The Great War
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
While many can identify Ernest Hemingway's famous works, they may be unaware of his service during World War I and how that affected his literary contributions. An video details Hemingway's service in World War I and explains events and...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The Making of the Fittest: Got Lactase? The Co-evolution of Genes and Culture
Got milk? Only two cultures have had it long enough to develop the tolerance of lactose as an adult. Learn how the responsible genes evolved along with the cultures that have been consuming milk. This rich film is supplied with a few...
PBS
The Chronicles of Narnia
C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia is about far more than the adventures of a group of children in an imaginary kingdom. Find out what else it's about in a short Great American Read video.
PBS
One Hundred Years of Solitude | The Great American Read
One Hundred Years of Solitude introduces readers to magic realism. Told in a series of flashbacks and flash-forwards, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Nobel Prize-winning novel is a candidate for The Great American Read program and aficionados...
PBS
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams' hysterical send-up of bureaucratic thinking, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is the focus of a Great American Read video that urges viewers to vote for one of the greatest satires since Gulliver's Travels.
PBS
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Rather than windmills, Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole's Pulitzer Prize-winning A Confederacy of Dunces, battles against modernity. Find out why Professor Walter Isaacson thinks Toole's novel should get viewers' votes...
PBS
Public Reaction to Their Eyes Were Watching God
While white literary critics praised her work, the black literary establishment trashed Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. See what other writers have to say about the novel in a short video from the PBS Masters series.
PBS
Ready Player One
Ready Player One has been praised as a novel that captures the vitality, the allure, and the essence of the virtual reality experience. Speakers in a short video share their rationale for why Ernest Clines' dystopian novel should be...
University of Florida
Understanding Car Crashes: It's Basic Physics!
Make an impact on young physicists with this fun collection of resources. After first watching a video and taking notes on the physics of car crashes, students go on to complete a series of activities that explore the...
Lifehacker
Learn to Code: Understanding Functions and Making a Guessing Game
Here's where it all comes together. Using the skills learned in the previous three videos, the final installment of this series on JavaScript explores how to create functions. By the end of the video, young programmers will be able...
Lifehacker
Learn to Code: Variables and Basic Data Types
Explore the fundamentals of coding in Javascript with the first video of this four-part series. After learning about the three basic data types — strings, numbers, and Boolean — young programmers are taught how to...
TED-Ed
The Chemistry of Cold Packs
How can it take water hours to freeze, but a cold pack can go from room temperature to near freezing in an matter of moments? Find out with this short video that explores the endothermic reaction that make these modern marvels possible.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Vocabulary
This is a collection of four videos about teaching vocabulary. The first is a principal discussing a school-wide approach to vocabulary improvement; the second is a director of the academic English at the University of California...
PBS
Academic Vocabulary in the Common Core: High School Career & Technical Ed.
These video segments examine the integration of domain-specific vocabulary in technical education course, a construction core class. The teacher demonstrates how to introduce the new vocabulary in the first segment via a complex course...
PBS
Academic Vocabulary in the Common Core: High School Social Studies
This video [5:06] provides research related to the Common Core approach to vocabulary, footage of classroom teachers engaging students in vocabulary instruction, and sample vocabulary assessments.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Vocab Tip: Ask a Question
This lesson explains how to remember vocabulary by asking questions. This tutorial lesson shares a short screencast with the lesson's content. [4:37]