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 lab I have students observe what happens to water, which represents air, warms up and what happens to water as it cools down. Using a hot plate, a large glass cake pan, a bag of ice and food coloring can easily demonstrate how wind is formed. The demonstration can also be used in topics of high/low pressure, warm and cold fronts, mantle convection if you would like. The assignment, however, is for high and low pressure systems and wind.
This is a great video overview with interesting facts about president Ulysses S. Grant, produced by Disney.