This art history video discussion examines Albrecht Dürer's "Self-portrait", 1498, oil on panel, 52 x 41 cm (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).

This art history video discussion examines Albrecht Durer's "The Large Piece of Turf", 1503, watercolor and gouache on paper, 16-1/8 x 12-5/8 inches / 41 x 32 cm (Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna)

In this video profile produced for Teachers' Domain, meet teacher Dustin Madden, an IŰ__ŒóíŠupiaq who hopes to inspire students to take an active role in protecting the natural environment by giving them a foundation in math and science.

This art history video dicussion examines William Dyce's "Pegwell Bay, Kent - a Recollection of October 5th 1858" 1858-60, oil on canvas (Tate Britain, London).

This art history video discussion examines "Dying Gaul", an ancient Roman marble copy of a lost bronze Greek sculpture, c. 220 BCE.

In this art history video discussion Beth Harris and Steven Zucker look at Albrecht Dürer's "The Four Apostles", oil on wood, 1526. Alte Pinakothek, Munich.

This podcast interview with Drs. Piasta and Hudson discusses teacher content/pedagogical knowledge, phonological awareness instruction, and phonics instruction, why it all matters, and what it means for instruction.

In this Cyberchase video segment, the CyberSquad figures out how to earn 100 snelfus in 11 days.

This video segment adapted from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center discusses how a drought can have negative effects locally, for example by increasing the number of forest fires, and also globally, for example by impacting air quality thousands of miles away.

This video segment adapted from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center explains how hurricanes develop and why there are fewer hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean in strong El NiŰ__ŒóíŠo years.

Learn about the different features of snow and ice in Antarctica using satellite imagery in this video segment adapted from NASA.

This lesson is about the flow of energy in ecosystems. The setting is Plimoth Plantation, a living history museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA, where students will learn about the first Thanksgiving meal in America, celebrated in 1621 by early American settlers and Wampanoag Indians. By examining this meal and comparing it to a modern day Thanksgiving celebration, students will be able to explore the way in which food energy moves and is transformed in an ecosystem. The learning goals focus on the movement of energy from one feeding level to the next within a food web, the way in which energy changes form, and the inefficiency of energy transfer, which in turn affects the availability of food energy for organisms at the highest feeding level. The lesson is directed at high school level biology students. Students should be familiar already with food webs, food chains, and trophic (feeding) levels. They should also be familiar with the general equations for photosynthesis (CO2 + H2O => C6H12O6) and cell respiration (C6H12O6 => CO2 + H2O), and understand the basic purpose of these processes in nature. This lesson can be completed during one long classroom period, or can be divided over two or more class meetings. The duration of the lesson will depend on prior knowledge of the students and on the amount of time allotted for student discussion. There are no supplies required for this lesson other than the downloadable worksheets (accessed on this BLOSSOMS site), paper and some glue or tape.

The major goal of this lesson is to provide students with some of the tools they will need to analyze and solve the many complex problems they will face during their lifetimes. In the lesson, students learn to use Flow Charts and Feedback Diagrams to analyze a very complex problem of ecological sustainability. The lesson looks at a specific case study—from my home town in the Philippines—of the Live Reef Fish Trade now threatening survival of the Coral Reef Triangle of Southeast Asia. Live reef fish have long been traded around Southeast Asia as a luxury food item, but in recent decades trade in fish captured on coral reefs has expanded rapidly. Although the trade has provided communities with additional income, these benefits are unsustainable and have come at considerable cost to the environment. This lesson begins by having students analyze a familiar or personal problem, using Flow Charts and Feedback Diagrams, and then moves on to the application of those tools to a complex environmental problem. The lesson could be completed in a 50-minute class session, but using it over two class sessions would be preferable. Everything needed for the lesson is downloadable from the BLOSSOMS website, including blank Flow Charts and Feedback Diagrams, as well as articles on the Philippines case study from the World Wildlife Fund and the United States Agency for International Development.

This 11 minute video examines the parts of the business cycle and what factors contribute to its fluctuation. This video will aid in mastery of standard EPF. 5(c)

This 5 minute video will examine the how unemployment rate is calculated and the various types of unemployment caused by various economic factors. This video will aid enforcing content of standard 5

This art history video discussion examines Ed Kienholz's and Nancy Reddin Kienholz's "Useful Art #5: The Western Hotel", 1992, (Portland Art Museum).

This art history video discussion examines Edouard Manet's "Olympia", oil on canvas, 1865 (Musee d'Orsay, Paris).

This art history video discussion looks at Edouard Manet's "Plum Brandy", c. 1877, oil on canvas (National Gallery of Art).

This art history video discussion examines Edouard Manet's "The Railway", v 1872-73, oil on canvas (National Gallery of Art).