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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Building Video Literacy: Movement

Explore the different ways movement can occur within a shot in this activity developed by EDC's Center for Children and Technology.

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Building Video Literacy: Response

In this activity developed by EDC's Center for Children and Technology, explore how each shot of a video can evoke a different response in the viewer.

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Building Video Literacy: Purpose

This activity developed by EDC's Center for Children and Technology explores what a shot is designed to accomplish to create the overall meaning of a film.

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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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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.

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.

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.

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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Classifying Leaves

In this video segment from Teaching Elementary Life Science, a teacher talks about the skills and attitudes her first-grade students are developing through classroom activities, such as classifying leaves into groups.

Comparing Results to Predictions with Balls and Ramps

In this video segment from Teaching Elementary Physical Science, a first-grade teacher leads her students in a discussion about the results of their experiment with marbles rolling down ramps.

Completing the Circuit

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

Connecting the Lithosphere and the Biosphere

In this video segment from Teaching Earth and Space Science, a middle school teacher explains why she enjoys teaching with a systems-based approach.

Crayfish in the Classroom

In this video segment from Teaching Middle School Life Science, a fifth-grade teacher helps her students experiment with crayfish in the classroom.

Creating a Community of Learners

Watch this professional development video from Getting Results to see how getting to know your students and establishing a positive classroom environment can greatly increase student success.

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Dealing with Controversy

In this video segment from Teaching Evolution Case Studies, science teachers explore how controversy may arise in teaching evolution in the public school classroom.

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Demonstrating Conceptual Understanding of Electrical Circuits

This video from Physics by Inquiry shows teachers in a professional development workshop challenging their own understanding of electric circuits by considering sample responses from students.

Designing a Human Model

In this video segment from Teaching Middle School Life Science, a seventh-grade teacher describes the digestion model she uses with her students.

Developing a Scientific Model for Electrical Circuits

This video from Physics by Inquiry shows teachers working through a professional development activity that emphasizes learning about electric circuits through inquiry.

Eliciting Specific Difficulties with Light and Shadow

In this video from Physics by Inquiry, teachers in a professional development workshop confront their own ideas about how light rays travel.

Energy Assessment and Roller Coasters

This video from Teaching High School Physical Science shows a teacher assessing whether his students understand the concepts of energy that they have been studying.

Engaging Students in Lecture and Lab

Watch this professional development video from Getting Results in which students move from lecture to lab teams and use algebraic functions to program robots.

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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.

Focusing Investigations on Weights and Planes

This video from Teachers As Learners shows teachers investigating torque in an inquiry-oriented professional development session.

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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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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Goals for Designing a Lesson on Roller Coasters

In this video from Teaching High School Physical Science, a teacher comments about his goals for a lesson on the physics of amusement-park rides.

Goals for the Understanding of Balls and Ramps

In this video segment from Teaching Elementary Physical Science, a first-grade teacher informally assesses student learning while her students conduct an investigation.

Immersion in Biotechnology

In this video segment from Teachers as Learners, teachers participate in an inquiry-based investigation of the science and techniques of DNA fingerprinting.

Inquiry-Based Teaching of the Solar System

In this video segment from Teaching Earth and Space Science, an eighth-grade teacher helps his students investigate the scale of the solar system.

Integrating Disciplines in Project-Based Learning

Watch instructors from different disciplines create an integrated project that links concepts from their courses, in this professional development video from Getting Results.

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Intervening to Prevent a Dropout

This video excerpt from FRONTLINE: "Middle School Moment" proposes that the make-or-break moment for high school dropouts may actually occur in middle school, and presents how one middle school intervenes to prevent dropouts.

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A Lab Experiment with Reflection and Absorption

In this video segment from Teaching Middle School Physical Science, a sixth-grade teacher leads an experiment with her class on energy transfer and gets them to analyze the results.

Launching an Inquiry about Balance

This video from Teachers As Learners shows the exploratory phase of an inquiry-based professional development workshop for science teachers.

Launching a Unit on Electric Circuits

In this video from Teaching Elementary Physical Science, see a fourth-grade teacher describe how she begins a unit about electricity.

Limitations of a Human Model

In this video segment from Teaching Middle School Life Science, a seventh-grade teacher discusses the limitations of a model she uses to help teach about the digestive system.