The Academically Productive Talk Project's
Video Library
These videos are windows into authentic classrooms in which teachers are at various stages of learning to use APT as a pedagogical tool. While several of these videos feature teachers who have received training in APT, the video archive is not intended exclusively as a showcase for high quality practice. Rather than serving as models, the videos are intended to provide common referents for discussion about APT.
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Kindergarten – Grade 2
Building a Venn Diagram to Compare Characters
Language Arts, Grade 1
Categorizing Words that end with -ING
Language Arts, Grade 2
Comparing Subtraction Strategies
Math, Grade 2
Decompose Numbers: 1-10
Math, Kindergarten
Is a Seed Dead or Alive?
Science, Grade 2
Subtraction on the Number Line
Math, Grade 2
Understanding Sleep
Language Arts, Grade 1
Understanding More and Less
Math, Kindergarten
What is a Galimoto?
Language Arts, Grade 2
Grades 3–5
Bark Beetles and Ecosystems
Science, Grade 5
Black Cowboy, Wild Horses
Language Arts, Grade 4-5
Definition of Mathematical Volume
Math, Grade 5
Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
Language Arts, Grade 4-5
Elena: Considering a Characters' Actions
Language Arts, Grade 4-5
Grounded, A Poem by Nikki Grimes
Language Arts, Grade 4
Methods for Finding the Volume of an Object
Math, Grade 5
Multiplication of Fractions
Math, Grade 5
Pioneer Girl: Growing up on the Prairie
Language Arts, Grade 4-5
RMS Titanic: What if it Hadn't Sunk?
Language Arts, Grade 4-5
School Dress Codes: Should Uniforms be Required?
Language Arts, Grade 4
Understanding Hurricanes
Language Arts, Grade 5
Vascular Plants
Science, Grade 4
What is a Decomposer?
Science, Grade 5
When is it Acceptable to Break the Rules? Character Perspectives
Language Arts, Grade 4
When is it Acceptable to Break the Rules? Student Debate
Language Arts, Grade 4
Grades 6–8
Emmett Till: His Life as a Black Teenager in 1955 Chicago
Language Arts, Grade 7
Explosion of the USS Maine: Analyzing Claims from Different Newspapers
Social Studies, Grade 7
Game: A Fictional Story about a NYC Basketball Team
Language Arts, Grade 7
Homestead Strike: Analyzing an Interview with Henry Frick
Social Studies, Grade 7
How Many Squares are in the Border of a 10x10 Grid?
Math, Grade 8
Indian Removal Act of 1830
Social Studies, Grade 6
John Brown and the Raid of Harper's Ferry
Social Studies, Grade 6
Loyalists: Perspectives of Colonists who Opposed Independence from Great Britain
Social Studies, Grade 6
Matching Graphs
Math, Grade 7
My Mother Enters the Workforce, a poem by Rita Dove
Language Arts, Grade 6
Payment Plan
Math, Grade 8
Physician Assisted Suicide
Language Arts, Grade 8
Pocahontas: Why did John Smith Write Competing Narratives?
Social Studies, Grade 6
Was Philadelphia's Crosstown Expressway Racist?
Social Studies, Grade 8
Which Character has More Power?
Language Arts, Grade 8
Grades 9–12
Calculating a Car's Depreciation
Math, High School
Comparing Political Revolutions
Social Studies, Grade 10
Contextualization: Thomas Hobbes Author of the Leviathan, 1651
Language Arts, Grade 10
Expansion of the Islamic Empire
Social Studies, Grade 9
Factoring Polynomials: Explanation Quiz
Math, High School
Factoring Polynomials: Warm Up
Math, High School
How do Hotpacks Release Heat?
Science, High School
Simplifying Logarithms
Math, High School
Song of Myself, A Poem by Walt Whitman
Language Arts, High School
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The Academically Productive Talk Project was made possible by a grant from the Spencer Foundation #202000131. The views expressed here are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Spencer Foundation.
