Instructional Video3:24
Curated Video

Using Styles and Themes in Microsoft Word

Pre-K - Higher Ed
In this video tutorial, the instructor demonstrates how to effectively utilize styles and themes in Word 2007 to enhance the appearance and professionalism of documents. By using predefined styles for titles and text, users can easily...
Instructional Video6:13
Curated Video

The Ultimate Guide to Python Programming With Python 3.10 - ttk - Themed Widgets

Higher Ed
You will learn to create theme-based widgets using the tkinter themes with the ttk module.
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This clip is from the chapter "Tkinter" of the series "The Ultimate Guide to Python Programming with Python 3.10".This section focuses...
Instructional Video3:05
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Ken Burns in the Classroom

Higher Ed
Ken Burns has been making documentary films for over forty years. Since the Academy Award nominated Brooklyn Bridge in 1981, Ken has gone on to direct and produce some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made,...
Instructional Video2:36
Two Minute Music Theory

Building Music: What are Musical Forms? - TWO MINUTE MUSIC THEORY #37

12th - Higher Ed
We continue our "Building Music" series, looking at how composers construct music. Today we look at how motifs, phrases, and periods, and themes are used to create full musical forms. Music Examples: Bach - French Suite in E major, BWV...
Podcast6:07
Book Club for Kids

James and the Giant Peach

Pre-K - Higher Ed
James and the Giant Peach is a classic fantasy and adventure story that explores friendship, family relationships, and the fortunes of a young orphan. James is living with his cruel aunts when a peach magically sprouts in the yard. When...
Instructional Video10:12
Institute for New Economic Thinking

Thomas Homer Dixon: Complexity in Economic Theory - INET Panel (4/5)

Higher Ed
Thomas Homer Dixon, Professor in the Centre for Environment and Business in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo, speaking as part of the panel Exploring Complexity in Economic Theory at INET's Bretton Woods...
Instructional Video3:39
Mr. Beat

The Lost Generation Writers (Story Time with Mr. Beat)

6th - 12th
Once upon a time there was city, named Paris, France. During the 1920s, lots of Americans moved there to escape institutionalized racism and the associated race riots, xenophobia, censorship, materialism, and Prohibition. Perhaps most...
Instructional Video2:01
Makematic

Make stories shine

K - 8th
The art that children create can inspire them to tell amazing stories. By creating their own stories, children begin to understand characters, themes and settings.



In this activity, children aged 8-11 will design a new story...
Instructional Video4:10
Two Minute Music Theory

Themes

12th - Higher Ed
How motifs, phrases, and periods are used to construct themes
Instructional Video7:59
Cerebellum

The Elements Of Drama - Characters

9th - 12th
The Elements of Drama - The wonderful world of drama comes alive in The Elements of Drama, as the young host and hostess take viewers on a journey through the works of such famous playwrights as William Shakespeare. Colorful graphics and...
Instructional Video7:35
Cerebellum

The Elements Of Fiction - Understanding Theme's

9th - 12th
The Elements of Fiction - Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson . these are just three of the renowned authors whose work is cited in The Elements of Fiction, which explores: Plot elements, character, conflict, flashback,...
Instructional Video39:15
Odd Quartet

Music History - Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 Listener's Guide Music History

9th - 12th
Rachmaninoff's piano concerto No. 2 is one of his most well known pieces, but did you know that Rachmaninoff struggled with depression and writer's block before being able to write this lovely piece of music? We look at the history...
Instructional Video1:50
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Curated OER

Theme

6th - 12th
Identifying the theme of a piece is crucial to understanding. Using the play Romeo and Juliet as an example, the concept of theme is explored in a video of a classroom lecture.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Kids Clubhouse Adventures: Clubhouse Theme: What Are Fairy Tales?

Pre-K - 1st
Abby Brown, KIDS Clubhouse Adventures co-host, loves to help kids have fun while learning! In this segment, Abby teaches kids about the components of a fairy tale including characters and settings found only in our imaginations. [1:29]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything

Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this Kindergarten through 2nd grade video, students listen carefully as their teacher reads the story "The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything" by Linda Williams. Students listen for key verbs such as clomp and wiggle...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Let's Learn: Let's Share a Story: "Perfectly Norman"

Pre-K - 1st
Read "Perfectly Norman" with Psacoya Guinn from NYC Children's Theater. This story, written by Tom Percival, is about embracing our differences and what makes us unique. [12:35]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Let's Learn: Let's Share a Story: "Miss Dorothy and Her Book Mobile"

Pre-K - 1st Standards
Read "Miss Dorothy and Her Bookmobile" with Earnestine Sweeting. This story, written by Gloria Houston, tells the true story of the librarian Miss Dorothy. [14:33]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Let's Learn: Let's Share a Story: "After the Fall: How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again"

Pre-K - K
In this video from Let's Learn, NYCDOE Universal Literacy Reading Coach Anna Stretching-Cole reads "After the Fall: How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again" by Dan Santat. After reading, she opens up a discussion about overcoming our fears....
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Let's Learn: Let's Share a Story "Why Am I Me?"

Pre-K - 1st
Read "Why Am I Me?" by Paige Britt with Sharon Bricker. After reading, students will draw themselves and what makes them special. Then they will draw someone else and write/draw what makes them special. Discuss how differences are good...
Instructional Video
Other

Tes: I, Cinna (The Poet) 2012 Full Length Film

9th - 10th Standards
This is I, Cinna (The Poet) 2012 Royal Shakespeare Company Full-Length Film [48:19] based on Cinna a minor character in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Instructional Video
Other

The Only Way You Will Ever Need to Teach Theme [You Tube Video]

9th - 10th
Middle school teacher Sara Johnson describes how she teaches the concept of theme. This video combines a sound explanation of the term and some classroom techniques she uses to reinforce understanding with her students.
Instructional Video
TES Global

Tes: Gregory Doran on Bolingbroke in Henry Iv Part I (2014)

9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this video clip, actor Gregory Doran speaks about the character of King Henry IV and his relationship with his son Prince Hal in the Royal Shakespeare Company (2014-2016) production of Henry IV Part...
Instructional Video
TES Global

Tes: Performance Video: Julius Caesar (2012) Act 3, Scene 2

9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This Royal Shakespeare Company video clip from Julius Caesar (2012) Act 3, Scene 2 shows Antony speaking at Caesar's funeral. Although he defends Brutus's actions, he discusses what Caesar has done for...
Instructional Video
TES Global

Tes: Coriolanus: Interview With Ralph Fiennes

9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is Royal Shakespeare Company video interview with actor Ralph Fiennes who directed and played the lead in Coriolanus (2011, 15). He explains why he feels the play is relevant to today's political...