TED-Ed
The World’s Most Mysterious Book
What is MS 408? Who wrote it? What does it say? Nobody knows who wrote the Voynich manuscript, nor can anyone translate the text. Introduce viewers to the mystery with a short video that details what little is known about the manuscript.
SciShow
Weak Interaction: The Four Fundamental Forces of Physics #2
Scientists can't just change a neutron to a proton, can they? Although they don't have control of this process yet, they have identified the weak force that does exactly that. The simple graphics in an interesting video explain the...
Fuse School
What is a Weighted Average?
Have you ever wondered why the atomic mass listed on the periodic table isn't a whole number? This video explains how weighted averages are calculated and relates the average to the relative atomic mass. Viewers are then given an element...
Bozeman Science
Radiocarbon Dating
Radiocarbon dating is only effective in dating objects that are less than 50,000 years old. In the video, scholars learn how Carbon-14 differs from Carbon-12 and Carbon-13. The instructor then explains how Carbon-14 is made and how it...
Educreations
Half Life Problems
Does a radioactive cat have 18 half-lives? An understanding of half-life is important in both chemistry and biology, so start your young scientists off the right way — with the good foundation provided by a video that begins with a graph...
Berkeley University of California
Examples of Isotopes
I so hope you'll learn about isotopes. Watch a video to understand that isotopes of an element have the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons. Then solidify the knowledge by examining examples of hydrogen,...
Curated OER
Carbon Dating - How Does It Work?
For the first two minutes of this video, space-age narration and computer animation illuminate the science behind carbon dating. The presentation then switches gears and uses simple graphics and another narrator to explain the same...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Half Life and Carbon Dating
Carbon dating is a real-life example of a first-order reaction. This video explains half-life in the context of radioactive decay. [12:28]