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Crash Course has a new series starting September 15th! You're probably thinking, "Wait doesn't Crash Course already have a government series?" and you're right! But this isn’t your basic orientation to the three branches of government, checks and balances, and the courts. It’s one step deeper — it’s

We have something new on the Crash Course website! We'll be sharing more about this program throughout the month of August, but as a Crash Course Insider you get to hear about it first! Have you ever wanted to make your own Crash Course video? Now you can! Introducing: Crash Course Creator Lab – a f

For this series we worked with two excellent subject matter experts, one who guided us through the series scoping and scripting phases, and the other who reviewed episode screeners for accuracy and clarity. Their attention to detail and passion for geology helped make this series impactful and memor

How does a Crash Course Coin get made? Every year we come up with a theme and a new design for one side of the Crash Course coin. This year, the coin is inspired by our goal and commitment to being signal in the noise. Someone had the idea to feature a sound wave that represents our commitment to of

When we make a Crash Course series, you know it's going to be not only well-researched and informative but entertaining and fun. While each series feels like Crash Course, it also has it's own unique identity with fun characters, different animation styles, and tangent segments that explore the topi

For this series we partnered with previous Crash Course Biology 2.0 collaborators HHMI Biointeractive. BioInteractive is a leading provider of free classroom resources and professional development for high school and undergraduate biology educators. They are a part of the Howard Hughes Medical Insti

We are so excited to release our second-ever Crash Course Lecture! Because typical Crash Course videos need to cover a lot of curricular ground in a short period of time, there are lots of potential rabbit holes we don’t have time to explore. Enter Crash Course Lectures! These longer-form videos are

How did you learn about STIs in school? Most of us on the Crash Course team had similar experiences: disembodied images and oversimplified headlines meant to gross us out and scare us into abstinence. Even delivered with the best of intentions, they left us with a jumble of negative emotions, from c

You might remember the Crash Course Kids YouTube channel from a few years ago, when we explored STEM subjects like engineering and life science. And now, we’re back with a brand new series that has more than meets the eye… Crash Course Kids Literature! In six episodes, Detective Abby takes our 3rd-

If you’ve been enjoying our new Native American History series, you might have noticed some of the intricate details of our set. When designing the space where Che would teach us about Native history, we wanted to make sure that it reflected each of the major American Indian regions, just like the v

When the Crash Course team embarked on making a Sex Ed series, we spent a lot of time talking about the bad Sex Ed we were subjected to as teens. For those of us who got Sex Ed at all, it was some combination of uninformative, embarrassing, and just plain dull. And across the board, it was impersona

Editing a Crash Course script is a constant balancing act. We need to fit as much information as we can into a 12 minute episode while making sure to prioritize complexity and nuance. Naturally a lot of really cool facts end up on the cutting room floor. In Crash Course Religions, which just recentl

Political Theory can be… complicated. But we here at Crash Course are in the business of making the complex understandable, so we took this series as a challenge. We used lots of tools in our toolbox to make that possible, one of them being the investigative tone for the series. You might have notic

Sex happens. We’re all living evidence of that. But good sex education isn’t available to everybody. As of 2022, only twenty-nine U.S. states require some kind of sex ed in schools. Thirteen of those states don’t require the information to be evidence-based or medically accurate. And a lot of inform

One of the challenges of any Crash Course is how to make the erudite accessible. Want to learn about genetics? Dr. Sammy will explain it through kittens. Trying to understand plant taxonomy? Let Alexis Nikole tell you about collectible plush plants. But when it came to Crash Course Political Theory,

In U.S. schools, Native American History tends to be a very small portion of the curriculum. As one Navajo/Hopi student wrote in 2019, “[...] of the U.S. history books used in my classroom, there are 307 pages and only 10 pages talk about Natives.” Not only that, but curricula tend to present Indige

Meet a new member of our Crash Course Religions team: the hate-able, love-able Devil’s Advocate. This John Green alter ego came about from early editorial discussions. We knew that many folks would come to this series with misconceptions. And we wanted to address them head-on without being preachy o

Meet a new member of our Crash Course Religions team: the hate-able, love-able Devil’s Advocate. This John Green alter ego came about from early editorial discussions. We knew that many folks would come to this series with misconceptions. And we wanted to address them head-on without being preachy o