The Learning Depot
Summer Idioms:Figurative Language to Enrich Your Expressions
Idioms are a form of figurative language that require a critical understanding of the expressions. Not to be taken literally, idioms are analogous to the literal representation they evoke. These eleven summer idioms relate to summer...
The Learning Depot
The BE Verb: Be, To Be, Being, Been~All About Be
The BE verb is the most important verb in the English language. It communicates a state of being, or existence. The verb BE is used as a main verb as well as an auxiliary verb. It is a most irregular verb and has eight forms: be am are...
Psychology Unlocked
Do babies have an accent? Psychology of Language Development
As adults we all have an accent - a linguistic geo-tag that gives away so much about where we come from... Our country, our city, even our educational and economic backgrounds. But what about babies? Do they have accents too? In this...
Curated Video
F = KE: Understanding the Relationship Between Force and Extension in Springs
This video is a lecture presentation on the theory of F = KE. The presenter explains the relationship between the force applied to a spring and the resulting extension caused by that force. The presentation includes calculations and...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: Plato's best (and worst) ideas - Wisecrack
Few individuals have influenced the world and many of today's thinkers like Plato. He created the first Western university and was teacher to Ancient Greece's greatest minds, including Aristotle. But even he wasn't perfect. Along with...
The Learning Depot
How To Answer Multiple Choice Questions | Strategies for Finding the Correct Answer Part 2
Multiple-choice questions can be tricky because they test your ability to think critically. There are strategies, however, to increase your chances of finding the best answer when taking multiple-choice tests. In this lesson, you'll...
The Learning Depot
How to Write a Hook: 10 Ideas for Narrative, Expository, Persuasive/Argumentative Writing
A hook is a sentence or group of sentences that will capture or “hook” your reader’s interest and lure him or her to keep reading. The hook, also called the lead, will set the tone and mood for your essay and establish A hook can be a...
Curated Video
Robots compete in 'mission to Mars'
LEAD IN:It's not been long since European countries were competing on the Eurovision Song Contest stage. Well now they're competing on Mars ... sort of.At Innorobo, one of Europe's leading robotics events, teams from across the continent...
Programming Electronics Academy
EP. 20: TinkerCAD with Joshua Brooks
Joshua Brooks teaches us all about TinkerCAD, a free and easy to use browser based software for 3D Modeling and Simulation.
Curated Video
Making Estimates About a Population Using Multiple Samples
In this video, the teacher explains how to make estimates about a population with an unknown characteristic by using the mean of multiple samples. The teacher demonstrates the process of setting up a proportion and calculating the mean,...
Jam Campus
Middle Ages Timeline Song
Learn about the middle ages in song format! A great way to boost classroom engagement when introducing new topics.
Curated Video
Leading Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda dies at 90
LEADING POLISH FILMMAKER ANDRZEJ WAJDA DIES AT AGE 90Poland's leading filmmaker Andrzej Wajda, whose career maneuvering between a repressive communist government and an audience yearning for freedom won him international recognition and...
Name Explain
What Do North Korea & South Korea Call Each Other?
HELP SUPPORT NAME EXPLAIN ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/nameexplain TWITTER: https://twitter.com/NameExplainYT Thank you to all my Patrons for supporting the channel! Ahyan Panjwani, Alexander Miururi, Alexis Polanco-Mccabe, Alp,...
TED-Ed
How Many Verb Tenses Are There in English?
You don't need a time machine to travel through time—you just need the English language! Explore the 12 possible ways to describe something that happened, something that is still happening, or something that will happen with an engaging...
The School of Life
George Orwell
Ordinary people, ordinary jobs, ordinary life. According to George Orwell it's the ordinary that should be the focus of literature. Introduce readers to this extraordinary writer with a short video that details how his life experiences...
Crash Course
Of Pentameter & Bear Baiting - Romeo & Juliet Part I
Thinking about using Romeo and Juliet with your honors or AP class? Consider showing this video as an introduction and overview to Shakespeare, Elizabethan theatre, and the play. The narrator's obvious scholarship, fast pace, and quirky...
Crash Course
If One Finger Brought Oil - Things Fall Apart Part I
"See other human beings as human beings." China Achebe’s message is echoed in a two-part video course that focuses on Things Fall Apart, Achebe’s novel about colonial Nigeria. The narrator's focus in Part 1 is on Okonkwo, the...
The School of Life
Voltaire
Fascinated with the concept of good and evil, Voltaire formed his main character from the eponymous Candide, the most widely read text of the European Enlightenment. Learn more about Voltaire's life, beliefs, writing, and influence...
TED-Ed
Why Should You Read "A Midsummer Night's Dream?"
Set the stage for a study of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream with an engaging animated video that is sure to stoke the interest of readers as it gets to the bottom of the key themes of the comedy. The narrator's arguments...
TED-Ed
Why Should You Read Flannery O’Connor?
There is more to literature of the American South than Civil War battles and Scarlett O'Hara. A short video introduces viewers to the works of Flannery O'Connor and her world of unique characters that causes readers to consider the dark...
Crash Course
Things Fall Apart, Part 2
"If you want to bee it well, you must not stand in one place." The second of two videos devoted to Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, the narrator focuses on the historical contexts and the "crossroads of culture," where traditional Igbo...