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Lights and gauges with display screens cover the walls. Illustration of energetic reaction drawn on top. Caption: it releases a lot of energy in the form of heat.
#askMIT
Episode 3
2 minutes
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Large plane taxiing on a runway. Caption: Propulsion is the power that moves something,
11 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
A scientist sits and talks. Caption: So when you heat it up, it melts.
Ask a Scientist
Episode 15
1 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A galaxy fades out. Caption: The original galaxy would be gone.
Ask an Astronomer
Episode 6
2 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A huge mass of hot gas swirls into a star. Caption: that swirls onto the massive star.
Ask an Astronomer
Episode 5
3 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Illustration of the earth revolving the sun. Caption: As the earth moved around the sun,
Ask an Astronomer
Episode 13
2 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
illustration of asteroids revolving the sun and other planets. Caption: Asteroids, though, move across the sky at different rates.
Ask an Astronomer
Episode 8
2 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Illustration of a wave striking an atom. Caption: The shortest wavelength light are gamma rays,
Ask an Astronomer
Episode 9
6 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Illustration of a woman talking to the Alien M51. Caption: You've got to move the earth back where it belongs.
Ask an Astronomer
Episode 10
4 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
The celestial image of a red starry surface. Caption: Where new stars are born,
Ask an Astronomer
Episode 2
2 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Animation of two galaxies colliding. Caption: they smash together with tremendous force.
Ask an Astronomer
Episode 11
1 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Image of Andromeda galaxy. Caption: is about 160,000 light years away.
Ask an Astronomer
Episode 12
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
An image of the outer space. Caption: it's eventually blocks out all visible light.
Ask an Astronomer
Episode 4
2 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
An Illustration depicts the three positions of the universe. The difference between the first two and the last two positions is labeled, + 2 units. The difference between the first and last positions is labeled, + 4 units. Caption: the more the expansion pushes them apart.
Ask an Astronomer
Episode 1
2 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
An electromagnetic spectrum with a bright star over the infrared range. Caption: Hotter objects glow in visible light.
Ask an Astronomer
Episode 7
3 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
An illustration depicts the spiral structure of a galaxy. Caption: Many galaxies have a spiral structure,
Ask an Astronomer
Episode 14
1 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Sun and a red planet in outer space. Caption: we can tell what comprises the atmospheres.
Ask an Astronomer
Episode 3
3 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Irregularly shaped gaseous shape with bright stars glowing around and behind it. Caption: with the potential to explore our universe
13 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Multicolored streaks of light fading towards a single point in the center of the screen. Caption: Matter is made of up of tiny particles called atoms.
19 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12
Hollow glass tube with roughly diamond shaped object in the center surrounded by glowing light. Caption: you get the characteristic color of this purplish-blue.
Chemistry: Challenges And Solutions
Episode 3
28 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A man and woman have donned helmets and are about to enter a door. Caption: Richard, this is the bending fatigue test.
Break It Down
Episode 1
22 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A man and woman have donned helmets and are on a x ladder. Caption: That's the machine that turns it into slabs of steel.
Break It Down
Episode 2
22 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
A board with figures and a heavy object in the center bends downward in the center. Caption: You see that as the load increases, the bridge bends,
Bridge Design (and Destruction)
Episode 1
5 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
A board with interlocking triangular cutout supports running parallel to the board has figures on it and a heavy object in the center. The outermost edges of the triangular supports have buckled. Caption: The outer segments of the truss are the first to break.
Bridge Design (and Destruction)
Episode 2
4 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Animation of an area near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Leafless trees, homes, and power lines beneath an overcast sky. Caption. Everything is polluted and highly radioactive.
Butterfly Effect
Season 1 / Ep 8
25 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
ASL
Seen from above, a large cylindrical tube with a hatch in a pit surrounded by wooden supports and metal bars. Caption: model representations of sewer and river systems.
Career Connections
Episode 16
5 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
Computer screen displaying a grid-like diagram mapping connections between multiple points. Caption: and then we can apply loading to this structure,
Career Connections
Episode 79
5 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Two glow sticks immersed in separate containers of liquid. One stick is glowing much brighter than the other. Caption: The one in hot water gets brighter
5 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Measurement device placed on a circuit powered by three AA batteries. Device shows 0.05 on the display. Caption: (Adabot) zero point zero five amperes.
Circuit Playground
Episode 1
3 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Person speaking. Illustration of a battery. Caption: A battery uses chemistry to create electricity.
