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3D Printing Your Photos - Lithophanes |
3D Printing And The Arts |
| Lithophanes were first created in the 1820s using porcelain. By varying the depth of the material, you can create a... |
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How to Do That Cool 3D Printing Timelapse Effect |
3D Printing And The Arts |
| Here's a way of taking great 3D printing time-lapse videos. It's a bit unorthodox, but it works great and definitely... |
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Turning a drawing into a toy using 3d printing! |
3D Printing And The Arts |
| Want to do more than just extrude a 3D drawing? Need more control or accuracy?... |
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Vica Sculpture Time Lapse |
3D Printing And The Arts |
| No only are 3D prints intriguing, but watching the process can be mesmerizing. Here's an example time lapse video (no... |
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3D printed gyro cube sphere |
3D Printing Examples & Ideas |
| This video shows not only the sphere being printed, but also the steps needed after the print to get everything to work.... |
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3D Printed Wing Ribs |
3D Printing Examples & Ideas |
| Tom Stanton shows how he used a 3D printer to print wing ribs for his model aircraft. Combined with foam sheets, packing... |
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Mendocino Motor |
3D Printing Examples & Ideas |
| This is an example of using a 3D printer to create the connectors and other parts needed to assemble an item, in this... |
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Printing Magnets |
3D Printing Examples & Ideas |
| We know about 3D printing with plastic, but what about printing magnetic fields? This video by Destin Sandlin looks at... |
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How 3D Printing Works |
3D Printing In The Classroom |
| Dr. Martin Leary hosts this short, non-technical explanation of how 3D printing works and what you can do with it. While... |
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The three basic 3D-printing processes |
3D Printing In The Classroom |
| Bart Van der Scheuren, of the Belgian 3D printing company Materialise, does a good job of explaining how the three main... |
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BYOD For Students |
Acceptable Use Policies |
| This video from Bobbi Jean Gallagher covers her classroom's Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) rules in an entertaining... |
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BYOD in the 21st Century |
Acceptable Use Policies |
| Wondering what BYOD means or if your school is ready for it? In this 8-minute Pedagogical Quickie for teachers and... |
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Colossal Cave Tour |
Adventures |
| Colossal Cave is a large cave system in southeastern Arizona. It contains about 3.5 miles of mapped passageways.... |
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Wilson Tennis Ball Factory |
Adventures |
| See how the little green spheres are built in this wordless documentary look at the mass production of tennis balls,... |
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Bird's eye view of flight |
Airplanes |
| For everyone who's dreamed of flying like a bird, here's what it would look like. Taken in the French Alps around... |
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Dog Goes Weightless |
Airplanes |
| Think you need a NASA sized budget to experience weightlessness? As you can see from this fun video, all you need is a... |
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Young Eagles at EAA Chapter 1093 |
Airplanes |
| EAA Chapter 1093 at the Midland Barstow Airport in Michigan created this video to describe how EAA's Young Eagle Program... |
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Algodoo - Interactive Physics On Your Computer Screen |
Algodoo 2-D Physics Sandbox |
| This video shows what you can do with Algodoo, a program that gives you the opportunity to play with physics. Apply a... |
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The original Phun video |
Algodoo 2-D Physics Sandbox |
| This was the original Phun video that started it all. Algodoo is the successor to Phun. |
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Bill Nye The Science Guy on The Eyeball |
Anatomy - The Inside Story |
| A simple explanation of how your eyes "see", what the brain does with that information, and how your eyes/brain can play... |
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Why Don't Other Animals Wear Glasses? |
Anatomy - The Inside Story |
| This video looks at topics like the importance of eyesight in different species, nearsightedness and farsightedness, how... |
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What Is an Animal Shelter |
Animals: Conservation |
| This video was made by HEART - teachhumane.org - as a resource for teachers to talk about animal shelters and... |
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Jonathan Bird's Blue World: Sponges! |
Animals: Sea Life |
| A sponge might not look like much, but these simple animals with no brain or ability to move have lived on Earth for... |
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For more wonder, rewild the world |
Animals: Wildlife |
| George Monbiot imagines a wilder world in which humans work to restore the complex, lost natural food chains that once... |
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Meerkats! |
Animals: Wildlife |
| Will Burrard-Lucas went to Botswana, Africa to photograph meerkats (think Timon in The Lion King). Who knew they were... |
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Alice example project |
Animation Software & Examples |
| Here is an example of how the Alice programming language can be used to create animations. While there really isn't much... |
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Alien Song ("I Will Survive") |
Animation Software & Examples |
| This video was created by Victor Navone using Animation Master. Check out this link to learn how it was created.... |
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The Deep by PES |
Animation Software & Examples |
| Adam Pesapane (aka PES) is an American director and stop motion animator who uses man-made objects to portray sea... |
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Garbage Doesn't Lie |
Archaeology |
| This short video talks about how the study of garbage piles -- or middens as archaeologists call them -- paints the true... |
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Why Salt & Pepper? |
Archaeology |
| How did salt & pepper end up becoming the primary seasonings on everyone's table?... |
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2010 - 2011 Lassen Timelapse |
Around The World With Webcams |
| Webcams images can be used to create time lapse videos. In this example, a years worth of images from the Kohm... |
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The Incredible Weather of Arizona |
