PBS
Seneca Falls, NY | Unstoppable: The Road to Women's Rights
Viewers of a short video travel along with a young woman who visits historic sites in Seneca Falls, New York. Her goal is to try to determine what it was about this small town that helped it become the center of the Women's Rights Movement.
PBS
Circus Women Advocate for Suffrage | The Circus
Circus performers are hardly the first group that comes to mind when thinking of women who advocated for the right to vote. A short video details the contributions of circus women to the Suffrage Movement.
Crash Course
Media and the Mind: Crash Course Media Literacy #4
Media really messes with your head! Psychological scholars explore the tricks our brains sometimes play when presented with new information during a video in a Crash Course series discussing media literacy. Topics include false memory,...
Lit2Go
The Crow and the Pitcher
Critical thinking can save lives! After listening to an audio retelling of Aesop's The Crow and the Pitcher, , learners build a mobile to storyboard the events from the plot.
Lit2Go
Belling the Cat
It's easy to come up with ideas, but much harder to implement them! Learners read along to an audio recording of Aesop's "Belling the Cat" before coming up with a plan that will keep the fable's mice safe while placing a bell on a cat.
Macat
An Introduction to Chinua Achebe's An Image of Africa
In An Image of Africa, Chinua Achebe calls out Joseph Conrad for his racist attitudes in Heart of Darkness. Achebe contents that despite the fact that Conrad's novel is a blistering attack on Colonialism in the Congo, his characters...
Macat
An Introduction to Soren Kierkegaard’s Sickness Unto Death
How can despair be hopeful? Introduce young philosophers to the ideas of Danish Soren Kierkegaard with a video from a philosophy video playlist.
Veritasium
The Science of Thinking
How does your brain manipulate and store information? The installment of the Veritasium playlist explains the role of long-term and working memory. The lesson shows psychological problems and tests to illustrate these roles.
TED-Ed
Where Do Superstitions Come From?
With a little luck, viewers can enjoy a short video that examines superstitions, their origins, and even some benefits. Knock on wood.
TED-Ed
5 Tips to Improve Your Critical Thinking
Critical thinking allows individuals to dissect situations, reveal hidden concerns like bias and manipulation, and make the best decision. Share this video to improve critical thinking skills amongst your students.
Curated OER
Collecting Like Terms
Focus on classification using this resource. A young girl demonstrates how to sort and classify objects by cleaning her room. It is a great way to link classroom learning to real life tasks.
Sesame Street
Kids Talk About Games
Games are the feature of this film. Children share their favorite games in this short clip. This could be used before a lesson on games.
Curated OER
Problem Solving Strategies
With a geometric shape on hand the instructor provides a reason for creative thinking then models how he constructs an answer using problem solving strategies. He explains his thinking and notes the strategy he used to solve each problem.
Khan Academy
Singapore Math: Grade 3a, Unit 1 (Part 7)
Third graders use zero, four, and five to make as many three-digit numbers as possible. Sal explains that to make the largest number possible, one must put the largest number in the highest place. Each step and Sal's thought process is...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Connections in the Plane Without Crossing
This lesson presents interesting and challenging problems in Graph Theory, supporting the skills that students learned at school and stimulating their critical thinking. The topics will include: basic properties of graphs; complete...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Defy Gravity! Centripetal Force
How can you keep a ball from falling out of a jar if the jar is upside down? Watch the ZOOM cast use centripetal force to meet this challenge. [2:54]
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Te Kete Ipurangi: The Thinking Competency
Lisa Smith explains how Rototuna School in New Zealand helps teachers develop rich understandings of the key competencies. This approach involves engaging with research, exploring personal experience, building a framework of the language...
Other
New Mexico State University: Science Pirates: The Curse of Brownbeard
Science Pirates is a 3D interactive video game that can be downloaded for free to a PC or a Mac computer. In the game, students must apply their scientific skills as they learn about food safety. It is intended for the middle school grades.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Encouraging Debate
Educators observe a video of argumentation and criticism within a senior pre-calculus class, facilitated by Chris Luzniak. Consider the questions provided following the video. Questions include observations made of the entire classroom,...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Common Core Mathematics: Differentiated Instruction
A video highlighting ways in which to integrate differentiated instruction while exercising argumentation and critique within math lessons. [3:07]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: What Are Empirical Questions?
Created to teach students of the 21st century, SOPHIA is bringing the concept of empirical questions straight to your fingertips within this interactive lesson. [13:36]
Crash Course
Crash Course Media Literacy #1: Introduction to Media Literacy
First thing's first: what is media literacy? In our first episode, Jay breaks this question down and explains how we're going to use it to explore our media-saturated world. Media literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate,...
Crash Course
Crash Course Media Literacy #3: History of Media Literacy, Part 2
Jay continues our journey through the history of media literacy with the arrival of movies, television, and the other screens that now permeate our lives - along with some of the different approaches to media literacy that these...
Crash Course
Crash Course Media Literacy #4: Media and the Mind
You are constantly surrounded by media, so the question is: how does your brain handle all of that? The unfortunate answer is that our brains have a lot of processes that not super helpful for media literacy, but hopefully, with a little...