Daily questions, brainbusters, warm-ups, whatever you call it, the first few minutes of class sets the tone for the rest of the day. Here you will find popular video clips on a variety of topics, all intended to get your students excited about science.
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Monday, December 16, 2013
Friday, December 13, 2013
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Atoms A-Z TED-Ed
What are the three subatomic particles in atoms?
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream
How is the ice cream made?
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Gas Laws TED-Ed
What is Charles' Law? Boyle's?
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Bed of nails
What is the formula for pressure? Describe why you can lay down on a bed of nails but not on a single nail.
Cheeseburger in Hydrochloric Acid - Periodic Table of Videos (+playlist)
http://www.youtube.com/v/NddZ5ftQb0Q?list=TLJLaFPgJSH1wyOLAjYw6L61lKMYt_OCcX&version=3&showinfo=1&attribution_tag=_9YdzrUhWQXLQl3V3xwcjg&autoplay=1&autohide=1&feature=share
What is found in everyone's stomach? Is this a chemical or physical reaction?
What is found in everyone's stomach? Is this a chemical or physical reaction?
Monday, November 4, 2013
What is an atom smasher?
What is an atom smasher? What is the largest?
What is the shape of a molecule?
How do we determine the shape of a molecule?
Friday, November 1, 2013
Chemical Change- Decomposition
A little gross!
What are the physical properties of French fries? Is decomposition a chemical or physical change?
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Monday, October 28, 2013
Physical and Chemical Properties song
What are3 physical and 3 chemical properties of matter?
Friday, October 25, 2013
What is Ice? Why does it float?
What is ice and why does it float?
Great explanation.
Great explanation.
Mysterious blob shows up on radar
I love when the experts are confused. There was a mysterious blob that showed up on meteorologists radar. They thought it might be a rain cloud- but nothing was in the sky!
Here is a link to the article.
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/what-mysterious-blob-radar-answer-traced-military-8C11466181
I am going to use it when we discuss radar and the EMS.
Here is a video about it as well-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly3jF75WdQU
Could it have been ladybugs?
Here is a link to the article.
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/what-mysterious-blob-radar-answer-traced-military-8C11466181
I am going to use it when we discuss radar and the EMS.
Here is a video about it as well-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly3jF75WdQU
Could it have been ladybugs?
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Mass v. Weight
What is the difference between Mass and Weight?
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Recycle Aluminum
Why should we recycle aluminum? What are some physical properties of Al?
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Sunday, October 6, 2013
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Coke can in a base and an acid
Which is more dangerous? Why?
Mythbusters Breaking Bad Acid
Mythbusters recreate a scene from Breaking Bad where they dispose of a body using acids.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Vermicomposting TED-Ed
http://ed.ted.com/lessons/vermicomposting-how-worms-can-reduce-our-waste-matthew-ross
An excellent video on the benefits of vermicomposting.
How to Geckos stick? Scientific Method
How do geckos stick? What is something you would like to learn more about? What are you curious about? Why? If you could figure out one big mystery of the universe, what would it be and why?
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Women in science Big Bang Theory
Thinking about a daily question.....
Metric
Ahhhh Metric time....
http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=189578
A funny song about our change to metric in 1975. ( Wait our what?)
American Choppers- A great demonstration on why should we use metric and pay attention in math class.
http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=189578
A funny song about our change to metric in 1975. ( Wait our what?)
American Choppers- A great demonstration on why should we use metric and pay attention in math class.
Monday, September 16, 2013
Crows Recognize Faces- Scientific Inquiry
Daily Question: What is the hypothesis the Professor is studying? What is his independent and dependent variable?
Monday, September 9, 2013
Terminal Velocity
Can a Penny dropped from the Empire State Building kill someone? Why? What are you basing your guess on? What is Terminal Velocity?
Sunday, September 8, 2013
Scientific Method and Mythbuster Waving a Flag on the Moon
The questions are in the video!
Daily Questions: Answer the questions embedded in the video.
Key words: Hypothesis, Control, Variable
Scientific Method Big Bang Theory
Daily Question: What is the Scientific Method? What would the dependent and independent variables be in their experiment?
Diet Coke and Mentos Results Hypothesis
Daily Question: Before you watch the video, write a hypothesis. How do you design an experiment? What would the independent and dependent variables be? How could you collect and interpret data about the coke and Mentos?
After the video- What was their hypothesis? How did they test it? What was their independent and dependent variable?
Labels:
Coke,
dependent variable,
Hypothesis,
Independent variable,
Mentos
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Kid invented solar power (Why should kids invent)
Why do we need to encourage students to invent and think outside the box? They need practice. Inventing is a skill that can be developed with support, either by parents or teachers or both.
Short video on using HIV cells to treat lukemia (Experimentation)
I am going to use this as a starting point to talk about the moral dilemmas associated with experimentation. Daily question: Do you think doctors and researchers should be allowed to test new treatments on children ?
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Saturday, August 24, 2013
Liquid Density Tower
I love this demo. I usually try it with a couple of liquids, but this is taking it to a whole new level.
