YouTube can be a quagmire of disinformation and sales pitches, but there are many diamonds in the rough if you know where to look. Here are just a few fun channels my gifted clients have referred to me over the years. These pages are all ages appropriate and offer fun as well as facts for inquiring young minds and families looking for something interesting to subscribe to for those long car rides and rainy day doldrums.
The Amoeba Sisters Channel
We are two sisters on a mission to demystify science with humor and relevance by creating free videos, GIFs, handouts, resources, and comics. On our channel page, you can scroll down to see some of our featured videos. Underneath the featured videos, you can see our biology playlist which includes all of our life science videos. Video has been dubbed using an artificial voice via https://aloud.area120.google.com to increase accessibility. You can change the audio track language in the Settings menu. The Amoeba Sisters videos demystify science with humor and relevance. The videos center on Pinky’s certification and experience in teaching biology at the high school level. Learn more about our videos here: https://www.amoebasisters.com/our-videos
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
What is Kurzgesagt?
Kurzgesagt pronounced kurts·guh·zaakt is an channel focused on animation videos explaining things with optimistic nihilism since 12,013. We’re a team of illustrators, animators, number crunchers and one dog who aim to spark curiosity about science and the world we live in. To us nothing is boring if you tell a good story.
Mark Rober
Who is Mark Rober?
Former NASA and Apple engineer. Current YouTuber and friend of science and famous for exciting experiments like gelatin pools, glitter bombs, and squirrel mazes.
Answers to some common questions: 1) I studied Mechanical Engineering in School. I did my undergrad at BYU and Masters at USC. 2) I worked for NASA JPL for 9 years, 7 of which were working on the Curiosity Rover (I made a video about it you should def totes watch cause it’s probably my favorite of all my videos). Then I created Digital Dudz (made some videos about this too) and eventually sold it after 2 years. Then I worked for Apple in their Special Projects Group doing Product Design as a Mechanical Engineer for 5 years. As of 2019, I just make my monthly YouTube videos. 3) Link to free and therefore substandard build plans for my custom workbench can be found below. 4) I make a monthly toy we build together on a video, that gets delivered to your house that teaches you to think like an engineer. Check it out at- https://crunchlabs.com/MarkRober
