Schooling Online
English Essentials - Venturing into Visuals - Visual Text Construction & Element Arrangement (Stage 5, Years/Grades 9-10)
Welcome back to Venturing Into Visuals! Get ready for an easy and enjoyable lesson on key elements of visual analysis: context, purpose, modality, lighting and perspective. We’ll also look at more sophisticated aspects of composition,...
Curated OER
Easy Cartoon Drawing : How to Draw Cartoons
A cartoon artist picks up from a previous art lesson and draws a scene of two people throwing a ball to a dog. By using clean and smooth lines, his piece resembles a fun cartoon. Can your class draw the same scene at their desk?
Curated OER
How To Play Violin/Fiddle - Amazing Grace & Vibrato
Play the classic and heartfelt "Amazing Grace" with your learners. Listen to the presenter play the song, and then watch as he teaches the beginning notes. His step-by-step instruction is methodical, and following along is easy. This is...
TED-Ed
The Unexpected Math Behind Van Gogh's "Starry Night"
Talk about the unexpected! Young mathematicians, scientists, and artists will be enlightened by this short video that uses Van Gogh's Starry Night to depict the turbulent flow and the movement of light.
TED-Ed
Zen KōAns: Unsolvable Enigmas Designed to Break Your Brain
Why do people attempt to explain the unexplainable? Scholars explore the topic by learning about ancient philosophical thought experiements known as kōans. After watching a brief yet informative video, pupils answer questions and engage...
Crash Course
Why So Angry, German Theater? Crash Course Theater #27
Believe it or not, German theater did not become established until years after theater in other European countries. A video describes the history of German theater starting in the late seventeenth century. After a discussion, viewers...
Crash Course
Do the Right Thing
Did Mookie do the right thing? Spike Lee's film Do The Right Thing, which discusses race violence and community, leaves viewers to decide. The cogent analysis of a film criticism video examines not only Lee's filmmaking techniques...