KnowMo
Calculating Averages and Measures of Spread
This video explains how to calculate different types of averages and a measure of spread when working with data. The three main types of averages discussed are mean, median, and mode, with examples provided for each. The video also...
Next Animation Studio
China using online ‘influencers’ to spread COVID lies
Beijing is paying foreign collaborators and media outlets to spread its disinformation in target countries.
Curated Video
The History of Wellness
Modern though it may seem, well-being or wellness has historical roots. While popular scientific research on the subject dates back to the 1970s, 60s and 50s America and Europe, the origins of well-being date back much farther, and are...
Curated Video
Modeling Data with the Normal Probability Distribution
In this video, the teacher explains how to model a data set using the normal probability distribution. They discuss the concepts of mean and standard deviation, and how they affect the shape and location of the distribution. The teacher...
Science360
Butterflies And Bats Reveal Clues About Spread Of Infectious Disease
There's a most unusual gym in ecologist Sonia Altizer's lab at the University of Georgia in Athens. The athletes are monarch butterflies, and their workouts are carefully monitored to determine how parasites impact their flight...
Curated Video
Properties and Applications of Asphalt
Asphalt has been a useful water-proofing and construction material for thousands of years. It is a black and sticky substance commonly used to build roads and highways today. Learn about the properties and uses of asphalt.
Curated Video
The History of Memes
Did you know that memes have been around longer than the internet? However, the internet and social media have made memes an integral part of communication and culture around the world. Learn about the significance and impact of memes in...
Professor Dave Explains
Poliomyelitis (Poliovirus)
Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by the poliovirus, which has the ability to infect motor neurons in the spinal cord and cause paralysis. American President Franklin Roosevelt was famously crippled by polio. The poliovirus exists in a...
Let's Tute
Surface Area and Volume: Volume of Cube Cuboid and Cylinder
In this educational video, the teacher explains the concept of volume and demonstrates how to calculate the volume of different three-dimensional shapes such as cubes, cuboids, and cylinders. The teacher also shows how to find the volume...
PBS
6 Weird Facts About the History of Birth Control
What do World War I, a 16th Century Italian Doctor, Coca-Cola, and a Chicago sausage maker have to do with Birth Control? Well, let's just say the history of birth control is very long and very odd.
FuseSchool
PHYSICS - Waves - Wave Behaviour
How do waves behave? Badly? In this video we are going to look at how light and sound waves behave. Before we start, you should know that waves can be transverse or longitudinal. Transmission, reflection, refraction, diffraction,...
NUMBEROCK
Christmas Around the World Song | Christmas Traditions
Video: Christmas Traditions From Around the World Grade Levels: Kindergarten - 5th Grade SUMMARY: Learn about Christmas tradition around the world in this fun video. Santa and his reindeer are flying around the world to drop off presents...
Step Back History
How the Spanish Flu Killed More People than World War One
Each year we are flooded with large ad campaigns encouraging us to get our flu shots. Most of us probably wonder why. The flu doesn’t seem that bad, right? But then, every few years, a deadly bout of swine flu, or bird flu spreads...
Professor Dave Explains
Routes of Viral Transmission
Now we know a bit more about how viruses interact with cells, whether those are bacterial cells, or animal cells, such as ours. But how do they gain access to our cells in the first place? How do viruses get inside the human body? Let's...
FuseSchool
Antibiotic Resistance
You probably have heard of ‘antibiotic resistance’ before, but most people don’t realise that it’s actually the bacteria that become resistant to the antibiotics, not humans or animals. Antibiotics are a type of medicine that are used to...
FuseSchool
Pest Control
A pest is an organism that eats or damages crop plants that are grown in agriculture. Pests can be controlled using pesticides or by introducing other species, also known as biological control. Pesticides are natural or synthetic...
TLDR News
Coronavirus Pandemic: What the WHO’s Declaration Means - TLDR News.
Last night the World Health Organisation officially classified the COVID-19 virus (or Coronavirus) as a Pandemic. In this video, we discuss why they made this decision, what a pandemic is and why it matters.
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Text Structure, Part 4
This lesson for beginner English learners teaches how different text types are organized to express ideas (e.g., how narratives are organized sequentially); comprehending texts and writing brief arguments, informative/ explanatory texts...
Weird History
The Most Destructive Pandemics In History
The world is swarming with deadly pandemics, epidemics, diseases, and the history of humanity can certainly attest to this fact. There have been many instances spanning our existence of historic epidemics that threatened humanity.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Did You Know? The Black Death
The Black Death was a pandemic caused by plague that wiped out at least one-third of Europe's population in the 14th century.
John D Ruddy
Cold War in 9 Minutes
An animated video outlining the basic narrative of the Cold War, Capitalism vs Communism, Red Scare, the Berlin Wall, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan etc.
Weird History
How Founding Fathers Handled Yellow Fever
George Washington's second inauguration took place in Philadelphia in March 1793. Six months later, yellow fever had ripped through America's capital city, taking 5,000 lives. How did the Founding Fathers react when the epidemic called...
Archaia Historia
The Religion that Shaped Ancient Iran
Long before Christianity or Islam there was another monotheistic religion that dominated ancient Persia. Today we'll examine and try to explain what exactly was Ancient Zoroastrianism