Art and Nature |
| Bryan Snider created this documentary film and photo essay highlighting the fascinating weather of the 2014 Arizona... |
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Why Nature and Art? |
Art and Nature |
| Marghanita Hughes perspective on how nature and art can foster a deep love for the natural world.... |
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How To Make An Anime Version of Yourself |
Art Creation |
| This tutorial from Jk Alombro shows you the steps to turn a photograph into an anime character.... |
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Toilet Paper Roll Craft |
Art Creation |
| Using only some toilet paper rolls and some non-toxic paint, you can make awesome creatures for Halloween decorations.... |
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Forced Perspective Game |
Art Education For The 21st Century |
| A team of students from Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center developed this First Person Puzzle... |
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Kinetic Wave Sculptures |
Art Education For The 21st Century |
| In this video from MAKE: television, Reuben Margolin, a Bay Area visionary and longtime maker, creates totally singular... |
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Self-Assessment: Reflections from Students and Teachers |
Assessment Overview |
| What is student-centered student self-assessment? No, it's not the students grading their own tests and giving everyone... |
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Why is Assessment Important? |
Assessment Overview |
| Louise Yarnall of SRI International answers the question of why assessment is important in education.... |
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Assistive Technology in the classroom |
Assistive Technology For Students |
| Kathy, a special education teacher, talks about some of the assitive technology pieces she uses in her classroom. |
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Total Solar Eclipse |
Astronomy Near and Far |
| On March 20, 2015, Witek Kaszkin was able to capture a total solar eclipse in Norway. Check out this beautiful time... |
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Bees Hatch Before Your Eyes |
Biology |
| Witness the eerily beautiful growth of larvae into bees in this mesmerizing time-lapse video from photographer Anand... |
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See How A Rat Can Wriggle Up Your Toilet |
Biology |
| Not for the faint of heart. This National Geographic video explores everything from how rats can hold their breath for... |
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Your Life As A Dog |
Biology |
| Here's what your life would be like if you were a dog. For starters, you would eat twice as much, sleep twice as much,... |
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Should You Use The Snooze Button? |
Biology Studies Groups |
| The snooze button - one of life's luxuries. But is it really helping you out, or making you more tired?... |
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The Secret Social Life of Plants |
Botany |
| Plants communicate among themselves. This video shows the how and why.... |
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How do dogs "see" with their noses |
Brains & Neurons |
| In this TED Ed video, Alexandra Horowitz illustrates how the dog's nose can smell the past, the future and even things... |
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Why Do We Yawn? |
Brains & Neurons |
| What makes yawning so contagious? To get more oxygen? To cool the brain down?!?! Why are yawns contagious? Why do some... |
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2-Stage Water Rocket - flies to 810' |
Build A Rocket |
| This is one of those "don't do this at home" type projects. |
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Awesome Film Canister Rocket |
Build A Rocket |
| On of the easiest ways to build a rocket uses plastic 35mm film canisters and Alka-Seltzer. We saw these being demoed at... |
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How to make a water powered bottle rocket |
Build A Rocket |
| You will want to take a few more safety precautions, but this video shows how easy it is to build a rocket. |
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Simple, Easy to Build Water Rocket Launcher |
Build A Rocket |
| A simple bottle rocket launcher build out of a length of PVC pipe, some glue and a disposable pen. (Nice music, too) |
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Kids React To Typewriters |
Building Keyboard Skills |
| What happens when you show kids 6 to 13 a typewriter. No, it's not a computer that prints while you type. |
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Danimal's Army |
Bullying |
| Danny Keefe has apraxia of speech, meaning he has a hard time getting words out clearly enough for others to understand.... |
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Department of Education: It Gets Better |
Bullying |
| As part of the It Gets Better Project, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and employees from the U.S. Department of... |
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Kids react to bullying |
Bullying |
| Kids react to a bullying video and discuss the topic. Each one has a different perspective. |
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Two young boys sing about overcoming bullying. |
Bullying |
| Bars and Melody, a rap duo consisting of 15-year-old Charlie and 13-year-old Leondre, compete on "Britain's Got Talent".... |
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Accidental Discoveries That Changed The World |
Chemistry Resources |
| Throughout the history of science, many major discoveries came accidentally. Sometimes they came from recognizing... |
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Hey teachers -- make it fun |
Classroom Presentation |
| High school science teacher Tyler DeWitt was ecstatic about a lesson plan on bacteria (how cool!) -- and devastated when... |
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TED's secret to great public speaking |
Classroom Presentation |
| TED Curator Chris Anderson notes that there's no single formula for a great TED or TEDx talk, but there is a secret... |
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Nature Is Speaking |
Climate Change & Global Warming |
| Conservation International has created a series of videos looking at Climate Change and our impact on the planet.... |
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Code.org's elementary school courses overview |
Code.org & Computer Science Education Week |
| Here's an overview of what Code.org can offer, why it's important, and how it works. |
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Push to teach computer science in classrooms |
Code.org & Computer Science Education Week |
| This news report by CBS News includes an overview of what happens in the classroom and how kids are engaged. |
