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Bill Nye: A Slice of Apple Fly

For Students 9th - 10th
Created to teach students of the 21st century, Bill Nye is bringing the fruit fly straight to your fingertips. Become the commander of your own learning experiences as you take part in this interactive lesson activity.
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Bill Nye: Bill Nye Online Science Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
Bill Nye's Online Science Lab offers home demos for planetary, physical, and life science, a "Question of the Week," e-cards, episode guides, and lots of fun facts. A great resource for students looking for science-fair project or lab...
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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: My, How Time Flies

For Students 9th - 10th
In this tutorial, Bill Nye explains how you can use a piece of string and a noisemaker to demonstrate the doppler effect.
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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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Bill Nye: Acid Attack

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial by Bill Nye explains how to perform an experiment with chalk and weak acids that will help learners to understand erosion. The tutorial demonstrates how acid rain can eat away at rocks and other materials.
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Bill Nye: Go With the Flow

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial from Bill Nye shows how much energy your heart has to expend to pump blood, and demonstrates that it's easier to pump blood downward.
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Bill Nye: Temperature Time Warp

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial by Bill Nye explains why cold-blooded creatures need a warm environment to survive.
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Bill Nye: Listen to This!

For Students 9th - 10th
In this tutorial, Bill Nye explains how to hear the sound of your heart.
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Bill Nye: Coco Nutty Music

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial from Bill Nye explains how a coconut (and the air inside it) can transform the energy of movement into a variety of interesting sounds.
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Bill Nye: Don't Be Nerve Ous

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial from Bill Nye explains the brain's process of "habituation." It presents a simple experiment that a learner can perform using socks to help understand how habituation works.
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Bill Nye: Mold Madness

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial from Bill Nye introduces the difference between mold and plants through a mold growing contest on pieces of bread.