Instructional Video9:14
SciShow

Great Minds: Nikola Tesla

9th - 12th
Nikola Tesla is known for alternating current and contributing to many modern inventions. He is also known for forgetting to write down how he did things and losing his mind. 
Lesson Plan12:18
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Teach Engineering

Storing Android Accelerometer Data: App Design

9th - 12th
There's an app for that! Pupils learn to build an app that will store data on an Android. The lesson introduces class members to the tiny database, TinyDB, for Android devices. A video tutorial provides an example that uses the...
Instructional Video5:08
Engenius Films

Formula Student Racing Cars

5th - 12th
What goes into designing a vehicle? Take a look at a STEM competition where soon to be engineers design and build racing cars. Hear from the engineering scholars on what it takes to be in the competition. The video makes many connections...
Instructional Video4:07
Engenius Films

Advanced Manufacturing for Greener Transport

6th - 12th
How do manufacturers make transportation to use less energy? The short video highlights the work of engineers and materials scientists use in their work with new technologies in transportation. It focuses on machining and composite...
Instructional Video4:13
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Crash Course Kids

Let's Build a City

3rd - 8th
Explore the concept of engineering through urban planning with a video that strives to answer the question, "How can we use engineering to design a city that is safe, healthy, sustainable, and fun to live...
Instructional Video4:27
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Crash Course Kids

Architecture Adventure

3rd - 8th
A challenge to viewers: create your own personal space where you are free to relax and make as much noise as you want. Challenge accepted! Here is a video that focuses on the architectural side of engineering, as well as the process...
Instructional Video4:27
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Crash Course Kids

The Robot Challenge

3rd - 8th
It's every learners' worst nightmare: they drop their phone down a storm drain and can't get it back. Yikes! Here is an informative and entertaining video in which future engineers review the engineering process, and help to...
Instructional Video4:44
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Crash Course Kids

Testing and Trials

3rd - 8th
What do engineers do if they don't have what they need to make a solution work? They keep on testing! Here is a video that gives individuals insight into the process taken by engineers when they find themselves without the...
Instructional Video4:35
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Crash Course Kids

Designing a Trial

3rd - 8th
Watch the video to gain insight into an intriguing combination of the engineering process and a game of ring toss. Viewers examine the activity through the eyes of the engineers that first set the criteria for a successful outcome....
Instructional Video4:02
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Crash Course Kids

Fixing Failure Points

3rd - 8th
How do engineers find and fix failure points in a solution they're trying to develop? This is the driving question of an informative and entertaining video. Here, future engineers discover why it is important to fail when...
Instructional Video4:06
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Crash Course Kids

Succeed by Failing

3rd - 8th
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." This statement has never rung truer than when engineers are testing solutions. Here is an informative video that focuses on the failure point which engineers often face when...
Instructional Video3:01
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Crash Course Kids

Try Trials

3rd - 8th
Future engineers are bowled over with the wealth of information brought to them by this video. The focus is on engineers and the process they take to test solutions by isolating variables with multiple trials. 
Instructional Video4:38
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Crash Course Kids

Bowled Over - Isolating Variables

3rd - 8th
Through a captivating game of bowling and Slingshot Catbot, this video gives future engineers insight into the testing solutions part of the engineering process. It includes setting rules, isolating variables, and checking to see if...
Instructional Video5:17
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Crash Course Kids

The Engineering Process

3rd - 8th
The process that brought us items, such as the telephone and air conditioner was no easy task. In this upbeat video, scholars gain insight to the steps engineers take to create, design, and build a final product. 
Instructional Video3:40
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Crash Course Kids

Defining a Problem

3rd - 8th
Scholars may think they face big problems, but not like the problems engineers face. During this episode, the first step of the engineering process, define the process, is examined through a hypothetical scenario that...
Instructional Video4:30
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Crash Course Kids

What's an Engineer?

3rd - 8th
What is an engineer? Find out in a brief video that explores types of engineers and the three essential questions every engineer asks and answers. Additionally, pupils discover real world engineers that have made an impact on...
Instructional Video3:18
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Crash Course Kids

Engineering Games

3rd - 8th
Engineering is like a big game! Yes, you read that correctly. In this video, the engineering process is examined with a focus on defining variables, and ways to discover the one variable that affects the outcome of a solution....
Instructional Video3:55
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Crash Course Kids

A Case of "What-Ifs"

3rd - 8th
Do your pupils ever get the case of the What-Ifs? If so, maybe they're meant to be an engineer. Engineers are encouraged to ask a lot of hypothetical questions! Find out why and what they do with their answers...
Instructional Video5:30
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Crash Course Kids

Let's Fly!

3rd - 8th
Engineers think up multiple solutions to the problems they face, but how do they find the best solution? In this video, examine the process engineers take to discover the most appropriate choice to solve problems, and revisit the...
Instructional Video4:01
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Crash Course Kids

Got Some Solutions?

3rd - 8th
Does a problem only have one solution? This is the driving question of a video that allows pupils to discover that there is more than one way to solve a problem. A demonstration examines the checklist engineers...
Instructional Video3:59
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Crash Course Kids

Defining Success

3rd - 8th
The telephone, refrigerator, and light bulb are all solutions to a problem that an engineer successfully designed. Get to know more about how engineers define success, using this video. The focus goes through a checklist that...
Instructional Video4:52
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TED-Ed

Why Do Buildings Fall in Earthquakes?

4th - 12th Standards
There are few natural phenomena as startling as an earthquake, and depending on the building you're in, these experiences can be downright terrifying. Follow along as this video explores the factors that determine how a building...
Instructional Video18:22
TED-Ed

Medicine's Future? There's an App for That

9th - 12th Standards
Imagine injecting tiny robots into your blood to help fight disease. According to Daniel Kraft, that's just one of many exciting new medical technologies coming our way in the not-so-distant future. The key to these amazing innovations...
Instructional Video6:49
TED-Ed

A Call to Invention: DIY Speaker Edition

4th - 12th Standards
Can you build a homemade speaker out of a potato chip? Bestselling author and do-it-yourself expert William Gurstelle shows you how in his brief presentation at TEDYouth 2012. He encourages young people to be creative and explore...