Book Club for Kids
The Story Behind "Esperanza Rising"
The novel Esperanza Rising tells the “riches to rags” story of a girl who lived comfortably in Mexico in the 1930s until her family’s situation changed. She and her family had to move to California, where they worked in farm labor camps...
FuseSchool
Ecological Pyramids
Learn all about ecological pyramids and how to show quantitative data about relationships between species.
SciShow
How Origami Could Change Rocket Designs
Origami is helping to ease our journeys back from space, and astronomers are learning more about coronal mass ejections from a distant star!
SciShow
The Solar System is Beige
Whether you grew up with a poster of the solar system on your bedroom wall or not, you've probably got a specific idea of what the planets look like. From brilliantly blue Neptune to the "red planet" Mars. But if you managed to actually...
SciShow
Why Does the US Have So Many Power Outages?
The United States has a lot more power outages than other countries do, and fixing this problem will be a massive undertaking. Chapters View all Across the United States, the average customer loses power about once or twice a year, for a...
SciShow
3 Solar Systems Scientists Still Don’t Understand
From gigantic planets too close to their stars, to those in unfathomably wide orbits, astronomers have discovered seemingly impossible solar systems that shouldn’t exist at all. But they do.
SciShow Kids
Explore the Solar System: The Rocky Planets
Explore the four inner rocky planets, as Jessi and Squeaks take you on a tour of the solar system!
TED Talks
Jon Nguyen: Tour the solar system from home
Want to navigate the solar system without having to buy a spacecraft? Jon Nguyen demos NASA JPL's "Eyes on the Solar System" -- free-to-use software for exploring the planets, moons, asteroids, and spacecraft that rotate around our sun...
Crash Course
How to Communicate with Customers: Crash Course Entrepreneurship
No business, no matter how innovative and amazing it is, will survive if people haven’t heard of it. If people don’t know something exists, they’ll never be able to purchase it. It’s time to work on our communication skills.
SciShow
These Icy Rocks Might Be from Another Solar System | SciShow News
New research suggests that Venus’ patterned crust might currently be more active than we thought! Astrophysicists have also modeled the orbits of mysterious objects between Jupiter and Neptune, and found that they could have come from...
FuseSchool
The Solar System Part 1| Astrophysics
"""CREDITS Animation & Design: Joshua Thomas Narration: Dale Bennett Script: Alistair Haynes In this video we will begin to look at some of the key features that describe the parts our Solar System. Quite simply it is the name given to...
Curated Video
Our solar system
The Earth is one of the eight planets in our Solar System. Our universe - Space adventure - Our solar system Learning Points The Sun is at the centre of the Solar System. The planets, including the Earth, orbit around the Sun. There are...
Wonderscape
Science Kids: Earth and Our Solar System
This video is a lesson about the solar system, specifically focusing on the Milky Way galaxy, the inner planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars), the outer planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune), and their characteristics. The...
NASA
Exploring Our Solar System with Dr. Amy Simon
Dr. Amy Simon has always been fascinated with space. From a young age she dreamed of lifting off in the space shuttle, just like her hero, astronaut Sally Ride. Over the years her interest in space remained, and she eventually found...
Maddie Moate
How To Make A Scale Solar System from Fruit! | Science Activity for Kids | Let's Go Live Maddie Greg
How To Make A Scale Solar System from Fruit! | Science Activity for Kids | Let's Go Live Maddie Greg
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Exploring Our Solar System: A Journey Through Space
Go on an exciting journey through our solar system as they explore planets, stars, moons, comets, and asteroids. Learn about the sun at the center, visit each of the eight planets, and discover fascinating facts about space. This...
TED Talks
Sara Seager: The search for planets beyond our solar system
Every star we see in the sky has at least one planet orbiting it, says astronomer Sara Seager. So what do we know about these exoplanets, and how can we find out more? Seager introduces her favorite set of exoplanets and shows new...
SciShow
Why Do We Talk to Ourselves?
Do you mumble to yourself while looking for your keys, or pump yourself up in the morning with a bathroom mirror pep talk? It may actually be helpful,but only if you do it right.
Curated Video
Earth: The Third Planet in Our Solar System
The planet we live on is the third of the four rocky planets in our Solar System. A Twig Science Glossary Film. Key scientific terms defined in just 60 seconds using stunning images and concise textual definitions. Twig Science Glossary...
NASA
NASA | Exploring the Inner Solar System (Part 2/6)
In part 2, Dr. Garvin continues explaining how much left we have to learn about Venus and recounts NASA's visits to the moon with the Apollo program. (Show Description) Chief Scientist of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Dr. Jim...
Curated Video
Planets of the Solar System
Planets of the Solar System describes each planet’s movement, distance, size, and composition in relation to the sun.
Curated Video
Our Solar System
Dr. Forrester classifies the parts of our solar system by examining such components as planets, moon, Sun, Milky Way, comets, asteroids, and meteors. She explains lunar phases, lunar eclipses, and solar eclipses. Dr. Forrester...
Curated Video
The Solar System
The Solar System identifies the solar system including the sun and all celestial bodies that orbit the sun.
Curated Video
GCSE Physics - Astronomy: How the Universe is made of Galaxies, Solar Systems, Stars and Planets #85
This video covers: - How the universe is structured - Planets orbit a central star to form solar systems - Then solar systems are grouped in galaxies - And finally the universe contains billions of those galaxies Exam board specific...