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Instructional Video8:47
Crash Course

The Cinematographer

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
Cranes, dollies, steadicams, and special lenses. Viewers focus on the world of the cinematographer with the eighth episode of a playlist on film production. The video details the various responsibilities of the Directory of...
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Instructional Video9:32
Crash Course

To Film School or Not To Film School

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
Conservatory approach or liberal arts film approach? Or self-taught? That is the question prospective filmmakers must decide when considering a film school. A helpful video ponders whether it's better to study a single craft within the...
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Instructional Video10:16
Crash Course

World Cinema Part One

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
Hollywood is the place to go if you want to make movies—right? Not necessarily. A fascinating video about the history of 20th century Asian cinema discusses the reflections of Japanese culture in the works of directors Yasujiro Ozu,...
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Instructional Video9:54
Crash Course

World Cinema Part Two

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
Explore the rich history of African, Middle Eastern, and South American cinema with a video summary of the most prominent filmmakers from these regions in the 20th and 21st centuries. It discusses Egyptian filmmakers Asmaa El-Bakry and...
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Instructional Video10:21
Crash Course

Experimental and Documentary Films

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
Some of the boldest films in history have been documentaries or experimental films. Explore non-narrative cinema and its avant-garde techniques with a short video about a creative faction in film history. Additionally, the video...
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Instructional Video9:57
Crash Course

The Filmmaker's Army

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
The movies and television shows we enjoy always look effortlessly professional, but the truth is, the work involved in film production is anything but effortless. A thorough video on film production explains the departments below the...
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Instructional Video8:42
Crash Course

Producers

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
Everyone knows that films have producers, but not everyone knows exactly what a producer does. An informative video explains what an executive producer, line producer, senior producer do, who can end up with an honorary producer credit,...
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Instructional Video8:44
Crash Course

The Director

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
Who's the most important person on a film set? The legendary actor? The influential producer? The head electrician? Or the person who needs to understand the roles of all three? A Crash Course video on film production focuses...
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Instructional Video9:55
Crash Course

Marketing

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
If you've ever been convinced to see a movie because of a compelling trailer, intriguing poster, or positive review, you have the film marketing industry to thank! Learn more about the ways marketing executives attract audiences to...
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Instructional Video8:39
Crash Course

Grip and Electric

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
Gorgeous cinematography is the result of painstaking, detail-oriented work by many different departments of a film production. An informative video shines a light on the grip and electric departments, the ways they use filters, gels, and...
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Instructional Video6:41
PBS

Untangling the Devil's Corkscrew

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
How did scientists unravel the mystery of an ancient beaver species? An engaging video from a well-written biology playlist discusses the discovery of strange spiral fossils found in Nebraska farm country. Junior paleontologists examine...
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Instructional Video10:26
Crash Course

German Expressionism: Crash Course Film History #7

For Students 8th - 12th
The seventh episode in the a film history playlist takes a close look at the rise and fall of German cinema of the post-World War I period. The narrator uses The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and its expressionistic use of mise-en-scene to...
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Instructional Video11:03
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Crash Course

Media Skills: Crash Course Media Literacy #11

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
Did you realize that Internet access is a basic human right? For those of us fortunate to have online access, it's essential to have media smarts! Discover the five skills to be media savvy during an engaging video. The host discusses...
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Instructional Video12:18
Be Smart

How Some Words Get Forgetted

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
There's nothing regular about them—irregular verbs turn out to be the most common verbs in the English language. Through an analysis of data, learners discover that Zipf's Law describes the patterns of word usage. 
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Instructional Video6:06
Curated OER

How Do You Compare Two Whole Numbers?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Two very similar numbers and you have to figure out which one is larger. The teacher diagrams a place value chart and shows you how to write the two numbers to make a comparison.
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Instructional Video4:27
TED-Ed

The Mathematics of History

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Is there a relationship between mathematics and history? In this video, Jean-Baptiste Michel explains how our technological advancements will afford many opportunities for mathematics to play an integral role in revealing key trends in...
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Instructional Video3:03
Curated OER

How Do You Solve a Decimal Inequality Using Subtraction?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Isolate the variable to solve any equation. This equation happens to be an inequality but is solved no different than if it were just an equation. Use the subtraction property of inequality to solve this given problem. The numbers are...
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Instructional Video5:30
Curated OER

How Do You Compare Two Whole Numbers?

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Two very similar numbers and you have to figure out which one is larger. The teacher diagrams a place value chart and shows you how to write the two numbers to make a comparison.
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Instructional Video11:26
TED-Ed

Don't Misrepresent Africa

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
"We can sharpen our insights. It is not always war, insurrection, and disease." Leslie Dodson enlightens us to the impact that photographs have on our perception of a situation, and urges her audience to review our "ethics of...
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Instructional Video10:09
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Crash Course

Integrals

For Students 9th - 12th
How can you best teach your class to gauge distance when several other key factors are already in place? Pupils learn to use integrals to determine distance from a problem that includes multiple other key points of information....
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Instructional Video10:06
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Crash Course

Vectors and 2-D Motion

For Students 9th - 12th
Continue the journey into the world of physics as you lead your class on a winding road complete with vectors and scalers. Pupils learn more about motion, direction, and velocity as they use these concepts to explore two- and...
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Instructional Video11:04
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Crash Course

Newton's Laws

For Students 9th - 12th
Who was Sir Newton and why are his laws so important today? Young scientists find the answer to this question as they explore Newton's Laws through the dynamic video segment. Pupils take part in a discussion and piece together the...
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Instructional Video9:54
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Crash Course

Uniform Circular Motion

For Students 9th - 12th
Round and round and round you go! Lead the way as your class explores centrifugal force, the fictitious force responsible for an abundance of activities performed by individuals every day. They discuss the correlation between centripetal...
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Instructional Video6:22
TED-Ed

Forget Shopping. Soon You'll Download Your New Clothes

For Students 7th - 12th
Zounds! 3-D printed clothes? With the advent of 3-D printers, the unimaginable has become the manageable. Check out these clothes, designed by Danit Peleg, and created on a 3-D printer.

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