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Acids and Bases: Cabbage Juice IndicatorIn this video segment, the ZOOM cast demonstrates how to use cabbage juice to find out if a solution is an acid or a base. Accessibility features: Caption |
3-8 |
Video |
Acids and Bases: Making a Film Canister RocketIn this video segment, ZOOM cast members mix different amounts of baking soda and vinegar to see which combination produces the most carbon dioxide for launching a film-canister rocket.
Accessibility features: Caption |
K-5 |
Video |
Acids and Bases: Testing Rocket CarsIn this ZOOM video segment, cast members make bottle rocket cars using lemon juice and baking soda, and experiment with different ways of launching the cars. Accessibility features: Caption |
3-8 |
Video |
Acids and Bases: Testing RocketsWhat happens when you mix baking soda and lemon juice? Watch the ZOOM cast launch a rocket using kitchen chemistry. Accessibility features: Caption |
3-8 |
Video |
Air Power: Experimenting with BalloonsIn this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members experiment with the amount of air expelled first from a balloon, then through a straw attached to it, and see how both affect a balloon's behavior. Accessibility features: Caption |
3-8 |
Video |
Arch BridgeThis video segment adapted from Building Big illustrates the strength of the arch in bridge design and construction. Accessibility features: Caption |
3-12 |
Video |
Atoms: The Space BetweenThis video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey takes a look at the scale of the atom and the tremendous amount of space between the electrons and the nucleus. If all this empty space exists in matter, how can any substance be solid? Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
Video |
Balloon Brain: Designing a HelmetIn 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 |
Booming Sands This video segment, adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, presents basic concepts of physics behind "booming" sand dunes. See how surface tension affects potential and kinetic energy and how it all works together to create sound.
Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
Video |
Building Simple Machines: A Glass of Milk, PleaseIn 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 QuencherIn 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 Channel TunnelHow do you build a tunnel 32 miles long -- under water? This video segment adapted from Building Big, follows the construction of the Channel Tunnel (nicknamed "Chunnel"), the engineering wonder that connects England to France. Accessibility features: Caption |
3-12 |
Video |
Capturing CarbonIn 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 FutureIn 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 |
Center of Gravity: Pencil BalanceWatch the ZOOM cast learn about center of gravity by trying to balance a pencil on their fingers and noses. Accessibility features: Caption |
3-8 |
Video |
Clean Coal? Explore the challenges facing the deployment of clean coal technology in this video segment adapted from FRONTLINE: "Heat." Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
Video |
Columns: Experimenting with Paper CupsIn 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: Hillary's NeighborhoodIn 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 |
Converting to BiodieselMeet 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 |
Cooking Cookies with Solar PowerIn this video segment adapted from ZOOM, two solar cookers are tested against a control to see which can cook a "s'more" faster. Accessibility features: Caption |
K-8 |
Video |
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