Video Games
Daphne Bavelier: Your brain on video games | Video on TED.com
Studying the Effects of Playing Violent Video Games - NYTimes.com
Pediatrics for Parents - The effects of video games on children (from pediatricians)
Video Games Play May Provide Learning, Health, Social Benefits, Review Finds (American Phycological Assn)
Children and Video Games: Playing with Violence (American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry)
Children and Video Games: How Much Do We Know? | Psychiatric Times
Your Child: University of Michigan Health System (Video games, children, and many links)
Television and Video Game Exposure and the development of attention problems. (Am. Academy of Pediatrics)
Prosthetics http://uproxx.com/technology/2015/01/easton-lachappelle-luminary/? Advanced prosthetic hand (3 min) Ted Talks: The new bionics that allow us to run, climb, dance (20 min) The future of the bionic body (Better, Stronger, Faster) (1.5 hours long) The $80 prosthetic knee is changing lives (10 min) How to make a prosthesis (2.5 mim)
Famous People
Einstein's Big Idea (PBS Video) and see "The Elegant Universe - Part 1" below
Elements / Chemistry / Physics
General Science
SciTech Daily from Harvard University (upper elem. only)
Science in the News from Harvard University (upper elem. only)
NOVA's feed on Facebook (from PBS) - may not be accessible from school, but has inspiring news events
Space
Fabric of the Cosmos (weird things about the universe: PBS Video)
What is space, really? (PBS Video)
The Elegant Universe - Part 1 (Einstein's Idea; (PBS Video)
The Elegant Universe - Part 2(String Theory; PBS Video))
The Elegant Universe - Part 3 (PBS Video)
Black Holes
Monster of the Milky Way (PBS Video)
Stars / Sun
Secrets of the Sun (PBS Video)
Saved by the Sun (PBS Video)
Galaxies
Mystery of the Milky Way (PBS Video) (see also Monster of the Milky Way under "Black Holes")
Asteroids/Meteors
Gravity
Weather and Storms
Hurricane Sandy http://video.pbs.org/video/2305482040/ (PBS Video)
Deadliest Tornadoes http://video.pbs.org/video/2220853400/ (PBS Video)
Hunt for the Super Twister (PBS Video)
Climate Change
Biology
Cracking your genetic code (PBS Video)
Ocean Animal Emergency (PBS Video)
Pure Nature Specials - a variety of specials on a many different animals and places
Earth Sciences
Deadliest Volcanoes (PBS Video)
Mt. St. Helen's: Back from the Dead (PBS Video)
Mt. Vesuvius (BBC information and videoclips) -
Spies and Espionage
Astrospies (PBS Video)
The Spy Factory (High Tech Eavesdropping - a PBS Video)
Would you recognize this person? (disguises)
History
Ancient Greece
Temples & Religion Famous Greek Temples, Ancient Greek Religion,
Ancient greek religion:
http://www.historyforkids.net/ancient-greek-architecture.html(section on temples)
http://www.kidspast.com/world-history/0062-greek-religion.php
http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/homework/greece/greekgods.htm
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/religion/greekrelig.htm
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/244768/Greek-religion/65469/The-Classical-period (Nicole and you would need to read this together; I think it would need an adult to translate the hard words and complex text)
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/244768/Greek-religion/82602/Shrines-and-temples?
Fashion
Fashion: Hair, Clothing, Accessories (some information on shoes, too)
1940s Fashion History. 1940-1950 Costume History Utility to New Look (includes all decades through the 1990's)
The Elements / Chemistry
Nova: Hunting the Elements Video - this is great!!
Titanic
FloodingByCompartment This has a good graphic that shows the successive flooding of the 'watertight' compartments. It also has information on some changes that were made to subsequent ships after the sinking of the Titanic.
How Bad Management Helped Sink The Titanic - Speakeasy - WSJ
Unexplained Mysteries: If you have an interest in this, it is important you cover more than one side of the story...you must look at scientific and/or government information as well as the 'anecdotal' evidence.
Roswell Incident
Roswell Incident: U.S. Government Explanation - Documentary Film (1997) - YouTube
National Geographic Documentary: Area 51 Declassified (full episode 45mins) - YouTube
Roswell Incident: Department of Defense Interviews - Glenn Dennis (1990) - YouTube
Paranormal Activity HowStuffWorks "How Ghosts Work"
Animals and Animal Adaptations
Creatures of the Water
NOVA | Kings of Camouflage (the cuttlefish - an animal in the octopus family, can camouflage like no other. The strobing effects in the video are not shadows, they are created by the cuttlefish itself)
Animal Intelligence/Emotion
Video: How Smart Are Animals? | Watch NOVA scienceNOW Online | PBS Video
Wach A Murder of Crows Online | Full Episode | Nature | PBS (new research on the intelligence of crows)
Insects
Mammals
Echo: An Elephant to Remember ~ Video: Full Episode | Nature | PBS
Update about Shankar - the lone, poor African elephant in Delhi Zoo
Fashion
1900 - 2000
Fashion Timelines (good timeline, but few pictures)
Fashion History (lots of pictures)
Women and Fashion: Fashion since 1900 up today (picture and comments)
1900-1910 The History of Fashion: 1900 - 1910 | POPSUGAR Social
1900's-2000 Fashion Trends timeline | Timetoast timelines (interactive timeline with text)
1940's 1940's Style Guide: Clothing And Fashion For Women - YouTube
La Belle Epoque 1890-1914 Fashion History. Edwardian Era (lots of information)
1700 - 1900
Wild Horses
Livestock grazing on public lands:
Cost of grazing cattle on public lands: www.thecloudfoundation.org/reading-room-faq-s-articles/public-lands-grazing
Princeton University - Wildlife and cows can be partners, not enemies, in search for food
Dinosaurs, Extinct Ice Age Creatures
www.principia.edu/mammoth/Documents/Mammoth%20Info%20Handout.pdf
Climate Change Caused Extinction of Big Ice Age Mammals, Scientist Says
Woolly Mammoths Killed Off By Climate Change, Habitat Shifts & Hunting, Scientists Say
Late Pleistocene Extinctions (read "Why did these animals go extinct?)
Did Ice Age humans affect the extinction of large mammals? | Earth | EarthSky
Video - how did humans survive? Early Humans Survive the Ice Age — History.com Video There are several related videos on this page.
Dinosaur extinction in a day? At this radiolab.org type in Apocalyptical in the search bar. Play about 32:30-55:00
How did the Dinosaurs Die? (from UC Berkley 2006)
Why did the dinosaurs go extinct? (short article; main theories)
Dinosaur Extinction (Smithsonian Museum of Natural History)
Pyramids
Chamber Information
Pyramids in general
History of Pyramids — History.com Interactive Games, Maps and Timelines
History.Channel.Ancient.Egypt.09of10.Tombs.of.Gods.Pyramids.of.Giza.HD - YouTube (this is a 45-min video; you may want to watch it with an adult and discuss it as you listen)
HowStuffWorks "Egyptian Pyramids" (the 2nd page has a good diagram of the passageways inside)
Seven Ancient Wonders of the World — History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts
Ancient Egypt
What the Ancients Knew - Egypt - YouTube (50-minute video has information about pyramid building)
Earth Processes
Rocks and Minerals
(Sedimentary Rock) Observe how sediments are deposited.
(Metamorphic Rock) Observe an animation of metamorphic rocks forming.
(Igneous Rock) Igneous Rock Crystallization Animations
Espionage
Could you recognize this person?