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They may not be as exciting as a sharknado or a weaselquake, but the events leading to the formation of the earth were pretty cool too. Or, well, h...

Did you know that Ice Age movie was actually based on real events? It was. Well, except for the group of animals being able to talk to each other....

Gravity: you can't see it, but it's the only thing keeping you from flying off into space right now. Time to buy it a Hallmark card.

Today's lesson is on the rock cycle. Spoiler alert: it's way less effective at getting you to school than a bicycle. There's a reason wheels are ma...

We wanted to make a video about sedentary rocks, but we couldn't get lazy uncle Rocky off the couch. Oh well. We'll teach you about sedimentary roc...

Today we're bringing you the opposite of Jurassic Park—how living things become fossils. Okay okay, it might not be quite as fun...but hey, at le...

When you time travel, pass out, and wake up in a cave, you might wonder why there's only one set of three-toed footprints leading in. But don't wor...

Before you get too excited, this lesson doesn't involve any actual tracing...although we suppose if you actually found any fossilized footprints or...

Forget earth, wind, and fire. Today's all about paper, ink, and um...ideas? We're learning about the elements of a book.

Don't scream at your listeners, don't throw things, don't get off topic, don't pretend to be Napoleon Bonaparte...unless of course the report is ab...

We hope you lava learning about melting rocks and eruptions, because today we're learning all about volcanoes. 

The moon isn't the only one going through phases. Today we're going to learn about a bunch of different phases the Earth went through before it bec...

Peeking through the bushes, spotting their prey, stalking, trailing, and then leaping viciously onto...a rock? Okay so these people don't really hu...

Today we'll teach you how to sort between the right and wrong sources for your research. Remember, .edu sites are probably good, sites with tons of...

Keep a stiff upper lip, Shmoopers. Today's lesson is about how all the dinosaurs died. Before we got to ride any of them. Even once.

We were thinking you could just wear smaller shoes, but that might get uncomfortable. Maybe you should try some of the things in the video instead.

They aren't green, they don't come from greenhouses, so why do we call them greenhouse gases? Well, we're not going to give it away in the descript...

As Bob Dylan once famously said, "The climate it is a-changin'." We're paraphrasing.

No, photosynthesis is not the process by which you Photoshop your dad's head onto your mom's body. But that is just as important to the welfare of...

Watch as we make a mountain out of an anthill. Seriously. You're gonna larva it.