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Spraying ice removing solution on a sheet. Caption: Just spray on and the ice that forms slips away.
4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn't Hear About This Week
Episode 28
2 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Object flying in the sky attached to a tether. Caption: We can capture more energy with less wind.
10 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Biomass & Biofuel
8 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
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
An angled roof covered in solar panels on top of a reflective building with "Third Sun Solar" and a logo on the side. Caption: We mount solar panels on roofs, we create energy,
Career Connections
Episode 27
5 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Illustration of person in hardhat and overalls. Caption: Solar Installation Companies. We are working with solar installation companies.
Career Spotlight
Episode 2
4 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Four people in reflective vests and hardhats install a very large solar panel in an array of other solar panels. Caption: They're expensive. They use a lot of material.
Career Spotlight
Episode 1
2 minutes 57 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
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
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
Illustration of Earth. Midlatitude jet stream (cool) at the top of the globe and Subtropical jet stream (warm) close to the equator. Both move clockwise. Caption: it is a powerful band of winds known for bringing winter storms
Core Meteorology
Season 0 / Ep 1
28 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12
Earth with a thin halo labeled as greenhouse gases. Caption: Greenhouse gases are mostly water vapor and carbon dioxide.
Earth Science
Episode 6
26 minutes
Grade Level: 6 - 9
Earth as seen from space with the Sun visible behind it. Caption: (male narrator) All across the planet,
Earth: The Operators' Manual
Episode 1
53 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Cartoon of a woman sitting at a desk with an open book in front of her. Spanish captions.
Eco S.O.S. (Spanish)
Season 0 / Ep 26
11 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
A reservoir of water with a dam at one end and water flowing out the other side. Caption: until it's needed by the electric plant.
Eco=Kids Explore
Season 2 / Ep 2
16 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Person in a hard hat looking at a pressure gauge attached to industrial pipes. Caption: You can't build a plant just anywhere.
Eco=Kids Explore
Season 1 / Ep 2
11 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
A large bank of solar panels. Photovoltaic cells. Caption: Or on a smaller scale by using photovoltaic cells.
Eco=Kids Explore
Season 1 / Ep 4
17 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Illustration of a windmill. Caption: which spins a generator to create electricity.
Eco=Kids Explore
Season 1 / Ep 5
14 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
A lit match. Caption: Energy comes in many different forms.
19 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
Gloved hands placing insulation in between ceiling beams. Caption: and easier to manipulate in the attic.
20 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Earth at night as viewed from space. A network of glowing light is visible in unpopulated areas across the globe. Caption: of electricity to light our cities and power our economy.
Earth: The Operators' Manual
Episode 3
53 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 10
Industrial smokestack releasing pollution into the air as seen from below. Caption: And most people worry about environmental pollution
17 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A lit match. Spanish captions.
13 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Two power cords plugged into a wall outlet. Caption: We also use electrical energy every day
9 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Still image from: Fossil Fuels
12 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Map of the western U,S, with fracking icons in Southern California, central and eastern Colorado, and eastern Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
Fracking: America's Energy Revolution
Episode 2
28 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Digital illustration of a cross section of land showing a wavy pattern of soil types with a black stripe labeled Niobrara 6,800 feet below the surface.
Fracking: America's Energy Revolution
Episode 1
28 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
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
Closeup of a hand handling a small, green plant in a densely populated patch of similar plants. Caption: How do green roofs change how a building transfers heat?
Green Revolution
Episode 1
6 minutes 29 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
Cartoon owl at the controls of a vehicle. Caption: It is a free source of light.
Johan: The Young Scientist
Episode 8
13 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Thermometer in a beaker of water reading almost 100 degrees. Spanish captions.
15 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Semi-truck with a tank labeled "Milligan Bio-Tech Canola based dust suppressant." Caption: The idea caught the attention of Milligan Bio-Tech.
Innovation Nation
Episode 2
23 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Person standing in a shop with crowded shelves and some machinery. Caption: The idea came to me when I was a teenager:
Innovation Nation
Episode 5
23 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Person at a wall of controls. Caption: when atoms are either joined together or split apart.
26 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 12
Person stands behind metal rectangle that frames a diagrammed kernel of corn. Parts of kernel labeled, "Starch and Protein," "Starch and Gluten," and "Germ." Text to side reads, "62 percent starch. 20 percent protein. 15 percent water. 4 percent oil."
