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Heart Disease: America's Leading Cause of Death
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Professional Development, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Life Sciences, Health Science & Medical TechnologyLearn why heart disease, a largely preventable condition, is the leading cause of death in this country today, in this video ada...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Healing Mother Earth for Future Generations
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Professional Development, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Earth & Space Science, Life Sciences and 7 additional..In this video segment adapted from United Tribes Technical College, meet Native Americans who are concerned about climate change...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Harry's Allergy
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Experimentation and the Scientific Method, Mathematics, Professional Development, Measurement, Tools, and Data AnalysisHarry keeps track of the number of times he sneezes in certain locations to try to diagnose the cause of his allergy in this vid...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Hacker's Four-Zergen Game
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Probability, Mathematics, Professional Development, Measurement, Tools, and Data AnalysisIn this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad determines the fairness of a game in which there are three shapes distribu...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Group Metals
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Properties of Matter, Physics, Chemistry, Science, Professional DevelopmentMetals are grouped according to their characteristics. This video segment uses the periodic table for an in-depth discussion.Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Green Chemistry
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Earth's Resources, Ecology & Ecosystems, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Professional Development and 5 additional..Learn about a study in which participants discovered contaminants in their homes, and how green chemistry may provide alternativ...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Grass Bridge
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Earth's Resources, Professional Development, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Engineering & Design and 4 additional..In this video segment adapted from NOVA, watch residents of the Peruvian Andes build a suspension bridge made entirely of grass.Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Graphing the Periodic Table
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Properties of Matter, Physics, Chemistry, Science, Professional DevelopmentThis interactive activity from the American Chemical Society presents the properties and electron configurations for all the ele...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Graphing in Quadrant 1 in the Coordinate Plane
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Mathematics, Professional Development, Angles & Pythagorean Theorem, Measurement & GeometryStudents are introduced to graphing on the coordinate plane, in the first quadrant, using (x, y) coordinates.Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Global Warming Threatens Caribou
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Earth's Resources, Ecology & Ecosystems, Professional Development, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere and 5 additional..This video segment adapted from Arctic Mission presents the challenges faced by caribou herds unable to adapt to a warming climate.Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Global Warming: The Physics of the Greenhouse Effect
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Professional Development, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Properties of Matter, Earth & Space Science and 9 additional..This video segment adapted from NOVA/FRONTLINE examines thegreenhouse effect, its role in keeping Earth habitable, and the indus...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Getting an Education
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Nature & Method of Science, Professional Development, Mathematics, Life Sciences, History-Social ScienceThis video segment, adapted from NOVA, chronicles the education of leading chemist Percy Julian. Although Julian began his eleme...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Geospatial Revolution: Mapping Power
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Instructional Technology, Professional Development, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Information Technology and 4 additional..Kibera, a poor community, in Nairobi, was a blank spot on the map until recently. This video from Penn State Public Broadcasting...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Geneticist Pardis Sabeti
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Evolution and Adaptation, DNA, Genetics & Biotechnology, Life Sciences, Science, Professional DevelopmentIn this video profile adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, learn about geneticist and rock musician Pardis Sabeti, whose innovative ins...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Genetic Engineering and Working with DNA
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, GraduateSubjects: DNA, Genetics & Biotechnology, Professional Development, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Current Science and 4 additional..In this animation produced by WGBH and Digizyme, Inc., see how bacterial plasmids are engineered to clone or express genes that ...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Gamma Ray Telescope Senses High-Energy Radiation
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Physics, Earth's Resources, Ecology & Ecosystems, Professional Development and 5 additional..This video from NASA describes the GLAST satellite, which is equipped with a gamma-ray telescope, and shares some background abo...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0From the Heart
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Structure and Function in Living Things, Science, Life Sciences, Professional DevelopmentThis video segment describes the basics of the circulatory system: how the heart pumps the blood that carries oxygen and nutrien...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0From the Cystic Fibrosis Gene to a Drug
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: DNA, Genetics & Biotechnology, Science, Life Sciences, Professional DevelopmentIn this video excerpt from NOVA, find out how the discovery of a gene defect has led to the development of a new drug to treat p...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0From Patterns of Input and Output to Algebraic Equations
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Algebra & Functions, Variables & Expressions, Professional Development, MathematicsStudents explore the relationship between input and output values and learn to use algebraic expressions and equations.Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0From DNA to Protein
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Professional Development, Life Sciences, ScienceThis narrated animation schematically shows the process of protein synthesis. Adapted from Interactive NOVA: Secret of Life.Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0