Curated Video
4 Steps to Create a Tech-Rich Lesson Plan
Using technology is quite different from teaching with technology. Check out four steps you can follow to design tech-rich lesson plans. Get tips on great edtech tools and teaching practices at www.commonsense.org/education ---------...
Curated Video
What is SWOT Analysis? Useful tool for Project Managers
SWOT Analysis is a well-known tool. And rightly so! It is simple, yet it is also flexible and powerful. As a project manager, SWOT Analysis is one of those tools that you can use in may circumstances. So it's a great resource to have in...
Curated Video
“Turn Off the Water!” Music Video
“Turn Off the Water” is an energetic, upbeat song showcasing some simple ways kids can be part of the solution right now - at home and at school - simply by turning off the water when they're not using it. Use this song to introduce the...
Curated Video
Teen Voices: The Pressure to Stay Connected
Teachers, for the lesson plan associated with this topic please visit: https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship/lesson/digital-media-and-your-brain Kids and teens use technology for lots of things, from texting and...
Curated Video
Ways of Looking at the World
From two dimensional maps, to satellite images from space: discover some of the many ways to explore the Earth and its physical and 'human' features. Human Geography - Orientation And Settlements - Learning Points. Maps have been used by...
Curated Video
Mapping the seas
Discover how techniques for mapping the seas have changed throughout history. People and places -Mapping - Mapping the seas Learning Points The technique of measuring the sea's depth using a weighted line is called depth sounding. Sonar...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Nolan Bushnell - BrainRush Smarter Learning
Nolan Bushnell is a technology pioneer, entrepreneur and scientist. Often cited as the father of the video game industry, he is best known as the founder of Atari Corporation and Chuck E. Cheese Pizza Time Theater. Mr. Bushnell is...
Programming Electronics Academy
Ep. 15: A Wearable Compass with Jelle Reith
This week Michael has a chance to sit down with Jelle Reith who has created an amazing project called ‘Compass’, an Arduino powered wearable used for navigation. Jelle talks about where the inspiration for ‘Compass’ came from (4:00),...
Curated Video
PMP Certification Training - Control Scope
This video explains controlling the scope. This clip is from the chapter "Project Scope Management" of the series "PMP® Certification Training".This section explains project scope management.
Curated Video
Operation Rocket - Smarter Every Day 39
What is your plan to help educate the future generation appreciate Science, Technology, Engineering and Math? -Post this to Facebook by clicking here: http://on.fb.me/OperationRocket Watch the girls on the far right at 2:10. They had no...
Bozeman Science
ETS2A - Interdependence of Science, Engineering and Technology
What comes first: science, engineering, or technology? The video narrator explains the interdependence of the three disciplines. Using specific examples, he shows how one could not advance without the other.
Teach Engineering
Storing Android Accelerometer Data: App Design
There's an app for that! Pupils learn to build an app that will store data on an Android. The lesson introduces class members to the tiny database, TinyDB, for Android devices. A video tutorial provides an example that uses the...
Curated Video
Reporting - Safety and Abuse Tool
Keep your charges safe online with instruction on how to report problems on YouTube. After providing learners with information on the Safety and Abuse Tool, demonstrate how to use the tool and discuss the feature. In groups, learners...
Teach Engineering
Skin and the Effects of Ultraviolet Radiation
Though UV radiation can damage skin, it isn't all bad. The third installment in a six-part series allows the class to study the structure and function of skin. They learn about the different types of skin cancer and the SPF rating...
Code.org
Star Wars: Building a Galaxy with Code
Welcome to the code side. The interactive lesson introduces coding in a game format with familiar characters. Young computer experts learn to develop code to control the interaction of the characters in the game. The activity ends with...
Teach Engineering
How Antibiotics Work
Take two pills and call me in the morning. The first lesson in a short unit of four introduces class members to delivery methods of medicines. The instruction introduces the question of which delivery method is best to get you feeling...
Teach Engineering
The Grand Challenge
Magnetic resonance imaging, just how safe is it? The introduction to unit study of magnetic resonance imaging technology presents the grand challenge questions of how an MRI machine works, the risks involved, the physics involved,...
TED-Ed
Will There Ever Be a Mile-High Skyscraper?
It seems like skyscrapers are getting taller and taller these days. An interesting video explains the challenges of constructing tall skyscrapers. It uses several examples of existing buildings to show how engineers overcome these...
The Great War
Cavalry in WW1 - Between Tradition and Machine Gun Fire
The German Calvary lost over 800 horses and 500 men in a single battle! The changes in technology during World War I forced changes in how battles were fought. An engaging primary source video puts scholars in the shoes of the soldiers...
Northeast Arkansas Education Cooperative
Function Families: Translations and Reflections
This comprehensive introduction to rigid transformation of functions does a fabulous job of breaking down translations and reflections into manageable concept chunks. Care is taken with horizontal translations, vertical translations,...
Northeast Arkansas Education Cooperative
Function Families and Their Connections Including Vertical Shift of an Absolute Value Function
One of the strongest tools an algebra learner develops is the ability to quickly and accurately graph almost any given function. Often doing this quickly and accurately requires rigid transformations to a parent function,...
SciShow
That Time We Gave Earth a Ring Made of Millions of Tiny Needles
They tried to put a ring on it! In the 60s, scientists had a plan to improve communication technology. Adding a ring of copper needles around the earth would help to boost radio wave signals. Scholars can watch a video lesson from a...
Lesson Planet
EdTech Tuesday: CommonCore
Check the standards whenever you please! Jennifer and Rich present an app that easily navigates the Common Core State Standards. They walk step-by-step through how to find the exact standard you're looking for by searching by grade and...
TED-Ed
Visualizing the World's Twitter Data
Watch as Jer Thorp, former analyst for the New York Times, presents models of human behavior based on Twitter activity. Use the video to show your class the impact and scale of social media during a technology unit. The presenter is...