Veritasium
Schlieren Imaging in Color!
One of the most flammable sports balls turns out to be ping pong balls. Watch a ping pong ball burn using Schlieren imaging. The video details how Schlieren imaging works in color, black and white, and in slow motion.
Real Engineering
Steam Engine—How Does It Work?
Full steam ahead! A video in the Real Engineering playlist shows viewers how steam engines work. the video starts with an explanation of the inefficient steam engines from before the Industrial Revolution and ends with modern steam...
Teacher's Pet
Chemical Systems and Heat
Are you feeling the heat to find a great resource that teaches about thermal energy transfer? Try an engaging video! Chemistry pupils explore the concepts and calculations involved in chemical systems. The narrator shows examples and...
Teacher's Pet
Heat in Changes of State
Melting ice seems pretty easy, right? But what's actually happening is much more complex! Introduce the class to enthalpy calculations using a video tutorial. The narrator explains and performs the calculations that show the energy at...
Teacher's Pet
Liquids and Solids
What makes something a solid, liquid, or gas? Expand your class' understanding of the states of matter using an animated video. Young scientists explore the behavior of each of the states of matter in terms of temperature change,...
Teacher's Pet
The Flow of Energy: Heat
When you're hot, you're hot! But, how does something get hot? Young scientists discover the properties of heat energy in an insightful video. The narrator discusses the differences between kinetic and potential energy, how heat transfers...
MinutePhysics
How Entropy Powers the Earth (Big Picture Ep. 4/5)
Energy can be either useful or useless, depending on you look at it! A video lesson examines how entropy works with the Law of Conservation of Energy. Scholars learn how Earth receives and uses photons from the sun in a state of low...
MinutePhysics
Should You Walk or Run When It's Cold?
Should you stay or should you go? A video lesson examines the heat gain and loss in a cold environment. The narrator compares standing still and running and their effects on heat energy.
DoodleScience
The Energy Types
How many types of energy can you name? A video introduces all 10 types of energy and gives a brief explanation of each.
Crash Course Kids
Here Comes the Sun
Get to know Sol with this fast paced, kid-friendly video featuring the closest star to Earth, the sun. Super scientists take part in a quick pop quiz, then learn all about Sol's size, distance, and how it creates and sends energy to Earth.
Steve Spangler Science
Dry Ice Floating Bubble - Sick Science! #058
In this episode of "Steve Spangler Science" videos, the gas produced by the sublimation of carbon dioxide dry ice creates a nice, fluffy cushion in a bowl of water. Since it is less dense than a soap bubble and cool enough to keep it...
Curated OER
STEMbite: Diffusion
A biology or physical science class would benefit from viewing this video on diffusion and molecular motion. Mr. Vanden Heuvel plays with food coloring in drinking glasses, showing that the faster the water molecules are moving due to...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Define Specific Heat
This lesson will define specific heat of a substance and provide examples, using units of calories and joules.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Changes in Temperature at Equilibrium
This lesson will provide examples of how to identify an equilibrium shift due to a change in temperature of a reaction at equilibrium.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Transferring Heat Energy: Exothermic and Endothermic
This lesson will define exothermic and endothermic, and explain the relationship of these terms to transfer of heat during a chemical reaction.