Educational Videos For Primary Students
1 – Storyline Online
It contains 49 online readings of books, among them ‘When Pigasso Met Mootisse’ and ‘Catching the Moon’. Through the clear readings and animations, as well as an accompanying activity guide, the children can thoroughly explore the books and discuss the plot together. The clips are housed in YouTube normally, but they can also be streamed through My VR Spot or SchoolTube. All the books can be purchased in hardcopy if so desired.
| Subject(s) | Reading |
| How long? | 6 – 11 minutes |
| For what age groups? | 4 – 6-year-olds |
2 – National Geographic Kids
The site has educational games, videos, maps, and facts. It is mostly based upon animals, listing their scientific name, habitat, range, and whether they are endangered. The videos are about the animals stalking their prey or facts in a video series named ‘Weird But True’. The videos are mostly all-around 1 minute long and active which is good for short attention spans.
| Subject(s) | Animals, Facts about Science, History, Space |
| How long? | 1 – 12 minutes |
| For what age groups? | Primary School |
3 – Happy Learning English
A series of videos where the information is concise and clear as well as an engaging animation going on in the background to better show what the narrator means, but do not distract the children too much from the information. There are also introduction videos that give a taste of what the main video would be like.
| Subject(s) | Astronomy, Natural Science, History, Maths |
| How long? | 1 – 4 minutes |
| For what age groups? | Primary School |
Happy Learning English (YouTube)
4 – Clarendon Learning
This is a non-profit organisation and designed to be a platform of high-quality education. It includes full scale lessons, but all of its videos can be found on it’s YouTube account, which highlights subjects that are not often covered such as ‘The Story of the Pilgrims’.
| Subject(s) | History, science, Maths, Reading, Language Arts |
| How long? | 4 – 12 minutes |
| For what age groups? | 4 – 11 years old |
5 – Peekaboo Kids
With a cartoon narrator called Dr. Binocs, Peekaboo Kidz is a user-friendly YouTube channel that is easy to understand and aimed at the younger half of Primary school. The facts are made into a colorful story making it more interesting for younger students.
| Subject(s) | Solar System, Geography, Nursery rhymes, pollution, pollination, theoretical situations |
| How long? | 5 -20 minutes |
| For what age groups? | Primary school |
6 – FreeSchool
If a teacher would like to go outside of the normal subject boundaries, FreeSchool is the place for them. With an introduction to astronomy through constellations, if children are interested and want to go a step further in their studies, FreeSchool has many entertaining videos that are not classically used in the classroom.
| Subject(s) | Constellations, Animals, Geography of the US, famous landmarks |
| How long? | 3 – 11 minutes |
| For what age groups? | Late primary school |
Educational Videos For Primary & Secondary Students
7 – Teacher Tube
This online platform has subjects that include from science, maths, history, social studies and language arts as well as some tips to perform well in exams. It is made for pre-schoolers to bachelors with a few videos for each subject as well as articles.
| Subject(s) | Science, Maths, History, Social Studies, Language Arts, Study Tips |
| How long? | 6 – 23 minutes |
| For what age groups? | 4 – 15 years old |
8 – Khan Academy
A very popular tool with students already, it is used to give a brief overview of mainly maths, science, economics and a little bit of computing, politics, and history from 1st grade to bachelors’ level.
| Subject(s) | Maths, Science, Economics, Computing, Politics, History, Arts and Language Arts, Life Skills, Test Prep for SATs |
| How long? | 5 – 8 minutes |
| For what age groups? | 4 – 17-year-olds |
9 – SchoolTube
The professor teaches a lesson and uses his mouse to show and write on the board to clear up any misunderstandings. They talk at a slower pace and make what they’re explaining as simple as possible, heightening the student’s possibility to understand the material.
| Subject(s) | Reading, History, Maths, Factual videos (e.g., Guinness World Records) |
| How long? | 1 – 11 minutes |
| For what age groups? | 5 – 16-year-olds |
10 – PSB Learning Media
Primarily based on American History, PSB Learning has 367 videos from the Revolution to the Contemporary United States. It also has other much smaller subjects such as Baseball or Jazz.
| Subject(s) | American History, subsubjects (e.g baseball, jazz…etc.) |
| How long? | 7 minutes – over 1 hour |
| For what age groups? | 7 – 16-year-olds |
Educational Videos For Secondary Students
11 – National Geographic
This platform is not only for teenagers but for younger children in reception as well. Under ‘Class resources’ in the ‘resource library’ section it is possible to choose the content types, for example video, where they have 860. The following subjects that have videos are biology, geography, Earth science, social studies, conservation, anthropology, engineering, storytelling, arts and music, experiential learning, physics, professional learning, chemistry, mathematics, religion and English language arts.
| Subject(s) | Biology, Geography, Earth Science, Social Studies, Conservation, Anthropology, Engineering, Storytelling, Arts, Music |
| How long? | 2 minutes |
| For what age groups? | Secondary School |
12 – Socratica
This YouTube channel goes into detail about specific subjects relating to the sciences and help students better understand what they are learning if they do not understand a topic. It is very thorough in handing out information, making sure they will not leave any information out if they start a topic.
| Subject(s) | Computer sciences, Maths, Study Tips, Science, Astronomy, Arts and Humanities |
| How long? | 5 minutes |
| For what age groups? | Secondary school |
13 – FuseSchool – Global Education
FuseSchool’s website, Patreon, is not free but its YouTube channel is. They frequently do lives so it is possible to ask the teachers questions, the animations also make it more fun for the students and it’s easy to comprehend which parts are important as they are emphasized through animation or the words in bold scrolling across the screen.
| Subject(s) | Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology |
| How long? | 2 – 56 minutes |
| For what age groups? | 13 – 16-year-olds |
14 – Bozeman Science
A teacher will talk through the video with images to help the student better understand what the professor is talking about. The teacher will also use their mouse to point objects out, to further negate any chance of confusion. Informative and clear videos that are useful for exam preparation.
| Subject(s) | Physics, Chemistry, Biology |
| How long? | 6 – 14 minutes |
| For what age groups? | 15 – 18-year-olds |
15 – Timeline
These are very detailed and precise videos, some of which may be hard to listen to (such as WW2 videos). Images and videos from archives including actors make them more authentic.
| Subject(s) | History |
| How long? | 30 mins – 1 hour |
| For what age groups? | Secondary school |
Conclusion
The examples above are only a few that are possible to find on the internet. It is also important for students to not only watch these videos but hopefully be inspired to create their own pertaining to whatever topic they wish. Below is an app students can use to get started.
- Vimeo – Supported by Android and Apple