Asking questions helps turn curiosity into inquiry! In this activity, children will learn more about different types/ levels of questions by creating an Inquiry Ladder and challenging themselves to think about bigger, essential questions.

Hank lets us in on the meaning of life, at least from a biological perspective - it's reproduction, which answers the essential question of all organisms: how do I make more of myself? So, sex, how does it work?

Continue conquering comparative essays in this lesson as we break down a theme-based question. Not only will we show you how to break the question down, but we’ll also show you how to formulate a strong thesis (argument). Enjoy our easy...

Water is both essential and unique. Many of its particular qualities stem from the fact that it consists of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen, therefore creating an unequal sharing of electrons. From fish in frozen lakes to ice floating...

Water. It's an essential building block of life, constantly moving in a hydrologic cycle that flows in a continuous loop above, across and even below the Earth's surface. But water is also constantly moving through another cycle -- the...

Discover the essential role of water in our lives and ecosystems through the fascinating journey of the water cycle. Learn about the different ways we use water daily and how it sustains life on Earth. Dive into concepts like weather,...

Physicist and mathematician Brian Greene and journalist Faith Salie explore the past and future of the cosmos – from the big bang to the closest science can take us to the very end – illuminating essential questions of human existence....

Every cell in the human body has a sex, which means that men and women are different right down to the cellular level. Yet too often, research and medicine ignore this insight -- and the often startlingly different ways in which the two...

Louise Leakey asks, "Who are we?" The question takes her to the Rift Valley in Eastern Africa, where she digs for the evolutionary origins of humankind -- and suggests a stunning new vision of our competing ancestors.

There is no minimum age for scientific discovery. Young scientists ask questions about topics that have puzzled humans for hundreds of years. This audio story introduces a high school senior who uses math to help astronomers search for...

Learn how to calculate the gravitational force between a hollowed-out sphere and a point mass using mass subtraction and superposition—an essential technique for solving complex gravitation problems in AP and IB Physics.

Fresh water is essential for life -- and there's not nearly enough of it for the world right now. Why is that, and what could we do? Christiana Z. Peppard lays out the big questions of our global water problem. And no, shorter showers...

In this video we'll discuss how some of the accidental scientific discoveries have been made. So essentially, scientists are very curious people that want to find out how the world works, they are always asking questions. Sometimes they...

In this video, viewers will learn how to square numbers and find square roots with ease. Starting with the fundamental concept of squaring a number—multiplying it by itself—the video explains using examples such as 4 2 = 16 4 2 =16 and...

Hope you enjoy this Dragon Egg Bath Bomb DIY with HIDDEN SPONGE DRAGON Inside! ALSO we look at the science of Bath Bombs and ask "Why is it that Bath Bombs Fizz?". Ingredients below! For One Dragon Egg I used... 1/2 cup of citric acid 1...

Are you curious about the world of Artificial Intelligence and ChatGPT but don't know where to start? Look no further! In this comprehensive video, you'll embark on a journey to unravel the mysteries of AI and learn how to harness the...

The Nobel Prize is often viewed as the ultimate achievement in science. But to what extent would you go to win it? In 2014, astronomer Dr. Brian Keating invented BICEP2, the most powerful cosmology telescope ever made. Using this, he...

Why did economists largely fail to predict the 2008-09 financial crisis? In the first lecture in his INET series, “How and How Not to do Economics,” Robert Skidelsky looks at a neglected cause: methodology. The way economists build their...

James Parr is a designer, entrepreneur and technologist who for the past 15 years has been dedicated to answering the question: How can we help innovate radical new approaches to systems problems? James's current business is Imaginals, a...

John Kay, Visiting Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science, speaking at the breakout panel entitled "How Can We Create a Financial System That Is Socially Useful?" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's (INET)...

In this video Paul Andersen describes the new AP Biology Exam. This exam will be given for the first time in May of 2013 and will be different from all previous exams. In this video Paul Andersen describes the scoring and the two parts...

After a concert, you find it difficult to hear your friend rave about the show. It sounds like they're speaking from across the room, and it's tough to make out their voice over the ringing in your ears. But, by the next morning, the...

In this video, we will cover Entropy - the most important application of expected values. This clip is from the chapter "Applications to the Real World" of the series "Probability / Statistics - The Foundations of Machine Learning".In...

An Injection of Hope part 3/4: This video highlights the challenges of delivering vaccines to remote and impoverished communities in developing countries. It also explores the efforts of global vaccination programs to bridge the gap in...