Curated Video
Policy - The Community Guidelines
Following a site's community guidelines is just one step toward being an excellent digital citizen. After a brief introductory video, small groups come up with their own community guidelines and present their ideas to come up with a...
Curated Video
Privacy Part 2
Why is online privacy so important? Explore privacy with a group assignment for which pupils create word clouds with words they associate with privacy. A discussion and online activity follow. Learners will read articles, explore the...
Curated Video
Copyright
Introduce your class to the concept of copyright with a series of activities. Pupils first learn about copyright laws and fair use, putting their knowledge to the test with a quick categorizing task. They then watch a video and answer...
Curated Video
Detecting Lies & Harmful Links
Who and what can you trust online? How do you know? After viewing a pair of introductory videos on positive and safe online conduct, learners discuss the content and put it into practice during an online search activity about alien...
Macat
An Introduction to Edmund Gettier's Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?
Teenagers are at the perfect age to start holding strong beliefs and opinions—and to explore whether those beliefs are the same as having knowledge. A short video analysis of Edmund Gettier's paper "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?"...
Geography Now
Geography Now! Mexico
While Mexico often gets bad press for its drug cartels, the video is a limited version of the multi-faceted country. It's ranked by the UN as one of the hardest-working countries in the world based on hours and is home to bountiful...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Good Thinking!: Falling 101
Watch this professional development video to help prepare lessons so that students can understand about gravity, inertia. and air resistance. [9:51]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Grand Canyon: Conservation and Development
This video segment adapted from NOVA explores the effects of the Glen Canyon Dam on the beaches, wildlife, and vegetation of the Colorado River.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Abby and Elmo: Just Jump
Abby is frustrated because she can't jump rope. Elmo offers to help her, but he has just as much trouble, causing him to get frustrated too. They decide to jump without the rope until they learn how to properly jump rope. This resource...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Healthy Eating: Family Gardens
In this video, Samuel Davis (age 11, Louisiana) describes his use of garden vegetables in his Healthy Lunchtime Challenge winning recipe for Sam's Southern Savoring Salmon Supreme (S5). Sam shows off his family's backyard garden, where...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Good Thinking!: Sending "Learning Styles" Out of Style
Learn how teaching to a student's "learning styles" may not be an effective classroom practice in this video. [7:16]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Good Thinking!: Attack the Knack
This video will help science teachers explore students' motivations in science. Also explored is how feedback can be given to students in a constructive way. [7:40]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Good Thinking!: Make It Rain!
Become more effective in the classroom by watching this video on the common misconceptions student have about the weather, the water cycle, and phase changes. [8:40]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Computer Science: Operating Systems
So, as you may have noticed from last episode, computers keep getting faster and faster, and by the start of the 1950s they had gotten so fast that it often took longer to manually load programs via punch cards than to actually run them!...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Computer Science: Intro to Algorithms
Algorithms are the sets of steps necessary to complete computation - they are at the heart of what our devices actually do. And this isn't a new concept. Since the development of math itself, algorithms have been needed to help us...
Other
Youtube: Creative Arts Alumni: Carmen Lomas Garza
Carmen Lomas Garza is an artist who creates her pieces to reflect the Mexican American community and encourage and develop literacy. Garza has a school named after her for her contribution to arts and education. [4:54]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Making Sure Facilities & Furniture Support Your Educational Model
This video [15:53] focuses on the facilities and furniture to support your educational model: Four ideas on space: start with desired outcome; bigger, more flexible learning spaces inside leaner, greener schools; stuck in existing space,...
Other
Axelson Academy: Speaking Audibly and Expressing Oneself in Kindergarten
This video gives tips for teachers to help teach students to speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly. [1:13]
