University of Florida
Understanding Car Crashes: It's Basic Physics!
Make an impact on young physicists with this fun collection of resources. After first watching a video and taking notes on the physics of car crashes, students go on to complete a series of activities that explore the...
SciShow Kids
Take a Tour of the Space Station
Take a step into the International Space Station with an entertaining video that thoroughly details all the going on when astronauts call their home ISS
Scholastic
Study Jams! Metamorphic Rocks
Photographs of magnificent metamorphic rock formations make up the bulk of this brief slide show. Along with the upbeat background music, slow-moving slides, and informational captions of the slide show, you will also find key...
Bozeman Science
NGSS: Obtaining, Evaluating and Communicating Information
The Next Generation Science Standards list obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information as the eighth practice. Explaining the importance of reading and understanding scientific information, a video on the NGSS stresses...
Crash Course
Hydrocarbon Power!
This short video covers the history of hydrocarbons and organic compounds, discusses the structures and properties of alkanes, isomers, and concludes with an explanation of naming alkanes based on their structure.
TED-Ed
How Brass Instruments Work
Transforming a deep breath into beautiful musical notes, brass instruments represent an interesting combination of scientific understanding and artistic creativity. Traveling from the mouth piece to the bell, this short...
TED-Ed
3 Planets That Shouldn't Exist
Take a journey through the universe to learn about three planets that are mysteries to scientists—because they shouldn't be able to exist! Class members watch a short video to learn about Kepler-78b, Kepler-10c, and HD 106906b,...
Bozeman Science
Water Potential
Water flow isn't solely based on gravity. Pupils explore the formula for the potential of water through a measurement of psi based on the solute potential and the pressure potential. The lesson analyzes the example of placing salt...
TED-Ed
How Menstruation Works
The menstrual cycle and its role in the cycle of life is the topic of this short primer on periods.
Bozeman Science
Cell Membrane
How in the world is a musk oxen like a phospholipid? Learners see the fluid mosaic model and all of its complex parts: phospholipids, proteins, glycoproteins, glycolipids, and cholesterol. The video then focuses on the phospholipid's and...
SciShow
Take a Ride on the Interplanetary Superhighway
It turns out there is an interplanetary superhighway, complete with off ramps! A video from the SciShow Space series discusses how using gravity cuts space travel fuel needs to a minimum. Following the superhighway allows spacecraft to...
Crash Course
Reproductive System – Sex and Fertilization (Part 3)
Having sex calms nerves, reduces blood pressure, and reduces stress. Video 42 in a series of 47 specifically focuses on sex and fertilization. The narrator discusses how scientists determined the four phases of sexual response during the...
FuseSchool
Mitosis—Stages of Mitosis
Three hundred million cells die and are replaced every minute. An interesting Fuse School video focuses on mitosis, the process of cell division that produces identical copies of the cell. It highlights each of the key stages:...
Bozeman Science
r and K Selection
Some species have one gender that is r-selected while the other is K-selected. A video focuses on growth rate and the difference between r-selected species and K-selected species. It includes a discussion of fecundity and carrying...
Bozeman Science
Ecosystem Change
Climate change has happened throughout the history of the planet, and the video uses examples from continental drift to modern airplanes as measurable examples. It begins with how climate change will impact systems on the...
Be Smart
Why Do More Species Live Near the Equator?
The tropics contain about 40 percent of the area on Earth. Viewers take a trip to Peru as an entrancing video from a larger biology playlist explores the region. It explains the facts and theories about the biodiversity near the equator....
New Mexico State University
Runoff and Infiltration
Soil infiltration has less to do with the soil than what is covering the soil. A quick video presentation demonstrates how different soil samples use water. The instructor takes note of both the infiltration demonstrated by each sample...
Crash Course
Electrochemistry
Organic chemistry is difficult; those who study it have alkynes of trouble. Alkaline batteries are the focus of a video on electrochemistry, explaining how batteries work and why they are called alkaline batteries. The resource also...
Crash Course
Nomenclature
Who is IUPAC and what they do? IUPAC is the organization that names and establishes rules for every organic compound. Find out more in a short video that focuses on prefixes, suffixes, functional groups, carbon chains, and cis or trans...
PBS
The Strange Case of the Buzzsaw Jaws
Shark teeth in Idaho, China, and Russia confused scientists for hundreds of years. A spiral of sharp teeth presented the first clue, but where would they even go on a shark? Learn more about the strange case in a video that is part of a...
Crash Course
Hydrocarbon Derivatives
This comprehensive video focuses on functional groups including alcohols, hydroxyl groups, aldehydes, carboxylic acid, acetone, ethers, esters, and amines.
Crash Course
Why Cosmic Evolution Matters: Crash Course Big History #201
Does reality exist, or are we just a part of a larger virtual reality game someone is playing? A mind-bending video explains why we study cosmic history. It presents details about the start of the universe and more accurate predictions...
TED-Ed
Sunlight Is Way Older than You Think
Light travels fast... really fast. But that doesn't mean it moves instantly from its source to whatever object it hits. After watching this video students will understand that once generated in the sun's core,...
TED-Ed
The Science of Static Electricity
Add some spark to your physical science instruction with this short video on static electricity. Taking a look at the fundamental structure of atoms, this fun film explains how rubbing objects together can cause electrons to move...