Curated Video
Supporting the Main Idea –Informational
Supporting the Main Idea –Informational analyzes informational text by showing how paraphrasing and quotes support the main idea.
FuseSchool
BIOLOGY - Cells - Introduction to Cells
All living organisms are made up of cells - they are the basic building blocks of life. There are two important categories of cells: plant cells and animal cells. In this video we look at animal cells in more detail. Animal cells are the...
Clarendon Learning
What is the Main Idea? | Main Idea for Kids | Finding the Main Idea in Books and Stories
When a child is learning to read it can be difficult to identify the main idea. In this video we help your kid learn all about the main idea in stories and books. We will learn how to identify what the main idea of a story or book is,...
Curated Video
Key Ideas and Details
A video entitled “Key Ideas and Details” which models how to identify key ideas and details in an informational text.
Curated Video
Central Idea of Informational Text
Central Idea of Informational Text identifies and explains details in an informational text that support a given theme or central idea.
Cerebellum
Business Law: Valid Contract
Negotiating a contract; offers, counter offers, and withdrawing offers. This video is part 3 in the series 'Business Law: Contract Law'.
Curated Video
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Mr. Griot explains where to locate sources for research. He demonstrates taking notes, creating a graphic organizer, and writing a rough draft about baseball.
Bozeman Science
How I'm Teaching Remotely
Paul Andersen describes how he is teaching remotely in both conferences and classrooms. He tries to focus on good pedagogy rather than technology. The main topics include Whole Class Instruction, Science Investigations, Student Feedback...
Oxford Online English
How to Summarise a Text in English - Improve English Comprehension
In this lesson, you can learn how to read and summarise a text. Summarising a text is a vital skill for your English reading. If you can’t make a short, clear summary of the main ideas of a text, then you almost certainly haven’t...
Clarendon Learning
What is an Inference? | Making Inferences for Kids | Inference and Reading Comprehension Practice
What is an Inference? Making an inference simply means to use what you already know to make a guess about something that you don’t know. It is a very important reading comprehension skill and throughout this video we help your kids and...
Big Think
Symmetry: How Einstein Changed the Way We See Everything.
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek details the broad influence Albert Einstein had on his career, as well as society as a whole. Frank Wilczek's book is "A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design"...
Curated Video
Bohr's Atomic Model: Electrons in Orbit
In 1913, Niels Bohr proposed an atomic model that dramatically altered our comprehension of atomic structure by establishing a novel framework for describing the arrangement and behaviour of electrons within an atom. The purpose of...
Townsend Press
Implied Main Ideas
Skilled readers can find the main idea of an informative passage without finding it directly stated. A reading video prompts elementary learners to examine supporting details in several examples, and to infer what the main idea...
Townsend Press
Main Ideas
Once you find the main idea of a paragraph, it's easy to see how the rest of the details are supporting evidence. Take your readers through an explanatory video that demonstrates the points and supports of several reading examples.
Townsend Press
Inferences
A picture is worth a thousand words. Help your class out with some of those words with a video about drawing inferences from reading passages, images, and other media. The resource focuses on the supporting details of each passage...
Curated OER
Mining Literature for Deeper Meanings
Literature teachers often ask their classes to find the big ideas in a text, but how does a writer do this successfully? Show the video to give your pupils some steps to keep in mind while they read and analyze. The narrator encourages...
TED-Ed
How Did Polynesian Wayfinders Navigate the Pacific Ocean?
Imagine sailing around the world, or even around the Pacific Ocean, in an outrigger canoe without the the aid of a GPS? Or a compass? Or even a sextant? The Polynesians did. Find out how with an engaging video that details how they used...
TED-Ed
Can You Solve the Control Room Riddle?
Evil syndicates, secret control panels, death rays. As the country's top spy, it is your job to use the provided clues to find the hidden control room and deactivate the ray.
TED-Ed
How Does Fracking Work?
Fracking. The mere mention of the word invites controversy. Before joining the debate find out just what is involved in hydraulic fracturing with a short video that examines the technology involved in extracting natural gas found...
TED-Ed
Why Should You Read Shakespeare's "The Tempest"?
Why should you read a story about a magician, his daughter, a slave, a monster, a sprite, a witch, and a prince? Find out what William Shakespeare's The Tempest all about and why it is still a worthy read, despite being written over...
TED-Ed
Is There Any Truth to the King Arthur Legends?
Was he or wasn’t he? We may never know for sure about the origins of King Arthur. But a video that leads middle school and high school viewers through the facts and fictions that have kept King Arthur alive in peoples’ imaginations for...
California Academy of Science
What's the Deal With Fossil Fuels?
Plastic bags, laptops, and even toothpaste all contain petroleum. A lesson explains how to define fossil fuels, including petroleum, and the many uses for fossil fuels in our everyday lives. It also details why new sources need to...
TED-Ed
What on Earth is Spin?
If your head is spinning when you consider teaching the action of spinning, this video is sure to settle things. First, the motion is defined and described. The conservation of angular momentum, the Coriolis effect, and the air pressure...
TED-Ed
How to Speed Up Chemical Reactions (and Get a Date)
How are chemical reactions like dating? A collision must first occur! In this hilarious approach to speeding up chemical reactions, viewers find out that five changes can increase the rate of reaction: smaller space, increased number of...