Circuit Playground
Episode 2
7 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Illustration of a circuit board with a tubular object bridging two paths. Caption: In this circuit, I'm filtering power.
Circuit Playground
Episode 3
6 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Rectangular diagram with objects moving clockwise around the perimeter. Caption: Electrons flow through the diode in one direction,
Circuit Playground
Episode 4
2 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Machine labelled DS1052E Digital Oscilloscope with a wavy line across the screen and complex controls. Caption: We measure frequency in units called hertz.
Circuit Playground
Episode 5
5 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Person in a workshop holding a power cord with three prongs. Caption: The answer is these three-prong cables are grounded.
Circuit Playground
Episode 6
2 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Person and a robot in a workshop with a laptop in front of them. Caption: Hertz is how many times something happens per second.
Circuit Playground
Episode 7
3 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Closeup of a complex circuit board with capacitors and other structures. Caption: But ICs, well -- ICs can have lots of connections.
Circuit Playground
Episode 8
3 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Joules = force x distance. Caption: we multiply force and distance
Circuit Playground
Episode 9
3 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Robot and three LEDs. Caption: LEDs make much more sense now.
Circuit Playground
Episode 11
4 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Robot and bird with walkie-talkies in a workshop. Caption: It's not audio noise, it's electrical noise.
Circuit Playground
Episode 12
3 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
An animation of a bird. Caption: Have you heard of the scientist, Georg Simon Ohm?
Circuit Playground
Episode 13
3 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
An illustration depicts a transistor, resistor, and an L E D. Caption: P C B stands for, printed circuit board.
Circuit Playground
Episode 14
3 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
An illustration depicts a robot talking to a bird. Caption: This one is my favorite; it's quartz.
Circuit Playground
Episode 15
4 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Nighttime view of a city skyline. A beam of light shines forward from a building tower. Text on image reads, "Core Physics. Classical Physics."
Core Physics
Episode 1
35 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A nuclear bomb explosion with a bright yellow mushroom cloud above. Text on image reads, "Core Physics. Modern Physics."
Core Physics
Episode 2
30 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A roughly cube shaped space craft with a communications dish and two large rectangular solar panels flying through space. Caption: It wouldn't be possible without ion propulsion.
Crazy Engineering
Episode 6
3 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person holding a paper cup with rubber bands and binder clips wrapped around a tubular object. Caption: (Nate) There's lots of ways of getting the straw into the potato.
Design Squad Nation
Episode 10
3 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 8
Person in lab coat, gloves, and mask moving a large metal machine that is place above other complex metal machinery. Caption: Also key is state-of-the-art optical and laser technology:
20 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
A lit match. Caption: Energy comes in many different forms.
19 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
Inside of industrial p0lant showing metal vats with complex metal tubing. Caption: We're liquefying the sugars out of the biomass.
15 minutes
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Closeup of red-hot charcoal on a grill. Caption: creating a fuel source that works but has problems.
Science Out Loud
Episode 11
3 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12
Gently arching bridge over a large body of water. Caption: but the Skye Bridge spans the equivalent distance
18 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12
Mist in the air. Caption: It's called water vapor.
10 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Drawing of the sun and a person with a rock in between them obscuring the rays of light from the sun. Caption: Theoretically, observers would never know it's there.
Fast Draw
Episode 3
2 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
People riding on a wagon pulled by two horses. Caption: Two horses add more force or pull the wagon.
20 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
Open aluminum can. Caption: This is because gas is rushing from an area of high pressure
14 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
A large cylindrical machine set into the floor with various equipment attached to the round openings at either end. A walkway surrounds the mass of equipment. Caption: Gas turbines earn their excellent worldwide reputation.
15 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Cartoon rocket with a stream of exhaust behind it. Caption: And that force pushes the rocket forward.
Elementary Energy
Season 0 / Ep 2
10 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 6
Round transparent object magnifying a section of a cityscape. Caption: could make distant objects appear closer.
Greatest Human Achievements
Episode 1
24 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Illustration of objects moving from a chamber with disk shaped spiny structures to an empty chamber. Caption: Here, we force bacteria to move electrons
Green Revolution
Episode 9
5 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Hillside covered in solar panels. Caption: collecting the sun's energy
Green Revolution
Episode 7
5 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Illustration of a windmill 100 meters tall receiving air current next to a much taller structure receiving a much larger air current. Caption: The beauty of wind turbines is that they're 100% clean.
Green Revolution
Episode 6
5 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Fine white tubes grow in the same direction. Caption: and carbon nanotubes grow like blades of grass.
