Explore Proportions in this free video unit. It is comprised of 7 lessons with 4-6 short videos in each lesson. Featuring the reasoning of Grade 6 students, the unit explores how to form and iterate ratios through the use of a dynamic applet. The videos provide a foundation for the Common Core State Standards about using ratios and rates to solve math problems. Showing these videos are helpful for teachers who want to move students from reasoning additively to forming multiplicative comparisons. 

Explore Trigonometry in this free video unit. It is comprised of 8 lessons with 4-6 short videos in each lesson. Featuring the reasoning of Grade 11 students, the unit explores explores the concepts of angle measure and the sine function. The videos provide a foundation for the Common Core State Standard covering trigonometric concepts. Show these videos to help students build intuition for difficult trigonometric ideas, like moving fluidly between angles and radians and using trigonometric functions to model real world data. 

A visualization exercise to help you imagine who you want to be in the future.

This article provides an overview of the free online tool VoiceThread and discusses how elementary teachers might use it in language arts and science classes. Resources provided.

What exactly is online multimedia? We'll look at some examples related to earthquakes and volcanoes.

Students learn about the importance of dams by watching a video that presents historical and current information on dams, as well as descriptions of global water resources and the hydrologic cycle. Students also learn about different types of dams, all designed to resist the forces on dams. (If the free, 15-minute "Water and Dams in Today's World" video cannot be obtained in time, the lesson can still be taught. See the Additional Multimedia Support section for how to obtain the DVD or VHS videotape, or a PowerPoint presentation with similar content [also attached].)

This is a compilation of how water is being polluted, its effects and the measures of treating the waste water.

What if there were no prices? How would you use available resources? In this video, Professor Howard Baetjer Jr. of Towson University leads you through a thought experiment to illustrate why market prices are essential to human well-being. Suppose you were the commissar of railroads in the old Soviet Union. Markets and prices have been banished. You want a railroad from City A to City B, but between the cities is a mountain range. You can build the railroad around the mountains and use more steel or through the mountain and use more engineering. Which should you choose?

Music: Those who Dare to Die Young
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This video gives a quick overview of why worldview is important in life and in business.

Recording of Day 1 of the Three Branches Institute, featuring a condensed version of WHHA's "White House 101" lecture, exploration of WHHA's 360 Virtual Tour of the White House, and some discussion.

Please note that there will be "dead air" during the mid program break as well as the second half breakout rooms.

This brief lecture uses Ruben Salazar's 1970 L.A. Times column as a springboard for defining what is a Chicano. That answer, is complicated and nuanced, but we discuss multiple platforms to understand what it means to be a Chicana or Chicano in the Civil Rights Movement.

This video is a brief overview of the benefits of studying in a group, even when going to school online!

Music: Love Aside - Patrick Patrikios

Kevin Allocca is YouTube's trends manager, and he has deep thoughts about silly web video. In this talk from TEDYouth, he shares the 4 reasons a video goes viral. A quiz, thought provoking question, and links for further study are provided to create a lesson around the 7-minute video. Educators may use the platform to easily "Flip" or create their own lesson for use with their students of any age or level.

I’ve designed this unit to slot into the second and third (and into fourth) weeks of my Writing 122 course. Rethinking my course from an equity perspective led me to reshape my approach to some key concepts (particularly audience), highlighting lived experience as an important component of knowledge when addressing social issues. An important aim of this project is to foreground the relevance of the work they’re doing in this course and how it applies to their world beyond this course. I produced an 11-minute audio slideshow on audience that is in alignment with the two assignments I’ve created here. This will take the place of a few mini-lectures, reducing the amount of reading and offering a different learning modality. I intend to use H5P to build a self-assessment and review component and attach it to the audience slideshow. After completing the second assignment, students would proceed to hone in on an arguable question/topic (possibly the one identified in Assignment Two, or possibly another important question embedded in the issue) and conduct research in preparation for their essay rough draft.

Learning Objectives:
Here are learning objectives and aspirational goals (from Portland Community College’s CCOGs for Writing 122) in alignment with this unit:
CONNECT: Craft an argument in conversation with others who are thinking about the same subject.
REFLECT: Analyze their own learning in writing.
INQUIRE: Locate multiple and various information sources that are appropriate to the given process of inquiry
Students will understand themselves as lifelong students of reading, writing, and rhetoric.
Students will transfer their learning to personal goals and larger initiatives that matter to them.
Students will see themselves as critical participants in larger conversations.

This video gives a brief overview of how to create an executive summary.

This is an explanimation video that walks students through the key areas of writing an executive summary.

This is a professional email for LAPU's course: Writing a Professional Email. Upon course completion, participants will master the art of writing emails, and will be deemed an email wizard with a course badge.