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Teaching Students to Work Together |
Collaboration Within Small Student Groups |
| Integrated curricula, team teaching, and technology tools have built up the academic achievement and self-esteem of... |
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Three-Minute Video Explaining the Common Core State Standards |
Common Core State Standards |
| This video, put out by the Council of the Great City Schools, explains why we need Common Core and how results are... |
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1 to 1 Portable Computer Labs for K-6 Schools |
Computers in the Classroom |
| As schools look to implementing 1:1 computing for their students via shared laptop trolleys (or carts), it's good to... |
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A Brief History of Technology in Education |
Computers in the Classroom |
| Think of this video as an introduction to where we've been with technology in the classroom and where we're headed... |
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Top ten tips for using technology in the classroom |
Computers in the Classroom |
| Technology can help motivate you and your pupils and make learning more relevant to them. |
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Should I Borrow Student Loans to Help Pay for College? |
Consumer Math |
| This short animated video, goes over the questions your students should ask themselves and the steps they should take... |
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Teaching Elementary Students How to Make Change |
Consumer Math |
| Rachel Kaplove explains how to teach elementary students how to make change showing two different methods, adding or... |
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Copyright Law and You! |
Copyrights and Intellectual Property Rights |
| Tara Miller has created a great video aimed at middle school students. It looks at the history of copyright law, gives... |
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YouTube Copyright School |
Copyrights and Intellectual Property Rights |
| Where Russell learns some valuable lessons about copyright.... |
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Partnering to create a state-of-the-art learning center |
Corporate Resources |
| Take a look at resources within your own community. That's what Brillion High School did with Ariens Company in rural... |
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The Teenage Brain Explained |
Dealing with Teenagers |
| Being a teenager is hard. Especially when hormones play their part in wreaking havoc on the teenage body and brain. In... |
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The Paraffin Paradox |
Developing Research Skills |
| Steve Long looks at the Paraffin Paradox. Steve shows how to hide a sheet of aluminum foil between two blocks of... |
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Helping Kids Cope with Media Coverage of Disasters |
Disaster Preparedness |
| While specifically for parents, this video from the University of Missouri will give teachers and other adults tools... |
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Smithsonian X 3D Overview |
Diverse Exhibits |
| This introduction to the Smithsonian X 3D web site explores the different (amazing!) ways the 3D scans can be used and... |
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Get Your Drone On |
Drones |
| Since 2004, volunteers have mentored the G3 Grady High School Robotics Team in Atlanta, GA, introducing students to... |
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Schools Use Drones For Learning |
Drones |
| In this NBC News video, Thanh Truong looks how the University of Missouri's journalism school is one of the the first to... |
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Sky Magic Live at Mt.Fuji |
Drones |
| What happens when you combine music, art and science? You get a drone ballet.... |
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STEM Drone Camp at Bakersfield College |
Drones |
| About two dozen middle school students from around Kern County attended a very special STEM Camp, hosted by Bakersfield... |
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Biofuel From Algae At MIT |
Energy |
| The viability of biofuels has been debated, especially among scientists. Since it requires multi-disciplinary... |
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Should a Person Touch 200,000 Volts? |
Energy |
| An entertaining video by Steve Gagnon showing what happens when you touch 200,000 volts, how lighting rods really work,... |
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Did Dinosaurs Really Have Feathers? |
Environment and Heredity: Birds & Dinosaurs |
| At least one entire class of dinosaurs seems to have had feathers -- including velociraptors, and maybe even T. rex.... |
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Super Slow Motion Birds |
Environment and Heredity: Birds & Dinosaurs |
| Gav and Dan, the Slow Mo Guys, go to a bird sanctuary to film birds big and small in slow motion. See how an eagle... |
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Difference Between Natural & Built Environment |
Environmental Science Education |
| This short video shows the difference between natural and built and explains why we build. |
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Natural & Built Environments |
Environmental Science Education |
| This video contrasts natural and built environments in the Philippines. |
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The ABC Song with a funky beat |
ESL Resources |
| There are many A/V resources available on the Internet to help ESL students. This one is memorable in that it takes the... |
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Hear Buzz Aldrin tell the story of the first moon landing |
Eyewitness Accounts |
| Apollo 11 launched from Cape Kennedy and on July 20th, 1969 Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon.... |
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Pharrell's "Happy" in ASL |
Family and Community Resources for Special Education Students |
| Being challenged doesn't mean you can't have fun!... |
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Fantastic Features We Don't Have In English |
Foreign Language Treks |
| There are lots of interesting features in other languages, some of which English would really benefit from having. Tom... |
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Hello to All The Children of The World |
Foreign Language Treks |
| A fun song for younger students showcasing how to say hello in nine different languages. |
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Setting up a Teacher Website in WordPress |
Free Classroom Websites And WordPress |
| We know of whole schools and school districts set up a multi-user version of WordPress and give every instructor their... |
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Claira's First Flight |
FT STEM – Building Airplanes |
| This video shows the first flight of the final version of the MF-35 Thunder, designed and built by Claira, an 8th grade... |
