Visual Learning Systems
Nutrition: The Six Essential Nutrients for a Healthy Body
In this video, viewers are educated about the importance of nutrients for their body's proper functioning, growth, and repair. The video begins by highlighting the six major types of nutrients: carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins,...
Professor Dave Explains
Cleavage of Carbon-Carbon Bonds With Periodic Acid
Just as important as learning reactions that generate carbon-carbon bonds, we need ways to cleave carbon-carbon bonds as well.This is useful for splitting a molecule up into fragments, or transforming a cyclic molecule into a linear...
Professor Dave Explains
Fischer Esterification and Saponification
How do we go from carboxylic acids to esters? Fischer esterification! How do we go from esters to carboxylic acids? Saponification! Let's get a closer look at these complementary processes now.
FuseSchool
The Pharmaceutical Industry
In this video we will look at a commonly used separation technique, which you may have already met in Chemistry, and see how it is applied in the synthesis of organic compounds as done in the pharmaceutical industry. Ideally a chemical...
FuseSchool
State Symbols in Chemical Equations
In this video, we will look at the state symbols (s), (l), (g), and (aq) and what they represent in a chemical equation. For equations to be complete, we must also include the state symbol for each reactant and product. There are four...
Visual Learning Systems
Photosynthesis: Introduction
Almost all life either directly or indirectly depends on one of the most important biological processes on the planet - photosynthesis. Through easy-to-understand graphics and colorful animations, the complex chemical process of...
Visual Learning Systems
Needs of Living Things: What Are Living Things?
Upon viewing the Needs of Living Things video series, students will be able to do the following: Explain that living things have the following characteristics: they are made up of one or more cells, carry out movement, grow, and develop....
FuseSchool
Reactivity Series of Metals
In this video we'll be looking at zinc(Zn), copper (Cu), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), iron (Fe), lithium (Li), magnesium (Mg) and sodium (Na) and their reaction to water and acid. You may have noticed that most of the elements in the...
FuseSchool
What Is The Law of Conservation of Mass
Learn the basics about the law of the conservation of mass, when learning about properties of matter. The Law of Conservation of Mass says that in chemical reactions no matter is lost or gained. The law of conservation of mass means that...
Visual Learning Systems
Understanding Nutrients: The Key to a Balanced Diet
In this video, the importance of nutrients for maintaining a healthy body is emphasized. It explains the six major groups of nutrients: carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and water. Each nutrient is described in terms of...
Visual Learning Systems
Rocks and the Rock Cycle: Metamorphic Rocks
The rock cycle is illustrated in detail using easy-to-understand animations. Examples of the various types of rocks are introduced and the characteristics of different rocks are compared. Other terminology includes: rock cycle, igneous,...
Visual Learning Systems
Reactions: Chemical Reactions in Action
Chemicals interacting with each other are one of the most fascinating topics in chemistry. Fireworks, burning flares, and rusting all illustrate chemical reactions. The different types of reactions are described, as well as the process...
Wonderscape
Science Kids: All About Chemical Reactions
This video is an educational program about physical and chemical changes in matter. The host uses examples such as baking cookies and a rusty bike fender to explain the concepts of physical properties of matter, chemical reactions,...
Crash Course
Polymers
Discover why polymers were created and how their creation saved the elephants with a short video about commercial polymers, ethene and ethylene, addition reactions, ethene-based polymers, addition polymerization and condensation...
Crash Course
Aromatics and Cyclic Compounds
Why can we smell aromatic and cyclic compounds and why they are in rings instead of lines? Viewers learn about organic compounds, resonance, naming standards for aromatic compounds, common chemical reactions, and the many uses...
Crash Course
Kinetics: Chemistry's Demolition Derby
Make kinetics interesting with a video that compares kinetics to a demolition derby. The presentation information about collisions, activation energy, writing rate laws, equilibrium expressions, reaction mechanisms, and...
Crash Course
pH and pOH
A physicists and a biologist had a relationship, but there was no chemistry. Why is the p in pH lowercase and the H in pOH uppercase? What does the p stand for anyway? These concepts are clearly and...
Crash Course
Equilibrium Equations
Why do scholars need to know the quadratic formula? Check out this video that explains one application for the formula and how it makes solving equilibrium equations much easier. The video also covers chemical reactions and RICE...
TED-Ed
Periodic Videos
From hydrogen to ununoctium, this collection of videos has everything you need to begin teaching about the periodic table. Offering descriptions of each element and interesting experiments...
TED-Ed
How to Speed Up Chemical Reactions (and Get a Date)
How are chemical reactions like dating? A collision must first occur! In this hilarious approach to speeding up chemical reactions, viewers find out that five changes can increase the rate of reaction: smaller space, increased number of...
TED-Ed
If Molecules Were People...
By watching this droll and delightful animation, physical scientists consider what happens when molecules collide. In this film, however, parodic people bump into each other, exchanging limbs in the process, just as molecules might trade...
Curated OER
Red Cabbage Chemistry
An acid/base indicator that's made of blended red cabbage and water is used to demonstrate the various reactions that an acid/base solution goes through when some carbon dioxide gas is added. The best way to add the carbon dioxide is to...
Steve Spangler Science
Acid Breath - Cool Science Experiment
An acid/base indicator that's made of blended red cabbage and water is used to demonstrate the various reactions that an acid/base solution goes through when some carbon dioxide gas is added. The best way to add the carbon dioxide is to...
Curated OER
How to Blow Up a Balloon With Baking Soda & Vinegar
A simple combination of baking soda and vinegar creates enough carbon dioxide to blow up a balloon! It's an awesome illustration of chemical reactions for upper elementary learners, or use it with slightly older scientists to introduce...