TED-Ed
Self-Assembly: The Power of Organizing the Unorganized
What if buildings could grow, adapt, and repair themselves like a living organism? Using the process of self-assembly, this crazy idea may one day become a reality. The video looks at how unordered parts interact with one another and...
TED-Ed
The Surprising Science of Happiness
Take a close look at the ways humans work to achieve and increase happiness. Cognitive researcher Nancy Etcoff offers a wide range of statistics and findings on the science behind happiness, including cultural dispositions, biological...
TED-Ed
What Happened to Trial by Jury?
Fewer than 4% of United States criminal cases are decided by juries. A short video points to the increase in arbitration, plea bargaining, and summary judgements to explain the decline to explain the decline in jury trials.
Macat
An Introduction to David Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Observing the world around you depends on a lot more than your five senses. A short overview of David Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding explains the ways sense perception influence the exchange of complex...
FuseSchool
Inverse Functions
What's the opposite of a function? Viewers of the video learn how to find the inverse of a function. The method of choice here is switching x and y in the algebraic representation.
TED-Ed
What Is the Coldest Thing in the World?
A video that demonstrates the process for cooling atoms launches a journey to comprehend physics. After watching the video, class members answer multiple-choice and short-answer questions to prepare for a whole-class discussion of the...
TED-Ed
What's the Big Deal with Gluten?
Is gluten-free just a fad? What is gluten anyway, and why can't some of us process it? This is the perfect video to break down the anatomy of gluten and the various diseases and symptoms caused by the notorious protein, as...
TED-Ed
How Much Does a Video Weigh?
No question is a silly question! Vsauce is a website that investigates strange questions. Founder and science educator, Michael Stevens, explains the value of the such questions to an audience and demonstrates by working through the...
Khan Academy
CAHSEE Practice: Problems 17-19
Taking students through problems 17-19 in this practice CAHSEE, the speaker illustrates how to solve problems involving reading data from tables, probability, and scatterplots. The speaker models careful question-reading and the...
Khan Academy
CAHSEE Practice: Problems 20-22
Reviewing introductory algebra and graphing skills, this video guides students through three practice math problems on the CAHSEE. Seeing the work and thought process behind choosing the correct answer in a multiple-choice question format.
Khan Academy
SAT Prep: Test 1 Section 6 Part 2
Using the process of elimination, Sal takes students through helpful ways to solve multiple choice questions on the SAT quickly and correctly. Problems 5-6 involve probability and proportions.
Khan Academy
SAT Prep: Test 6 Section 7 Part 3
Sal finishes problem 10 in this video, as well as problems 11-13 on page 735. Students can practice skills such as linear functions, slopes, and calculating permutations. Problem 12 allows viewers to see the process of elimination in...
Khan Academy
SAT Prep: Test 8 Section 5 Part 2
Sal again makes the SAT look effortless, and yet students will follow his mathematical processes with ease. Problems range in difficulty, from basic algebra equations to more complicated geometric figures.
Curated OER
SAT Prep: Test 8 Section 5 Part 4
If your math students are having a hard time with graphing and slopes, this video could be a great resource as they prepare for the SAT. Sal takes care in explaining his thought process, making sure where to note different strategies to...
Curated OER
SpongeBob's House is Not a Pineapple
Who would have thought we could use SpongeBob as a mathematical example? A fantastically fun video that provokes higher thinking about the reality that SpongeBob's house might not actually be a pineapple based on its relation to the...
TED-Ed
How Do We Study Living Brains?
Out of all vertebrates, the largest brain when compared to body size belongs to humans. Studying the working brain presents challenges to scientists. Learn about three of the most common tests used to understand how the living brain...
TED-Ed
Inside Your Computer
Computers are amazingly powerful machines that we have come to take for granted. Starting with a simple click of the mouse, this animated video takes you on a trip through the inner workings of computers. Learn how programs allow the...
TED-Ed
How a Wound Heals Itself
Did you know that the biggest organ in the human body isn't the brain, the liver, or even the lungs? It's the skin. Follow along with this short video as it explores the structure of human skin and its amazing ability to...
TED-Ed
At What Moment Are You Dead?
When is a person no longer living? This question has been puzzled over for millennia, but is there a clear answer? Watch as this video examines the biological line separating life and death.
TED-Ed
How Do US Supreme Court Justices Get Appointed?
Nomination, approval, and appointment—these are the three major steps in becoming a Supreme Court justice. But the process is much more meticulous than that. View a video that explains the rigorous process a person must endure...
TED-Ed
How Does Impeachment Work?
Did you know that in the United States any civil officer can be impeached? But just what does impeachment mean? How does the process work? Who can demand impeachment of a public official? Who can initiate the process? Learn everything...
TED-Ed
How Does the Nobel Peace Prize Work?
What do Juan Manuel Santos Calderon, the Tunisian Nation Dialogue Quartet, Barrack Obama, Bertha Von Suttner, and Malala Yousafzai all have in common? Each of these remarkable individuals is the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. But...
Crash Course
How Voters Decide: Crash Course Government and Politics #38
Have you ever asked people who just voted why they chose a particular candidate? The answers may very greatly. Scholars analyze the key factors of how voters decide which check mark to place in which boxes. They use a short video...
Khan Academy
ROA Discussion 1, Stocks and Bonds, Finance and Capital Markets
Introduce young economists to the concept of return on assets with this clip, which begins with an overview of various theories on calculating ROA. Sal writes out four formulas and explains why he uses the last one: EBIT divided by...