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?