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Acids and Bases: Cabbage Juice Indicator In 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 Rocket In 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 Cars In 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 Rockets What 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 Balloons In 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
Atoms: The Space Between This 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 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
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
Cooking Cookies with Solar Power In 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
Counting Neutrons on the Moon Find out how scientists are using a neutron detector onboard a satellite to try to find water on the Moon in this video adapted from NASA. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Defy Gravity! Upside Down Ping Pong Ball In this video segment, the ZOOM cast is challenged to keep a ping pong ball in a funnel while the funnel is held upside down, seemingly defying gravity. Accessibility features: Caption	3-8	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: Making Eggs Float Why does an egg float in salt water? Learn about density and buoyancy in this video segment adapted from ZOOM. Accessibility features: Caption	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
Don't Mess with Mercury Learn about the dangers of mercury in this short video from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
The Electromagnetic Spectrum: FRONTLINE This video segment adapted from FRONTLINE introduces the electromagnetic spectrum and explains how the various types of electromagnetic waves are distinguished by the amount of energy each wave carries. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
The Electromagnetic Spectrum: NASA From radio waves to gamma rays, this video segment from NASA introduces the seven categories of the electromagnetic spectrum and how each type of radiation is part of our everyday lives. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
Electrophoresis and Gel Analysis In this animation produced by WGBH and Digizyme, Inc., see how molecules of DNA are separated using gel electrophoresis, and how this process enables scientists to compare the molecular variations of two or more DNA samples. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
The Elements: Forged in Stars The story of how elements from lithium to uranium are created by stars is illustrated through animation and a hands-on periodic table in this video segment adapted from NOVA. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Everyday Radiation How much radiation are we exposed to every day? Find out in this video segment adapted from FRONTLINE. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Experimenting with a Glass Xylophone In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, the cast investigates how the pitch of sound changes when they strike a variety of glasses filled with different amounts and types of liquids. Accessibility features: Caption	3-8	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
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 on the Moon Watch Apollo 15 astronaut David Scott perform Galileo's falling objects experiment on the Moon in this video segment from NASA. 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
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: Carbon Dioxide and the Greenhouse Effect This video segment adapted from NOVA/FRONTLINE demonstrates the physical property of carbon dioxide that causes the greenhouse effect. 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
Global Warming: The Physics of the Greenhouse Effect This video segment adapted from NOVA/FRONTLINE examines the greenhouse effect, its role in keeping Earth habitable, and the industrial changes that have led to an increase in the planet's average temperature. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Helium Is Boring In this video adapted from the National Science Center, observe a demonstration to discover how helium gas is inert and hydrogen gas is reactive. Accessibility features: Caption	3-8	Video
How to Reduce Lead Exposure Learn how to prevent childhood lead poisoning in this video segment adapted from Lead Awareness for Parents by the Coalition to Prevent Lead Poisoning. Accessibility features: Caption	6-8	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
Introduction to Plastics Learn about the basic process of plastics production, and observe how monomers combine to form polymer chains, in this video segment adapted from Pennsylvania College of Technology and WVIA. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Island of Stability In this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, follow scientists in their quest to understand how stable elements are made and how to create the elusive element 114. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	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
Light Particles Acting Like Waves: The Uncertainty Principle This video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey uses a laser beam to demonstrate how light particles act like waves, illustrating Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Making Cortisone From Plants This video segment adapted from NOVA is a dramatized story of chemist Percy Julian’s work to synthesize cortisone. Find out how a biological process, not a chemical one, proved the key to producing cortisone in bulk. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Melissa Franklin: High Energy Physics This video segment adapted from Discovering Women profiles Fermilab physicist and Harvard professor Melissa Franklin. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Mixing Colors Children learn the basics of mixing primary colors in this original animated video. Accessibility features: Caption	Pre-K-1	Video
Mystery Mud: Exploring Changes in States of Matter Join a group of middle-school students on a visit to a laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where they experiment with "mystery mud" and learn about the relationships between magnetism, particle motion, and changes in the state of matter. Accessibility features: Caption	3-8	Video
Nanotechnology Learn about the fundamentals of nanotechnology and its applications, in this video segment adapted from Pennsylvania College of Technology and WVIA. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
A Nanotube Space Elevator In this video adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, find out about the discovery of a new building material, the carbon nanotube, whose physical properties could theoretically enable the creation of a 22,000-mile elevator to space. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Nuclear Reaction: Fission This video segment adapted from FRONTLINE looks at nuclear fission as an energy source that can be used to generate electricity. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Nuclear Reaction: Meltdown What happens when a nuclear reactor overheats? This video segment adapted from FRONTLINE looks at the nuclear reactor meltdown at Chernobyl, the worst accident of its kind. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Nuclear Waste: Yucca Mountain What happens to nuclear waste? This video segment adapted from FRONTLINE explores the controversy surrounding the United States' first nuclear repository site. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Oil Contaminants Hidden from View This video adapted from KTOO explores why the beaches of Latouche Island and Knight Island, Alaska, contain remnants of an oil spill and discusses its resulting impact on the Alutiiq community of Chenega Bay. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
The Origin of the Elements This video segment adapted from NOVA explains the origin of the elements and how scientists use unique element profiles to identify supernova types. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video