Crash Course Kids
Wood, Water, and Properties
Quick, think of three words to describe yourself. TIME'S UP! What did you think of? Chances are you thought of descriptive words that we call Properties. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks about how properties help us...
Crash Course Kids
Organizing Properties
Have you ever thought about all the different kinds of groups you’re a part of? Like, there’s the friends you hang out with and your family, your hockey team, your Crash Course fan club, and that’s just for starters! And even though...
Crash Course Kids
The Science of Lunch
Even an empty lunch sack is useful to science. You can examine it and come up with some traits. In this episode, Sabrina chats about things like malleability, hardness, conductivity, and magnetism. And all with lunch! This first series...
Visual Learning Systems
Observing Properties
In this video students will make observations to identify materials based on their properties. Students will set up their own experiment in which they will identify the properties of ten types of matter. The video correlates to the Next...
Next Animation Studio
Hot super-Earths do not owe their brightness to molten lava or cooled glass as formerly assumed: scientists
Hot super-Earths are fiery rocky planets orbiting so close to their suns that their surface is heated to lava oceans.
NASA
Arctic Sea Ice Reaches 2019 Minimum Extent
Arctic sea ice likely reached its 2019 minimum extent of 1.60 million square miles (4.15 million square kilometers) on Sept. 18, tied for second lowest summertime extent in the satellite record, according to NASA and the National Snow...
Getty Images
Football Turn in Space - Loopable
Footbal ball turn with space reflectivity in white background. Loopeable
Socratica
What Is Earthshine?
Light travels in interesting ways through the solar system. A video episode from a longer series highlights how the sun's rays travel to the earth and moon and sometimes in between. Scholars learn about reflection properties on a very...
Veritasium
How Do Chameleons Change Color?
Talk about weird science! Young biologists discover the amazing structures found in the skin of male chameleons during a video from Veritasium. The narrator discusses common myths about chameleon color change, what triggers the...
Real Engineering
Stealth—How Does It Work? (Northrop B-2 Spirit)
Don't let the resource slip away undetected. Pupils watch a video from the Real Engineering series to learn how stealth aircraft avoid radar detection. In particular, the video focuses on the Northrop B-2 Spirit.
SciShow
From Kepler to Webb: The History of the Telescope
The Hubble Telescope is approximately the size of a school bus, but the new Webb Telescope will be approximately the size of a tennis court. The history of the telescope, from its invention to to what it takes to make one, is the focus...
Crash Course Kids
What's My Property
What exactly can we tell about an unknown substance by its properties? is the driving question of this physical science video focusing on matter. Here, scholars find the answer to the big question via investigation of what lies...
Crash Course Kids
Wood, Water, and Properties
Why do bricks make terrible windows? Learn about how the different properties of matter, including transparency, reflectivity, and freezing, boiling, and melting points can help you observe what they are, as well as indicate their...
TED-Ed
Why the Arctic Is Climate Change's Canary in the Coal Mine
What happens in the Arctic doesn't always stay in the Arctic. Follow along with this short video as it investigates how small changes in the temperature of Arctic regions can have dramatic effects on the global climate through a series...
Crash Course
Crash Course Kids 35.2: What's My Property
Metal objects have high reflectivity and magnetivity. What else do we know about metals? Find out in this fun video. [4:26]