The Art Assignment
Find Your Band | Bang on A Can | The Art Assignment
This week we meet with experimental musicians Mark Stewart and Julia Wolfe at the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA, an amazing contemporary art museum in North Adams, Massachusetts. They give us the challenge to FIND YOUR...
Weird History
What It Is Like To Live In The White House
Ever wonder what living in the White House is like? That's easy: It's weird! Life in the White House for the first family (its only permanent residents) is like a cross between living in a fortress, a resort, and a museum - but somehow...
Visual Learning Systems
Exploring the Interconnectedness of Urban Environments and Ecology
This video explores the concept of environment and its various components. The video emphasizes the interconnectedness of living and nonliving things in the environment, and the study of this relationship through ecology. This video is...
Visual Learning Systems
Exploring Fossils: Preserved Remains
Upon viewing the Exploring Fossils video series, students will be able to do the following: Explain that fossils are the ancient remains or traces of once-living things. Understand that fossils come in a wide range of shapes, sizes, and...
Visual Learning Systems
Impacts on Earth: the Earth Is Our Home
Planet Earth is our home, but unfortunately humans have caused a great deal of damage to it. How have humans impacted Earth and what are the consequences? This clear and informative program answers this question through the use of...
Visual Learning Systems
Life Cycles Quiz
This video assesses learners' understanding of the concepts covered in the Cycles in Living Things series. Concepts include life cycles in plants and animals. Cycles in Living Things part 6/6
The Viral Fever
Mountains: Yunnan Hani Tribe, China
Mountains provide a splendid backdrop from communities but they are also important ecological landscapes for the people that on and around them. Approximately one-tenth of the world's population depends directly on mountains for their...
SWPictures
SURVIVOR'S GUIDE - Living Dangerously
Every year in Bangladesh at least 30,000 children die through accidents and almost a quarter are drownings. But burns, traffic accidents and electrocution are also common causes of childhood deaths and injuries. Families regard these...
nxBEATS
Monday’s Child
Sing, dance and repeat! Enjoy this nxBEATS remix of "Monday's Child," a classic children's nursery rhyme! Lyrics: Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace, Wednesday's child is full of woe, Thursday's child has...
KERA
Financial Simulation of Poverty
A workshop in North Texas aims to give people who have money the experience of what it’s like for people who live in poverty. Whether it's cashing a check, sending money to family, or trying to borrow money, people living in poverty have...
Visual Learning Systems
Grouping Living Things: Introduction
There are millions of different kinds of living things on the planet. Grouping them is not an easy task. This fascinating program explores this process and investigates some of the major groups of living things.
The Viral Fever
Yunnan Hani Tribe, China: Terraced Farming in the Mountains
Yunnan Hani Tribe, China part 1/4: The video showcases the remarkable terraced fields of the Hani tribe in China's Hunan province. Despite the challenging mountainous terrain, the Hani people have transformed the slopes into practical...
The Viral Fever
Water: Uros Island People, Peru
Humans cannot survive for more than a few days without water. We are made of 70% water, and so is the entire planet. For these reasons, human identity is forever linked to water, both fresh and salt. The Uru people have take "living with...
TLDR News
A Million People Apply to Become Irish: Can Brits Escape Brexit - Brexit Explained.
In 2019 nearly a million Irish passports were issued, a rise fueled by Brits applying for Irish citizenship in order to avoid Brexit. Some are hoping to maintain their rights to live in other European nations while others are protecting...
Youth Radio
California Teen Lives Between Borders
More people have been deported from the U.S. in the last decade, starting under the Obama administration, than at any other point in history. Deportations occur for any number of reasons–criminal activity, improper paperwork, and so...
Primer
Why do Things Exist? Setting the Stage for Evolution
Before thinking about living things, let's see what we can say about why raindrops and planets exist.
60 Second Histories
Joseph Bazalgette; the early years
Part 1 of the Bazalgette series. An introduction to Joseph William Bazalgette and the time in which he grew up.
Rachel's English
PHRASAL VERB PRICE
Start 2017 with the 30-day vocabulary challenge: learn 30 phrasal verbs in 30 days! Day 10: the phrasal verb PRICE
Intelligence Squared
Is Europe failing muslims?
As the first speaker in favour of the motion Tariq Ramadan states his belief that Europe has failed its Muslims in various different ways.IQ2 Debate: "Europe is failing its Muslims" - Intro, Tariq Ramadan and Douglas Murray. (1 of 6)
SWPictures
The Struggle to Breathe: Pneumonia and Poverty in the Philippines
The Struggle to Breathe part 1/8: This video highlights the devastating impact of pneumonia on young children in poverty-stricken areas of the Philippines. It emphasizes the importance of early diagnosis and treatment through simple...
Mazz Media
Order
This live-action video program is about Order. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated graphics and...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
College Now
Why are we creating an education shortage? The value of going to college and learning critical thinking skills is on the rise, but access is shrinking. Professor David Deming warns that if we don't put some serious work into fixing these...
Vlogbrothers
Gene Editing and Intelligence: A Bad
There was so much more I wanted to talk about here...it's a hard subject for 4 minutes. Obviously the bad thing being glossed over in the beginning is "Well, so we're going to create a race of smart people to 'help' everyone else? Yeah...
Primer
Why do Things Exist? Setting the Stage for Evolution
Before thinking about living things, let's see what we can say about why raindrops and planets exist.