Weird History
What Was George Washington's Private life Like
During the American Revolution, newspapers printed sensational stories about George Washington's affairs. An enslaved woman named Venus claimed George fathered her son. And years after his passing, a racy love letter written to a married...
Schooling Online
Physics Advanced Mechanics: Motion in Gravitational Fields - Escape Velocity
We’ve all heard the saying, “what goes up must come back down.” But when we launch rockets and satellites into space, they (usually) don’t come back! Let’s prove this saying wrong, using Physics! This lesson will introduce and derive the...
Weird History
Life Under Nazi Occupation
On September 1, 1939, nearly seven years after Hitler became chancellor, Germany invaded Poland. Over the next six years, Nazis invaded, occupied, and brutalized a considerable amount of Europe and Northern Africa. The German brand of...
Curated Video
Thomas Garrett and the Underground Railroad
By day he worked as an iron merchant – but by night, Thomas Garrett helped thousands escape slavery as a station master on the Underground Railroad.
National Institute of Standards and Technology
... the time is right
NIST has performed extensive research on the safe use of elevators in fire emergencies that forms the technical basis for new building codes that allow elevators to be used to provide evacuation building occupants in the event of a fire.
Step Back History
Robert E Lee Tea
There has been a long attempt in American culture to rehabilitate Robert E Lee. Historians don't make him out to be this gentleman that documentaries put him out to be. I happen to be writing a big civil war project, so I felt like...
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Did You Know? Ohio River Paddle Boats and the Underground Railroad
Learn more about the Underground Railroad, which helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
Weird History
The Love And Crime Spree Of Bonnie And Clyde
The release of Netflix's The Highwaymen begs an important question: What is the true story of Bonnie and Clyde? Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow truly did live a fast and wild life on the wrong side of the law. A timeline of Bonnie and...
Curated Video
Unveiling the Mystery: Black Holes and Their Enigmatic Nature
This video provides a brief yet intriguing overview of black holes, explaining their formation, characteristics, and different types. It highlights the challenges scientists face in directly observing black holes and explores the...
Curated Video
Virginia Hall: Nazi Nemesis
They called her the Limping Lady. The Allied spy who topped the Nazis’ most wanted list. This is the story of Virginia Hall – one of the most decorated special agents of the Second World War.
Curated Video
Calculating Rates of Change for Nonlinear Graphs
The video discusses rates of change in nonlinear graphs and the two ways to calculate the rate of change: average rate of change and instantaneous rate of change. The presenter provides examples, such as a rocket taking off and the...
Curated Video
The Underground Railroad
A sprawling network of secret routes, pathways and safe houses, the Underground Railroad helped countless enslaved people escape to freedom in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Vapour pressure of liquid solutions
It explains the vapour pressure of liquids with the help of Raoult's law and defines Dalton' law of partial pressures.
Cerebellum
Emergence Of Modern America: The Progressive Era - Working Conditions
Just the Facts: The Emergence of Modern America: The Progressive Era uses fascinating historical footage to explore six decades that shaped modern America. The series examines the Gilded Age in the late 19th century, the Progressive Era...
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Electron Emission
It explains the concept of electron emission, its processes-thermionic emission, photoelectric emission and field emission.
Weird History
Inspiring Stories of Holocaust Survivors
The Holocaust was indisputably one of the most horrific events in human history. It also showcased moments of defiance, and inspirational stories about escaping the Holocaust affirm the endurance of the human spirit, even in the bleakest...
Curated Video
Australia's Stolen Generation part 3: Escaping the Moore River Native Settlement
Soon after they arrived at the Moore River Native Settlement, Molly decided that she, her sister, and her cousin needed to escape. She suspected they could make the long journey from this new and different land back home by following the...
Curated Video
Introduction to States of Matter and State Changes
The video explains the three main states of matter, which are solids, liquids and gases, and their properties. The concept of state symbols is introduced to indicate what state chemicals or particles are in a reaction. The video also...
Mazz Media
State of Matter
This live-action video program is about the term state of matter. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term state of matter through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams...
NASA
NASA | Studying the Solar Wind on Mars
Robert Lin, the late director of the Space Sciences Laboratory, discusses how NASA's MAVEN spacecraft will study the interaction of the Martian atmosphere with the solar wind. MAVEN's findings will reveal how Mars lost its early...
Curated Video
Exploring the Mystery of Black Holes
Black holes are regions in space and time with an incredibly strong gravitational pull. Nothing, not even light, can escape a black hole. While we cannot observe them directly, scientists study the particles and radiation being drawn...
Curated Video
Hawking Radiation Explained: What Exactly Was Stephen Hawking Famous For?
Hawking radiation was first discovered by English scientist Stephen Hawking in 1974. Prior to this discovery, our knowledge of black holes was very limited. It was believed that black holes were completely black and that they did not...
Next Animation Studio
How humpback whales hunt down tiny fish
New research has found that the rorqual whale species, particularly humpback whales, are able to use stealth and deception to prey on tiny fish.
Curated Video
America's Journey Through Slavery: Escaping Slavery on the Underground Railroad
Stirring dramatizations, archival photographs and colorful maps help tell the story of the Underground Railroad. Students will understand that the Underground Railroad was a series of safe houses maintained by volunteers which were used...