Draw lines to join two letters and lead them to their pair. Find the matching letter tiles and say each sound too. Can you connect C to K?
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Two is shopping for dancing shoes. Let's meet a magical new friend. Two Times Table likes things that come in twos! Color to make pairs. When you count up in pairs, use the Two Times Table!
1 x 2 = 2
2 x 2 = 4
2 x 3 = 6
2 x 4 = 8
2 x 6 = 10
2 x 6 = 12
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In Pollinators and Plants, Nature’s Perfect Pair, narrator Sir David Attenborough explores the fascinating teamwork — and clever defenses — between plants and pollinators! Monarch butterflies rely on milkweed plants for laying eggs and gathering nectar, but the plant defends itself with a sap that challenges the caterpillars. Meanwhile, the Heliconia plant carefully rations nectar to keep the hummingbird returning, as only this bird’s uniquely shaped beak can pollinate it! This video is excerpted from BBC's Life, a show that explores the remarkable strategies animals and plants use to ensure their survival.
Long before the U.S. Constitution was written, five nations in what is now New York State had agreed to govern together under a shared set of laws. That story, the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, is where this Kahoot! begins. From there, it moves across North America and through time: the cliff dwellings Ancestral Puebloans built into the canyon walls of Mesa Verde, the forced removal of the Cherokee along the Trail of Tears, the effort to bring buffalo back to the Great Plains, and the lives of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities in Canada today. Some answers may surprise you, and some will change how you think about history you thought you knew.
Teachers: Use it to open or review a unit on Indigenous history, government, or human rights, or pair it with the rest of the Indigenous Peoples Around the World Kahoot course.
At the start of 2026, Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo said goodbye to two of its most famous residents: twin giant pandas Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei.
The twins were born at the zoo in 2021 and quickly became stars. In their final weeks in Japan, so many families wanted to see them that visitors were picked by lottery.
The pandas were always meant to go back to China. China doesn’t sell or give away its giant pandas. It lends them to other countries, and the loans often depend on how well the two governments get along. This is known as “panda diplomacy.”
The twins left at a tense moment. Relations between China and Japan worsened after Japan’s new prime minister made comments about Taiwan, an island that governs itself but that China claims as part of its territory.
Now, for the first time since 1972, Japan has no giant pandas. That date matters. 1972 was the year Japan and China restored official relations, and China marked it by sending Japan its first pair of pandas. Japan would like more pandas, but officials say a new loan looks unlikely for now.
So the pandas are home in China, and Japan is waiting for a reply.
When Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, the war to preserve the Union also became a war against slavery. How much Lincoln meant it that way is still debated, and this playlist takes up that question directly. It also covers the new technology that changed how armies fought, the medical crisis in which disease killed twice as many soldiers as combat, the turning-point battles of 1863, and Sherman’s campaign through Georgia. The second half follows the country through Reconstruction: lenient early policies gave way to Radical Reconstruction and constitutional amendments that abolished slavery and guaranteed citizenship and voting rights. It then traces how those gains were rolled back as white Southern Democrats regained power and federal troops withdrew in 1877.
Each video comes with discussion questions, vocabulary, a writing prompt, and classroom activities — all printable from the video page. Questions include why the Emancipation Proclamation didn’t free all enslaved people, why historians call the Civil War the first modern war, and whether Lincoln believed in racial equality.
Teachers and Parents: The playlist picks up where The Road to War leaves off, so together the two playlists cover the full unit for ages 11–18. Videos 1 and 2 work as a pair: a straightforward account of the Emancipation Proclamation followed by historian Lucy Worsley’s case that Lincoln’s main goal was saving the Union. That sets up a strong source-comparison or debate lesson. Lincoln’s Legacy extends the discussion through Frederick Douglass’s reassessment of Lincoln. It contains discriminatory language, so preview it before assigning. The last three videos form a short Reconstruction sequence: The Three Phases of Reconstruction gives the overview, and the next two focus on Black Americans' political gains and the deal that ended federal enforcement, a natural lead-in to Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement. Use the "Share With Students" feature to assign videos directly or "Add to Playlist" to build your own sequence.
Meet five fascinating owl species from around the world: the great grey owl, western barn owl, tawny owl, snowy owl, and Eurasian eagle owl.
Click on each owl’s picture to watch a short video, then click on its name to discover a fun fact about what makes it unique, from specialized feathers and hunting techniques to surprising behaviors and remarkable adaptations.
Some owls thrive in snowy forests, others hunt over open fields, and some make their homes among rocky cliffs and woodlands. Along the way, you’ll discover how these remarkable birds find prey, navigate their habitats, and survive in different environments.
