PBS
Why We Only Have Ten Toes (It's a Long Story)
Today, all mammals from humans to bats have five fingers or fewer. Yes, even whales, whose finger bones are hidden in their fins. Birds have four or fewer and amphibians get the best of both worlds, often having four digits on their...
SciShow
We Just Found Out Fat Cells Can Move!
Fat cells don't often receive praise in everyday life, but they probably deserve more credit, as they might be healing our wounds.
TED Talks
TED: A robot that runs and swims like a salamander | Auke Ijspeert
Roboticist Auke Ijspeert designs biorobots, machines modeled after real animals that are capable of handling complex terrain and would appear at home in the pages of a sci-fi novel. The process of creating these robots leads to better...
SciShow
5 Tiny Bots Inspired by Nature
The creation of tiny robots could enable the exploration of new frontiers, from the tightest spaces in the human body to the most remote ecosystems. Here are 5 little bots that draw inspiration from nature to get the job done.
TED Talks
Grégoire Courtine: The paralyzed rat that walked
A spinal cord injury can sever the communication between your brain and your body, leading to paralysis. Fresh from his lab, Grégoire Courtine shows a new method -- combining drugs, electrical stimulation and a robot -- that could...
Crash Course
Comparative Anatomy: What Makes Us Animals - Crash Course Biology
Hank introduces us to comparative anatomy, which studies the similarities and differences in animal anatomy to support the theory of evolution and the shared ancestry of living things.
TED Talks
Hod Lipson: Building "self-aware" robots
Hod Lipson demonstrates a few of his cool little robots, which have the ability to learn, understand themselves and even self-replicate.
TED Talks
TED: Why I make robots the size of a grain of rice | Sarah Bergbreiter
By studying the movement and bodies of insects such as ants, Sarah Bergbreiter and her team build incredibly robust, super teeny, mechanical versions of creepy crawlies … and then they add rockets. See their jaw-dropping developments in...
Curated Video
Robo Snail: A Revolutionary Inspiration for Locomotion and Oil Drilling
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed Robo Snail, a robotic counterpart inspired by the movement of real snails. By mimicking the snail's unique locomotion, which involves gliding on a thin film of mucus...
Professor Dave Explains
Phylum Mollusca Part 3: Class Bivalvia (Clams, Oysters, Mussels, etc.)
With gastropods covered, let's move to our next class within phylum Mollusca, the bivalves. These include clams, oysters, mussels, scallops, and shipworms. What are these organisms all about? What can we say about bivalve aquaculture?...
Prime Coaching Sport
Elementary PE Skills for locomotion
These new PE locomotion activites will give your some great ideas to help develop your students gross motor movement skills such as jumping, leaping, hopping, dodging & sprinting, with overall body control needed for many sport skills
TMW Media
Robotics Challenges for the Future: Comparing humans and robots
What is DARPA? How are robots and a one year old child similar and different? What will robots be like in the future?
Robotics Challenges for the Future, Part 1
Cerebellum
Prehistoric Man Human Evolution - The Human Family Tree
Beginning in the late nineteenth century and throughout the twentieth century, geologists, archaeologists and paleoanthropologists have given the world evidence of the physical and cultural development of humans. This video looks at how...
Science360
The need for speed! (2)
In this week’s episode we discover a new species of titanosaurian dinosaur and how airline boarding procedures might be making you sick; we explore a compact mass spectrometer for use in the field; and finally, we learn how vertebrate...
Curated Video
Secrets of the Serpent: The Fascinating World of Snakes
This video explores the fascinating world of snakes, highlighting their diverse habitats, hunting strategies, and unique locomotion techniques. With over 3400 species spread across the globe, snakes are iconic predators that have adapted...
Learning Mole
What do Insects Eat?
This episode will take students through what insects eat and the different eating habits of different types of insects
Learning Mole
How do Insects Move?
This video will take students through how insects move their limbs in different ways to humans.
Science360
The need for speed! Check it out in NSF Science Now 53!
In this week’s episode we discover a new species of titanosaurian dinosaur and how airline boarding procedures might be making you sick; we explore a compact mass spectrometer for use in the field; and finally, we learn how vertebrate...
Bridgeman Arts
Train High Speed 1930s
Shots of a steam train (6200) taken from another moving train. We see it leave a platform and build up speed. Close ups of the wheels thundering down the track and long shots of the locomotive passing signal boxes at great speed. It...
Bridgeman Arts
Tourist Train Ride, 1960s
Various shots of a narrow gauge railway with engine pulling carriage with tourists around countryside. Shots of an old car also touring the countryside with tourists in rear.
Bridgeman Arts
Steam Engines
Various shots of a collection of steam engines at a steam show. The engine owners take pride in showing the operating steam engines to the crowds.
TED-Ed
The Physics of Human Sperm vs. the Physics of the Sperm Whale
Here is an unusual comparison: the swimming conditions of a sperm cell and a sperm whale. Introduce your physics class to the Reynolds number by sharing this video comparison during your fluid mechanics unit. Afterward, teach them to...
Crash Course
Crash Course Biology #21: Comparative Anatomy: What Makes Us Animals
Hank introduces us to comparative anatomy, which studies the similarities and differences in animal anatomy to support the theory of evolution and the shared ancestry of living things. [8:51]
Crash Course
Crash Course World History #214: Railroad Journey and the Industrial Revolution
How did railroads change the world? This video takes a ride down the tracks to understand the improvements, fears, and new developments that evolved through the implementation of railroads. [12:31]