Educational Videos
The Following sites have videos that cover a variety of subjects and themes:
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By Topic
Animals
Book Videos
Read by members of the Scrren Actors guild
Chica Chica Boom Boom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtvtYjLbnDk
©2000 Scholastic Entertainment Inc.
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(Audio, interactive storybook, book related)
Listen and read a story about Emily Elizabeth and Clifford.
• Clifford Phonics Fun Teacher's Guide
(Audio, interactive storybook, book related)
Listen and read a story about Clifford's big find.
The Sky is Falling Ted the Ant Tim and Max
Where the Wild Things Are http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWIdkYk9fQM
Social Insects (6:58)
insect sampler http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sac4dAEasvo&feature=related
Cells and Genetics
DNA (3:25)
Crocodiles and Alligators
Designing Future Cities: Alternative Energy
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, visit a class as they design a city of the future that will use solar, wind, and water power to fuel its economy.
Energy in a Roller Coaster Ride
See potential energy convert to kinetic energy in this interactive activity from WGBH that shows a roller coaster in action.
This video segment illustrates a variety of energy sources used to generate electricity, some of which are in use and some of which are under exploration.
In this interactive activity adapted from the Wisconsin Online Resource Center, learn how heat can be transferred in one of three ways: conduction, convection, and radiation.
Floats and Sinks
In this video from Curious George, children build boats out of everyday materials and then predict and observe whether the boats sink or float.
Surface Tension: Making Paper Clips Float
In this video segment, the ZOOM cast relies on the surface tension of water to make paper clips float.
Government
How a bill becomes law http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEJL2Uuv-oQ
The Preamble http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_TXJRZ4CFc
American breaks from British Rule http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofYmhlclqr4&feature=related
Three Ring Government http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5I2KFENjS8&feature=related
History and Historical Moments
Moments in American History short video's
Human Body
The Eye (2:30)
Inventions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8wuGRlRZqk&feature=related
Language Arts
Schoolhouse Rock-these are hosted on You Tube-
Interjections http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhHpJ45_zwM
Conjuction Junction http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkO87mkgcNo
Matter
Oceans
Coral Reefs (7:25)
Olympic's
Historical slide show from Scholastic http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/athens_games/photos1.htm
Physics
Survey potential bridge sites, research bridge design, and select the right bridge for the right location in this interactive activity from the NOVA Web site.
Bridge Building
This video segment from Building Big illustrates the basic design principles of the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, England.
Firth of Forth Cantilever Bridge
This video segment from Building Big: "Bridges" demonstrates the basic design of a cantilever bridge by looking at Scotland's Firth of Forth Railway Bridge.
Investigating a Suspension Bridge
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, the cast builds a suspension bridge from a couple of chairs, some cardboard, and rope.
Triangles and Arches in Architecture
This collection of still images features two of the most important shapes in architecture: the triangle and the arch.
Triangles: Designing a Straw Bridge
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, the cast tries to design and build a bridge made out of drinking straws that will support the weight of 200 pennies
Triangles: Testing the Strength of a Gumdrop Dome
Can a dome made of gumdrops and toothpicks support the weight of a stack of books? To find out, watch this video segment adapted from ZOOM
Example of bridge building http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQoKucFx3Jc&feature=related
Columns: Experimenting with Paper Cups
In this video segment from ZOOM, the cast experiments to see if a bunch of paper cups covered by a piece of cardboard can support the weight of a cast member.
In this interactive activity from the Building Big Web site, select one of the actions of squeezing, stretching, bending, sliding, or twisting to explore the forces of compression, tension, shear, and torsion.
Egg Drop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADBTHpk0L8g&feature=related
How to's
How Do You Keep Lemonade Cool?
This video segment adapted from FETCH!™ shows contestants experimenting with different materials to see which is the best insulator and thus best able to keep the lemonade at their stand cool for customers.
Geology and weather introduced a variety of unexpected problems when construction crews were building the Alaska Highway. In this interactive activity from the American Experience Web site, see how Army engineers improvised solutions to blaze a trail through the wilderness.
Roller Coasters
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, the cast is challenged to design and test a roller coaster with loops, hills, and U-turns.
Plants
In this media-rich lesson, students observe plant growth by watching a time-lapse video and by growing their own seeds. They identify the conditions seeds need to germinate and consider the role that fruits play in seed dispersal.
Watching plants grow is like watching paint dry: It happens so slowly that the changes are imperceptible from one moment to the next -- and yet the end results are dramatic. This video segment shows just how amazing plant development can be by depicting various phases of the process using time-lapse photography. Footage from NOVA: "The Shape of Things."
In this video from Curious George, learn about how beans, a type of seed, can sprout into plants.
Plate Techtonics
Bill Nye on Plate Tectonics (4:22)
Robotics
In this interactive activity from NOVA, learn about the sophisticated scientific instruments on two identical robotic rovers that have explored Mars —
Engineering for the Red Planet
In this video segment from NASA, robotics researcher Ayanna Howard uses engineering to improve the intelligence of robots in space exploration.
Roller Coaster
Simple Machines Videos
Building Simple Machines: A Glass of Milk, Please
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, the cast shows how the 34 steps in their Rube Goldberg invention use everything from gravity to carbon dioxide gas in order to accomplish one simple task: pouring a glass of milk.
Building Simple Machines: Plant Quencher
In this video segment from ZOOM, Jillian explains how her simple machine uses marbles, levers, flowing sand, and a spinning wheel to water a plant.
http://www.teachersdomain.org/sci/phys/energy/work/index.html
Snakes
Jeff Corwin on Western Diamondback Rattlesnake (2:24)
Space
Gravity in Space (3:54)
Space Travel (4:51)
Blue Hole (4:25)
Celestial Bodies: Moons, Stars, and Planets (2:43)
http://www.classroom20.com/video/video/show?id=649749%3AVideo%3A22836 Celestia
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html?param=education NASA TV
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html# views of the earth
When we look up at the night sky, why do we see the Moon's appearance changing over time from a full sphere to a crescent to nothing at all? Find the answers in this interactive resource adapted from the National Air and Space Museum.
Bill Nye on Universal Gravitation (2:17)
Interplanet Janet from Schoolhouse Rock http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfPEvKsme-c
NASA Videos http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/
This video segment, adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, presents the ongoing debate over the definition of a planet, including the status of Pluto.
Thanksgiving
http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/voyage/index.htm
Tides
http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=f977cb6d9da15b76c3f3
Water Cycle
http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=53bdf2518c53ddf3bce6
Weather
Free Brainpop movie on Hurricane's
This video segment produced for Teachers' Domain features a time-lapse video of clouds forming, changing, and moving across the sky.
The Piano (2:24)