TED-Ed
Periodic Videos
From hydrogen to ununoctium, this collection of videos has everything you need to begin teaching about the periodic table. Offering descriptions of each element and interesting experiments...
TED-Ed
Radioactivity: Expect the Unexpected
Several radioactive concepts are explained with the help of animated atoms, complete with their own facial expressions. As physical science pupils watch, they learn about gaining or losing atomic particles, alpha and beta particles, and...
TED-Ed
Just How Small Is an Atom?
Using a massive cartoon blueberry as an atom model, an animated astronaut describes an atom's anatomy and the density of its nucleus. After showing this featurette, you can have young physical scientists construct atom models. Also, be...
TED-Ed
The High-Stakes Race to Make Quantum Computers Work
Quantum mechanics just might take computing to a new level. Pupils watch an animated video to learn about quantum computers and how they differ from classical computers. They learn about two current approaches to quantum computing,...
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
How Small Is An Atom? Spoiler: Very Small
The hydrogen in your body is exactly the same as the hydrogen in the sun. The video explains just how small an atom is and offers comparisons, such as the one above, to help facilitate understanding. It also presents the current model of...
Fuse School
Electron Configuration of the First 20 Elements in the Periodic Table
Why is the periodic table arranged the way it is? As pupils complete the electron configuration of the first 20 elements, they see the relationship to the rows and columns in the periodic table. The video instructor highlights these...
Fuse School
Drawing Electron Configuration Diagrams
Demonstrate the steps to drawing electron configuration diagrams. A video lesson shows how to use the periodic table to determine the number of electrons in an element and then create the diagrams. The instructor leads your class through...
Fuse School
The Atom: Part 3 - What Is an Atom?
Explore the idea of an atom through a short video lesson. The instructor describes an atom and its connection to an element. By comparing atoms to a room of balloons, the video emphasizes that if an atom is cut in half, it no longer has...
Bozeman Science
Atoms and the Periodic Table
After discovering plutonium, Glenn Seaborg was given the opportunity to determine its periodic symbol. Rather than going with the obvious Pl, he went with Pu as a joke. The designation was approved and is now on every periodic...
DoodleScience
Atomic Structure
The Rutheford plum pudding model of an atom, as well as the nuclear model, are the subject of a video that also includes an explanation of protons, neutrons, electrons, nucleus, atomic mass, atomic charge, and ions.
Ricochet Science
Structure of an Atom
Just because we can't see an atom doesn't mean we can't study it! The video examines the makeup of the atom. It explains the roles of the protons, neutrons, and electrons.
Berkeley University of California
Atomic Structure
How are atoms structured? Viewers of the video first learn about atoms and atomic structure, including the nucleus and electron shells. The video then describes how atomic numbers and atomic masses are expressed on atomic symbols. You'll...
Educreations
Covalent Bonds
Share this video with your class and explore the conditions that make covalent bonding possible. Examining the complex series of attractive and repulsive forces that exist between atoms, this video explains how at just the right...
TED-Ed
The Science of Static Electricity
Add some spark to your physical science instruction with this short video on static electricity. Taking a look at the fundamental structure of atoms, this fun film explains how rubbing objects together can cause electrons to move...
Educreations
The Aufbau Hotel
A simple analogy helps to explain a complicated concept in this instructional chemistry video. After first listening to a description of a hotel with different types of rooms on different floors, each with its own...
TED-Ed
How Does Your Smartphone Know Your Location?
When your smartphone tells you the weather of your current location or gives you directions to the nearest gas station, there's more going on that you might realize. Follow along with this short video as it explains how...
TED-Ed
The 2,400-Year Search for the Atom
From ancient Greek philosophers to early American Quakers, people have sought to understand the composition of matter for millennia. Follow along with this video as it explores the long scientific journey that eventually led to the...
TED-Ed
Particles and Waves: The Central Mystery of Quantum Mechanics
Help young physicists make a quantum leap in their understanding of matter with this short instructional video. Tracing the early work of Max Planck, Albert Einstein, and others, this resource explains the science behind the...
Scholastic
Study Jams! Atoms: Protons, Neutrons, Electrons
What's smaller than a kiwi seed? Atoms! Basic atomic structure is detailed for beginning chemists in a light-hearted animation. Protons and neutrons are explained as part of the nucleus, and so are electrons that encircle the nucleus....
Curated OER
Bohr Model of the Atom
Your fifth graders will totally get atomic structure after viewing this clip. The Bohr Model of the Atom is defined by its parts, mass, and function. Each part of the atom is personified to help learners remember what they are and how...
Curated OER
The Discovery of the Atomic Nucleus
Your host, Dr. Brian Cox, calls Ernest Rutherford the first proper particle physicist. He uses tennis balls to demonstrate what happened when Rutherford's students fired particles at a sheet of gold. Rutherford was able to deduce that...
Berkeley University of California
VSEPR Examples
Ah is the element of surprise. It is also one of the few elements you won't encounter when doing VSEPR problems. The videos work many examples of VSEPR in various configurations and detail the angle degrees based on the number of atomic...
TED-Ed
Self-Assembly: The Power of Organizing the Unorganized
What if buildings could grow, adapt, and repair themselves like a living organism? Using the process of self-assembly, this crazy idea may one day become a reality. The video looks at how unordered parts interact with one another and...
Curated OER
Physical Science - The Structure of an Atom
Drawings on an interactive whiteboard are used to introduce the basic structure of an atom. Technically, the model drawn is inaccurate, as three electrons are shown on the innermost orbital. Electron orbitals are not the intent of the...