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DIY Toothless |
FT STEM – Building Airplanes |
| This video from MESArc shows Megan and Susannah trying to tame the Toothless Dragon! This video shows that you learn... |
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Flite Fest - Kids (of all ages) and their airplanes |
FT STEM – Building Airplanes |
| This video from Flite Fest – an annual Flite Test meetup – shows kids, of all ages, having fun and learning new... |
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google docs 101 |
G Suite for Education |
| Josh Stumpenhorst, self described disruptor and 2012 Illinois Teacher of the Year, has put together a getting started... |
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Google Docs in Plain English |
G Suite for Education |
| Google Docs may not have all the features of other office suits, but does allow easy collaboration & sharing. This... |
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The Galapagos Islands |
Galapagos Islands |
| Since Darwin's time, the natural wonders of the Galapagos Archipelago have inspired and awed its visitors. This 23... |
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GDPR features & 5 steps to compliance |
GDPR And Your School |
| This video gives a quick 3 minute overview to what the GDPR is and why it's a good thing for consumers, and 5 things to... |
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Cat domestication: From farms to sofas |
Genetics, Genomes, DNA & Stem Cell Research |
| Years before they conquered the Internet, cats colonized our sofas. This video summarizes the same study featured in How... |
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DNA Replication |
Genetics, Genomes, DNA & Stem Cell Research |
| This animation, part of the YourGenome site, shows the many steps and enzymes needed to make a copy of DNA in a cell. It... |
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History of the World: Every Year |
Geography, Maps & GPS |
| The entire history of the World from the rise of civilization to the present day.... |
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How GPS Works |
Geography, Maps & GPS |
| This Discovery News segment from 2013 describes the GPS network, where it came from, how it works, and how it it being... |
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Trilateration - how to convert time into location |
Geography, Maps & GPS |
| GPS uses trilateration, not triangulation, to figure out where you are. The actual math is complex, but this video shows... |
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What is Geocaching? |
Geography, Maps & GPS |
| Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity, in which participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or... |
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Gifted, creative and highly sensitive children |
Gifted Children |
| In this TEDx talk, Heidi Hass Gable relates that being "gifted" often feels far from a good thing, especially when... |
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Teaching Gifted Children |
Gifted Children |
| Originally a video project for his masters degree, Tim Bedley looks at some of the strategies proposed by Ellen Winner... |
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Visiting classrooms in Nigeria |
Global Collaboration Networks |
| This video looks at Charlie Bryan and reflections of her time visiting classrooms in Nigeria the Connecting Classrooms,... |
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Chain Reaction - modeling how something goes viral |
Going Viral |
| Take this video and pretend each ping pong ball is someone viewing your piece. One person passes it on to a few more and... |
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Responsive Website Design - What Does It Mean? |
Good Website Design |
| What does Responsive Website Design mean? Is my website responsive? Why should I care?... |
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Make A Poptar |
Hands On Projects And Simple Tools |
| Nick Penny makes an stringed guitar like instrument from simple junk materials, including a soda bottle (hence the... |
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Smartphone Digital Microscope |
Hands On Projects And Simple Tools |
| A video showing the steps to build the platform and the gorgeous results. Check out Smartphone to Microscope for $10 on... |
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Build a Putt Putt/Pop Pop Steam Boat |
Hands-on Physics |
| A true hand-on physics project appropriate for older, 6-8 grade kids. |
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How To Make A Magnetic Compass |
Hands-on Physics |
| This video shows a simple way to create a compass. A great classroom demonstration project. |
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Soda Can Steam Engine |
Hands-on Physics |
| Janet Hoekenga shows hot to build a simple steam engine, known as a aeolipile or Heron's engine, using nothing more than... |
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The Difference Between Mass and Weight |
Hands-on Physics |
| Using a car to show the difference between mass and weight. |
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When Water Flows Uphill |
Hands-on Physics |
| In the Leidenfrost Effect, a water droplet will float on a layer of its own vapor. The physicists at the University of... |
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Connecting using a dial up modem |
History of The Internet |
| Back before DSL, cable modems and fiber optic lines, people accessed the Internet using the telephone line. Here's what... |
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History of The Internet |
History of The Internet |
| The internet is one of the most important tools in recent history, giving us access to countless amounts of information.... |
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Homework Routines/Hacks/Tips |
Homework Help |
| Andrea has created this video for older students, giving tips & tricks for getting homework done. |
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Howard Gardner on Multiple Intelligence Theory |
Identifying Learning Styles |
| Dr. Gardner looks at what it takes for students to really assimilate knowledge and explains his Multiple Intelligence... |
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GIMP vs Photoshop |
Image Software |
| This video takes a quick look at the pros and cons of both Photoshop and GIMP.... |
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What happens when... |
Insects ... and Frogs, Too |
| What happens when you pour 1200F molten aluminum into an anthill?... |
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An Integrated Approach To Math Instruction |
Integrated Studies: Math (sampler) |
| Lisa George and Lori Pretty explored an integrated approach to teaching mathematics to their 1st and 2nd grade students.... |
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Are Submarines Waterproof |
Integrating Math and Science |
