Videos

The best video for your students will be one that you have custom prepared for them based on your curriculum and their learning styles. Nevertheless, it is not always necessary to reinvent the wheel, as there are tons of professionally produced, engaging videos on standard high school content. Here is a sampling. Please don't hesitate to add more as you find them.

Free
**Khan Academy:** This site has 3,200 educational videos, and is particularly rich in Math and Science, but has also begun to grow the collection of videos in the humanities.
 * Math example: solving linear equations video: @http://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/solving-linear-equations


 * WatchKnowLearn: ** This nonprofit site has categorized over 30,000 videos and other media freely available on the Internet by grade level, subject, topic, and even Common Core standards, making them easy for teachers to find and view. The videos are produced by such greats as PBS, the BBC, and National Geographic, but all are easily accessed from this one site.
 * **Math example**: solving linear equations video: @http://watchknowlearn.org/Video.aspx?VideoID=10879&CategoryID=4967

**YouTube Education**: YouTube has devoted this site to educational videos for educators and students, creating a global video classroom. Just like the traditional YouTube site, it is easy to search, play and upload videos to your own YouTube channel.
 * **Math example **: solving linear equations video: @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9YZxBh1AxQ

Paid Subscription
NSHS has subscriptions to a wide variety of searchable databases of high quality information for research, many of which include great short videos as part of their content. Visit the NSHS Library Site and click on databases in the top left navigation bar to see the selection. For passwords to the databases when accessing them outside of school, please refer to this Google Doc (requires your NPS Google Apps log in). Here are two sites in particular that are devoted to high quality, short videos:

**NBC Learn:** The videos on this site were created by NBC news producers and are searchable by subject and by standards. The videos are short, professional and engaging, and the site's "cue card" feature provides all the citation information needed to credit this source appropriately.


 * **Math example **: "Science of NHL Hockey: Work, Energy and Power". "Science of NHL Hockey" is a 10-part video series funded by the National Science Foundation and produced in partnership with the National Hockey League. This particular video addresses Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks for Mathematics in grade 9, AI.P.11. - Solve everyday problems that can be modeled using linear, reciprocal, quadratic, or exponential functions. @http://archives.nbclearn.com/portal/site/k-12/browse?cuecard=56603


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">BrainPOP: ** <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">From its site, "BrainPOP creates animated, curricular content that engages students, supports educators, and bolsters achievement." The animated characters feel a little young for high school, but many of our students are familiar with them from middle and elementary school and actually enjoy seeing them again. These videos might be particularly useful for lower level classes.


 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Math example:** This is a short video on polynomials, helping to address a number of Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks for Mathematics in grade 9: @http://www.brainpop.com/math/algebra/polynomials/