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Career Connections | High School Art Teacher
Want to combine art with STEM education? Why not. The narrator of a short video details how she combines her love of art education with STEM and project-based learning.
Curated OER
House Principal
Ramon Camacho is the House Principal at a high school. He explains what a "typical" day is like as a high school principal, as well as the requirements to become one.
Curated OER
Career Center Advisor
The person in this video works as an advisor in the career center at Fremont High School. She assists students in preparing for college and employment. Her typical day incorporates working with students and parents, staying organized and...
Fuse School
Global Warming - Evaluating the Evidence
It's getting hot in here! Evidence of global warming is all around us, as shown in part four of a series of eight videos about global warming and the carbon cycle. High school environmentalists get to examine the facts for themselves in...
PBS
Career Connections | Welding
Superglue doesn't work on everything. A short video introduces viewers to those who can join together materials that form the background of most construction projects, from bridges to high rises, from pipelines to household water supply...
Curated OER
Library Technology Teacher
At the Freemont High School Library, you will find the skilled library technology teacher, Ms. Backarma. She welcomes into the library and walks us through her position.
Macat
An Introduction to Prahalad and Hamel’s Core Competence of the Corporation
If you want to get ahead in business, is it better to foster collaboration between departments, or to allow specialists to work on their own projects? A short video introduces C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel's 1990 work, The Core...
TED-Ed
How to Fossilize Yourself
Here is an unusual question: How can I become a famous fossil for future generations to examine and adore? It is from this comical perspective that viewers learn how fossilization occurs. Show this for your middle school paleontologists...
TED-Ed
Why Some Countries Are Poor and Others Rich
It's a question economists, anthropologists, and sociologists have asked themselves since the first regional lines were drawn in the sand. Are there common factors that destine one country to thrive and another to struggle? An...
National Science Foundation
Science of the Winter Olympic Games: Alpine Skiing and Vibration Damping
Alpine skiers have engineers looking out for their safety and for their performance. Physics and materials engineers consider how to dampen the vibrations that can be caused by bumps in the snow, vibrations that can cause the athletes to...
TED-Ed
Under the Hood: The Chemistry of Cars
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines! Explore the cumbustion reactions driving the world's automobiles and the chemical solutions used to keep their engines cool with this fun instructional video.
TED-Ed
The Nurdles’ Quest for Ocean Domination
Nurdles aren't the cute characters of a new children's cartoon, they are the tiny plastic pellets slowly polluting the world's water supply. Learn all about these little trouble makers with this short video that explores the impacts...
TED-Ed
What Did Dogs Teach Humans About Diabetes? diseases
For thousands of years people recognized the symptoms of diabetes, but it wasn't until the early twentieth century that a treatment was finally discovered. This video explores the Nobel Prize winning scientists' whose work with...
Physics Girl
The Unusual Formation of the Hawaiian Islands
How are the Hawaiian Islands different from other island chains? Discover the surprising geologic history of Hawaii with a video from a cool physics playlist. The narrator takes a hike with some geologists and discusses mantle plume...
TED-Ed
Will Future Spacecraft Fit in Our Pockets?
Say goodbye to giant rocket ships and hello to micro-spacecraft. Taking a look at the future of space exploration, this video explores the development of tiny, expendable space probes that can investigate the far reaches of...
Crash Course
Experimental and Documentary Films
Some of the boldest films in history have been documentaries or experimental films. Explore non-narrative cinema and its avant-garde techniques with a short video about a creative faction in film history. Additionally, the video...
MinutePhysics
Open Letter to the President: Physics Education
Does something seem missing from your Physics class? Is it ... excitement? Current physics topics? The latest discoveries? The video explains some of the "gaps" in most physics curricula throughout the United States. Scholars learn...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Earmarks, Pork Barrel Projects and Logrolling
This video lesson from Khan Academy discusses government expenditures. Specifically, earmarks, pork barrel projects and logrolling are highlighted. This lesson is intended for students taking a high school or college level American...
Other
Ki Cubed: I Squared: A Different Way of Learning and Thinking
Imagine what students can accomplish in high school and beyond when they have been learning in a collaborative, real world, standards based environment throughout their elementary and middle school years! See what project-based learning...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: The Art of Making Layer Cakes: Construction of Bituminous Roads
The aim of this video is to introduce high school students to the engineering concept of road construction and to the reasons why problems might arise in road construction. Presentation of this concept is made more accessible to students...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Five Steps to Make Your Own Political Art: Kqed Art School
This video details a formula for making political art in five easy steps by offering examples of successful projects from high profile artists Banksy, Corita Kent, Emory Douglas, Ai Wei Wei, Shepard Fairey and Barbara Kruger. [3 min, 23...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Bridging Culture, Community and Science
See how a place-based high school curriculum project promotes STEM learning through local ethnography and conservation projects. This video segment showcases one of 11 CREST projects taking place in rural, coastal Maine communities. [5:40]
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Pbs Learning Media: The Impact of Urban Renewal: Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten
In this video from Tula: The Fire and the Forgotten, historian Hannibal Johnson describes how Greenwood was rebuilt after the 1921 race massacre and reached its peak in the mid 1940s, but ironically began to decline in the 1950s as a...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Traffic Jam Part 1: Intro
This first segment in the 7-part lesson series introduces four high school students, as experience traffic delay problems. They decide to respond to an invitation to work with the city on improving the timing of a traffic signal near...