Instructional Video6:18
SciShow Kids

Life in the Redwoods | Surprising Animals of the Redwood Forest

K - 5th
Jessi and Squeaks are learning more about the redwoods, and all the different animals that live in the different layers! Second Grade Next Generation Science Standards Disciplinary Core Idea: LS4.D: Biodiversity and Humans - There are...
Instructional Video3:29
SciShow Kids

Solar-Powered Slugs

K - 5th
We need to eat food to fuel our bodies, but this special slug, called emerald elysia, can make food using sunlight - just like plants do! All organisms have external parts. Different animals use their body parts in different ways to see,...
Instructional Video10:38
TED Talks

TED: The magic of Khmer classical dance | Prumsodun Ok

12th - Higher Ed
For more than 1,000 years, Khmer dancers in Cambodia have been seen as living bridges between heaven and earth. In this graceful dance-talk hybrid, artist Prumsodun Ok -- founder of Cambodia's first all-male and gay-identified dance...
Instructional Video2:55
SciShow

These Plants Are the Same Species

12th - Higher Ed
Sometimes the males and females of a species can look really different from each other. This is pretty common in animals (think peacocks), but there are some plant species out there with extreme sexual dimorphism! And now scientists...
Instructional Video4:38
SciShow

How are Koalas alive?

12th - Higher Ed
Koalas are pretty darn cute, but...they aren’t the brightest bulb on the continent. They will only eat eucalyptus leaves off the branch. On a plate, a koala won’t recognize their one and only food. Yet, somehow, koalas are still alive....
Instructional Video2:57
SciShow

This Plant Attracts Bats With a Satellite Dish

12th - Higher Ed
Most plants use colorful flowers to attract their favorite pollinators. But Marcgravia evenia is trying to attract bats, so it needs to do things a little differently, leading to some unique-shaped leaves.
Instructional Video5:18
Crash Course Kids

Let's Fly!

3rd - 8th
Selecting which solution is the best solution to a problem may seem difficult at first. But if you are patient and think about what you need an effective solution to be, you can do it. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina shows...
Instructional Video5:21
TED-Ed

TED-ED: Why Shakespeare loved iambic pentameter - David T. Freeman and Gregory Taylor

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Shakespeare sometimes gets a bad rap in high schools for his complex plots and antiquated language. But a quick peek into the rhythm of his words reveals a poet deeply rooted in the way people spoke in his time - and still speak today....
Instructional Video3:06
SciShow

Darwin's Darlings: Meat-Eating Plants

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow describes the fascinating science of Darwin's little darlings: meat-eating plants. Learn about their many different types, how they catch and eat their prey, and how scientists think they evolved.
Instructional Video11:42
SciShow

6 Natural Medicines (Maybe) Used by Animals | Zoopharmacognosy

12th - Higher Ed
There have been reports of animals medicating themselves to treat illnesses, but according to the research, you shouldn't go to a non-human pharmacist just yet.
Instructional Video5:28
SciShow Kids

From the Ground to the Sky: The Layers of the Redwood Forest

K - 5th
There's all sorts of life in the Redwood forest, but not just in the ground, different animals live in all layers of the Redwoods! Disciplinary Core Ideas: LS2.A: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems - Plants depend on water and...
Instructional Video5:23
SciShow

3 Ways Humans Have Literally Put Themselves Into Art

12th - Higher Ed
Artists are notorious for pouring their heart and soul into their work, but historically, they also put some of their literal body parts into it as well!
Instructional Video4:43
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Why are there so many insects? - Murry Gans

Pre-K - Higher Ed
If insects suddenly morphed into large beings and decided to wage war on us, there's no doubt that humans would lose. There are an estimated 10 quintillion individual insects on earth, outnumbering humans by more than a billion to one....
Instructional Video4:47
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: What's hidden among the tallest trees on Earth? - Wendell Oshiro

Pre-K - Higher Ed
When Stephen Sillett was a boy, he took to the forests of Pennsylvania with his brother and grandmother. Looking up into the dense branches and leaves, his curiosity was piqued: What was hidden up there? Wendell Oshiro tells the story of...
Instructional Video0:43
SciShow

A chameleon robot that changes colors! #shorts #science

12th - Higher Ed
A chameleon robot that changes colors! #shorts #science
Instructional Video13:15
TED Talks

Nick Veasey: Exposing the invisible

12th - Higher Ed
Nick Veasey shows outsized X-ray images that reveal the otherworldly inner workings of familiar objects -- from the geometry of a wildflower to the anatomy of a Boeing 747. Producing these photos is dangerous and painstaking, but the...
Instructional Video5:41
SciShow

Top 10 New Species of the Year!

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists around the world discover about 18,000 new species every year. Each new organism has not only to be found, but also studied, compared, identified and organized -- that's taxonomy, the science of classifying living things and...
Instructional Video3:46
SciShow

Why Solar Eclipses Create Those Crescent-Shaped Lights

12th - Higher Ed
Everyone is watching the sky during a solar eclipse, but but if you look down, you'll catch another kind of light show.
Instructional Video3:57
SciShow

Poor, Misunderstood Poison Ivy

12th - Higher Ed
It sure seems like some plants really don't want you hiking through their woods, but maybe your immune system is just overreacting.
Instructional Video14:13
SciShow Kids

The Science of Spring!

K - 5th
It's finally spring where Jessi and Squeaks live! Join them as they take a look back at some of their favorite springtime subjects like why it rains, how plants grow, and all the amazing bugs you can find in the spring!
Instructional Video3:55
SciShow

Record-Breaking Discoveries of 2016!

12th - Higher Ed
It’s been a pretty cool year for science around the globe, and we here at SciShow like to highlight the superlatives: some of the biggest, oldest, fastest, and most amazing discoveries of 2016.
Instructional Video17:30
SciShow

Scishow Quiz Show: Supersonic Giggles and Bat Cigars

12th - Higher Ed
It's a rematch Battle of The SciShow Hosts on today's quiz show! Will Olivia be victorious again or will Hank "try those logarithms" and win the day?
Instructional Video14:11
TED Talks

Lucy Cooke: Sloths! The strange life of the world's slowest mammal

12th - Higher Ed
Sloths have been on this planet for more than 40 million years. What's the secret to their success? In a hilarious talk, zoologist Lucy Cooke takes us inside the strange life of the world's slowest mammal and shows what we can learn from...
Instructional Video2:33
MinuteEarth

Why Are Leaves Green? Part 1

12th - Higher Ed
Have you ever wondered why leaves are green and not red, blue, or even black? We did too!