Sunday, May 26, 2013

Crash Course: Entertaining and Educational

Crash Course is an educational YouTube channel started by Hank and John Green. Crash Course was one of the 100 initial channels of YouTube's $100 million dollar original channel initiative. Having finished earlier courses on biology, world history, ecology, and English literature, Hank Green now teaches chemistry, and John Green teaches United States history. Crash Course can be used as an anticipatory set of videos for direct instruction or viewed at home as part of a flipped classroom model. Crash Course offers a variety of subjects and is adding content all the time. The Crash Course YouTube channel has gained over 490 thousand subscribers and 24 million video views. If you are a classroom teacher or just someone looking to brush up on a subject Crash Course videos are a great starting point to furthering your education.

Check out this video on the agricultural revolution





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