Museum of Science
Ei E: All Mixed Up
Students create their own rubric for high-quality and low-quality play dough and perform controlled experiments to identify properties of play dough ingredient mixtures.
Crash Course
Crash Course Kids 29.2: Engineering Games
When trying to solve a game, or a puzzle, there are lots of variables. The trick is knowing how to change one variable at a time to see what changes. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina plays a game with Catbot to show us how!...
Crash Course
Crash Course Games: #7: Nintendo and a New Standard for Video Games
This video [9:02] focuses on Nintendo and a new standard for video games; it is the 7th lesson in Crash Course Games. After the North American Video Game Crash of 1983, Nintendo of Japan, originally a playing card company, which had seen...
Crash Course
Crash Course Games: #8: Sega and More Mature Video Games
This video focuses on Nintendo and a new standard for video games; it is the 7th lesson in Crash Course Games. At the close of the 1980s and Nintendo was the dominating the home console market, but Sega, originally a slot machine game...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Rubik and His Cube
His simple-yet-complex cube puzzle took the world by storm in the 1980s. Ira talks with Erno Rubik, inventor of the Rubik's Cube, about science and engineering.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Forty Years of Mindbending Success With the Rubik"s Cube
The Rubik's Cube was invented in 1974 by Hungarian architectural professor Erno Rubik. Since then, the puzzle has influenced engineers, designers, artists and puzzlemasters. Paul Hoffman, CEO of the Liberty Science Center, and speedcuber...