Visual Learning Systems
Making Observations: Video Review
This fascinating program demonstrates how to observe and record scientific observations. Concepts and terminology: observation, data, recording, data table, tools, safety, measuring, and graphs.
SciShow
The Times and Troubles of the Scientific Method
UPDATE: We got a couple of things wrong when it comes to gravity (particularly that it has nothing to do with photons). Science is working tirelessly night and day to disprove its own theories about how the universe works (or at least,...
FuseSchool
BIOLOGY - Evolution - Charles Darwin's Observations
Charles Darwin was a keen naturalist and geologist who made detailed observations about the natural world. Whilst studying at Cambridge, Darwin learnt many important scientific skills including species identification, how to catalogue...
Curated Video
Writing Equations for Proportional Relationships: Finding Percent Change
Learn how to write an equation that represents the proportional relationship between the original amount and the final amount. Using the example of a bike's price changing from December to June, the teacher demonstrates how to find the...
Visual Learning Systems
Your Science Fair Project: Steps in the Scientific Method
The scientific method is the foundation of work for scientists. In this video the scientific method is explained in detail serving as the basis for your science fair project. The process of creating a science fair project along with...
Amoeba Sisters
Nature of Science
Explore the nature of science with The Amoeba Sisters. This video discusses why there is not just one universal scientific method as well as the importance of credible sources when researching. Vocab in experimental design including...
NASA
Why Observe?: Tree Height
"Why Observe?: Tree Height" explores surface height measurement missions and the role that citizen science can play within the scientific community. NASA uses field campaigns and sensors on satellites and the International Space Station...
Curated Video
Charles Darwin's Observations | Evolution | Biology | FuseSchool
Charles Darwin was a keen naturalist and geologist who made detailed observations about the natural world. Whilst studying at Cambridge, Darwin learnt many important scientific skills including species identification, how to catalogue...
Curated Video
What is Liquid Nitrogen? Experiments With Sub Zero Ice Cream
Have you ever wondered why a classroom gets warmer with more students in it? Or what fertilizer works best for your plants? Or why onions make you cry when you cut them? To help answer these observational questions, scientists use...
NASA
NASA Hangout: Ask a Climate Scientist
The topic of climate change inspires a lot of debate. At NASA, it has also inspired a lot of science. NASA scientists examine the Earth's climate and how it is changing -- gaining knowledge through decades of satellite observations,...
Curated Video
Evolution: The Evidence
When Darwin first proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection 150 years ago it was revolutionary. What scientific evidence supports this theory? Biology - Adaptation And Evolution - Learning Points. Since Darwin proposed his...
NASA
Martian Atmosphere Loss Explained by NASA
Scientists have long suspected the solar wind of stripping the Martian atmosphere into space, a process that may have turned Mars from a blue world early in its history into the red planet that we see today. In 2014, NASA's MAVEN orbiter...
NASA
NASA | Dual Precipitation Radar Arrives at Goddard
The Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) built by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission's Core Observatory arrived on Friday, March 16 and was unloaded today at NASA's...
Wonderscape
Natural Selection and Charles Darwin's Legacy
Explore the concept of natural selection, a cornerstone of evolutionary biology, through Charles Darwin's groundbreaking work. Learn how Darwin's observations of finches and other species during his voyage on the HMS Beagle led to his...
TED Talks
Drew Berry: Animations of unseeable biology
We have no ways to directly observe molecules and what they do -- but Drew Berry wants to change that. He demos his scientifically accurate (and entertaining!) animations that help researchers see unseeable processes within our own cells.
NASA
One Image, One Million Galaxies
One of the Hubble Space Telescope’s most iconic images is the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, which unveiled myriad galaxies across the universe, stretching back to within a few hundred million years of the Big Bang. Hubble peered at a single...
Curated Video
Solving Ratio Problems with Tables and Addition
In this video, the teacher explains how to solve ratio problems using tables and addition. The example given is making fruit punch using a ratio of 2 cups of grape juice for every 3 cups of apple juice.
The Royal Institution
Jim Al-Khalili - Quantum Life: How Physics Can Revolutionise Biology
In this Friday Evening Discourse at the Royal Institution, Professor Jim Al-Khalili explores how the mysteries of quantum theory might be observable at the biological level. Although many examples can be found in the scientific...
NASA
NASA | Comet ISON's Path Through the Solar System
Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) may become one of the most dazzling in decades when it rounds the sun later this year. Like all comets, ISON is a clump of frozen gases mixed with dust. Often described as "dirty snowballs," comets emit gas and...
Curated Video
Nessie Sightings - Seiche Phenomenon
Subscribe to Naked Science – http://goo.gl/wpc2Q1 Every other Wednesday we present a new video, so join us to see the truth laid bare... Sceptics such as members of the Loch Ness Project believe that the unique topography of Loch Ness...
Big Think
Bill Nye: Can We Stop Telling Women What to Do With Their Bodies?
The Science Guy argues that most anti-abortion legislation is derived from outdated beliefs that predate smart science by fifty centuries. Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/bill-nye-on-abortion-and-womens-rights...
NASA
NASA | Chasing Comet ISON
Comet ISON (C/2012 S1) may become a dazzling sight as it traverses the inner solar system in late 2013. During the weeks before its Nov. 28 close approach to the sun, the comet will be observable with small telescopes, and binoculars....
NASA
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Clears Critical Sunshield Deployment Testing
In October 2019, technicians and engineers successfully performed a critical test on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope by fully deploying and properly tensioning each of its five uniquely sized sunshield layers, putting them into the...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Elizabeth Phelps - Teachers Make a Difference - Hugh B. Hammet
Elizabeth Phelps received her PhD from Princeton University and served on the faculty of Yale University and New York University. Professor Phelps is the recipient of the 21st Century Scientist Award from the James S. McDonnell...