| James May looks at whether or not submarines are waterproof, and goes on to explain exactly how they work. A great... |
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Song from Pi! |
Integrating Math and the Arts |
| Musician David Macdonald created a melody to help him remember the numbers in pi, "since it's easier than recalling a... |
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Integrating Math and Social Studies |
Integration of Statistics in Research |
| Students used math to examine an on-line Cost Comparison map and explore the causes and consequences of food and... |
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Solving Rubik's Cubes |
Internet Resources Sampler |
| Saurabh Narain is 12 years old, in 7th grade, and created a robot out of Legos and a microchip controller that can solve... |
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Remote Trail Cameras to Study Lions |
Investigations |
| Gorongosa National Park was once famous for its lion population, but during Mozambique's struggle for independence and... |
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How to use JSFiddle.net |
Javascript - An Easy Place To Start |
| JSFiddle.net creates an interface in your web browser window where you can easily create, test, and share JavaScript... |
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Intro to JavaScript Programming |
Javascript - An Easy Place To Start |
| This video teaches some basic programming concepts using JavaScript. It introduces programming using RoboBob (worth... |
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I'm Going Into Hospital (for kids under 10) |
Kids in Hospitals |
| Join Mia and her friend Hozzy Bear as they use a magic book to discover what happens when you go to hospital. Geared for... |
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Preparing Your Child for Surgery |
Kids in Hospitals |
| While produced for Mercy Medical, this video can be used to help older children understand and feel more at ease about... |
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Toys In Space |
Linking Environment and Physics |
| NASA had fun, taking a number of children's toys into space. Check out what they found. Things behave very differently... |
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Toys In Space 2 |
Linking Environment and Physics |
| NASA has so much fun with Toys In Space, they created a sequel.... |
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A Night Away From Home |
Maker Movement |
| Think maker spaces are just for older kids and tech nerds?... |
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Hackerspace In A Box |
Maker Movement |
| Hackerspace-in-a-box is a classroom experiment exploring the horizons of emerging technologies, science, media, art,... |
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The Self-Driving Potato |
Maker Movement |
| Marek Baczynski made a self driving potato. And then named him "Pontus" and adopted him as a pet. This video is part... |
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Stanford Uses K12IRC.org |
Making The Video |
| Here is the same video, uploaded to YouTube.... |
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Map Projections of The Earth |
Math and Map Making |
| Cartographers face the "orange peel" problem when mapping the surface of Earth onto a flat piece of paper. The... |
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What Does Earth Look Like? |
Math and Map Making |
| Michael Stevens has an interesting look at perception and how our maps have shaped the perception of the Earth. Use the... |
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Can Math Explain How Animals Get Their Patterns? |
Math Models in Nature |
| This video looks at Alan Turing's Reaction-Diffusion Model, which mathematically defines how patterns might be formed in... |
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Logical Journey of the Zoombinis - Playthrough |
Math Resource Sites |
| An "on-line" version of Zoombinis rendered as a series of YouTube videos.... |
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How Traffic Jams Happen |
Mathematics in the Real World |
| Ever wonder why traffic jams appear when there is no accident or other apparent cause?... |
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If High School Math Was Real |
Mathematics in the Real World |
| What would happen if the typical math problems we learned in High School were actually used in real life?... |
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Real-World Math |
Mathematics in the Real World |
| Math teacher Dan Meyer explains how presenting real-life scenarios through photos and videos can make math problems... |
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Dream A Dream - Be a Mentor |
Mentors and Mentoring |
| A video created by Dream A Dream to explain mentoring programs and how they help youth from vulnerable backgrounds... |
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LibreOffice 5.2 vs Microsoft Office 2016 |
Microsoft Office Alternatives |
| Chris does an in depth comparison of LibreOffice vs. Microsoft Office, looking especially at the word processing and... |
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Medicines In My Home |
Middle Schools |
| The United States Food and Drug Administration in collaboration with NCPIE and Montgomery County, Maryland, have... |
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Minecraft in education |
Minecraft |
| A quick overview of how Minecraft can be used in the classroom, and an invitation for teachers to join the conversation.... |
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What Is Minecraft |
Minecraft |
| This 1 minute video will give you a good idea of what your students are doing with Minecraft, sometimes described as the... |
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A Conversation With My Black Son |
Minority Students |
| Ask almost any minority parent and they'll tell you the hardest thing was giving their children "The Talk", not about... |
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A Conversation With White People On Race |
Minority Students |
| Another film from Op-Docs at the New York Times, this documentary features interviews with white people on the... |
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How to make a 3D print |
Model Sources & 3D Printer Software |
| This video gives you a quick look at the steps needed to take an .slt file (downloaded in this case) and turn it into a... |
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Glacier Iceberg Time Lapse |
Mountains, Glaciers, and Canyons |
| Glaciers & icebergs fall apart and crash into one another. The heat penetrates their icy surfaces and creates mini... |
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Yosemite HD II |
Mountains, Glaciers, and Canyons |
| A 200+ mile backpacking experience through Yosemite National Park captured by Colin Delehanty and Sheldon Neill. This... |
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Characters, Symbols and the Unicode Miracle |
