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Crash Course Kids 27.1: Who Needs Dirt?

3rd - 8th
In this episode of Crash Course kids, the host talks about how plants get energy, and how that energy is transported around them. [4:15]
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Crash Course Kids 3.1: What's Matter?

3rd - 8th
In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks about what matter is and the three states of matter: Solid, Liquid, and Gas. She also does a quick experiment that you can do at home to prove that air is matter. [3:30]
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Crash Course Kids 5.2: Vegetation Transformation

3rd - 8th
In this episode, Sabrina talks about how the process of photosynthesis works. [2:59]
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Crash Course Kids 17.1: Landforms, Hey!

3rd - 8th
If you look out your window, you'll probably notice a bunch of things; houses, streets, hopefully a tree. But beyond that you'll see things like mountains, rivers, volcanoes - well, hopefully not a volcano. These are landforms and they...
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Crash Course Kids 46.1: Oobleck and Non Newtonian Fluids

3rd - 8th
Sabrina demonstrates that things can sometimes behave like a solid, and sometimes like a liquid depending on how much force is applied to them. [4:19]
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Crash Course Kids 2.2: How to Get Resources Picky Pineapples

3rd - 8th
If you want a pineapple, it's possible you can just run down to the store and get one. But, if you wanted to grow one, that's a lot more difficult depending on where you live. This episode of Crash Course Kids talks about how humans get...
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Crash Course Kids 48.1: Build Your Own City

3rd - 8th
Find out how to build a city. In this episode, Sabrina shows what we need to think about when we start engineering something as huge and complicated as a city. [4:12]
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Crash Course Kids 30.2: The Life Hydrologic

3rd - 8th
Head down into the ocean to see what habitats await there. The ocean has layers and the types of things we encounter there change the deeper we go. [4:41]
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Crash Course Kids 13.1: The Great Escape

3rd - 8th
Do you know how many people have been to the moon? Only 12! Part of the reason it's so few is because of how difficult it is to escape Earth and get into space in the first place. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks about...
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Crash Course Kids 33.1: H2 O No! Fresh Water Problems

3rd - 8th
In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina Cruz talks about ecosystems and how one small change can lead to a cascade effect in the entire ecosystem. [4:59]
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Crash Course Kids 8.1: Earth's Rotation & Revolution

3rd - 8th
In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks about the Earth's rotation and revolution and how these things contribute to night and day and how Earth's tilt gives us seasons. [4:00]
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Crash Course Kids 27.2: Look Who's Talking

3rd - 8th
Plants! We absolutely depend on them. Oxygen, food, and looking super nice to boot! But, plants have a lot more going on than meets the eye. How do we know that? Investigations and Experimentations! [4:32]
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Crash Course Kids 26.2: Let's Fly!

3rd - 8th
In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina Cruz shows us how to problem solve with multiple solutions in the engineering process. [5:29]
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Crash Course Kids 20.1: Seeing Stars

3rd - 8th
So you know what a star is, right? Well, if you don't, you should. We've talked about that big one in the sky a few times: The Sun! But there are a lot of bright dots in the night sky and not all of them are stars. Today, let's play a...
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Crash Course Kids 40.2: Material Magic: Making Diamonds

3rd - 8th
Find out how materials scientists have made diamonds in a lab, and why it is so important. [4:41]
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Crash Course Kids 7.1: Fabulous Food Chains

3rd - 8th
In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks about the way energy moves, or flows, through an ecosystem and how that movement forms food chains. [2:46]
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Crash Course Kids 31.1: Super Stars (Constellations)

3rd - 8th
In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina Cruz chats about stars, constellations, and how humans have used constellations to tell stories for a really long time. [4:58]
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Crash Course Kids 33.2: A Fresh Future

3rd - 8th
In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks about a few different examples how some freshwater sources were good, then bad, then made good again. Also, Sabrina talks about parasites, fish, and dams! [4:10]
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Crash Course Kids 35.2: What's My Property

3rd - 8th
Metal objects have high reflectivity and magnetivity. What else do we know about metals? Find out in this fun video. [4:26]
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Crash Course Kids 24.2: Dinosaur Pee?

3rd - 8th
All the water on Earth is just constantly recycled in what we call a closed system. No water comes in and no water goes out. So that means that, at some point, it's possible the water we're drinking was once from the dinosaurs. [4:47]
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Crash Course Kids 18.1: Defining a Problem

3rd - 8th
So, how do engineers even figure out what problem needs to get fixed? And what's the difference between identifying a problem and just complaining about something. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks about how we can all...
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Crash Course Kids 21.1: Home Sweet Habitat

3rd - 8th
How would a polar bear do if you put it in the desert? Not well. But why? Why can't anything live anywhere? Well, this has to do with habitats and how animals (including humans) are suited for living in one place over another. In this...
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Crash Course Kids 16.2: Up, Up and Away

3rd - 8th
So what makes the wind? You might be surprised to learn that it has to do with two of Earth's spheres; The hydrosphere and the geosphere. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina takes us to the beach to chat about how the wind...
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Crash Course Kids 28.2: Severe Weather

3rd - 8th
Find out about what makes severe weather, and how it interacts with the geosphere and biosphere. [4:25]