Science (Biology): Does being cold help you get a cold?

How many times to we tell our children to put on warm clothes during the winter so that they won't get a cold?  Well this ASAP Science video discuss whether or not we are lying to our children.  They do an excellent job visually presenting and discuss the effects of the common cold.  Why are we really more likely to get sick in the fall and early winter?  What is causing the illness to spread so easily during the cold season?

Subject:  Science (Biology)
Grade Level:  5-12
Time:  2:45

Science (Biology): How old are your ears?

How old are your ears?  What a weird question!!  Why would the age of your ears even matter?  Did you know that as you get older you can't hear higher pitches in frequency?  Did you know that there are actual cell phone ring tones that are at these higher frequencies so that your students can hear themselves getting a text or all, but because you are over 20 you probably can't hear the tone.  In this video by AsapScience on Youtube, you will actually get a chance to see how old your ears are.  This video does an excellent job explaining the science behind it as well as actually demonstrating this scientific concept to your students and yourself.  See how old your ears are.

Subject:  Science (Biology and Physics)
Grade Levels:  All
Time:  1:38

Science (Biology): Which came first? The chicken or the egg?

AsapScience is a great Youtube channel that does an excellent job graphically explaining scientific concepts.  They can be very entertaining.  With this video you can easily start off a class on genetics or reproduction.  Simply propose the age old question, "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?  Discuss this a little bit with your class and see what they have to say.  How much to they understand the theory of evolution and natural selection?  You will find that they have some amazing ideas to share.  Remember to have your students justify their reasoning using scientific concepts that they may already understand.  Then just show them the video and see if their ideas jive with how AsapScience explains it.

Subject:  Science (Biology)
Time:  3:31
Grade Level:  8-12

Science: How does a tree "suck" its water all the way to the top?

This video was made by Veritasium, a Youtuber that does an excellent job creating videos about educational thoughts, ideas, and processes.  In this video he takes you on a journey to find out how a tree can get water all the way to its top when so many other scientific factors and laws support such an impossible possibility.  Veritasium uses friends and scientists to explain how this tree sucking phenomenon is possible.

Subject:  Science (Life)
Grade Levels:   8-12
Time:  7:22

Science: What are population distributions?

This is an awesome video that can serve as an introductory to population distributions.  It talks about the three different population distributions:  aggregated, uniform, and random.  The video contains neat footage of animals and plants living in different locations of the world.

Subject:  Ecology
Grade Level:  4-12
Length:  3:51

Science: What is the Muscular System?

Understanding the muscular system is important to any biology curriculum.  This flash animation discuss what the muscular system is and many facts about it that you might not have known.

Subject:  Life Science

Grade Level:  K-6

Length:  6:56

Science: What is the digestive system and how does it work?

This scientific educational video visually explains the digestive system.  It does so by show how a piece of food goes throughout your body and ends up as waste.

Subject:  Biology
Grade Level:  6-12
Length:  1:49

Science: What are the processes and functions for living things?

This video describes the 7 functions and processes of life:  Movement, Sensitivity, Respiration, Nutrition, Growth, Excretion, and Reproduction.

Subject:  Science (Biology)
Grade Levels:  3-12
Length:  4:52

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