Some videos about Napoleon Bonaparte's rule

These short videos can help you study the Napoleonic Era in an easier way:

 

Some extra information about infant mortality rate

Here you have three short videos about infant mortality rate, which is more precise to explain the real situation of healthcare in a country. If you pay attention to the firts video, you will discover that the countries with the highest infant mortality rate are among the LEDCs. These countries have lack of hospitals and doctors, suffer malnutrition, pregnancies are not controlled by the doctors and many children die under the age of 1. But the two following videos show that the USA infant mortality rate is higher than the average of the MEDCs. And this is why their healthcare system is not good. Patients receive only the cares they can pay and many families can't afford paying a good insurance. This case shows how important a good an accessible healthcare system is to reduce mortality among the most vulnerable people, children. 

China's one-child policy

Here you have some links and short videos to learn more about China's one-child policy and why the Chinese government decided to abandon it last year: -These three links explain why the Chinese government decided to intervene in order to reduce birth rate in China and the results of this anti-natalist policy:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/geography/population/managing_population_rev3.shtml

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-34667551

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/11/151113-datapoints-china-one-child-policy/ 


 - This video explains 10 important key data about China's one-child policy:

   

 - A short explanation of why China left the one-child policy in October 2015:

 

 - These two videos focus on the consequences of the anti-natalist policy over ordinary people. ageing population, only children and secret children with no rights:

 

Pro-natalist and anti-natalist policies

Here you have a short video made by some foreign students that summarizes demographic policies:

 

Some videos about the Demographic Transition model

Here you have some easy videos to review the contents about the Demographic Transition model. There is a song too!

And this is the song. Click on the image to be redirected to the link on Youtube (the author doesn't allow the embedding of the video in other websites: 

Some music videos about the independence of the USA

Here you have some musical videos that explain the USA independence process:

AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR

- From Schoolhouse Rock, No More King!: 

USA CONSTITUTION

This song explains the Preamble of the Constitution:

Another song about the Preamble, called We The People:

A rap that explains the content of the Constitution:

 AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION 

- A school version of Taylor Swift's song Shake it off that explains the Bill of Rights: 

The Bill of Rights in hip hop style:

The Bill of Rights rap:

- Another very funny school project from McAlpine Elementary School in Charlotte Mecklenburg, North Carolina, USA:

This is another song by another crazy history teacher, which explains why the Bill of Rights was included in the Constitution:

The 27 amendments to the USA Constitution.

Some information about the USA political parties and electoral system

Here you have some answers to the questions you asked about the USA political parties and electoral system: 

- Here you have the explanation to the symbols of the Democratic and Republican party:

 Source: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ist/?next=/arts-culture/political-animals-republican-elephants-and-democratic-donkeys-89241754/

The donkey started being used by the Democrats in the 19th century. During the presidential campaign of that year Democrat candidate Andrew JAckson was called a jackass (a donkey) by his opponents and he decided to adopt this animal for his campaign. Later cartoonist Thomas Nast popularized the symbol.

Thomas Nast was also the inventor of the elephant that became the symbol of the Republican Party. In 1874 he drew a cartoon inwhich the Democrats' donkey appeared as clothed in lion's skin, scaring all the other animals. There was an elephant labelled as "The Republican Vote" and from then on the elephant was associated with the Republican Party.

Here you have Nast's cartoon in Harper's Weekly:

Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-the-parties-got-their-animal-symbols/

Democrats today say that the donkey is smart and brave, while Republicans say that the elephant is strong and dignified.

Here you have some more information about this topic: 

http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/how-did-the-republican-and-democratic-parties-get-their-animal-symbols

http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0881985.html

- The colours associated to every party date back from year 2000 and it comes from the colours the TV channels used to represent the states every party won. . Red is associated to the Republican Party and blue to the Democratic Party. This is the opposite to the use of these colours in Europe, where red colour is associated to leftist parties and blue colour is associated to the conservative- rightist parties. Curiously, before 2000 several channels used red for the Democrats and blue for the Republicans, as we do in Europe.

