Instructional Video9:39
Science Buddies

How to Use an LCD Screen with an Arduino (Lesson #21)

K - 5th
Learn how to add an LCD screen to your Arduino projects in this tutorial.
Instructional Video8:12
The Guardian

Why horror keeps creeping into black drama

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Shows such as I May Destroy You, Atlanta and Insecure depict a wide spectrum of black life, from hilarity to mundanity – but all these shows, at times, also have an impending sense of doom. This feeling of horror, this looming sense of...
Instructional Video5:24
Curated Video

Parts of a Story: Beginning

K - 8th
"Parts of a Story: Beginning" models how to identify what happens at the beginning of a story.
Instructional Video5:45
Curated Video

Reading Fantasy

K - 8th
"Reading Fantasy" explores fantasy stories.
Instructional Video6:34
Curated Video

Multiple Meaning Words

3rd - Higher Ed
Multiple Meaning Words determines the meaning of multiple meaning words by correctly identifying the word’s function.
Instructional Video4:56
Curated Video

How to Sign Disney Characters in ASL | Disney Parks 2023

3rd - Higher Ed
Hey signers! We're taking you on our Disney vacation and along the way I'm teaching you the ASL signs for the Disney characters we came across. All of these Disney character signs come from the official Disney ASL interpreters in...
Instructional Video9:50
Oxford Comma

What You Need to Know Before You Read Love's Labor's Lost

9th - 12th
Welcome to what you need before you read, the series where I attempt to inoculate you from boredom by injecting a little context and relevancy into you reading experience. This video will provide background information, context, and...
Instructional Video6:24
Curated Video

Text Structure and Genre

3rd - Higher Ed
Text Structure and Genre shows how knowledge of the structure of a text can determine the genre of the text.
Instructional Video5:45
Curated Video

The Plot of a Story

3rd - Higher Ed
"The Plot of a Story" explores how to recognize the three elements of plot in stories: problem, climax, and resolution.
Instructional Video4:54
Curated Video

Who and What Questions

3rd - Higher Ed
"Who and What Questions" explains how to demonstrate comprehension by answering questions about stories.
Instructional Video3:49
Curated Video

Theme and Motivation

3rd - Higher Ed
“Theme and Motivation” will explain how character motivation impacts the theme of a story.
Instructional Video4:21
Curated Video

Complex Characters

3rd - Higher Ed
“Complex Characters” will break down the different characteristics of a complex character.
Instructional Video3:00
Curated Video

Parts of a Script

3rd - Higher Ed
Parts of a Script explores the structure of a script by explaining the four main parts: list of characters, description of setting, stage directions, and dialogue.
Instructional Video3:18
Curated Video

Dramatic Arguments

3rd - Higher Ed
This video discusses the use of dramatic dialogue in a literary piece by analyzing it for a claim, soundness of reasoning, and relevancy.
Instructional Video3:17
Curated Video

Elements of Plot: A Guilty Conscience

3rd - Higher Ed
Elements of Plot: A Guilty Conscience identifies elements of plot, including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, found in the short story, A Guilty Conscience.
Instructional Video2:52
Curated Video

Conflict: A Guilty Conscience

3rd - Higher Ed
Conflict: A Guilty Conscience demonstrates understanding of conflict by describing a type of conflict that occurs in the short story, A Guilty Conscience.
Instructional Video2:53
Curated Video

Write a New Ending

3rd - Higher Ed
“Write a New Ending” is a conceptual video that discusses the different parts of a story, with a focus on how to write a new ending for a familiar fairy tale.
Instructional Video3:14
Curated Video

Character Traits in Drama

K - 8th
Character Traits in Drama explains the importance of character traits in a drama by exploring physical appearance, behavior, and interactions with others.
Instructional Video3:35
Curated Video

A Matter of Character

12th - Higher Ed
Chinese scholar and literary translator Michael Berry (UCLA) describes differences between simplified and traditional Chinese characters and the politics associated with both.
Instructional Video3:54
Curated Video

The Clubhouse: Characters

3rd - Higher Ed
The Clubhouse: Characters discusses the characters in a fictional story and explains both main and minor characters.
Instructional Video3:51
Curated Video

Learning to Fly: Setting

3rd - Higher Ed
Learning to Fly: Setting describes the setting of a story as time and place, or when and where the story occurs.
Instructional Video4:50
Curated Video

Exploring Themes in The Scarlet Letter

9th - Higher Ed
"The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a dark novel set in Puritan Massachusetts. It explores themes of sin, guilt, and the corrupting influence of society on individuals. Through the characters of Hester Prynne, Reverend Arthur...
Instructional Video3:10
Curated Video

Cryptography and the Alphabet

12th - Higher Ed
Quantum physicist Artur Ekert (Oxford and NUS) highlights the importance of having an alphabet for encoding written messages.
Instructional Video3:40
Curated Video

Character Development

12th - Higher Ed
UCLA Chinese cultural studies expert Michael Berry describes a range of aspects associated with Taiwan and China's very different approaches towards traditional or simplified characters.