The Chemistry Shorts film series shows the vital role the chemical sciences play in the biggest issues facing the world. Each film is accompanied by a lesson plan to integrate the science behind these innovations into the classroom.
Chemistry Shorts Video: Under the Skin
This series of short science videos is ready for the classroom, including a downloadable lesson plan.
Chemistry Shorts Video: Rewriting Life
This short video provides teachers with a way to introduce school students to CRISPR-Cas9. Also see the accompanying downloadable lesson plan.
Chemistry Shorts: Direct Air Capture & The Future of Climate Change
Chemical engineers are at the forefront of the climate change battle, and among their most promising tools is direct air capture. To learn more, watch this video, which is part of an effort to bring science innovations to the classroom.
Chemistry Shorts: How Science Is Creating New Sources of Water
As water becomes more scarce in many areas of the world, chemical engineers and others in the chemical sciences are finding new ways to harness previously disregarded sources and develop water recycling methods.
Chemistry Shorts: Driving Reactions
This video is an engaging teaching aid for high school and college students to help directed evolution and how it is being used to develop new tools for plastics recycling and more.
Chemistry Shorts: Frosty Formulations
Learn about the complex science behind making ice cream in this video, and check out the accompanying lesson plan that was created for high school and college classrooms.
Chemistry Shorts: Cracking Chirality
How is it that mirror versions of otherwise identical molecules exist in nature? That’s the question two scientists at Harvard are trying to answer.