Silent Science Videos To Entertain Teens?
March 24, 2013 12:26 PM Subscribe
Looking for videos to create a youtube playlist to entertain a group of science-minded teenagers for about 30 min that are largely visual. Sound is fine but the bulk shouldn't be someone talking to the class like an instructor - visualizations are best - ideally they should look really, really cool. Class is engineering focused, but chemistry, robotics, wobbly bridges, comp-sci, biology, are all welcome.
Backstory: the kids are going to be holed up in a room for a while without their phones, the projector will be playing a pre-selected set of youtube videos.
Backstory: the kids are going to be holed up in a room for a while without their phones, the projector will be playing a pre-selected set of youtube videos.
Take a look at Dimensions. There's a narrator, but the videos themselves are composed of computer graphics.
posted by Bokmakierie at 12:49 PM on March 24, 2013
posted by Bokmakierie at 12:49 PM on March 24, 2013
You might be super interested in two mega posts I made here a while ago collecting all of the 3D molecular movies I know of.
posted by Blasdelb at 12:54 PM on March 24, 2013
posted by Blasdelb at 12:54 PM on March 24, 2013
Protein Synthesis: an epic on the cellular level, skipping the first three minutes of guy talking to camera.
Also, there's a LOT of good space stuff out there -- amateurs ballooning video cameras up to near-space, the guy who painstakingly cleaned up the mars lander footage, the shuttle launch as seen from the orbiter... (sorry, don't have time now to track down the links, but I think all of those were on the blue!).
posted by pont at 12:58 PM on March 24, 2013
Also, there's a LOT of good space stuff out there -- amateurs ballooning video cameras up to near-space, the guy who painstakingly cleaned up the mars lander footage, the shuttle launch as seen from the orbiter... (sorry, don't have time now to track down the links, but I think all of those were on the blue!).
posted by pont at 12:58 PM on March 24, 2013
The website TheKidShouldSeeThis.com lists interesting videos from youtube and vimeo that touch on a variety of topics. The amount of narration varies.
Also, the OK Go video that uses a rube goldberg machine is pretty cool: Official Video Here
posted by rakaidan at 3:49 PM on March 24, 2013 [1 favorite]
Also, the OK Go video that uses a rube goldberg machine is pretty cool: Official Video Here
posted by rakaidan at 3:49 PM on March 24, 2013 [1 favorite]
Go look at all the stuff from Don Pettit, astronaut physics nerd, who posts lots of cool videos.
posted by LobsterMitten at 4:11 PM on March 24, 2013
posted by LobsterMitten at 4:11 PM on March 24, 2013
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Here's a link: http://www.sciencefriday.com/video/scifrivideo.xml.
posted by amtho at 12:49 PM on March 24, 2013