Here you have two more links about this topic:

http://www.vox.com/2016/9/15/12926618/why-red-means-republican-and-blue-means-democrat

http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/6/3609534/republicans-red-democrats-blue-why-election

- This video explains why they vote on Tuesday. There is a campaign to move the voting day to a holiday, so that more people can vote:

- This is a video that explains the process of primary elections, where the USA citizens elect the candidates of each party:

- This video explains all the process to run for the presidential elections:

 - Here you have some short videos that explain the peculiar electoral system of the USA, with the importance of the electoral college:

Some videos to learn about the Enlightenment

These two videos  summarize the main features of Enlightenment and the main ideas of its most significant thinkers:

More Hispanic Baroque paintings

These are some more videos about the paintings the students have explained today:

Christ in the House of Mary and Martha, explained by Cristina:

And two links to learn more about the painting:

http://www.diego-velazquez.org/christ-in-the-house-of-martha-and-mary.jsp

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/diego-velazquez-christ-in-the-house-of-martha-and-mary

 The Waterseller of Seville, which was explained by Ana:

 

The Surrender of Breda, which was explained by Laura Ortiz:

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The Meninas, explained by Marcos:

 

 The Drunks, explained by Natalia:

 

The Forge of Vulcan, explained by Paula: 

And here you have some links for the rest of the paintings we analyzed:

The Martyrdom of Saint Philip (José de Ribera)


https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-martyrdom-of-saint-philip/a221ea0e-d38c-4018-be83-af9119458701


The Holy Family with a Little Bird (Murillo):

https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-holy-family-with-a-little-bird/8008380e-fef5-48b4-8caf-d78b810fb62c

The Martyrdom of Saint Serapion (Zurbarán):

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/monarchy-enlightenment/baroque-art1/spain/a/zurbarn-the-martyrdom-of-saint-serapion

Old Woman Cooking Eggs (Velázquez):

http://www.artble.com/artists/diego_velazquez/paintings/an_old_woman_cooking_eggs

The Jester Sebastián de Morra (Velázquez):

https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-buffoon-el-primo/cc7a8493-e2ff-4d33-a0d0-91d7dc210d5a

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Sebasti%C3%A1n_de_Morra

Christ on the Cross (Velázquez):  :

https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-crucified-christ/72cbb57e-f622-4531-9b25-27ff0a9559d7

The Toilet of Venus (Velázquez): :

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/diego-velazquez-the-toilet-of-venus-the-rokeby-venus

Pope Innocent X (Velázquez): :

http://www.artble.com/artists/diego_velazquez/paintings/portrait_of_pope_innocent_x

The Spinners (Velázquez):  :

https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-spinners-or-the-fable-of-arachne/3d8e510d-2acf-4efb-af0c-8ffd665acd8d

http://www.artble.com/artists/diego_velazquez/paintings/las_hilanderas

How to recognize Baroque art

This is a short video that gives the keys to recognize Baroque art, comparing it with Renaissance art, as we did in class:

 

Some videos about Rembrandt's masterpieces

The following videoa have been made by Khan Academy and explain some of Rembrandt's most famous paintings: 

The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Nicolaes Tulp:

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 The Shooting Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch, commonly known as The Night Watch:

   

 Rembrandt's Self-Portrait:

 

The Girl with the Pearl Earring

This short video explains why this Vermeer's painting is considered to be a masterpiece:

Here you have the trailer of the 2003 film inspired on the painting, where you can learn how Vermeer painted and the typical life in the city of Delft in the 17th century. You will see many of the paintings we have seen in class today:

 

Some videos about world climates

Here you have some videos to review world climates:

- This video explains the climate zones in the world, which are determined by the amount of solar radiation the different areas of the world receive. In this way, there are three climate zones: hot zone, temperate zone and polar zone. We use the lines of the tropics and the polar circles to separate these zones:

