Examine the scope of the opioid addiction crisis in America and strategies, including harm reduction programs, that are being used to treat people with opioid use disorder in these videos from NOVA: Addiction. Explore harm reduction programs designed to stop preventable deaths and new disease outbreaks that reflect a public health approach to improve current treatments-by understanding addiction as a disease, not a stigmatized or criminal behavior. [4:21] Support materials are provided.

Meet Cade, a high school hockey player, and learn how his addiction to nicotine from vaping has had physical and behavioral impacts on his life in this digital video from NOVA. Use this resource to stimulate thinking and questions about the consequences of addiction and provide opportunities for students to make evidence-based claims about the health effects of vaping on teens. [3:59] Support materials are provided.

Use a visual model to add fractions with unlike denominators. This video focuses on using an equivalent fractions chart to compare fractions and find the correct sum.

Introducing a card game that your students can play in small groups to develop their addition skills. This video focuses on addition of positive and negative numbers and briefly touches on subtraction of integers.

This animated Math Shorts video from the Utah Education Network explains the term additive inverse and provides several examples that demonstrate the concept. In the accompanying classroom activity, students create equations and solve problems that involve adding groups of negative and positive integers that sum to zero. To get the most out of this activity, students should be familiar with plotting positive and negative integers on a number line.

Hear about how respect for Earth can help us attain a more sustainable lifestyle in the face of climate change in this video segment adapted from United Tribes Technical College.

In this video segment from Greater Boston, learn how a man with severe motor disabilities can operate a computer and move a prosthetic hand by simply thinking the commands, thanks to the combined efforts of bioengineers and neuroscientists.

Our brains control every movement we make. Most of us take for granted our ability to pick up a cup or change the television station. However, for people who have lost a limb or become paralyzed, the inability to do these things means a loss of freedom and independence. This video segment from Greater Boston describes how neuroscientists and bioengineers have teamed up to create a system that allows people who have lost motor functions to control electronic devices through their thoughts alone. Grades 6-12

This resource from the AMERICAN MASTERS documentary Becoming Helen Keller features Keller's work around social justice and the disability movement. Using video, discussion questions, teaching tips, and activities, students explore how Keller used her platform to support her advocacy and activism, and her lasting impact on American society. [4:14]

In this resource from the AMERICAN MASTERS documentary Becoming Helen Keller, examine Keller's advocacy for the Blind through her 40 years of work with the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB). Through video, discussion questions, teaching tips, and activities, students analyze primary source documents to help them understand the impact of Keller's advocacy for the Blind - and how it was her life's work. [5:06]

Fly into high-tech career exploration as you learn about careers with satellites, airplanes and flying cars of the future!
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This collection of Aerospace Engineering learning modules will allow students to explore video and interactive media resources that support the middle and high school Engineering Design core ideas.

The Anansi tales are told by the Ashanti people of Ghana, West Africa, and have been passed down through the generations by oral tradition. Here you can watch "Anansi's Rescue from the River" performed.

Watch a welcome dance that combines movements from several traditional dances of the Yoruba people of Nigeria. Included are teaching tips and additional background information. [8:18]

Watch a professional stilt dancer and musician perform the Gue Pelou dance from the Ivory Coast. This dance is a sacred rite used to honor and communicate with the spirit world and can be danced to protect the village. Included are teaching tips and additional background information. [5:08]

Watch the hambone, an African-American rhythm technique that uses the whole body as a "drum set" to produce different sounds, demonstrated.

Watch a performance of the Kou-Kou dance, a communal recreational dance often used to teach kids how to dance, from the Ivory Coast. Included are teaching tips and additional background information. [3:07]

The Manjani, a West African dance that celebrates an important event such as the harvest, a wedding, or a naming ceremony is performed by The Imani Dance and Drum Company. Included are teaching tips, a lesson plan, and additional background information. [2:28]

In this video watch a performance of Sohu, a ritual cleansing dance from Togo. Included are teaching tips and additional background information. [7:15]

This African-American game song, emphasizing rhythm and self-expression, is sung to movements described in the lyrics and demonstrated by the children in the audience. Included are teaching tips and additional background information. Sensitive: This resource contains material that may be sensitive for some students. Teachers should exercise discretion in evaluating whether this resource is suitable for their class. [2:09]