Instructional Video5:24
SciShow Kids

Where Does Sand Come From and More Viewer Questions Answered! | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
Jessi and Squeaks decide to answer some interesting questions from viewers like you, to teach you about sand, butterflies, and computers!
Instructional Video30:24
SciShow

This Is Your Brain on Language | Compilation

12th - Higher Ed
You have a lot of choices if you’re looking to learn a new language, from Spanish to coding, or even whistling! And there are some broad similarities and patterns in the ways our brains process these different forms of communication.
Instructional Video4:56
SciShow

Is Coding a Math Skill or a Language Skill? Neither? Both?

12th - Higher Ed
There are aspects of computer code that look like language and some that seem more like algebra, and since we may be headed for a future where many people will need to learn to code, researchers are interested in figuring out how exactly...
Instructional Video7:43
Professor Dave Explains

The Laws of Thermodynamics, Entropy, and Gibbs Free Energy

12th - Higher Ed
We've all heard of the Laws of Thermodynamics, but what are they really? What the heck is entropy and what does it mean for the fate of the universe? How does soap work?! So many questions answered in this clip! Enjoy!
Lesson Plan2:39
Code.org

Star Wars: Building a Galaxy with Code

6th - 12th
Welcome to the code side. The interactive lesson introduces coding in a game format with familiar characters. Young computer experts learn to develop code to control the interaction of the characters in the game. The activity ends with...
Instructional Video3:31
SciShow

Great Minds: Ada Lovelace

9th - 12th
Do you know about The Enchantress of Numbers? Ada Lovelace wrote the first computer program, more than a century before the first modern computer. Her knowledge and vision continue to inspire mathematicians today. 
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

More While Loops: Balloon Hopper

6th - Higher Ed
Starting with an empty computer screen for a coder can be as intimidating as a bare canvas to a painter or a blank sheet of paper to a writer. Where do you start? If you know what you are trying to build, then you just pick something and...
Instructional Video3:34
Khan Academy

More on Variables

6th - Higher Ed
Variables represent one of the most fundamental features in any programming language. The easy-to-follow explanation given in this video focuses on the difference between variables and values. Specifically, the author looks at how...
Instructional Video5:14
PBS

Career Connections | Software Developer Dayton

6th - 12th
Like coding and 3-D design, like working with computers and with people? A career as a software developer might be in your future. Find out what's involved by watching a short video narrated by a software developer.
Instructional Video2:47
PBS

Hot Shots and Hot Jobs: Software Engineers Create Solutions through Code

3rd - 12th
Tech is cool! That's the takeaway from a short video that details the challenges and rewards of being a software engineer.
Instructional Video1:06
National Woman's History Museum

Women's History Minute: Grace Hopper

6th - 12th Standards
Navy WAVE, Rear Admiral, developer of the Mark 1, an early electronic computer. Grace Hopper is the subject of a short Women's History Minute that introduces viewers to this amazing electronics pioneer.
Instructional Video10:01
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TED-Ed

The Factory | Think Like A Coder, Ep 9

6th - 12th
Here's a surefire cure to your computer programming needs. The penultimate episode of the series follows the hero as she attempts to determine a cure for a harmful compound. She must make sense of a directed graph to identify the correct...
Instructional Video8:14
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TED-Ed

The Tower of Epiphany | Think Like A Coder, Ep 7

6th - 12th Standards
Let coding save the world. As part of her quest, the hero of the series must retrieve the Node of Creation from the Tower of Epiphany. This requires solving a computer programming puzzle to determine the energy needed to fill a basin...
Instructional Video6:41
1
1
TED-Ed

The Chasm | Think Like A Coder, Ep 6

6th - 12th Standards
It'd be a shame if the hero fell into the chasm. The saga of the hero trying to save the world continues, this time requiring a bridge to cross a ravine. The blocks for the bridge must form a palindrome, and the hero must program a robot...
Instructional Video6:42
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TED-Ed

The Artists | Think Like A Coder, Ep 5

6th - 12th Standards
Create a diversion! Continuing the quest to save the world, the hero of the series needs to find an artifact inside a tower. To distract the guards, she programs a robot to vandalize some artwork. Viewers learn how to apply loops and...
Instructional Video6:00
1
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TED-Ed

The Train Heist | Think Like A Coder, Ep 4

6th - 12th Standards
Robots come in handy when planning a train heist. The hero and her robot continue their quest to find artifacts to save the world. They must locate and steal the Node of Power on a specific car of a train by writing computer code for the...
Instructional Video6:12
1
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TED-Ed

The Furnace Bots | Think Like A Coder, Ep 3

6th - 12th Standards
It's time to defeat the army of furnace bots. Continuing from the previous episode, the hero of the story must locate and take over the zero bot that controls all of the other furnace bots. Viewers see how writing a program that involves...
Instructional Video16:00
1
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Crash Course

Make an AI Sound Like a YouTuber (LAB): Crash Course AI #8

9th - Higher Ed Standards
AI is so smart that it can finish people's sentences. The eighth installment of the Crash Course Artificial Intelligence series has pupils create a program that completes written sentences. They learn about tokenization, vectors, and...
Instructional Video17:17
1
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Crash Course

How to Make an AI Read Your Handwriting (LAB) : Crash Course AI #5

9th - Higher Ed Standards
Robots can't read your mind, but they can read your handwriting. The fifth installment of the Crash Course Artificial Intelligence video series looks at how to program an AI to read handwriting with a multi-layer perceptron neural...
Instructional Video6:10
1
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TED-Ed

The Resistance | Think Like A Coder, Ep 2

6th - 12th Standards
Join the resistance and learn computer code while you're at it. Continuing from the previous installment, the hero of the series looks for a resistance leader using a set of conditional statements. Scholars learn how to include if,...
Instructional Video6:51
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TED-Ed

The Prison Break | Think Like A Coder, Ep 1

6th - 12th Standards
Break free from monotonous lessons. An engaging video introduces the computer coding series and describes the ongoing context. Robots have taken over, and the hero needs to escape from prison and save the world by solving a set of clues....
Instructional Video4:39
TED-Ed

How Exactly Does Binary Code Work?

9th - 12th
As far as languages go, binary is pretty easy to learn. Scholars watch an informative video on binary code. It explains the basics of how binary code works, and then shows how people encode colors and sound as binary code.
Instructional Video1:03
Google

CS First Tutorials

5th - 9th
Take it step by step to understand computer science. A set of seven short videos introduces teachers to the CS First curriculum. It describes how to set up a class, describes how to locate teacher materials, and provides information on...
Instructional Video5:23
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Code.org

How Computers Work: Hardware and Software

6th - 12th
Hardware and software go hand in hand. The last installment of a five-part series explains the relationship between computer hardware and software. It turns out that the computer's operating system provides the link between the two.