- This video summarizes the main types of climates in the world. Some names are different from the ones we use in Spain, but the explanation of the features is good: 

Some videos about the English Revolutions

Here you have some videos to review the English Revolutions:

- These are some scenes of the film Cromwell, that show the conflict between Charles I of England and the Parliament, the Civil War, the execution of the king and the establishment of the Republic, with Oliver Cromwell as the main figure:

- The English Civil War and the in three minutes: 

- A funny depiction of Charles II, the monarch who restored monarchy after Oliver Cromwell's, from Horrible Histories:

Here you have the lyrics, just in case you want to sing it at home: 

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/h/horrible+histories/charles+ii_20914075.html

- The Glorious Revolution and the Bill of the Rights:

- The Glorious Revolution in 3 minutes:

- And these are three videos from the BBC TV series Timelines: A History of Britain about the English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell and the "Glorious" Revolution. The last video is very interesting, because it focuses on the fact that those who led the 1689 changes in England didn't want a real change in society, but the preservation of their status, especially property:

Some videos about absolutism, Louis XIV and Versailles Palace

- Here you have a short overview on absolutism, focused on Louis XIV's example. At the end there are some other absolute monarchs, like Frederick II the Great of Prussia, Peter I of Russia and some late absolute monarch, like Emperor Franz Ferdinand II of Austria and tsar Nicholas II of Russia. 

   

 - This is another short video that explains the origins and use of the divine right of kings, which means that kings' power came from God and made them untouchable:

 

- And this is a BBC documentary about Louis XIV and his use of the Royal Palace of Versailles. This period of France's history is really well explained: 

- Finally you can have a look on Versailles dance parties with two scenes of the film Le roi danse and another one from the film Vatel: : 

A short video of the Thirty Years' War

This video summarizes the Thirty Years' War in three minutes. You can use it to review the contents we have studied today:

 

It's a New World (Horrible Histories

This is the video of the song we have watched today. The quality is not good, but the sound is acceptable.

   

 Add these are the lyrics, just in case you want to sing:

We're the pilgrim fathers 
You may have heard rather
A lot 'bout our notions
Crossing the ocean
On the good ship Mayflower
But it's true our journey 
Turned into quite a commotion.

People report that we sported these hats
But that's not true, I mean, would you?
Anyway the main thing to say
We began the USA
Our little band of religion fans
From the East Midlands.

We all believed slowly 
That England was becoming less holy
So set off for Holland
'Cos there we had friends 
But in the end seemed the Netherlands 
Would never be the land, we planned.

Couldn't stand to remain on that terrain
So again we rearranged 
To start a new nation with our congregation
A new and calmer life took a farmer and a builder and his wife
And a clerica, to find America.

Oh it's a new world 
It wasn't new to the natives 
Still we thought we'd claim it 
Yeah, it's the new world.

I still remember 9th of November
The year 1620 and we saw plenty of land
We thanked God when we found ground
I kept calm but it didn't go as planned.

Couldn't land on the sand 
A month later though, we made it
New Plymouth man, we claimed it
The natives said not
But ran when we shot.

Moved there it proved yeah
That life would be tough
'Cos we didn't have enough 
Of the right stuff.
Did you know had no seeds we could grow 
Although William Mullins had stacked
126 pairs of shoes in his pack
Now that's whack.

A fishing rod, a plough, 
A pig, or a cow 
Would have been a much better idea
But now there's no food for us to eat
Does this mean that we'll meet with de feet!

No fun in the new world 
I'm glad we've arrived here 
But will we survive here
Yeah, in the new world.

People were staving 
Our numbers halving
And when the winter winds blew
Even fewer live through
It wasn't pretty in our new city
But the natives took pity even though
They didn't have to.

Man called Squanto
Showed us how to grow maize
Catch eel for a meal
Chopped up in the baze
Tribe gave us a feast 
Our starvation ceased
In 1621 what they had done
Turned us back from the dead
To the living and to this day
That's why we have thanks-giving.

