Instructional Video5:11
TED-Ed

The Science of Skin

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Almost one fifth of your weight is in your skin, but why does it weigh so much? Viewers learn about the integumentary system and the many functions it performs constantly to keep them safe. Then, they answer multiple choice and...
Instructional Video4:18
National Science Foundation

Slapshot Physics—Science of the Winter Olympics

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Take a shot at explaining the physics of hockey! Olympic hockey players explain the science of their craft in a video lesson. The lesson includes a discussion of force and velocity as well as potential and kinetic energy.
Instructional Video5:22
National Science Foundation

Engineering the Half Pipe—Science of the Winter Olympic Games

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
There are no tricks here! Young scholars learn about the concept of centripetal acceleration by studying the design of the snowboarding half pipe. A video lesson describes how the half pipe design affects the motion of the boarders.
Instructional Video11:20
Crash Course

Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
The average human body loses 40–100 strands of hair in one day. This is the first video in a series of 47 and introduces scholars to anatomy and physiology, the study of the human body, and how it works. The narrator shares the history...
Instructional Video3:51
National Science Foundation

Science of NFL Football: Newton's First Law of Motion

For Students 5th - 12th
Why are some football players harder to tackle than others? Turns out physics is the answer. The fifth lesson of the 10-part video series continues connecting the NFL to physics concepts. Young scientists learn about inertia through an...
Instructional Video5:05
National Science Foundation

Banking on Speed—Science of the Winter Olympics

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Get on the right track! Young scholars learn about the importance of momentum and friction during a bobsled ride. A video lesson speaks to a bobsled designer to explain how he considers the physics during the design process.
Instructional Video3:18
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Crash Course Kids

Engineering Games

For Students 3rd - 8th
Engineering is like a big game! Yes, you read that correctly. In this video, the engineering process is examined with a focus on defining variables, and ways to discover the one variable that affects the outcome of a solution....
Instructional Video4:27
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Crash Course Kids

What's My Property

For Students 3rd - 8th
What exactly can we tell about an unknown substance by its properties? is the driving question of this physical science video focusing on matter. Here, scholars find the answer to the big question via investigation of what lies...
Interactive3:00
Scholastic

Study Jams! Weathering & Erosion

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
RJ argues that playing the video game, Super Duo Breaker and Whoosh, is a good way to study for a quiz on weathering and erosion. The game character Mr. Breaker breaks things down and the character Mr. Whoosh carries them away in the...
Interactive3:27
Scholastic

Study Jams! The Water Cycle

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Will tomorrow's soccer game be rained out? That depends on the water cycle. An animated feature explains precipitation, evaporation, transpiration, and condensation with diagrams and dialogue between Sam and RJ as they huddle under a...
Interactive4:02
Scholastic

Study Jams! Food Chains

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
Rhinozilla is Mia's bearded dragon and the focus of this lesson on energy flow in an ecosystem. She uses him to explain the energy pyramid, from producers through third level consumers, and she likens the food chain to a video game. Mia...
Lesson Plan2:39
Code.org

Star Wars: Building a Galaxy with Code

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Welcome to the code side. The interactive lesson introduces coding in a game format with familiar characters. Young computer experts learn to develop code to control the interaction of the characters in the game. The activity ends with...
Instructional Video1:03
American Museum of Natural History

Plates on the Move

For Students 6th - 12th
Tectonic plates are constantly on the move. Explore the movement using an online resource that provides a basic introduction the tectonic plates before offering a game to learn about the individual plates. Learners discover how the...
Instructional Video2:41
PBS

Science Fundamentals: Chemistry!

For Students K - 8th Standards
Chemical reactions are a part of almost everything in everyday life. A video presentation gives an introduction to chemistry by describing the basics of atomic structure and chemical reactions. Learners discover chemical reactions are...
Instructional Video6:49
Teacher's Pet

Passive Transport Part 1

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
In video games, some items go through walls while others are stopped by walls. This analogy also applies to the semi-permeable cell walls. The video explains two types of passive transport due to semi-permeable walls. It first covers...
Instructional Video0:14
American Museum of Natural History

Meet the Ologist: Mark Siddall

For Students 6th - 12th
Fun fact: poisons in nature can benefit humans if they are used correctly. A video interview of a zoologist introduces the concept of poisons. The remote learning resource defines poison and provides examples in nature as well as how...
Instructional Video2:25
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California Academy of Science

Your Digital Footprint: Data and Energy Use

For Students 6th - 10th Standards
Understanding energy usage requires knowing more than how much energy it takes to charge your cell phone. Scholars learn each text sent uses energy as does each video, game, and phone call. They observe the larger grid of data transfers...
Instructional Video6:21
Veritasium

Amazing Molecular Machines in Your Body

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
More than 50 billion cells in your body die every single day. While this sounds traumatic, the human body continuously produces new cells to replace them. A short video shares animations of the process of cell division or mitosis and...
Instructional Video5:08
FuseSchool

Protein Synthesis

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Your body determines which proteins are made based on the code in your DNA. A Fuse School video explains how protein synthesis works. It starts with DNA, moves through transcription, RNA, mRNA, completes translation, tRNA, and finally...
Instructional Video12:33
Bozeman Science

Scalars and Vectors

For Students 9th - 12th
Investigate the purpose of vectors as they relate to physics concepts. The instructor explains quantities that have magnitude and those that have both magnitude and direction. He explains the scalar and vector quantities in relation to...
Instructional Video2:33
PBS

Ready Player One

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Ready Player One has been praised as a novel that captures the vitality, the allure, and the essence of the virtual reality experience. Speakers in a short video share their rationale for why Ernest Clines' dystopian novel should be...
Instructional Video4:17
American Chemical Society

Can I Still Eat This?

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
The United States sends 133 billion pounds of edible food to landfills every year. A lesson from the ACS Reaction series discusses the chemical reactions that cause food to change over time. Some reactions make food taste different while...
Instructional Video9:08
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Crash Course

Statics: Crash Course Physics #13

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Static forces are all around you. Learn the factors that affect the static nature of buildings and other structures. As the 13th video of the series, the lesson builds on scholars' knowledge of force and torque to develop an...

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