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Sophia: Bill Nye Demonstration: How Do Germs Spread?

For Students 9th - 10th
How do germs spread? Watch and learn as Bill Nye the Science Guy demonstrates what happens to those germs you collect all day. [1:35]
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Sophia: Bill Nye Demonstration: Cloud in a Bottle

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch and learn with Bill Nye the Science Guy as he demonstrates how clouds form in the atmosphere using a glass bottle and a bicycle pump. [2:10]
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Sophia: Bill Nye Demonstration: Spinning Platform

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch and learn as Bill Nye the Science Guy demonstrates how to spin really fast. [1:32]
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Sophia: Bill Nye Demonstration: Candle in a Bottle

For Students 6th - 8th
Watch and learn with Bill Nye the Science Guy as he demonstrates this classic candle experiment. [0:57]
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Sophia: Bill Nye Demonstration: Radiometer

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the radiometer as Bill Nye demonstrates how it works. [1:01]
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Sophia: Bill Nye Demonstration: Electromagnetism

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how to make your own magnet with some simple household items as Bill Nye the Science Guy demonstrates how an electromagnet works. [1:03]
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Sophia: Bill Nye Demonstration: Dunking Bird

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a look at this video from Bill Nye the Science Guy as he demonstrates the science behind the Dunking Bird. [1:34]
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Sophia: Bill Nye Demonstration: Crushing a Can With Air

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover the effects of water vapor, the form water takes on as a gas, when it undergoes changes in atmospheric pressure as Bill Nye the Science Guy provides a demonstration of the compound water.
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Famous Scientists: Bill Nye

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn all about Bill Nye, the science guy, and find out how he has contributed to many aspects of science.
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Baldwin Library: Bill Nye's Chestnuts Old and New by Bill Nye

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Bill Nye's Chestnuts Old and New by Bill Nye (1894), a collection of nonfiction, humorous stories, sketches, photographs, and memoranda from the Harvard Series.
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Bill Nye: Blow Out

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial by Bill Nye explains an experiment that demonstrates how the shape of a funnel can affect how air flows through it.
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Bill Nye: Pond, James Pond

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial by Bill Nye explains how to create a tool for looking through the surface of water without being thwarted by reflections.
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Bill Nye: Pages of Inertia

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial from Bill Nye demonstrates the power of inertia by using a dictionary to soften a blow.
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Bill Nye: Falling for Science

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial from Bill Nye shows that gravity pulls on all objects at the same speed. It also demonstrates that, despite this, air resistance can cause certain objects to fall more slowly.
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Bill Nye: Current Event

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial from Bill Nye uses ice, salt, water, and food coloring to explain how ocean currents are caused by the flow of heat and salt.
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Bill Nye: Move Mountains

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial from Bill Nye uses newspaper to show how tectonic plates can crush together to create mountains.
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Bill Nye: Twistin' Tornado

For Students 9th - 10th
This experiment with Bill Nye explains how to make a tornado in a bottle.
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Bill Nye: A Wing and Some Air

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial by Bill Nye helps the learner to understand the concept of pressure. Using a simple paper U, learners can see the effects of low pressure, then learn what's happening on a molecular level.
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Bill Nye: Once in a Mega Moon

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial from Bill Nye explains why the moon appears smaller when it's higher in the sky and presents an experiment that proves that it's all in your head.
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Bill Nye: Marble Madness

For Students 9th - 10th
In this tutorial, Bill Nye uses marbles to explain momentum and Newton's third law: every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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Bill Nye: Penny Droplets

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial by Bill Nye introduces the concept of a cohesive force through an experiment involving a penny and droplets of soapy water.
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Bill Nye: Erosion Explosion

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial from Bill Nye demonstrates that freezing water expands, potentially cracking rock and causing erosion.
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Bill Nye: Burn Rubber

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial from Bill Nye explains how to perform a simple experiment with a rubber band. The experiment demonstrates how friction can dissipate energy as heat.
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Bill Nye: Tube Kazoo

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial from Bill Nye explains how to make a kazoo out of a cardboard tube.

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