Science Out Loud
Episode 4
3 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Thin tubular object protruding from a machine casing descends perpendicular to a piece of wood laying horizontally below it. Caption: That's right; he's using a power tool called a drill.
10 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
A space observatory. Caption: The telescopes made images of the region.
11 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Metal shipping containers on the deck of a cargo ship. Caption: The ship's metal is more dense than water,
Science Out Loud
Episode 16
3 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12
Person speaking. Behind them is a graph, mathematical equations, and writing. Caption: and we want to apply that knowledge to robots.
Innovation Nation
Episode 1
23 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Person standing and working on something at waist level. Image of a computer screen. Caption: the team's given their robot the gift of vision.
Innovation Nation
Episode 6
23 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
A diagram of a longitudinal wave. Waves transport energy.
1 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person with a blue cylindrical container in their hands. Caption: can also be released as a result of chemical reactions.
16 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Person placing a magnet to one side of the path directly in front of a ramp. A dotted line projects the path of an object that will move from the ramp and curve toward the magnet. Caption: Let's place the magnet somewhere to alter the marble's course.
Design Squad Nation
Episode 6
3 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 8
Cartoon of a person straining to push a large log. Caption: You could supply the energy to push the log.
Elementary Energy
Season 0 / Ep 1
10 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 8
Cartoon children on a playground. Caption: But kids like us play with simple machines every day.
Everyday Science for Preschoolers
Episode 6
1 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Bright glowing sphere against a blue sky. Caption: Ultraviolet technology is useful for some environmental issues,
14 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Longitudinal waves through three mediums solid, water, and air.
1 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Boat on the water. Caption: The bamboo battens also held the sail taut,
23 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Rectangular objects with one end labeled N and the other labeled O emitting half-ovals of wavelengths. Caption: or push each other away.
16 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Puffy white clouds. Cumulus clouds. Caption: Cumulus, Latin for "heap,"
15 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Complex matrix of spherical objects next to a thermometer reading slightly above zero degrees. Caption: A low temperature indicates that the particles
23 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 10
Person standing on a round platform holding a wheel. Caption: so the question is, "Why am I spinning?"
MIT Physics Demos
Episode 2
2 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
People in a lab setting, filming an explosion that is occurring in a container. Caption: It dissipated the energy better and didn't explode.
MIT Physics Demos
Episode 1
2 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Person on skis in a crouched position. Motion: change in position. Caption: This skier was in motion.
20 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
Two people riding horses while someone walks beside them. Caption: And how do things move?
10 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Water with chunks of ice floating in it. Caption: Freezing and melting are physical changes.
12 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Streak of light across a night sky with a change in height of 15m and a length of 217m. Caption: If we know the distances and the time the shutter was open,
6 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Man and woman walking with arms around each other's waist. Caption: humans are truly a privileged species,
32 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
ASL
Person holding a tool and working on something with wires. Caption: This is the first prototype of a project called BodyScape,
Profiles Of Scientists And Engineers
Episode 12
6 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
ASL
Person looking at a computer screen. Caption: We're looking at a 3D model of an early VacPac
Profiles Of Scientists And Engineers
Episode 15
8 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Rocket flying above Earth's atmosphere. Caption: and a liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen upper stage.
14 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Irregular orange and yellow shapes in greenish clouds. Caption: should focus on physics, math, and computer science.
11 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
A person holds two magnets over a lid with metal particles in the bottom. Caption: A magnet pulls iron particles towards it,
Real World Science
Episode 7
19 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Clear water in a pebbled riverbed. Light reflects off the surface of the water. Caption: In this case, you see how light passes through an object
Real World Science
Episode 18
16 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Illustration of the Earth with a glowing aura and streaks of light. Caption: Today, we'll explore a strange and invisible force
Real World Science
Episode 9
15 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Two bicyclists on a city street with vehicles. Caption: Specifically, motion dynamics.
6 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Cardboard pieces cut and attached together to resemble robotic arms attempting to pick up rocks. Caption: Let's see if these robotic arms can pick up some space rocks.
Design Squad Nation
Episode 8
2 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 8
Split image of mechanical clasps and pinchers stitching an incision and human hands manipulating mechanical controls. Caption: a surgeon can perform complex and delicate procedures
16 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Brightly colored bird with a beak almost as large as its body. Caption: You'd think it would be too beak-heavy to fly.
Science Nation
Episode 200
4 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Cluster of nerve fibers. Caption: that can image deep into biological tissue,
Science Nation
Episode 6
3 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Two people wearing dark glasses in front of a wall of monitors displaying geometric objects. One person holds a device with four glowing orbs on legs in his hand. Caption: envelop a viewer in a 3-D virtual world.
