Educreations
The Aufbau Hotel
A simple analogy helps to explain a complicated concept in this instructional chemistry video. After first listening to a description of a hotel with different types of rooms on different floors, each with its own...
TED-Ed
How Does Your Smartphone Know Your Location?
When your smartphone tells you the weather of your current location or gives you directions to the nearest gas station, there's more going on that you might realize. Follow along with this short video as it explains how...
TED-Ed
The 2,400-Year Search for the Atom
From ancient Greek philosophers to early American Quakers, people have sought to understand the composition of matter for millennia. Follow along with this video as it explores the long scientific journey that eventually led to the...
TED-Ed
Particles and Waves: The Central Mystery of Quantum Mechanics
Help young physicists make a quantum leap in their understanding of matter with this short instructional video. Tracing the early work of Max Planck, Albert Einstein, and others, this resource explains the science behind the...
Scholastic
Study Jams! Atoms: Protons, Neutrons, Electrons
What's smaller than a kiwi seed? Atoms! Basic atomic structure is detailed for beginning chemists in a light-hearted animation. Protons and neutrons are explained as part of the nucleus, and so are electrons that encircle the nucleus....
Curated OER
Bohr Model of the Atom
Your fifth graders will totally get atomic structure after viewing this clip. The Bohr Model of the Atom is defined by its parts, mass, and function. Each part of the atom is personified to help learners remember what they are and how...
Curated OER
The Discovery of the Atomic Nucleus
Your host, Dr. Brian Cox, calls Ernest Rutherford the first proper particle physicist. He uses tennis balls to demonstrate what happened when Rutherford's students fired particles at a sheet of gold. Rutherford was able to deduce that...
Berkeley University of California
VSEPR Examples
Ah is the element of surprise. It is also one of the few elements you won't encounter when doing VSEPR problems. The videos work many examples of VSEPR in various configurations and detail the angle degrees based on the number of atomic...
TED-Ed
Self-Assembly: The Power of Organizing the Unorganized
What if buildings could grow, adapt, and repair themselves like a living organism? Using the process of self-assembly, this crazy idea may one day become a reality. The video looks at how unordered parts interact with one another and...
Curated OER
Physical Science - The Structure of an Atom
Drawings on an interactive whiteboard are used to introduce the basic structure of an atom. Technically, the model drawn is inaccurate, as three electrons are shown on the innermost orbital. Electron orbitals are not the intent of the...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Melissa Franklin: High Energy Physics
This video segment adapted from Discovering Women profiles Fermilab physicist and Harvard professor Melissa Franklin. [4:08]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The History of Atomic Chemistry
Video tutorial explores and explains the story of Atomic Chemistry and how we got here. [8:46]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Structure and Property Changes of Water
Dr. Chris Muhlstein explains the challenge of studying materials that are too small to see with the naked eye. The technique some scientists use to observe individual atoms is similar to the technique of using touch to find out the size,...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Elements: Lesson 3
This lesson will explain the arrangement of elements on the periodic table, including the relationships among elements in a given column or row. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Elements."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Bohr Model of an Atom
A video lecture which explains the Bohr model of an atom, and explains how to create and use Bohr model diagrams to solve some practice problems. [11:51]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Development of the Early Atomic Theory
Get a quick overview of atomic theory, from early theories to modern understanding of the atom. [1:10]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Electron Affinity
A brief introduction to the definition of electron affinity in an atom. [0:27]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Electron Placement in an Atom
This in-depth video tutorial explains the rules for filling orbitals with electrons in an atom. [11:28]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Trends in the Periodic Table
Through a series of video lectures and some review questions, learn about the Bohr model of the atom and the periodic table of elements. [7:51]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Atoms
Watch this video lesson introducing the atom, and learn about its unique structure. [3:58]
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Atoms & the Periodic Table
Mr. Andersen describes atomic structure and tours the periodic table. [9:15]