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EngageNY

Analyzing Main Ideas and Details: Why Care about Water?

For Teachers 7th Standards
Pay attention to details! After completing text-dependent questions about paragraphs 10-12 of "Water is Life," scholars view the video "Why Care about Water. "They view the video three times and use a Main Idea and Details note-catcher...
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Unit Plan22:14
University of Florida

Understanding Car Crashes: It's Basic Physics!

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Make an impact on young physicists with this fun collection of resources. After first watching a video and taking notes on the physics of car crashes, students go on to complete a series of activities that explore the concepts of energy,...
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Pre-Columbian America

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed Standards
What was life like in America before Christopher Columbus discovered the New World? Scholars investigate life in the Americas through the eyes of Native Americans in the first lesson of a 22-part series covering America's history. Using...
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State Bar of Texas

McCullough v. Maryland

For Teachers 8th Standards
Can a state government tax the federal government? The Supreme Court case McCullough v. Maryland explores different governments in the United States. Scholars research the court's decision with a video and discussion. They formulate...
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Council for Economic Education

Employment Data: Is the Economy Healthy?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Low unemployment is an indicator of a healthy economy—right? Current employment data and research leads scholars on a quest to find the true health of the economy. They analyze research on Payroll Employment Data and watch a short video...
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Curated Video

Detecting Lies & Harmful Links

For Teachers 7th - 12th
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 life.
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PBS

What Are the Primaries and Caucuses?

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
What are the essential differences between primaries and caucuses? As part of a study of the process by which Americans select their candidates for US president, class members examine the nominating process, the changes that have...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Unknown Angle Proofs—Proofs of Known Facts

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Lead the class in a Greek history instructional activity with a geometric twist. Pupils relate a short video about geometric properties to modern-day methods of solving for unknown angles. They discuss parallel line theorems and complete...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Modeling Video Game Motion with Matrices 2

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
The second day of a two-part lesson on motion introduces the class to circular motion. Pupils learn how to incorporate a time parameter into the rotational matrix transformations they already know. The 24th installment in the 32-part...
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Columbus City Schools

Asexual and Sexual Reproduction

For Students 8th Standards
Can you name a type of reproduction that produces no variation in the offspring? The multimedia lesson covers both sexual and asexual reproduction through videos and discussions. It includes topics such as genetic modification, meiosis,...
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Interactive
British Council

Hamlet

For Students 10th - 12th
Introduce language learners to William Shakespeare's Hamlet with an interactive that presents a short, animated version of key scenes from the tragedy. Also included is a game where pupils match the image of a character with their name,...
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Interactive
Arcademics

Capital Penguin

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Hop across the country like a penguin from ice floe to ice floe using an interactive video game. Acting as a penguin, learners match capitals to their states. Game features allow teachers to set up competitions and check learning progress.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Video Streaming

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Your movie fans will be interested in this resource. They will compare video streaming plans. One plan charges a set rate per month and a reduced viewing fee, and the other has a flat rate per each video viewed. Unfortunately, students...
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Curated OER

Physical Education: Video Snapshots

For Teachers K - 5th
Physical education classes share the skills they have explored using photographs and videos. The projects can be filled with teacher-made films of learners engaged in different activities. Each picture or video should include a caption...
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TED-Ed

Bringing a Pop-up Book to Life

For Students 3rd - 9th Standards
Breath life into the pages of a text with this instructional video on creating pop-up books. From choosing a topic, through the planning and creation phases, this video examines how to develop engaging visual presentations that reach out...
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NPR

Communicate the Solution

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Communication is key. Scholars produce videos to highlight their engineering solutions to the plastic problem in the ninth installment of the series of 10. Feedback from other groups lets them improve the videos.
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Pulitzer Center

International Aid and Fragile States

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
"States suffering from internal conflict, weak infrastructures, lack of economic development, and general instability are emerging as a large threat to the international security." What factors contribute to the creation of a fragile...
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TED-Ed

How Languages Evolve

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Do all languages have a common ancestor? Although no one yet knows the answer to that big question, the narrator of this short, animated video explains how linguists use migration patterns, geological features, and word clues to...
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Lesson Plan4:38
TED-Ed

A Brief History of Religion in Art

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Did you know that some languages have no word for art? The English language does and the narrator of this short video discusses the aesthetic dimension of religious art as it "visually communicates meaning beyond language." 
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Curated OER

The Arabic Alphabet - Chart

For Students 9th - 12th
An interactive Arabic alphabet? Awesome! Language learners can click on any letter to watch a video that shows how to write and pronounce that particular character. Use the menu along the left side to view additional videos for other...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Graphs of Exponential Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What does an exponential pattern look like in real life? After viewing a video of the population growth of bacteria, learners use the real-life scenario to collect data and graph the result. Their conclusion should be a new type of graph...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Graphs of Quadratic Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
How high is too high for a belly flop? Learners analyze data to model the world record belly flop using a quadratic equation. They create a graph and analyze the key features and apply them to the context of the video.
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Bill of Rights Institute

Interstate Commerce and the Constitution

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Who had power over trade in the early days of the United States? Who has power now? Viewers investigate the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution. Using an AP Exam review video, learners examine issues surrounding authority...
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AP Test Prep4:58
Bill of Rights Institute

The Gilded Age, Robber Barons and the Rise of Big Business

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Survival of the fittest! Scholars investigate an AP review video to discover the era of big business during the Gilded Age. Viewers examine the place of Robber Barons in society and its impact on the workforce in America. This is the...

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