Multi-lingual Browsers & Translators |
| Tom Scott explains how Unicode and UTF-8 "hack" solved the problem of representing all the symbols, characters and... |
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How to Read Sheet Music |
Music -- Theory and Practice |
| ... by a 12 year old. A lighthearted, if not so helpful guide created by an unqualified individual. Enjoy!... |
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Mozart Meets 007 |
Music -- Theory and Practice |
| What happens when Mozart and James Bond collide? In addition to being great fun, Igudesman & Joo show how combining two... |
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Why we love repetition in music |
Music -- Theory and Practice |
| How many times does the chorus repeat in your favorite song? Repetition in music isn't just a feature of Western pop... |
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Ballad of a WiFi Hero |
Music & Stories in the Classroom |
| H. Jon Benjamin and Jesse Benjamin created this animated adaptation of the famed McSweeney's Internet Tendency piece, In... |
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Call Me Maybe - Music with bottles |
Music & Stories in the Classroom |
| This group from Copenhagen, Denmark shows what you can do with a few recycled items.... |
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Kid Snippets: "Mean School Nurse" |
Music & Stories in the Classroom |
| If movies were written by our children... "Kid Snippets" is a weekly comedy series, in which adults act out stories... |
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Birds on The Wires |
Music Creation |
| Using a newspaper picture of birds sitting on telephone wires, Jarbas Agnelli was inspired to try making a song out of... |
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Flying Robot Rockstars |
Music Creation |
| KMel Robotics created a team of flying hexrotor copters that create music in ways never seen before. Worth viewing "full... |
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Pan flute from drinking straws |
Music Creation |
| Pan flutes are easy to make, takes only minutes, and cheap – drinking straws and some tape. Figuring out how to hold... |
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International Space Station Tour |
Off Planet Field Trips |
| While there are a number of tour videos of the ISS available, this is one of the most detailed. Steven Swanson takes us... |
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Public School Counseling |
Parental Support |
| Spurwink's Public School Counseling program places skilled therapists in public schools, so they can provide counseling... |
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A Mile of Pi |
Patterns and Art |
| What happens when you print out Pi to a million digits? You get a piece of paper 1.05 miles long. Follow along as Matt... |
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Double Pendulum Art |
Patterns and Art |
| Devon has created Pendulus, one of his favorite projects. A stunning visualization of the beauty in chaos, Devon uses... |
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Porta Estel·lar (Star Gate) |
Patterns and Art |
| Porta Estel·lar (catalan for Star Gate) is an immersive light and sound installation inside a plane. Using strips of... |
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7 Smartphone Photography Tips & Tricks |
Photography Resources |
| Photographer Lorenz Holder demonstrates some easy & creative smartphone photography tips & tricks. New ways to look at... |
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Jefferson High School Digital Photography |
Photography Resources |
| Mary Swanson posted this photo montage of images from Jefferson High School.... |
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Making 3D prints from LIDAR Data |
Printing 3D Topography Maps |
| This video shows you how to make incredibly detailed 3d landscape models from publicly available LIDAR data. While not... |
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A Number Guessing Game |
Programming For Younger Kids ... And The Technically Challenged |
| Colleen Lewis has an extensive collection of YouTube videos on Scratch. This one shows how to get started with a simple... |
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CS Unplugged trailer |
Programming For Younger Kids ... And The Technically Challenged |
| Here's an overview of the CS Unplugged project, where you learn about computer concepts without touching a computer. |
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How to make a game in ALICE |
Programming For Younger Kids ... And The Technically Challenged |
| This video gives you an idea of the steps needed to create a simple game or animation in Alice. It shows how to add... |
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MIT App Inventor Introduction |
Programming For Younger Kids ... And The Technically Challenged |
| This video introduces MIT App Inventor, which allows anyone to create Android apps using just your cell phone or tablet... |
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Scratch 2.0 overview |
Programming For Younger Kids ... And The Technically Challenged |
| A video introduction produced by Paula Aguilera and the Scratch Team at the MIT Media Lab. |
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Simple Kodu game tutorial |
Programming For Younger Kids ... And The Technically Challenged |
| This video shows you how to crate a basic game using Kodu. By layering on simple commands, you can create complex games. |
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Sphero SPRK review |
Programming For Younger Kids ... And The Technically Challenged |
| This review shows the Sphero SPRK Edition robot and SPRK app are a great introduction to robotics, coding, and STEM... |
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Five Keys to PBL |
Project-Based Learning (PBL) |
| Well-designed project-based learning (PBL) has been shown to result in deeper learning and more engaged, self-directed... |
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Six Word Memoirs |
Publication Opportunities & Ideas |
| Six Word Memoirs is the idea of expressing a complete story in only 6 words. Here's Ms. Gemeinhart's Senior English... |
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Mapping the Invisible |
Remote Sensing Technology |
| This video explores the basic principles used by optical sensors like Landsat, AVIRIS, and other remote sensing sensors... |
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Building a Natural Pool |
Rivers, Lakes, Seas, Bays, Ponds and Estuaries |
| Talk about bringing nature to you. David Pagan Butler has created a Natural Swimming Pool. It's a swimming pool that has... |
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How Wolves Change Rivers |
Rivers, Lakes, Seas, Bays, Ponds and Estuaries |
| When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the United States after being absent nearly 70 years, the... |
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DIY Soft Robotic Tentacle |
