Science360
Origami-inspired medical devices-NSF Science Now 42
In this week’s episode we explore origami-inspired devices, examine family technology rules, and finally we examine how changing ocean chemistry may threaten the Antarctic food chain.
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
Part 2: Taxidermy Trophy Heads | Art Lesson | Paper Mache the Base
This art lesson is part two of a series on how to create Taxidermy Trophy Heads using Paper Mache. The lesson was created for 7th grade sculpture, but could be adapted for other ages. Products used in this video lesson are: Paper Mache...
JJ Medicine
Thyroid Cancer (Papillary, Follicular, Medullary & Anaplastic) | Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
Thyroid cancer (thyroid carcinoma) is cancer of the thyroid gland, an endocrine gland involved in producing thyroid hormones such as T3 and T4. Thyroid cancer accounts for approximately 1% of all cancers, and several factors increase the...
Curated Video
Using and Evaluating Critical Path Analysis in Project Management
This video explains critical path analysis, a project management tool used to identify and focus on the tasks and activities that cannot be delayed without pushing back the final deadline of a project. The video discusses management by...
Wonderscape
Science Kids: Exploring Mixtures and Solutions
In this video, students will learn about different methods of separating substances in mixtures and solutions. They will explore physical changes in matter, the properties of mixtures and solutions, and the processes of evaporation,...
Curated Video
Calculating Theoretical Yield in Chemical Reactions
The video is a tutorial on how to calculate theoretical yields in chemistry. The host explains the concept of theoretical yield as the maximum mass of product that can be formed during a reaction when assuming the reaction has gone to...
Lisa's Study Guides
Burial Rites | Essay topics with Lisa Tran
Time for Burial Rites essay question, brainstorm and breakdown! Written by Hannah Kent, Burial Rites allows readers to join Agnes in her final moments before her life sentence. This essay topic focuses on the patriarchy, so in my story...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Molefi Kete Asante - Teachers Make a Difference
Dr. Molefi Kete Asante is Professor and Chair, Department of African American Studies at Temple University. Considered by his peers to be one of the most distinguished contemporary scholars, Asante has published 77 books, among the most...
National Institute of Standards and Technology
National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC)
This animated video provides viewers with a look at how the National Strategy for Trusted Identities will work. The goal is to establish identity solutions and privacy-enhancing technologies that will improve the security and convenience...
Wonderscape
Magnetic Storage: How Computers Use Magnets
Dive into the fascinating world of magnetic data storage! Learn how computers and phones use tiny magnets to store vast amounts of information. Discover through simple experiments why strong magnets can disrupt electronic devices and...
TED-Ed
Why Should You Read "Don Quixote"?
What value could there possibly be in a story about a man who sets out to fight windmills? Turns out, quite a bit! A video and interactive lesson about the novel Don Quixote sets out to explain the answer to the question. Viewers track...
TED-Ed
Why Should You Read Edgar Allan Poe?
Edgar Allen Poe's writing goes far beyond the familiarity of "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart." An intriguing video lesson explores the work, history, and style of the famous Gothic writer. Animations engage viewers in the video, and...
PBS
American Masters Gatsby Chases the American Dream
What's so great about Gatsby? A teaching guide asks readers to consider whether Gatsby's quest represents the embodiment of the American Dream or a reflection of the American nightmare, a green light, or a valley of ashes.
TED-Ed
Why Should You Read Flannery O’Connor?
There is more to literature of the American South than Civil War battles and Scarlett O'Hara. A short video introduces viewers to the works of Flannery O'Connor and her world of unique characters that causes readers to consider the dark...
TED-Ed
The Myth of Cupid and Psyche
What does it mean to love? Is true love possible? Transformative? The myth of Cupid and Psyche asks readers to ponder these questions as does a short video that retells the classic tale.
PBS
The Importance of Chicano Representation in Bless Me, Ultima
The best books either enable readers to see themselves, their culture, and their way of life reflected in the story or to gain an understanding of a way of life different from their own. Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima is such a book....
PBS
Louisa May Alcott | Transcendentalism
Readers may not immediately think of transcendentalism when they consider Little Women, but its tenets of self-reliance, civil disobedience, and progressivism were major influences on Louisa May Alcott and her body of work. Learn more...
PBS
One Hundred Years of Solitude | The Great American Read
One Hundred Years of Solitude introduces readers to magic realism. Told in a series of flashbacks and flash-forwards, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Nobel Prize-winning novel is a candidate for The Great American Read program and aficionados...
TED-Ed
The Power of a Great Introduction
How do you create a great introduction to a literary analysis? Why, you write it last, of course. The narrator of a short video on crafting a great introduction suggests tackling the introduction after you have crafted your thesis,...
TED-Ed
Why Should You Read "Macbeth"?
All is fair in motivating readers. And something wickedly wonderful comes from using a short introductory video to double readers' enjoyment of Shakespeare's tragedy about the ambitious Thane of Glamis. It is a tale told by a genius.
TED-Ed
Does "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" Have a Hidden Message?
Like Mark Twain's introduction to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz warns readers not to search for a hidden message or moral in his tale. Yet many, such as Henry Littlefield, have done...
TED-Ed
Why Should You Read Sylvia Plath?
Are the works of Sylvia Plath relevant to the modern reader? The narrator of a short video argues for why viewers should read the works of Sylvia Plath, citing lines from Plath's poetry and images from her stories.
Crash Course
Don't Reanimate Corpses! Frankenstein Part 1
"Who is more human? Victor Frankenstein or the nameless monster he created?" This, according to the narrator of a two-part presentation on Frankenstein, is the essential question. The video begins with a summary of the action of the...
The School of Life
George Orwell
Ordinary people, ordinary jobs, ordinary life. According to George Orwell it's the ordinary that should be the focus of literature. Introduce readers to this extraordinary writer with a short video that details how his life experiences...