Crash Course
Simple Animals: Sponges, Jellies, and Octopuses
A video focusing on the evolutionary history of simple animals reveals some amazing facts. Did you know that some deep-water sponges can live to be more than 200 years old? The narrator of the film explains what simple animals...
Crash Course
Evolution: It's a Thing
Evolution is a theory but thank goodness gravity is a law. What is the theory of evolution and what are the facts supporting this theory? Here's a short video that explains how fossils, homologous structures, biogeography, and direct...
Crash Course
Chordates
Did you know that coelacanths, a living chordate fossil, can live at an ocean depth of 2,300 feet, grow to be 6.5 feet long, and weigh almost 200 pounds? The narrator of a video series on evolution continues his way up the evolutionary...
Crash Course
Comparative Anatomy: What Makes Us Animals
What makes animals, well, animals? Viewers of a via comparative anatomy video see how similarities and differences in animal anatomy help support the theory of evolution. The video also includes examples of shared characteristics in...
Bozeman Science
Cellular Respiration
ATP — it's everywhere! The video describes aerobic and anaerobic respiration, how the processes of glycolysis, the Kreb cycle, and the Electron Transport Chain work inside the cells to produce ATP, and ends with a discussion about...
TED-Ed
Ideasthesia: How Do Ideas Feel?
When our senses provide data to the brain, does the brain translate those senses simultaneously or only after they are transmitted? Ponder this interesting inquiry with another fantastic TED video, and consider whether our...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Writing Margin Notes
This video lesson focuses on margin notes including the definition, purpose, how to write, what to include, and a literary example showing what they look like. Real Player is required.
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Video: Analyze How an Author Develops and Supports His Claims
In this lesson, you will learn how to determine an author's claims by analyzing supporting evidence. [5:16]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Draw Inferences From the Text Using Key Details and Evidence
In this video, you will learn how to make inferences by examining key phrases and clues within a text. [6:51]
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Annotating Across Disciplines
Students use microscopes to look at single-celled organisms. [3:48]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Evaluating Details
This lesson focuses on how to evaluate details as you read a new book. It offers tips as you first begin to read as to what details may be important to track and questions to ask yourself as you continue to read to help focus on the...