Language Tree
Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Adapting Language Choices (Register), Part 3
This standards-based lesson for beginner level English learners teaches how to use different registers based on who we are speaking with such as a teacher or adult vs. friends or family.
Language Tree
Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Interacting with Written English, Part 2
This video lesson for beginner English learners teaches how to communicate using written words and sentences.
Curated Video
How to Create an Interactive Game in PowerPoint
This video demonstrates how to create an interactive "Guess the Phrase" game show using Microsoft PowerPoint. The game involves students guessing letters to reveal a word related to a topic, making it an engaging resource for classroom...
Super Geek Heroes
Rainbows with Ronnie Rock
Fun 3D animated learning episodes to support the early years development areas of Expressive Arts & Design and Understanding the World. Ronnie Rock is a Super Geek Hero on a mission to learn! Ronnie introduces colours by singing a...
Englishing
ESL - Subordinating Conjunctions
Conjunctions are words that join words and sentences together. In this lesson, Mr. P. will about subordinating conjunctions. They are those that are attached to dependent clauses, so they cannot stand alone to give a complete thought or...
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Modifying to Add Details
For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD lesson shows how expanding sentences with simple adverbials (e.g., adverbs, adverb phrases, prepositional phrases) to provide details (e.g., time, manner, place, cause) about...
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Using Verbs and Verb Phrases, Part 4
For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD video covers how to use a variety of verbs in different tenses (e.g, past, present, future, simple progressive) appropriate to the text type and discipline (e.g., simple past and...
Super Geek Heroes
Counting Shapes with Millie Maths
Fun 3D animated learning episodes to support the early years development areas of Mathematics. Millie Maths is a Super Geek Hero on a mission to learn! Millie introduces numbers and counts from 1 to 10 using different coloured shapes. A...
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Using Verbs and Verb Phrases, Part 2
For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD video covers how to use a variety of verbs in different tenses (e.g, past, present, future, simple progressive) appropriate to the text type and discipline (e.g., simple past and...
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Connecting Ideas
For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD lesson talks about how to combine clauses in a few basic ways to make connections between ideas and to join ideas (e.g. creating compound sentences using "and", "but", "so";...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ira Shor - On Paulo Freire
Ira Shor received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. He was a professor at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, where he taught composition and rhetoric. He was also doctoral faculty in the PhD Program in...
Curated Video
Horse-Riding Librarians
The Pack Horse Library Initiative saw hundreds of female librarians cross the Appalachian Mountains to deliver books to those in need.
KERA
Learning About Mexican Culture Through Tacos
One University professor is combining scholarship with an exploration of the Latino culture using the rich history of tacos. He uses food to connect his students to Mexican people and their narratives. Students travel to a taqueria to...
Super Geek Heroes
Ten Red Bottles with Ronnie Rock
Fun 3D animated learning episodes to support the early years development areas of Expressive Arts & Design and Understanding the World. Ronnie Rock is a Super Geek Hero on a mission to learn! Ronnie visits the beach and finds lots of...
Language Tree
Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Presenting, Part 2
This lesson for beginner English learners focuses on formal and informal presentation skills: Providing information to friends, using eye contact, presenting a familiar topic, informal or formal presentation language based on the setting.
Super Geek Heroes
First Words Jake Jotter
Fun 3D animated learning episodes to support the early years development areas of Communications & Language and Literacy. Jake Jotter is a Super Geek Hero on a mission to learn! Jake completes the mission by introducing his favourite...
Curated Video
Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion
Nat Turner - known as the prophet in his enslaved community, led a violent uprising that changed everything.
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Using Verbs and Verb Phrases, Part 1
For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD video covers how to use a variety of verbs in different tenses (e.g, past, present, future, simple progressive) appropriate to the text type and discipline (e.g., simple past and...
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Text Structure, Part 2
This lesson for beginner English learners teaches how different text types are organized to express ideas (e.g., how narratives are organized sequentially); comprehending texts and writing brief arguments, informative/ explanatory texts...
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Using Noun and Noun Phrases, Part 1
For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD lesson explains how to expand noun phrases (e.g., adding a sensory adjective to a noun) in order to enrich the meaning of sentences and add details about ideas, people and things.
Religion for Breakfast
The Origins of Hebrew
As the name suggests, the Hebrew Bible is written, mostly, in Hebrew. But what is the earliest history of this language? What language did the ancient Israelites speak? This episode examines the origins of Hebrew and its relationship...
Super Geek Heroes
Solar System with Peter Planet
Fun 3D animated learning episodes to support the early years development areas of Understanding the World . Peter Planet is a Super Geek Hero on a mission to learn! Peter takes off in his super space ship and discovers the eight planets...