Are you helping your kids understand math and science concepts? Looking for fun ways to explore social studies? Go to YouTube! YouTube is a great learning resource and provides a wealth of educational channels for kids, youth and adults. Here are our top picks for the best 10 educational YouTube Channels that you should subscribe to right now!
1. TED-ED
TED-Ed is TED’s youth and education initiative. TED-Ed’s mission is to spark and celebrate the ideas of teachers and students around the world. TED-Ed has grown from an idea worth spreading into an award-winning education platform that serves millions of teachers and students around the world every week. Within TED-Ed’s growing library of TED-Ed animations, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed website (ed.ted.com).
Subscribers: 14.7M
2. CrashCourse
At CrashCourse, high quality educational videos are available to everyone for free. Until now, The CrashCourse team has produced more than 32 courses on a wide variety of subjects, including organic chemistry, literature, world history, biology, philosophy, theater, ecology, and many more. They also recently teamed up with Arizona State University to bring you two more courses: Study Hall Composition, and Study Hall Algebra.
Subscribers: 12.6M
3. Kids Learning Tube
Kids Learning Tube began in 2015 as a YouTube channel with a mission to educate kids of all ages through original music and animation in a fun and unique approach. As of today, Kids Learning Tube has published 400+ sing-a-long videos covering a vast array of educational subject matters including the solar system, geography, the human body, and much more. People of all ages love Kids Learning Tube's fun and unique approach to education, and teachers and parents most often comment that to their students, children and they themselves are smarter for watching.
Subscribers: 1.13M
4. Khan Academy
Khan Academy is an American non-profit educational organization with the mission of providing a totally free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. The interactive practice problems, articles, and videos help students succeed in math, biology, chemistry, physics, history, economics, finance, grammar, and many other topics. It also provides online courses for preparing for standardized tests, including the SAT, MCAT and LSAT.
Subscribers: 6.8M
5. AsapSCIENCE
AsapSCIENCE is a YouTube channel created by Canadian YouTubers Mitchell "Mitch" Moffit and Gregory Brown. The channel produces weekly videos that touch on many different topics of science. It is a colourful intersection of art, science, and pop culture where anyone can learn, participate, and grow. AsapScience videos are about science, with many episodes. They sometimes make songs explaining science. Each video's scientific concepts are conveyed using colored drawings on a whiteboard and voice-over narration.
Subscribers: 9.74M
6. minutephysics
Minute Physics is an educational YouTube channel created by Henry Reich in 2011. The channel's videos use whiteboard animation to explain physics-related topics in approximately one minute. Videos from Minute Physics have been featured on PBS NewsHour, Huffington Post, NBC, and Gizmodo. The most popular Minute Physics video, with more than 15 million views, discusses whether it is more suitable to walk or to run when trying to avoid rain.
Subscribers: 5.37M
7. It's Okay To Be Smart
It's Okay to be Smart isis a series of educational videos in which host Joe Hanson, Ph.D. explores science, our universe and the excitement of learning new things. Using creative graphic imagery, humor, and a whole lot of his own knowledge, Hanson teaches viewers how and why things work the way they do. The videos incorporate scientific truths from anatomy, biology, astronomy, chemistry, human behavior, as well as the art of general observation. It's especially great for kids, but you'll find that you learn a lot too watching these videos.
Subscribers: 4M
8. Vox
Vox helps you cut through the noise and understand what's driving events in the headlines and in our lives, covering everything from taxes to terrorism to Taylor Swift. It has regularly posted videos on news and informational subjects since 2014. These videos are accompanied by an article on their website. The themes covered in the videos are usually similar to the themes covered in the regular, written articles on the website (www.vox.com). If you’ll excuse the sporadic news items, Vox produces some high quality educational digital media content.
Subscribers: 9.88M
9. Easy Languages
Learning a language? Interested in foreign cultures? If you said “Yes!” to at least one of these questions then Easy Languages is the project for you. Easy Languages is an international video project aiming at supporting people worldwide to learn languages through authentic street interviews and expose the street culture of participating partner countries abroad. Each episode has a specific topic and is produced in local languages and contain subtitles in both the original language as well as in English. Regardless of your level, you will be able to hear, read and “see” the language in its local habitat.
Subscribers: 1.09M
10. Ali Abdaal
Ali is a Cambridge University medicine graduate and a junior doctor working in Cambridge, UK. On this channel, he makes videos about medicine, technology, productivity and lifestyle design, helping people lead happier, healthier and more productive lives with the overall aim of helping people do more of what matters to them.
Subscribers: 2.12M
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