Science Nation
Episode 52
2 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Gloved hand holding a round plastic object and putting an electronic chip into it. Caption: to incorporate nanotechnologies into the process.
Science Nation
Episode 43
3 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person touching an object made of stacked and connected cubes. Caption: are playing with Cubelets, small, smart modular robots.
Science Nation
Episode 84
2 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
White glowing orb against a black grid. Caption: Weakly Interacting Massive Particle
Science Nation
Episode 10
3 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Points of light spaced evenly across a surface. A rod with spheres extends down the center. Caption: It's a cubic kilometer full of sensors known as IceCube,
Science Nation
Episode 145
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Gloved hand holding two small dark discs. Caption: to bring ultra-high-temperature ceramics to marketplace.
Science Nation
Episode 44
3 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Microscopic view of a hexagonal structure with arms hovering above a spherical object. Caption: Cell-sized micro grippers retrieve tiny objects,
Science Nation
Episode 95
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Waves striking a man-made jetty of rock. Caption: could help solve the world's energy problems.
Science Nation
Episode 188
2 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Robotic arm working on an object. Caption: (narrator) The goal is not for robots to replace people altogether.
Science Nation
Episode 13
3 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Billiard balls immediately after the first break. Caption: Acceleration is always the result of a force.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 1
2 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
An orange cut in half. Caption: Another good word for balance is symmetry.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 68
3 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Three books stacked on a table. Caption: Balanced force results in no motion.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 69
2 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Diagram of three phases of matter. Caption: If matter shifts from one of these phases to another,
Science Video Vocab
Episode 4
3 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Baseball and tennis ball next to each other. Caption: But a baseball is more dense.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 82
4 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Man balancing soccer ball on his head. Caption: Newton's laws of motion are the basis for dynamics.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 64
4 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
A hand pumping gas into a car. Caption: Chemical energy is in gasoline, and is used to power motors.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 7
3 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Two sticks rubbing together. Caption: Friction is a contact force.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 18
3 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
A large formation of ice. Caption: The temperature at which point a liquid becomes a solid
Science Video Vocab
Episode 31
2 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Oil being poured out of a container. Caption: Another way to reduce friction
Science Video Vocab
Episode 61
4 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Two children on a teeter totter. Caption: Fulcrums play an important role in the actions of a lever.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 9
2 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
Diagram of the nine planets with the sun in the background. Caption: Distance is a very important aspect of gravitational force.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 63
4 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
A sliding scale weighing something. Caption: The force of gravity gives every object weight.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 17
3 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
People climbing up a staircase. Caption: Inclined planes make it easier to move objects.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 50
2 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
A baseball being thrown. Caption: like this baseball, stays in motion
Science Video Vocab
Episode 19
4 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Math equations written on a clear board. Caption: the motion of objects in the world.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 73
4 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
A man golfing. Caption: Potential energy is changed back to kinetic energy
Science Video Vocab
Episode 42
3 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Children on a teeter totter. Caption: A 1st class lever is where the fulcrum is in the center,
Science Video Vocab
Episode 56
3 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
Splash of water. Caption: Water is categorized as a liquid.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 32
3 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
A semi-truck driving on a road. Caption: A load is any object or objects being moved.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 60
2 minutes 43 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
The universe swirling and glowing. Caption: Everything in the universe has mass.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 10
4 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
An old tile floor. Caption: to understand the behavior of motion and forces.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 11
3 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Small airplane midflight. Caption: Momentum is the same direction as velocity.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 75
3 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton. Caption: Isaac Newton was a scientist who observed motion,
Science Video Vocab
Episode 20
4 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
A clean science classroom. Caption: This instrument, called a dynamometer.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 57
2 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Woman swimming in pool. Caption: For every force, there is a reaction force,
Science Video Vocab
Episode 62
3 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Diagram of three states of matter. Caption: The matter in liquids is more flexible,
Science Video Vocab
Episode 83
5 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Bright sun surrounded by stars. Caption: Physicists also research phenomena
Science Video Vocab
Episode 67
3 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
View of Earth from space. Caption: Antarctica is located at the south pole of the earth.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 21
3 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
A crane demolishing a building. Caption: An object can store energy as the result of its position.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 44
2 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
A magnet picking up paperclips. Caption: that attracts metal objects by pulling on them.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 58
3 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
