Instructional Video5:55
Crash Course Kids

Weather In Space (the Rocky Planets)

3rd - 8th
Do other planets have weather? It turns out that, yes, they do! But, the weather isn't all the same on other planets because of things like atmosphere. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina takes us on a tour of the weather on...
Instructional Video4:37
Crash Course Kids

Bowled Over

3rd - 8th
So, variables. There are lots of them when trying to test an idea. The trick is to isolate one variable at a time to get reliable results every time. But, how do we do that? In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina shows us how to...
Instructional Video3:00
Crash Course Kids

Try Trials

3rd - 8th
We've talked about variables and solving problems. But how do we keep working on a problem if the first solution doesn't fix it? Trials! In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina shows us how to use Trials to figure out what the...
Instructional Video4:33
Crash Course Kids

Look Who's Talking

3rd - 8th
Plants! We absolutely depend on them. Oxygen, food, and looking super nice to boot! But, plants have a lot more going on than meets the eye. How do we know that? Investigations and Experimentations!
Instructional Video3:36
Crash Course Kids

Up, Up & Away

3rd - 8th
So... what makes the wind? You might be surprised to learn that it has to do with two of Earth's spheres; The Hydrosphere and the Geosphere. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina takes us to the beach to chat about how the wind...
Instructional Video5:18
Crash Course Kids

Let's Fly!

3rd - 8th
Selecting which solution is the best solution to a problem may seem difficult at first. But if you are patient and think about what you need an effective solution to be, you can do it. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina shows...
Instructional Video4:42
Crash Course Kids

Gas Giants Weather

3rd - 8th
Last time, we learned that there is in fact weather on other planets. But those were the rocky planets, like Earth. What about the big Gas Giants? What's the weather like there? In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina takes us on a...
Instructional Video3:17
Crash Course Kids

Engineering Games

3rd - 8th
So how can a game teach us about engineering? Pretty easily! When you're trying to solve a game, or a puzzle, or whatever, you will have a bunch of variables. The trick is knowing how to change one variable at a time to see what changes....
Instructional Video4:39
Crash Course Kids

Planetary Plants

3rd - 8th
So we know what life needs here to work, and we've talked a little about what life COULD look like on other planets. But what about plant life? What could plant life look like on other planets? In this episode of Crash Course Kids,...
Instructional Video4:38
Crash Course Kids

Big Changes in the Big Forest

3rd - 8th
What do beavers, termites, and prairie dogs have in common? They all change their environments! Last time we talked about how humans change their environments, but humans are animals and all animals change their environments just by...
Instructional Video4:26
Crash Course Kids

What's My Property

3rd - 8th
What exactly can we tell about an unknown substance by it's properties. We already know that a substance is matter that’s made of one kind of atom or molecule, and that has specific properties and that some substances are elements, which...
Instructional Video3:33
Crash Course Kids

Why No Polar Pineapples

3rd - 8th
Plants are amazing. Really! Photosynthesis is an incredible thing. But it also means that some plants can't live everywhere. They need to get the right amount of sunlight for the right amount of time. In this episode of Crash Course...
Instructional Video4:29
Crash Course Kids

What's an Engineer?

3rd - 8th
You've heard of Engineers, I'm sure. But, what are Engineers? Well, it turns out that they're all kinds of people doing all kinds of neat work! Want to be one? Well, join Sabrina in this episode of Crash Course Kids where she talks about...
Instructional Video3:54
Crash Course Kids

A Case of 'What-Ifs'

3rd - 8th
Variables: What are they? In the case of engineering, variables are a condition or value that can change. Sometimes we control a variable, sometimes we don't. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina chats to us about how variables...
Instructional Video4:47
Crash Course Kids

Dinosaur Pee?

3rd - 8th
Today we continue our exploration of the Water Cycle by drinking some dinosaur pee. Yep! Well, it's a little less gross that it sounds. It turns out that all of the water on Earth is just constantly recycled in what we call a closed...
Instructional Video4:41
Crash Course Kids

The Life Hydrologic

3rd - 8th
Last week we went up up up a mountain. Well, today we're going down down down into the ocean to see what habitats await us there. Yep, the ocean has layers and the types of things we encounter there change the deeper we go.
Instructional Video5:16
Crash Course Kids

The Engineering Process

3rd - 8th
So, how do we go about being engineers? In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks to us about the Engineering Process and why we should do things in order, as well as many of the questions we should ask along the way. This...
Instructional Video4:57
Crash Course Kids

Big Changes in the Big Apple

3rd - 8th
Did you know that all living things change their environments? It's true. Beavers, deer, worms, and humans all change their environments. It just so happens that humans change our environments in big, obvious ways. In this episode,...
Instructional Video23:18
Crash Course Kids

Matter Compilation

3rd - 8th
Maybe you'd like to just hear about one topic for a while. We understand. So today, let's just watch some videos about Matter. What is matter? What are particles? And why is this important to know? Did you know that coal can turn into...
Instructional Video15:42
Crash Course Kids

Food Chains Compilation

3rd - 8th
Maybe you'd like to just hear about one topic for a while. We understand. So today, let's just watch some videos about how we get energy. And how one animal gets energy from another animal, or a plant. It's all about food chains and food...
Instructional Video4:26
Crash Course Kids

The Robot Challenge

3rd - 8th
Robots! They're everywhere. We use them for all kinds of things that we can't, or don't want to do. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina shares a problem with us that can probably be solved by building an awesome robot. So let's...
Instructional Video4:34
Crash Course Kids

Designing a Trial

3rd - 8th
It's time to design some trials. Sometimes engineers need to figure out how to test ideas. In order to do that, we need to design trials to find failure points and see how things are going to work in the real world (with gravity, wind,...
Instructional Video2:59
Crash Course Kids

Vegetation Transformation

3rd - 8th
Have you ever seen a magic trick where one thing changes to another thing? Well, that's nothing compared to what plants can do through a process called photosynthesis. In this episode, Sabrina talks about how photosynthesis works! This...
Instructional Video32:00
Crash Course Kids

Engineering Compilation

3rd - 8th
Maybe you'd like to just hear about one topic for a while. We understand. Thus, we've created our Compilation Series. In this first (and longest) compilation video, we look at some of our videos about Engineering. Sabrina helps us to...