Instructional Video6:07
Flame Media

How To Improve Your Hearing

12th - Higher Ed
In his series 'Redesign my Brain', award winning documentary maker Todd Sampson sets out to improve his senses: sight, hearing and touch. To prove that his sensory perception has been enhanced, Todd will compete in a safe-cracking...
Instructional Video10:08
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Measuring Stress Levels

12th - Higher Ed
In his series 'Redesign my Brain', award winning documentary maker Todd Sampson sets out to learn how to manage fear. To demonstrate it is possible to overcome fear Todd will walk on a wire across two skyscrapers – a world first...
Instructional Video10:05
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Improving Your Sense Of Touch

12th - Higher Ed
In his series 'Redesign my Brain', award winning documentary maker Todd Sampson sets out to improve his senses: sight, hearing and touch. To prove that his sensory perception has been enhanced, Todd will compete in a safe-cracking...
Instructional Video3:10
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How To Use Mindfulness Against Stress

12th - Higher Ed
In his series 'Redesign my Brain', award winning documentary maker Todd Sampson sets out to learn how to manage fear. To demonstrate it is possible to overcome fear Todd will walk on a wire across two skyscrapers – a world first for...
Instructional Video5:08
Guinness World Records

Record-Breaking Freerunners

K - 5th
In this video, two free runners attempt to break world records in urban acrobatics known as free running. They showcase impressive jumps and flips between two objects, with one of them successfully setting a new world record. Discuss...
Instructional Video0:33
Guinness World Records

Basketball Skills

K - 5th
Luis Diego Soto Villa (Mexico) holds ten basketball records. In this video demonstrates some of his skills.
Instructional Video4:05
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Fighting stress with wire walking

12th - Higher Ed
In his series 'Redesign my Brain', award winning documentary maker Todd Sampson sets out to learn how to manage fear. To demonstrate it is possible to overcome fear Todd will walk on a wire across two skyscrapers – a world first for...
Instructional Video3:03
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How Does Sight Work?

12th - Higher Ed
In his series 'Redesign my Brain', award winning documentary maker Todd Sampson sets out to improve his senses: sight, hearing and touch. To prove that his sensory perception has been enhanced, Todd will compete in a safe-cracking...
Instructional Video4:18
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Standard Senses vs Samurai Senses

12th - Higher Ed
In his series 'Redesign my Brain', award winning documentary maker Todd Sampson sets out to improve his senses: sight, hearing and touch. To prove that his sensory perception has been enhanced, Todd will compete in a safe-cracking...
Instructional Video5:49
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How your brain can control your pain

12th - Higher Ed
In his series 'Redesign my Brain', award winning documentary maker Todd Sampson puts brain training to the test as he undergoes a radical brain makeover. The cutting edge new science of brain plasticity has found that anyone can...
Instructional Video6:13
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Learning mindfulness meditation

12th - Higher Ed
In his series 'Redesign my Brain', award winning documentary maker Todd Sampson sets out to learn how to manage fear. To demonstrate it is possible to overcome fear Todd will walk on a wire across two skyscrapers – a world first for...
Instructional Video3:46
Guinness World Records

Breaking Records with Synchronized Dance Moves

K - 5th
Twist and Pulse, Britain's Got Talent runners-up and inventors of a unique combination of street dance and comedy, are attempting to break their own Guinness World Records title for the most synchronized dance moves in 30 seconds. Use to...
Instructional Video
National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation: Science of the Winter Olympics: Slapshot Physics

9th - 10th
One of the most popular team sports in the Winter Olympics is hockey. More than just a physical game, for scientists, it's a showcase for physics on ice - especially when it comes to the slapshot. Three-time Olympian Julie Chu, Thomas...
Instructional Video
National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation: Science of the Winter Olympics: Science of Skates

9th - 10th
The ice skates worn by hockey players, figure skaters and speed skaters are vastly different from what were once used. Melissa Hines, the Director of the Cornell University Center for Materials Research, and Sam Colbeck, a retired...
Instructional Video
National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation: Science of the Winter Olympics: Blade Runners

9th - 10th
Speed skating is all about force and movement - what, in physics, are known as Newton's First Three Laws of Motion. J.R. Celski, a U.S. speed skater, and physicist George Tuthill of Plymouth State University explain.
Instructional Video
National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation: Science of the Winter Olympics: Banking on Speed

9th - 10th
The winter games in Vancouver provided a chance for the United States' four-man bobsled team to win its first gold medal in more than 60 years. With the help of Paul Doherty, senior scientist at the Exploratorium in San Francisco,...
Instructional Video
National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation: Science of the Winter Olympics: The Science of Skis

9th - 10th
In skiing events like the downhill, slalom or ski jump, it's often the skis that are bound to an athlete's feet - and the materials used to make them - that give these athletes an edge over the competition. U.S. Ski Team members Julia...
Instructional Video
National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation: Science of Winter Olympics: Science of Snowboarding

9th - 10th
To get "max air" off the half-pipe without losing their balance, snowboarders might want to check out this experiment that Paul Doherty, a senior scientist at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, cooked up, using a skateboard and a glass...
Instructional Video
National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation: Science of the Winter Olympics: Internal Athletes

9th - 10th
Cross-country skiers are among the fittest athletes in the world. Deborah King, an associate professor in the Department of Exercise and Sports Sciences at Ithaca College and Joseph Francisco, president of the American Chemical Society,...
Instructional Video
National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation: Science of the Winter Olympics: Science Friction

9th - 10th
Curling has been in the Winter Olympics for a while now, but it still seems a little strange to most of us. John Shuster, the captain - or "skip" - of the U.S. Curling Team in the Vancouver Winter Olympics, explains this unusual sport,...
Instructional Video
National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation: Science of the Winter Olympics: Competition Suits

9th - 10th
Olympic athletes have long worn special competition clothing to gain an edge. Science and technology continue to improve on what they wear. Hear from Olympians Chad Hedrick, Steve Holcomb and Erin Hamlin, and Melissa Hines, the director...
Instructional Video
NBC

Nbc Learn: Science of Nfl Football: Pythagorean Theorem

9th - 10th
NBC Learn, in partnership with the National Science Foundation and the National Football League, unravel the science behind professional football in this short video on the Pythagorean Theorem.
Instructional Video
National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation: Science of Nfl Football: Newton's Third Law of Motion

9th - 10th
NBC's Lester Holt breaks down Isaac Newton's Third Law of Motion and how energy transfers between football players who collide during a game. Professors Tony Schmitz of the University of Florida and Jim Gates of the University of...
Instructional Video
National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation: Science of Nfl Football: Newton's First Law of Motion

9th - 10th
NBC's Lester Holt breaks down Isaac Newton's First Law of Motion and how it can change how fast players can speed the football up or slow it down. Sceince professors Tony Schmitz and Jim Gates explain why the control of inertia is so...