Think Aloud

An intermediate teacher leads students through a think aloud strategy to help students understand sequencing in a text.

Building Video Literacy: Sound

This activity, created by EDC's Center for Children and Technology, explores how sound is used to create meaning.

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21st Century Schools: Learning in the Digital Age

From FRONTLINE Digital Nation, this video explores discuss the hype and the hopes for improving education through technology.

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Bioethics Classroom Debate

In this classroom-practice video, high school teacher Cherilee Lewis leads a classroom discussion on bioethics.

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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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Challenges of Teaching Biotechnology

In this video interview, high school teacher Diane Provenzano talks about the challenges of teaching biotechnology.

Cheese-Making Lab Activity

In this classroom-practice video, high school teacher Diane Provenzano leads her class through a biotechnology lab.

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Cheese-Making Lab Results

In this classroom-practice video, high school teacher Diane Provenzano leads her class through a discussion of the results of a biotechnology lab.

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Differentiation for Reading in Math

Teaching geometry to a diverse group of eighth-grade students.

The Digital You: Attention, Multitasking and Addiction

From FRONTLINE Digital Nation, this video shows the contrast between students' and teachers' views on laptops in the classroom.

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Early Literacy Instruction for Middle-Level Learners

Eighth-grade students receive explicit instruction in decoding and encoding words.

Field Biology

This video segment from the teacher video series Learning That Works uses a case study to highlight the effectiveness of a project-based, real-world approach to teaching science.

Fostering High Order Thinking

Strategies to engage elementary students in higher order thinking.

Gaining Catfish Aquaculture Skills

See how Mississippi high school students confront the uncertainty and untidiness of science and develop problem-solving strategies in the context of local catfish farming.

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Generating Questions To Aid Reading Comprehension

Students generate questions before, during, and after reading to aid in comprehension.

Girls Explore IT Careers

See how BuildIT, an afterschool program in Alameda County, CA, addresses the gender gap in advanced technology careers - promoting middle school girls' fluency in information technologies (IT), interest in math, and IT career awareness.

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Guided Oral Reading for Diverse Abilities

Strategies to meet the needs of students with diverse needs in the same classroom.

Guided Oral Reading in Early Primary

Kindergarten teacher engages a small group of students in guided oral reading.

Guided Reading Group

Teacher scaffolds comprehension thought processes in a fourth-grade guided reading group.

Introducing Vocabulary

A variety of strategies to introduce new vocabulary in social studies.

Introduction to ORQs in Primary

First-grade students are introduced to answering open response questions.

"I Wonder" Reading Comprehension Strategy

Teacher models the "I wonder..." comprehension strategy to kindergarten students.

Lure of the Labyrinth

This video adapted from Maryland Public Television introduces Lure of the Labyrinth, a digital game that helps students develop math skills.

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"Making Words" Phonics Literacy Instruction

A small group of first-graders build two- to five-letter words.

MIT Augmented Reality Tool

This video from MIT's Scheller Teacher Education Program explains how their augmented reality authoring tool works and how it can be used for education.

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Phonological Awareness Instruction: Elkonin Boxes

This video features a teacher using Elkonin Boxes as an instructional strategy to help her early primary students bridge phonological awareness and phonics.

Phonological Awareness Strategies

A look at examples of excellent teaching in the area of phonological awareness.

Poetry Circles

Seventh-grade students work together in poetry circles to examine the form, content, language, and meaning of poetry.

Previewing Text

Students use text features to establish prior knowledge and make predictions before they read a section of the social studies textbook.

Primary Literacy Block

A look inside the literacy block in a multi-age primary classroom (grades 1-3)

Primary Reading Assessment I

A teacher conducts a formal reading assessment with first-grade student.

Primary Reading Assessment II

A teacher conducts a formal reading assessment with first-grade student.

Primary Reading Workshop

A glimpse into a first grade Reading Workshop.

Promoting Schoolwide Literacy at the Elementary Level I

New literacy initiatives turnaround a high-poverty, low-performing school.

Promoting Schoolwide Literacy at the Elementary Level II

Large-scale changes in literacy instruction prove successful at Longest Elementary, located in Muhlenberg Co., Ky.

Promoting Schoolwide Literacy at the Middle Level

A look at Hayes Middle School in Lexington, Ky. and the intensive schoolwide literacy program.

Publishing Genome Research

Watch how NJ high school students apply basic principles of molecular biology to solve real research problems, and publish their own genome research at GenBank — the international genomic sequence database.

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Questioning and Genres in Reading Comprehension

Teacher models how readers ask themselves questions before, during, and after reading to improve comprehension. She also demonstrates how questions differ according to genre.

Radioactivity iLab

This video from Northwestern University Office of STEM Education Partnerships tours its interactive Radioactivity iLab, in which students are able to perform experiments on remote laboratory equipment.

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Reading for Answers

Seventh-grade students look for the answers to questions while reading social studies textbooks.

Reading Strategy: Synthesizing

Fourth-grade students are learning about synthesizing what they have read.

Standard Lab Operating Procedures

The students in this classroom video model good laboratory practice.

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Structured Note Taking

Video featuring high school students using a reading comprehension strategy.

Students Study Urban Ecology

See how Boston middle and high school students shape urban planning in their own neighborhoods, through place-based Bioacoustics and Urban Trees curriculum projects.

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Study Squares Reading Comprehension Strategy

Students in Spanish I class use a strategy to help learn new vocabulary.

Teaching Vocabulary in Primary

A variety of strategies to teach content vocabulary in primary.

Using Text Features To Aid Comprehension

Teacher guides intermediate students on using text features to aid comprehension.

What Is Cyberlearning?

In this video produced by KQED, experts in STEM education discuss the value of cyberlearning.

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"Word Storming" Reading Strategy

Vocabulary-building activity in high school English.

Writing To Learn in Primary

Using graphic organizers to aid reading comprehension in primary.