This animation is part of Scientific American's 60-Second Science series (although the video is two minutes in length). A complete transcript for the video is online, with the video also embedded at the link.

You can also view a webpage with just the video (no supporting text).

As science teachers, one of our primary goals is to create ideal conditions for students to grow their content knowledge and skills in science.  But often students come into our classrooms with misconceptions that get in the way.  Sometimes we need to bust the false knowlege our students have acquired before we can really get them to reach deep levels of understanding of important scientific concepts.

This one pretty much speaks for itself.  I had the honor of listening to Carl speak in person once, during a Planetary Society event following the impact of Shoemaker-Levey-9 into Jupiter.  He was every bit the science star I belived him to be.  He helped ignight my love of science with his Cosmos book and series.  This audio clip from his book "Pale Blue Dot" is read by Carl himself, and is shown to my students every Earth Day.

I ask my students to see how many epic movie clips they recognize.  The answer gets smaller every year!

This video was published on May 28, 2014, as part of the Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (link is external) series. In the video, Neil deGrasse Tyson breaks down the differences between weather and climate change through a simple walk with a dog. He discusses the differences in the length of time and scales of data that are examined to determine short-term fluctuations and long-term averages.