Periodic Videos
Mercury
For many years, mercury was used in thermometers, dental fillings, and fluorescent lights. As scientists better understand the toxicity of this liquid metal, other materials replace these uses for mercury. Young scientists learn about...
Amoeba Sisters
Biomagnification and the Trouble with Toxins
Our relationship with toxins is, well, a little toxic. Explore how harmful substances work their way throughout the environment with a video from an expansive biology playlist. Topics include DDT and mercury, trophic levels, and water...
SciShow
What's It Like On Mercury?
Take a video tour of the planet Mercury. An installment of a solar system series explores the characteristics of Mercury. The presenter compares the planet to Earth by examining similarities and differences.
JFR Science
Pressure: How Does a Straw Work?
A straw is a simple thing ... with a much more complex explanation. Discover the molecular interactions that create pressure through a video from JFR Science. The resource demonstrates pressure in a variety of ways, then explains how and...
Crash Course
Mercury
The most elliptical orbit of any planet belongs to Mercury. The video includes obvious facts about Mercury such as the hot temperature and lack of magnetic field. It also discusses highly surprising facts such as the cracks, ice, and...
Fuse School
Minerals and Ores
Here's a video that will leave them wanting m"ore"! Part three of the seven-part series involving rocks and the rock cycle illustrates the relationship between minerals and ores. Young geologists get a look at how valuable metals are...
SciShow Kids
Explore the Solar System: The Rocky Planets
Take a trip to the rocky planets—Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars—with an engaging video that details their unique attributes.
SciShow Kids
Let's Make the Solar System
Get crafty with the help of pictures and a real-time demonstration from a video that details the step-by-step process in creating a paper solar system.
Bozeman Science
Water and Life
Learn about the wonders of water and why it is required for life. The resource contains a simulation to see how the molecules interact as a medium for metabolism.
Crash Course
Pollution
An environmental science video covers natural and synthetic compounds and the impact they have on the environment. It includes carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous, cyanide, mercury, sulfur, nitrogen dioxide, and endocrine disruptions.
Crash Course Kids
Weather in Space (The Rocky Planets)
Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars make up the solar system's inner planets. How are the weather patterns on these planets different from Earth's? This is the focus of a video that explains weather conditions on the inner planets.
Crash Course Kids
Seeing Stars
What are all those shiny things we see in the sky at night? It could be a star, planet, or asteroid! This is the focus of a video that helps viewers distinguish between these three objects in the sky.
Curated OER
Mercury
Visit the planet Mercury and learn about its orbit, place in the solar system, and difficult past. Closest to the sun and covered in craters, this planet has had it rough. You'll find out that Mercury is actually a dead planet but still...
Discovering Lewis & Clark
Discovering Lewis & Clark: Medicine on the Trail
A video interview with David Peck, D.O. and accompanying transcript examines wilderness medicine in the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
NASA
Nasa: Galleries: Video: What Is a Planet?
Explanation of the characteristics an object must have to be considered a planet. [7:53]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Astronomy: Mercury
Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun. It has no atmosphere and is, as such, covered in craters. It's also incredibly hot but, surprisingly, has water ice hiding beneath its surface. [10:17]
University of Nottingham
Periodic Table of Videos: Mercury Bell
See the element mercury in solid form, frozen in the shape of a bell. Dr. Andrea Sella explains the process of making the bell and why he made it, while highlighting some important properties of mercury. [5:05]
University of Nottingham
Sixty Symbols: Symbols of Physics and Astronomy: Mercury
University of Nottingham astronomers discuss some interesting facts about Mercury, its orbit around the sun, its rotation on its axis, and its role in establishing General Relativity. [5:55]
University of Nottingham
University of Nottingham: Periodic Table of Videos: Mercury
Professor Poliakoff and his colleagues discuss the properties and effects of mercury in the environment. [5:12]
Crash Course
Crash Course Kids 43.1: Weather in Space (The Rocky Planets)
Take a tour of the weather and atmosphere on the rocky planets in our solar system. [5:55]
SciShow
Sci Show Kids: Explore the Solar System: The Rocky Planets
Take a tour of the rocky planets and learn important facts about these planets. Understand that Mercury has no atmosphere which causes its temperatures to vary, Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system, how Earth is unique, and...
Crash Course
Crash Course Astronomy #13: Mercury
Mercury is the closest planet to the sun. It has no atmosphere and is, as such, covered in craters. It's also incredibly hot but, surprisingly, has water ice hiding beneath its surface. [10:18]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Fluids: Fluids (Part 4)
Using our understanding of fluid pressure to figure out the height of a column of mercury. [10:09]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Mercury Flyby Results
This week NASA released data from a recent close flyby of the planet Mercury, including stunning new pictures. We'll talk with one of the researchers on the MESSENGER mission about what they found during the flyby.