Instructional Video5:12
TED-Ed

Why Do Whales Sing?

For Students 6th - 12th
Although little is know about why whales sing, researchers are developing theories that explain how whales are able to vocalize. Viewers get a short course in whale song and even get to listen to recordings of the haunting melodies...
Instructional Video8:10
Be Smart

Why Do You Love Your Family?

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Is that warm, fuzzy family feeling a product of evolution? Explore altruism through a video from an engaging science series. The narrator discusses parental instincts, evolutionary fitness, and an organism's drive to ensure it passes its...
Instructional Video
Macat

An Introduction to Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Could geography really be the most logical explanation for the success rate of any given population? Jared Diamond makes his anthropological contention in his 1997 publication Guns, Germs, and Steel. A short explores his main points and...
Instructional Video3:42
Be Smart

How to See Time Travel!!!

For Students 6th - 12th
Are you ready to take your learners on a time travel exploration? The short video segment uncovers the nuances of time travel and the scientific theories behind this sometimes misunderstood activity. Learners conclude with a discussion...
Instructional Video1:27
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PBS

Thinking about Justice

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
Before any discussion of justice it's essential that all parties involved share an understanding of the various terms involved in such a discussion. The first video in a series of three provides viewers with definitions for social,...
Instructional Video12:44
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Crash Course

Natural Selection

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
The peppered moth is featured in a video about natural selection. The narrator tells the story of Darwin's theory and then moves on to the principles behind natural selection and the different ways it works. Concepts covered include...
Instructional Video10:34
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Crash Course

Behavioral Economics

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Understanding how consumers think is key to staying in business. Show high schoolers how their buying behavior really does affect the way the economy works with an informative video from Crash Course Economics. The video illustrates the...
Instructional Video3:35
The Brain Scoop

Fossil Sharks

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Sharks contain a cartilage skeleton, rather than bone, so they rarely appear in the fossil record. The video explains why we find shark teeth and how scientists use that tiny piece of information to learn about sharks. Then, it presents...
Instructional Video29:22
GPB Television

Chemistry 102: The Metric System

For Students 6th - 12th
Although this lesson is directed at a chemistry class, all laboratory classes require the use of metric measurement. Here is a half-hour video introduction to measurement systems and a thorough teaching about the base-ten metric system...
Instructional Video9:54
Curated OER

Basic Economics Lesson 2 - Exchange and Prices

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Trade, exchange, and price are the focus of this basic economic video. Economic theory is used to describe whether exchange occurs, which relates to human wants and mutually beneficial exchange. The scenarios provided are used to explain...
Instructional Video9:00
Veritasium

This Particle Breaks Time Symmetry

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
CPT theory is the basis for much of physics, but what happens when researchers disprove the theory piece by piece? Explore the idea with a video about the Nobel Prize-winning breakthroughs that shifted the entire way scientists...
Instructional Video4:24
SciShow

What's Happening to Honey Bees?

For Students 9th - 12th
Worker bees used to disappear at a rate of around 5 percent per year; then in 2006 that number jumped to 30 percent, and, by 2013, it was as high as 50 percent. The video focuses on what is happening to the honey bees. It considers...
Instructional Video7:13
Be Smart

Einstein Is (Almost) Always Right: Gravitational Waves Edition

For Students 6th - 12th
Facilitate learning as never before with the first video in a series dealing with physics concepts for your science class. Learners visualize Einstein's field equations and the effect of massive objects in passing light before they...
Instructional Video3:35
Macat

An Introduction to Roland Barthes's Mythologies

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Teenagers are the first to agree that they are the frontrunners in popular culture. But how much of their image is constructed by individualism, and how much of it have they bought from capitalistic sources? Roland...
Instructional Video5:00
TED-Ed

When Will the Next Mass Extinction Occur?

For Students 7th - 12th
Normal background extinctions and mass extinction events are examined in this short video that suggests that environmental change, naturally occurring and change caused by humans, is the key factor in such events.
Instructional Video5:44
TED-Ed

Why Do We Love? A Philosophical Inquiry

For Students 11th - 12th
Does love make us whole again? Is love all we need? Is love folly? Does love let us reach beyond ourselves? Is love a misleading affliction, an emotional roller coaster ride, the best thing in life? Check out what these...
Instructional Video7:15
Curated OER

What's a Mixed Number?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
A step-by-step explanation about improper fractions being changed into mixed numbers. The instructor uses diagrams in several examples which gives a visual explanation of the equation.
Instructional Video8:01
Khan Academy

Hawaiian Islands Formation, Cosmology and Astronomy

For Students 8th
Sal explains the formation of Hawaii and the theories behind the formation of a boundary-related hot spot. He debates the concept that the hot spot is traveling along with the plate.
Instructional Video1:15
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Plate Tectonics

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
The plates of the earth may be shifting right under your feet! Learn the causes and consequence of this shifting through an informative a video lesson. Scholars explore the effects of the movement on a local, global, and even planetary...
Instructional Video2:14
MinuteEarth

Why Does Earth Have Deserts?

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Deserts make up 33 percent of the land surface area on the earth, so why does Earth have them? The video explains the wind and weather patterns that lead to deserts as well as rain forests. It details how this is related to the ocean...
Instructional Video6:07
Be Smart

Why Do We Cook?

For Students 6th - 12th
Are you hungry right now? If you are, it might be because your brain is so large. The video describes the shift from larger jaw to larger brain and the relationship of larger brains to cooking. Crushing, preserving, and drying also made...
Instructional Video5:29
PBS

When the Book is Better than the Movie

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
Sometimes the book is better than the movie; other times, the movie comes out on top. A video discusses the topic of novels and their film adaptations, pointing out specific texts and how the tale translated to the big screen. The...
Instructional Video3:29
SciShow

Altruism

For Students 9th - 12th
From a scientific perspective, why do we take care of others we aren't related to? Science struggles to find an explanation, but the lesson shares some ideas people have proposed. Provides historical context for theories as well as...
Instructional Video6:57
SciShow

We Don't Actually Know Where the Sun Came From

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Stars come from families, but scientists aren't sure where to find the sun's relatives. Learn more about identifying star families and the confusion about the sun. As part of a larger SciShow Space series, an interesting video offers a...

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