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"hese videos and support materials will give you another weapon in your answer arsenal. In the videos, students meet people whose everyday, real life includes just the kind of mathematics they explore in Math by Design. Use the Discussion Questions and Related Practice resources to extend and enrich your students' video watching experience!"

The very best sources for educational videos on the web."

Teacher videos, resources and lesson plans. Discover great ideas and strategies to use as a teacher with this collection of videos covering Math, Science, English, History and more.

"Get the Math mixes video and web interactivity to help middle and high school students develop algebraic thinking skills for solving real-world problems."

Imagine a timeline of the universe, complete with high-resolution videos and images, in which you could zoom from a chronology of Egypt's dynasties and pyramids to the tale of a Japanese-American couple interned in a World War II relocation camp to a discussion of a mass extinction that occurred on Earth 200 million years ago - all in seconds. Based on an idea from a University of California, Berkeley, student, ChronoZoom - essentially a zoomable timeline of timelines augmented with multimedia features -- is coming to life.

selection of on-line tools teachers can learn to use very quickly and which are adaptable to a variety of contexts. Each tool has a video tutorial.

Bio-DiTRL operates as an online database with digital media that can be used to assist in teaching biology. In it you will find images, animations, video clips and text excerpts that may be downloaded for use by subscribers. Anyone may search or browse by following the appropriate links. Contributions of suitable teaching resources are most welcome.

In the 2011 edition of the international Ciencia en Acción competition, the first prize in the Teaching Resources category went to the animated video 'Me and my Body', developed and produced by members of the IGC Science Communication Team (Catarina Júlio, Ana Mena and Ana Godinho), in collaboration with Diana Marques (illustrator), Cláudio Silva (Fundação para a Computação Científica Nacional) and Alexandre Gil (student). According to the competition judges, this award acknowledges the video's 'ability to make science attractive to young people, and teach them the concepts of cells and organs of the body, in a very professional and educational fashion'.