Classroom Tips

From managing the technology to tips for transporting video files, this resource offers practical advice and strategies for video use.

Effective Video-Based Lessons

We offer you some hints, gathered over long experience of helping educators integrate video into their teaching, about how to make the most of VITAL video in your lessons.

Scale City: FAQs and Media List

This PDF answers questions teachers may have about Using Scale City To Teach Proportional Reasoning, including contact information. It also includes a Media List with the times of all the videos in the teaching modules that may be used to help plan a group professional development event around Using Scale City.

Building Video Literacy: Types of Shots

This resource will help you and your students understand how analyzing video is similar to reading texts.

Building Video Literacy: Framing

In this activity created by EDC's Center for Children and Technology, students explore how the framing of a shot affects the meaning of an image.

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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