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Aposematic Coloration
It's not irrelephant to know which animals use warning coloration to avoid predators. The video explains how brightly colored animals are able to survive in the natural world. It also details aposematic coloration for both sexual...
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Finding Stomata
What's stomata with you? Video shows a step-by-step lab that allows pupils to view the stomata from both monocot and dicot plants. It also briefly touches on guard cells. Video is the first in a series of seven.
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Protists
Where do we put the organisms that don't fit in the other eukarya groups? We call them protists. A video explains why there is so much variety within the kingdom and the few things they do have in common with each other.
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Archaea
There's archaea in my primordial soup! Viewers watch a video that explains what an archaea is, why it took us so long to find them, how they are different from eucaryota and bacteria, and the interesting discoveries about their...
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Gibbs Free Energy
Energy is neither created nor destroyed, but what about free energy? Where does that fit into thermodynamics? In the video, learners explore simple the spontaneous reaction examples of enthalpy, entropy, and temperature, and then apply...
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Water - A Polar Molecule
Details why the polarity of water is so important to life with a video that explains how polarity impacts cohesion, adhesion, capillary action, high specific heat, and solvents.
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Nucleic Acids
Acid what you did there! The video focuses on nucleic acids and their relationship to DNA and RNA. It also explains the importance of nucleic acids, their structure, and how they are connected through various types of bonding.
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Water and Life
Learn about the wonders of water and why it is required for life. The resource contains a simulation to see how the molecules interact as a medium for metabolism.
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Molecules of Life
Introduce the macromolecules that make up living organisms. An instructive explains functional groups, dehydration and hydrolysis, and the four types of macromolecules. Video is the seventh in a series of 10.
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Proteins
Don't let protein whey you down. Video focuses on the importance and structure of proteins. It connects the four structures of proteins, the way they connect, and the chemical properties of r-groups.
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Lipids
An informative video goes in depth about lipids, or fats. It describes the importance of cell membranes and hydrocarbon tails that contain the energy available for life. It also explains the construction of phospholipids and...
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Positive and Negative Feedback Loops
A video explains both positive and negative feedback loops including body temperature, ripening fruit, and diabetes. An accompanying worksheet helps organize scholar's notes.
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Carbohydrates
Explain the purpose and structure of carbohydrates with a scientific video that goes in depth about monosaccharides, disaccharides, oligosaccharides, and polysaccharides. It offers an explanation of how they grow and shrink through...
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Polymers
High school chemists concentrate on the formation of polymers through condensation reactions. A video also explains the process of breaking them down through hydrolysis.
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Why Are Cells Small
Does cell size have something to do with magic? No, but their size has everything to do with geometry. The video explores an analysis of two cylinder's volumes, showing how surface area affects volume. Learners see how in biology,...
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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...
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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...
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The Sordaria Cross
Scholars briefly review meiosis and then apply these steps, through visuals, to Sordaria, a fungus that can be grown in class to support meiosis. The lesson emphasizes the importance of crossing over in meiosis and shows how to...
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Signal Transduction Pathways
Signal transduction pathways are like the strings of Jimi Hendrix guitar being plucked and amplified! The video begins with an animation of a specific signal transduction pathway, detailing how epinephrine affects liver cells to release...
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Photosynthesis and Respiration
View how autotrophs and heterotrophs use the energy of the sun to form the energy their cells need, ATP. Learners watch an informative video that details the processes of photosynthesis, learning where it occurs, what...
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Osmosis Demo
Don't you wish you could absorb knowledge through osmosis? The video begins by defining osmosis, explores how water flows from a hypotonic to a hypertonic concentration, reaching an isotonic level. Learners then see a demonstration of...
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Phases of Mitosis
You slough off all your skin cells once every seven years. Thank goodness for mitosis, or we would all be looking pretty strange without skin. The video begins by reviewing the cell cycle, looks at an overview of cells undergoing...
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Mitosis
Although we cannot clone ourselves yet, our bodies make copies of our cells every day. The video begins by defining diploid and haploid. Learners see the cell cycle and begin to understand what happens in interphase before mitosis...
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Phases of Meiosis
Identify the major players of meiosis, which are chromosomes from both mom and dad, sister chromatids, centrosomes, centrioles, and microtubules. The lesson goes on to explore each step of meiosis: interphase, prophase I and...