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Is Radiation Dangerous?
Not all radiation is hazardous. Electromagnetic radiation is pure energy. Nuclear radiation comes from the atomic nucleus in which isotopes become unstable and radioactive. Share this video with your class to explore the types of...
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How To Practice Effectively...For Just About Anything
Want to be a superstar, a pro athlete, or a world-class musician? Start practicing — and be prepared to practice for 10,000 hours for over 20 years. An informative video lets young learners know exactly how long they'll to practice to...
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How Do Drugs Affect the Brain?
Injection, taking a pill, or inhaling are the three main ways to administer a drug. But how do these drugs affect the brain? Watch a video that explains how neurons use neurotransmitters to communicate to one another in the brain.
TED-Ed
What’s the Smallest Thing in the Universe?
Quarks have some interesting features—including their names! Young scholars learn about up, down, strange, charming, bottom, and top quarks in an engaging video presentation. The narrator begins with an overview of molecules and atoms,...
TED-Ed
How to Understand Power
Where does power come from, and why does it matter? This video will spark engaged thought and conversation amongst your class as it discusses the origins of power, how it's exercised, and what young learners can do to become powerful in...
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Why Do Buildings Fall in Earthquakes?
There are few natural phenomena as startling as an earthquake, and depending on the building you're in, these experiences can be downright terrifying. Follow along as this video explores the factors that determine how a building reacts...
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Why Do Women Have Periods?
The female body is an amazing thing. This short video explains the amazing cycle that has developed to ensure the continuation of life. Did you know that only monkeys, apes, bats, humans, and maybe elephant shrews menstruate?
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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...
Curated OER
Voltage and Current, Part 2
Second in a two-part lesson on electricity, this video explores how voltage sources can be applied to create electron flow in a circuit. Though it is not modern or high-quality, it is educational. Used with part one, it can sufficiently...
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Exact Trig Values - Easy Table
Having trouble remembering the trig ratios of common angles? This resource may be the solution! Using a table, the video instructor describes a memorable pattern. Scholars have an opportunity to practice the pattern during the video.
TED-Ed
What is Entropy?
Entropy, often misunderstood yet easily proven through mathematics, caused confusion for many years. A video explains entropy through simple models. It demonstrates the mathematical proof behind the phenomenon.
TED-Ed
Does Stress Cause Pimples?
After this video, make sure to give a pop quiz on pimples! The question that is answered is whether or not pimples are caused by stress. Stress hormones give our bodies what we need for a fight or flight, but what happens if we don't do...
TED-Ed
What is Color?
"To understand the phenomenon of color, it helps to think about light as a wave." This is a brief and very informative instructional video on what color is and why we are able to see it. Your young scientists will learn such terms as the...
TED-Ed
Are You a Body with a Mind or a Mind with a Body?
Do you think, therefore you are? Or are you therefore you think? Are the mind and the body one or separate? Introduce young philosophers (and science fiction fans) to the mind/body problem with a video that is sure to fascinate viewers.
TED-Ed
The Science of Skin
Almost one fifth of your weight is in your skin, but why does it weigh so much? Viewers learn about the integumentary system and the many functions it performs constantly to keep them safe. Then, they answer multiple choice and...
TED-Ed
The Motion of the Ocean
What drives the ocean's motion? Get your class moving toward understanding by using this video. Viewers find that thermohaline circulation is caused by the concentration gradients of temperature and salinity. Using adorable animation in...
TED-Ed
Ugly History: Japanese American Incarceration Camps
When Aki Kurose was 16 years old, her family was forced to relocate from their home in Seattle with other Japanese Americans. The government feared that despite their loyalty to the United States, they were operating on behalf of the...
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Location, Location, Location…
Young geographers discover not only how to read and recognize coordinates on a map, but also gain a deeper understanding of latitude and longitude and how climate changes can vary significantly across latitudes.
TED-Ed
Group Theory 101: How to Play a Rubik’s Cube Like a Piano
The strong connections between math and music are explored in this short video that uses group theory to visualize musical chords. Makes you wonder what Arthur Rubinstein would have thought of all this.
TED-Ed
How Do We Know What Color Dinosaurs Were?
Are the depictions of the colorful raptors in Jurassic Park accurate? No so much. Imaginative, but not scientific. Find out how researchers determine the color of dinosaur feathers in this short, entertaining video.
TED-Ed
Why Do We Have to Wear Sunscreen?
Impress upon your learners the importance of using sunscreen to protect their skin throughout life. With this video, they will learn not only about the basics of how much sunscreen to apply and for how long, but they will also have the...
TED-Ed
Can You Solve "Einstein’s Riddle"?
Riddle me this. The world's rarest fish has been stolen. Who done it? Challenge your young sleuths to tackle Einstein's Riddle and come up with the culprit before being shown the solution.
TED-Ed
Forget Shopping. Soon You'll Download Your New Clothes
Zounds! 3-D printed clothes? With the advent of 3-D printers, the unimaginable has become the manageable. Check out these clothes, designed by Danit Peleg, and created on a 3-D printer.