Instructional Video11:53
Amoeba Sisters

Conduction System of the Heart

12th - Higher Ed
Join the Amoeba Sisters as they introduce the cardiac conduction system! This video mentions conductive cardiac cells (focusing on pacemaker cells) in the SA and AV nodes and discusses general steps of spontaneous depolarization. It also...
Instructional Video8:49
Amoeba Sisters

Comparing Cell Types Review: Animal, Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal, Fungal, and "Protist" Cells

12th - Higher Ed
Join Pinky and Petunia in a cell types review game! This review game focuses on comparing cell characteristics of animals, plants, fungi, "protists," archaea, and bacteria. Clues may include prokaryote/eukaryote, autotroph/heterotroph,...
Instructional Video12:37
Amoeba Sisters

Menstrual Cycle Walkthrough: Phases & Hormonal Regulation

12th - Higher Ed
In this menstrual cycle video, explore the ovarian cycle and uterine cycle with the Amoeba Sisters! This video will walk through major events in phases of the ovarian cycle (follicular phase and luteal phase) and phases of the uterine...
Instructional Video9:35
Amoeba Sisters

Intro to Cladograms and Phylogenetic Trees

12th - Higher Ed
Join the Amoeba Sisters as they introduce the basics about cladograms and phylogenetic trees. The Amoeba Sisters walk through the process of building a basic cladogram and mention vocabulary such as: shared ancestral character, shared...
Instructional Video7:57
Amoeba Sisters

Angiosperm (Flowering Plants) Reproduction

12th - Higher Ed
Join the Amoeba Sisters as they introduce angiosperms (flowering plants) before exploring flower parts, pollination, and double fertilization in angiosperms! This video also talks about the importance of pollinators.
Instructional Video10:55
Amoeba Sisters

Action Potential

12th - Higher Ed
Join the Amoeba Sisters as they explore the action potential. This video discusses resting membrane potential before going into the phases of the action potential including vocabulary such as depolarization, repolarization, and...
Instructional Video15:41
Amoeba Sisters

Ecology Review: Food Chains & Webs, Relationships, Nitrogen & Carbon Cycles, Effects on Biodiversity

12th - Higher Ed
Join the Amoeba Sisters in this longer review video as they review food chains, food webs, how energy flows through trophic levels (including the 10% rule), ecological relationships (including parasitism, mutualism, and commensalism),...
Instructional Video7:30
Amoeba Sisters

Lymphatic System

12th - Higher Ed
Explore the lymphatic system with the Amoeba Sisters! This introduction talks about lymph, the general way lymph travels in the lymphatic system, primary and secondary lymphoid organs and tissues, general functions of the lymphatic...
Instructional Video9:14
Amoeba Sisters

Evolution

12th - Higher Ed
Explore the concept of biological evolution with the Amoeba Sisters! This video mentions a few misconceptions about biological evolution before providing a general definition. Then this video provides a description of four different...
Instructional Video7:41
Amoeba Sisters

Cell Organelles and Structures Review

12th - Higher Ed
Join Pinky and Petunia of the Amoeba Sisters in a review game video! This video provides clues for the viewer to guess the cell organelle or structure before revealing it. As a bonus, towards the end of the video, you'll have the...
Instructional Video9:47
Amoeba Sisters

Human Body Systems Overview (Updated 2024)

12th - Higher Ed
Explore 11 human body systems with the Amoeba Sisters in this updated video (2024). This video focuses on general functions for the following systems (and also provides a few structure examples): Circulatory, Digestive, Endocrine,...
Instructional Video7:29
Amoeba Sisters

Genetic Engineering

12th - Higher Ed
Explore an intro to genetic engineering with The Amoeba Sisters. This video provides a general definition, introduces some biotechnology tools that can be used in genetic engineering, and discusses some related vocabulary (such as...
Instructional Video8:47
Amoeba Sisters

Skeletal System

12th - Higher Ed
Join the Amoeba Sisters on this introduction to the human Skeletal System! This video first introduces several types of skeletal systems found in different organisms before focusing on the human endoskeleton. Then, this video takes a...
Instructional Video8:30
Amoeba Sisters

Punnett Squares and Sex-Linked Traits (UPDATED)

12th - Higher Ed
Explore how to solve Punnett squares that involve sex-linked traits, specifically focusing on X-linked traits. Video has a resource available hereref='https://www.amoebasisters.com/handouts' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>here This...
Instructional Video7:31
Amoeba Sisters

Biomolecules (Updated 2023)

12th - Higher Ed
Explore the four biomolecules and their importance for organisms and the structure and function of their cells! This 2023 UPDATED Biomolecules Amoeba Sisters video has some more detail and improved art from the 2016 Amoeba Sisters...
Instructional Video12:00
Amoeba Sisters

Animals: Tour of 9 Phyla

12th - Higher Ed
Join the Amoeba Sisters in exploring some general animal characteristics, major vocabulary used in classifying animals (such as symmetry, protostome vs deuterostome, cephalization, and coelom), and take a general tour of 9 major animal...
Instructional Video3:54
SciShow

The Mayan Calendar & 2012

12th - Higher Ed
Hank tells us about the Mayan calendar & why December 21, 2012 will not be the end of the world.
Instructional Video8:52
Amoeba Sisters

Skeletal System

12th - Higher Ed
Join the Amoeba Sisters on this introduction to the human Skeletal System! This video first introduces several types of skeletal systems found in different organisms before focusing on the human endoskeleton. Then, this video takes a...
Instructional Video17:35
SciShow Kids

Squeaks Gets Scared! | SciShow Kids Compilation

K - 5th
There's a big thunderstorm happening where Squeaks lives, and it's making the Fort kind of creepy... <br/>
Join Squeaks as he faces his fears and learns more about the things that scare him!
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...
Instructional Video5:06
SciShow Kids

Make Your Own Cartoon! Kids Science Activity

K - 5th
Cartoons are the best! But you know the characters in them aren't real... so how do they move around like that? Today's experiment will teach you all about the different illusions animation uses to trick your brain and bring drawings to...
Instructional Video16:42
TED Talks

Rayma Suprani: Dictators hate political cartoons -- so I keep drawing them

12th - Higher Ed
"A political cartoon is a barometer of freedom," says Rayma Suprani, who was exiled from her native Venezuela for publishing work critical of the government. "That's why dictators hate cartoonists." In a talk illustrated with highlights...
Instructional Video4:03
SciShow Kids

Are Aliens Real?

K - 5th
Have you ever wondered if aliens exist? You're not alone! Learn about what alien life needs to survive in the universe!
Instructional Video16:15
TED Talks

Le grand pouvoir des petits dessins

Higher Ed
Le grand pouvoir des petits dessins



Les dessins sont un langage universel que tout le monde peut comprendre, affirme dessinateur connu sous le nom de "Aster". Joignez Aster pendant qu'il nous démontre comment les...