Instructional Video5:40
SciShow Kids

Antarctica: The Coldest Place on Earth! | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
If you think it's cold outside where you are, you should try living in the coldest place on Earth: Antarctica! Learn why it's a desert even though it's very cold, and about awesome animals like seals and penguins.
Instructional Video7:25
SciShow Kids

Penguins, Birds That Fly in Water! | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
Squeaks and Jessi are learning all about the animals that live at the bottom of the world, including penguins - emperor penguins, macaroni penguins, and more! We learn why penguins look like they're all dressed up, and what kind of food...
Instructional Video6:34
SciShow Kids

The Coldest Seas on Earth! | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
The oceans around Antarctica are cold, but full of life. Join Jessi and Squeaks to learn about the blubber of seals, the amazing antifreeze blood of fish, and the shrinking skills of krill.
Instructional Video7:19
SciShow Kids

The Ancient Animal Crossing | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
Join Squeaks and Jessi as they learn about a time when lots of animals switched places -- like bears, sloths, armadillos, and more.
Instructional Video10:02
SciShow Kids

The Windiest Places on Earth | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
Jessi and Squeaks explore two of the windiest places on Earth: Mount Washington in New Hampshire, USA, and Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica.
Instructional Video5:47
SciShow Kids

The Driest Places on Earth | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
In this SciShow Kids episode, Jessi and Squeaks learn about amazing places where it almost never rains.
Instructional Video3:55
SciShow

Inside the Nepal Earthquake

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow News explains the forces at work behind the earthquake in Nepal, introduces you to a new species of dinosaur, and reveals a discovery in Antarctica.
Instructional Video4:14
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Surviving the coldest place on Earth | Nadia Frontier

Pre-K - Higher Ed
The vast, white surface of Antarctica stretches for over 3 million square kilometers. On the coast of this expanse, just a few meters beneath the ice, lies a remarkably diverse realm that is home to over 8,000 species of sea denizens who...
Instructional Video10:34
PBS

When Penguins Went From The Sky To The Sea

12th - Higher Ed
Today, we think of penguins as small-ish, waddling, tuxedo-birds. But they evolved from a flying ancestor, were actual giants for millions of years, and some of them were even dressed a little more casually.
Instructional Video11:04
PBS

When Antarctica Was Green

12th - Higher Ed
Before the start of the Eocene Epoch about 56 million years ago--Antarctica was still joined to both Australia and South America. And it turns out that a lot of what we recognize about the southern hemisphere can be traced back to that...
Instructional Video5:42
SciShow

Can Sponges “Think” Using Light?

12th - Higher Ed
Sponges might not look like particularly complex animals, but they've had billions of years to evolve their own special systems. And one of those systems might involve sending messages through their body in the form of light.
Instructional Video2:58
MinuteEarth

Should More Species Be Extinct?

12th - Higher Ed
Watch these amazing rewilding videos from our friends at Planet Wild, in which they’re saving Europe’s cutest bird from extinction or resurrecting a dying forest.
Instructional Video2:59
SciShow

Antarctica's Weird Warming

12th - Higher Ed
Hank gets to the bottom of two studies reporting high sea ice coverage and snowmass in Antarctica in the same year that the Arctic has reported a record low of sea ice. What is going on here?
Instructional Video3:43
SciShow

3 Strange-Looking Kinds of Clouds

12th - Higher Ed
What do you see in clouds? Bunnies? Zombies? The face of Nic Cage? There are some kinds of clouds that, while rare, make even weirder shapes -- like pancakes, rolling cylinders, and shimmery rainbows
Instructional Video5:02
SciShow

What Penguin Bones Can Tell Us About Dying Glaciers

12th - Higher Ed
We know these glaciers are already on the way out, so we need to find out whether we can bulk them back up again. For that, we turn to the glaciers’ past – and a lot of penguin bones.
Instructional Video4:03
SciShow

Weird Places: The Lava Lake in Antarctica

12th - Higher Ed
What could be cooler than a permanent lava lake surrounded by snow!?
Instructional Video11:45
SciShow

5 Mysteries Science Created and Solved

12th - Higher Ed
Sometimes science creates a mystery, and it can be very difficult to solve! Join Hank for a fun new episode of SciShow about five mysteries started and later solved by science. Let's go! Hosted by: Hank Green
Instructional Video2:13
SciShow

Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?

12th - Higher Ed
How do they do it? Penguins standing on ice, not only for days, but their whole lives! And their feet don’t hurt like ours would. It has something to do with blood and an amazing twist that penguins have developed.
Instructional Video4:54
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Whatever happened to the hole in the ozone layer? | Stephanie Honchell Smith

Pre-K - Higher Ed
In the 1980s, the world faced a huge problem: there was a rapidly expanding hole in the ozone layer. If it continued to grow, rates of skin cancer could skyrocket, photosynthesis would be impaired, agricultural production would plummet,...
Instructional Video4:11
SciShow

Bioprecipitation: How Bacteria Makes Snow

12th - Higher Ed
Raindrops and snowflakes generally start to form around something else in the air, like a speck of dust, but sometimes that something else is bacteria.
Instructional Video19:06
SciShow

Antarctic Lava to Pink Snow: The Science of Winter

12th - Higher Ed
"If you live in the northern hemisphere, there's a decent chance you're in a winter wonderland right now. Settle in with a hot drink for this winter compilation and learn about some of the interesting things that make winter wondrous!
Instructional Video21:48
SciShow

6 of The Weirdest Places on Earth | Compilation

12th - Higher Ed
There are a lot of weird places here on Earth, but here are a few of our favorite strange spots!
Instructional Video25:14
SciShow

5 of Earth's Weirdest Lakes | Compilation

12th - Higher Ed
Our planet is full of beautiful places, but it’s also full of wonderfully weird places. We've put together some of our favorite episodes about our planet’s weirdest lakes!
Instructional Video9:25
SciShow

4 Tiny Missions Answering the Biggest Questions in Astrophysics

12th - Higher Ed
The Astrophysics Pioneers program is funding four innovative new missions that read like a best-hits album of the most exciting astronomical frontiers: from galaxy evolution and exoplanets, to neutron star mergers and astroparticle physics.