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Instructional Video17:27
SciShow Kids

Weird and Wonderful Amphibians | SciShow Kids Compilation

K - 5th
In this SciShow Kids compilation, Jessi and the gang learn about axolotls, poison dart frogs, and an amphibian with a boomerang-shaped head.
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Instructional Video13:28
SciShow Kids

The Amazing Science of Balloons | SciShow Kids Compilation

K - 5th
In this SciShow Kids compilation, Jessi and her friends at the Fort learn about electricity, pressure, and chemical reactions from a science lesson on a string: balloons!
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Instructional Video6:38
SciShow Kids

The Science of Ice Skating | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
In this episode, Jessi and her friends at The Fort learn about the physics behind all the slippery fun you can have on the ice.
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Instructional Video6:27
SciShow Kids

Why Does Peppermint Taste So Cold? | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
Teachers and parents: scroll down to check out the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) for this episode!
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Instructional Video5:21
SciShow Kids

Let's Engineer a Gingerbread Fort | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
Jessi and Squeaks enjoy the winter season by constructing a model of the Fort out of gingerbread!
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Instructional Video17:59
SciShow Kids

Winter Arc | SciShow Kids Compilation

K - 5th
In this SciShow Kids compilation, Jessi and Squeaks have a wonderful winter time learning the science of ice skating, why peppermint tastes so chilly, and how to build a gingerbread Fort!
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Instructional Video6:32
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: How did Apartheid happen, and how did it finally end? | Thula Simpson

Pre-K - Higher Ed
For 46 years, South Africans lived under Apartheid, a strict policy of segregation that barred the country’s Black majority from skilled, high-paying jobs, quality education, voting, and much more. So, how did these laws come to be? And...
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Instructional Video5:16
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Should you be suing your government? | Shannon Odell

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Since 2015, an unprecedented movement has been sweeping courts around the world. Groups of young plaintiffs are suing their governments for their inaction on tackling climate change. These suits argue that climate inaction violates their...
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Instructional Video5:16
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: A tour of the ancient Greek Underworld | Iseult Gillespie

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Achilles, just slain in the Trojan War, arrives in the Underworld and is greeted by Sibyl of Cumae— a prophetess and also the realm’s local guide. Though it gets a bad rap, Sibyl is determined to prove to the newcomer that hell is...
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Instructional Video5:23
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Does recycling your plastic actually work? | Shannon Odell

Pre-K - Higher Ed
If you've ever looked at the bottom of a disposable bottle or cup, you've probably noticed a recycling symbol. Seeing this, many people assume the item should be put in a recycling bin. Yet many plastics are incapable of being recycled...
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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...
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Instructional Video5:18
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: How advanced is whale talk? | David Gruber and Shane Gero

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Soon after whaling ships began operating in the North Pacific, an interesting trend emerged. Within just a few years, whalers saw a 58% drop in their successful strikes. Sperm whales had suddenly become harder to kill— they had begun...
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Instructional Video5:16
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: The largest river on Earth is actually in the sky | Iseult Gillespie

Pre-K - Higher Ed
The largest rainforest in the world, the Amazon, exists between two rivers — but not in the way you might think. At ground level, the Amazon River and its tributaries weave their path. But above the canopy, bigger waterways are on the...
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Instructional Video5:24
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: The diseases that changed humanity forever | Dan Kwartler

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Since humanity’s earliest days, we’ve been plagued by countless disease-causing pathogens. Invisible and persistent, these microorganisms and the illnesses they incur have killed more humans than anything else in history. But which...
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Instructional Video4:58
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: How to make smart decisions more easily | TED-Ed

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Everything our bodies do— whether physical or mental— uses energy. Studies have found that many individuals seem to have a daily threshold for making decisions, and an extended period of decision-making can lead to cognitive exhaustion....
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Instructional Video4:49
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Why did the US try to kill all the bison? | Andrew C. Isenberg

Pre-K - Higher Ed
By the mid-1700s, many Plains nations survived on North America’s largest land mammals: bison. They ate its meat, made the hides into winter coats and blankets, and used the bones and horns for tools. But in the following decades,...
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Instructional Video5:09
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Something weird is happening in our galaxy | Ashkbiz Danehkar

Pre-K - Higher Ed
In 2010, NASA announced the discovery of a never-before-seen galactic object: two gigantic gaseous bubbles, each emanating an impressive 25,000 light years from the center of the Milky Way. Astronomers were perplexed: what created these...
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Instructional Video5:07
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: What really killed the dinosaurs? (It wasn’t just the asteroid) | Sean P. S. Gulick

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Sixty-six million years ago, near what’s now the Yucatán Peninsula, a juvenile sauropod feasted on horsetail plants on a riverbank. Earth was a tropical planet. Behemoth and tiny dinosaurs alike soared its skies and roamed its lands...
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Instructional Video4:08
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Can you solve the secret assassin society riddle? | Alex Rosenthal

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Your agent has infiltrated a life or death poker game in a hidden back room of a grand casino. Your team is on the trail of an elite society of assassins, each of whom carries a signature playing card corresponding to their role—...
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Instructional Video5:47
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Japan's scariest ghost story | Kit Brooks

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Oiwa’s only hope for ending her marriage to the cruel and dishonorable samurai, Iemon, was her father. But after he tried to end the union, Iemon murdered him in cold blood. With plans to marry another, Iemon conspired to poison his wife...
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Instructional Video5:17
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: The gory history of barber surgeons | Stephanie Honchell Smith

Pre-K - Higher Ed
It’s a cold morning in 15th century France and you’re off to the barber for a shave and haircut. You hear the familiar sound of singing inside and eye a bowl of blood in the window. You grab a cup of ale and examine the array of teeth...
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Instructional Video4:58
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Sherlock Holmes and the case of the Red-Headed League | Alex Rosenthal

Pre-K - Higher Ed
One day in the fall, you called upon your friend, Sherlock Holmes, and found him in conversation with Jabez Wilson. Wilson had been working for the mysterious League of Red-Headed Men. Today, he arrived at work to find the group had...
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Instructional Video5:01
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: The dark history of werewolves | Craig Thomson

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Stories of werewolves have existed for thousands of years and continue to live on today. They're especially prominent in European literature and folklore, and often found in cultures where the wolf is the largest natural predator. Over...
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Instructional Video4:45
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: What really caused the Irish Potato Famine | Stephanie Honchell Smith

Pre-K - Higher Ed
For over 200 years, potatoes thrived in Ireland; roughly half the country’s residents lived almost entirely on potatoes. But when harvesting began in 1845, farmers found their potatoes blackened and shriveled. While this failed harvest...