Instructional Video3:41
National Parks Service

Study the Scientist: Fire Archeologist

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Fire archeologist Jun Kinoshita came to Yosemite National Park in 2001 from a seasonal archeologist position at Klondike Goldrush National Historical Park in Skagway, Alaska.
Instructional Video9:35
Mediacorp

Empowering Local Communities for Sustainable Conservation in Borneo

12th - Higher Ed
This video shows how locals in Kalimantan are creating a green economy by being subsidized by the government for looking after their land in an eco-friendly sustainable manner. <br/>
The Heart of ASEAN: episode 4, part 6/11
Instructional Video6:13
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Tim Madigan The Burning: The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921

Higher Ed
In a journalism career spanning more than three decades, Tim has written for the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Politico, Reader's Digest, and for thirty years the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Tim's books include the critically acclaimed...
Instructional Video3:55
Curated Video

The Impact of Climate Change on Your World: Using AI to Visualize the Consequences

Higher Ed
This video discusses the impact of climate change on our personal world and how an AI algorithm can show us what our homes would look like if they were flooded. It also introduces the #TeamTrees initiative, which aims to raise $20...
Instructional Video5:25
Curated Video

An Entrepreneur Draws Strength from Hardship

Higher Ed
Part 1/3 of the Rising Tide Capital series: This is a video featuring a woman named Alfa who talks about her life story and the hardships she faced growing up in Ethiopia. She shares how her family had to flee Ethiopia due to a...
Podcast7:03
NPR

In a Small Town in Vermont, Refugees Have Positive Economic Impact

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Vermont is the new home of many refugees from Somalia and other countries that have become dangerous to live in. Some residents in towns with large concentrations of refugees are concerned that the newcomers will be a burden on...
Instructional Video13:51
Institute for New Economic Thinking

A Hereditary Meritocracy

Higher Ed
The promise of capitalism was that anyone could rise to the highest levels of society, purely by merit. Instead, the reality now is that the educational and social requirements for success are inherited, entrenching deep...
Instructional Video4:52
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Trust Mutekwa - Teachers Make a Difference - Mr. Levison Simbanegavi

Higher Ed
Trust Mutekwa is a specialist teacher of children with visual impairment at St. Giles Special School in Harare, Zimbabwe, this is Trust’s nineteenth year as a teacher, and his eleventh year working with children who are disabled.
Instructional Video2:40
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Poetry: Nourishing the Spirit During Difficult Times

Higher Ed
Ras J. Baraka is the 40th Mayor of the City of Newark. In this video, he highlights the importance of addressing the deep inequities and challenges faced by communities, especially during the pandemic. Through initiatives like providing...
Instructional Video4:08
Curated Video

Biotic Factors: How Living Things Affect Ecosystems and Communities

Higher Ed
This video is a lecture presentation on biotic factors. The presenter defines biotic factors and explains how they can affect communities and ecosystems. The focus is on living factors, such as availability of food, arrival of new...
Instructional Video0:47
Next Animation Studio

Coronavirus poop test

12th - Higher Ed
Massachusetts-based Biobot Analytics have launched a probono program to test community sewers for COVID-19. <br/>
Instructional Video27:08
The Wall Street Journal

Tackling the Racial Wealth Gap

Higher Ed
Kelly Ifill, CEO of the fintech startup Guava, talks about the importance of building wealth equity at the community level and how her app helps support Black entrepreneurs and small businesses.
Podcast4:09
NPR

Racial Equity and Stephon Clark

Pre-K - Higher Ed
The shooting of Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man killed by police in Sacramento, California, sparked outrage and demands for police reform. In Sacramento there is a call to rebuild communities of color. Stephon’s brother, Ste’Vante...
Instructional Video4:07
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Karl Alexander - The Thurgood Marshall Alliance

Higher Ed
Karl Alexander received his B.A. degree from Temple University and his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He spent spent his entire academic career at Johns Hopkins. He has been President of the...
Instructional Video20:58
Weatherthings

Hurricane Laura and Hurricane Delta

6th - 8th
Louisiana was struck by two hurricanes within six weeks in 2020. Hurricane Laura was a powerful Category 4. Hurricane Delta was a Category 2. The two hurricanes made landfall in almost the same location. Combined, they took dozens of...
Instructional Video3:49
NASA

NASA’s New Scientific Breakdown of Dramatic Caldor and Dixie Fires

K - 11th
This visualization shows the spread of the Caldor fire between August 15 and October 6, 2021, and the Dixie fire between July 14 and October 22, 2021, updated every 12 hours from a new fire detection and tracking approach based...
Instructional Video23:58
The Wall Street Journal

Finding a Cure for HIV

Higher Ed
Dr. Sharon Lewin, president of the International AIDS Society and director of the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, discusses how the successful development of antiviral strategies and gene therapies could be given to...
Instructional Video9:31
Weatherthings

Hurricane Maria - The Meteorology, and the Impact on Society

6th - 8th
In 2018, Puerto Rico was devastated by Hurricane Maria. It was a Category 5 storm that may have killed 3,000 people. This 90 billion-dollar extremely powerful storm was a catastrophe in property damage, destruction, and deaths due to...
Instructional Video1:16
Next Animation Studio

American black and brown minorities worst hit during coronavirus pandemic

12th - Higher Ed
Minorities in the United States are being disproportionately affected by the spread of coronavirus due to economic disparities and lack of data collection.<br/>
Instructional Video4:38
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australia on Fire - Military Operation

6th - Higher Ed
As bushfires continue to burn in Australia, towns are still cut off from the outside world, forcing residents to ration whatever fuel, water and food is left until help arrives.
Instructional Video9:07
Institute for New Economic Thinking

How America Turned Its Police Into an Army

Higher Ed
Olugbenga Ajilore explains the high cost of the American government’s arming of local police with military weapons, which has exacerbated lethal use-of force against black communities.



The acquisition of military...
Instructional Video1:28
Makematic

UN Global Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities (Ages 5 - 11)

K - 8th
Short animation explaining UN Sustainable Development Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities for younger students
Instructional Video8:26
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Lewis R. Gordon - Being Human as a Relationship

Higher Ed
Lewis R. Gordon is an Afro-Jewish philosopher, political thinker, educator, and musician (drums, other percussive instruments, and piano), who was born on the island of Jamaica and grew up in the Bronx, New York, where he attended...
Instructional Video6:40
Boulder Creek International

Kansas City: Payday Lending and Predatory Lending

9th - 11th
Kansas City part 3/7: The video discusses the issue of payday lending and its impact on low-income communities in Kansas City, Missouri. It highlights the efforts of a faith-based community organizing network to gather signatures for a...