This is a gfeat clip to help explores the sit in demonstrations by the Greensboro Four and others that occurred at the Woolworth's in Greensboro North Carolina in 1960 during the Civil Rights Movement. It explains the story of the four and also includes a personal account from Franklin McCain, one of the four.
This is an inspirational story of a pilot (Colonel Gail "Hal" Halvorsen, Uncle Wiggly Wings) who began dropping candy by handkerchief parachutes to the children of Berlin during the Berlin blockade at the end of WWII and thebeginning of The Cold War. (It starts about 17 seconds into the video.)
This is an Awesome Overview of the CIvil Rights Movement. It covers everything from Plessy Vs. Ferguson, Ku Klux Klan - KKK, Brown Vs. The Topeka Board of Education, Rosa Parks, Little Rock Nine, Martin Luther King Jr. - MLK, Malcolm X, Black Power, Stokely Carmichael, Black Panthers, Robert F. Kennedy,Selma, Birmingham, Watts, Bloody Sunday, The March on Washington, and the Assassinations of the Civil Rights leaders to the election of Barack Obama.
This is a great video clip to introduce or start a discussion about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr - MLK.
This is a great video overview with interesting facts about President George Washington produced by Disney.
This is a great video overview with interesting facts about President James Monroe.
This is a great video overview with interesting facts about President John Quincy Adams.
This is a great video overview with facts about President Andrew Jackson, produced by Disney.
In this assignment, students will open up a Google Doc, you can have it printed as well, and fill out a table of some very useful industrial ores. The ores that will be researched are diamonds, gold, rock salt, bauxite, iron, and titanium. Students will research which 3 countries in the world are the top producers of each ore. They will then find and write 2 or more industrial uses for each ore. As they are doing their research, students will also use a map and mark where these countries are. This is great to reinforce the geography standards.
In this Earth Science or Physical Science lab, students will gain an understanding of the three types of thermal energy transfer, conduction, radiation, and convection. Students will use hot, cold, and room temperature water to demonstrate convection by using food coloring. Students will then see how long chocolate chips take to melt when you add heat to just one side of some tin foil. Finally, they will use heat lamps, thermometers, and dark and light-colored papers to demonstrate radiation and the absorption of radiated heat.