Crash Course
Economic Systems and Macroeconomics
What works better: a planned economy or a market economy? Join the global debate with a Crash Course video about macroeconomics and the differences between economic systems. With quotes from Adam Smith and Karl Marx guiding instruction,...
Crash Course
Cathedrals and Universities: Crash Course History of Science #11
How are so many medieval buildings still standing today? And, how did ancient builders learn such skills? Discover the amazing feats of medieval engineers with part 11 in a 15-installment History of Science series. The narrator describes...
Curated OER
Your Amazing Body
Why is it important to keep your body healthy? Watch this video and learn how! It focuses on exercise, muscles, bones, and proper nutrients. This is a great video to watch before your next physical education activity.
TED-Ed
Four Ways to Understand the Earth's Age
Cartoon children compare the earth's age to timescales that we understand:a calendar year, the thickness of a book, the human lifespan. This smart film clip is definitely worth adding to your geologic timescale lesson! If you subscribe...
TED-Ed
If Molecules Were People...
By watching this droll and delightful animation, physical scientists consider what happens when molecules collide. In this film, however, parodic people bump into each other, exchanging limbs in the process, just as molecules might trade...
MinutePhysics
Top 10 Reasons Why We Know the Earth is Round
Top tens lists are a lot of fun, and this one is educational as well! Viewers of the video find out ten reasons we know that the earth is not flat, as the pre-Colombus world believed. Some of the reasons are obvious, some are common...
Bozeman Science
Populations
The largest concentration of free-roaming wildlife in the continental United States is found in Yellowstone National Park. A video describes the three main types of population interactions: mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism. It...
TED-Ed
Why the Arctic Is Climate Change's Canary in the Coal Mine
What happens in the Arctic doesn't always stay in the Arctic. Follow along with this short video as it investigates how small changes in the temperature of Arctic regions can have dramatic effects on the global climate through a series...
National Constitution Center
Supreme Court Spotlight: Dred Scott v. Sandford
Life was precarious for free and enslaved African Americans, as demonstrated by the tragic Dred Scott decision. The Supreme Court case not only denied an enslaved man's petition for freedom, but also claimed that African Americans—free...
Crash Course
Market Failures, Taxes, and Subsidies
When should the government step in for the greater public good? Watch a video that details what happens when market externalities need some help sorting themselves out, and whether those regulatory steps are beneficial or not.
Curated OER
A New Way To Walk
Elmo creates a new way to walk. As new characters arrive, they each add a new element to the walk. Destiny's Child shows up and sings the song, "I Got a New Way to Walk" as Elmo, Grover, and Zoë dance along. This video would be a great...
Curated OER
Irish Step Dancing School
Murray visits an Irish step dancing school in this film. Learners will love talking about this interesting form of dancing. They can even give step dancing a try.
Curated Video
EdTech Tuesdays: Padlet
Need a way to organize digital resources and make them easily accessible to students? Jennifer and Rich have you covered. Taking a look at a free virtual bulletin board service called Padlet, they explore how this tool...
Lesson Planet
EdTech Tuesdays: Trello
Searching for an organizational tool to help manage the seemingly endless number of tasks educators are faced with on a daily basis? Though originally intended for the business world, Rich and Jennifer explore how this free web-based...
Educator.com
Desmos Tutorial
Demonstrate the functionality of the Desmos software for your pupils. with a video that discusses different aspects of the software from graphing piecewise function to finding roots and changing axis. The overview is sufficient to start...
Jacob Clifford
Intro - Market Failures and the Government
What can microeconomics students expect to learn about when it comes to a unit on market failures and the role of the government? Introduce your young economists to the why and how of free market failures and how the government...
TED-Ed
Why Is Being Scared so Fun?
"What could possibly be fun about being scared?" That is the question addressed by a short animated video that offers the idea that feeling pain-free and being energized, a natural high, is a pretty good trade-off.
TED-Ed
The Prison Break | Think Like A Coder, Ep 1
Break free from monotonous lessons. An engaging video introduces the computer coding series and describes the ongoing context. Robots have taken over, and the hero needs to escape from prison and save the world by solving a set of clues....
TED-Ed
The First and Last King of Haiti
Henry Christophe—the first and last king of Haiti—presided over a free country, but one with forced labor laws. A video resource from TedEd profiles Christophe and situates him within the complicated context of the Haitian Revolution....
Rock A Lingua
ABC Rock and Roll (Spanish ABC)
What better way to learn the Spanish alphabet than at a rockin' rock-and-roll concert? A fun, illustrated video educates new Spanish speakers about the letters of the alphabet with a catchy way to remember them all.
Curated OER
Exploring Other Dimensions
What would the world look like in two dimensions? How about four? Take a look at dimensions and watch as shapes move from a flat plane into the third and fourth dimension. The video uses the novella Flatland as inspiration and clearly...
TED-Ed
Would You Opt for a Life with No Pain?
Is there more to life than just pleasure? Viewers will be entranced by Robert Nozick's Experience Machine experiment that promised those who plugged in a life free of pain. Would you plug in?
TED-Ed
What “Machiavellian” Really Means
Is Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince a directive to autocrats to rule by any means necessary, or a warning about the ways free citizens can be dominated by rulers? A short video suggests that Machiavelli's famous work might have been...
The School of Life
Jane Austen
Jane Austen wrote about strong women, social boundaries, and relationship dynamics in the early 19th century to educate her readers about the state of humanity. Learn more about the themes woven throughout her works, including Pride and...