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Acid Mine Drainage and Precipitates In this video, environmental scientists measure the pH of water to detect acid mine drainage from an abandoned coal mine and then demonstrate how metals present in acid drainage fall out of solution as precipitates when a basic substance is added to the water. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Controlling Water Run-off This video shows how the environmentally friendly design of the Visitor Center at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest near Louisville slows down water run-off and helps to control non-point-source water pollution, conserve water, and prevent soil erosion Accessibility features: Caption	4-12	Video
Environmental Impact of Acid Mine Drainage This video shows how acid mine drainage from an abandoned coal mine has affected Wildcat Branch in Kentucky's Daniel Boone National Forest. Because the creek has a very acidic pH of 2.9, most organisms cannot survive there, and Wildcat Branch is essentially dead. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Reusing Wastewater This video demonstrates how peat filtration beds at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest near Louisville, Kentucky purify and conserve wastewater and eliminate one cause of non-point-source water pollution. Accessibility features: Caption	4-12	Video
The Geology of Coal In this video, a geologist describes how coal, a sedimentary rock, was formed when organic materials piled up in swamps millions of years ago. Over time, heat and pressure transformed the buried materials into forms of coal that cause acid mine drainage when exposed to oxygen. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
High-Sulfur Coal and Acidic Water In this video, a geologist measures the pH of water after high-sulfur coal from a Kentucky coal mine has been added to it. This test demonstrates that the sulfate salts found on the coal’s surface cause the water to become much more acidic. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Rain Gardens This video shows how a rain garden at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest near Louisville, Kentucky slows down the flow of water from the forest’s parking lot and helps prevent soil erosion. Accessibility features: Caption	4-12	Video
Mycoremediation This video explores the process of mycoremediation: planting fungi such as oyster mushrooms to mitigate non-point-source water pollution caused by oil, gasoline, and other toxic substances. Accessibility features: Caption	4-12	Video
Restoring Lower Rock Creek This brief video describes how Lower Rock Creek’s location between two National Wild and Scenic Rivers caused Kentucky environmentalists to choose the creek as a target for acid mine drainage remediation. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Acid Mine Drainage Remediation In this video, an environmental technologist visits an abandoned coal mine in Kentucky to talk about how a remediation system (a series of settling ponds and treatment cells) is neutralizing the acid drainage flowing from the mine and keeping it from damaging a creek downstream. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Applying the Scientific Method This video provides a real-life example of the scientific method: testing hypotheses about which plants will grow most successfully on a green roof in Kentucky. Accessibility features: Caption	4-12	Video
Results of Acid Mine Drainage Remediation In this video, a biologist visits Rock Creek in Pulaski County, Kentucky to show how acid mine drainage remediation has increased the stream’s pH from acidic levels to almost neutral. Although the ecosystem has not been completely restored, many species have returned to Rock Creek. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Stream Restoration This video explores how Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest near Louisville, Kentucky has restored a channelized or straightened stream to its original meandering path, thereby improving the stream’s water quality and creating a better habitat for wildlife. Accessibility features: Caption	4-12	Video
Aquatic Insects In this brief video, a biologist talks about the macroinvertebrates (typically aquatic insects) that form the basis of food webs in healthy Kentucky streams. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Detached Wetlands This video depicts a detached wetland, a small pool that forms beside a shallow meandering stream when it overflows its banks. These wetlands are important breeding grounds for the invertebrates that live in and beside streams Accessibility features: Caption	4-12	Video
Advances in Neurotechnology In this video segment from Greater Boston, learn how a man with severe motor disabilities can operate a computer and move a prosthetic hand by simply thinking the commands, thanks to the combined efforts of bioengineers and neuroscientists. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Air Bag Design Using automobile crash test footage, this video segment adapted from NOVA shows some of the challenges in designing the air bag. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
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
Allison Bolinger: Spacewalk Flight Controller and Trainer In this video from Design Squad Nation, NASA spacewalk flight controller and trainer Allison Bolinger teaches astronauts how to work outside their spacecraft. Accessibility features: Caption	4-8	Video
Are Computers Intelligent? This video excerpt from NOVA: “Smartest Machine on Earth” explains why computers can be so good at chess. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	6-12	Video
Ask an Engineer Explore some of the wonders of modern engineering in this video from the Sciencenter in Ithaca, New York. Hear a diverse selection of engineers explain how things work. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
