TED Talks
Dessa: Can we choose to fall out of love?
What's the best way to get over heartbreak? Rapper and writer Dessa came up with an unconventional approach after a chance viewing of Helen Fisher's TED Talk about the brains of the lovestruck. In a wryly funny talk, she describes how...
Curated Video
5 Fall Crafts Ideas with Conkers
Don't worry about the evenings getting longer. Collect horse chestnuts (conkers) and enjoy making these awesome autumn crafts with your children! We are making sea turtles, zebras, owls, spiders and cute little colourful snails. So if...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
David Perkins - Play the Whole Game
David Perkins is the Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr., Professor of Teaching and Learning, Emeritus, at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He has conducted long-term programs of research and development in the areas of teaching and...
Curated Video
How to Make Drawings Float with a Magic Water Marker
Subscribe to my channel and wait for Alex’s space adventure floating drawing! To make your art creation float you need just white board makers, a plate and some water. I have seen a few videos about this technique but they all seemed to...
World Science Festival
Why We Tell Stories: The Science of Narrative
Stories have existed in many forms—cave paintings, parables, poems, tall tales, myths—throughout history and across almost all human cultures. But is storytelling essential to survival? Join Jonathan Gottschall, Joyce Carol Oates,...
World Science Festival
The Mind After Midnight: Where Do You Go When You Go to Sleep?
We spend a third of our lives asleep. Every organism on Earth—from rats to dolphins to fruit flies to microorganisms—relies on sleep for its survival, yet science is still wrestling with a fundamental question: Why does sleep exist?...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
David Perkins - What's Worth Learning
David Perkins is the Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr., Professor of Teaching and Learning, Emeritus, at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He has conducted long-term programs of research and development in the areas of teaching and...
Let's Tute
Accounting Test: Bank Reconciliation Statement
Brush up on your knowledge of bank reconciliation statements and then test yourself! You will have to find the balance in either passbook or cash/bank book.
Mr. Beat
The Harry Truman Song
By day, Matt Beat is a middle school social studies teacher. By night, the multi-instrumentalist writes and records songs about dead Presidents. Actual dead Presidents. Not the rap duo. He recorded them chronologically, and this is the...
World Science Festival
Where Do You Go When You Go To Sleep?
We spend a third of our lives asleep. Every organism on Earth—from rats to dolphins to fruit flies to microorganisms—relies on sleep for its survival, yet science is still wrestling with a fundamental question: Why does sleep exist?...
British Council
Juliet 1: Falling in Love
Shakespeare's timeless tragedy Romeo and Juliet has many lessons to teach youth today. As part of the Shakespeare English Exercises series, a video and set of activities help English learners connect with the popular play....
British Council
Romeo and Juliet
An engaging video featuring William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is accompanied by six activities designed to reinforce vocabulary, story elements, and comprehension. Scholars match words to pictures, place events in sequential order,...
Be Smart
What's The Loudest Possible Sound?
If a tree falls in the forest and no person is around, does it still make a sound? Students view a short video segment to determine sound and decibel levels of various objects, including the loudest and quietest possible sounds humans...
ABCMouse
Big Bug and Little Bug
Impart the value of kindness and reinforce rhyming CVC words with a short video about a bug who offers help to another bug in need.
Curated OER
Engineering an Empire - The Maya, 5/5
Concluding the five-part series on the Mayan Empire we discover the disease and Conquistadors that lead to the demise of the Mayan people. While this does touch upon the devastation that all but destroyed the Mayan civilization, the over...