In Massachusetts built a colony it's true
They say modern America was founded by our crew 
It's a new world 
But we can't call it England 
Let's call it New England
Yeah, in the world.

My home was in Plymouth
Lets call it New Plymouth
I got an idea let's call this New Hampshire
Wait I'm from Newcastle
Can we call it New Newcastle?
Nah! 
It's a new world.

The song is a parody of Empire State of Mind , by Jay Z and Alicia Keys. This is the link to the original song:

Renaissance art videos

This project was made by 3rd ESO students and they had to explain some important art works of the Renaissance style. They worked in groups of 3-4 students too:


 - By Cristina García, Carlos Herencia and Beatriz Olivares

 

- By Paula Manzaneque, Laura Ortiz, Ángela Bustamante and Sergio Olivares

   

 - By Sergio Alarcos, Mª Antonia Costea and Marta Huertas

 

 - By Chaoyi Lin, Laura Quintanar and Elena Violero

   

 - By Mª Rosa Amores, Rubén González, Ángel Villafranca and Cristina Naranjo

 

 - By Daniel Martínez de la Hidalga, Marcos J. Manzanares, Elena Abad and Silvia Alberca

 

Press conferences with important figures of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation

This was a project made by the 3rd ESO students in June. In groups of 3-4 students they had to prepare a press conference and ask questions to one of the main figures of the Protestant Reformation and the Counter-Reformation. In some of these interviews there were some snoop journalists who asked inappropriate questions. 

- INTERVIEW TO POPE LEO X (Chaoyi Lin, Laura Quintanar and Elena Violero)

 

- INTERVIEW TO MARTIN LUTHER (Elena Abad, Silvia Alberca, Daniel Martínez de la Hidalga and Marcos J. Manzanares)

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- INTERVIEW TO JOHN CALVIN (Mª Rosa Amores, Rubén González, Ángel Villafranca and Cristina Naranjo)

- INTERVIEW TO HENRY VIII (Sergio Olivares, Ángela Bustamante, Laura Ortiz and Paula Manzaneque)

- INTERVIEW TO EMPEROR CHARLES V (Mª Antonia Costea, Marta Huertas and Sergio Alarcos)

- INTERVIEW TO POPE PIUS IV (Jesús Herencia, Cristina García and Beatriz Olivares)

This group had problems to work together, so they made two different interviews:

 

Videos about some events of the High and Late Middle Ages

This project was made by 2nd ESO students. They worked in groups of 3 to 5 and prepared videos to explain some events of the High and Late Middle Ages. The contents of the videos were about some specific topics of the political and religious history of Europe in the High and Late Middle Ages:

The students prepared the scripts and drawings in class and recorded  and edited the videos at home. 

Here you have some examples: 

THE INVESTITURE CONTROVERSY AND THE GREAT WESTERN SCHISM 


 - By Nadia Charqi, Sara García, Fran Rosado and Pablo Castillo

   

 - By Héctor Alberca, Laura Lucerón and Miguel Violero

 

 THE CRUSADES

 - By Juan Diego Alcolado, Lidia Utrilla, Andrea Molina, José mIguel Villacañas and Jesús Manzanares)

 

- By José Manuel Pérez, Óscar Olmedo, Isabel Marcos-Alberca and Jesús Vaquero

   

  THE BLACK DEATH 

- By David Panadero, Silvia González Alberca, Manuel Iniesta and Verónica Simionca)

   

 - By Mireia Panadero, Álex Ruiz and Hilario Barrios

   

  THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR 

 - By Malena Ruiz, Mark Eduard Zegrean, Fernando Pintado and Marta Medina

 - By Fran Merino, Ángel Garrigós and Belén Ucendo

   

  THE WAR OF THE TWO ROSES 

- By Elia Bravo, Vicente Sánchez-Gil, Carlos Ruiz and Ana Nieves Violero

   

 - By José Manuel Quirós, Pablo Honrubia, Jaime Sánchez and Natacha Olivares