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Instructional Video2:56
SciShow

Is the Y Chromosome Disappearing?

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Bye bye, Y! Is the most fundamental difference between men and women slowly going away? Science scholars discover the story behind the ever-shrinking Y chromosome in an interesting human biology video. Topics covered include the function...
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Instructional Video3:45
C-SPAN

On This Day: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

For Students 7th - Higher Ed
How did the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire change modern working conditions? The engaging resource explains conditions that contributed to the tragic fire, the workers affected by it, and how it changed labor laws and working...
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Instructional Video15:15
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Crash Course

The 1960s in America

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Discover the incredible change and volatility that was 1960s America with an engaging, informative video. It begins with an extensive overview of pivotal moments during the civil rights movement and the subsequent shift toward militant...
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Instructional Video3:54
C-SPAN

On This Day: The Chicago Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903

For Students 7th - Higher Ed Standards
When sparks ignited a fire at the Iroquois Theatre in Chicago in 1903, it was one of the greatest public safety tragedies of the twentieth century. Even though the theater did not take basic safety precautions, no one was held...
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Instructional Video4:36
SciShow

Great Minds: Margaret Hamilton

For Students 9th - 12th
Don't push that button! Margaret Hamilton wrote the computer codes that saved Apollo 8 and Apollo 11 from various glitches, including an astronaut pushing the wrong button at the wrong time. The video describes her groundbreaking work...
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Instructional Video9:36
Crash Course

Breaking the Silence

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
The most impressive movie you've ever seen can't compare to the astonishment audiences felt when feature films began to synchronize sound with the picture. Learn about the complex path to the talkie, including the invention of the...
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Instructional Video23:29
Curated OER

French Revolution (Part 3)- Reign of Terror

For Students 7th - 12th
This presentation features a collage of pictures and maps to be annotated by the engaging and passionate narrator. The beginning of the video features a review of the last one (featuring the first steps of the French Revolution), and...
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Instructional Video12:01
Crash Course

The Civil War, Part I

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Was the Union victory during the Civil War a foregone conclusion? This fantastic video not only recaps basic information from the war, but also highlights the importance of border states, religious motivations among southern and northern...
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Instructional Video12:19
Crash Course

Taxes & Smuggling - Prelude to Revolution

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Why are the American Revolution and the War for Independence not the same thing? Were taxes really the main point of contestation for the colonists? Listen as this fantastic presenter discusses the roots of the American Revolution,...
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Instructional Video15:05
Crash Course

Age of Jackson

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Review the depth and complexity of Andrew Jackson's presidency and the beginnings of modern American politics with this engaging video. Topics covered include: the second bank of the United States, the Missouri Compromise, the rise of...
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Instructional Video6:57
The School of Life

Philosophy - Nietzsche

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Have you built your home on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius? Why not? Friedrich Nietzsche challenges viewers to live a fulfilled and dangerous life, to use the humanities as a guide to life, and to own up to one's envy, as explained in a...
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Instructional Video5:52
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Meiosis

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Sex chromosomes determine gender, but how? An informative video presentation discusses meiosis with an emphasis on the structure of the sex cells. Viewers learn why the X and Y chromosomes are so important.
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Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Women's History: Activity Pack | History Detectives

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This is a collection of lesson plans and activities to learn about the history vital but often little-known contributions of women to American history. They are based on History Detectives episodes that examine artifacts of how women...
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Instructional Video
National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Women's History Minute: Progressive Era

For Students 9th - 10th
Short video on the Progressive Era.
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Instructional Video
Library of Congress

Loc: Webcast: History of Household Technology

For Students 9th - 10th
What was domestic work like during the mid-nineteenth century? References from the Library of Congress help us explore what a homemaker's life was like in the 1800s and how it changed with the invention of washing machines, stoves,...
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Instructional Video
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Gilder Lehrman Institute: Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, Economic Citizenship

For Students 9th - 10th
"In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America," is delivered by Alice Kessler-Harris. A detail heavy presentation differentiating between equality and equity and what that does within...
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Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: Women in the 19th Century

For Students 9th - 10th
In which John Green finally gets around to talking about some women's history. In the 19th Century, the United States was changing rapidly, as we noted in the recent Market Revolution and Reform Movements episodes. Things were also in a...
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Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: Women's Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
In which John Green teaches you about American women in the Progressive Era and, well, the progress they made. So the big deal is, of course, the right to vote women gained when the 19th amendment was passed and ratified. But women made...
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Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Women's Movement

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a collection of eight short videos designed to cover the two waves of Women's Movement in the United States: The first wave in the 19th and early 20th century with leaders such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton...
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Instructional Video
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: Women and the Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Speaker Carol Berkin, of both Baruch College and the City University of New York, discusses her research on the critical roles women played in the American Revolution. [2:31]
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Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Women in Stem: Prejudice and Progress: Decoding Watson

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore Rosalind Franklin's legacy as a pioneering woman in STEM in this media gallery from the American Masters film Decoding Watson. Biologists and historians of science examine the prejudices Franklin faced, how the climate in...
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Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ap Us History Period 6: 1865 1898: Reform in the Gilded Age

For Students 9th - 10th
This video lesson from Khan Academy covers Period 6: 1865-1898 in American History. Reform in the Gilded Age is discussed, specifically associated with poverty and women's rights. This resource is designed as a review for the AP US...
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Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: World War Ii Part 2 the Homefront

For Students 9th - 10th
In which John Green teaches you about World War 2, as it was lived on the home front. You'll learn about how the war changed the country as a whole and changed how Americans thought about their country. John talks about the government...
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Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: The 1960s in America

For Students 9th - 10th
In which John Green teaches you about a time of relative tumult in the United States, the 1960s. America was changing rapidly in the 1960s, and rights movements were at the forefront of those changes. Civil Rights were dominant, but the...

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