TED-Ed
Under the Hood: The Chemistry of Cars
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines! Explore the cumbustion reactions driving the world's automobiles and the chemical solutions used to keep their engines cool with this fun instructional video.
TED-Ed
Inside the Ant Colony
Step into the amazing world of ants as this video explores the surprisingly complex social structure that makes up the foundation of every ant colony. The truly amazing ability of these tiny creatures to share information...
TED-Ed
What Cameras See That Our Eyes Don't
Cameras are amazing tools that enhance the way we see the world. From capturing time-lapse footage of seeds sprouting or seasons changing, to high-speed photography showing a bullet crashing through its target, cameras allow us to see...
TED-Ed
Animation Basics: The Option Illusion of Motion
From creating simple flip books to watching Saturday morning cartoons, we have all experienced the magic of animation. But how is it that a series of still images can be brought to life? It all has to do with the speed at which our brain...
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...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Headings and Subheadings
This tutorial provides two videos focusing on using headings and subheadings in paper writing: the first video discusses the purpose and when to use them; the second discusses how to format them. Textual information is also provided...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Informational Papers
This tutorial offers 6 videos focuses on writing informative papers; the first video includes general information and the three requirements of all informative papers. The next 5 videos explain one of the following types of informative...
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Te Kete Ipurangi: Thinking and Reading Comprehension
Julie Cowan from Willowbank School explains how she supports students to become strategic, reflective, and metacognitive readers and thinkers.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Picking a Research Topic
This tutorial focuses on picking a research topic by brainstorming and freewriting about what interests you or what you want to learn more about and doing background reading to see what information is available for your possible topics....
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Supporting Details: Statistics
A lesson with audio discussing how analogies can be used as supporting details. [4:00]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Identify the Different Parts of an Argumentative Essay
In this lesson, you will learn how to identify the different parts of an essay by labeling the thesis, topic sentence, supporting details and elaboration. [6:27]