Robots For All Ages |
| Learn how to make your own soft robotic tentacle using silicone rubber and some ball point pens!... |
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Make A Simple Robotic Arm from Cardboard |
Robots For All Ages |
| Not all projects require soldering or electronics. This simple hand explores many of the concepts of robotics, but is... |
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Making A Simple Autonomous Robot |
Robots For All Ages |
| This video shows what it takes to make a simple autonomous robot using an ultrasound sensor and Arduino Nano computer... |
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Miniature Robots |
Robots For All Ages |
| John Park builds some lively and inexpensive miniature robots.... |
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Rubrics - an Introduction |
Rubrics |
| Using chocolate chip cookies as an example, this fun video introduces the concept of Rubics for grading. Sorry about the... |
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Kintsugi: The Art of Embracing Damage |
School Psychology |
| Students face abuse, neglect, are attacked and hurt. Many bounce back. Others are not so lucky.... |
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Video production on the cheap |
School Video Production |
| In this entertaining video, Phillip Kerman illustrates the cheap and easy way to produce video content. A good starting... |
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Google Search Tips |
Search Tips & Strategies |
| Matt Cutts, a software engineer at Google, provides tips for better web searching. |
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Teacher's Creative Fundraising For Classroom 3D Printer |
Selecting A 3D Printer |
| This video shows how a Plymouth teacher was able to provide her students with a 3D printer in the classroom, and how her... |
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Make A Solar Powered Hot Air Balloon |
Simple Projects |
| Learn how you can make a solar powered hot air balloon with just tape and black plastic trash bags. An interesting... |
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How Do Sinkholes Form? |
Simulation & Modeling Tools |
| Here's an example of modeling a large, real world problem using a simple set up that can fit on a table.... |
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A Beginners Guide To Sketchnoting |
Sketchnoting |
| Carrie Baughcum is a Special Education Teacher and a "a passionate believer that all children can learn, we just need to... |
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Bringing Sketchnoting Into The High School Classroom |
Sketchnoting |
| Doug Neill looks at how how you might weave sketchnoting in your curriculum: build it into the arc of your course.... |
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Drawing in class!?! - TEDx |
Sketchnoting |
| Rachel S. Smith used to get in trouble in school for Sketchnoting. Now she does it for a living, Sketchnoting during... |
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What is Sketchnoting? |
Sketchnoting |
| Doug Neill takes a look at what is Sketchnoting, why it's important, and how it's not one-size-fits-all. He lists some... |
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Why Visual Note-taking? |
Sketchnoting |
| Claudine Delfin answers the question of why do visual note-taking – it enhances memory and improves understanding of... |
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All About That Space |
Space Exploration and Astrobiology |
| "All About That Space" is a fun music video created by interns at NASA's Johnson Space Center. It was created as a... |
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What Happens if Your Body is Exposed to the Vacuum of Space? |
Space Exploration and Astrobiology |
| In this SciShow video, Hank answers a viewer's most pressing question about what happens if the human body gets exposed... |
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Real-World Math |
Sports and Science |
| Math teacher Dan Meyer show how tossing a basketball can be a math problem. (starts about 50 seconds into the video) |
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STEM School |
STEM Primer |
| This 16 minute film looks at STEM education at the STEM Magnet Lab School in Northglenn, CO. Some quotes include, "I've... |
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What is STEM? |
STEM Primer |
| Aimed at educators, this introductory video defines STEM (integrating Science, Technology, Engineering & Math), outlines... |
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Creative Crash Test Cars |
STEM Projects |
| This maker challenge from TeachEngeneering challenges students to design or improve an existing passenger compartment so... |
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Vocational Schools and Project Based Learning |
STEM Resources |
| This video looks at Westfield Vocational High School and shows how their teachers and students are reinventing... |
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Duolingo |
Student ESL/Foreign Language Sites |
| Duolingo is a free language-learning site using a simple game like structure. The service is designed so that, as users... |
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English Is Crazy |
Student ESL/Foreign Language Sites |
| Seriously...the English language is insane.... |
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Example Aboriginal Dreamtime story of Waatji Pulyeri (the Blue Wren) |
Student Literature Sites (sampler) |
| Here's an example Dreamtime Story. Fun for younger students and a great introduction to storytelling for older students. |
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A Pep Talk to Teachers and Students |
Take Five |
| Kid President believes we're all teachers and we're all students. What are you teaching the world? Who are you learning... |
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Best Classroom April Fools Prank Ever |
Take Five |
| This teacher has a policy that if your phone rings in class, you have to answer it on speakerphone. Worked well until... |
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English Is Crazy! |
Take Five |
| Seriously...the English language is insane.... |
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Kevin has a crush on his teacher |
Take Five |
| In this BBC comedy skit, Kevin the teenager (Harry Enfield) has a crush on his teacher and is attending a... |
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Why You Should Thank A Teacher Today |
Take Five |
| Teaching is a lot harder than it looks. How many times can you see yourself in this video? |
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If I Knew Then: A Letter to Me on My First Day Teaching |
Teacher Blogs and Videos |
| SoulPancake and Edutopia asked teachers to write a letter to themselves on their first day teaching. This is their... |
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The Challenges And Joys Of Being A Teacher |
Teacher Blogs and Videos |
