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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
What do you need to know in order to prepare a delicious homemade meal? Whether you’re a seasoned cook or just starting out, learn cooking fundamentals with Chef Dave Christopherson. Chef Dave demonstrates and explains a variety of basic cooking techniques necessary for success in the kitchen, including baking, blanching, boiling, grilling, roasting, sautéing, simmering, stir-frying and more as he prepares three simple, “from scratch” meals:...
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
PLAY HENDRIX... the first in a series of informative and entertaining instructional programs illustrating both scale & chord voicings made famously recognizable by the world's greatest guitarists. The first program will concentrate on the one and only JIMI HENDRIX.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Experience kitchen chemistry and the wonders of food science. Host Susan Turgeson (2009 AAFCS Nat'l Teacher of the Year) and students demonstrate six fun and easy food science experiments that can be conducted in any kitchen, while explaining the science behind them. Chaptered into segments, experimemts include: Emulsions, Fermentation, Scientific Method, Hand Washing and Food Safety, Biochemistry of Milk & Sensory Evaluation. Also includes an interview...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Watch Mark Overmeyer as he conducts six individual writing conferences and one group conference with students in grades three and five. Mark describes how he uses conferences to meet the needs of all writers, including beginning English language learners, advanced students and students who struggle to develop ideas when they write. A bonus section includes a peer conference, in which Mark comments on how to help students support each other. In each...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This video shows how Jeff Anderson uses playful strategies and mentor texts to engage writers in grammar and editing. In the "Apostrophe-thon," Jeff's sixth-grade students in San Antonio, Texas search through a mentor text excerpt to find examples of apostrophes and then categorize them as possessives or contractions based on a wall chart the class has compiled. Using real text, the students never fail to come up with some interesting examples such...
87) Destiny in Alice
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In the heart of central Australia, the town of Alice Springs has become something of a haven for Lesbians – a place where black and white women mix and mingle, confronting the challenges of loving across racial and cultural gaps. In a delightful parody of a famed TV naturalist, Destiny Attenborough (played by filmmaker Trisha Morton-Thomas) guides us through the habitat and customs of the women who love women in Alice Springs. The origins of the...
88) Kitchen safety
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Is your kitchen out to get you? This video shows the kitchen as a workplace filled with potential danger from scalding water and sizzling oil to whirring blades and natural gas. It shows how to handle knives, prevent shocks, childproof a kitchen, avoid burns, and prevent e-coli contamination.
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The PLAY series... entertaining instructional programs illustrating the methods and techniques made famously recognizable by the world's greatest guitarists, this release concentrates on the one and only ROBERT JOHNSON. The legendary Robert Johnson is reputed to be the man who sold his soul at the crossroads to play the blues. During his short life, he enjoyed little success or recognition, and it would be 20 years after his death before his music...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Roni Hirshenzon is a 60-year-old Israeli man who has suffered as much as any parent can imagine. Both of his sons are dead. Each died at the age of 19 as a direct result of the conflict in the region. Putting hatred and anger aside, Roni co-founded the Parents Circle, a support group for bereaved families, Israelis and Palestinians together. Another Side of Peace follows Roni's efforts to reach reconciliation and to come to terms with the deaths of...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A stunningly beautiful film narrated by Frances McDormand, Rebels With a Cause spotlights a battle over land that changed the American landscape forever. Beginning in the 1950s, a national movement was born of principles that may seem obvious today. Unconvinced by land developers who promoted residential construction as unmitigated progress, citizens began banding together to preserve open spaces near urban areas for parks and farms — and took the...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Professional chef Jonathan Locke explains and demonstrates measuring tools and techniques in the kitchen. Easy-to-follow guidelines for measuring ingredients, time and temperature are presented in this informational video. Help your students learn about ratios, units of measure, the history of measurement, and how to measure different types of ingredients in Part 1: Understanding Measuring Tools. Part 2: Applying Measuring Techniques gives students...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Learn about reformers' efforts to address the miserable living and working conditions of industrial workers, and new labor laws that followed the galvanizing events of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and the Bread and Roses Strike. Also study the movements to eradicate child labor and to federally regulate food and medicines.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Travel into the world of American workers, and view the poignant social problems that accompanied industrialization. Learn how technological changes in industry affected living conditions for workers, and follow the rise of labor movements, violent strikes, and intense conflict between labor unions and management.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Premiering on the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missle Crisis, this film focuses on three central figures in the crisis -- President John F. Kennedy, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and Cuban leader Fidel Castro. On October 22, 1962, President John F. Kennedy informed the world that the Soviet Union was building secret missile bases on the island of Cuba, 90 miles off the shores of Florida. The events of the next, tension-filled 13 days, known as...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"This game-changing war still resonates today with the US troop presence in South Korea and the nascent nuclear threat from the North. This collection of documentary footage chronicles the roots of the conflict as it blossomed into a protracted war that took a heavy toll in American blood and treasure. The immediacy of combat and major conflicts are brought vividly to life capturing the impact of this war on a generation and an entire region"--Container....
100) Victory at sea
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Language
English
Description
The original full-length episodes of the award-winning series made exclusively for television and containing actual live action footage. The videos introduce the campaigns and action of World War II, concentrating on battles and action at sea.
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