I’m kind of hooked on CNN’s Explain It To Me series of videos. Each video offers a nice, succinct explanation of topics in the news. One that I watched early this morning is an explanation of Iran’s nuclear program and the concerns it causes. The short video is appropriate for use with high school students in a current world news course.

To follow-up on the video above, ThinkFinity has a good list of lesson plans for teaching about nuclear energy. Here is a short video explanation of how a nuclear reactor works.