TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Got seeds? Now add bleach, acid and sandpaper - Mary Koga
For a seed to start growing, its embryo must emerge from its hard coat. In nature the embryo is aided by frost and animal digestion -- but humans can help too. Nicking, filing, and soaking the seed in hot water or acid are all forms of...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Nancy Barile - The Walking Dead in the Classroom
Nancy Barile is a National Board Certified Teacher, who has been teaching English Language Arts at a low-income, urban high school near Boston, MA for 22 years. She is also an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate School of Education at...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Nancy Barile - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Revere, Massachusetts
Nancy Barile is a National Board Certified Teacher, who has been teaching English Language Arts at a low-income, urban high school near Boston, MA for 22 years. She is also an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate School of Education at...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jerry Blumengarten - Keeping Your Students on Track
Jerry Blumengarten taught for 32 years in the New York City school system. Even though he was a licensed Social Studies teacher, he taught most subjects (Language Arts, Science, Math, Computers…) for grades 6-9. He wrote curriculum for...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Christopher Weiss - Teachers Make a Difference
Christopher Weiss has been the Principal of Riverside School in Greenwich CT since 2012. He was previously assistant principal of Wolfpit Elementary School in Norwalk, CT. Weiss also serves as a part-time education professor for...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ed Madison - Newsworthy
Ed Madison, Ph.D. is a seasoned media professional with a 30 year track record as an executive producer/director, entrepreneur, and innovative educator. His multifaceted career in media and journalism began as a high school intern at the...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Sonia Nieto - Teachers Make a Difference - Mrs. Phillips & Dr. Carlin
Dr. Sonia Nieto has devoted her professional life to questions of diversity, equity, and social justice in education. A native of Brooklyn, New York, she began her teaching career in 1966 in an intermediate school in Brooklyn, later...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Christopher Weiss - One to One Digital Learning Environment
Christopher Weiss has been the Principal of Riverside School in Greenwich CT since 2012. He was previously assistant principal of Wolfpit Elementary School in Norwalk, CT. Weiss also serves as a part-time education professor for...
The Wall Street Journal
When Tech Meets the Surveillance State
Human Rights Watch's Sophie Richardson discusses the dark side of China's use of cutting-edge surveillance technology with WSJ Editor Josh Chin.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Nancy Barile - Teachers Make a Difference - Dr. Rosemary Tobin
Nancy Barile is a National Board Certified Teacher, who has been teaching English Language Arts at a low-income, urban high school near Boston, MA for 22 years. She is also an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate School of Education at...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: Why Shakespeare loved iambic pentameter - David T. Freeman and Gregory Taylor
Shakespeare sometimes gets a bad rap in high schools for his complex plots and antiquated language. But a quick peek into the rhythm of his words reveals a poet deeply rooted in the way people spoke in his time - and still speak today....
Physics Girl
What do programmers actually do?
I left a physics job to do software engineering. Was it worth it? What do software engineers actually do?
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Mayor Ras J. Baraka - Teachers Make a Difference
Ras J. Baraka is the 40th Mayor of the City of Newark.A native of Newark, whose family has lived in the City for more than 70 years, Mayor Baraka’s progressive approach to governing has won him accolades from grassroots organizations to...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Bill McKIbben - Teachers Make a Difference - Ray Karras
Bill McKibben is founder and senior adviser emeritus of 350.org. His 1989 book The End of Nature is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has appeared in 24 languages. He’s gone on to write many more...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ravi Shankar "Thomas Jefferson in Kathmandu"
Pushcart prize winning poet, translator and professor Ravi Shankar has published, edited or has forthcoming over 15 books, including the Muse India award-winning translations of 9th century Tamil poet/saint, Andal, 'The Autobiography of...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Sonia Nieto - Affirming Diversity
Dr. Sonia Nieto has devoted her professional life to questions of diversity, equity, and social justice in education. A native of Brooklyn, New York, she began her teaching career in 1966 in an intermediate school in Brooklyn, later...
Next Animation Studio
Scientists grow embryos from three parents
Scientists at Oregon Health and Science University have grown human embryos mixing genetic material from three parents. Humans possess two types of DNAs - nDNA in the cell nucleus, and mDNA in the cell mitochondria. While a baby receives...
Catalyst University
Basics of Electrostatics of Biochemistry
Basics of Electrostatics of Biochemistry
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Diane Ravitch - Teachers Make a Difference - Ruby Ratliff and Lawrence Cremin
Diane Ravitch is a Research Professor of Education at New York University and a historian of education. She is the Founder and President of the Network for Public Education (NPE). Diane Ravitch’s Blog is dianeravitch.net and has received...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Timothy Snyder - Teachers Make a Difference - Mr. Ralph Bender
Timothy Snyder is one of the leading American historians and public intellectuals, and enjoys perhaps greater prominence in Europe, the subject of most of his work. He is the Richard Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a...
Curated Video
Waldorf School Education
Support our channel with a small donation at http://www.patreon.com/sprouts Waldorf education is based on the principles of Anthroposophy by Rudolf Steiner. Rudolf Steiner founded the first school in 1919 Stuttgart Germany to educate the...
HOMER
Robot's First Day of School
Today is the first day of school for Robot. He’s really nervous. He has math class, art class, and recess today, but he’s never done any of them before. See what Robot’s first day of school is like in this story as he explores the...
Clarendon Learning
What are Compound Words for Kids | Learn about the 3 Kinds of Compound Words.
You've heard them, but you may not have known it. In this video we are going to learn all about compound words. So, what are compound words? Compound words are creating when smaller words are joined together to make new words with...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ed Madison - Teachers Make a Difference - Miss Watkins
Ed Madison, Ph.D. is a seasoned media professional with a 30 year track record as an executive producer/director, entrepreneur, and innovative educator. His multifaceted career in media and journalism began as a high school intern at the...