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Instructional Video4:34
Be Smart

How Many Smells Can You Smell?

6th - 12th
Do you know what doesn't stink? This resource! The video explains how people can smell, when they start smelling, and the changing idea of how many different smells individuals can identify. It introduces the concept of olfactory...
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Instructional Video13:37
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Crash Course

The History of Life on Earth

7th - 12th
The first life on Earth developed in the oceans. As an introduction to ecology, the video starts with the formation of the earth. It follows with the Archaean and Proterozoic Eons including protobionts, prokaryotes, and eukaryotes. It...
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Instructional Video2:46
SciShow

Why Do We Jump in Our Sleep?

9th - 12th
A hypnagogic jerk, or hypnic jerk, is when you startle yourself awake just as you are drifting off to sleep. The video describes what a hypnic jerk is, how common they are, and who typically experience them. Viewers are offered two...
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Instructional Video6:54
PBS

The Age of Giant Insects

6th - 12th Standards
The largest arthropod that walked on land measured more than two meters long. An intriguing video looks invertebrates throughout the history of Earth. It explains the drastic differences and why scientists theorize they evolved in this...
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Lesson Plan4:38
TED-Ed

A Brief History of Religion in Art

10th - Higher Ed
Did you know that some languages have no word for art? The English language does and the narrator of this short video discusses the aesthetic dimension of religious art as it "visually communicates meaning beyond language." 
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Instructional Video4:46
Be Smart

How Your Body Knows Left From Right

6th - 12th
While our outsides are mostly symmetrical, our internal organs aren't. Why would this be the case? Are other animals the same? What determines if your organs are on the "correct" side or backwards? Here's a video that answers these...
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Instructional Video6:41
Be Smart

Sonic the Hedgehog Is Why You Have Thumbs!

6th - 12th
Do you know what Sonic hedgehog is? Yes, it is a video game character, but it is also a protein that controls how your fingers develop. A paleontologist discusses the development of the arm and hand, beginning with fish and ending with...
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Instructional Video2:34
MinutePhysics

Does the Universe Have a Purpose? feat. Neil deGrasse Tyson

9th - 12th
Why are we here? There are so many possible ways to answer the question, but which answers are based on empirical data? Pupils discover the many perspectives on this age-old brainteaser. The narrator explains the topic through the ideas...
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Instructional Video10:02
PBS

FAQs From Our First Year

6th - 12th Standards
After a year of PBS Eons videos, viewers raised some excellent points and questions. The hosts highlight the most common including classification of animals, when a new eon starts, how to pronounce scientific terms, and many other...
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Instructional Video19:51
Khan Academy

Variation in a Species

10th - 12th
If there are no extenuating environmental factors to ensure competition in a species, then variation is achieved by random mutation. This resource may be more useful after viewers are introduced to the concepts of alleles and the...
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Instructional Video1:04
Khan Academy

Ape Clarification

9th - 12th
A short video to clarify that the sketch in a previous video was incorrect. Apes DO NOT have tails
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Instructional Video18:38
Curated OER

The Kidney and Nephron

9th - 12th
Sal from Khan Academy shows your class a kidney on his Smart Board and writes down the main functions of the kidneys and nephrons. The different parts are highlighted and explained in detail. Continue to review the kidneys and nephrons...
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Instructional Video4:40
TED-Ed

What Happens to Our Bodies After We Die?

7th - 12th
Burial practices are the focus of a short video that not only investigate how and why bodies decompose, but also looks at some modern approaches to the treatment of bodies and burials.
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Instructional Video5:44
TED-Ed

Why Do We Have Museums?

6th - 12th Standards
How did the tradition of collecting and displaying interesting items to the public begin? How have museums evolved over time? Offer your young historians a fascinating look into a cultural pastime we so often take for granted in the...
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Instructional Video12:16
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Crash Course

Taxonomy: Life's Filing System

9th - 12th Standards
Explore the history of taxonomy, the naming of organisms, with a video about Linnaeus and his classification system that is still used by scientists today to show the evolutionary relationships among organisms. 
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Instructional Video13:15
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Crash Course

Complex Animals: Annelids and Arthropods

9th - 12th Standards
Introduce your class to the importance of segmentation in evolutionary history with a video that explain how segmentation permitted the development of complex animals. The narrator analyzes examples of annelids and arthropods in terms of...
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Instructional Video7:35
Be Smart

The Science of Marathon Running

6th - 12th
The science of marathon running is the subject of a resource that begins with the history of the marathon and why it is 26.2 miles long, and then goes into the biology in our bodies and the way our muscles, bones, and other physical...
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Instructional Video13:23
Crash Course

The Big Bang, Cosmology Part 1

9th - Higher Ed
Send your space scientists out with a bang! An out-of-this-world video teaches young astronomers about the origin of the universe. The narrator describes the birth of The Big Bang Theory and the physicists and star gazers that...
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Instructional Video3:32
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

How We Get Our Skin Color

9th - 12th Standards
Is our skin color determined only by genetics? Explore skin science through a video and related interactive. Young biologists discover the cells of the epidermis, how melanin is made, and the factors that influence the outward appearance...
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Instructional Video13:39
Crash Course

2001 - A Space Odyssey: Crash Course Film Criticism

8th - 12th Standards
Will the advancement of technology doom interpersonal relationships? Like the score for Jaws, the music for the opening sequence of Stanley Kubrick's 2001- A Space Odyssey stirs the imagination of viewers. Cinema lovers and film newbies...

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