| "It's not a class until the students file in, sit in their chairs with their futures right ahead of them. And they're... |
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Brian Crosby - Back to the Future |
TED and TEDx |
| Brian Crosby, an upper elementary teacher for 29 years, works with at-risk students, grades 4-6 in Sparks, Nevada. See... |
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Thomas Suarez - iPhone Application Developer... and 6th Grader |
TED and TEDx |
| Thomas Suarez is a 6th grade student at a middle school in the South Bay of Los Angeles. "For soccer you could go to a... |
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Angela Lee Duckworth: The key to success? Grit |
TED Talks Education |
| Psychologist and teacher Angela Lee Duckworth took a look at why some students fail and others succeed. The key factor... |
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Ken Robinson: How to escape education's death valley |
TED Talks Education |
| Sir Ken Robinson, in an entertaining talk, outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish -- students are... |
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Rita Pierson: Every kid needs a champion |
TED Talks Education |
| Rita Pierson, a teacher for 40 years, once heard a colleague say, "They don't pay me to like the kids." Her response:... |
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30 Days At Sea |
The Oceans |
| Jeff (no last name) has compiled a time lapse video showing what it's like to be on the ocean for 30 days, transporting... |
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Just how deep does the ocean go? |
The Oceans |
| Just how deep does the ocean go? Way further than you think.... |
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Two Weeks Under the Sea |
The Oceans |
| Aquanauts fund the easiest way to study the health of marine organisms is by becoming their neighbors.... |
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What Happens When You Boil The Ocean? |
The Oceans |
| If you took the water out of salt water, would it just leave salt? Grant Thompson wanted to find out.... |
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Bow Wow Meow - Animal Sounds in Different Languages |
The Sounds of Animals Around the World |
| Ever wanted to know how different languages interpret animal sounds?... |
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Children's opera: Little Red Riding Hood |
Theater Performance |
| Here's an introduction to opera for young children -- the story of Little Red Riding Hood in 10 minutes. Check with your... |
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A Vision of K-12 Students Today |
Thoughts on Educational Reform |
| This video was created to inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways to help students develop higher level... |
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Cultivating Thriving Schools |
Thoughts on Educational Reform |
| Brian Stecher is a senior social scientist and the associate director of RAND Education. Stecher's thesis is that our... |
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Real-world Learning at the 2010 Olympic/Paralympic Games |
Thoughts on Educational Reform |
| Chris Kennedy, Superintendent of Schools for the West Vancouver School District, shares the story of twenty-five... |
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Parent/Teen Homework Conflicts |
Tips for Parental Involvement |
| Here's a vignette for parents with some ideas on how to talk to your teen about the stressful conversation of homework.... |
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Teens on Talking With Parents |
Tips for Parental Involvement |
| This was the introduction video for a parenting seminar on "Communicating With a Teen Who Won't Talk," held at Natomas... |
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3D printer assembly and pro build tips |
Tuning your 3D Printer |
| While some 3D printers come fully assembled, most 3D printers require some final assembly before you can start printing.... |
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Better Quality 3D Prints Using MAGIC NUMBERS |
Tuning your 3D Printer |
| The stepper motor(s) that control your Z axis (height) have a magic number. Figuring out that magic number and... |
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Easy Way To Level Your Bed |
Tuning your 3D Printer |
| Chuck shows you an easy way to level your bed. He uses two G-Code files: the first to position the nozzle above the... |
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How to tune your slicing settings |
Tuning your 3D Printer |
| As some have noted, 3D printing is as much an art as a science. "Dialing in" – correctly adjusting your printer values... |
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How do schools of fish swim in harmony? |
Understanding Decentralized, Dynamical Systems |
| How do schools of fish swim in harmony? How do the tiny cells in your brain give rise to the complex thoughts, memories,... |
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Stanley & Stella in Breaking The Ice |
Understanding Decentralized, Dynamical Systems |
| While primitive by today's standards, in 1987 this computer generated animation was cutting edge. The video used... |
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How Gravity Makes Things Fall |
Understanding Time & Gravity |
| A demonstration of gravity, featuring the "Spacetime Stretcher," built mostly out of materials from the garage and... |
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Strangest Time Zones of the World |
Understanding Time & Gravity |
| This video looks at some of the world's strangest time zones, including: China, Kiribati, Nepal, Australia and more. |
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Telling Time for Young Children |
Understanding Time & Gravity |
| There are a number of videos helping kids learn to tell time. This is one of our favorites. |
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Cosmic Voyage |
Visualization Tools |
| From the IMAX movie Cosmic Voyage. It puts big and small into perspective and takes you on a voyage through the... |
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Google's Cardboard VR headset |
Visualization Tools |
| What can you do with some cardboard and misc. parts, plus your cell phone? How about a functional 3D viewer. Here's how... |
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How animations can help scientists test a hypothesis |
Visualization Tools |
| Molecular biologist (and TED Fellow) Janet Iwasa introduces a new open-source 3D animation software -- Molecular... |
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Baking Soda and Vinegar Volcano |
Volcanoes |
| Here's how you can make your own "classroom safe" volcano. |
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What Happens When Lava Meets Ice? |
Volcanoes |
| This Science Channel video looks at what happens when you pour molten lava on ice. (Hint: it's not what you'd expect.)... |
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