TED-Ed
Titan of Terror: The Dark Imagination of H.P. Lovecraft
Science fiction and horror story geeks will love a carefully crafted video about H.P. Lovecraft. Those new to the Cthulhu Mythos and "Lovecraftian" fiction are introduced to the Great Old Ones, Yog-Sothoth, and Azathoth.
TED-Ed
Can You Solve the Control Room Riddle?
Evil syndicates, secret control panels, death rays. As the country's top spy, it is your job to use the provided clues to find the hidden control room and deactivate the ray.
Teacher's Pet
DNA Replication
It takes about 800 hours to replicate an average-sized human chromosome of single linear DNA. The video introduces the concept of DNA replication. It briefly explains the concepts of leading strands and lagging strands.
Curated OER
Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey, Part 5 of 13
Part five of the 13-part series begins with a refutable argument stating that genetically, the ancient people of Australia were populated by the first African ancestors. Spencer Wells travels to India to find the link that bridges...
TED-Ed
The Science of Attraction
Chemical attraction? Yes! High schoolers will be fascinated by the science behind the romantic feelings. They may be surprised that the eyes act first, drawing us to take a closer look, and the nose acts next, sensing major...
Curated OER
Mad Men
A spoof on the television series, this Mad Men episode is a great way to discuss Social Studies. The characters experience anger, sadness, and happiness. It's a motivating way to cover this topic with students.
Curated OER
Hot! Hot! Hot!
Baby Bear shows how to sound out the word hot. He also illustrates its meaning. This is a creative way to introduce new Language Arts.
Sesame Street
Kids Talk: Making Friends
Making friends is an important part of the school experience. In this clip, children talk about how they make friends and what they do with these special people. Children will love exploring this topic.
Curated OER
Guess The Seasons
Fall, winter, spring, and summer are all of the seasons of the year. Can your class guess what seasons these Sesame Street characters are singing about throughout the video? Tip: Have children share their favorite characteristics of each...
Curated OER
Grover: Weather Monster
Grover the Weather Monster gives us the weather forecast. He focuses on different temperatures around the United States. Tip: After watching this video, ask your class what the weather is right now. Can they make a prediction about what...
Math & Learning Videos 4 Kids
Place Value Lesson
Support your place value instruction with an interactive, visual representation brought to you by a video that showcases the family of hundreds, tens, and ones.
TED-Ed
The Paradox of Value
Wants and needs are often dependent on certain situations individuals find themselves in. The paradox of value explains value as having two meanings based partly on human satisfaction and choice. Watch a video that discusses certain...
TED-Ed
What is a Vector?
A vector contains magnitude and direction. The video and associated questions introduce the class to vectors that are made up of scalars and displacement. Pupils read more about vectors to find them in real life and how they are used in...
American Chemical Society
Can I Still Eat This?
The United States sends 133 billion pounds of edible food to landfills every year. A lesson from the ACS Reaction series discusses the chemical reactions that cause food to change over time. Some reactions make food taste different while...
TED-Ed
How One Teenager Unearthed Baseball's Untold History
Discover how one young man made a major impact on a generation of individuals through simple dedication, consideration, and passion for something he loved. Cam Perron discusses how after writing letters to retired baseball players from...
TED-Ed
A Plant's-Eye View
Why is it important to look at the world from other species' points of view? Author Michael Pollan claims it is a way to reanimate the earth, realize Darwinian insights, and to take the food we need from the earth while healing it in the...
Sesame Street
Princess and the Elephant
Natalie Portman and Elmo put on a play and to show how to work together. They both want to be elephants so they work out a solution by changing the play. The video could be used as a way to discuss working out problems in the classroom,...
Sesame Street
Counting Bats with the Count: Four
Count the bats to find out today's number of the day. The Count counts three bats but nothing happens. He adds one more bat to the mix for a total of four, four wonderful bats. The number of the day is four.
TED-Ed
Can We Eat to Starve Cancer?
Is there an answer for cancer? Your AP biologists will be inspired by this lecture on how the foods that we eat stimulate or inhibit the growth of blood vessels, which in turn, bring health or disease to the human body. Research is...
Crash Course
War & Expansion
How did the United States come to acquire two of its largest states? Your class members will learn about the sequence of events that led to and immediately followed the acquisition of Texas and California, including the Mexican-American...
Crash Course
Crash Course Games: #15: Educational Games
This video focuses on educational games: Chess, Number Munchers, The Oregon Trail! Technically all games have an educational component because games are defined by their rules and players have to learn those rules to participate. But...
National Geographic Kids
National Geographic Kids: National Geographic for Little Kids
A delightful interactive site from National Geographic aimed at the younger preschool child! Fun yet educational games, videos, printouts, and more.
Other
Kids Educ Kids Educational Games: Technology for Kids: Communication: Contact
Thanks to technology, it's so easy to communicate with your friends. You could decide to have an ice cream party, and in seconds get in touch with everyone you know. [9:36]
Other
Wwo: World Without Oil
Video imagines the first 32 weeks of a global oil crisis. Educational and thought provoking. [7:03]