Instructional Video3:02
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Christopher Davis - Creating the Narrative

Higher Ed
Chris Davis is a teacher and tech innovation project coordinator at Colegio Nueva Granada in Bogota, Colombia. He is very interested in the John Dewey description of "experience" as not merely connecting to prior knowledge but...
Instructional Video5:42
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Yonty Friesem - Digital Empathy

Higher Ed
Yonty (Jonathan) Friesem is the Associate Director at the Media Education Lab and an Assistant Professor of multimedia production faculty at the department of communication, Central Connecticut State University. He received his PhD from...
Instructional Video3:40
Curated Video

"Eco filter" brings water to Guatemala

9th - 11th
Thomson Reuters Foundation. By 2025, two-thirds of people worldwide are expected to face water shortages as businesses, agriculture and growing populations compete for the ever more precious commodity. How will the battle for water...
Instructional Video2:11
Curated Video

Can Delhi's sickly river be nursed back to life?

9th - 11th
Thomson Reuters Foundation. By 2025, two-thirds of people worldwide are expected to face water shortages as businesses, agriculture and growing populations compete for the ever more precious commodity. How will the battle for water...
Instructional Video8:46
The Guardian

Be Myself: Lucy's story of homelessness and survival

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Be Myself: Lucy's story of homelessness and survival Subscribe to the Guardian HEREref='http://bitly.com/UvkFpD' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>HERE Over eight months, between 2011 and 2012, Georgina Cranston documented the lives of...
Instructional Video13:42
12tone

Understanding Under Pressure

6th - 11th
In the history of music, there have been many great duets, but for my money, there's one that stands above them all: Under Pressure, by Queen and David Bowie. It's the result of two generational talents coming together to create a song...
Instructional Video4:20
Curated Video

Greening the Ghetto

9th - 11th
With 7 billion people on earth and the rapid urbanization of our societies, any piece of land becomes strategic in the race to feed the world. Nina Berman, a photographer from photo agency NOOR, started to document the movement of urban...
Instructional Video2:34
Science360

New Home Movies Resurrect Endangered American Indian Language

12th - Higher Ed
Tribal language educator Mary Hermes at the University of Minnesota, Duluth documents endangered languages. With support from the National Science Foundation, her team is working with elders to record, translate, transcribe, and annotate...
Instructional Video3:47
National WWII Museum

What Would You Do? Scenario: Standing up to Hitler

7th - 12th Standards
A reporter for the Chicago Daily News, based in Germany in 1933, is documenting Hitler's rise to power. As his stories grow more critical of the regime, he faces increasing pressure to stop. Eventually, even the American government...
Instructional Video3:25
National WWII Museum

The Bomb

7th - 12th Standards
The spectacular explosion of the first atomic weapon is documented with dramatic video footage in a short film. Using pictures and videos of the bomb's preparation, as well as its aftermath, scholars consider the ramifications of this...
Instructional Video47:58
National WWII Museum

"We’re All in This Together: How Students like You Helped Win World War II" Electronic Field Trip

7th - 12th
An eye-opening video shows how young people aided in the war effort, from growing victory gardens to rationing supplies during World War II. It also features primary sources, including military documents, and explains how to use them to...