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Still image from: BRI's Homework Help: McDonald v. Chicago
BRI's Homework Help
Episode
3 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: BRI's Homework Help: Roe v. Wade
BRI's Homework Help
Episode
4 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: BRI's Homework Help: Tinker v. Des Moines
BRI's Homework Help
Episode
3 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Man in a cowboy hat, vest, and bolo tie stands in a newsroom setting. Next to him, an image of a gavel and block projected onto a monitor.
10 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Boy sits and looks at an open book in a library setting. Another boy leans over him and a woman stands behind him. A girl sits next to him with an open book as she looks toward him. Caption. Yeah, dude. Hannah confused me.
Social Skills Cinema
Episode 6
2 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 8
ASL
A cartoon shows Benjamin Franklin sleeping on a bed. Sunlight pours into the room through an open window.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 8 / Ep 5
12 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
ASL
2 red lines branch off from a red dot at the top connecting to red dots that continue to branch off in twos 5 times to form a crown-shaped contagion.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 8 / Ep 10
2 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
ASL
An illustration depicts the recycling machine, and a recycled product.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 7 / Ep 28
11 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Kids Speak Out Oregon: Drugs and Addiction
Kids Speak Out
Season 2 / Ep 1
27 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Kids Speak Out Oregon: Gun Violence
Kids Speak Out
Season 2 / Ep 7
27 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Kids Speak Out Oregon: Homeless Children
Kids Speak Out
Season 2 / Ep 9
27 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Kids Speak Out Oregon: Homelessness
Kids Speak Out
Season 2 / Ep 5
28 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Kids Speak Out Oregon: Immigration and Refugees
Kids Speak Out
Season 2 / Ep 3
28 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Kids Speak Out Oregon: Social Media
Kids Speak Out
Season 2 / Ep 2
28 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Kids Speak Out Oregon: The American Dream
Kids Speak Out
Season 2 / Ep 10
27 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Thirteen people, ranging from children to adults, are on a video call together. One man has a background with an image of books on it.
Kids Speak Out
Season 1 / Ep 11
32 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Thirteen people, including two adults and mostly teenagers, are on a video call together.
Kids Speak Out
Season 1 / Ep 10
21 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
ASL
Cartoon green smiley face that looks uncertain with germs around their mouth stands in front of a brown house. Next to the house are faces of different skin tones smiling and sticking their tongues out. The background has thermometers, stethoscopes, and crosses.
Meet the Helpers
Episode
55 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
ASL
Cartoon of a young girl holding a clipboard up to a man who is leaning down and holding a hand out towards her. The background has illustrations of hearts and hands shaking.
Meet the Helpers
Episode
50 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
ASL
Cartoon of two young children finger painting and stamping their whole handprint onto a piece of paper. Two other children play with dolls. Two more children play with a tea set, and another pair plays with trains.
Meet the Helpers
Episode
50 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
ASL
Green cartoon face looks unsure standing by itself and sneezing. Four green unsure faces are gathered together as the sneeze spray from the one face gets on them. Mean-looking germs surround the group of faces.
Meet the Helpers
Episode
55 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
ASL
Still image from: Mind Frame: Suicide Prevention
Mind Frame
Episode 5
8 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 9
Group of teenagers sit in a row facing a woman with a guitar. Caption. Tell me what you think the topic of the song is.
Social Skills Cinema
Episode 7
4 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: Are Museum Collections Ethical?
Origin of Everything
Season 3 / Ep 1
12 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: Concentration Camps Are Older Than World War II
Origin of Everything
Season 3 / Ep 12
10 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: Do Standardized Tests Do More Harm Than Good?
Origin of Everything
Season 1 / Ep 31
9 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: How Columbus Invented Cannibals
Origin of Everything
Season 1 / Ep 5
6 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: How Did Martin Luther King, Jr. Get a Holiday?
Origin of Everything
Season 1 / Ep 16
9 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: How Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
Origin of Everything
Season 1 / Ep 10
6 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: The 2nd Amendment Explained
Origin of Everything
Season 1 / Ep 29
9 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
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Still image from: Origin of Everything: The History of Socialism in America
Origin of Everything
Season 3 / Ep 18
9 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: The Rise of Vaping
Origin of Everything
Season 3 / Ep 5
10 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: What Can We Learn From America's Last Epidemic?
Origin of Everything
Season 3 / Ep 20
11 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: What Does It Mean to Be a "Good" Student?
Origin of Everything
Season 3 / Ep 7
6 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: What Is Cultural Appropriation?
Origin of Everything
Season 2 / Ep 7
9 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: What Is Ethnicity?
Origin of Everything
Season 2 / Ep 11
9 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: When Did Marriage Become About Love?
Origin of Everything
Season 1 / Ep 23
7 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: Where Did Advice Columns Come From?
Origin of Everything
Season 3 / Ep 8
8 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: Where Does the Nuclear Family Come From?
Origin of Everything
Season 1 / Ep 12
7 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: Why Did Europeans Enslave Africans?
Origin of Everything
Season 1 / Ep 38
7 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: Why Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?
Origin of Everything
Season 1 / Ep 17
7 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: Why Do We Eat Artificial Flavors?
Origin of Everything
Season 1 / Ep 13
7 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: Why Do We Get Grades in School?
Origin of Everything
Season 1 / Ep 9
7 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: Why Do We Go to Prom?
Origin of Everything
Season 2 / Ep 22
11 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: Why Do We Have Private Prisons?
Origin of Everything
Season 2 / Ep 17
10 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: Why Does the Government Pay for Art?
Origin of Everything
Season 2 / Ep 18
10 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: Why Was It Illegal to be “Ugly”?
Origin of Everything
Season 1 / Ep 34
5 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
ASL
Circle around a drawing of a soda can appears above a circle around a drawing of a crushed can. Green arrows point from top to bottom on one side and bottom to top on the other side.
