AnthemLights Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 Hi all, If you could help me out here I would be grateful. I am looking for science videos for my two sons (age 12 and 14) to watch. They both had a very light school year (just in science, not with their other classes) and are done or almost done with what I had planned for them to do. I would like to find something along the lines of "how stuff works". Electronics, engineering, inventions, technology, etc. We do not have TV, but we do have high speed internet. Free would be good, but I also don't mind paying for something. Netflix, maybe? If there is something on there that is very worthwhile. I am quite ignorant, though, about what is out there. Clean content is very important to me. Any recommendations? or links to a thread? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
displace Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 (edited) Crash course on you tube. Vsauce on you tube. Browse documentaries on Netflix. Edited March 1, 2017 by displace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamamoose Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 Mystery science Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gstharr Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 Mystery Science is too young for the 6th grader (11y.o.). We use bosemanscience.com to supplement his school work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mykidsrmyjoy Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 Moody Science Classics on YouTube. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wintermom Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 My ds 14 and I are doing a Coursera course called "How things work" right now. It's physics topics without the math. it's really good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bodiesmom Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 I believe Bill Nye has videos online, and if iirc, there are some geared more for your age group Also, my 5th grader is really enjoying Jonathen Bird's Blue World online videos. Included on his website are lesson plans and discussion questions for each webisode 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahW Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 Also, my 5th grader is really enjoying Jonathen Bird's Blue World online videos. Included on his website are lesson plans and discussion questions for each webisode Oh, nice find! Do you just start at Episode 1 and use the discussion questions? Or is there a better way of using it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bibsandmegs Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 Bozeman Science has lots of high school level science videos. Not sure that's what you're looking for, but it's an option and they're free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lere18 Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 These are highly entertaining: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZYTClx2T1of7BRZ86-8fow (SciShow) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bodiesmom Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 Oh, nice find! Do you just start at Episode 1 and use the discussion questions? Or is there a better way of using it? I don't do anything fancy with it. I just print out the study guides and have them available for each lesson as my son works through them. For the most part he has done it independently in that he writes the answers to each question down. Some some webisodes are more conducive to discussion than others, and there are a handful that don't have accompanying study guides. I really like that he is asked to dig a little more on each subject with their Internet research questions. It is by far his favorite subject! He frequently calls me to the computer to watch a webisode segment that he found to be especially fascinating. Good luck and have fun with them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 Annenberg Videos https://www.learner.org/resources/browse.html?d=6&g=4 Some of them are teacher training, but most of the ones at the above link are for the student. Some of the chemistry ones are really good, even if slightly dated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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