For Teachers and Parents:
The Owlery works well as an introduction to animal adaptations, habitats, and predator-prey relationships or as a self-guided activity for students working on their own or in pairs. Here are a few ways to use it:
- Before exploring: Ask students what they already know about owls and where they think different species live. Have them predict how owls might be adapted to their environments.
- While exploring: Have students record one interesting fact and one adaptation for each owl, explaining how it helps the bird survive.
- After exploring: Ask students to compare the five species. Which hunt in similar habitats? How do their diets, behaviors, and physical features differ?
- Extension: Have students choose one owl and investigate how changes to its habitat, food supply, or nesting sites could affect its survival.
In Sarah and Duck and the Fireworks Dance, Sarah and Duck are playing indoors. When a fireworks display lights up the sky, Duck hides, until Sarah finds him and helps him enjoy the fireworks with a pair of earmuffs. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Sarah & Duck, a kids' show about the adventures of 7-year-old Sarah and her quacky, flappy best friend, Duck.
In Facing Off With a Triceratops, host Andy Day is in the Cretaceous period. He comes across a herd of Triceratops and notices pairs that are fighting. The Triceratops use their horns and crests to intimidate each other and sometimes fight. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Andy's Dinosaur Adventures, in which Andy Day travels back in time to meet the dinosaurs.
In Scarlet Macaws in Search of Salt, explore how a pair of scarlet macaws look after their chicks. They need salt, but are far from the ocean, so one of the parents flies to a clay lick and returns with clay to provide the salt for their chicks. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Seven Worlds, One Planet, a series featuring remarkable animal behavior from all seven continents.
In An Orca Whale Hunt, narrator Sir David Attenborough follows a pair of orca, also known as killer whales, who are working together to attack a sea lion. This video is an excerpt from BBC’s Nature's Great Events, a documentary series that showcases some of the most dramatic wildlife spectacles on Earth, exploring how life adapts to natural events that can transform entire landscapes.
In Black Hole Coalescence, narrator Kate Yule details how a pair of black holes warp space and time when they coalesce. Learn how the energy is emitted as gravitational waves rather than light, and how Rainer Weiss was able to detect these waves through his detector 1.3 billion years later. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Einstein & Hawking: Masters of Our Universe, a mind-bending documentary that tells the story of how the two most famous scientists of the 20th Century transformed our understanding of the Universe and changed the world.
Draw lines to join two letters and lead them to their pair. Find the matching letter tiles and say each sound too. Can you connect C to K?
Watch full episodes of Alphablocks on their official YouTube channel!
Two is shopping for dancing shoes. Let's meet a magical new friend. Two Times Table likes things that come in twos! Color to make pairs. When you count up in pairs, use the Two Times Table!
1 x 2 = 2
2 x 2 = 4
2 x 3 = 6
2 x 4 = 8
2 x 6 = 10
2 x 6 = 12
Watch full episodes of Numberblocks on their official YouTube channel!
In Pollinators and Plants, Nature’s Perfect Pair, narrator Sir David Attenborough explores the fascinating teamwork — and clever defenses — between plants and pollinators! Monarch butterflies rely on milkweed plants for laying eggs and gathering nectar, but the plant defends itself with a sap that challenges the caterpillars. Meanwhile, the Heliconia plant carefully rations nectar to keep the hummingbird returning, as only this bird’s uniquely shaped beak can pollinate it! This video is excerpted from BBC's Life, a show that explores the remarkable strategies animals and plants use to ensure their survival.
Long before the U.S. Constitution was written, five nations in what is now New York State had agreed to govern together under a shared set of laws. That story, the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, is where this Kahoot! begins. From there, it moves across North America and through time: the cliff dwellings Ancestral Puebloans built into the canyon walls of Mesa Verde, the forced removal of the Cherokee along the Trail of Tears, the effort to bring buffalo back to the Great Plains, and the lives of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities in Canada today. Some answers may surprise you, and some will change how you think about history you thought you knew.
Teachers: Use it to open or review a unit on Indigenous history, government, or human rights, or pair it with the rest of the Indigenous Peoples Around the World Kahoot course.
At the start of 2026, Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo said goodbye to two of its most famous residents: twin giant pandas Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei.
The twins were born at the zoo in 2021 and quickly became stars. In their final weeks in Japan, so many families wanted to see them that visitors were picked by lottery.
The pandas were always meant to go back to China. China doesn’t sell or give away its giant pandas. It lends them to other countries, and the loans often depend on how well the two governments get along. This is known as “panda diplomacy.”
The twins left at a tense moment. Relations between China and Japan worsened after Japan’s new prime minister made comments about Taiwan, an island that governs itself but that China claims as part of its territory.
