Curated Video
Positive Peer Influences
This video will show students how positive peer pressure can help influence healthy choices.
Curated Video
Persuasive Essay
This video illustrates the step-by-step process of writing a persuasive essay, including how to write a thesis statement, an introduction paragraph, body paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph.
Curated Video
Identify Persuasive Texts
“Identify Persuasive Texts” identifies the characteristics of a persuasive writing piece.
Teaching Without Frills
Persuasive Writing for Kids - Episode 6: Writing a Rough Draft and Closing
In this video, you will learn how to write a rough draft and end with a closing or conclusion.
Teaching Without Frills
Persuasive Writing for Kids - Episode 5: Writing an Introduction
In this video, you will learn how you can hook the reader of your persuasive writing with a good introduction! We will start with a question and then state our opinion.
Teaching Without Frills
Persuasive Writing for Kids - Episode 4: Developing Reasons
In this video, you will learn how to make the most convincing reasons possible using counter-arguments and facts about your topic!
Teaching Without Frills
Persuasive Writing for Kids - Episode 3: Making a Plan
In this video, you will learn how to make a plan for your persuasive writing. We will think about the audience for our writing, and choose reasons that would be the most convincing to them.
Teaching Without Frills
Persuasive Writing for Kids - Episode 2: Brainstorming Topics
In this video, you will learn how to brainstorm topic ideas for your persuasive writing.
Teaching Without Frills
Persuasive Writing for Kids - Episode 1: What is It?
In this video, you will learn: What is persuasive writing? What does it mean to persuade or convince someone of my opinion? Who can I persuade? How can I do it? Watch this video to find out the basics of persuasive writing!
Teaching Without Frills
How to Write for Your Audience - Writing Video For Kids
This video will help you learn how to write for your audience in narrative, informational, and persuasive writing. You'll learn about writing style, formal and informal word choice, and tone.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Lee McIntyre - How to Talk to a Science Denier
Lee McIntyre is a Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and a recent Lecturer in Ethics at Harvard Extension School. He holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University and a Ph.D. in Philosophy...
Curated Video
Joanna of Castile part 3: Becoming Heir to the Spanish Throne
In the late 1490s, Joanna's elder brother died and her sister soon followed, making Joanna heir to the Spanish throne. Explore how her new status altered the behaviour and position of her family members and how she coped with her...
Packt
Hands-On Continuous Integration and Automation with Jenkins - What Is CI/CD?
This video explains what Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Deployment are, how they compare, and which benefits they bring • Learn Continuous Integration • Find out Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment...
Curated Video
Ramesses III part 3: Assassination
Learn about Tiye's plot to assassinate her husband and create an uprising in ancient Egypt that would place her son on the throne. How did she recruit nobles, officials, and royal staff? And was civil unrest unavoidable during Ramesses...
Makematic
Teams Pitch Solutions
Children form STEAM teams that work on fascinating real-world problems, design solutions, and then pitch their ideas to others. They build skills in articulating points of view, embracing others’ ideas, and finding new ways to collaborate.
Psychology Unlocked
False recall and what it tells us about our memory | Memory | Cognitive Psychology
We rely on our memory to complete pretty much every task that we set ourselves to. But even with our complete reliance on this cognitive capability, it's only able to accurately recall about 50% of the time... the rest of the time, we...
Curated Video
Structuring Reasons in Argumentative Essays: Order of Importance Approach
This video is a tutorial for students on how to structure their argumentative essays by organizing their reasons in order of importance. The teacher provides examples and guidance on how to determine the strongest and weakest reasons,...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Troy Campbell - The Psychology of Why We Deny
Troy Campbell is an expert in consumer behavior, marketing social psychology, political psychology, and scientific communication. At the University of Oregon, he is an assistant professor of marketing in the Lundquist College of...
AllTime 10s
10 Disturbing Government Cover-Ups Hidden From The Public
The government is there to prevent anarchy and even possibly act as a safety net for those who are most vulnerable in our society. But that is unfortunately not always the case, as the following 10 examples demonstrate.
Curated Video
Using Graphs to Persuade: Measures of Center and Variability
In this video, the teacher explains how to use graphs to persuade parents that a bad test grade in math doesn't reflect overall performance. By analyzing measures of center and variability, such as the median, mode, mean, and MAD, the...
The Wall Street Journal
D'Artagnan CEO on the Meatless Movement and the Future of Restaurants
Entrepreneur and D’Artagnan CEO Ariane Daguin discusses cultural and consumer shifts in the food industry, the meatless movement and the challenge ahead for restaurants.
Curated Video
8+ Animal Idioms for Describing Personality
Today you’ll learn 8+ animal idioms for describing personality! Recently, we brought you videos featuring vocabulary for describing animals, and also Speaking sample answers for that topic. While preparing those, I also thought of...