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BLOSSOMS Video Library - MIT
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9 to 12
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Find online video lessons and free resources on this MIT site. BLOSSOMS features great STEM videos as well as links to other STEM resources on the site. Find great resources ...more
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Find online video lessons and free resources on this MIT site. BLOSSOMS features great STEM videos as well as links to other STEM resources on the site. Find great resources that focus on the use of science and math knowledge to bring these topics to life. View a variety of topics such as Using Geometry to Design Simple Machines, Galaxies and Dark Matter, and Classifying Animals by Appearance Versus DNA Sequence. On each video page, click the link to view the video, read a summary of the information, and even download the transcript, teachers guide, and images that are used for the video. Downloads are available in Word or Adobe Reader format. Interested in the topic? Use the links at the bottom to view other sites and resources.
tag(s): engineering (141), STEM (369)
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DnaTube - DnaTube.com
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9 to 12
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Looking for a great resource site that offers visualizations of complex cellular activities? Use DNA Tube as your visual scientific resource. This non-profit scientific site provides...more
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Looking for a great resource site that offers visualizations of complex cellular activities? Use DNA Tube as your visual scientific resource. This non-profit scientific site provides video-based studies, lectures, and seminars that are for more advanced and motivated students. Use the video-based explanations of a large variety of biological concepts to remove barriers to understanding for students. Click "watch" to see thumbnails of videos. Use the search bar at the top to find relevant videos. Use the Category tab to search across categories such as lectures, experiments, ecology, genetics, and more. Sign up for the site to download videos after entering your login information. Along the bottom of each video page, find thumbnails of related videos as well as related topics. Topics include various areas of science and math. This site does allow you to upload your own videos. Uploading videos requires registration.
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Find great videos to use as an introduction to a unit or to clarify how a process works. Use videos on an interactive whiteboard or with a projector. Pause the video to ask questions about what is happening in the process, explain the process, or allow students to use appropriate vocabulary to explain. This site is excellent for enrichment. Include it on your class web page so students can access it both in and out of class. Challenge students to create their own simple videos to help explain a science concept. Share the videos using a tool such as SchoolTube reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Ocean Adventures: Debris Dilemmas - KQED and Ocean Futures Society
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5 to 8
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This lesson explores a large amount of debris that washes up on the most remote islands in the world and the effect of this garbage on ocean animals. The lesson ...more
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This lesson explores a large amount of debris that washes up on the most remote islands in the world and the effect of this garbage on ocean animals. The lesson features the video, "Trash on the Spin Cycle" and includes pre-viewing activities, focus questions, and post-viewing questions. Be sure to also check out the many additional resources included on the site. Viewing the video requires flash which is not available on all browsers; however, the lesson plan can be modified by using other available videos.
tag(s): environment (252), oceans (142)
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Bookmark and save this lesson to use during your units on oceans or the environment. Share on your interactive whiteboard and watch together as a class, or include a link on classroom computers for students to view on their own. Instead of having a pre-made vocabulary list for your unit, have students create a word cloud of the important terms they learn from this site using a tool such as WordClouds, reviewed here, or WordItOut, reviewed here. Enhance your students' video experience by using EdPuzzle, reviewed here, to insert questions directly into specific portions of the video. At the end of your lesson, ask students to create a presentation using Sway, reviewed here. Sway offers the ability to create interactive presentations using drag and drop features to include images, text, video, and more.
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