3 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
ASL
Several privacy booths used for voting in U, S elections are lined up. They have American flags with the word "vote" in blue painted on them. Caption. Our most important right as citizens.
Politics on Point
Episode 5
2 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12
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Roots of Resistance
Season 1 / Ep 4
10 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Roots of Resistance: How Activists Changed American Healthcare
Roots of Resistance
Season 1 / Ep 1
12 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Roots of Resistance: How Highways Segregated American Cities
Roots of Resistance
Season 1 / Ep 7
11 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Roots of Resistance: The Longest Student Strike in History
Roots of Resistance
Season 1 / Ep 2
10 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Roots of Resistance: The Olmstead Decision
Roots of Resistance
Season 1 / Ep 3
11 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Roots of Resistance: Work Week
Roots of Resistance
Season 1 / Ep 6
10 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
2 teenage boys sit at a table in a computer lab. They hold a container lid top at the edge of a container to form a ramp for a small robotic vehicle to go down.
Science Nation
Episode 29
3 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Young woman wearing headphones speaks into a microphone and faces away from camera in a darkened foreground. A young man and young woman watch her through a window in the background.
Science Nation
Episode 39
3 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of a computer screen displaying a spreadsheet of labeled rows, some highlighted in green.
Science Nation
Episode 165
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Woman sits at a desk and looks down at a few papers while a girl in glasses sits across from her. Caption. Today we're going to talk about problems.
Social Skills Cinema
Episode 8
2 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
ASL
Still image from: Teaching in Room 9: Recycling for Our Planet
Teaching in Room 9
Episode
24 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
Grocery store produce department with stacks of different fruit. Caption: Many fruits are better for us than candy and cookies.
Teen Kids News
Episode 1018
22 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of a girl's calf stretched out on a grass lawn. The girl's hands massage her shin while another person flexes the girls' foot and supports her knee. Text below reads, "Stretch and massage."
Teen Kids News
Episode 1337
21 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Multiple photos of young men and soldiers. The photos are standing up on a carpeted floor with sides slightly rolled. They are lined up next to, behind and above each other in front of a camouflage fabric backdrop.
Teen Kids News
Episode 1340
21 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Blurry closeup of a sheet of U, S currency notes with amounts and faces of Benjamin Franklin on the 100 dollar bill, Ulysses Grant on the 50 dollar bill, Andrew Jackson on the 20 dollar bill and Thomas Jefferson on the 2 dollar bill.
Teen Kids News
Episode 1348
20 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Man faces camera as he sits in an office looking to the side of camera. A poster sign propped against the window is to his side. The sign has a logo of book spines covered by a roof that reads, "Room to Read. World Change Starts with Educated Children."
Teen Kids News
Episode 1427
21 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of a barber pole mounted onto and extending out from the entrance of a building. Below the pole is a sign that reads, "Barber Shop."
Teen Kids News
Episode 1430
21 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
2 middle aged men stand inside a front door entry. 1 man looks downward and uses a drill on the door's lock area as the other man watches him. Caption. To rebuild their homes which have been destroyed.
Teen Kids News
Episode 1602
21 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Multiple overlays with black and white photo of the Yankees' pitcher and catcher hugging at home plate next to a sepia tone photo of Don Larsen. The score appears at the top with a text box below that reads, "Game 5. 1956 World Series. Dodgers versus Yankees."
Teen Kids News
Episode 1620
21 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Medium view of a teenage boy in a suit sitting at a desk in a newsroom setting. He looks directly at the camera ready to speak.
Teen Kids News
Episode 1624
21 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Girl wearing a striped shirt stands in front of a wall of monitors, the biggest of which displays the question, "What's in a name?"
Teen Kids News
Episode 1903
21 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person with short blonde hair wearing a tie-dyed T-shirt smiles while looking down, seated in a living room in front of a fireplace.
Teen Kids News
Episode 1910
21 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2103)
Teen Kids News
Episode 2103
21 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2105)
Teen Kids News
Episode 2105
21 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2108)
Teen Kids News
Episode 2108
21 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2109)
Teen Kids News
Episode 2109
21 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2111)
Teen Kids News
Episode 2111
18 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2113)
Teen Kids News
Episode 2113
21 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2115)
Teen Kids News
Episode 2115
18 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2118)
Teen Kids News
Episode 2118
21 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2127)
Teen Kids News
Episode 2127
21 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2128)
Teen Kids News
Episode 2128
21 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2130)
Teen Kids News
Episode 2130
21 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2202)
Teen Kids News
Episode 2202
20 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2203)
Teen Kids News
Episode 2203
20 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2211)
Teen Kids News
Episode 2211
20 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2214)
Teen Kids News
Episode 2214
17 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2217)
Teen Kids News
Episode 2217
17 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
3 boys sit around a table. 2 have their hands raised. They look toward a woman sitting across from them with her back to camera. Caption. All right, who wants to start?
Social Skills Cinema
Episode 9
4 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Instagram post with a photo of a woman taking a picture in a dark space with flecks of colored light. Column with caption and comments are to the right.
The Art Assignment
Season 6 / Ep 18
11 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Boy faces camera in a blue baseball cap. Lyrics caption. Honor thy children.
4 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Trace holds reusable bottles and coffee mugs in his hands. Caption: I think reusable bottles might be bad for the environment,
Uno Dos of Trace
Episode
5 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Trace is standing in front of a book shelf. Caption: Genetic engineering is complex, and it's wide reaching.
Uno Dos of Trace
Episode
14 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Split screen interview. One man wearing eyeglasses appears in a black ski mask in a dark room. On the right side is a man reacting, holding up a hand and squinting his eyes.
Uno Dos of Trace
Episode
24 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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