Scholastic
Study Jams! Newton's Second Law: Acceleration
Become a pinball wizard by understanding acceleration. Mia and Sam define acceleration for the audience and touch on the property of inertia. Get your physical science class up to speed by showing this little video, reviewing the...
Curated OER
Ultimate Table Trick Challenge
There's a lot going on here: air pressure changes, inertia, and chemical reactions. All of this occurs in 60 seconds time! As an end of the year physical science assessment, consider showing this video clip and then having learners write...
Curated OER
Friction
This video is amusing! It displays pictures and the lyrics of a song, "Friction," recorded in the late fifties or early sixties by Tom Glazer and Dottie Evans. Your physical science classes will be singing it for the rest of the school...
Steve Spangler Science
Ultimate Table Trick Challenge
There's a lot going on here: air pressure changes, inertia, and chemical reactions. All of this occurs in 60 seconds time! As an end of the year physical science assessment, consider showing this video clip and then having learners write...
Steve Spangler Science
The Tablecloth Trick - Sick Science! #010
You might not be able to pull a rabbit out of a hat, but you could certainly pull a tablecloth out from under a place setting! Display inertia and Newton's first law of motion for your future physicists or magicians by performing this...
Steve Spangler Science
Pendulum Catch - Sick Science! #013
What a fun demonstration! Show the video, or better yet, have your physics learners construct this hex nut pendulum and test it themselves. Then have them discuss in groups why the single hex nut wraps around the finger. See if they can...
Steve Spangler Science
Floating Rice Bottle - Sick Science! #116
More rice grains create more friction. Pack them into a bottle and then you can use a chopstick to pick the bottle up! This is a fascinating demonstration of density and the force of friction.
Curated OER
What is Friction?
A science video includes a good amount of information on the force of friction and related topics. As slides come up on the screen, a narrator explains the images and definitions. While informational, the narration is very monotone.
Curated OER
The Tablecloth Trick
You might not be able to pull a rabbit out of a hat, but you could certainly pull a tablecloth out from under a place setting! Display inertia and Newton's first law of motion for your future physicists or magicians by performing this...
Steve Spangler Science
Falling Ring Catch - Sick Science! #046
Amaze your class with this demonstration of gravity and friction. A ring on a string is able to catch a spool of tape as it falls. This is a perfect introduction for a class discussion on these topics, or you could have kids them try it...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Static Kinetic Friction Forces: Similarities & Differences
Students move past the misconception that friction inhibits our ability to do things by watching videos and participating in corresponding activities. Activities which range in difficulty include calculating the coefficient of friction.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Designing a Puff Mobile
The air you exhale can power a puff mobile. Watch as the ZOOM cast races their air-powered designs to see which design features are the most successful. [3:24]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Acids and Bases: Testing Rocket Cars
In this ZOOM video segment, cast members make bottle rocket cars using lemon juice and baking soda, and experiment with different ways of launching the cars. [4:46]
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Science in Focus: Energy: Heat, Work, and Efficiency
Video workshop explores how heat is generated and harvested to do useful mechanical work. Video also describes efficiency of an engine, expansion and compression of gases, and friction's relationship to heat. [56:54]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Air Power: Making a Hovercraft
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members make their own hovercraft and demonstrate how the air leaking out of a balloon can make a plastic plate hover above a table. Experiment instructions are also available in a PDF...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Animations: What Is Friction?
Narrated animation that visually explains how a dogsled uses friction to slow it or stop it. (30 secs) Uses Quicktime.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Force and Motion
A video and quiz on how force must overcome inertia in order to produce motion.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Static & Kinetic Friction: Lesson 1
This lesson explains the difference between static and kinetic friction. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Static & Kinetic Friction." [6:58]
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation: Science of Speed: Grip
Success in auto racing depends on the grip of a car's tires. Grip is the frictional force that holds the tires on the track. Aerodynamic features of a car also improve a car's grip. [5:02]
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation: Science of Speed: Friction and Heat
Friction always creates heat. Brakes and tires depend on friction to work, while the opposite is true of an engine. Engine builders use oil and high-tech coatings to get more power from an engine. [5:25]
PBS
Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wide World: The Way Things Move: Homemade Hill
Join these kids as they investigate ramps by making a homemade hill to see what slides or rolls down it. [1:27]
Crash Course
Crash Course Physics #6: Friction
In today's episode of Crash Course Physics, Dr. Shini Somara tells us about static and kinetic friction; how they work and how they're different. [10:58]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Slow Sock on Lubricon Vi
What would happen to a slowly moving frozen sock on a frictionless planet?
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Intuition on Static and Kinetic Friction Comparisons
Find out why static friction is harder to overcome than kinetic friction. [7:21]