Instructional Video1:17
Visual Learning Systems

A Healthy Weight

9th - 12th
The video challenges the notion of an ideal body weight and shape in society, highlighting that there are many different healthy body shapes. It discusses the potential problems that can arise when bodies become too slim or too fat and...
Instructional Video9:22
TED-Ed

Protecting the Brain Against Concussion

6th - 12th Standards
"When kids sustain a concussion, we talk about them getting dinged or getting their bell rung...but what is it that we're really talking about?" This is a video that every adult and child should watch, as it details the real consequences...
Instructional Video3:32
TED-Ed

Beach Bodies (In Spoken Word)

7th - 12th Standards
"But we're tired, and exhausted, from trying to be something we're not." Insecurity from body image can play a significant role in adolescence and into adulthood. Watch as two young poets tackle this issue head on through the...
Instructional Video10:07
SciShow

The Teenage Brain Explained

9th - 12th
This may answer some of your questions about your students' behavior, as well as explain to them the development stage that their brains are in. The roles of adrenal glands, apocrine (sweat) glands, and pituitary glands are explained as...
Instructional Video14:27
TED-Ed

The Mysterious Workings of the Adolescent Brain

9th - 12th
Why do teenagers seem to take greater risks? Why do adolescents have difficulty taking in others' perspectives, and what implications does this have for us as teachers? Pass this resource along to your classes and colleagues, and begin a...
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Other

Radio Diaries

9th - 10th
Ever feel like no one will ever be able to understand the problems that you're facing? These radio diaries introduces you to teenagers who might be able to understand. Issues that these teens face include, parenthood, disability, and...
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Adolescence and the Teen Years

9th - 10th
This lesson will go over the life stage of adolescence.
Instructional Video
Crash Course

Crash Course Psychology #20: Adolescence

9th - 10th
Crash Course host, Hank Green, discusses growth and development and the challenging times of Adolescence. [10:14]
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: School Problems: Lesson 2

9th - 10th
This lesson will delineate problems in education; include student passivity, grade inflation, tracking (standardized testing), functional illiteracy, pandemic crisis, and chronix crisis. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "School Problems."
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: School Problems: Lesson 3

9th - 10th
This lesson will delineate problems in education; include student passivity, grade inflation, tracking (standardized testing), functional illiteracy, pandemic crisis, and chronix crisis. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "School Problems."
Instructional Video
Other

National Film Board of Canada: Nightmare at School

6th - 8th
Film dramatizes and, thereby, gives kids room to express the kinds of apprehensions and insecurities many may feel when going to a new school or in transitioning from middle to high school. [8:43]