Curated Video
Break-Even Analysis and Visualization Using Apple as a Case Study
This video introduces the concept of break-even charts and explains how they can be used to visualize and analyze the financial performance of a company, using Apple as an example. The video explains how break-even charts show the point...
Professor Dave Explains
Visualizing a Nucleosome in Virtual Reality
We've talked a lot about DNA in this series. Building off of our understanding of nucleic acids in biochemistry, we now know that DNA wraps around histones to form nucleosomes, which then supercoil to form chromatin. But what does a...
Curated Video
Modeling Exponential Growth Using Patterns
In this video, the teacher explains how to use patterns to model growth that increases by multiplying, rather than adding. They demonstrate this concept using examples of enlarging photocopies and counting dots in a figure. By...
Curated Video
Solving Real World Problems: Calculating Pyramid Volumes
In this video, the teacher explains how to solve real-world problems involving pyramid volumes by visualizing the problem and working backward. The teacher guides students through the steps of identifying key information, visualizing the...
Curated Video
Solving Cone Volume Word Problems
This video teaches students how to solve word problems involving cone volumes by visualizing the problem and working backward. It explains the difference between volume and surface area and guides students through the steps of...
Curated Video
Subtracting 10 or 100 Mentally Using Base 10 Blocks
In this video, students learn how to mentally subtract 10 or 100 from a three-digit number by visualizing base 10 blocks. The teacher explains the concept of place value and demonstrates the process using examples.
Professor Dave Explains
Visualizing DNA in Virtual Reality
We've learned a lot about DNA, but sometimes the representations of DNA that we use to talk about it are not especially accurate. Everyone knows the popular image with the ladder rungs, but let's really get in there and visualize DNA in...
Curated Video
Understanding Normal Distributions: Visualizing Situations
In this video, the teacher explains how to determine if rolling a die will result in an approximately normal distribution. They use visualizations to show the characteristics of a normal distribution, such as a symmetric, bell-shaped...
Curated Video
Solve Real-World Problems Involving Cylinders
This video teaches students how to solve word problems involving cylinder volume by visualizing the problem and working backward. It emphasizes the difference between volume and surface area and guides students through the steps of...
Curated Video
Winter games get LA gym goers in a sweat
They might not be competing on a ski slope, but when it comes to personal fitness, everyone here is going for gold.
The inspiration for this class in Los Angeles is the 2014 Winter Olympics underway in Sochi, Russia.
The instructors here...
PBS
Pbs Kids Clubhouse Adventures: Read Good Books!: Visualizing Music
KIDS Clubhouse Adventures kids read and discover more about sound. In this feature, kids illustrate what their imaginations see as they listen to a variety of different songs.
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Make Mental Pictures as You Read
In this lesson, you will learn how to make sense of nonfiction texts by making mental pictures. Login gives access to an additional video. [3:46]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Use Textual Clues to Envision as You Read
In this lesson, you will learn to understand a text by jotting down information that adds to your mind movie. Login gives access to an additional video. [5:11]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Use Imagery in a Poem to Visualize the Setting
In this lesson, you will learn how to notice a poem's setting by using the imagery in the poem to help you picture what the setting looks and sounds like. Login gives access to an additional video. [5:34]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Visualize the Setting by Analyzing an Author's Word Choice
In this lesson, you will learn how to analyze an author's word choice by visualizing the setting. Login gives access to a slideshow and a student handout. [5:21]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Show, Don't Tell
In this lesson, you will learn how to make your story more realistic and exciting by showing, not telling. [8:27]