Into the Outdoors
Episode 26
9 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Black line drawing on light blue background. Grimacing fish points up towards broken chain and extraction equipment. Title card reads, "Cracking Hydrocarbon Chains and Environmental Concerns."
Into the Outdoors
Episode 28
6 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Red tractor collects corn dumped from green grain combine harvester in background.
Into the Outdoors
Episode 38
4 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Black and white illustration on wrinkled white background. A generating station connects to power lines, some outlined with neon pink zig zags.
Into the Outdoors
Episode 35
7 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Black illustration on aqua blue background. Man in hard hat frowns and rests chin in hand while holding a conical flask in other hand. Question mark floats above him. Title card reads, "Serious Science. Decoding the Science of Crude Oil."
Into the Outdoors
Episode 36
5 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Man in hard hat and yellow vest stands in tall grass beside a truck. Row of transmission towers cascades behind him. Another man in yellow looks up at green and red-leaved trees at right.
Into the Outdoors
Episode 37
8 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Men in yellow shirts and hard hats work at an electrical station. Cars, equipment, and grassy field occupy background.
Into the Outdoors
Episode 40
8 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Black illustration. Cyclic diagram begins with a corn plant at the top. From there, arrows connect to an ethanol refinery, fuel pump, and person driving a car emitting a red puff cloud labeled, "C, O, 2." A green arrow labeled C, O, 2 points to the corn.
Into the Outdoors
Episode 39
8 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Closeup of golden french fries in bubbling cooking oil.
Into the Outdoors
Episode 43
5 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Bearded man in safety glasses looks at a jar of transparent liquid as he holds it up in a lab setting.
Into the Outdoors
Episode 27
4 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Rows of black barrels labeled, "Crude Oil." Title card reads, "Crude is a homogenous, unrefined mixture of, Gasoline, Diesel, Jet Fuel, Fuel Oil."
Into the Outdoors
Episode 42
23 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
A diagram of a longitudinal wave. Waves transport energy.
1 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Diagram of a circuit. Spanish captions.
Invisible Science and Technology Surrounding (Spanish)
Episode 3
27 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
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
Longitudinal waves through three mediums solid, water, and air.
1 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 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
Illustration of a spider on a light switch. Caption: Okay? And we're off.
My Little Planet
Episode 17
5 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Cartoon of a person speaking to a bird. Caption: There's no big rush. My boat's faster than his.
My Little Planet
Episode 16
5 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Recently Added
Still image from: Nature Knows Best: The Power of Nature
Nature Knows Best
Season 1 / Ep 5
22 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person in a yellow jumpsuit standing next to a large piece of industrial equipment. Caption: The reactor structures suffer the corrosive effects
27 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 10
Still image from: Overview: How Five Billion Pounds of Las Vegas Garbage Powers a City
Overview
Season 1 / Ep 12
8 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Overview: Why Oil Country Is Turning to Wind Power
Overview
Season 1 / Ep 13
9 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Cartoon of two characters, eyes wide. Caption: (both) Ranger Bob!
Johan: The Young Scientist
Episode 26
12 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Two characters with children next to them. Spanish captions.
Plaza Sésamo (Spanish)
Season 12 / Ep 4
24 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
Cartoon of two characters sitting on a couch. Caption: It comes from an electric generator.
Johan: The Young Scientist
Episode 18
13 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Rolling sand dunes with powerlines in the foreground. Caption: Beneath these dunes lies 65% of all known oil reserves.
26 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Waves at sunset looking towards an industrial platform held above the water. Caption: Worldwide, it makes up about a third of the energy supply.
15 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Earth as seen from space. Caption: (narrator) Planet Earth is awash in renewable energy.
Earth: The Operators' Manual
Episode 2
53 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 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
Two rectangular batteries with positive and negative leads. Caption: An automobile battery is an example of a wet cell.
Real World Science
Episode 5
20 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 9
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
Person holding a small partially transparent cube with wires and other equipment attached. Caption: and are developing microbial fuel cells
Science Nation
Episode 108
2 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person pumping fuel into a vehicle. Caption: (narrator) And there you have it: synthetic diesel fuel.
