Crash Course Kids
Vegetation Transformation
How do plants transform the sun's light energy into chemical energy? This is the focus of a video that explains the processes of photosynthesis.
DoodleScience
Transformers and the National Grid
Understand the science behind the path electricity takes to our homes. The video shows how the role of transformers is important to the efficiency of the system.
DoodleScience
Transformers
Pupils learn about electrical transformers and how they work. An educational video details the process for both step up and step down transformers that rely on electromagnetic induction.
Teacher's Pet
Heat in Changes of State
Melting ice seems pretty easy, right? But what's actually happening is much more complex! Introduce the class to enthalpy calculations using a video tutorial. The narrator explains and performs the calculations that show the energy at...
MinutePhysics
The Physics of Car Crashes
Engineering the design of a car is a lesson in physics! Learners watch as the narrator describes how a car absorbs the impact during a crash. The instruction highlights acceleration and deceleration patterns and quantifies the amount of...
TED-Ed
Why Don't Perpetual Motion Machines Ever Work?
It turns out that some laws were definitely not meant to be broken! A short illustrative video explains why the first and second laws of thermodynamics prevent perpetual motion machines from actually moving perpetually — and why...
Crash Course
Fluid Flow and Equipment: Crash Course Engineering #13
Bernoulli knows best (at least about fluid mechanics). The 13th installment in the Crash Course Engineering series focuses on Bernoulli's principle. Viewers learn the relationship between the speed and pressure of fluids by watching a...
PBS
The Ocean: A Driving Force for Weather and Climate
What's behind Earth's wild, wonderful, and sometimes weird weather? A lesson from PBS's Weather and Climate series takes viewers on a worldwide trek to examine the many interactions between Earth's atmosphere, oceans, and land masses....
Curated OER
Work Done by Isothermic Process
Since the temperature of a system is so crucial in its energy transformation, Sal goes into two processes which greatly affect temperature in a system: The Isothermic Process and The Adiabatic Process. He sets up an example, and...
Be Smart
The Science of BBQ!!!
Ready for a lesson on the wonders of cooking? Young scientists view the short video segment and explore the science of temperature changes on physical and chemical properties in food as the cooking process transforms raw ingredients into...
Crash Course
A Brief History of the Universe
No one was actually there to see the birth of the universe, but years of collaboration between physicists and mathematicians allow us to glimpse all but a fraction of a second of it. A narrated journey shows the phase changes early...
TED-Ed
The Legend of Annapurna, Hindu Goddess of Nourishment
The legend of Annapurna, Hindu Goddess of Nourishment, is a complex tale that incorporates some of Hinduism's basic beliefs. In this version of the tale, Parvati, wife of Shiva, represents energy, growth, and transformation and brings...
Khan Academy
Recognizing Odd and Even Functions
This video gives a formal definition of odd and even functions, as well as, an intuitive feeling for how they are different. By looking at the graphs of both types of functions, Sal shows the reflection properties of both functions....
Physics Girl
Why Aren't Plants Black?
In an evolutionary sense, plants seem to have it all figured out. But, do they really? The narrator of an engaging physics video that is part of a larger series questions the predominant color of plants in a short video. Content includes...
MinutePhysics
Relativity Isn't Relative
Discuss relativity as it relates to objects, science, and famous relativity theories. It offers ideas of why scientists don't use relative terms if they can avoid them. It even covers the concepts scientists once thought weren't relative...
MinuteEarth
Ocean Confetti!
Microplastics exist in our oceans from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Polluting the ocean with plastics creates these microplastics that are so durable they do not break down into organic materials. The video points out that scientists...