- http://www.viewpure.com/
- https://safeyoutube.net/
- https://quietube.com/
- https://ytcropper.com/
- and if all else fails, embed it into a Google Slide and use the "Format Options" to start & stop the video to show the clip you want students to see
CONTENT ↬ any/all
GRADE LEVELS ↬ All
Videos are such great teaching resources. They can provide the "hook" needed or an alternative to reading or good visual to support your content or layer in audio to further enhance the understanding. Video can help bring content to life ... and in today's world, our access is far greater than ever before.
The problem is ... all the "other stuff" on a YouTube page. The ads, the suggested videos, the comments ... these can really detract from the video itself. Some teachers might even shy away from using YouTube videos for this reason. Please don't! Try out the links above and find one that works for you and your students. You won't regret it!
*** A little side story if you aren't sure videos really help instruction. As a a 5th grade Social Studies teacher, the American Revolution was one of the topics I covered. I found a fabulous PBS show called "Liberty's Kids", a cartooned recreation providing the point of view of a rough-and-tumble colonist boy, a proper-English girl, an orphaned French boy, along with Ben Franklin and a freed slave named Moses, who experience the American Revolution. I had students who hated reading learn more in that unit by watching this show than ever. They LOVED it! When I moved up to 7th & 8th grade, it held true again. I gathered the videos into collections matching the chapters and had so many students CHOOSE to watch them I was amazed!
The problem is ... all the "other stuff" on a YouTube page. The ads, the suggested videos, the comments ... these can really detract from the video itself. Some teachers might even shy away from using YouTube videos for this reason. Please don't! Try out the links above and find one that works for you and your students. You won't regret it!
*** A little side story if you aren't sure videos really help instruction. As a a 5th grade Social Studies teacher, the American Revolution was one of the topics I covered. I found a fabulous PBS show called "Liberty's Kids", a cartooned recreation providing the point of view of a rough-and-tumble colonist boy, a proper-English girl, an orphaned French boy, along with Ben Franklin and a freed slave named Moses, who experience the American Revolution. I had students who hated reading learn more in that unit by watching this show than ever. They LOVED it! When I moved up to 7th & 8th grade, it held true again. I gathered the videos into collections matching the chapters and had so many students CHOOSE to watch them I was amazed!
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