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Backstage with Elmo: Heidi Klum
Elmo interviews Heidi Klum. He asks her about her favorite song and what makes her happy. They sing “The Itsy Bitsy Spider.”
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Backstage With Elmo: Jessica Alba
Elmo likes Brussels sprouts and Jessica Alba likes corn, salad, and corn. Jessica has three dogs and Elmo has a pet gold fish. It's fun to get to know a new friend. This friendly conversation could be a useful example.
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Backstage With Elmo: Jenny McCarthy
Elmo sings the song, “Twinkle, Twinkle Litter Star” with Jenny McCarthy. Elmo asks Jenny about her favorite instrument and what makes her happy. This video could be helpful when introducing friendly questions to young ELD students.
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One of These Things: Shoes
Four red shoes are featured in this video, which has viewers identify which item doesn't belong. This is a great film to show before a lesson on classification.
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Feijoo Sisters: Pirouette
Grover and the Feijoo sisters explain what a pirouette means. The sisters do pirouettes to show what the word means. Grover isn't as successful when he tries one himself. This is a terrific way to get your class excited about language.
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Rhyming Day
Grover creates rhymes to go with a customer's order in this entertaining video. Viewers will love to watch as Grover figures out which words rhyme. It can lead to a lesson on this topic.
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Elmo's Bus: Part 2
Here's Elmo and his bus again! This time he explains fast and slow. First he drives his bus slowly, then he drives it very fast. Unfortunately, going too fast ends in a disaster for poor Elmo.
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Salty & Pierre: Number 5
In this video, Salty and Pierre, French inspectors, search for the number five. They look in a doghouse and encounter the number and the dog. This film could be used to kick off a lesson on numbers from zero to five.
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Miss Selle's Science Songs - 8 Phases and I Know 'Em (LMFAO Parody)
What a fun way to learn! Middle schoolers will love this short video that teaches all about the eight phases of the moon. The video features lyrics set to a catchy tune that's sure to appeal to this age group. As the song plays, lyrics...
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Miss Selle's Science Songs - You Know All Your Variables (One Direction Parody)
Introduce middle school scientists to scientific variables and the scientific method with a musical video. The song is a delightful parody of One Direction's "What Makes You Beautiful." It belts out the definitions of controlled,...
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Miss Selle's Science Songs - Gravity
Young scientists will enjoy this delightful video that illustrates the role gravity plays in our solar system. Lyrics set to a snappy tune explain that the force of gravity is what holds us to the earth and keeps planets orbiting around...
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Miss Selle's Science Songs - Water Cycle Song (Red Solo Cup Parody)
From condensation, transpiration, and evaporation to infiltration, percolation, and precipitation, this video covers it all! Middle schoolers will love the lyrics and lively visual representations that combine to tell the story of the...
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Miss Selle's Science Songs - Plate Tectonics
Middle school scientists will think you're the coolest teacher on the planet when you use this video to help them understand the basics of plate tectonics. The lyrics, compiled by science teacher Sue Selle, are played to the music from...
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Bill Nye The Science Guy on Outerspace
Give your gang a visual of scale, or help them to comprehend distances in space with this Bill Nye video. In it, he arranges a series of balls along the length of a soccer field using correct proportional distances from a soccer-ball...
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Bill Nye The Science Guy on Heat
A difficult-to-grasp concept, the fact that even cold objects contain heat energy, is the focus of this hot little video clip! Bill Nye tells physical science learners that heat is, by definition, the motion of molecules. He compares the...
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Bill Nye The Science Guy on Light, Bending & Bouncing
Beam me up, Bill! Explore how beams of light behave when they strike flat and curved surfaces. Bill bends light using a nifty contraption that streams three beams through a straight and a curved piece of plastic. He also defines and...
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Bill Nye The Science Guy on Static Electricity
Shock viewers with this video clip about static electricity! Bill Nye sports a wacky wig and explains how electrons get stored up on the surface of a Van de Graff generator and then jump onto a metal ball. If you do not have your...
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STEMbite: 300 Billion Things
Just how much is 300 billion? There are supposedly this many stars in our skies! Mr. Vanden Heuvel calculates about how many blades of grass are in his lawn, but doesn't get close. Then he computes how many grains of sand there are in a...
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STEMbite: Bar Codes
Binary code is used to create an endless supply of barcodes. The narrator writes out the computation of how many bar codes are possible. Then he shows that we have come up with even more complex coding such as quick response (QR) code...
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STEMbite: Heat Transfer
Convection, conduction, and radiation are the three methods of heat transfer. Introduce them to your physical science students by showing this video. The emcee shows where each of these play a role in his kitchen and explains a bit about...
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STEMbite: Engaging Plants
The science teacher discusses features of weeds in his backyard and how their thorns are used by the plant to engage animals. Other methods that plants use to engage animals include appearance, scent, and the taste of their products. Mr....
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STEMbite: DNA Folding
Super short, but very visual, this video models how DNA can pack a tremendous amount of information in a tiny space. Andrew Vander Heuvel visits a farm museum where some young ladies are making rope. The final strand is six times shorter...
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STEMbite: DVD Players
Hear a complete explanation of how a DVD player works. Data is stored in the spiraling groove of a compact disc, and a laser follows the groove, reading the peaks and valleys as 1s and 0s. The teacher even explains the difference between...
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Bill Nye The Science Guy on the Food Web
Plants. We can't live without them! Bill Nye discusses how every living thing relies on plants using a concept called the food web. In a very visual demonstration, he ties a cord from one picture to another on a three-dimensional...