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Crash Course Kids
Let's Fly!
Engineers think up multiple solutions to the problems they face, but how do they find the best solution? In this video, examine the process engineers take to discover the most appropriate choice to solve problems, and revisit the...
GCFGlobal.org
Word: Text Boxes
How do users add text to a specific location on a Word document? Enter text boxes! By watching a helpful video, viewers discover how to create, move, and resize text boxes. Additionally, they learn how to change the shape of text boxes...
Crash Course Kids
What's an Engineer?
What is an engineer? Find out in a brief video that explores types of engineers and the three essential questions every engineer asks and answers. Additionally, pupils discover real world engineers that have made an impact on...
Crash Course Kids
Try Trials
Future engineers are bowled over with the wealth of information brought to them by this video. The focus is on engineers and the process they take to test solutions by isolating variables with multiple trials.
Crash Course Kids
Defining a Problem
Scholars may think they face big problems, but not like the problems engineers face. During this episode, the first step of the engineering process, define the process, is examined through a hypothetical scenario that...
Teach Engineering
Microfluidic Devices and Flow Rate
When you have to flow, you have to flow. The lesson introduces class members to microfluidic devices and their uses in medicine. They watch a short video on how the diameter affects the rate of flow. The worksheet has individuals...
Crash Course Kids
Defining Success
The telephone, refrigerator, and light bulb are all solutions to a problem that an engineer successfully designed. Get to know more about how engineers define success, using this video. The focus goes through a checklist that...
Veritasium
How Were the Pyramids Built?
Were the pyramids really built using slave labor? New research offers another possibility. In Egypt, many mysteries surround these monuments, and a constructive video (part of a larger series) attempts to answer some. It discusses where...
National Science Foundation
Safety Gear—Science of the Winter Olympics
Safety first! A science video explores the design of safety helmets. It considers both elastic and inelastic collisions.
Teach Engineering
How Antibiotics Work
Take two pills and call me in the morning. The first activity in a short unit of four introduces class members to delivery methods of medicines. The instruction introduces the question of which delivery method is best to get you feeling...
Crash Course
Ford, Cars, and a New Revolution: Crash Course History of Science #28
The Industrial Revolution led to technological inventions we still use today. A video presentation explains the important inventions of the Industrial Revolution. Instruction includes a thorough discussion of the advancement of the...
Teach Engineering
The Grand Challenge: Fix the Hip Challenge
It may be time to get to know the skeletons in your family. The first lesson in a series of 5, introduces the class to the concept of osteoporosis. The class members brainstorm possible causes and whether the family should be concerned...
Code.org
How Computers Work: What Makes a Computer, a Computer?
You see computers all the time, but do you really know how a computer works? The first installment of a five-part playlist explains the essential functions of a computer. The video describes, in detail, each of the functions: input,...
Educreations
Uses of Radioactivity
Radioactivity is often perceived as dangerous and a threat to our well-being, but you may be surprised at the different applications of this natural chemical process. From the smoke detectors in our homes to treatments for cancer,...
Crash Course
Early Computing: Crash Course Computer Science #1
A generation brought up with computers probably can't imagine a world without them. The first video in the series explains advances in early computing. From the abacus to tabulating machines, individuals see how computations were made...
MinutePhysics
Why Are Airplane Engines So Big?
Why is the size of jet engines increasing? An entertaining video lesson describes the efficiency of jet engines. The narrator describes the poor design of an engine that is too small or too big and explains why it is more efficient to...