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EdTech Tuesday: Hopscotch
Start your class out with some kid-friendly coding! Jennifer and Rich present Hopscotch, an app that asks learners to play around and create code to animate fun characters.
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EdTech Tuesday: Polldaddy
Looking for an easy way to create surveys or polls for your pupils or colleagues? This might be just the app for you! Watch as Jennifer and Rich walk you through how to set up an account, get started with your survey, check out your...
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EdTech Tuesday: Padlet
Need a way to organize digital resources and make them easily accessible to students? Jennifer and Rich have you covered. Taking a look at a free virtual bulletin board service called Padlet, they explore how this tool allows educators...
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EdTech Tuesday: A Class Set of Chromebooks with Veronica Tadeo
Middle school teacher Veronica Tadeo discusses her successes using Chromebooks, Kidblog, and other online software and web pages to differentiate instruction for her English language learners.
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EdTech Tuesday: Make Beliefs Comix
An iPad, a free app, or a free website are all kids need to create comic strips that tell stories, recount events, or express feelings. Rich and Jennifer discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the app, as well as model how to use this...
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EdTech Tuesday: Becoming a Lead Learner with Todd Nesloney
How is a fifth-grade teacher with no administrative experience planning to transform a low socioeconomic school as its principal or "lead learner" using project-based learning?
TED-Ed
How a Few Scientists Transformed the Way We Think About Disease
During the first few sniffles of a cold, you can't help wondering where you picked up the illness. Watch an Ed Ted video that details the difference between miasma theory and germ theory, and the ways that Dr. John Snow's research...
Google
Be Positive
Be the solution to the problems you see in the world! Middle schoolers watch a short video from Google and learn the importance of contributing to a positive Internet community, rather than being a part of the negativity.
TED-Ed
Epic Engineering: Building the Brooklyn Bridge
Sometimes bridge building is a family business. An enlightening video describes the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge and the engineering principles behind suspension bridges. Viewers also learn about the people who led the project,...
TED-Ed
Will Future Spacecraft Fit in Our Pockets?
Say goodbye to giant rocket ships and hello to micro-spacecraft. Taking a look at the future of space exploration, this video explores the development of tiny, expendable space probes that can investigate the far reaches of space and...
Crash Course Kids
What's an Engineer?
What is an engineer? Find out in a brief video that explores types of engineers and the three essential questions every engineer asks and answers. Additionally, pupils discover real world engineers that have made an impact on life today,...
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Chemistry Lesson: Acid-Base Neutralization Reactions
Provide your emerging chemists with the most descriptive way to perform specialized double displacement reactions possible! This video details acid-base neutralization, where acids and bases are combined to result in salt and water...
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EdTech Tuesday: iPad vs Chromebook
If you're faced with the difficult choice between an iPad mini and a Chromebook for personal and professional use, this video is a must-see.
Curated OER
Place Value 2
Viewing this Khan Academy video helps with grasping the concept of Place Value. Learners write the word six hundred forty-five million, five hundred eight-four thousand, four hundred sixty-two in standard form, using multiplication as a...
The Great War
The Red Baron - Manfred von Richthofen
Now a legend, Manfred von Richtofen was the original Flying Ace. The Red Baron eventually was shot down by the Allies, but not before the German pilot revolutionized warfare with his circus-like stunts. An informative video biography...
TED-Ed
A Call to Invention: DIY Speaker Edition
Can you build a homemade speaker out of a potato chip? Bestselling author and do-it-yourself expert William Gurstelle shows you how in his brief presentation at TEDYouth 2012. He encourages young people to be creative and explore science...
Periodic Videos
Gold and Casio Watch
A piece of gold walks into a classroom and the teacher says, "Au, get out." Observe the process of gold plating a cheap watch to better understand the properties of gold. Throughout the experiment, the professor shares the history, uses,...
California Academy of Science
How Do We Meet the Growing Need for Water?
Some aquifers took thousands of years to collect water, yet they have been depleted in only a hundred years. Viewers learn about where humans use water and the serious concerns for the future of the water supply in the second of 10...
Crash Course Kids
The Engineering Process
The process that brought us items, such as the telephone and air conditioner was no easy task. In this upbeat video, scholars gain insight to the steps engineers take to create, design, and build a final product.
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Chemistry Lesson: Unit Analysis (Unit Conversions)
An informative video offers detailed instruction of the proper way to convert between different units in the English and metric systems. Additionally, it provides an explanation of how to handle significant digits and when this process...
Crash Course Kids
Let's Fly!
Engineers think up multiple solutions to the problems they face, but how do they find the best solution? In this video, examine the process engineers take to discover the most appropriate choice to solve problems, and revisit the...
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Chemistry Lesson: Mole Calculations I
Do your pupils already have knowledge of moles and mass? If so, this is the next step for the chemistry classroom. The video segment, while short in length, is filled with demonstrations on how to perform mole calculations involving both...
Crash Course Kids
Fixing Failure Points
How do engineers find and fix failure points in a solution they're trying to develop? This is the driving question of an informative and entertaining video. Here, future engineers discover why it is important to fail when testing a...
SciShow
Why We Age - And How We Can Stop It
As we get older, we age, our bodies and minds deteriorate, but this isn't true of all species. The video begins with why we age and what biological processes cause aging. Then it covers research on worms, mice, and other animals that...