Instructional Video3:56
SciShow

This Diagram of Earth Is a Lie

12th - Higher Ed
When you learned about the Earth’s interior in school, you were probably shown a diagram that looked like a perfect layer cake. But we've known for a long time that that diagram is... inaccurate at best, and leaves out information that...
Instructional Video5:41
SciShow

Unexpected Ways Scientists Use GPS

12th - Higher Ed
GPS devices aren't just for keeping you from driving into a lake. They're also helping lots of scientists in unexpected ways.
Instructional Video12:20
SciShow

6 Mysteries Geologists Can't Solve

12th - Higher Ed
There are some geological areas on the planet that scientists still don't understand. For most things it's pretty clear—combine a volcanic eruption a dash of erosion, and boom, you’ve got a striking cliff! But not all the features on...
Instructional Video4:13
SciShow

This Diagram of Earth Is a Lie

12th - Higher Ed
When you learned about the Earth’s interior in school, you were probably shown a diagram that looked like a perfect layer cake. But we've known for a long time that that diagram is... inaccurate at best, and leaves out information that...
Instructional Video12:24
SciShow

6 Mysteries Geologists Can’t Explain — Yet!

12th - Higher Ed
Explaining strange Earth geology is often straightforward — combine a volcanic eruption a dash of erosion, and boom, you’ve got a striking cliff! But not all the features on this planet are so easy to figure out. From the ground randomly...
Instructional Video5:16
SciShow

3 Times We Intentionally Crashed into Other Worlds

12th - Higher Ed
Most of the time, it’s not great when an expensive spacecraft slams into an extraterrestrial body. But now and then mission control intentionally crashes a spacecraft for science!
Instructional Video3:54
SciShow

Moonquakes and Marsquakes

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space explores the origins of Earthquakes that aren't on Earth. Moonquakes and Marsquakes can happen, too!
Instructional Video5:44
SciShow

Unexpected Ways Scientists Use GPS

12th - Higher Ed
GPS devices aren't just for keeping you from driving into a lake. They're also helping lots of scientists in unexpected ways.
Instructional Video12:21
Veritasium

I Waterproofed Myself With Aerogel!

9th - Higher Ed
Aerogel has extraordinary properties but it can be tough to work with. This video looks at modifying aerogels to take advantage of their unique characteristics.
Instructional Video0:53
Next Animation Studio

Scientists have found anomalous structures around the Earth’s core

12th - Higher Ed
Geophysicists from the University of Maryland analyzed seismic waves around the world and found large unusual structures near the Earth’s core.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Mount Pinatubo: Predicting a Volcanic Eruption

9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from NOVA relates the dramatic story of vulcanologists trying to predict the timing of the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines. Essay and discussion questions as well as related links follow.
Instructional Video
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology

Iris: Magnitudes: Moment Magnitude Explained

9th - 10th
Video clip provides a definition of moment magnitude and why it replaced the Richter Scale. [5:40]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Science Bulletins: Mapping the Heat Beneath

9th - 10th
As seismic waves from earthquakes pass through the planet, their patterns can reveal hidden dynamics-hotspots, deep-diving rock, melting mantle-in Earth's interior. An array of seismometers that's being installed across the United States...