Why These Videos Showed Up: teacher key

How Video Sites Pick Your Videos, grade 5 edition, written for 5th grade. A video app shows you videos you did not ask for. Find out what it uses to pick them, why autoplay is hard to stop, and what you can change.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What do recommended videos get based on?
   • What a child watches and searches for (answer)
   • The weather outside
   • Which friends are online
2. What happens when autoplay is on?
   • The screen turns off
   • Videos keep playing on their own (answer)
   • Ads are removed
3. As of November 2026, what can a person do with a watch history on YouTube?
   • Nothing at all
   • Make it longer
   • Pause or delete it (answer)
4. If you watch one cooking video, what is a recommendation system likely to do?
   • Suggest more videos like it (answer)
   • Turn off the app
   • Pick videos at random
5. What does the word autoplay mean here?
   • A video that plays on its own (answer)
   • A game with a score
   • A setting for the volume

Words

• recommendation: a suggestion
• autoplay: plays alone
• history: what you watched