SMART Technologies
Smart: Butterfly Life Cycle
Learn and review the life cycle of a butterfly, with slides for taking notes. Includes a link to a great YouTube Video!
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Beautiful Noise Poetry
For this lesson, students will listen to just the sounds from two YouTube videos; they will use a graphic organizer to create a mind movie. Inspired by the images that their minds created, they will then listen to Neil Diamond's...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution: Scientists at the Smithsonian
This is a collection of video interviews with twenty Smithsonian scientists who work in a scientific areas as vastly different as measuring the moon and figuring out what kinds of birds collide with aircraft. An interesting way to...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Erbium: Periodic Table of Videos
The team at periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. In this one, the professor explains why erbium is perhaps the most important element for websites like YouTube. [5:35]
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How Much Does a Video Weigh?
What color is a mirror? How much does a video weigh? Michael Stevens, creator of the popular educational YouTube channel Vsauce, spends his day asking quirky questions like these. In this talk he shows how asking the right questions can...
Other
Kings Canyon Unified School District: Digital Citizenship Lesson [Pdf]
A instructional activity script to use with students before viewing a 5-minute video called Faux Paw's Adventures on the Internet, and for reviewing the rules of Internet safety after watching the video. The video can be found on Youtube...
Scholastic
Scholastic: New York Times Upfront: Growing Up Digital
Many people are wondering about the ramifications of the digital age on the digital generation. Will the cell phones, Facebook, YouTube, computer generation be harmed in any way? Is this technology hurting students or actually enabling...
Time
Time: The Online Conquistador
Ruben "El Rubius" Doblas Gundersen is a Spanish speaking vlogger and one of the most popular on YouTube. Find out what he does and how he became so famous.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Hyphens
This multimedia tutorial focuses on hyphens; it defines hyphenation, lists uses, provides examples, discusses hyphenation errors, and provides a 7-sentence quiz in text format. It offers two YouTube videos: the first explains when to use...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Introduction to Blogging
This lesson will help students understand what a blog is and how they are used to communicate online. It defines blogging and its uses and offers a YouTube video that explains what blogs are and how they work.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Nominalizations
This tutorial begins with a slide show which defines nominalizations; gives examples of adjectives and adverbs changed into nouns, gerunds, and infinitives. Practice with simplifying nominalizations is provided. It also offers a YouTube...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Prefixes and Suffixes
This tutorial begins with a YouTube video rapping about affixes including roots, prefixes, and suffixes. There are two slide shows including one about prefixes and one about suffixes; each includes definition, how it functions, and a...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Semicolons
This semicolon tutorial includes notes, a slideshow, and an animated YouTube video. The slideshow defines semicolons, explains how and when to use them, and provides examples of them in context. The video explains the Chicago Style...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Speaking in Class
This tutorial focuses on tips to alleviate the fear of public speaking. It offers a YouTube video, "How to Speak in Public," which provides 15 steps to good public speaking; this is followed by an extensive list of tips to prepare for...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Strong Verbs
This tutorial provides a PowerPoint presentation that defines strong verbs, gives examples, and explains why to use them. It also offers a YouTube video of a teacher setting up a "fight" between strong verb and weak verb. The tutorial...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Article Usage
This tutorial focuses on English articles (a, an, the); it includes a slide show which defines the two types of articles and provides an exercise choosing the correct article. It also offers 2 YouTube videos: the first defines definite...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Capitalization
This capitalization tutorial uses a variey of media. It begins with the reasons for capitalization and examples set to music in a video and a battle between lower and upper case letters; these are followed by a PDF of the rules for...
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Work Done in Adiabatic Compression Process
Determine the work that was done when no heat enters or leaves the system. A video describing the problem can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt0u94PtbJ8&feature=youtu.be
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Speed of Pac Man on X Axis
Determine the speed of Pac-Man in different units based on their timing of him across the x-axis. This video describes the problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGd49bz1Q2w&feature=youtu.be
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Speed of Pac Man in 2 Dimensions
Students must determine the speed of Pac-Man in the x-direction, y-direction and in total. This video describes the problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmlIqwAdS-8&feature=youtu.be
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Equations of Sine Curves
This game will help students determine the coefficients of sine curves. Students must determine the A, B, C and D values for a randomly generated sine curve. This video describes the program:...
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Approximate Speed in Traffic Challenge
This game is designed to help students use mental math to find the average speed of traffic. A video which helps explain the program is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZV-RmyPc90&feature=youtu.be
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Metric Prefix Challenge
This game is designed to help students learn the metric prefixes and how to convert large and small numbers into numbers written with a metric prefix. A video to help explain the game is here:...
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Distance, Time and Speed Challenge
This game is designed to help students mentally figure out distances, speeds or time for objects moving at constant speed. A video will help with use of the program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nWhvhO6pXo&feature=youtu.be