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Ages: 14 - 18
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A great song to teach the grammar concepts of stem-changing verbs in Spanish. Sung to the tune of Adele's "Someone Like You." (4:51)
February 28, 2013 at 08:35 PM
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Ages: 10 - 18
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Follow the sun as it touches the lives of creatures across the planet,
bringing a fresh understanding of how the world is interconnected. From the North Pole to the South Pole, the program illuminates the importance of the sun's energy to life on E...arth and examines how the seasons produce some of the world's greatest spectacles. Such animals as polar bears, impalas, fur seals, and emperor penguins must battle the varying temperatures and changing weather conditions of their ecosystems to survive - often resorting to hibernation and migration. For other species, like the critically endangered Amur leopard, the struggle proves even more desperate and complex. Run time 02:55.
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November 30, 2010 at 10:19 PM
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Ages: 13 - 18
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Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: one morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened, as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding ...-- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another. From http://www.ted.com. (20:11) {MSHS 2}
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November 7, 2008 at 11:54 AM
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Ages: 12 - 18
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Uncle Sam is a national icon in the United States, but where did he come from? Was he a real person? This video tells the history of this figure and how it spread from Troy, New York. Good video (Running Time 2:00).
September 25, 2010 at 11:30 PM
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Ages: 13 - 18
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This video dramatizes the life of Louis Braille, including the events that caused him to become blind as well as the cause of his death in 1852 at the age of 43 of tuberculosis. The video illustrates the development of the Braille System, which he c...reated in 1824 at the age of 15, and how it was at first rejected and even banned at the Royal Institute for Blind Youth (where Braille attended as a child and was later employed as a teacher). (36:26)
(with expanded Braille information and resource links) is available from the following URL:
http://dcmp.org/guides/brailleguide
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July 12, 2010 at 11:13 AM
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