Science Buddies
Make a Battery with Coins | Science Experiment
Make a battery with pennies, nickels, salt, and vinegar in this fun science experiment! This type of battery is also called a voltaic pile. You can use a multimeter to measure the voltage and current produced by your battery, and even...
Science Buddies
The Wagon Wheel Effect | Optical Illusion Science Experiment
Have you ever seen a video where it looked like a car's wheels or a helicopter's blades were spinning backwards? This optical illusion is called the wagon wheel effect, named after old movies where it looked like wagon wheels were...
Science Buddies
DIY Wind Turbine Science Experiment
This video shows how to build your own wind turbine using household materials and how you can use it for a science project. Written instructions, including a complete materials list, are available on the Science Buddies website:...
Physics Girl
How to float a ping pong ball on air - The Coandă Effect
Widely explained using the Bernoulli principle, this phenomenon is actually dominated by the Coanda effect.
NASA
Gravity Assist: Deep Oceans in Deep Space, with Morgan Cable
Some of the most fascinating targets in the search for life in our solar system are moons of giant planets. Morgan Cable, an astrobiologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, discusses these wondrous worlds, the exotic locations where...
Physics Girl
Crazy tic tac bounce!? | EVERYDAY MYSTERIES
Tic tacs have the strangest behavior when you bounce them on a very hard surface. What is going on?! Find out the physics.
Science Buddies
Potato Battery Science Experiment
How do you make a battery from a potato? How much electricity can you produce? Does the amount of electricity change if you make a parallel versus serial circuit? Explore these questions and more with a potato battery science experiment.
Science Buddies
How Does an Electromagnet Work?
You may be familiar with permanent magnets—the kind that hang on a refrigerator. But did you know that other magnets, called electromagnets, can be turned on and off? When turned on, electromagnets act just like permanent magnets, but if...
Visual Learning Systems
Your Science Fair Project: What Will You Learn From a Science Fair Project
The scientific method is the foundation of work for scientists. In this video the scientific method is explained in detail serving as the basis for your science fair project. The process of creating a science fair project along with...
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Science Fair
Many people gathered in high school parking lot / elderly man helping three teenaged boys unfold plastic on school lawn / teenage boys on scaffolding and ladder / CU of electronics of unidentified science project / weather balloon is...
Curated Video
Students Build Wind Turbines In Competition Promoting Clean Energy
Students in elementary school through college are learning the importance of clean energy by building and testing wind turbines.
Curated OER
How to Blow Up a Balloon With Baking Soda & Vinegar
A simple combination of baking soda and vinegar creates enough carbon dioxide to blow up a balloon! It's an awesome illustration of chemical reactions for upper elementary learners, or use it with slightly older scientists to introduce...
Curated OER
Table Top Trebuchet
How cool would it be to build a trebuchet 1/40th the size of one that would have been used to knock down a castle wall? Build this project with middle or high schoolers at any level (varying the information provided for each), and have a...
Steve Spangler Science
CO2 Sandwich - Sick Science! #095
There's not much to this video. Steve Spangler and his twin sons visit 9 News and perform the classic chemical reaction between vinegar and baking soda to produce carbon dioxide gas. Where the value is in this video clip is that they set...
Curated OER
Science Magic - Vanishing Water
Make water disappear! Get your learners excited about the various types of polymers. Simple, yet mesmerizing enough to use with all age ranges.
Curated OER
How to Make a Volcano
It's about to blow! These directions are clear and easy to follow. Create a simple worksheet to guide students through the video and then have them repeat the steps themselves! Ideal for fourth or fifth graders who can follow directions....
Curated OER
Amazing Levitating Orb Science Experiment
Five minutes and 80 cents is all it takes to create this levitating orb! Introduce the idea of static electricity with this simple, yet captivating experiment. Your learners will definitely want to play around with this one; it's...
Curated OER
Science Fair Project - Electric Pulse Motor
As a complex project, it's ideal for your older learners. Discuss electric currents and solar energy before building the motor to preload information. While sound is not included here, the steps are described through text and visual...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Thermodynamics: Thermo Can
This project demonstrates how to power a juice-can boat with a lighted candle. The candle heats the air, causing it to expand and push against the 'thermal sail' of the can, and move across the surface of the water. [3:53]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Give Yourself a Hand With Diy Gripper
Learn how to build a simple robotic arm that can pick almost anything up. Aired Jul. 19, 2013. [2:36]