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Science Kids: Earth Videos: The Northern Lights
Stunning time-lapse video of the Northern Lights as seen over Norway. (Length: 4 min. 25 sec.)
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Science Kids: Experiment Videos: Paper Folding Experiment
Watch as the MythBusters team put the famous myth that you can't fold paper any more than seven times to the test. [3:53]
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Science Kids: Experiment Videos: Vortex Canon
See if a vortex of condensed air can knock three different huts down. [2:33]
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Science Kids: Experiment Videos: Alkali Metals Explosion
Check out this awesome video clip of alkali metals creating an explosion in water. [3:17]
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Science Kids: Animal Videos: Lion Encounter Video
Video showing a reporter interviewing a lion keeper as they both enter a lions' compound. The keeper discusses a lion's predatory features, and describes how to interpret a lion's body language. (Length: 4 min. 2 sec.)
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Science Kids: Animal Videos: Fastest Animals in the World
BBC video showing in slow motion the fastest tongue and the fastest claw in the animal world, belonging to a salamander and to the mantis shrimp. (3 min. 50 sec.)
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Science Kids: Earth Videos: The Nile River
Video examining the issues facing the ten African countries that are situated along and reliant on the Nile River, issues such as drought, erosion, and pollution. (Length: 5 min. 3 sec.)
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Science Kids: Biology Videos: Mitosis Video
An inside look at the process of mitosis cell division. [1:30]
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Science Kids: Animal Videos: Sneaky Penguins
BBC video showing how penguins in the Antarctica build their nests, with a humorous look at how one lazy penguin steals stones from another one hard at work. (2 min. 9 sec.)
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Science Kids: Animal Videos: Bears Catching Salmon
BBC video showing how grizzly bears catch salmon during their annual migration upriver to spawn. (Length: 1 min. 26 sec.)
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Science Kids: Animal Videos: Puffer Fish Video
Video showing how a poisonous puffer fish protects itself from an otter's attack by self-inflating. Watch as the otter struggles with what looks like a small beach ball, eventually giving up. (Length: 1 min. 24 sec.)
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Science Kids: Animal Videos: Amazing Dolphin Video
Video of dolphin playing with bubble rings at Sea World in Orlando, Florida. (Length: 1 min. 8 sec.)
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Science Kids: Animal Videos: White Killer Whale
Video of the first known instance of an adult white orca whale, seen off the coast of Russia. (Length: 40 sec.)
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Science Kids: Animal Videos: Incredible Gliding Snake
Watch as the Chrysopelea, or flying snake, is repeatedly catapulted into the air and glides in a controlled way for an extended time. The camera pauses at various stages to show explanatory labels for the types of maneuvers and bodily...
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Science Kids: Biology Videos: Meiosis Video
A narrated video explaining how meiosis occurs within a cell. (Length: 1 min. 49 sec.)
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Science Kids: Space Videos: Moon Landing
Archival footage of the Apollo 11 moon landing with Neil Armstrong on July 20, 1969. (Length: 1 min. 25 sec.)
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Science Kids: Space Videos: The Final Frontier for Humans
Astronomer Carl Sagan discusses our fascination with deep space as the 'final frontier' that we hope to understand and journey to one day. (Length: 3 min. 12 sec.)
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Science Kids: Space Videos: Space Shuttle Launch
Impressive video showing the space shuttle Discovery during takeoff in 2006. (Length: 3 min. 23 sec.)
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Science Kids: Space Videos: The Search for Life
Astronomer Carl Sagan discusses the probability of life in outer space, and humankind's quest to find it. (Video Length: 3 min. 52 sec.)
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Science Kids: Human Body Videos: Learn About Human Skin
Video explaining the three layers of human skin and the functions of each. (Length: 41 sec.)
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Science Kids: Human Body Videos: Circulatory System
Narrated animation showing how the heart and the circulatory system transport blood throughout the body. (Length: 1 min. 8 sec.)
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Science Kids: Earth Videos: Fun Volcano Song
Sing along to this music video to help learn vocabulary for the study of volcanoes, while watching volcanic eruptions at the same time. (Length: 1 min. 57 sec.)
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Science Kids: Earth Videos: Surfing a Tsunami
Hard-to-believe video of a surfer riding a tsunami-like wave and surviving. (Length: 1 min. 30 sec.)
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Science Kids: Earth Videos: 1989 California Earthquake
Actual video footage of the Loma Prieta earthquake in California in 1989 as it was happening. Shows people running for their lives as buildings and the ground shake around them. (Length: 1 min. 2 sec.)