Introduction to Teachers' Domain Workshop

This workshop introduces the Teachers' Domain Web site, including how to register and how to find, select, and use the online resources.

Using Teachers' Domain in the Classroom Workshop

This workshop introduces teachers to strategies for using Teachers' Domain resources in the classroom.

Creating User-Generated Media Workshop

This workshop introduces ways to use Teachers' Domain media to produce videos.

Discussion of Electric Circuits

In this video from Teaching Elementary Physical Science, a teacher and her fourth-grade class discuss observations of their experiment with electric circuits.

Group Discussion about Soil and Earthworms

In this video segment from Teaching Elementary Life Science, a teacher leads her second-grade students in a group discussion about earthworms and the importance of soil.

Making Observations of Leaves

In this video segment from Teaching Elementary Life Science, a teacher asks her first-grade students to record their observations of leaves they’ve collected on a leaf safari.

Making Predictions about Magnets

In this video segment from Teaching Elementary Physical Science, fourth graders predict the effect a nearby electric current will have on a magnetic compass needle.

Making Predictions about Moving Plates

In this video segment from Teaching Earth and Space Science, middle school students work with map data to make predictions about the movement of tectonic plates.

About Inspiring Middle School Literacy

This professional development video from WGBH shows how teachers work with their students, using the self-paced lessons from the Inspiring Middle School Literacy collection, to improve content knowledge and literacy skills.

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Active Teaching and Learning

Watch this professional development video from Getting Results, to see how strategies such as hands-on activities or participation in group work increase student understanding and confidence.

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Adapting Environments for Individuals with Vision Loss – Darick Wright

In these videos produced by Perkins School for the Blind, Darick Wright, Coordinator of the New England Eye Clinic at Perkins, explains the importance of adapting environmental factors like lighting and contrast to people with vision loss.

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Addressing Issues of Sexuality with Students who are Visually Impaired – Jeff Migliozzi

These videos produced by Perkins School for the Blind provide information for teachers and parents about the importance of using clear and accurate language when talking about sexual development with children who are blind or visually impaired.

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Assessing Prior Knowledge of Pond Life

In this video segment from Teaching Middle School Life Science, a science education specialist works with a small group of middle school students to determine what they know about pond life.

Assessing Student Learning about Light

In this video from Physics by Inquiry, learn about assessing the transfer of knowledge to new situations.

Assessing Student Understanding of Crayfish

In this video segment from Teaching Middle School Life Science, a fifth-grade teacher discusses how she assesses student understanding in a classroom activity.

Assessing Teaching and Learning

Watch how one teacher conducts formative assessment as part of her statistics class, in this professional development video from Getting Results.

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Becoming Green Energy Experts

See how Lansing, Michigan inner-city youth become community science experts in energy sustainability and environmental health topics in this student-centric after-school program.

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Benefits of Using a Human Model

In this video segment from Teaching Middle School Life Science, seventh-grade students use beads and scissors of various colors to represent specific food components and enzymes as they model digestion.

Bridging Culture, Community and Science

See how a place-based high school curriculum project promotes STEM learning through local ethnography and conservation projects. This video segment showcases one of 11 CREST projects taking place in rural, coastal Maine communities.

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Checking Circuit Models for Consistency

This video from Physics by Inquiry shows instructors discussing their goals for formative assessments and strategies for how to conduct them.