This Wide Angle video features the women of Rwanda who have emerged as outspoken leaders and the great strides they have made toward rights and equality.
A collection of seven brief webcasts recapping ALA LibLearnX (formerly Midwinter) 2022.
During this session, participants will learn about the overarching priorities of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts and literacy. Alberti will discuss the major instructional shifts required by the standards, including the evidence behind the shifts. These same shifts will be represented in both consortia assessments. Additionally, Alberti will present a few recommendations regarding how to introduce changes in a thoughtful, concrete way to prepare both teachers and students for full implementation of the standards.
How do the Common Core English language arts standards differ from their predecessors? What do they emphasize? What are logical focus points for early implementation? The English and language arts standards depart radically from their predecessors with their insistence on text complexity and close reading skills.
This session, presented by David Liben from Student Achievement Partners, offered a look at various aspects of text complexity: how it is defined by the standards, as well as a range of measurement tools—including some newly developed and tested by the Race to the Text project—and how to use the tools for professional development. The focus on text complexity, close reading, and informational text has clear education implications as well. The presenter will examine some strategic focus areas for literacy instruction and explore ideas for bringing all constituencies to a fuller understanding of the Common Core standards and the features that make text complex.
Algebra is the language of modern mathematics. This course introduces students to that language through a study of groups, group actions, vector spaces, linear algebra, and the theory of fields.
In this video from Wide Angle, two American NAACP lawyers arrive to advise Brazilian civil rights organizations, leading to a discussion of differences between race relations in the U.S. and Brazil.
Why did our ancestors who made cave paintings in France thrive while Neanderthals died out? What do our closest living ancestors have to teach us about what it means to be human? How do images of the human brain reveal our faculties for language, the use of tools and the ability to forge social bonds? These questions and more are examined in "The Human Spark," a three-part television series funded in part by NSF. In this background briefing, host Alan Alda and the producers of the series discuss their interactions with dozens of scientists to get at the sources of human uniqueness through the lenses of neuroscience, anthropology, human evolution, child development and primatology. The series premieres on PBS stations Jan. 6, 13 and 20, 2010.
In this video adapted from Storyknife Productions, Alaska Native pilots share how they use traditional knowledge to read the landscape and predict the weather.
In this video adapted from Alaska Sea Grant, discover why multiple tsunamis resulted from the Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964.
This lesson is about trying to get students to make connections between ideas about equations, inequalities, and expressions. The lesson is designed to give students opportunities to use mathematical vocabulary for a purpose to describe, discuss, and work with these symbol strings.The idea is for students to start gathering global information by looking at the whole number string rather than thinking only about individual procedures or steps. Hopefully students will begin to see the symbol strings as mathematical objects with their own unique set of attributes. (7th Grade Math)
This Wide Angle video looks at the advantages and disadvantages of running a small-scale, female-only business.
In this video from Wide Angle, learn about the influence of the communist values of organization, discipline and collectivism on North Korean society.
In a multi-grade class of fourth, fifth, and sixth graders, students learn to work and communicate in teams. Through projects and a class structure that supports differentiation, Ms. Ehrke is able to keep students challenged and engaged. Her strategies for differentiation and communication can be used in any classroom.
In this segment from EGG:the arts show, meet Camilo Gaetan who is becoming a master drummer.
In this WILD TV segment, a photographer helps find homes for animals up for adoption.
Botswanans express some of their attitudes toward the influx of Zimbabwean migrants in this Wide Angle video segment.
This is a blogspot through which the author has gathered a number of videos, PDF files, and articles to teach basic Arabic. There is information on how to install Arabic on a windows computer, vocabulary lists including the days of the week and Arabic phrases, an article on the history of Arabic grammar, information on the alphabet and how to read and write it, an Arabic keyboard, recorded conversations, links to the Madinah Books, and more. The majority of the information given is accompanied YouTube videos and written explanations.
This is an online textbook for basic Arabic. It begins with a brief lesson on the alphabet and then proceeds to units grouped by topic, which move into more advanced Arabic vocabulary and grammar. The lessons are accompanied by audio files and videos, and the videos come with bilingual transcripts. There are 6 total units, and 15 lessons. Each unit has stated learning goals, broken up into specific lessons. Each lessons comes with videos, vocabulary (with corresponding audio files), and notes that relate to grammar.
In this video from Wide Angle, learn about the Arduous March, a dark period of hardship and famine in recent North Korean history.
This lesson is based on the results of a performance task in which we realized that students' understanding of area and perimeter was mostly procedural. Therefore the purpose of this re-engagement lesson was to address student misconceptions and deepen student understanding of area and perimeter. The standards addressed in this lesson involve finding perimeter and area of various shapes, finding the perimeter when given a fixed area, and using a formula in a practical context. Challenges for our students included decoding the language in the problem and proving their thinking. (7th Grade Math)