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: 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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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 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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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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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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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.

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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