Wonderscape
Start Smart: Just for Boys
This program is especially designed to appropriately introduce preteen boys to the many changes to their bodies that accompany adolescence. Boys will learn about the physical, social and emotional changes that come with puberty. Young...
TED Talks
Mary Lou Jepsen: Could future devices read images from our brains?
As an expert on cutting-edge digital displays, Mary Lou Jepsen studies how to show our most creative ideas on screens. And as a brain surgery patient herself, she is driven to know more about the neural activity that underlies invention,...
Curated Video
Adding Details for Flow in Writing
In this video, the teacher explains the importance of adding details to create flow in a story. They provide examples and guide students through revising a draft to improve the clarity and coherence of the narrative. The goal is to help...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why should you read Sylvia Plath? - Iseult Gillespie
Explore the haunting and intimate works of poet Sylvia Plath, who digs into issues of mental health, trauma and sexuality in works like “The Bell Jar.” -- Under her shrewd eye and pen, Sylvia Plath turned everyday objects into haunting...
Cult of Pedagogy
The Mind's Eye Strategy
This video shows you how to use Mind's Eye, a pre-reading strategy that helps students build mental images based on a selected list of words from the text. For a full review of this strategy, see the article at...
SciShow
A Blood Test for Cancer
Since many cancers don’t have symptoms early on, they may go unnoticed until they are at an advanced stage. But that is changing, thanks to a newer, non-invasive tool.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Reginald Dwayne Betts - From Jail to Yale
Reginald Dwayne Betts is a Ph.D. in Law candidate at Yale. His major research interests are administrative law, criminal law, empirical legal studies, and law and literature. He holds a B.A. from the University of Maryland and a J.D....
TED Talks
Molly Crockett: Beware neuro-bunk
Brains are ubiquitous in modern marketing: Headlines proclaim cheese sandwiches help with decision-making, while a “neuro” drink claims to reduce stress. There’s just one problem, says neuroscientist Molly Crockett: The benefits of these...
Epic Reads
CHALLENGER DEEP by Neal Shusterman | Official Book Trailer
The bottom is only the beginning. CHALLENGER DEEP is a captivating and deeply personal novel about one teen’s experience with mental illness from New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman, whose son Brendan’s powerful drawings...
Psych2Go
The Hopelessness Theory of Depression
Do you wonder what causes chronic depression? Perhaps, you yourself are diagnosed with clinical depression or you know someone who has depression, but you aren't sure why they suffer from depression? Depression is an extremely complex...
Curated Video
How Lucid Dreaming Works
You may have heard of lucid dreaming, the type of dream where the dreamer is aware of dreaming. Is lucid dreaming a real phenomenon? Sleep expert Matthew Walker explains how much we know about lucid dreams so far. Tech Insider tells you...
Curated Video
Can You Solve Abraham Lincoln's Math Homework?
Little known fact: Abraham Lincoln was a very good math student! In this video I share the story of why he studied Euclid's Elements. I also share a problem he did while in school. He did in fact get the correct answer, and we can deduce...
Curated Video
Can You Solve George Washington's Math Homework? (And Abraham Lincoln's Too)
Today politicians do not much about mathematics. But interestingly George Washington and Abraham Lincoln both understood the value of mathematics. And amazingly manuscripts of their homework have survived and been preserved for hundreds...
Curated Video
The Quadratic Formula - Why Do We Complete The Square? INTUITIVE PROOF
The quadratic formula is really useful, but its derivation is confusing to many. Like what is the point of "completing the square" anyway? In this video, I show how "completing the square" has a geometric interpretation--you are actually...
Curated Video
HARD Geometry Problem With Clever Solution. The Integer Rectangle
A rectangle R is tiled by smaller rectangles, each of which has either an integer height or an integer width (or both). Prove the rectangle R also has an integer height or an integer width (or both). Blog post (text/image solution):...
FuseSchool
Anorexia and Eating Disorders
How does someone develop an eating disorder? Explore the link between health and body image with a video from a larger biology series. Content includes the symptoms and effects of eating disorders, reasons that eating disorders go...