Instructional Video4:45
TED-Ed

How Turtle Shells Evolved... Twice

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
How do turtle shells form? Scholars explore the evolution of turtle shells and learn about how they form from many different bones before relating the process to cell differentiation in an organism. Pupils also look at different turtle...
Instructional Video4:32
Grid Club

Gulliver's Travels

For Students 4th - 8th
A five-minute video showcases the children's tale, Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift. While the narrator reads rhymes, an animated Gulliver sets sail to visit several new destinations—each with a fantastic adventure....
Instructional Video7:42
Veritasium

Magnetic Micro-Robots

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Magnetic micro-robots aren't just really cool, they have some potential practical purposes. An episode from the Veritasium introduces learners to the micro-robots and their possible future roles in biomedicine. Actual footage of the...
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TED-Ed

The Train Heist | Think Like A Coder, Ep 4

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Robots come in handy when planning a train heist. The hero and her robot continue their quest to find artifacts to save the world. They must locate and steal the Node of Power on a specific car of a train by writing computer code for the...
Instructional Video1:55
American Museum of Natural History

Poison For Good...Poison For Evil

For Students 6th - 12th
The myths of Hercules and the Hydra and Jason and Medea open a resource about how poisons can be used as weapons of destruction or for beneficial purposes. After watching animated videos of the myths, users take a short quiz that tests...
Instructional Video
Crash Course

Fall of Rome the Roman Empire... in the 15th Century

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
What caused, and when was, the fall of the Roman Empire? Find out why the narrator argues the date to be around the middle of the 15th century, or in some ways, to this very day. The video covers Roman efforts to incorporate Germanic...
Instructional Video5:45
Be Smart

What's the Deadliest Animal in the World?

For Students 6th - 12th
Do you know what animal causes more than one million deaths each year? This terrifying animal and how it causes so much death is the subject of a video that also shares how humans can avoid it and the research scientists have conducted...
Instructional Video4:54
Be Smart

Ghosts of Evolution

For Students 6th - 12th
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.
Instructional Video2:01
MinuteEarth

This Is Not A Bee

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Is it a bee or not a bee? That seems to be the question of a video lesson that explains how insects such as flies and moths mimic the coloring of bees. The narrator discusses the purpose of the coloring in association to predators.
Instructional Video4:50
Teacher's Pet

Gas Laws

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Under pressure to get the class started on the Gas Laws? Look no further! Chemistry scholars learn the basics of the gas laws in a short, animated video. The narrator explains and names each law while working sample problems.
Instructional Video2:48
American Chemical Society

Did You Know Honey is Really Bee Puke?

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Despite the title, here is a video that makes honey even sweeter! Biology scholars journey inside a beehive with a fascinating video from the American Chemical Society's Reactions playlist. Pupils learn about the social structure of a...
Instructional Video2:56
American Chemical Society

How Do Deodorants and Antiperspirants Work?

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Why do sweaty humans smell like onions and cumin? Explore antiperspirant and deodorant chemistry with a fact-filled video from the American Chemical Society's Reactions playlist. Topics include odor-causing agents, components of underarm...
Instructional Video3:29
American Chemical Society

What is Addiction?

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Why do our bodies become addicted to some substances? Young psychologists explore the mechanisms of addiction through a video from the American Chemical Society's Reactions series. Content includes the cycle of addiction, changes that...
Instructional Video4:39
American Chemical Society

The Universe in a Cup of Coffee

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Connect the chemical aspects of coffee to the world in which we live! Scholars consider the molecules within coffee and how they interact with the environment as they view an episode of the ACS Reaction series. From caffeine as a...
Instructional Video4:01
Physics Girl

This Phenomenon Only Happens in Hawaii ... and Cuba, Nigeria, Indonesia, Peru, Sudan, Laos and…

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
What do Hawaii, Nigeria, and Peru have in common? Each of these locations, plus many others, get to see the subsolar point! But, what is it? A video from a comprehensive physics playlist puts the phenomenon at the forefront by explaining...
Instructional Video2:54
California Academy of Science

Sustainability of Chocolate

For Students 6th - 12th
Monoculture has made many crops more susceptible to insects and disease. Chocolate is no exception! This video explores the sustainability of the cacao plant and what might be done to ensure that we don't run out of this treasured treat!...
Assessment8:51
Mathed Up!

Pie Charts

For Students 8th - 10th
Representing data is as easy as pie. Class members construct pie charts given a frequency table. Individuals then determine the size of the angles needed for each sector and interpret the size of sectors within the context of frequency....
Instructional Video1:32
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The Cochlea

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
With all its folds and inner workings, the ear is an extraordinary thing. Take a tour through the anatomy of the ear to get a glimpse of how all the parts works Learners watch as an animation demonstrates how humans hear. The...
Instructional Video2:00
Science Today

189 New Species

For Students 9th - 12th
Only two minutes long, this video explains that 189 species of animals were added to the list of known species in the year 2012. An interview with the Dean of Science and Research Collections from the California Academy of Sciences...
Instructional Video1:36
Science Today

Earth at Night

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The Sumoi NPP satellite collects light from Earth's surface during nighttime hours. From the images produced, scientists can study populations, pollution, sea ice, moon phases, and more! This brief video clip would be a high-quality...
Instructional Video1:39
Science Today

Water on the Moon

For Students 4th - 8th
A super short video explores the announcement of finding water on the moon! With about a minute and a half of information, viewers learn that on November 13, 2009, water molecules were detected in a plume of moon dust by the...
Instructional Video1:46
Science Today

The LHC

For Students 9th - 12th
The Large Hadron Collider is the highest energy-particle collider that scientists have ever designed, but is it safe? Interviews with several scientists explain what it does, why it was built, and what we can learn from it. Show this in...
Instructional Video2:31
California Acadamy of Sciences

Science Informing Art

For Teachers 9th - 12th
What does art have to do with science? Follow Maya Lin, an artist and environmental activist who recently installed a piece of art at the California Academy of Sciences. Kids will learn about her mission to spread global awareness...
Instructional Video5:04
Curated OER

Phonics Song - 1 - The Basics

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
An object pops up on the screen for each letter of the alphabet, accompanied by the letter itself and the name of the object. The objects are drawn in black and white and the letters pop up in red.

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