Instructional Video4:41
SciShow Kids

What's Inside a Pinecone? | Winter is Alive! | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
Jessi and Squeaks learn all about pine cones and their seeds today! Did you know that pine cones can open and close to help protect their seeds?
Instructional Video17:01
SciShow Kids

Can You Guess the Weather? | Weather Guessing Game | SciShow Kids Compilation

K - 5th
There’s all sorts of weather out there, so Squeaks and Mister Brown are playing a game show where they will learn all about the different types!
Instructional Video11:54
TED Talks

TED: The sustainable brilliance of Indigenous design | Manu Peni

12th - Higher Ed
When human rights advocate Manu Peni returned to Papua New Guinea from abroad, he built a home for himself using modern techniques -- and promptly learned a harsh lesson on how the newest ideas aren't always the best ideas. Peni calls...
Instructional Video8:09
TED Talks

TED: How Black queer culture shaped history | Channing Gerard Joseph

12th - Higher Ed
Names like Bayard Rustin, Frances Thompson and William Dorsey Swann have been largely erased from US history, but they and other Black queer leaders played central roles in monumental movements like emancipation, civil rights and LGBTQ+...
Instructional Video14:12
TED Talks

TED: How to design climate-resilient buildings | Alyssa-Amor Gibbons

12th - Higher Ed
Architecture can't ignore the realities of climate change. For time-tested solutions that perform under extreme conditions, designer Alyssa-Amor Gibbons says we should look to traditional buildings. Taking us to her home of Barbados,...
News Clip5:42
PBS

Why The Midwest's Deep Freeze May Be A Consequence Of Climate Change

12th - Higher Ed
More than a quarter of the U.S. population is expected to deal with sub-zero temperatures this week. The extreme cold has sparked some public skepticism over global warming, but scientists actually believe it is a consequence of climate...
News Clip3:33
Associated Press

FEMA: Texas floods "a landmark event

Higher Ed
The director of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency on Monday called on the people of Texas and Louisiana to "be involved" as the states struggle with the devastating impact of Tropical Storm Harvey. Speaking at FEMA's...
Instructional Video10:20
Crash Course

Where Does Wind Come From Crash Course Geography

12th - Higher Ed
There's an invisible force shaping our lives, affecting the weather, climate, land, economy, and just whether a flag looks majestic or not - we're talking about the wind! Today we’re going to go into the science of where the wind comes...
Instructional Video6:02
Be Smart

Engines of Destruction: How Hurricanes Work

12th - Higher Ed
The physics of the perfect storm
Instructional Video10:07
Crash Course

Climate Change, Chaos, and The Little Ice Age - Crash Course World History 206

12th - Higher Ed
In which John Green teaches you about the Little Ice Age. The Little Ice Age was a period of global cooling that occurred from the 13th to the 19th centuries. This cooling was likely caused by a number of factors, including unusual solar...
Instructional Video4:05
SciShow

3 Freaky Things Explained: Bug Sex, Polar Vortex and Chain Fountain!

12th - Higher Ed
Hank shares the latest developments in science, this week demystifying three freaky things in nature: the polar vortex, why some bugs are infertile, and how a chain can appear to defy gravity. You're welcome!
Instructional Video17:31
SciShow Kids

Squeaks Takes a Hike! | SciShow Kids Compilation

K - 5th
It's a beautiful day, so Squeaks is going to go on a hike! And he's bringing his trusty field journal so he can take notes on all of the plants and animals he sees along the way!
Instructional Video3:53
SciShow Kids

Where Does Frost Come From? | Winter Science | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
If you've ever gone outside really early on a cold day in fall, you might have seen a thin layer of sparkly ice crystals covering everything! That ice is called frost, and it can only form if the weather is exactly right! ///Next...
Instructional Video5:55
Crash Course Kids

Weather In Space (the Rocky Planets)

3rd - 8th
Do other planets have weather? It turns out that, yes, they do! But, the weather isn't all the same on other planets because of things like atmosphere. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina takes us on a tour of the weather on...
Instructional Video5:33
SciShow

Breast Cancer gets Worse in the Spring and Fall. But...Why?

12th - Higher Ed
Seasonal illnesses from infectious diseases aren’t a new concept, but a few decades ago public health experts began to notice the same behavior in some non-infectious diseases like breast cancer. These patterns have helped us learn a lot...
Instructional Video14:35
TED Talks

TED: A 3-part plan to take on extreme heat waves | Eleni Myrivili

12th - Higher Ed
The deadliest severe weather phenomenon is something you might not realize: extreme heat. Eleni Myrivili, chief heat officer of the city of Athens, Greece, explains that extreme heat and heat waves are often overlooked because they're...
Instructional Video9:58
Crash Course

☁️ What is a Cloud? Crash Course Geography

12th - Higher Ed
In addition to just being beautiful one-of-a-kind panoramas in the sky, clouds can tell us so much about how energy and weather patterns flow around the globe. Today, we'll talk about how clouds form, the three main types (cirrus,...
Instructional Video5:59
TED Talks

TED: The science of extreme weather -- and how to reduce the harm | Al Roker, Al Gore, David Biello and Latif Nasser

12th - Higher Ed
Floods, droughts, heat waves and cold blasts -- why is the weather becoming more extreme? Environmentalist and "America's weatherman" Al Roker discusses the link between climate change and disruptions to weather patterns worldwide,...
Instructional Video7:28
SciShow

This Is What Climate Change Feels Like

12th - Higher Ed
Hank brings you the SciShow news of the week. Recent record high temperatures and other extreme weather events around the world are climate change in action; a new fossil of an ancient human ancestor; some disturbing discoveries about...
Instructional Video15:31
SciShow Kids

Brr! 5 Videos about Winter!

K - 5th
The snow is really coming down where Jessi lives, so she and Squeaks decided to stay indoors where it's nice and warm and look back on some of the amazing things they've learned about winter! Grab a fuzzy sweater and a mug of cocoa and...
Instructional Video13:29
TED Talks

Sonaar Luthra: We need to track the world's water like we track the weather

12th - Higher Ed
We need a global weather service for water, says entrepreneur and TED Fellow Sonaar Luthra. In a talk about environmental accountability, Luthra shows how we could forecast water shortages and risks with a global data collection effort...
Instructional Video2:14
SciShow

Can Achy Joints Really Predict the Weather?

12th - Higher Ed
Can your grandma really tell when a storm is coming based on her knee? Scientists have been looking into this tale for years, and either way, you should probably still call her just because.
Instructional Video4:44
SciShow

Anatomy of a Super Storm

12th - Higher Ed
On the weekend of April 29th and 30th this year, a series of thunderstorms slammed the southern and midwestern US. SciShow News takes a look at those deadly storms using the latest, high-resolution data from the NOAA's GOES-16 weather...