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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...
SciShow
Microscope: The Tube That Changed the World
An account of the history of microscopy is given through this dissertation. An ideal assignment for life science learners to view as homework, this makes a magnifying lesson for your flipped classroom.
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Why We Have Pain, & How We Kill It
You'll be feeling no pain when you add this little video to your lesson on the the integumentary system, nervous system, or biochemistry. The star of the show lectures on the process of sensing pressure and pain, as well as on the...
Infinite Thinking Machine
ITM 16: Learning a Go Go
The mobile revolution is transforming how we teach as educators, and this video will give you an opportunity to consider how to best utilize the abundance of technology that we and our class members have available at the tips of our...
Crash Course
The Market Revolution
Discover what John Green describes as "one of the least studied but most interesting periods in American history: the Market Revolution." The video details the nation's shift from the Jeffersonian ideal of Americans producing for...
Crash Course
The Reagan Revolution
Viewers learn about Ronald Reagan's conservative platform, abilities as a communicator, and implementation of trickle-down economics. The video places a heavy emphasis on major economic shifts of the period and the lasting effects of...
Crash Course
Of Pentameter & Bear Baiting - Romeo & Juliet Part I
Thinking about using Romeo and Juliet with your honors or AP class? Consider showing this video as an introduction and overview to Shakespeare, Elizabethan theatre, and the play. The narrator's obvious scholarship, fast pace, and quirky...
Crash Course
19th Century Reforms
Take a closer look at the religious and moral reform movements in nineteenth century America, including the creation of utopian communities in response to the growth of the market economy, the fundamental ideals of Protestant...
Crash Course
Frankenstein Part II
Part 2 of the course on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein takes up the issue of the viewing the text as an example of the romantic novel, a format that causes the reader to consider difficult questions. The narrator asks viewers to consider...
Crash Course
Progressive Presidents
Discover the motivations and policies of progressive presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, and Woodrow Wilson in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. The video discusses how the presidents handled the domestic...
Crash Course
Reader, it's Jane Eyre
Who is Currer Bell? The narrator his course on Jane Eyre with an overview of Charlotte Bronte’s life, her writings under the Currer Bell pseudonym, and a brief summary of the plot of the novel. He approaches the story as a mix of the...
Crash Course
If One Finger Brought Oil - Things Fall Apart Part I
"See other human beings as human beings." China Achebe’s message is echoed in a two-part video course that focuses on Things Fall Apart, Achebe’s novel about colonial Nigeria. The narrator's focus in Part 1 is on Okonkwo, the...
Crash Course
A Long and Difficult Journey, or The Odyssey
The narrator begins his presentation on The Odyssey with background information about Homer, the Trojan Wars, the oral tradition, epic poetry, and plot summaries of The Illiad and The Odyssey. And all in under four minutes. The narrator...
Crash Course
Fate, Family, and Oedipus Rex
"Alas, how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise." Is knowing a good thing? This course in the history of Greek drama uses Oedipus Rex as an exemplar. The narrator measures Sophocles’ play...
Jacob Clifford
Total Revenue Test and Elasticity Review
When prices go up in an elastic demand curve, what happens to total revenue? Your young economists will learn about this concept as they watch an engaging and informative speaker illustrate what happens through drawing different...
Jacob Clifford
Excise Tax Practice
How do consumers and producers both pay part of an excise tax, and how does the tax shift prices and quantity? This economics teacher demonstrates how to use a graph in order to answer these questions, as well as how to calculate tax per...
Jacob Clifford
Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns
Before delving into the concept of cost curves in your class, discuss the relationship between inputs and outputs and the law of diminishing marginal returns. Here, an instructor uses data and graphs representing friends mowing...
ouLearn
The Impossible Trinity
Governments work to maintain stable exchange rates, control interest rates, and let money freely flow in and out of the country. But can this happen all at once in countries when considering the international effects? Use this video to...
Jacob Clifford
Multiplier Effect, MPC, and MPS
Introduce the multiplier effect to your class members and help them understand the difference between the marginal propensity to consume and save.
Jacob Clifford
Graphing Practice
Help your class members make sense of the different graphs in economics, from aggregate demand and supply to the phillips curve, production possibilities curve, and business cycle.
Jacob Clifford
Classical vs. Keynesian Aggregate Supply
What is the difference between the Classical and Keynesian models of economics with regard to price levels and the aggregate supply graphs?
Jacob Clifford
The Phillips Curve (Short and Long Run)
How does one graph the Phillips curve? Here you'll find a great instructional video on how to use information and concepts from a basic aggregate supply and demand curve in order to draw the short run and long run Phillips curve.
Jacob Clifford
Inflationary and Recessionary Gaps with Fiscal and Monetary Policy
Where does the long run aggregate supply curve in graphs of an inflationary and recessionary gap? Check out this video for instruction on this process, as well as to learn about the motivations behind monetary and fiscal policy in...
Jacob Clifford
Long-Run Aggregate Supply
What happens in the long run when aggregate demand increases? Find out how wages, aggregate supply, and the long-run aggregate supply graph are affected by following along with this economics instructor in his instructional video.