Instructional Video
National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation: Green Revolution

3rd - 8th
Videos on different forms of alternative energy and various green initiatives, e.g., green roofs.
Instructional Video
Other

Ki Cubed: I Squared: A Different Way of Learning and Thinking

3rd - 8th
Imagine what students can accomplish in high school and beyond when they have been learning in a collaborative, real world, standards based environment throughout their elementary and middle school years! See what project-based learning...
Instructional Video
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Science Education Center: Fired Up About Energy

3rd - 8th
Did you ever want to see inside your student's minds while you are teaching a concept? Through this video, you can see the common assumptions student's hold about energy and how you can build on these ideas to explain the Law of...
Instructional Video
CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Magnetic Levitation

3rd - 5th
A video discussing how magnetics could be used to produce levitation. [4:53]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Arithmetic and Pre Algebra: Adding and Subtracting Fractions

3rd - 8th Standards
This video shows how to add and subtract fractions with like and unlike denominators. Practice problems are available. [9:49]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Geometry: Measuring Angles in Degrees

4th - 8th Standards
Explains how to measure an angle in degrees using a protractor. Defines acute, right, and obtuse angles. Practice problems available. [8:22]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Arithmetic and Pre Algebra: Decimal Place Value 2

4th - 6th Standards
This video shows how to write a decimal in word form, using place value concepts. Practice problems are available. [3:31]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Measuring Length Precisely

3rd - 8th
In this Cyberchase video segment, the CyberSquad must measure the length of the rope that will lower Digit from the ceiling to remove the voice box from a statue of Hacker.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Designing a Paper Bridge

3rd - 8th
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members make a bridge from a single piece of paper. Will it be strong enough to hold a hundred pennies? [3:41]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Building Simple Machines: Plant Quencher

3rd - 8th
In this video segment from ZOOM, Jillian explains how her simple machine uses marbles, levers, flowing sand, and a spinning wheel to water a plant. [1:16]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Designing a Roller Coaster

3rd - 5th
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, the cast is challenged to design and test a roller coaster with loops, hills, and U-turns. [4:21]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Raven Story

3rd - 8th
This video, adapted from material provided by the ECHO partners, portrays one telling of the story, "How Raven Gave Light to the World", a creation myth often told by the Tlingit.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Common Sense Education: Strategic Searching: Lesson Plan

5th - 8th Standards
Learn how to search the web effectively and efficiently in this lesson plan from Common Sense Education. How can students search the web so that the results are reliable, safe, and factual? Use the step-by-step tutorial in this resource...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Emperor's New Clothes: Guided View

5th
Broccoli, the Emperor's loyal assistant, goes behind the scenes of this modern retelling of The Emperor's New Clothes and examines each character's traits and motivations. This video is for parents and teachers to watch without children...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Rumpelstiltskin: Guided Viewing

4th - 5th
The Miller's Daughter offers behind-the-scenes in this modern retelling of Rumpelstiltskin. This video is for parents and teachers to watch without children to learn valuable tips and tricks such as discussion questions, pausing points,...
Instructional Video
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Adding and Subtracting Decimals Word Problems

4th - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This is a video that shows how to solve both an addition and subtraction problem with decimals.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Kids: Animations: What Is a Series Circuit?

3rd - 8th
Narrated animation that visually explains how wiring a set of batteries in series increases voltage. (30 secs) Uses Quicktime.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Kids: Animations: How Does a Blimp Float?

3rd - 8th
Narrated animation that visually explains how the air displaced by a blimp causes a buoyant force that gives the blimp lift. (30 secs)
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Kids: Animations: How Does a Lever Work?

3rd - 8th
PBS Kids: Animations: How Does a Lever Work?
Instructional Video
University of Massachusetts

University of Massachusetts: Aesop's Fables: The Hare With Many Friends

2nd - 5th Standards
Click through two traditional retellings of Aesop's fable "The Hare with Many Friends" to learn the difference between having a lot of friends and having good friends. The first story has literal illustrations, while the second has...
Instructional Video
Science for Kids

Science Kids: Human Body Videos: Circulatory System

5th - 9th
Narrated animation showing how the heart and the circulatory system transport blood throughout the body. (Length: 1 min. 8 sec.)
Instructional Video
Science for Kids

Science Kids: Earth Videos: Fun Volcano Song

3rd - 5th
Sing along to this music video to help learn vocabulary for the study of volcanoes, while watching volcanic eruptions at the same time. (Length: 1 min. 57 sec.)
Instructional Video
Science for Kids

Science Kids: Experiment Videos: Proving Co2 Is Heavier Than Air

5th - 9th
Check out this cool science experiment video to see proof that carbon dioxide is heavier than air. [1:12]
Instructional Video
Science for Kids

Science Kids: Experiment Videos: When a Balloon Won't Pop

2nd - 8th
Watch this video and see the difference water can make as it absorbs the heat from the flame before the balloon can pop. [3:48]