Video Resources - Science

Video Libraries

• Bozeman Science – Next Generation Science Standards Video Series covers the concepts contained within the K-12 Science Framework. The 60 videos contain an NGSS overview, 8 practices, 7 crosscutting concepts, and 44 disciplinary core ideas. (youtube.com) 
• UPDATED Teaching Channel CCSS Video Library offers useful supports for implementing the Common Core State Standards. The site includes 256 videos that are useful for communications opportunities or professional learning and also includes many lesson plans for teachers that include videos of the CCSS instructional shifts in action. (teachingchannel.org)   
• The America Achieves Common Core website helps teachers to implement the Common Core by showing videos of real classrooms and teachers demonstrating key shifts of the Common Core. The site also has downloadable lesson plans and worksheets, examples of student work, as well as links to videos of teachers analyzing their own lessons and progress in implementing Common Core. (commoncore.americaachieves.org)
• Expeditionary Learning Instructional Videos – These instructional videos help educators analyze practices they may want to adopt, customize, or use as a provocation for reflection and discussion. Topics include: Learning Targets; Checking for Understanding; Using Data with Students; Models, Critique, and Descriptive Feedback; Student-Led Conferences; Celebrations of Learning; Passage Presentations with Portfolios; Standards-Based Grading; Literacy; Inspiring Excellence; Management in the Active Classroom; Differentiation. (elschools.org) 
• 40 Resources and Tools for Deeper Learning: Resources include a video series with supporting materials including rubrics, lesson plans, research, and strategy documents. (teachingchannel.org)
• HippoCampus– is a free, core academic web site that delivers rich multimedia content--videos, animations, and simulations--on general education subjects to middle-school and high-school teachers.
• NBC LEARN – Offers free video collections and resources to supplement lessons and units for Language Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, STEM & Innovation. Sample collections include Mysteries of the Brain, Writers Speak to Kids, Finish the Dream, the Science of Innovation, and the Sustainability of Water.
• OpenEd in collaboration with The Smithsonian provides teachers with free videos and other resources to supplement classroom lessons.
• Khan Academy Common Core Video Resource

Professional Development

• Building Towards NGSS Classroom Series - These Teaching Channel videos, developed in partnership with Achieve, help teachers transition classroom instruction to meet the goals of NGSS. The series includes: First Steps Towards Transitioning to the NGSS, Making Claims From Evidence, Energy & Matter Across Science Disciplines, and Working as a Team. (teachingchannel.org)   
• Boeing & Teaching Channel Present: The Science and Innovation Series - This collection of videos shows engineering design in the classroom. Topics include: Composites (Gr. 4-5), Alternative Energy (Gr. 4-5), Mission to Mars (Gr. 4-5), Quieter Cabin (Gr. 4-6), CubeSats (Gr. 5-6), Soft Landing (5-6), Bolt Catcher (Gr. 5-6), Polymers for the Planet (Gr. 6-7), Spy Gliders (Gr. 7-8), Biosuits (Gr. 7-8). (teachingchannel.org)
• iTunes U Courses, Created by Teachers for Teachers - These iTunes U courses were developed by a group of classroom teachers to explain the Shifts in ELA /Literacy and mathematics required by the Common Core. Presented in partnership with The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), they showcase a combination of materials from achievethecore.org as well as additional curated resources and interactive activities. These courses were designed to provide a robust self-learning opportunity for individual teachers and to offer high-quality, credible materials that can be used to support professional learning communities in schools. (achievethecore.org) 
• Common Core Video Exemplars:This site targets Common Core instructional practice for English Language Arts, History/Social Science, Mathematics, Science and Technology. The lessons have been reviewed and annotated using the Instructional Practice Guides which aligns with the Connecticut Core Standards Classroom “Look Fors” document. Each classroom video has student work samples, class materials and interviews from educators. Showing all or parts of the video could be useful in a professional development setting. (teachingthecore.org) 
• Illuminating Standards Video Series – What would it look like if standards were met with depth, and imagination? The Illuminating Standards Project, a collaborative project of Expeditionary Learning and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, showcases a video collection of long-term, interdisciplinary, arts-infused, community-connected projects illustrating how to make standards come alive in project-based learning. The videos could be used in a professional development setting to have staff examine the relationship between meeting the demands of state standards and the creation of powerful learning experiences for students.  (centerforstudentwork.elschools.org)
• Professional Development: Introduction to Literacy Shifts in Content Areas—a 1-4 hour module that provides an introduction to the key shifts required by the CCSS for Literacy in the content areas: history / social studies, science, and technical subjects. (achievethecore.org)
• Professional Development on ELA/Literacy—a 45-minute professional development video on the shifts in the Common Core in English language arts and literacy from The Council of the Great City Schools. (commoncoreworks.org)
• Strengthening Lessons with a Student Work Protocol—This video illustrates how to evaluate a lesson using the EQuIP rubric (Achieve and Teaching Channel)
• Common Core in Practice: Great Teachers Demonstrate Moving to Deeper Learning—a series of videos demonstrating effective instruction aligned to the Common Core. (America Achieves)
• Text Complexity and the 6-12 Literacy Standards—webinar by New York State BOCES
• Introduction to Text Complexity video- New York City Department of Education
• Video Playlist: Educating Digital Citizens (teachingchannel.org)

Exemplary Video Lesson Samples

• The Inspiring Excellence Video Series is a set of six videos that document students investigating the topic of snakes while incorporating Common Core literacy practices in reading for and writing with evidence. (Jenna Gampel, Grade 2 for Expeditionary Learning)
  • Corresponding Grade 2 annotated unit on reading and writing about an animal 
• Grade 2: Asking and Answering Questions About Soil— This video lesson shows a second grade teacher modeling the four modalities of learning: talking, listening, reading and writing about a topic with a class of English language learners. Successful scaffolding strategies to use with ELLs are highlighted. (Teaching Channel in partnership with the NEA)
• Strategy: Science Talk—Fourth-grade students in Rebecca Osborn’s and Josephine Dale’s class at Dr. Walter Cooper Academy in Rochester, NY, engage in a “science talk,” an instructional practice that promotes inquiry and collaboration. Science talks allow all students to do exactly what scientists do: think about, wonder about, and talk about how things work, the origins of phenomena, and the essence of things. (from Expeditionary Learning)
• Strategy: QUIZ QUIZ TRADE–Fourth-graders in Rebecca Osborn’s and Josephine Dales’ class at Dr. Walter Cooper Academy in Rochester, NY, engage in a quiz quiz trade protocol. This protocol is inclusive of all students and promotes collaboration and shared understanding as students either guess or share important words or concepts with their classmates in an interactive way. (from Expeditionary Learning)

Secondary

• Teaching Academic and Scientific Vocabulary Jessica Kauffman’s sixth-grade class at Tapestry Charter School in Buffalo, NY, learns general academic vocabulary and scientific vocabulary in order to conduct a science experiment. (from Expeditionary Learning)