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Instructional Video4:23
Crash Course Kids

Weather vs. Climate

3rd - 8th
New ReviewSo we have Weather and Climate... but are they the same thing? No, no they are not. But they are both super important to how the geosphere is shaped. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina chats with us about the differences...
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Instructional Video4:16
Crash Course Kids

Severe Weather

3rd - 8th
New ReviewSo, what's the difference between 'weather' and 'severe weather'? Is it just how hard the wind is blowing? Is it just thunder and lighting? Well, it can be some or all of those things. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks...
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Instructional Video4:34
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: The tech that seems to break the laws of physics | Anna Rothschild

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Typically, with any piece of technology, you pump one unit of energy in and you get about one out. That’s just the first law of thermodynamics: energy has to be conserved. But there’s a piece of technology called a heat pump, where for...
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Instructional Video5:35
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: How could so many people support Hitler? | Joseph Lacey

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Philosopher Hannah Arendt was a German Jew who dedicated herself to understanding how the Nazi regime came to power, and more specifically, how it inspired so many atrocities. She believed the true conditions behind the unprecedented...
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Instructional Video5:13
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Why don't "tough" and "dough" rhyme? | Arika Okrent

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Spelling reformers have been advocating for changes to make English spelling more intuitive and less irregular. One example of its messiness: take the “g-h” sound from “enough,” the “o” sound from “women” and the “t-i” sound from...
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Instructional Video5:53
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Can you solve the basketball robot riddle? | Dan Katz

Pre-K - Higher Ed
You’ve spent months creating a basketball-playing robot, the Dunk-O-Matic, and you’re excited to demonstrate its capabilities. Until you read an advertisement: “See the Dunk-O-Matic face human players and automatically adjust its skill...
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Instructional Video5:17
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Scientists are obsessed with this lake | Nicola Storelli and Daniele Zanzi

Pre-K - Higher Ed
In the millions of years since oxygen began saturating Earth’s oceans and atmosphere, most organisms have evolved to rely on this gas. However, there are some places where oxygen-averse microorganisms like those from Earth’s earliest...
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Instructional Video4:54
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: If you're an adult mayfly you'll probably die before the end of this video | Luke M. Jacobus

Pre-K - Higher Ed
For most of the world’s 4,000 mayfly species, adulthood lasts roughly one day. And for some species, it’s only a matter of minutes. This isn’t because they’re all eaten up by predators. Rather, this abridged adulthood is a natural part...
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Instructional Video5:50
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: How to increase your happiness | TED-Ed

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Many people would say the connection between happiness and gratefulness is very simple: when you are happy, you are grateful. But think again. Is it really the happy people that are grateful? Quite a number of people have everything that...
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Instructional Video4:50
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: 3 easy steps to build a real utopia | Joseph Lacey

Pre-K - Higher Ed
A group of strangers have gathered to design a just society. To ensure none of them rig the system, they’ve been placed under a veil of ignorance. Under this veil, they’re blind to information about age, sex, profession, wealth,...
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Instructional Video4:25
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Could AI predict the future? | Thomas Hofweber

Pre-K - Higher Ed
A couple has been considering getting engaged, but they’re worried about divorce statistics. An AI-based model was just released that can predict your likelihood of divorce with 95% accuracy. The only catch is the model doesn’t offer any...
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Instructional Video6:25
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: The Nazis recruited to win the Cold War | Brian Crim

Pre-K - Higher Ed
In May of 1945 the Third Reich was in chaos. Adolf Hitler was dead and German surrender was imminent. But while World War II was almost over, a new war was brewing. And the US was eager to recruit the smartest minds in Germany before the...
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Instructional Video4:15
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: How do gas masks actually work? | George Zaidan

Pre-K - Higher Ed
You might think of gas masks as clunky military-looking devices. But in the near future, we may need to rely on these filters as part of our everyday lives. In addition to emerging diseases, wildfire frequency has more than tripled, and...
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Instructional Video4:59
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Does math have a major flaw? | Jacqueline Doan and Alex Kazachek

Pre-K - Higher Ed
A mathematician with a knife and ball begins slicing and distributing the ball into an infinite number of boxes. She then recombines the parts into five precise sections. Moving and rotating these sections around, she recombines them to...
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Instructional Video5:03
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: How to prevent political corruption | Stephanie Honchell Smith

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Corruption is often defined as misuse of a position of power for personal gain. And while corruption in politics is nothing new, it isn't limited to the political sphere; it can happen in schools, sports, businesses, or religious...
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Instructional Video5:04
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: This person isn't actually screaming | Noah Charney

Pre-K - Higher Ed
An undulating sky melds into the landscape, two silhouettes move along a balustraded walkway, and a ghostly figure’s features extend in agony. Since Norwegian artist Edvard Munch created "The Scream" in 1893, it’s become one of the...
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Instructional Video5:00
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: The true story behind the legend of the 47 Rōnin | Adam Clulow

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Asano Naganori, lord of Akō domain, fixed his gaze on Kira Yoshinaka, a senior master of ceremony. Asano extended his short sword, charged through the castle, and struck Kira. While the wound wasn’t fatal, its consequences would be. What...
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Instructional Video5:13
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: The rise and fall of the Maya Empire’s most powerful city | Geoffrey E. Braswell

Pre-K - Higher Ed
During the 8th century CE, warfare and failing agriculture forced Maya people to move north, to hotter, drier Yucatán. Because of its freshwater access, Chichen Itza became the most powerful Maya city, with nearly 50,000 citizens at its...
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Instructional Video5:22
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: What really happened to Oedipus? | Stephen Esposito

Pre-K - Higher Ed
When Queen Jocasta of Thebes gave birth to Oedipus, a grim air seized the occasion. Her husband, King Laius, had received a prophecy from Apollo's oracle foretelling that he would die at the hands of his own son. Determined to escape...
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Instructional Video5:51
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Rumi: One of the world's most famous writers | Stephanie Honchell Smith

Pre-K - Higher Ed
According to legend, the renowned scholar Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi was giving a lecture when a disheveled man approached and asked him the meaning of his academic books. Rumi didn’t know it yet, but this question and this man would...
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Instructional Video5:08
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: How do doctors determine what stage of cancer you have? | Hyunsoo Joshua No and Trudy Wu

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Each year, approximately 20 million people receive a cancer diagnosis. At that time, a patient usually learns their cancer’s stage, which is typically a number ranging from one to four. While staging is designed, in part, to help...
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Instructional Video5:12
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Can you transplant a head to another body? | Max G. Levy

Pre-K - Higher Ed
In 1970, neurosurgeon Robert White and his team carted two monkeys into an operating room to conduct an ambitious experiment. The objective was to connect the head of Monkey A to the body of Monkey B, in what he considered a whole-body...
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Instructional Video4:37
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Could we build a miniature sun on Earth? | George Zaidan

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Stars have cores hot and dense enough to force atomic nuclei together, forming larger, heavier nuclei in a process known as fusion. In this process, the mass of the end products is slightly less than the mass of the initial atoms. But...
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Instructional Video4:35
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: How did ancient civilizations make ice cream? | Vivian Jiang

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Ice cream has a unique role in our world’s history, culture, and cravings. The first accounts of cold desserts date back to the first century, in civilizations including ancient Rome, Mughal India, and Tang Dynasty China. Yet the...