Curated Video
What Makes YouTube Unique
Start off a unit on YouTube with an introduction to the service and all that it offers. Learners watch various video clips before participating in a brief discussion about YouTube. The plan includes an activity based around information...
Crash Course
How YouTube Knows What You Should Watch: Crash Course AI #15
It's a bit eerie that a computer can predict preferences. An engaging video describes how the artificial intelligence in recommender systems work. Scholars learn about content-based, social, and personalized recommendations using YouTube...
Crash Course
IP Problems, YouTube, and the Future
The last episode in the mini-series exploring intellectual property laws recaps the major points examined in the other six videos and the problems that have developed. In addition, the narrator shares his predictions for the future of IP...
Curated Video
Privacy Part 2
Why is online privacy so important? Explore privacy with a group assignment for which pupils create word clouds with words they associate with privacy. A discussion and online activity follow. Learners will read articles, explore the...
Curated Video
Policy - The Community Guidelines
Following a site's community guidelines is just one step toward being an excellent digital citizen. After a brief introductory video, small groups come up with their own community guidelines and present their ideas to come up with a...
Car and Driver Magazine
Basic Automotive Maintenance (Part 1) - YouTube
Wish you knew more about car maintenance? Make sure your class members are prepared with this incredibly valuable knowledge, whether you're teaching an auto shop class or some other type of life skills course. Here you'll find a video...
Crash Course
YouTube Couldn't Exist without Communications and Signal Processing: Crash Course Engineering #42
Here's a video that explains why we can watch videos over the Internet. An informative resource describes how engineering plays a role in signal processing and communications systems. It starts with Morse Code and continues on to wired...
Crash Course
Make an AI Sound Like a YouTuber (LAB): Crash Course AI #8
AI is so smart that it can finish people's sentences. The eighth installment of the Crash Course Artificial Intelligence series has pupils create a program that completes written sentences. They learn about tokenization, vectors, and...
Curated Video
Reporting - Safety and Abuse Tool
Keep your charges safe online with instruction on how to report problems on YouTube. After providing learners with information on the Safety and Abuse Tool, demonstrate how to use the tool and discuss the feature. In groups, learners...
MinutePhysics
YouTube Video vs. The Universe
Our world seems to be a pretty big place ... until you compare it with the rest of the universe. Where does Earth fit in? Space science scholars watch as the narrator uses a tiny pixel to illustrate how much room we take up in space.
Curated Video
Safety Mode
Teach your YouTube users how to protect themselves from offensive content with a mini lesson on Safety Mode. The teacher presents information about Safety Mode, and then demonstrates how it can be turned on and off. Learners try on their...
Be Smart
How Your Body Knows Left From Right
While our outsides are mostly symmetrical, our internal organs aren't. Why would this be the case? Are other animals the same? What determines if your organs are on the "correct" side or backwards? Here's a video that answers these...
SciShow
Weird Places: Movile Cave
There is a place on earth where an ecosystem has been developing for millions of years without any interference from surrounding ecosystems or animals. The Movile Cave, discovered in Romania in 1986, offers a glimpse at an ecosystem...
Physics Girl
Can You Solve the Magnet Riddle?
Riddle me this! Science sleuths attempt to solve two seemingly simple scenarios with a video from the Physics Girl playlist. The narrator challenges the CEO of YouTube to a battle of wits with a bottle with a tissue, as well as two...
Curated Video
Telling Time For Children—Learning the Clock
Project this YouTube video overhead while your young students follow along and learn to tell time on an analog clock. This five-minute video is a great introduction to telling time. Kids learn the big hand points to the hour and the...
Krista King Math
Pythagorean Theorem
A YouTube video efficiently describes the process of using the Pythagorean Theorem. It includes an example of finding the hypotenuse and another that finds the length of a leg.
Be Smart
Ghosts of Evolution
Since avocados are fruits, is guacamole a smoothie? The video explains how trees that produce fruit with no natural way to spread their seeds are still alive. It goes into detail about avocado trees and ginko biloba trees.
Be Smart
Why Do We Cook?
Are you hungry right now? If you are, it might be because your brain is so large. The video describes the shift from larger jaw to larger brain and the relationship of larger brains to cooking. Crushing, preserving, and drying also made...
Socratica
Introduction to the Pythagorean Theorem
Use a new medium to investigate an old mathematical theorem. Young mathematicians learn about the Pythagorean Theorem from a YouTube video in the Socratica Geometry playlist. They first see if a set of values is a Pythagorean triple and...
American Chemical Society
How Can You Make Your Smartphone Battery Last Longer?
Be sure to charge your phones so you can view the resource. An informative YouTube video in the ACS Reactions playlist describes how lithium-ion batteries work. It also gives three tips for how to make cell phone batteries last longer.
Crash Course
Television Production
The final episode in a film production playlist looks at the way television has influenced and changed the film industry. The narrator contrasts broadcast and cable channels, scripted and non-scripted shows, streaming services and...
Mathispower4u
Real Numbers
Real mathematicians have mastery of real numbers. Pupils learn about the classification of real numbers by watching a YouTube video. They also see how to compare real numbers and how to determine absolute value.
Mathispower4u
Use the Commutative and Associate Properties of Real Numbers
You'll never confuse the commutative and associative properties again. Scholars view a short YouTube video that shows how to rewrite expressions using the commutative and associative properties. It takes both addition and multiplication...
Mathispower4u
Properties of Real Numbers: Mixed Review
Review properties of real numbers in a real way. Viewers of a YouTube video match equations to properties of real numbers in an effort to review all the properties at once.