Curated Video
Understanding How Vacuum Cleaners Work
The video explains how a vacuum cleaner works by creating an area of low air pressure near the floor, which causes air and dirt particles to be sucked into the vacuum cleaner. The dirt particles are trapped inside a porous bag while the...
MinuteEarth
Rain's Dirty Little Secret
Want to learn more about the topic in this week's video? Here are some key words/phrases to get your googling started: - Condensation - the process of water molecules glomming together into visible droplets - Condensation nuclei - tiny...
Visual Learning Systems
Soil and Rocks: What Is Soil?
Many of the things we eat and enjoy are grown in soil. This engaging program explores the soil and rocks importance of soil while taking a look at how soil is formed. Different types of soil and their characteristics are explored.
Curated Video
Weathering and Erosion
The processes of weathering and erosion break down rocks, minerals, and other outside items. These two work slowly to change the landscape.
Curated Video
Analyzing Independence and Association
This video discusses the concept of independence between the region where someone lives and their music preference. It explains how to analyze the distribution of variables in a two-way table to determine if the two events are...
Reading Through History
History Brief: Dust Bowl Pests
Get the 1930s History Brief series on Kindle: http://amzn.to/2mnEuJH Get the Teacher's Resource Manual here: http://amzn.to/2nhvNAw The following video provides a short explanation of other problems Dust Bowl survivors endured, including...
TED Talks
TED: We can hack our immune cells to fight cancer | Elizabeth Wayne
After decades of research and billions spent in clinical trials, we still have a problem with cancer drug delivery, says biomedical engineer Elizabeth Wayne. Chemotherapy kills cancer -- but it kills the rest of your body, too. Instead...
Science360
Cavitation bubbles bursting with cleaning power - Science Nation
It's easy to think of soap suds when one thinks of bubbles, but these bubbles can clean without chemicals. These are cavitation bubbles, which are created when air is churned up in water. And what researchers are learning could...
FuseSchool
MATHS - Geometry - Perpendicular from a point to a line
In this video, we're going to look at how to construct a perpendicular from a point on a line and that point can be anywhere on the line
Professor Dave Explains
Entomologist Adrian Smith (Get to Know a Scientist!)
Entomology is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of insects, and that's what Adrian Smith studies. He works with some fascinating organisms, documenting their morphology and behavior, and is the head of the Evolutionary...
MinuteEarth
Rain's Dirty Little Secret
Rain is just water, right? Not quite! The video explains all of the other things found inside rain. It offers the science behind why rain requires these other item and how without dirt, rain would cease to exist.
MinuteEarth
Why Do Rivers Curve?
Rivers flow downhill, but why are there so many curves? The video explains how a straight river with only a tiny change begins to curve. It introduces the patterns all curving rivers follow all over the planet and other planets.
Be Smart
The Amazing Science of… DUST?
Why do we bother to dust when more will start to land as soon as we get rid of it? What is dust made of and why won't it ever go away? The video answers these questions and more.