Instructional Video0:32
Sesame Street

Kids Talk About Games

Pre-K - K
Games are the feature of this film. Children share their favorite games in this short clip. This could be used before a lesson on games.
Instructional Video11:01
Crash Course

Mathematical Thinking: Crash Course Statistics #2

6th - 12th Standards
What is the probability that someone will draw the same lottery numbers two times in a row? Very small, but it can—and has—happened! Statisticians often work with very large or small numbers. The second lesson in a statistics playlist...
Instructional Video2:41
Curated OER

Chemical Magic - Think Ink!

7th - 10th
This is a classic chemical reaction to use in your science class. Starch and iodine mix to cause a color change. Discuss with aspiring chemists the chemical and physical changes that occur as you demonstrate.
Instructional Video0:29
Curated OER

One Of These Things

Pre-K - K
After looking at a group with three pairs of sunglasses and a hat, viewers have to identify which item doesn’t belong. As a critical thinking and classification activity, this video could be linked to a lesson on grouping objects.
Instructional Video0:49
Curated OER

Color My Day

Pre-K - K
Use this video to get children thinking about a series of events that can be turned into a picture story. They can view a little girl using art to tell the story of her day in the park.
Instructional Video8:46
Khan Academy

SAT Prep: Test 6 Section 3 Part 4

9th - 12th
The strength of this video lies in Sal's ability to immediately translate word problems to equations - a skill that might allow many SAT takers to have a better chance at finding the correct answer. If students watch him practice this...
Instructional Video5:15
Curated OER

Angles of Parallel Lines 2

9th - 10th
Providing an exploration of parallel lines, this resource requires students to not only practice calculations, but also to analyze angles. By asking viewers to decide whether two lines are parallel based upon the information given, this...
Instructional Video2:28
Curated OER

Floating Balls & Flying Toilet Paper

7th - 12th
A blow dryer and ping pong balls are all you need to demonstrate the amazing properties of air flow. In this demonstration, Spangler has a little boy as his assistant. Together, they make ping pong balls, a beach ball, and a roll of...
Instructional Video2:01
Curated OER

Hydrogen Bubbles - Exploding Bubbles

6th - 12th
The thinking, and science, behind hydrogen-powered cars is beautifully demonstrated in this episode. Spangler shows how, by itself, oxygen is not combustible. However, when some hydrogen gas is added, that changes! His assistant scoops...
Lesson Plan9:04
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TED-Ed

A Digital Reimagining of Gettysburg

9th - 12th
Why would Robert E. Lee order Pickett's Charge, an action that changed the course of the Civil War? Geographer and historian Anne Knowles uses digital technology to explain what she thinks is the missing piece in trying to understand...
Lesson Plan4:51
TED-Ed

The Colossal Consequences of Supervolcanoes

8th - 11th
The threat posed by super volcanoes is explored in a short video that reviews the destruction caused by Mount Tambora in 1815 and by Peru's Huaynaputina in 1600. Think it can't happen again? The narrator contends that the explosive...
Instructional Video12:24
Curated OER

Debt Loops Rationale and Effects

11th - Higher Ed
Now that scholars understand more of currency imbalance and artificially suppressed currency, Sal discusses motivations of the different actors. He briefly touches on the difficulty of unwinding a cycle like this once it has begun....
Instructional Video8:58
Curated OER

Flow Of Time, Part 4/4

9th - 12th
The conclusion of this excellent four-part series brings modern quantum mechanics and theoretical physics into the conversation of time. Coming full circle from the music employed as an allegory of time, we return to the piano,...
Instructional Video2:40
Curated OER

Union And Confederate Strengths

9th - 12th
What were the advantages the Union had over the Confederacy? What were the advantages the Confederacy had over the Union? Compare the advantages of each side, and discuss who you'd think would win the war based on the information...
Instructional Video3:42
Curated OER

Fossil Record Mystery

5th - 8th
Watch how paleontologists scour the Gobi Desert to find fossils that fill in a gap in the fossil record. How big did dinosaurs get during the Jurassic period? Get your class thinking about these questions and more with this short clip....
Instructional Video8:08
Curated OER

Greece - Age of Alexander the Great, Part 5/5

6th - 12th
The engineering legacy of Alexander the Great concludes with an examination of Ptolemy IÕs vision for the Great Museum and Library of Alexandria. A beacon for scholars of the world, the library housed the worldÕs first great think tank...
Instructional Video1:46
Curated OER

Good Study Habits

3rd - 8th
Good study habits will benefit your students throughout their lives. This video provides students with good tips and important factors to think about. Show this video to your students during a discussion about completing homework or...
Instructional Video3:27
TED-Ed

How Did Feathers Evolve?

7th - 12th
What do dinosaurs and modern birds have in common? More than you may think. See how scientists figured out the evolutionary relationship between these seemingly disparate animals. Additionally, discover how and why the feather evolved...
Instructional Video7:10
TV411

Steelworkers Write

7th - 12th Standards
"You write because you need to communicate to the world your place in it." Many don't see themselves as writers, don't think they have anything to write about. Here's a video featuring three steelworkers who took part in a writer's...
Instructional Video2:15
Brightstorm

The Product Rule

11th - Higher Ed
You'd think that the derivative of a product of two functions would be the product of their derivatives, but that's not the case! Viewers learn the Product Rule for differentiation in the concept video in the first installment of a...
Instructional Video8:18
SciShow

The Quest for Glueballs

9th - 12th Standards
"If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics." - Richard Feynman. The video describes how our current model of physics predicts glueballs, groups of gluons attached to each other. Gluons have no...
Instructional Video12:12
Crash Course

Introduction to Astronomy

6th - 12th Standards
We directly see only four percent of the universe. The video introduces astronomy and encourages viewers to think bigger. Starting with what science is and how we define astronomy, it then continues into the many ways astronomy has...
Instructional Video9:18
PBS

The Whole Saga of the Supercontinents

6th - 12th Standards
See the world as it was—and also how it will be! A riveting video from a vast biology and earth science playlist takes viewers back in time to see how supercontinents formed, broke apart, and formed again. The resource includes a sneak...
Instructional Video2:51
C-SPAN

On This Day: George Washington's Farewell Address

7th - 12th Standards
What would George Washington think about the current state of the United States? One needs to look no further than his Farewell Address, where he offered advice to the new nation. Curated videos include a reading of the address on the...