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Visual Learning Systems
A Healthy Weight
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...
TED-Ed
Protecting the Brain Against Concussion
"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...
TED-Ed
Beach Bodies (In Spoken Word)
"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...
SciShow
The Teenage Brain Explained
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...
TED-Ed
The Mysterious Workings of the Adolescent Brain
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...
Other
Radio Diaries
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...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Adolescence and the Teen Years
This lesson will go over the life stage of adolescence.
Crash Course
Crash Course Psychology #20: Adolescence
Crash Course host, Hank Green, discusses growth and development and the challenging times of Adolescence. [10:14]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: School Problems: Lesson 2
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."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: School Problems: Lesson 3
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."
Other
National Film Board of Canada: Nightmare at School
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]