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Amoeba Sisters

General Lab Safety

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
From horseplay to hair length, here's a video that covers all your lab safety needs! Animated characters present a fun yet functional resource geared toward all science disciplines. Topics include safety equipment, proper lab etiquette,...
Instructional Video9:03
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Crash Course

Lab Techniques and Safety

For Students 9th - 12th
Lab safety, lab safety, lab safety: you can't say it enough! A video demonstrates the essentials for being safe whether in a chemical or biological lab. Learn the techniques to keep you and your classmates safe all year, from activity...
Instructional Video1:38
Fuse School

Green Chemistry - Principle 5

For Students 9th - 12th
How important is lab safety, anyway? And, how do chemical manufacturers create safe lab environments? Chemistry scholars learn the importance of minimizing risks where the stakes are often highest—the chemical industry—in the fifth...
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Curated OER

M&M Science and Math

For Teachers 6th - 12th
A series of math and science activities feature M&M's® as manipulatives to help kids work through equations. The resource includes exercises on finding averages, percent of compositions, moles in chemical reactions, genotypes and...
Instructional Video3:49
Steve Spangler Science

Helmet Safety - Cool Science Fair Project

For Teachers 2nd - 10th
Here is a very important demonstration on why it's so important to wear helmets when doing any kind of high speed activity. A third grader's science fair project tested four different types of helmet: football, ski, skateboard, and...
Instructional Video2:38
JFR Science

Using an Electronic Balance

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Is there a wrong way to use an electronic balance? Don't let your class find out! Ensure flawless mass measurement using a short video from JFR Science. Learners listen and watch while the narrator zeros the balance and measures...
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JFR Science

Test Tube in Retort Stand

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Lab safety—it's no accident. JFR Science presents the proper way to insert a test tube in a retort stand as part of a larger series of videos. The video begins with the required parts and how to assemble them properly, then discusses...
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JFR Science

Proper Method of Carrying a Beaker

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Special glass, that doesn't react to heat or chemicals, makes up most laboratory beakers. JFR Science presents a short video about beaker safety as part of a larger series. It explains the common way to carry a beaker as well as the...
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JFR Science

Lighting a Bunsen Burner Correctly

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
An enlightening installment of the JFR Science series explains the steps for lighting a Bunsen burner. It demonstrates each step in order from collecting the materials to extinguishing the flame.
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Royal Society of Chemistry

A Giant Silver Mirror Experiment

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Mirror, mirror, on the wall ... who's the best chemistry teacher of them all? You'll get the vote for certain after your class completes the Silver Mirror experiment! Partnered pupils use Tollen's reagent and glucose to silverplate a...
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Teach Engineering

Cell Membrane Experimental Design

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Grandma said to gargle with salt water for a sore throat. Was she right? In the last part of the seven-part unit, lab groups design an experiment to test a cells reaction to salt solutions. The pupils conduct their experiment to answer...
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DiscoverE

Building with Biology

For Teachers 3rd - 12th Standards
Seeing is believing! Bring DNA to life for young biologists using a simple extraction lab. Individuals extract the DNA from wheat germ, then place it in a microcentrifuge tube for observation. They thread yarn or other material through...
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Crash Course

How to Make an AI Read Your Handwriting (LAB) : Crash Course AI #5

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Robots can't read your mind, but they can read your handwriting. The fifth installment of the Crash Course Artificial Intelligence video series looks at how to program an AI to read handwriting with a multi-layer perceptron neural...
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National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network

Lab 2: Nanocatalysts Clean Your Car Emissions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Surface area certainly surfaces as a variable for chemical reaction rates. Scholars perform an experiment to discover how the size of catalysts affect the rate of a chemical reaction. They record their results in tables and graphs to...
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American Chemical Society

The Energy Efficiency of Heating Water

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Can a small change in laboratory procedures save energy? Scholars test three different methods for heating water in a science lab. Then, they calculate the energy efficiency for each and compare them to determine which uses the least...
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Carnegie Mellon University

Introduction to Climate

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Begin a full instructional activity on climate change by demonstrating how carbon dioxide gas contributes to increased temperatures. Be aware that pressure inside the antacid-containing bottle in Activity 2 may cause the lid to fly off;...
Instructional Video6:18
JFR Science

Solution Preparation: What Is a Standard Solution?

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
What could be so difficult about preparing a solution? Show science scholars the proper way to prepare standard solutions using a video from JFR Science. The narrator discusses solution preparation using a solid solute as well as...
Lesson Plan
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Basic Electric Transformers

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Life as we know it would not be possible without electric transformers, so there are fewer more pertinent topics for your eager young engineers. An astounding amount of background information is provided to help you develop a lecture on...
Instructional Video5:18
Periodic Videos

Rutherfordium

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Physicist Ernest Rutherford might have hated chemistry, but we love his contribution to science! Rutherford won the Nobel Prize in chemistry. Viewers learn about this interesting man through a look at his personal photos, research, and...
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National Science Teachers Association

Paper Car Crash Design

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High school physical scientists collide with motion. They work in pairs to design a paper car that will protect a raw egg during a head-on collision. Measurements of distance traveled, time of run, vehicle specs, and photo gate flags are...
Instructional Video3:24
Berkeley University of California

NaCl Formation

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
Ever wonder how salt forms? Watch as a video instructor adds a solid sample of sodium to chlorine gas to form salt. The video then explains chemistry concepts associated with the reaction.
Instructional Video6:57
Be Smart

The Largest River on Earth Is in the Sky

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Water vapor released by trees in the Amazon creates a floating river. In fact, it's the largest river on Earth! A video presentation examines the science behind the water vapor and explains how rains seeds form to create clouds.
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Teach Engineering

Earthquakes Living Lab: The Theory of Plate Tectonics

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Find out if your class agrees with Ice Age: Continental Drift ... or if it's just a fun family movie! Class members research the theory of continental drift, examine evidence of plate tectonics, connect...
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Teach Engineering

Earthquakes Living Lab: Designing for Disaster

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Build and design to rock and roll. Pairs research building design in earthquake areas and use computer simulations to see the effects of earthquakes on buildings,. They then sketch and explain a building design that would withstand...

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