Automatic Door Opener In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, watch the design process in action as cast members create automatic door openers to open their bedroom doors while still lying down. Accessibility features: Caption	3-8	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
Bioengineering Body Parts In this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, scientists discuss their attempts to grow human body parts in a jar. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Brain Trauma Find out how serious head concussions can be in this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	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
Building a Dam Like a Beaver In this video segment from PEEP and the Big Wide World, children make a dam with dirt, sticks, and stones to try to stop the flow of water. Accessibility features: Caption	K-2	Video
Building Simple Machines: A Glass of Milk, Please In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, the cast shows how the 34 steps in their Rube Goldberg invention use everything from gravity to carbon dioxide gas in order to accomplish one simple task: pouring a glass of milk. Accessibility features: Caption	3-8	Video
Building Simple Machines: Plant Quencher In this video segment from ZOOM, Jillian explains how her simple machine uses marbles, levers, flowing sand, and a spinning wheel to water a plant. Accessibility features: Caption	3-8	Video
Building the Alaska Oil Pipeline This video segment adapted from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE tells the story of how environmentalists, Alaska Native peoples, and engineers concerned about the effects of permafrost challenged plans for the Alaska oil pipeline. Accessibility features: Caption	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
Can a Computer Fly an Airplane? This video excerpt from NOVA shows how the computer system on the A330 airplane can fly the plane safely without a human pilot. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	6-12	Video
Capturing Carbon In this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, a scientist, inspired by his daughter's science fair project, develops a synthetic "tree" to remove excess carbon dioxide from the air. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Carbon-Fiber Car of the Future In this video segment adapted from NOVA, find out how cars made of a material stronger than steel and half the weight can help combat climate change. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Citigroup Skyscraper Design Problem This video segment adapted from Building Big looks at the challenges faced by structural engineer William LeMessurier in designing a new skyscraper and how he very closely averted disaster. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Clifton Suspension Bridge This video segment from Building Big illustrates the basic design principles of the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, England. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	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
Composite Materials for Space Discover why engineers use composite materials to build spacecraft prototypes in this video segment adapted from NASA 360. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Converting to Biodiesel Meet a college student whose class project to turn cooking grease into diesel fuel resulted in converting bus fleets to biodiesel, in this video from Earth Island Institute's New Leaders Initiative. Accessibility features: Caption	5-12	Video
The Deployable Energy Absorber Watch how engineers stage a crash to test a new helicopter safety design technology in this video from NASA. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Design for Function In this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad designs an invention that will help them cross a swamp and also reach the top of a tall cliff. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	3-5	Video
Designing a Paper Bridge In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members make a bridge from a single piece of paper. Will it be strong enough to hold a hundred pennies? Accessibility features: Caption	3-8	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 a Roller Coaster In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, the cast is challenged to design and test a roller coaster with loops, hills, and U-turns. Accessibility features: Caption	3-5	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
Designing Electric Circuits: Door Alarm In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members design and build door alarms using a variety of materials, including aluminum foil, batteries, and buzzers. Accessibility features: Caption	3-8	Video
Designing Future Cities: Alternative Energy In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, visit a class as they design a city of the future that will use solar, wind, and water power to fuel its economy. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	3-8	Video
Designing Swimming Prosthetics for a Dancer In this video segment adapted from DESIGN SQUAD, teams of high school kids use the engineering design process to build specialized prostheses for a double-amputee dancer who performs underwater. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Designing the Citigroup Skyscraper This video segment adapted from Thinking Big, Building Small shows how a structural engineer overcame the challenge of building New York's Citigroup skyscraper over a church. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	3-8	Video
