Brainwaves Video Anthology
Akash Patel - Teaching in the Global Pandemic
Akash Patel began his teaching career in very small rural communities in Oklahoma where people had never seen or met “a brown Indian guy who spoke five languages and had traveled to over 50 countries”. He used his travel experiences to...
Seven Dimensions
Creating Sustainable Urban Spaces
In this video, a teacher shares their experience of collaborating with urban planners to create unique market events that promote energy awareness and sustainable living.
Curated Video
Italy, Tivoli - Hadrian's Villa, the Canopus
One of the most striking and best preserved parts of the Villa consists of a pool named Canopus and an artificial grotto named Serapeum. An Egyptian city named Canopus was where a temple named Serapeum was dedicated to the god Serapis....
Sustainable Business Consulting
Tools for Managing Sustainability Part 1
Discusses two out of three tools to use when managing for sustainability: SWOT Analysis and Gap Analysis
Curated Video
Forming Irregular Plural Nouns: Dropping Y and Adding IES
In this video, the teacher explains how to form irregular plural nouns that drop the Y and add ies. They emphasize the importance of checking if the word looks right in the sentence to determine the correct spelling. The teacher provides...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why don't "tough" and "dough" rhyme? | Arika Okrent
Spelling reformers have been advocating for changes to make English spelling more intuitive and less irregular. One example of its messiness: take the “g-h” sound from “enough,” the “o” sound from “women” and the “t-i” sound from...
Extra English Practice
Basic Grammar - The Simple Past
English grammar lesson outlining the basic form, meaning, and use for the simple past verb tense. Review some common irregular verbs and their past tense forms as well as spelling rules for regular verbs. Play a game ordering events in...
Flipping Physics
Simple Pendulum - Simple Harmonic Motion Derivation using Calculus
Calculus is used to derive the simple harmonic motion equations for a simple pendulum. Equations derived are position, velocity, and acceleration as a function of time, angular frequency, and period. This is an AP Physics C: Mechanics...
Curated OER
A Brief History of Plural Word...s
One of the most straightforward rules of the English language is to add an s to make a word plural, except for a few irregular words. However, English wasn't always like this. Watch a narrated, animated video that explains the history of...
Imagine Learning Classroom
Form Irregular Verbs
Teach your class to pay attention to how a word looks and sounds when working with conjugating irregular verbs into the past tense. The video provides several examples of incorrectly and correctly spelled irregular verbs.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Audio Word Match Fry Words 351 360
Play this matching game to see how well you read irregularly spelled grade 3 words.
Molock Music
Molock Music: 2nd Grade Sight Words With Music
Read irregularly spelled, high-frequency grade 2 words set to upbeat music. [3:38]
My Growing Brain
My Growing Brain: Spelling Patterns: "Ch," "Tch"
Read words with common but irregular spelling patterns. [2:01]
My Growing Brain
My Growing Brain: Spelling Patterns: "Wr"
Read words with common but irregular spelling patterns. [1:05]
Other
Jeff Ekblad: 2nd Grade Sight Words B
Read irregularly spelled, high-frequency grade 2 words. Cute pictures of puppies are included for an extra incentive! [3:32]
Other
Jeff Ekblad: 2nd Grade Sight Words A
Read irregularly spelled, high-frequency grade 2 words. Pictures of cute kittens are provided as extra an extra incentive! [4:26]
