NASA
STEMonstration: Nutrition
Why eat anything that doesn't taste good? Learners view a lesson from the STEMonstration series discovering the key to nutrition is that it meets the metabolic needs of the individual. They follow the lesson with an activity designing a...
TED-Ed
How Do Crystals Work?
What do amazonite, heliotrope, carnelian, and diamonds have in common? There are all crystals and members of one of the six crystal families. Viewers of a fascinating short video learn about the molecular structure of crystals that cause...
American Chemical Society
Do Vitamin Supplements Really Work?
Is that multivitamin really keeping you healthy and balanced? Junior nutritionists weigh the pros and cons using a video from the American Chemical Society's Reactions playlist. Topics covered include types of vitamins and minerals, what...
Be Smart
Asteroid Mining: Our Ticket To Living Off Earth?
It turns out asteroids could be a gold mine—literally! An It's Ok To Be Smart video lesson describes the untapped resources orbiting our solar system. The presenter considers the possibilities of space colonies using these resources as...
American Chemical Society
How Does Cooking Affect Nutrients in Veggies?
Microwave, steam, bake, or just eat them raw—what is the best way to preserve the nutrients in the vegetables we eat? The episode of the ACS Reactions series considers different cooking methods and their effects on the vitamins and...
The Brain Scoop
Death Rocks
If you're into death metal, this video's for you! Young geologists can rock out with a variety of deadly minerals, including asbestos and cinnabar, in this installment in Brain Scoop's playlist on fossils and geology. The narrator...
The Brain Scoop
The Gem Room
Some artists carve into gemstones as their artistic medium. As part of the Brain Scoop Fossils and Geology playlist, the Field Museum opens the vault to share amazing gems, including some that people carved. From a solid gold purse to a...
National Science Foundation
Science of NFL Football: Nutrition, Hydration and Health
How does what you eat compare to an NFL football player? The final video in a 10-part series explains the nutrition requirements at the extreme level of an NFL player. The instructor explains the key nutrients and their nutritional...
Fuse School
Minerals and Ores
Here's a video that will leave them wanting m"ore"! Part three of the seven-part series involving rocks and the rock cycle illustrates the relationship between minerals and ores. Young geologists get a look at how valuable metals are...
Crash Course
Metabolism and Nutrition (Part 1)
Use the 36th video of 47 to explore metabolism. Individuals begin to understand what metabolism is, physiologically what it does, and how anabolic and catabolic reactions assist in digestion.
Curated OER
Borax Crystal Star
Make your own crystals. Learners can use borax, water, food coloring, and a string to make a colorful crystal. This is a great way to explore chemical reactions, crystal formation, or evaporation.
Curated OER
Identifying Minerals
A teacher is videotaped while lecturing to his class regarding properties of minerals. He explains that the things geologists look for when identifying minerals is the color of the mineral itself, the "streak" color a mineral makes when...
Curated OER
The Skeletal System
Discover the importance of your skeleton. Its different purposes are described and the various types of bones are shown. The animation in this clip clearly introduces the human skeletal system and its parts. A great resource for your...
Curated OER
Borax Crystal Star - Sick Science! #066
Make your own crystals. Learners can use borax, water, food coloring, and a string to make a colorful crystal. This is a great way to explore chemical reactions, crystal formation, or evaporation.
Curated OER
Urinary System Structure and Function
Watch a lecture and presentation of the urinary system's structures and functions. This is a basic overview of the system, giving scientific explanations as an outline is shown on the screen. Help your biologists become familiar with the...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Dinosaur Discoveries: Minerals
In this Dinosaur Train clip, a paleontologist describes how minerals form deep inside the Earth, where it is very hot.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Discovering Minerals
While exploring, the Pteranodon family finds minerals, and Mr. Pteranodon helps them to understand the difference between rocks and minerals.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Qrius: Mineral Dependence Gemstones to Cellphones
Dr. Michael Wise explains the incredible qualities of rocks called pegmatites, and our dependence on them for minerals. Wise is a geologist at the National Museum of Natural History. [29:19]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Calcium
These Fizzy's Lunch Lab videos provide an informative overview of calcium. Students learn what foods provide good sources of calcium, and how calcium helps grow strong and healthy bones. [4:02]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Paint by Blunders
In this Fizzy's Lunch Lab video, Fizzy and the kids are painting a rainbow salad until Uncle Freddy interrupts, and they teach him that vibrant colored natural foods are much more healthy and have more vitamins and minerals than ones...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Food Rainbow
In this Fizzy's Lunch Lab video, the vegetables sing a song about foods being different colors, and students learn about the nutritional benefits of eating an assortment of colorful food. [1:36]
PBS
Pbs Kids Clubhouse Adventures: Clubhouse Expert: Geologist, Dr. Franek Hasiuk
In this video [2:05] you will meet expert Dr. Franek Hasiuk, a geologist who teaches kids about all kinds of rocks, minerals and fossils found on planet Earth. Kids will discover stalactites, amber and geodes.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Rock Stars
In 1968, the New Jersey Senate decreed the town of Franklin a geological wonder: "The Fluorescent Mineral Capital of the World." Over 350 different minerals have been found in the area, ninety of which glow brilliantly under ultraviolet...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Life's Rocky Start Minerals
Slice open a rock and look at it under a microscope and you will see are a rainbow of colors which are minerals. Minerals are made up of elements essential to modern life. Watch this video to see the mineral composition of rocks and the...