Designing a Wheelchair for Rugby In this video segment adapted from DESIGN SQUAD, teams of high school kids use the engineering design process to build an automated wheelchair to help a U.S. Paralympic athlete train. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Down to the Core Challenge In this video from Design Squad Nation, kids design and build devices that can extract a core sample from a potato “asteroid.” They also learn how samples give NASA scientists insight into solar system objects. Accessibility features: Caption	4-8	Video
Drafting and Graphics Engineering In this video adapted from ATETV, hear firsthand from an engineering technology graphics student about her plans to work with an architect after she completes her community college program. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Drilling to Antarctica’s Rock Core In this video adapted from ANDRILL, find out how geoscientists get through more than a dozen football fields of ice and water in order to study the rock and sediment beneath Antarctica. Accessibility features: Caption	3-8	Video
Eduardo Torres-Jara In this video from Science City, meet Eduardo Torres-Jara, a postdoctoral associate in electrical engineering and computer science at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab. He describes his work on innovative robots that use tactile feedback to locate and grasp objects. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Easy-Fit Design In this video produced for Teachers' Domain, Chi-An Wang, a mechanical engineering graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, describes her process when working with New Balance to design a new triathlon shoe. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
Eco Electronics In this video adapted from DESIGN SQUAD, meet engineers who help protect the environment by recycling and using biodegradable materials. Accessibility features: Caption	5-12	Video
Electric Girl Anna loves electricity. Watch her construct a homemade flashlight and show off her new, electrifying hairdo in this video segment from ZOOM. Accessibility features: Caption	3-8	Video
Engineering Biofuels In this video segment adapted from KQED's QUEST, find out how synthetic biologists use the techniques of metabolic engineering and directed evolution to make more effective biofuels. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Engineering for the Red Planet In this video segment from NASA, robotics researcher Ayanna Howard uses engineering to improve the intelligence of robots in space exploration. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Erick Ordoñez: Materials Engineer In this video from Design Squad Nation, NASA materials engineer Erick Ordoñez explains how he makes sure that the materials NASA sends into space are problem-free. Accessibility features: Caption	4-8	Video
Kerri-Ann Richard In this video from Science City, Kerri-Ann Richard, an environmental engineer, describes how she became interested in the field and why it is important to clean up the environment by removing contaminants from soil and ground water. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Ethanol Biofuel In this video segment adapted from NOVA, learn about one scientist's idea for using biotechnology to make ethanol a more efficient alternative to gasoline. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Exploring Windmill Design In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members are challenged to design a windmill that can be powered by a hair dryer. Accessibility features: Caption	3-8	Video
Fire Safety in High Rises This video segment adapted from NOVA explains how the sprinkler revolutionized fire safety and also features developments in fire-safety design for high-rise buildings. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Fireworks! Lifting Charge In this video segment adapted from NOVA, learn how pyrotechnicians use common compounds to blast fireworks into the sky and give them shape. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Firth of Forth Cantilever Bridge This video segment from Building Big: "Bridges" demonstrates the basic design of a cantilever bridge by looking at Scotland's Firth of Forth Railway Bridge. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
Fracking In this video segment adapted from Need to Know, learn about the controversial method of extracting natural gas known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and how some residents who live near drill sites are concerned that it's polluting their water. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Franklin Chang-Díaz: Rocket Scientist This video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW profiles Franklin Chang-Díaz, a scientist who is working on plasma-powered rockets and was NASA's first Latin American astronaut. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Funny Boat In this video segment adapted from FETCH!™, contestants are challenged to use materials from a garbage dump to build a boat that floats, can be steered, and is propelled by something other than oars. Accessibility features: Caption	3-8	Video
Fusion: Testing the First Hydrogen Device This video segment adapted from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE features original footage of the U.S. test of the first hydrogen device, code-named "Mike", that would trigger thermonuclear fusion. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Fusion: The Hydrogen Bomb Just after World War II, nuclear scientists turned their attention from fission to fusion. This video segment adapted from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE looks at the beginnings of thermonuclear power generation. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Galileo's Telescope The invention of the telescope helped change our understanding of the universe. This video segment adapted from NOVA looks at Galileo's contribution to this technology. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Geodesic Dome This video segment adapted from Building Big highlights the evolution of the geodesic dome, designed by legendary architect and inventor, Buckminster Fuller. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Geospatial Revolution Learn how satellite imagery, social networking sites, mapping technologies, and volunteers worked together to address human needs following an earthquake in Haiti, in this video segment from Geospatial Revolution, produced by Penn State Public Broadcasting. Accessibility features: Caption	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