A man using a pulley. Caption: The other end of the rope is left free to be pulled on.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 51
3 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
A man dribbling a basketball. Caption: Their hand pushes the ball down to the ground.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 59
3 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
A sliding scale weighing something. Caption: Weight is a scalar.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 74
2 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
View of Earth from space. Caption: They tell us how nature does behave.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 65
4 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
A large screw drilling into the snow. Caption: Screws are handy when it comes to making holes in objects.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 52
3 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
Large machinery scooping dirt. Caption: Machines make it easier to do work.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 53
4 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
Plants growing through the dirt. Caption: All plants use the sun's energy to make their own food.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 43
4 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
A hand drum being played. Caption: Sounds are produced when an object vibrates.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 45
4 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Pot of boiling water. Caption: A liquid, like water, boils and becomes a gas.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 33
3 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Ornate floor tile with a pendulum swinging above. Caption: A pendulum is an example of translational motion--
Science Video Vocab
Episode 15
3 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
A rocket preparing to launch into space. Caption: there is an imbalance, and the rocket takes off--
Science Video Vocab
Episode 13
3 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Speedometer. Caption: Velocity is a vector quantity.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 76
2 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Speedometer. Caption: Velocity is often confused with speed.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 77
3 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Cycle showing evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection. Caption: Let's explore each stage.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 89
3 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 4
A needle scratching measurement onto paper. Caption: Earthquakes are measured on a seismograph.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 46
3 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
A knife on a cutting board chopping onions. Caption: A knife is a type of wedge.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 54
2 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
Close up of a bicycle tire. Caption: A wheel and axle help to move objects.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 55
3 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
Three blade wind turbine as seen from below. Caption: Wind turbines are mounted on high towers.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 140
3 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Mechanical equipment with a glowing beam of blue and magenta light. Caption: I was excited, being able to build my own lasers,
Scientists & Engineers On Sofas (And Other Furnishings)
Episode 5
6 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
A diagram depicts circular waves with its center beneath the ground. Seismic waves. Longitudinal and transverse.
1 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person turning a spigot. Caption: it is multiplied at the axle, overcoming the resistance force.
20 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
School of fish swimming in a tank. Caption: Sometimes they sink like these rocks.
Everyday Science for Preschoolers
Episode 4
1 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
The puppy is seated on the carpet. Caption: No, something called quantum tunneling.
Smart Puppy! and Friends
Episode 7
1 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 9
Two black cats look straight. Caption: Hey, Smart Puppy, how small are atoms?
Smart Puppy! and Friends
Episode 8
1 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 9
Two black cats look straight. Caption: What's a superconductor?
Smart Puppy! and Friends
Episode 3
51 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 9
An illustration of a magnet with a magnetic needle pointing north west. Caption: But its north end won't stay pointing north.
Smart Puppy! and Friends
Episode 6
59 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 9
Two black cats look straight. Caption: When you add all those teensy-weensy magnets up?
Smart Puppy! and Friends
Episode 4
50 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 9
A puppy is seated on a carpet. Caption: Do you want to see a nanodaot?
Smart Puppy! and Friends
Episode 1
59 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 9
The puppy is seated on the carpet. Caption: Do you know want makes a buckyball special?
Smart Puppy! and Friends
Episode 2
1 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 9
The puppy is seated on the carpet. Caption: I just found out how tiny magnets can be.
Smart Puppy! and Friends
Episode 5
1 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 9
Four people in a yard holding balloons. One is on a ladder. Caption: Five, four, three, two, one.
Design Squad Nation
Episode 9
3 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 8
A diagram illustrates a solar eclipse. An object has its actual position behind the Sun. The line of sight of this object from the Earth is a curved line. But, the object it is observed at a different position from the Earth. This line of observation is a straight line. The angle between the two lines is labeled, proof.
1 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
River with forested banks. Caption: in that it can exist as a solid, liquid, or gas.
20 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
Rocket launching. Caption: There will be private citizens paying for their own trips
16 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12
Dense points of light on a black background. Caption: The oldest could be 11 to 13 billion years old,
Spacefiles
Episode 3
10 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Internal view of a telescope. Caption: It collects light like the lens of an eye.
Spacefiles
Episode 1
10 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Nebulous clouds and points of light with a black hole at the center. Caption: We can't see a black hole, but it bends passing light.
Spacefiles
Episode 4
10 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Rotational motion theta equals s over r. Caption: We showed you that equation awhile ago.
Standard Deviants School: Physics
Episode 4
24 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
An illustration depicts a blue down arrow and a red up arrow representing T A L and T H 2 O in contact with each other. The junction of the two arrows is labeled T e. On screen text, Physics, Part 5, Section A. Caption: is higher than the initial temperature of the water.
