In this video, I will teach you two highly underrated study techniques. I show you the process, give examples and tell you the common mistakes to avoid. These can be used for any note...
Oxford Online English
Chair a Meeting in English - Useful English Phrases for Meetings - Business English
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to chair a meeting in English. You can learn business English words and phrases which you can use in your next meeting. See the full version of this free English lesson here:...
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
Types of Listening Skills
This video explains the four types of listening skills: They are appreciative, comprehensive, empathetic, and critical listening.
Curated Video
How to Score Highly in Task Achievement for IELTS Writing Task 2
Task Achievement is the first category you are scored on in IELTS Writing Task 2. The primary thing the examiner considers when evaluating your Task Achievement score is whether or not you answer ALL PARTS OF THE QUESTION. So, if the...
Curated Video
Agile Scrum Master Certification Exam Prep (CSM) - Empirical Process Control
This video explains the first principle of the Scrum, which is the primary principle made on observations rather than planning. This clip is from the chapter "Scrum Principles" of the series "Agile Scrum Master Certification Exam Prep...
Curated Video
The Discovery of Cells
In this section, I talk about the history of the cell theory, what the cell theory is, the 2 types of microscopes and the 2 basic cell types.
Curated Video
IELTS Reading Tips: Matching Headings and Finding Information
Today I’ll teach you the difference between matching headings and finding information questions.
Camelea Publishing
Camelea: Like a Seagull
Hummingbirds and seagulls—how different and alike are the two birds? At her brother's birthday party, Camelea taps into her inner bird as she dances like a zippy hummingbird. But when it is time to sleep, she thinks of the calm seagull...
Camelea Publishing
Camelea: Like the Elephants
Camelea loves the ocean air, breeze and beautiful things she sees on the beach. Her brother and mother both want her to swim in the ocean, but she doesn't want to get water in her nose. Follow along with the story to see how Camelea...
Townsend Press
Relationships I
Transition words can be a very important addition to any writer's toolbox. Learn more about addition words and time words, and how they can enhance the organization of any writing passage, with an informative video about reading...
Townsend Press
Relationships II
Cause and effect, problem and solution, compare and contrast, illustration and example -- your class has undoubtedly seen these essay structures before. But how are they related? Watch a reading video about the ways relationships between...
Townsend Press
Inferences
A picture is worth a thousand words. Help your class out with some of those words with a video about drawing inferences from reading passages, images, and other media. The resource focuses on the supporting details of each passage...
Townsend Press
Implied Main Ideas
Skilled readers can find the main idea of an informative passage without finding it directly stated. A reading video prompts elementary learners to examine supporting details in several examples, and to infer what the main idea...
Townsend Press
Supporting Details
Helpful for both reading and writing units, a video about identifying supporting details in reading passage shows young learners the importance of bulking up informative writing. The presentation uses cartoons and longer passages to...
Townsend Press
Main Ideas
Once you find the main idea of a paragraph, it's easy to see how the rest of the details are supporting evidence. Take your readers through an explanatory video that demonstrates the points and supports of several reading examples.
Learning Upgrade
Main Idea Song
Tap your toes and give a snap to a jazz inspired song showcasing a paragraph's main idea. Pupils hear about a paragraph's structure, including its topic sentence, supporting details, and the conclusion, and how they relate to identifying...
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...
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Check Understanding by Teaching
In this lesson, you will learn how to check to see if you understood a text by teaching it to someone else. [3:35]