Global Warming: The Developing World This video segment adapted from NOVA/FRONTLINE looks at the future of global warming as developing nations, including India and China, increase their need for energy. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Global Warming: The Hydrogen Car Is the hydrogen car the answer to global warming? This video segment adapted from NOVA/FRONTLINE looks at the pros and cons of this developing technology. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
Grass Bridge In this video segment adapted from NOVA, watch residents of the Peruvian Andes build a suspension bridge made entirely of grass. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
Green Energy This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K describes renewable and non-renewable energy sources and the benefits and drawbacks of each. It provides some ideas about how you can personally conserve energy. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Shaundra Bryant Daily In this video from Science City, Shaundra Bryant Daily, an electrical engineer, describes a software program she developed to help girls reflect on their emotions, and how her two passions—science and dance—are connected. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Hoover Dam This video segment from Building Big: "Dams," demonstrates the basic principals at work in the Hoover Dam, a concrete gravity dam that also makes use of the properties of the arch. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
Hoover Dam and Hydroelectric Power How does a dam generate electricity and what are the environmental impacts of operating these mammoth structures? Find out in this video segment adapted from Building Big. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
A House for Teddy Bear In this video segment from PEEP and the Big Wide World, children experiment with cardboard and build a house for their stuffed animals. Accessibility features: Caption	K-2	Video
How Do You Get to the Moon? This video, adapted from NOVA, showcases the competing engineering plans designed for landing a person on the Moon for the first time. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
How Do You Keep Lemonade Cool? This video segment adapted from FETCH!™ shows contestants experimenting with different materials to see which is the best insulator and thus best able to keep the lemonade at their stand cool for customers. Accessibility features: Caption	3-8	Video
How Would You Turn a Bolt in Space? In this fast-paced NASA Brain Bites™ video, an astronaut demonstrates the impact of microgravity on the use of tools in space. Accessibility features: Caption	3-8	Video
Hubble's Expanding Universe This adapted video segment, using footage from NOVA and NASA, examines Edwin Hubble's work and how his findings laid the foundation for the Big Bang theory. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
The Impact of Technology: Cars This video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey looks at the invention of the automobile and the development of mass production. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
The Impact of Technology: Nylon This video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey looks at the invention of nylon. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
The Impact of Technology: Society This video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey considers modern technology's impact on society. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Inflatable Moon Habitat Visit an inflatable habitat designed for astronauts to live in on the Moon in this video adapted from NASA 360. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Inspector Detector Challenge In this video from Design Squad Nation, kids design and build magnetic-field detectors and use them to find hidden magnets. They also learn how NASA uses magnetometers to learn what is going on inside a planet or moon. Accessibility features: Caption	4-8	Video
Investigating a Suspension Bridge In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, the cast builds a suspension bridge from a couple of chairs, some cardboard, and rope. Accessibility features: Caption	3-8	Video
Invisible Force Challenge In this video from Design Squad Nation, kids design and build systems that use magnets to control the speed and direction of a rolling ball. They also learn how NASA uses gravity to direct a spacecraft. Accessibility features: Caption	4-8	Video
It's Cool to Be a Civil Engineer Who decides how massive structures like skyscrapers are made? This video segment adapted from Thinking Big, Building Small showcases the job of a civil engineer. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	3-8	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
Kid Inventor: Tennis Ball Picker-Upper Tired of bending down to pick up those runaway tennis balls? Leang can help you out with his handy invention in this video segment from ZOOM. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	K-5	Video
Kid Inventor: Newspaper Crank In this video segment from ZOOM, Andrew demonstrates how his invention helps him get ready for his paper route. Accessibility features: Caption	K-8	Video