Now, for the first time since 1972, Japan has no giant pandas. That date matters. 1972 was the year Japan and China restored official relations, and China marked it by sending Japan its first pair of pandas. Japan would like more pandas, but officials say a new loan looks unlikely for now.
So the pandas are home in China, and Japan is waiting for a reply.
When Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, the war to preserve the Union also became a war against slavery. How much Lincoln meant it that way is still debated, and this playlist takes up that question directly. It also covers the new technology that changed how armies fought, the medical crisis in which disease killed twice as many soldiers as combat, the turning-point battles of 1863, and Sherman’s campaign through Georgia. The second half follows the country through Reconstruction: lenient early policies gave way to Radical Reconstruction and constitutional amendments that abolished slavery and guaranteed citizenship and voting rights. It then traces how those gains were rolled back as white Southern Democrats regained power and federal troops withdrew in 1877.
Each video comes with discussion questions, vocabulary, a writing prompt, and classroom activities — all printable from the video page. Questions include why the Emancipation Proclamation didn’t free all enslaved people, why historians call the Civil War the first modern war, and whether Lincoln believed in racial equality.
Teachers and Parents: The playlist picks up where The Road to War leaves off, so together the two playlists cover the full unit for ages 11–18. Videos 1 and 2 work as a pair: a straightforward account of the Emancipation Proclamation followed by historian Lucy Worsley’s case that Lincoln’s main goal was saving the Union. That sets up a strong source-comparison or debate lesson. Lincoln’s Legacy extends the discussion through Frederick Douglass’s reassessment of Lincoln. It contains discriminatory language, so preview it before assigning. The last three videos form a short Reconstruction sequence: The Three Phases of Reconstruction gives the overview, and the next two focus on Black Americans' political gains and the deal that ended federal enforcement, a natural lead-in to Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement. Use the "Share With Students" feature to assign videos directly or "Add to Playlist" to build your own sequence.
Meet five fascinating owl species from around the world: the great grey owl, western barn owl, tawny owl, snowy owl, and Eurasian eagle owl.
Click on each owl’s picture to watch a short video, then click on its name to discover a fun fact about what makes it unique, from specialized feathers and hunting techniques to surprising behaviors and remarkable adaptations.
Some owls thrive in snowy forests, others hunt over open fields, and some make their homes among rocky cliffs and woodlands. Along the way, you’ll discover how these remarkable birds find prey, navigate their habitats, and survive in different environments.
For Teachers and Parents:
The Owlery works well as an introduction to animal adaptations, habitats, and predator-prey relationships or as a self-guided activity for students working on their own or in pairs. Here are a few ways to use it:
- Before exploring: Ask students what they already know about owls and where they think different species live. Have them predict how owls might be adapted to their environments.
- While exploring: Have students record one interesting fact and one adaptation for each owl, explaining how it helps the bird survive.
- After exploring: Ask students to compare the five species. Which hunt in similar habitats? How do their diets, behaviors, and physical features differ?
- Extension: Have students choose one owl and investigate how changes to its habitat, food supply, or nesting sites could affect its survival.
In Sarah and Duck and the Fireworks Dance, Sarah and Duck are playing indoors. When a fireworks display lights up the sky, Duck hides, until Sarah finds him and helps him enjoy the fireworks with a pair of earmuffs. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Sarah & Duck, a kids' show about the adventures of 7-year-old Sarah and her quacky, flappy best friend, Duck.
In Facing Off With a Triceratops, host Andy Day is in the Cretaceous period. He comes across a herd of Triceratops and notices pairs that are fighting. The Triceratops use their horns and crests to intimidate each other and sometimes fight. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Andy's Dinosaur Adventures, in which Andy Day travels back in time to meet the dinosaurs.
In Scarlet Macaws in Search of Salt, explore how a pair of scarlet macaws look after their chicks. They need salt, but are far from the ocean, so one of the parents flies to a clay lick and returns with clay to provide the salt for their chicks. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Seven Worlds, One Planet, a series featuring remarkable animal behavior from all seven continents.
In An Orca Whale Hunt, narrator Sir David Attenborough follows a pair of orca, also known as killer whales, who are working together to attack a sea lion. This video is an excerpt from BBC’s Nature's Great Events, a documentary series that showcases some of the most dramatic wildlife spectacles on Earth, exploring how life adapts to natural events that can transform entire landscapes.
In Black Hole Coalescence, narrator Kate Yule details how a pair of black holes warp space and time when they coalesce. Learn how the energy is emitted as gravitational waves rather than light, and how Rainer Weiss was able to detect these waves through his detector 1.3 billion years later. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Einstein & Hawking: Masters of Our Universe, a mind-bending documentary that tells the story of how the two most famous scientists of the 20th Century transformed our understanding of the Universe and changed the world.