Big History Project Videos

Unit 1 - What is Big History

Activity 1.0 (Welcome to Big History)

History as Mystery

Activity 1.1 (Scale)

Powers of 10

Activity 1.4 (Yardsticks and Clocks)

Crash Course Astronomy: Distances

How Old Is the Earth?

Unit 2 - The Big Bang

Activity 2.3 (Ways of Knowing: The Expanding Universe)

What Is the Universe Expanding Into?

Hubble's Expanding Universe. Redshift, and the Big Bang Theory

What Are Dark Matter and Dark Energy?

Unit 3 - Stars & Elements

Activity 3.2 (Ways of Knowing - Stars and Elements)

Crash Course Chemistry: Periodic Table

Activity 3.3 (Sorting Stars)

Crash Course Astronomy: Stars

Activity 3.4 (How Old Is the Sun?)

How Do We Know How Old the Sun Is?

Crash Course Astronomy: The Sun

Unit 4 - Our Solar System and Earth

Activity 4.4 (True Nature of Our Solar System)

Crash Course Astronomy: Introduction to the Solar System

To Scale: The Solar System

Activity 4.5 (Exoplanets)

Crash Course Astronomy: Exoplanets

Unit 5 - Life

Activity 5.4 (Impacts!)

The Three Biggest Space Impacts Ever

The Chelyabinsk Meteor: What We Know

Unit 7 - Agriculture & Civilization

Activity 7.3 (What Should We Eat?)

Fundamentals of Nutrients and the History of Nutrition

The Real Paleo Diet

Unit 8 - Expansion & Interconnection

Activity 8.2 (The Columbian Exchange)

Crash Course World History: The Columbian Exchange)

Unit 9 - Acceleration

Activity 9.1 (Acceleration)

Crash Course: The Industrial Revolution

Activity 9.4 (How Was the Modern World Created? Industrialism)

Crash Course World History: Globalization I - The Upside

Activity 9.5 (How Was the Modern World Created? Modern States and Identities)

Crash Course History: Imperialism

Activity 9.6 (Crisis and Conflict on the Global Stage)

Crash Course World History: Archdukes, Cynicism, and World War I

Crash Course World History: WW II

Activity 9.8 (To Infinity and Beyond!)

TED-Ed - Who Won the Space Race?

TED-Ed - Could We Actually Live on Mars?

Activity 9.9 (Energizing the Future)

Crash Course World History: Humans and Energy

Running on Renewable Energy

Unit 10 - The Future

Activity 10.1 (The Biosphere)

Crash Course World History: Globalization II - Good or Bad

Activity 10.3 (Are We Alone?)

The Fermi Paradox - Where Are All the Aliens?

Neil deGrasse Tyson - Where Are the Aliens?