Curated Video
Determining Independence of Events: Comparing Conditional and Simple Probabilities
In this video, the teacher explains how to determine if two events, A and B, are independent by comparing the conditional probability of A given B to the simple probability of A. Using a two-way table, the teacher demonstrates this...
Music Matters
Why Should You Practice Scales & Arpeggios?
Learning and practising scales and arpeggios can seem like a waste of time to many students. In this video, we explore the why spending time practising scales and arpeggios can really help improve your playing technique. “Oh no, not...
Visual Musical Minds
Recorder Song #12: Jingle Bells
In this video, students will learn how to play "Jingle Bells" on the recorder. This song will focus on the notes G through high D on the recorder. Besides being the signal song that winter break is approaching, "Jingle Bells" is also a...
NASA
2016 Planetary Science Winter School
Brook Lakew, the Associate Director of Planning and R&D at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, has lead a variety of successful missions for NASA. But proposals are often rejected for failing to meet science, technical and cost...
Zach Star
Do Winners Ever Quit?
Winners never quit and quitters never win is a common expression we hear about. However, this doesn't paint a full picture cause of how simple it is. In this video I outline times where it can be helpful to quit and move on to something...
NASA
NASA | Spacecraft Chamber of Horrors
To prepare for Servicing Mission 4, Hubble components must endure harsh tests at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. This feature explores test facilities at Goddard like: launch phase simulator centrifuge, the acoustic test chamber,...
NASA
NASA | Planetary Scientist Profile: Emily Wilson
NASA scientist Emily Wilson discusses her work developing miniaturized instruments that measure greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Her latest instrument, the mini-LHR, works in tandem with AERONET, and will contribute to the global...
NASA
ATom Mission interview clips — Róisín Commane
To measure the background atmosphere you need a sensitive instrument. Róisín Commane of Harvard University with the #EarthExpedition ATom mission explains how her instrument uses lasers to detect greenhouse gases. The ATom mission aboard...
Two Minute Music Theory
Orchestrating my FIRST piece! (Score Study Composition exercise)
Orchestration can seem daunting. There can be too many possibilities, and there are a lot of instruments to keep up with. Today we're doing a writing exercise based on Ligeti's Ricercata III, which we looked at in a previous video - I'm...
Odd Quartet
How To Write A Melody for a Chord Progression
Last time we talked about finding chords that would go along with a melody. This time I want to switch things up and write a melody that goes with a set of chords.
Amphio
Guru
Pianist Stephen Hough talks about Liszt's unique approach to piano lessons and how it inspired his students.
Visual Musical Minds
Recorder Song #4: Sailor, Sailor on the Sea
In this video, students will learn how to play "Gently Sleep (Suo Gan)" on the recorder. This song will focus on the three core notes of the recorder: B, A, & G. This song will also help students learn how to play in 3/4 time.
NASA
NASA | Playing Tag With an Asteroid
What's the best way get a sample of an asteroid? Play tag with it! That's the plan for OSIRIS-REx, a NASA spacecraft that will approach the asteroid Bennu in 2018. The collection will be done with an instrument on board called the...
NASA
Gravity Assist: Goodbye Saturn, Hello Earth, with Janelle Wellons
Janelle Wellons likes to say that she operates “fancy space cameras.” At NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, she creates commands that allow spacecraft to take valuable scientific data in our solar system and here at planet Earth.
Curated Video
Structure and Acoustics of the Trumpet
A trumpet is a musical instrument that amplifies the buzzing sound created by a musician blowing air through their lips. By manipulating the tightness or looseness of their lips, the musician can modify the pitch of the sound. The...
NASA
Planetary Fieldwork: A HI-SEAS Adventure
On the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawai'i, scientists from NASA Goddard partnered with the crew of the HI-SEAS habitat to conduct field tests with a backpack-sized instrument called the Miniaturized Laser Heterodyne Radiometer (mini-LHR). The...
The March of Time
1952: FRANK HOLTON & CO.: ELKHORN: VS Frank Holton & Co. design engineer & chief tester & inspector Arvid Walters blowing into trumpet, playing jingle bells (SOT), testing w/ chromatic stroboscope machine. Wisconsin, WI, quality control
MOT 1952: FRANK HOLTON & CO.: ELKHORN: VS Frank Holton & Co. design engineer & chief tester & inspector Arvid Walters blowing into trumpet, playing jingle bells (SOT), testing w/ chromatic stroboscope machine. Wisconsin, WI, quality control
Visual Musical Minds
Recorder Song #3: Au Clair de la Lune
In this video, students will learn how to play "Gently Sleep (Suo Gan)" on the recorder. This song will focus on the three core notes of the recorder: B, A, & G.
NASA
NASA| On Board NPP - VIIRS: Enabling Future Climate Science
NASA's NPP mission will continue collecting critical climate data to help scientist unravel the mysteries of climate change. NPP is carrying five instruments on board. The biggest and most important instrument is The Visible/Infrared...
NASA
NASA | The Mars Chamber
The Mars chamber is a box--about the size of a refrigerator--that re-creates the temperatures, pressures, and atmosphere of the Martian surface, essentially creating a Mars environment on Earth! Scientists and engineers use this chamber...
NASA
NASA | Blacker Than Black
The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center has a team of scientists testing micro and nano technology to use on spacecraft. The goal is to reduce the reflection off the surface of the instruments so that the data does not get polluted by the...
NASA
NASA | Making Saharan Air Apparent
NASA's Cloud Physics Lidar (CPL) instrument, flying aboard an unmanned Global Hawk aircraft in this summer's Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel or HS3 mission, is studying the changing profile of the atmosphere in detail to learn more...
NASA
Hubble Tool Time Episode 2: Servicing Mission 1
Retired NASA astronaut John Grunsfeld hosts this six-part mini-series about the tools used on the Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions. Hubble was uniquely designed to be serviced in space so that components could be repaired and...