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Curated Video
What do charities, NGOs and groups do in our local community?
Pupil outcome: I can explain the contribution charities, NGOs and groups make in our community. Key learning points: - Charities address community needs, focusing on helping people, the environment and animals. - NGOs offer humanitarian...
Makematic
Community Helpers
Learn about the important role that community helpers such as teachers, doctors, and firefighters play in our communities.
Wonderscape
Keeping People and Animals Healthy in Our Community
This video introduces the community workers who help keep people and animals healthy, including doctors, school nurses, pharmacists, dentists, and veterinarians. Learn how each of these professionals provides care, from checkups and...
Boulder Creek International
Kansas City: Working Towards Justice and Unity in Our Community
Kansas City part 7/7: The speaker reflects on the issue of inequity and the need for individuals, agencies, businesses, and communities to work together to create a sense of unity and lift each other up. They discuss the challenges faced...
TED Talks
Chera Kowalski: The critical role librarians play in the opioid crisis
Public libraries have always been about more than just books -- and their mission of community support has taken on new urgency during the current opioid epidemic. After witnessing overdoses at her library in Philadelphia, Chera Kowalski...
TED Talks
Pam Warhurst: How we can eat our landscapes
What should a community do with its unused land? Plant food, of course. With energy and humor, Pam Warhurst tells at the TEDSalon the story of how she and a growing team of volunteers came together to turn plots of unused land into...
TED Talks
Anindya Kundu: The "opportunity gap" in US public education -- and how to close it
How can we tap into the potential of all students, especially those who come from disadvantaged backgrounds? Sociologist Anindya Kundu invites us to take a deeper look at the personal, social and institutional challenges that keep...
Curated Video
Respecting Boundaries: Exploring Limits in Kids Planet
In this video, Nova explores the concept of boundaries and why they are important. She explains that boundaries are like rules that people create for themselves and for others, and they exist in various places such as schools, hospitals,...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jennifer Brown - How To Be An Inclusive Leader: Your Role in Creating a Culture of Belonging
Jennifer Brown (she/her) is a globally recognized DEI thought leader, highly sought after speaker, award-winning entrepreneur, and best-selling author. Jennifer envisions inclusive organizations where all of us can thrive. As someone who...
Curated Video
Let's Learn About Communities: Communities Alike and Different
Communities Alike and Different shows the diversity of communities. The program answers questions about how rural communities differ from suburban ones and what characteristics cities and suburban areas share. Young learners will embark...
TED Talks
TED: What we're missing in the debate about immigration | Duarte Geraldino
Between 2008 and 2016, the United States deported more than three million people. What happens to those left behind? Journalist Duarte Geraldino picks up the story of deportation where the state leaves off. Learn more about the wider...
TED Talks
TED: Our treatment of HIV has advanced. Why hasn't the stigma changed? | Arik Hartmann
The treatment of HIV has significantly advanced over the past three decades -- why hasn't our perception of people with the disease advanced along with it? After being diagnosed with HIV, Arik Hartmann chose to live transparently, being...
TED Talks
Jasmine Crowe: What we're getting wrong in the fight to end hunger
In a world that's wasting more food than ever before, why do one in nine people still go to bed hungry each night? Social entrepreneur Jasmine Crowe calls for a radical transformation to our fight to end global hunger -- challenging us...
TED Talks
TED: Can beauty open our hearts to difficult conversations? | Titus Kaphar
An artwork's color or composition can pull you in -- and put you on the path to having important and difficult conversations, says artist Titus Kaphar. In this stunning talk, he reflects on his artistic evolution and takes us on a tour...
TED Talks
Paul A. Kramer: Our immigration conversation is broken -- here's how to have a better one
How did the US immigration debate get to be so divisive? In this informative talk, historian and writer Paul A. Kramer shows how an "insider vs. outsider" framing has come to dominate the way people in the US talk about immigration --...
Kids Academy
Common Places in Your Community - City Vocabulary - Search Puzzle for Kids 2018
Common Places in Your Community - City Vocabulary - Search Puzzle for Kids 2018 Kids Academy Talented and Gifted Program for kids aged 2-10: Want to teach your kid some community places? Okay, let’s do it together. First, begin by...
Makematic
Perseverance
Perseverance is the ability to keep going, and not quit, even when it’s tough. From pioneering aviator Bessie Coleman to the everyday heroes in our communities, perseverance drives our world forward.
Makematic
Rules & Laws
Rules and laws are special instructions that tell us what to do at home, at school and in our communities. They help to keep us safe and make society more fair.
TED Talks
TED: The antidote to apathy | Dave Meslin
Local politics -- schools, zoning, council elections -- hit us where we live. So why don't more of us actually get involved? Is it apathy? Dave Meslin says no. He identifies 7 barriers that keep us from taking part in our communities,...
Kids Academy
What is a Community? Social Studies for Kindergarten | Kids Academy
What is a Community? Social Studies for Kindergarten | Kids Academy A common question in social studies for kindergarten homeschool is what is a community? It is a part of the social studies curriculum. A community is a place where...
Kids Academy
What is a Community? | Communities & Neighbors | Social Studies for 1st Grade | Kids Academy
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Great Big Story
How Bamboo Bikes Are Helping This Community
In Ghana, there is an abundance of bamboo. So much so, that one company devised an unusual means of transportation: bamboo bikes. Crafting bamboo into bike frames, Boomers has made thousands of the sustainable bikes. Once finished, the...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Dr. Sawsan Jaber - Inclusion and Equity in Our Schools
Dr. Sawsan Jaber is a global educator of 20+ years. She has held a variety of leadership positions both in the U.S. and abroad. Dr. Jaber is currently a high school English teacher at East Leyden High School in Franklin Park. She founded...