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Instructional Video5:09
Socratica

What Is Biochemistry?

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Watch as chemistry comes alive! Socratica's biology playlist kicks off with a simple video detailing the principle components of biochemistry. Content includes carbohydrates, proteins, and nucleic acids. The narrator describes each class...
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Instructional Video0:52
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Lactose Digestion in Infants

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Milk meets every single nutritional need for a baby in the first six months of life. Observe how an infant's small intestine breaks milk lactose down into a usable form of nutrition. With the help of an animation, viewers see the process...
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Instructional Video7:57
PBS

How Two Microbes Changed History

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Where would we be without bacteria? As it turns out, we owe them everything! Introduce young biologists to endosymbiotic theory using an amazing video from an extensive biology playlist. Scholars discover the bacteria that may be...
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Instructional Video11:17
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Crash Course

Water - Liquid Awesome

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
If H2O is water and H2O2 is hydrogen peroxide, what is H2O4? Drinking, bathing, and cooking among others. Viewers of a short video explore water through its molecular structure, its ability to stick to itself through adhesion (cohesion...
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Instructional Video5:36
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Socratica

Chemistry: Ionic Bonds vs Covalent Bonds (Which is Stronger?)

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Both ionic and covalent bonds present as strong bonds, but which is stronger? Socratica presents a video from its chemistry playlist that attempts to answer this question. It addresses how strength is measured and the range of strengths...
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Instructional Video5:24
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Stated Clearly

What is DNA and How Does it Work?

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Explaining exactly how DNA works to provide genetic information is a complex topic, but it is presented in a clear and engaging way through a five-minute video. Have learners try to explain how DNA works before watching the video, then...
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Instructional Video1:42
Curated OER

STEMbite: Diffusion

For Students 4th - 8th
A biology or physical science class would benefit from viewing this video on diffusion and molecular motion. Mr. Vanden Heuvel plays with food coloring in drinking glasses, showing that the faster the water molecules are moving due to...
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Instructional Video12:36
Curated OER

Cancer

For Students 10th - 12th
It is fascinating to learn about apoptosis and the fact that cells are able to destroy themselves without any external influence. Sal creates interest in the huge number of cells and the complexity of the human body. The likelihood of a...
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Instructional Video4:19
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Cloning an Army of T Cells for Immune Defense

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
How do bodies fight infections and illnesses? An animation of the way T cells clone to fight an infection provides many details. The resource also provides an excellent written introduction and ideas for how to ensure pupils understand...
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Instructional Video17:27
Curated OER

Introduction to Heredity

For Students 10th - 12th
Young scientists generally love to learn how certain traits can be explained by a direct combination of alleles from their parents. Here, they are able to examine how a phenotype is often expressed as a result of one allele being...
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Instructional Video16:32
Curated OER

Anatomy of a Muscle Cell

For Students 10th - 12th
Previous videos have dealt with the proteins that produce mechanical motion and how nerves stimulate contraction. But this presentation explains on a gross anatomical scale, how skeletal muscle is structured.
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Instructional Video4:28
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Socratica

Chemistry: What Is a Metal? (Metallic Bonds)

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Metals offer unique properties thanks to the structure of their valence electrons. The Socratica chemistry playlist includes this video explaining what a metal is and the properties of metals. It focuses on their structures, features,...
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Instructional Video9:59
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Socratica

Empirical Formula

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
With empirical formulas, it's all about keeping it simple! Introduce the concept of empirical formula to your chemistry scholars through a detailed video from Socratica's Chemistry Lessons series. The resource uses visual cues,...
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Instructional Video5:04
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Socratica

Chemistry: What Is an Ionic Bond?

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Teach your class all they want to know about ionic bonds. An engaging video, part of the Socratica "Chemistry Lessons" playlist, explains what ionic bonds are and how they form. It describes multiple examples of ionic bonds and...
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Instructional Video6:30
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Socratica

Chemistry: What Is a Covalent Bond? (Polar and Nonpolar)

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
When it comes to covalent bonding, sharing is caring! As part of the Socratica chemistry playlist, a useful video explains the definition of covalent bonding. Then, it works through examples of single bonding, double bonding, polar...
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Instructional Video4:47
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Socratica

Chemistry: Stoichiometry Part 2—Mass to Mass Conversions

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
The term stoichiometry derives from the Greek words stoicheion meaning element and metron meaning measure. The second Socratica video in a two-part series within a larger chemistry playlist introduces more complex stoichiometry problems....
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Instructional Video14:03
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Socratica

Chemistry: Balancing Chemical Equations—Algebraic Method

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
If you love algebra, then you're gonna love this balancing method! Introduce young chemists to the algebraic method of balancing chemical equations using a video from an informative chemistry  playlist. The narrator works five sample...
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Instructional Video4:48
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Socratica

Chemistry: Introduction to Unit Conversion and Dimensional Analysis (Part 2)

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
If you know how much carbon dioxide you produce in one breath, can you figure out how much you produce in one month? Socratica helps solve multi-step unit conversion problems. The video walks through how to set up these challenges and...
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Instructional Video7:23
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Socratica

Chemistry: Average Atomic Mass (AMU, Daltons, etc.)

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Scientists created a new measurement, the atomic mass unit, which is defined as carbon 12 = 12amu. So why isn't carbon listed as having exactly 12 amu on the periodic table? An installment from the Socratica chemistry playlist answers...
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Instructional Video7:33
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Socratica

Chemistry: Percent Composition

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
How much oxygen is in water? Is it the same as the chemical formula? Learners observe the differences between a substance's formula and its percent composition with a video from Socratica's Chemistry Lessons series. The narrator...
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Instructional Video1:33
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Repellant Ephrin Signals Guide Limb Innervations

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
The foot bone connects to the leg bone, but how? Learn about how neurons grow in the proper direction thanks to signalling. Observe what happens when they encounter a repulsive ephrin signal and the correction process that takes place.
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Instructional Video1:03
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Neurons in Parietal Cortex Are Active During Straddling

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
How do scientists know which parts of the brain various functions use? With the help of an animated cat, viewers observe this process. They listen to the activity of one neuron as the cat steps over an obstacle and hear when the neuron...
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Instructional Video2:02
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Measuring Circadian Activity in Drosophila

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
How many hours should be in a day? One species of drosophila naturally prefers a 24.5 hour day, while another strongly prefers a 19-hour day. An animation and graph share data from each of these species when exposed to the typical light...
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Instructional Video9:11
PBS

When Insects First Flew

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Insects developed wings and the ability to fly earlier than any other animal—when exactly did that happen? Scientists know this fact but struggle to explain when insect wings developed and how this entirely new structure appeared. PBS...

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