Science Nation
Episode 32
3 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Computer screen showing a bar graph and pie chart of energy consumption in watt-hours. Caption: showing me which devices are consuming the most energy.
Science Nation
Episode 186
2 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person picking up wood chips and putting them into a plastic bag. Caption: (Huber) Cellulose is basically stored solar energy
Science Nation
Episode 202
4 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Illustration of an energy source on a grid. Caption: and will power more than 650 homes.
Science Nation
Episode 210
3 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Semi-trailer with large cylindrical tanks labelled as Hydrogen, Compressed. Caption:(narrator) Hydrogen is hailed as the fuel of the future --
Science Nation
Episode 180
4 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
A line of ants carrying pieces of leaf larger than their bodies. Caption: leafcutter ants maintain a complex society.
Science Nation
Episode 143
2 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Solar panels on a roof top. Caption: But even now, they say solar energy is ready for prime time.
Science Nation
Episode 216
3 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Smoggy city street crowded with vehicles. Caption: China is the 2nd largest energy consumer in the world,
Science Nation
Episode 182
5 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Electrical meter box attached to the outside of a building. Caption: All the entries have to be zero-energy homes,
Science Nation
Episode 185
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Setting sun as seen through tall wild grasses. Caption: to harness the sun's energy to make renewable fuels.
Science Nation
Episode 45
2 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
The sun seen closely enough to show the light and dark pattern of the surface. Caption: Their mission: put the heat of the sun to work,
Science Nation
Episode 31
3 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of a green, circular plant with a white center. Caption: have the ability to make diesel-like fuels.
Science Nation
Episode 50
2 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 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
Person standing at the top of a wind turbine. Caption: to see if they can handle 300-foot heights.
Science Nation
Episode 168
2 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Field of grain like plants. Caption: such as ethanol and propanol.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 16
2 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
A container of BioFuel. Spanish captions.
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 10
2 minutes 50 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
Up close view of an industrial battery. Spanish captions.
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 1
3 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Derrick pumping oil. Caption: The oil is then pumped out of the ground.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 124
4 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
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
Rings around an atom. Spanish captions.
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 37
3 minutes 34 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 man using a bow and arrow. Spanish captions.
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 39
2 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
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
Yellow sun setting over a desert. Spanish captions.
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 38
4 minutes 21 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
Close up view of man strumming guitar. Spanish captions.
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 40
4 minutes 15 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
Close up views of atoms. Spanish captions.
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 9
3 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
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
Wave crashing in the ocean. Spanish captions.
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 41
3 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
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
Blurry image of 2 kangaroos jumping past tufts of trees. Title card reads, "Shedding light on energy, Episode 3. Energy efficiency."
Shedding Light on Energy
Episode 3
30 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Hand holds laboratory tongs with flaming object over a baking sheet sitting on a stove. Title card reads, "Shedding light on energy, Episode 1. Forms of energy."
Shedding Light on Energy
Episode
28 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 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
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
Closeup of a ship's bow surrounded by gray ocean. Title card reads, "The Arctic's Changing Climate and Economics."
28 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
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
Pit crew station filled with tires at a racetrack. Caption: Friction is necessary for breaks and tires to work.
The Science of Speed
Episode 1
5 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Race car on a track. Caption: Front downforce gives you front grip,
The Science of Speed
Episode 2
5 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Blurry photo of a city. Spanish captions.
14 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Closeup of 2 hands cupping water under a running faucet.
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A large dam spanning across a lake. Caption: It's the world's largest hydroelectric dam.
22 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Graphic of a dissected teal battery with a plus sign and text that reads, "positive electrode," at the top and a minus sign and text that reads, "negative electrode," at the bottom. Next to it is a green cylinder labeled, "electrolyte."
Untold
Episode 6
14 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Illustration of the sun sending heat into space and that heat hitting the Earth. Caption: So how is the sun able to heat the earth?
Elementary Energy
Season 0 / Ep 4
10 minutes 43 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 6
Illustration of a tube with some internal structures and a rod through the center. Caption: When you make the generator turn,
Elementary Energy
Season 0 / Ep 3
10 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 6
Digital rendering of objects shows a square block at the end of a stick propped up on a tall rectangular block. An arrow pointing up at an angle along the stick from the square block.
15 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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