This series of six drawing lessons, conducted by Bakersfield Museum of Art instructor Brent Eviston can be used with students grades three through seven. It provides students with practical instructions about the dynamics of drawing animals, people, three-dimensional objects and landscapes while they learn proportion, perspective, and color theory. The skills they learn during the process will stay with them for a lifetime.
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This series of six drawing lessons, conducted by Bakersfield Museum of Art instructor Brent Eviston can be used with students grades three through seven. It provides students with practical instructions about the dynamics of drawing animals, people, three-dimensional objects and landscapes while they learn proportion, perspective, and color theory. The skills they learn during the process will stay with them for a lifetime.
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This series provide comprehensive, contextualized support for developing writing skills at the middle school level. Episodes can be used within and across curriculum areas to support many different applications of writing, from lyrics to persuasion to technical reports. In each program, students are challenged to approach a writing assignment in a different way. Strategies for organizing information and structuring personal schedules to complete the assignments are depicted. Contextual real-life settings where different writing styles are employed are carefully woven into the stories.
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This series provide comprehensive, contextualized support for developing writing skills at the middle school level. Episodes can be used within and across curriculum areas to support many different applications of writing, from lyrics to persuasion to technical reports. In each program, students are challenged to approach a writing assignment in a different way. Strategies for organizing information and structuring personal schedules to complete the assignments are depicted. Contextual real-life settings where different writing styles are employed are carefully woven into the stories.
1) Writing a Research Paper- Writing Club members learn to research, write, revise, and publish their research papers.
2) Persuasive Writing- Students enter a writing contest that challenges them to create persuasive essays.
3) Descriptive Writing - The Writing Club is assigned to find a place and to describe it so that the readers will feel as if they have been there.
4) Expository Writing - The students study elephants and write an essay explaining why these animals have been brought to this country.
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This professional development video series will help you explore four key skill areas essential to establishing a safe, supportive atmosphere in which all students can learn. Sessions include:
1) Building classroom community
2) Motivation strategies that improve student learning
3) Developing responsibility in students
4) Implementing school safety procedures
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This professional development video series will help you explore four key skill areas essential to establishing a safe, supportive atmosphere in which all students can learn. Sessions include:
1) Building classroom community
2) Motivation strategies that improve student learning
3) Developing responsibility in students
4) Implementing school safety procedures
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The two programs in this series show students how atrocities in the past including the Holocaust and students at home in rural Idaho, taking action to fight racism are shown.
This series gives students ideas how to act for positive change in politics.
The two sections include:
1. Learning from the Holocaust
2. The Price of Silence: Students Speak Out on the Front Lines
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The two programs in this series show students how atrocities in the past including the Holocaust and students at home in rural Idaho, taking action to fight racism are shown.
This series gives students ideas how to act for positive change in politics.
The two sections include:
1. Learning from the Holocaust
2. The Price of Silence: Students Speak Out on the Front Lines
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Discover the world's most amazing and efficient machine. From the mechanics of a single heartbeat to the potential of genetic engineering, inside our Human Body goes beyond the basics by documenting human mechanics in motion.
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Discover the world's most amazing and efficient machine. From the mechanics of a single heartbeat to the potential of genetic engineering, inside our Human Body goes beyond the basics by documenting human mechanics in motion.
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This series transport students into the heart of mathematics by combining real-world application with fast-paced classroom footage. Students see patterning, equivalency, reasonableness, measurement, and problem solving through the eyes of five different professionals. A production of KERA, the Public TV station of Dallas; produced, written, and directed by the Peabody Award-winning Rob Mikuriya (The Eddie Files)
Please check out the website http://www.mathcantakeyouplaces.org/ for lesson plans and curriculum.
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This series transport students into the heart of mathematics by combining real-world application with fast-paced classroom footage. Students see patterning, equivalency, reasonableness, measurement, and problem solving through the eyes of five different professionals. A production of KERA, the Public TV station of Dallas; produced, written, and directed by the Peabody Award-winning Rob Mikuriya (The Eddie Files)
Please check out the website http://www.mathcantakeyouplaces.org/ for lesson plans and curriculum.
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This is a 10-minute docudrama highlighting New York branches of the Underground Railroad through moving narratives and reenactments underscored by stirring slave spirituals. Spotlighting the lesser known routes that led through the Hudson and Champlain Valleys of New York, this program celebrates the courage and fortitude of slaves who risked capture, torture, and death to escape the misery of slavery, as well as the sympathetic men and women who faced reprisals of their own in order to help them along the way.
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This is a 10-minute docudrama highlighting New York branches of the Underground Railroad through moving narratives and reenactments underscored by stirring slave spirituals. Spotlighting the lesser known routes that led through the Hudson and Champlain Valleys of New York, this program celebrates the courage and fortitude of slaves who risked capture, torture, and death to escape the misery of slavery, as well as the sympathetic men and women who faced reprisals of their own in order to help them along the way.
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Wind up for a great pitch into understanding key physics concepts utilizing the all-American game of baseball. Complex physics concepts are illustrated within the familiar context of everyone's favorite game.
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Wind up for a great pitch into understanding key physics concepts utilizing the all-American game of baseball. Complex physics concepts are illustrated within the familiar context of everyone's favorite game.
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In this series, students will be introduced to the concepts behind electromagnetic force, energy, gravity, light, motion and nuclear forces.
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In this series, students will be introduced to the concepts behind electromagnetic force, energy, gravity, light, motion and nuclear forces.
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Master teacher Brent Eviston focuses on specific techniques of drawing and painting that are common hurdles for emerging artists. Brent’s practical tips and skillful demonstrations make the concepts clear and easy to apply with any subject matter. Viewers are encouraged to draw along for a hands-on experience of the concept.
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Master teacher Brent Eviston focuses on specific techniques of drawing and painting that are common hurdles for emerging artists. Brent’s practical tips and skillful demonstrations make the concepts clear and easy to apply with any subject matter. Viewers are encouraged to draw along for a hands-on experience of the concept.
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