Instructional Video4:33
Curated Video

Understanding Idioms: Knowing Like the Back of Your Hand

K - 5th
In this video lesson, students will learn the meaning of the idiom "to know like the back of one's hand" by using context clues. The teacher explains that idioms cannot be understood by looking at the meaning of individual words, but...
Instructional Video4:47
Curated Video

Rereading Dialogue to Match Voice and Clues

K - 5th
This video is a lesson for students on how to improve their reading fluency by rereading dialogue and matching their voice to the clues in the text. The teacher demonstrates examples and provides helpful strategies, such as using tag...
Instructional Video5:08
Curated Video

Finding Evidence in Text: Strategies for Answering Open-Ended Questions

K - 5th
In this video, the teacher explains how to find evidence in a text to answer an open-ended question. They guide the viewers through the process of understanding the question, using text features and clue words to locate evidence, and...
Instructional Video5:36
Curated Video

Making Change with Friendly Numbers

K - 5th
In this video, the teacher explains how to make change in money word problems by using a number line. The students learn about friendly numbers and how to add up on the number line to determine the amount of change.
Instructional Video6:15
Curated Video

Solving Length Word Problems with Rulers

K - 5th
In this video, the teacher demonstrates how to solve length word problems using rulers. The students learn to make their own rulers using paper tiles and count the spaces to determine the length of objects.
Instructional Video4:59
Science360

Greenland Ice Cores

12th - Higher Ed
At the Stable Isotope Lab in Boulder, Colorado scientists are doing a lot of the same things that those CSI folks do on TV. But instead of being ""crime scene investigators,"" these experts are more like ""cold scene investigators.""...
Instructional Video4:27
Curated Video

Understanding Idioms: Skeletons in the Closet

K - 5th
In this video lesson, students will learn the meaning of the idiom "skeletons in one's closet" by using context clues. The teacher explains that idioms cannot be understood by looking at the meaning of each individual word, and...
Instructional Video4:21
Curated Video

Translating Numbers from Word Form to Standard Form

K - 5th
In this lesson, mathematicians will learn how to translate numbers from word form to standard form by utilizing the clues provided by commas. By understanding the placement of commas and counting spaces, students can accurately convert...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Forensics

3rd - 8th
Watch kids use forensic science to solve a crime mystery. Discover how forensic scientists use fingerprints and splatter analysis.