SciShow
Why Do We Get Colds When It's Cold?
The temperature drops and you're more likely to get a cold: Is this correlation or causation?
Be Smart
Fact vs. Theory vs. Hypothesis vs. Law… Explained!
Gravity exists as both a scientific theory and a scientific law. For those struggling with the difference between scientific facts, theories, hypothesis, and laws, an informative video comes to the rescue. It offers a definition of each...
Flipped Math
Reasoning and Proof
Make sure the conditions are right. Pupils watch a video introducing conditional statements and their related statements. Learners find out how to identify the hypothesis and conclusion as well as write the converse, inverse, and...
TED-Ed
Are We Living in a Simulation?
Could the universe be part of one giant video game? A video lesson considers the idea that a powerful enough computer could simulate the universe. Building on an understanding of the mathematical laws of the universe, the lesson...
SciShow
3 Unsolved Moon Mysteries
What do people really know about the moon? Learn about three unsolved moon mysteries: the moon's past magnetic field, lunar sunrises, and what's really inside the moon's craters. An engaging video from the SciShow Space series connects...
Crash Course
P-Hacking: Crash Course Statistics #30
Spot the fake research. The 30th installment of the Crash Course Statistics series explains p-hacking and the family wise error rate, which occurs when researchers attempt to weed out a statistically significant result even when one is...
Crash Course
Degrees of Freedom and Effect Sizes: Crash Course Statistics #28
Give learners the freedom to learn about hypothesis testing. The 28th installment of the Crash Course Statistics series focuses on degrees of freedom and effect size. It looks at how these concepts relate to t-tests and t-distributions.
Crash Course
T-Tests: A Matched Pair Made in Heaven: Crash Course Statistics #27
Pair a video with your lesson on t-tests. Viewers of an informative YouTube video, the 27th part of the Crash Course Statistics series, study two sample t-tests and paired t-tests. They see which test would be appropriate for a situation...
Crash Course
Bayes in Science and Everyday Life: Crash Course Statistics #25
You can bet on Bayes. Continuing from the previous video, scholars learn about Bayesian statistics and hypothesis testing. The 25th installment of the Crash Course Statistics series applies these concepts to continuous data and to...
Crash Course
P-Value Problems: Crash Course Statistics #22
Ponder the problems of p-values. After reviewing p-values from the last video, the narrator explains some drawbacks of using p-values for hypothesis testing in the 22nd installment of the Crash Course Statistics series. The video...
Crash Course
You know I’m all about that Bayes: Crash Course Statistics #24
Be brave, learn about Bayes. An informative video describes Bayes theorem and Bayesian hypothesis testing. It explains how this type of testing incorporates both statistics and beliefs about the hypothesis to wrap up the 24th installment...
Crash Course
Playing with Power: P-Values Pt. 3: Crash Course Statistics #23
What went wrong?! The 23rd video in the Crash Course Statistics playlist focuses on errors that occur in hypothesis testing when using p-values. It describes Type I and Type II errors and explains how one type of error might be...
Crash Course
How P-Values Help Us Test Hypotheses: Crash Course Statistics #21
It's my hypothesis that watching the video will have a statistically significant effect on your understanding of p-values. The 21st part of the Crash Course Statistics course focuses on null hypothesis significance testing. It explains...
Crash Course
Plato and Aristotle: Crash Course History of Science #3
Biology, cosmology, philosophy ... Plato and Aristotle had theories about them all! How did these ancient scholars shape the science of today? The third video in the History of Science series compares and contrasts the ideas of the famed...
CK-12 Foundation
If - Then Statements: Lesson
If the hypothesis is true, then the conclusion is true too. The presentation, part of a larger playlist on geometry, introduces conditional statements. The resource shows how to rewrite a statement into if-then format and how to identify...
Veritasium
The Best and Worst Prediction in Science
To use or not use virtual particles—how will your class decide? An episode of the Veritasium playlist explains the controversy of using virtual particles. Although referencing particles seem useful, their behavior is much different than...
Teacher's Pet
The Scientific Method
Examples of the scientific method in everyday life include: trial and error problem solving, making a budget, cooking, and designing an advertisement. The video explains the steps of the scientific method and two examples of it in real...
Bozeman Science
Scientific Method
In the late 1700s, Edward Jenner applied the scientific method and discovered that injecting people with cowpox prevented them from acquiring smallpox—leading to the first vaccine. In the fourth video of the series, individuals listen to...
Bozeman Science
Chi-squared Test
Introduce the concept of hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, and degrees of freedom with a short video that also covers the chi-square test and works through several examples to help viewers understand the material.
Curated OER
The Scientific Method
What is the scientific method? Verun explains it all. He walks through each step of the process as he makes a hypothesis, designs an experiment, and analyzes and reports the results. Have your class use the scientific method to design...
Corbett Maths
Data Handling Cycle
Handle your data with care. An informative video describes the data handling cycle. It begins with the formation of a hypothesis, then proceeds to collection and analysis of data. The presentation ends by presenting the results.
TED-Ed
Why Do We See Illusions?
Are your eyes really playing tricks on you, or is it just your brain's natural evolution to handle natural stimuli occurring in real life? Theoretical neurobiologist Mark Changizi explores the complexities of our eyes and our...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Epistemology: The Paradox of the Ravens
In this video, Marc Lange (UNC) introduces the paradox of confirmation, one that arises from instance confirmation, the equivalence condition, and common inference rules of logic. [6:29]