Columns: Experimenting with Balloons
(View Complete Item Description)Watch the ZOOM cast find out how many balloons filled with air and then with water are required to support the weight of a cast member.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
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Columns: Finding the Strongest Shape
(View Complete Item Description)In this video segment, members of the ZOOM cast experiment by bending and folding sheets of paper into various shapes to see which shape will support the weight of a heavy book.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Columns: Hillary's Neighborhood
(View Complete Item Description)In this video segment from ZOOM, Hillary, from Randolph, MA, takes us on a tour of the columns in her neighborhood.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Como se Mueven las Cosas
(View Complete Item Description)¡Aprende sobre la fuerza y el movimiento a través de una canción y un baile de los increíbles hermanos Gregory! ¡La Sra. Gravedad es la anfitriona del más increíble espectáculo de juegos en el patio de recreo de COMO SE MUEVEN LAS COSAS! Con un poco de ayuda de sus amigos musicales, los hermanos Gregory, aprenderás una canción sobre la fuerza y el movimiento que te ayudará a ganar el juego. Objetivo de Aprendizaje: demuestre y observe cómo la posición y el movimiento pueden cambiar al empujar y jalar objetos.
Material Type: Lesson
Comparing Regular and Irregular Areas
(View Complete Item Description)The CyberSquad proves that the area of Hacker's land is equal to the area of Judge Trudy's land in this video segment from Cyberchase.
Material Type: Lecture
Competing for the Northern Hemisphere Games
(View Complete Item Description)In this video from Cyberchase, Harry must score a total of 50 points in various events to qualify for the Northern Hemisphere games in New Orleans.
Material Type: Lecture
Contaminants in the Arctic Food Chain
(View Complete Item Description)The levels of contaminants found in particular animals vary widely depending on where they fit into the Arctic food chain, as described in this video segment adapted from LOKE Films and the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme.
Material Type: Lecture
Contaminants in the Arctic Human Population
(View Complete Item Description)In this video segment adapted from LOKE Films and the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme, learn how human populations in the Arctic are affected by industrial contaminants in the food chain.
Material Type: Lecture
Convective Cloud Systems
(View Complete Item Description)This video segment adapted from the Atmospheric Radiation Program explains the differences in the formation of tropical convective cloud systems over islands and over the ocean.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Diagram/Illustration
Cooking Cookies with Solar Power
(View Complete Item Description)In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, two solar cookers are tested against a control to see which can cook a "s'more" faster.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Coral Kid
(View Complete Item Description)In this video segment, ZOOM guest Cassie takes us on a tour of the coral reef near her home in Key Largo, Florida, and points out some of its unique features.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Diagram/Illustration
Crack the Code
(View Complete Item Description)In this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad must get into a vault before Hacker, Buzz and Delete by cracking a code of shapes and numbers.
Material Type: Lecture
The Dam Challenge
(View Complete Item Description)In this interactive activity from the Building Big Web site, investigate dams in distress and decide if they should be repaired, removed, or left alone.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
The Dancing Scientist
(View Complete Item Description)Learn about the properties of solid, liquid, and gas while dancing with the famous music group, The Gregory Brothers! To help understand how water changes states of matter, Scientist Sam brings in the musical group The Gregory Brothers to help teach about the states of matter through an interactive dance. The viewer dances like a solid, liquid and gas and learns that water can change states of matter when temperatures are below 0 degrees Celsius or above 100 degrees Celsius. Learning Objective: Classify matter by physical properties, including shape, relative mass, relative temperature, texture, flexibility, and whether material is a solid or liquid.
Material Type: Lesson
Dating Lava Flows on Mauna Loa Volcano, Hawaii
(View Complete Item Description)In this video segment adapted from NOVA, scientists search for carbonized remains of plants preserved in lava flows to find out how long it has taken rain forests on Hawaii to regenerate after a volcanic eruption.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Diagram/Illustration
Decomposers
(View Complete Item Description)Without the work of decomposers, living organisms would eventually use up all the raw materials in the environment, and dead organisms and wastes would pile up. This video segment from Interactive NOVA: "Earth" describes the role of decomposers as the earth's great recyclers.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Defy Gravity! Balancing Balls on Air
(View Complete Item Description)In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members use a hair dryer to balance a ball in a stream of air, seemingly defying gravity.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Defy Gravity! Upside Down Ping Pong Ball
(View Complete Item Description)In this video segment, the ZOOM cast is challenged to keep a ping pong ball in a funnel while the funnel is held upside down, seemingly defying gravity.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Density and Buoyancy: Making Eggs Float
(View Complete Item Description)Why does an egg float in salt water? Learn about density and buoyancy in this video segment adapted from ZOOM.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Density and Buoyancy: Mixing Hot and Cold Water
(View Complete Item Description)Watch warm water float on top of cold water in this video segment adapted from ZOOM.
Material Type: Activity/Lab