Instructional Video16:11
PBS

Will The Sun’s Magnetic Field Flip This Year?

12th - Higher Ed
Solar activity is still increasing in a sunspot cycle that is proving way more intense than scientists predicted. Just how much stronger is it going to get?
Instructional Video5:53
SciShow

How a Doomed Spacecraft Lived to Tell the Tale of the Sun

12th - Higher Ed
What would you do if you were in charge of a billion-dollar satellite that was spinning out of control? In 1998, NASA and ESA engineers had to solve this exact problem. How did they avert this disaster?
Instructional Video12:10
TED Talks

TED: The emergent patterns of climate change | Gavin Schmidt

12th - Higher Ed
You can't understand climate change in pieces, says climate scientist Gavin Schmidt. It's the whole, or it's nothing. In this illuminating talk, he explains how he studies the big picture of climate change with mesmerizing models that...
Instructional Video3:39
Apalapse

The Science Behind the Aurora

9th - 12th
Learn about the science behind nature's most spectacular light show. Caused by the sun, solar wind interacts with Earth's magnetic shield and reacts with gas molecules creating the visible aurora.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Solar Wind's Effect on Earth

9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from NASA describes solar storms and their effects on Earth. Animations of coronal mass ejections and solar cycles help explain what we know, and what we can predict, about solar activity. [4:44]