Instructional Video4:38
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Can plants talk to each other? - Richard Karban

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Can plants talk to each other? It certainly doesn't seem that way: They don't have complex sensory or nervous systems, like animals do, and they look pretty passive. But odd as it sounds, plants can communicate with each other "...
Instructional Video0:51
SciShow

Why are pandas so chonky? #shorts #science #SciShow

12th - Higher Ed
Why are pandas so chonky? #shorts #science #SciShow
Instructional Video3:07
SciShow Kids

Guess That Tree! Science for Kids

K - 5th
Jessi and Squeaks just spent the day hiking and sketching evergreen trees in their field journals! A lot of evergreen trees look pretty similar, but Jessi knows some fun ways to tell them apart. Join us to find out how!
Instructional Video0:35
SciShow

Beans that ask Bugs for Help #shorts #science #SciShow

12th - Higher Ed
Beans that ask Bugs for Help #shorts #science #SciShow
Instructional Video14:23
SciShow

Cyborg Eyes and Stumpy the Dumpy Tree Frog: SciShow Talk Show #11

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow graphics guy Louey Winkler discusses LED contact lenses and the implications of enhancing and assisting human beings with technology, and then attempts to stump Hank with a physics riddle. Jessi from Animal Wonders shares Stumpy...
Instructional Video6:03
SciShow

Meet the Milky Way's Last Big Meal: The Sausage Galaxy

12th - Higher Ed
Our Milky Way Galaxy once dined on the Sausage Galaxy, and Jupiter's auroras seem to be heavily influenced by one of its moons. It's a galaxy-eat-galaxy kind of universe out there!
Instructional Video3:13
Crash Course Kids

Feed Me: Classifying Organisms

3rd - 8th
FEED ME! In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina has a chat with us about what living things eat to get energy. What makes something an omnivore, or a carnivore, or an herbivore? And how do plants fit in to all of this? This first...
Instructional Video3:33
MinuteEarth

The Ecology of Superheroes

12th - Higher Ed
The Ecology of Superheroes
Instructional Video14:05
TED Talks

TED: The world's oldest living things | Rachel Sussman

12th - Higher Ed
Rachel Sussman shows photographs of the world's oldest continuously living organisms -- from 2,000-year-old brain coral off Tobago's coast to an "underground forest" in South Africa that has lived since before the dawn of agriculture.
Instructional Video4:30
Be Smart

Ghosts of Evolution

12th - Higher Ed
What does a ginkgo tree have in common with a dinosaur?
Instructional Video4:00
SciShow

How Do Pandas Exist?

12th - Higher Ed
Adorable, sure, but how are you alive?? Giant pandas present a conservation challenge like no other. Find out how the bears eke out an existence in the wild, and why they're proving so hard to save.
Instructional Video2:25
SciShow

Why Does the Wind Howl So Creepily?

12th - Higher Ed
You’re in the woods, there’s a full moon, and the wind begins to howl. We can’t take you out of this horror movie scenario, but we can explain why the wind sounds so spooky.
Instructional Video3:40
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Phenology and nature's shifting rhythms - Regina Brinker

Pre-K - Higher Ed
With rapidly rising global temperatures come seasonal changes. As spring comes earlier for some plant species, there are ripple effects throughout the food web. Regina Brinker explains how phenology, or the natural cycles of plants and...
Instructional Video4:30
SciShow

Why Is Autumn More Vivid in New England?

12th - Higher Ed
During autumn in the northeastern US, deciduous trees sport a stunning display of yellows, oranges, and reds. But in some places, like Europe, autumn tends to look much more yellow. So why is it that only certain parts of the world get...
Instructional Video4:11
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Why should you read Flannery O’Connor? - Iseult Gillespie

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Find out why Flannery O’Connor, an American novelist, is known as a master of the grotesque in Southern Gothic literature. -- Flannery O’Connor scribbled tales of outcasts, intruders and misfits staged in the world she knew best: the...
Instructional Video2:41
SciShow

Litmus Test SciShow Experiments

12th - Higher Ed
Do science at home with Hank in this episode of SciShow - you'll learn how to make your own litmus paper, what it's good for, and how it works.
Instructional Video4:21
SciShow

The Climate Crisis Is Changing the Circle of Life

12th - Higher Ed
When you think about the impact of climate change on the circle of life, you likely picture polar bears or Bengal tigers struggling in new conditions. But the impacts on the world go all the way down to the tiniest creatures who do some...
Instructional Video5:10
SciShow

Aquatic Animals That Live in Trees

12th - Higher Ed
Fish in a tree? How can that be? For some aquatic creatures, it's not necessarily bad to be a fish out of water.
Instructional Video5:07
SciShow

How an Ancient Remedy Became a Modern Cure for Malaria

12th - Higher Ed
In the 1960s drug-resistant strains of malaria emerged, making the disease even deadlier than before. Then, pharmaceutical scientist Tu Youyou discovered a promising new remedy buried within the pages of ancient Chinese texts.
Instructional Video20:07
SciShow

Terrific Trees: A SciShow #TeamTrees Compilation

12th - Higher Ed
From the Avocado to Pando, we love trees! They do so much for us, from making oxygen so we can breathe, to cooling urban environments, to literally holding the ground together to prevent erosion! The SciShow team is joining
Instructional Video1:59
MinuteEarth

Invasion Of The Earthworms!

12th - Higher Ed
Worms cause major changes to ecosystems, but those changes aren’t always new.ommunication.
Instructional Video5:09
SciShow

How We Could Prevent a Global Rice Shortage

12th - Higher Ed
Rice production needs to see a 50% increase by 2030 to keep up with population growth, but as the climate warms, rice plants will likely become less efficient. Fortunately, scientists are working on a pretty clever potential solution.
Instructional Video4:17
SciShow Kids

Why Daffodils Grow in the Same Place Every Year

K - 5th
Spring is almost here, and that means daffodils are blooming around the fort. But how do these flowers survive the long cold winters? Second Grade Next Generation Science Standards Crosscutting Concepts: Patterns: Observed patterns in...
Instructional Video1:32
MinuteEarth

Why Most Rain Never Reaches The Ground

12th - Higher Ed
Less than half of the rain that falls from a cloud makes it all the way to the ground – because a lot evaporates while falling or after landing in treetops. Thanks to Georgia Southern University for sponsoring this video. You can see...