Instructional Video4:30
ShortCutsTv

Mastering Metacognition: Elevate Your Learning and Problem-Solving Skills

Higher Ed
Explore the power of metacognition—thinking about your thinking—to boost your academic performance and enhance your problem-solving abilities. This video guides you through the essentials of metacognitive strategies, including planning,...
Instructional Video2:05
National Parks Service

Glacier National Park - McDonald Creek Overlook

Pre-K - Higher Ed
The observation platform at McDonald Creek overlook allows visitors to get an up close look at this beautiful and powerful force of nature. CREDIT: Glacier National Park
Instructional Video11:54
Curated Video

MetaCognition

9th - 11th
Metacognition can be defined as thinking about thinking and Philosophical Transactions B has just published an issue highlighting the advances being made in research to measure and quantify metacognition, and understand its neural basis....
Instructional Video2:37
True Calling

The Last Haida Language Teacher

Higher Ed
"I always get pulled into work that I feel passionate about, and I was pulled into this language work." Language is an expression of culture, and there once was a time when the colonial narrative was that Haida culture was dead. With...
Instructional Video5:06
Curated Video

Social Intelligence: 5 Mental Gifts to Succeed in Society

Higher Ed
The video discusses the five cognitive skills that make up social intelligence: sympathy, self-awareness, empathy, metacognition, and theory of mind. It explains how these skills develop over time and how they allow us to understand...
Instructional Video3:44
Edutopia

Developing Agency With Student-Led Conferences

10th - Higher Ed
When students lead meetings with their parents and teachers, they gain a voice in their education and develop skills like goal-setting and metacognition. Our How Learning Happens video series explores teaching practices grounded in the...
Instructional Video3:45
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Get My Job - Personal Trainer

9th - 12th
Get My Job explores the day in the life of different professions around Australia. In this episode we meet a Personal Trainer who will get you motivated for your career in fitness.
Instructional Video1:03
Curated Video

I WONDER - Are Lakes Part Of The Ocean?

Pre-K - 5th
This video is answering the question of are lakes part of the ocean.
Instructional Video6:03
Physics Girl

What is a quantum coin toss?

9th - 12th
Quantum coin flipping is the fairest way to flip a coin over the phone. How does it work?!
Instructional Video8:11
The Learning Depot

Structural Features of Text | Literary & Expository | Improve Your Reading Comprehension Skills

12th - Higher Ed
Recognizing text structure will help you be a better reader. Once you are familiar with the text's organizational pattern, you can make predictions as you read and form a mental map. In this lesson, we cover eight elements or structure...
Instructional Video2:42
ShortCutsTv

Procrastination 1: Avoidance and Denial

Higher Ed
Most of us try to avoid doing things we don’t particularly like. But for students, research has shown procrastination can have particularly serious consequences, such as increasing stress levels and lowering grades. And the first step to...
Instructional Video10:49
Smithsonian Institution

That’s so Meta(cognitive)!

K - Higher Ed
Explicitly teaching metacognition strategies to pupils sometimes affects their learning potential. A PD video lesson from the Good Thinking series explores the concept and offers strategies for teachers to incorporate in their...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Esperanza Rising- Metacognition

6th
Sixth graders develop metacognitive skills while reading Esperanza Rising. In this comprehension strategies lesson, 6th graders read a chapter from the book and discuss questions with a small group. Students share with their peers. 
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Curated OER

Inca's Untangles World

5th - 8th
Young scholars read a reprinted article from USA Today. In this metacognition lesson, students complete a worksheet about their thoughts while they are reading.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Learning Log

2nd - 6th
A simple idea, this exercise will help young learners practice metacognitive and language arts skills. At the end of each day of school, have each member of your class record, in their own words, what they learned that day. Merely...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Analyzing Artifacts Using Bloom's Taxonomy

7th
Seventh graders apply Blooms Taxonomy to analyze a collection of artifacts. They define and discuss the nature of artifacts and work in groups to complete handouts. Students analyze an object (stone pipe) on a mystery artifact analysis...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Identify That Strategy!

9th - 12th
Young scholars choose, read,and analyze a text at least one-thousand words long using varied reading strategies. They identify the strategies used in the analysis of their text and explain how they are crucial to comprehension.
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ReadWriteThink

Promoting Student Self-Assessment

6th - 12th
Keep class members accountable for their own learning with a series of differentiated instruction strategies. From rubrics created by pupils to learning contracts written at the beginning of the year, the resource offers multiple ways...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Silhouettes and Interiors

6th - 8th
Middle schoolers create a multimedia piece that integrates drawing and collage. Students learn about metacognition and the discovering of self through genres of art and literature by using these steps: inspiration, brainstorm,...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

If I Had the Power

1st - 2nd
Have your young learners practice using higher-order thinking skills by engaging in this problem-solving activity. They work in cooperative groups to solve problems, and list ways to address a variety of challenges. They explain their...
Instructional Video4:50
TED-Ed

How Smart Are Dolphins?

6th - 12th
Dolphins are one of the smartest creatures on Earth. The size of their brain compared to their body size is second to humans. This allows these cetaceans to form complex social relationships and use echolocation to...
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Curated OER

Mini-Lesson Planning for Inferences

4th - 7th Standards
Making inferences and drawing conclusions is a key component to successful active reading. Encourage your class to use context clues and prior knowledge to infer different elements of a story, including the setting, plot, and character...
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EngageNY

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 8

9th - 12th Standards
Lights, camera, action! Math educators consider how to improve their instruction by examining a model of the five-practice problem-solving model involving a movie theater. Participants examine cognitive demand in relation to problem...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Strategies for Determining the Meaning of a Word

1st Standards
What does that word mean? I can sound it out, but it just doesn't make sense. Teach your class a sure fire strategy to combat those pesky unknown words. You'll introduce the concept of context clues through metacognitive modeling,...

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