Standard Deviants School: Physics
Episode 8
24 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Animation of a circular wheel in motion. On screen Text, Projectile motion A. An arrow indicates same time. Caption: It takes the same time to rise as to fall.
Standard Deviants School: Physics
Episode 3
24 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
An illustration of an elliptical orbit in space, with two foci. Lines are drawn from the foci to an object at the perigee. Caption: woman, an ellipse is a plane figure.
Standard Deviants School: Physics
Episode 7
24 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A graphical representation of the x y coordinate plane. 2 units from the origin are marked on the positive and negative sides of the x and y axes. An upward arrow extends from the origin to (0, 2). On screen text, what are scalars and vectors. Caption; woman, this vector's direction is 90 degrees.
Standard Deviants School: Physics
Episode 1
23 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A woman is in ski outfits. An animation of a red sphere with on screen text, more inertia, greater mass. Caption: The red sphere has greater mass.
Standard Deviants School: Physics
Episode 5
24 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
First law of Thermodynamics. Caption: So delta U equals Q minus W.
Standard Deviants School: Physics
Episode 9
24 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Multiplying vectors c. Vector A and Vector B roughly parallel in the same direction. Caption: in the direction of the first vector.
Standard Deviants School: Physics
Episode 2
24 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
An illustration of the sun and earth in space. On screen text, Find the weight of the pizza pie on the sun. w = m g. Caption, weight equals mass times acceleration due to gravity.
Standard Deviants School: Physics
Episode 6
24 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Thermometer in a beaker of boiling yellow fluid. Caption: But margarine boils at 120 degrees Celsius.
17 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Person holding a screw touching a paper clip. Caption: then this screw should be able to generate a magnetic field.
5 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Illustration of an Na atom with no electrons on the third, outer ring. Caption: When an element loses all the electrons
Chemistry: Solved By Sherlock Olmos
Episode 3
11 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Periodic table of elements. Caption: In the case of the groups with lithium and fluoride,
Chemistry: Solved By Sherlock Olmos
Episode 2
11 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
ASL
Cartoon character one-handed lifting a bar with weights on it. Caption: Less pull means I can lift this weight with one hand.
The Magic School Bus
Season 4 / Ep 408
25 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
ASL
Teacher from the magic school bus is wearing earrings that light up and lifting a student. Caption: Want to shed some light on your experience, Keesha?
The Magic School Bus
Season 3 / Ep 305
25 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
ASL
Magic school bus travelling through a tube with points of light. Caption: The inside of the wire is filled with electric charges,
The Magic School Bus
Season 4 / Ep 410
25 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
ASL
Cartoon of people standing, one talking on a cell phone. Caption: I plugged it in, and it went kablooey!
The Magic School Bus
Season 2 / Ep 210
25 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
ASL
Cartoon of someone pointing to a space capsule that has safely landed. Caption: They made it!
The Magic School Bus
Season 4 / Ep 404
25 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
ASL
The magic school bus on arctic ice with walrus outside. Caption: Don’t mean to be rude, but you're too heavy!
The Magic School Bus
Season 3 / Ep 302
25 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
ASL
Cartoon of a girl repeated in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. Caption: Go back through the prism? Sounds like a plan to me.
The Magic School Bus
Season 3 / Ep 307
25 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
ASL
Teacher and students from the magic school bus standing next to another character. Caption: Class, meet Molly.
The Magic School Bus
Season 4 / Ep 401
25 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
ASL
Cartoon of people on a baseball field. Caption: Friction-Free Baseball Classic.
The Magic School Bus
Season 1 / Ep 110
25 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
ASL
Cartoon of a lizard at the pedals of a vehicle, reaching up to the ignition. Caption: Turn the key, Liz!
The Magic School Bus
Season 2 / Ep 208
25 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
ASL
Students and teacher from the magic school bus in an open cockpit airplane. Caption: I've got that "air moving past our wings" feeling, guys.
The Magic School Bus
Season 2 / Ep 209
25 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
ASL
Students from the magic school bus stand on a dock while their teacher is in the water. Caption: Well, if you don't look, you'll never see,
The Magic School Bus
Season 2 / Ep 213
26 minutes
Grade Level: 2 - 6
Cartoon of two people in lab coast, one holding a beaker with blue liquid. Caption: the beginning of modern science,
Chemistry: Solved By Sherlock Olmos
Episode 1
11 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
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