April is an exciting month on ClickView, with a fresh wave of new content designed to engage and inspire students across every level. From brand-new series and featured content partners to curated topics and special events, there’s plenty to explore and bring into your classroom this month.

What’s new?

This month we have added 112 new videos to ClickView, learn all about this month’s featured releases below.

Spotlight on New Content

This month’s middle school highlights feature two new Social Studies series developed in collaboration with Oxford University Press, building students’ foundational understanding of history and civics. At the high school level, three new series explore the science of DNA, practical test preparation strategies, and hands-on chemistry experiments, offering rich, curriculum-aligned content across the sciences and social studies.

Middle School Highlights

ClickView x OUP Collaboration

Two new Social Studies series for middle school, Middle School: History Toolkit and Middle School: Civics Toolkit, explore the key concepts and skills that students will need in their study of history and civics, or the rights and responsibilities of citizens and government.

High School Highlights

Discovering DNA

Learn about the chemical compound that’s most important to the study of life on this planet, including the structure of DNA, protein synthesis, biotechnology and gene technologies, and more.

Study Skills for Tests

Discover study skills and strategies to help you prepare for tests, from general study strategies and creating an effective study plan, to memorization techniques and specific study techniques for different subjects.

Producer Comment

Ailing Tay, Producer—Study Skills for Tests

“This series helps students understand the different techniques they can use when studying for different subjects, as well as a range of memorization strategies to support them when preparing for tests. Using a muted, cutout design with colorful backgrounds, the series aims to make test preparation feel more lighthearted and approachable while helping students build confidence in their study routines.”

Chemistry Experiments

Featuring practical demonstrations, this series explores a variety of lab skills and different chemistry experiments, analyzing exactly what’s happening in each one.

New and Featured Content Partners

Our featured content partners for April highlight the powerful ways that narrative videos can be used to teach both how to use important skills and about key issues in the world around us.

New Day Films
New Day Films is an educational film distribution cooperative who distribute groundbreaking social issues documentaries around the world, from award-winning titles to powerful new works from emerging independent filmmakers. Find some of their best films highlighted below.

Chasing Time English
Chasing Time English caters to older learners through narrative series like Days Crossing, Adrift, and Skippers Pass, helping them build practical conversational English and grammar skills.

Movies + TV Highlights

From the filmmakers collective New Day Films, this month’s Movies + TV highlights is a curated selection of educational American stories.

UNSTUCK: An OCD Kids Movie gives children who struggle with OCD a voice. The film follows six kids who bravely share what life is like living inside their mind, their fears, obsessions and rituals that they’re striving to overcome. This film is a moving and powerful portrait of resilience, understanding and truly educates viewers on what OCD is.

Our history spotlight for April is Samurai in the Oregon Sky. A story of Japanese and American communities uniting in the aftermath of WWII, the film follows the extraordinary tale of Japanese pilot Nobuo Fujita who unbelievably turned his target of destruction into a home. Set in small-town Oregon, Fujita’s inspiring story of fostering peace and reconciliation is a remarkable display of allyship in the face of adversity and prejudice.

To a more pressing social justice issue, Whose Water? investigates the water crisis affecting millions of vulnerable Americans. In this film, communities rally together to loudly protest the lack of access to safe, drinkable water and sanitation. An exposé into the downfall of democracy and the greed of water companies, Whose Water? does not shy away from the brutal reality that a water crisis is a human rights crisis.

And finally, for environmental and sustainability studies, we recommend the Emmy award winning film Three Ocean Advocates. The documentary follows three inspiring individuals – an artist, a fisherman, and a photographer – who are passionately dedicated to restoring and protecting our oceans. With the ever-present harm of climate change and plastic pollution in our oceans, the efforts and actions of the three advocates is a story of hope, determination and a message of environmental stewardship to pass on to young viewers.

Curation and Special Events

This month’s curation spans elementary through high school, with Topics ranging from decimals and space to history skills, civics, the legislative process, and relativity, alongside special event resources tied to key dates in May.

Elementary Topics

Middle School Topics

High School Topics

The Legislative Process in Action
Relativity
Theory of Knowledge

Relativity — The Legislative Process in Action

May Special Events Topics

Mark your calendars for these upcoming special days and explore related resources to integrate across the curriculum.

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (May 1st – 31st)
National Fitness Day (May 2nd)
International Compost Awareness Week (May 3rd)
National Teacher Appreciation Day (May 5th)
Cinco de Mayo (May 5th)
Endangered Species Day (May 15th)
Memorial Day (May 25th)
International Day of the Potato (May 30th)

Browse the full calendar for more special events here.

Featured Resource: Design Task

Foster student agency with the new Choice Board Activities resource. This instructional resource provides differentiated sets of 3–5 activities at each level of Bloom’s Taxonomy.

The six levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy:
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyze
- Evaluate
- Create
Why use it?
- Supports differentiation and adaptive teaching
- Supports explicit teaching through the gradual release of responsibility
- Can be teacher-led or self-directed
- Use after watching a video

Try it with the video Plastic and Chemical Pollution: Oceans and Sea Life in Peril from the series Science Kids.

Ready to explore?

All of this month’s new content, curated Topics, and featured partner resources are available now on ClickView, ready to bring into your classroom. Log in today to explore the full range of April releases and start planning how to integrate them into your upcoming lessons.

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