Ken Burns' documentary, The Address, traces students from a school who are studying Lincoln's Gettysburg Address for meaning. How was this school capable of stirring students' curiostity about the famous speech? [1:01:56]

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...

Crazy claims and sketchy science reporting dilutes the public's understanding of science, which can have some big consequences, especially when it comes to our health and environment. How can we make solid decisions--like how to vote,...

How do you know if an online image is real or not? This video [2:23] from Common Sense Education provides useful guidance on using reverse image search on Google.

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...

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,...

In this video [3:24] from the American Masters film Novel Reflections on the American Dream, learn about F. Scott Fitzgerald and his notorious fictional character Jay Gatsby. Both were in the pursuit of the American dream and love....

Meet F. Scott Fitzgerald's iconic character Jay Gatsby in this video from the American Masters film Novel Reflections on the American Dream. Learn about the spectacle of Gatsby, the techniques the author uses to present Gatsby, and the...

In this video [3:06] from the American Masters film Novel Reflections on the American Dream, see the quest for the American dream as depicted in John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath." Follow the Joad family as they search for work and...

Get an introduction to Gish Jen's novel "Typical American" to explore the American dream through the eyes of a Chinese immigrant. The video [5:12] from the American Masters film Novel Reflection on the American Dream, introduces the...

A video where students share their place-based project and its affect on the Rapid Restoration of the Grand River and downtown Grand Rapids. [3:54]

A video reviewing over the internal anatomy of a male dogshark. [2:36]

A video of a dissection of a dogfish. Review over the anatomy of the dogfish in this video. [21:23]

Review over the external anatomy of a dogfish with this video. [13:12]

Last week we covered multiple star systems, but what if we added thousands or even millions of stars to the mix? A star cluster. [10:21]

Today we are talking about the life-and death-of stars. Low mass stars live a long time, fusing all their hydrogen into helium over a trillion years. More massive stars like the Sun live shorter lives. They fuse hydrogen into helium, and...

Out past Neptune are vast reservoirs of icy bodies that can become comets if they get poked into the inner solar system. The Kuiper Belt is a donut-shaped region beyond the planets that is aligned with the plane of the solar system. The...

John Green teaches you about the presidency of Andrew Jackson. Jackson's election was more democratic than any previous presidential election. More people were able to vote, and they picked a doozie. Jackson was a well-known war hero,...

Massive stars fuse heavier elements in their cores than lower mass stars. This leads to the creation of heavier elements up to iron. Iron robs critical energy from the core, causing it to collapse. The resulting supernova creates even...

Before moving on from Jupiter to Saturn, we're going to linger for a moment on Jupiter's moons. There are 67 known moons, and four huge ones that we want to explore in greater detail. Ganymede is the largest - larger, in fact, than any...

John Green teaches you about the War of 1812. The War of 1812 was fought between the United States and its former colonial overlord England. John will take you through the causes of the war, tell you a little bit about the fighting...

In which John Green teaches you about the United States in the 1920s. They were known as the roaring 20s, but not because there were lions running around everywhere. In the 1920s, America's economy was booming, and all kinds of social...

We complete our planetary tour with a review of the ice giants Uranus and Neptune. Both have small rocky cores, thick mantles of ammonia, water, and methane, and atmospheres that make them look greenish and blue. Uranus has a truly weird...

There are other planets out there, and astronomers have a lot of methods for detecting them. Nearly 2000 planets have been found so far. The most successful method for finding them is using transits, where a planet physically passes in...