Brainwaves Video Anthology
Marc Prensky - Third Millennium Kids: A Hell Yes! Low Stress Guide for Everyone
Third Millennium Kids: A Hell Yes, Low Stress Guide for Everybody offers a positive outlook on raising children in today's changing world. The author, Marc Prensky, challenges the idea that technology is making young people anxious....
Curated Video
Community Changes over Time
Dr. Forrester teaches the student about rural, urban, and suburban communities and how they have developed and changed over time.
SciShow Kids
The Biggest Snowstorms!
Usually when it's snowing outside, it's really calm, pretty, and fun to play in! But there are certain types of big snowstorms, called blizzards, that can get really windy, wild, and even dangerous!
PBS
Character Study: Scout Finch
Scout Finch, the rough-and-tumble protagonist of Harper Lee's iconic To Kill a Mockingbird, learns quite a bit about how the world works as she observes her father's defense of Tom Robinson. Learn more about Scout and her distinctive...
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The Color Purple
A clip from the documentary Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth features Walker discussing her writing process and why she chose to write The Color Purple as an epistolary novel. The resource is part of PBS' American Masters...
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Jane Eyre 2: Meeting Mr. Rochester
Adapting a much-beloved novel for the screen can be a tricky business. Each media has its own possibilities and limitations. The second PBS Jane Eyre resource in the Masterpiece series asks readers to evaluate how the filmmakers have...
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Pbs Learning Media: Tess of the D'urbervilles 1: What's in a Name?
Students explore major themes and the importance of characterization in this excerpt from MASTERIECE's 2008 version of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles. When the young and naive Tess Durbeyfield first meets her "cousin," the...
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Pbs Learning Media: American Masters: Gatsby Chases the American Dream
In this video [3:24] from the American Masters film Novel Reflections on the American Dream, learn about F. Scott Fitzgerald and his notorious fictional character Jay Gatsby. Both were in the pursuit of the American dream and love....
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Pbs Learning Media: American Masters: Meet F. Scott Fitzgerald's Gatsby
Meet F. Scott Fitzgerald's iconic character Jay Gatsby in this video from the American Masters film Novel Reflections on the American Dream. Learn about the spectacle of Gatsby, the techniques the author uses to present Gatsby, and the...
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Pbs Learning Media: American Masters: The American Dream in the Grapes of Wrath
In this video [3:06] from the American Masters film Novel Reflections on the American Dream, see the quest for the American dream as depicted in John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath." Follow the Joad family as they search for work and...
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Pbs Learning Media: Sanditon: An Opinionated Woman
When Charlotte Heywood offers her forthright opinions of the Parker brothers, she is chastised by the dashing Sidney Parker, in this video excerpt from Sanditon Masterpiece, based on Jane Austen's unfinished novel. The brief encounter...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: World War Ii Part 1
In which John Green teaches you about World War II. John will teach you how the United States got into the war, and just how involved America was before Congress actually declared war. John will actually talk a little about the military...