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Air Power: Making a Hovercraft In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members make their own hovercraft and demonstrate how the air leaking out of a balloon can make a plastic plate hover above a table. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	K-8	Video
Atomic Structure of an Alloy Learn about the atomic structure of bronze, a copper alloy, in this video excerpt from NOVA: "Hunting the Elements." Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	6-12	Video
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
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
Cosmic Origin Spectrograph This video from NASA features the Cosmic Origin Spectrograph (COS), which allows scientists to use spectrographic analysis to assess the composition of intergalactic material. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Defy Gravity! Balancing Balls on Air In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members use a hair dryer to balance a ball in a stream of air, seemingly defying gravity. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	K-8	Video
Density and Buoyancy: Experimenting with Club Soda In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, the cast discovers that gas-filled bubbles act like life jackets for raisins, making them buoyant. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	K-8	Video
Density and Buoyancy: Mixing Hot and Cold Water Watch warm water float on top of cold water in this video segment adapted from ZOOM. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	K-8	Video
Density and Buoyancy: Pouring Air into Water This video segment adapted from ZOOM offers a clever demonstration of buoyancy by showing how to pour a cup of air into a cup filled with water. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	K-8	Video
Density and Buoyancy: Testing Liquids Will a grape float in oil? Will a metal nut sink in corn syrup? Watch as the ZOOM cast tests the buoyancy of a variety of liquids and objects. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	K-8	Video
Designing a Puff Mobile The air you exhale can power a puff mobile. Watch as the ZOOM cast races their air-powered designs to see which design features are the most successful. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	K-5	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
Developing the Periodic Table This video excerpt from NOVA: "Hunting the Elements" looks at how early chemists developed the periodic table of elements. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	6-12	Video
Dust-Proofing a Mars Rover Enter the lab of NASA scientist Dr. Carlos Calle to see how systems are being developed to keep planetary rover solar panels dust-free, in this video from NASA EDGE. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
Finding the Dew Point In this video from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad learns to keep track of both air temperature and humidity so they can predict when fog will appear. Accessibility features: Transcript	3-5	Video
A Fission Chain Reaction This video excerpt from NOVA: "Hunting the Elements” uses ping-pong balls and mousetraps to demonstrate nuclear fission. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	6-12	Video
Fluid Dynamics In this video from NASA Launchpad, learn about the techniques and facilities astronauts use to train for working in microgravity environments. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	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
How Elements Form Compounds This video excerpt from NOVA: "Hunting the Elements" examines how elements come together in chemical reactions to form compounds. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	6-12	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
Mass vs. Weight: Accelerating Mass Astronauts on the International Space Station demonstrate Newton’s Second Law of Motion in this video from NASA's Teaching From Space initiative. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
Radioactive Decay of Carbon-14 This video excerpt from NOVA: "Hunting the Elements" examines carbon isotopes and radiocarbon dating. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	6-12	Video
Rare Earth Elements This video excerpt from NOVA: "Hunting the Elements" explores the ubiquity of rare earth elements. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	6-12	Video
Sound and Solids: Listening Stick This video segment, adapted from ZOOM, explores how sound waves travel differently through air than through solids like a yardstick, a baseball bat, and a golf club. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	K-8	Video
Sound and Solids: Stereo Hangers This video segment, adapted from ZOOM, explores how sound waves travel differently through solids than through air, in this case, a metal clothes hanger. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	K-8	Video
Sound and Solids: Visualizing Vibrations In this video segment, adapted from ZOOM, a tuning fork's vibrations are made visible as ripples in a bowl of water. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	K-8	Video
States of Matter This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K explains and gives examples of the 4 states of matter: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
States of Water This short video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K defines a water molecule and describes the 3 states of water; steam, ice, and liquid. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Tangled Up in Teleportation This video excerpt from NOVA’s "The Fabric of the Cosmos: Quantum Leap" illustrates how quantum entanglement could be used to teleport people from one place to another, and discusses what you would need to make teleportation possible. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	9-12	Video
Using Salt to Melt Ice How can you pick up an ice cube with a string? Watch this video segment adapted from ZOOM to see how salt can help. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	K-8	Video
The Value of Copper This video excerpt from NOVA: "Hunting the Elements" examines copper's many uses and how its price is an economic indicator. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	6-12	Video
What Makes an Element Reactive? This video excerpt from NOVA: "Hunting the Elements" explains why some groups of elements are more reactive than others. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	6-12	Video
Wildfire This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K describes the 3 elements that are needed for a fire triangle, and how the job of firefighters is to eliminate at least one of the elements. Learn how wildfires spread, what firefighters need to know in order to fight fires and why rehabilitation is important after a fire. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video