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Balloon Brain: Designing a Helmet In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members are challenged to design protective headgear for a water balloon using what they know about the properties of the materials available. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	K-8	Video
Breaking Point: Testing Tensile Strength This video excerpt from NOVA’s "Making Stuff: Stronger" and accompanying demonstration illustrate the toughness and tensile strength of Kevlar® and other everyday materials. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	6-12	Video
Building a Cleaner Battery This video excerpt from NOVA’s "Making Stuff: Cleaner" and accompanying activity guide for grades K–8 introduce students to the design and use of batteries and the rapidly developing science of clean energy and clean materials. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	6-12	Video
The Business of Bioplastics This video excerpt from NOVA’s "Making Stuff: Cleaner" and accompanying demonstration introduce students to the production and importance of bioplastics, or plastics made from plant or animal products. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	6-12	Video
Columns: Experimenting with Balloons Watch the ZOOM cast find out how many balloons filled with air and then with water are required to support the weight of a cast member. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	3-8	Video
Columns: Experimenting with Paper Cups In this video segment from ZOOM, the cast experiments to see if a bunch of paper cups covered by a piece of cardboard can support the weight of a cast member. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	3-8	Video
Columns: Finding the Strongest Shape In this video segment, members of the ZOOM cast experiment by bending and folding sheets of paper into various shapes to see which shape will support the weight of a heavy book. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	K-8	Video
Columns: Hillary's Neighborhood In this video segment from ZOOM, Hillary, from Randolph, MA, takes us on a tour of the columns in her neighborhood. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	K-8	Video
Designing Balloon Cars Can the air in a balloon power a car? Watch students from Weston, Massachusetts, demonstrate their balloon car designs in this video adapted from ZOOM. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	3-8	Video
Glider Boy Meet 12-year-old Jesse, the designer of dozens of gliders, in this ZOOM video segment. Some of his gliders fit in your hand, while others can only be stored in the garage. Watch his gliders go and learn why they fly. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	K-8	Video
Kid Designer: A Comfortable Cardboard Chair Follow along in this video segment from ZOOM as 13-year-old Nick explains how he came up with a design, tested materials, and constructed his own cardboard chair. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	3-12	Video
Lifting with Air How can you lift a heavy metal table using air? In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members succeed in lifting a table using their own breath and a few plastic bags. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	K-8	Video
Magnetic Microbots This video excerpt from NOVA’s "Making Stuff: Smaller" and accompanying activity for grades K–8 teach students how materials scientists are building extremely small robots that may be able to travel inside the human body. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	6-12	Video
Nanowires and the Ever-Shrinking Microchip This video excerpt from NOVA’s "Making Stuff: Smaller" and accompanying demonstration introduce students to small, thin wires, called nanowires, that may help make computers and electronics even smaller in the future. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	6-12	Video
Outsmarting Oobleck This video excerpt from NOVA’s "Making Stuff: Smarter" and accompanying activity for grades K–8 help students investigate some “smart” materials that respond to forces or changes in their environment in unusual ways. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	6-12	Video
Shape Shifters: Shape-Memory Alloys and Polymers This video excerpt from NOVA’s "Making Stuff: Smarter" and accompanying demonstration teach students about revolutionary shape-memory materials. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	6-12	Video
Strong as Steel: Testing Toughness This video excerpt from NOVA’s "Making Stuff: Stronger" and accompanying activity for grades K–8 help students investigate the strength and toughness of steel and other everyday materials. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	6-12	Video