Daily Question: What conclusions can you draw about the density of the objects dropped into the liquids?
Change of your coffee having the same water molecules as Lincoln's coffee
Daily Question: Draw a picture and label the water cycle.
Saturday, August 17, 2013
When NASA Data Becomes Art (video)
When NASA Data Becomes Art (video)
I stumbled onto this from the Beinggeekchic.com blog.I am not sure how to work it in, maybe when we look at temperature.
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Hydrogen Atom Joke Big Bang Theory
So by now most of my students have caught on that I love Big Bang Theory.
Daily Question: Why was this joke funny? OK, if you didn't find it funny, why was it suppose to be funny?
Labels:
Big Bang Theory,
electron,
hydrogen atom,
science joke
Sunday, August 4, 2013
Sound Decibles Drag Racing
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Waves- Japanese Wave Pool
This is great! I saw this video on Outrageous Acts of Science on the Science Channel. A common misconception about waves is that the water moves with the wave, when in fact the wave is the energy moving through the water. This video is a great example of this principle.
Daily question: Why don't all of the people in this video get washed out of the pool in the first wave?
Thursday, July 18, 2013
What is Physics? Big Bang Theory
Do you recognize the name of any of the scientists Sheldon mentions? If you could understand one thing that he talks about, what would it be? If I could promise, that with a little effort this year,
you will understand almost everything he is talking about by the end of the year, would you try?
Saturday, June 8, 2013
States of matter
Saturday, June 1, 2013
Gamma radiation
Daily question Where would you find gamma rays on the electromagnetic spectrum?
Makey Makey
This is a little off the normal posts, but I recently bought a Makey Makey. What a great product! We (the 8th grade science dept) are hoping to have a few in our class next year. These are amazing. What is a makey makey? Check out the video How to Hack a Banana. Go ahead I promise it is worth it!
http://popularscienceteacher.blogspot.com/2013/05/ted-hack-banana.html
Cool right? Here is a video of my own kids about five minutes after we got it out of the box!
It is so easy to use. They are a little intense. They really loved it. You can hook it up to almost anything, it just has to be a little conductive. The makey makey how to site was a big help.
Here is a link to MakeyMakey, I will update as soon as I have tried it out in my class! We ordered 8 which should be enough for 3-4 per group. I think I am going to give them a theme and see what happens. Can't wait!
http://www.makeymakey.com/howto.php
http://popularscienceteacher.blogspot.com/2013/05/ted-hack-banana.html
Cool right? Here is a video of my own kids about five minutes after we got it out of the box!
I love how they decided the 4 year old should be a note.
Here is a link to MakeyMakey, I will update as soon as I have tried it out in my class! We ordered 8 which should be enough for 3-4 per group. I think I am going to give them a theme and see what happens. Can't wait!
http://www.makeymakey.com/howto.php
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
TED- Work and Power
Daily: What is the formula for work? Power?
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
TED- Hack a Banana
Daily: Define conductivity. Did you see anything that was conductive that you did not expect to be a conductor?
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Sound Wave Breaking the sound barrier
Daily Question: What causes the cloud around the jet?
Gravity Supersonic Free Fall
Free fall from space
Daily Question: How fast was he falling at his fastest point? Draw a picture and label the forces acting on him.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Rube Goldberg Music Video OK Go
Daily Questions: What simple machines did you see? Do you think this was filmed all at once? Why or why not?
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Friday, May 10, 2013
What? A cockroach dissection? Sound Waves? Electric signals?
This is great!
He actually dissects a cockroach on stage, hooks it up to a speaker and makes it move based on the electric signal produced by the sound. Lots of good possible daily questions. Since I am focused on sound right now I am basing it on that. Daily Question: What type of speaker produces a low frequency sound? Draw a picture of what that wave might look like.
Electricity Vocabulary
This video is really interesting. It looks at the history of the vocabulary we use when we talk about electricity.
Daily Question: Where did the word Electron come from? Electrics? What did Ben Franklin add to our knowledge of electricity? What trick did he play on others?
History of Optics, Color, Glasses
Daily Question: What historical event resulted in more people needing glasses? What observations did Galileo make? What causes something to be a color?
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Big Bang Theory Doppler effect.
Daily Question: What is the Doppler effect? Does it only apply to sound waves?
Resonance Fat Lady Signing in Harry Potter
Resonance
Daily Question: Define Resonance. What was wrong with the Fat Lady's voice?
Monday, May 6, 2013
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Archimedes bath
I always tell this story! This illustrates it so well.
Daily Question: What is the formula for density? Is density a constant? Why?
Daily Question: What is the formula for density? Is density a constant? Why?
Animals and sound
17 minutes long, but totally worth it.
Daily question: Why does sound travel so well in water?
Color and waves
This is a great video describing waves and color.
Daily question: What color is the lowest wavelength? Which is the highest?
Thursday, April 25, 2013
National Lampoons Chrismas Vacation- Electricity
I was surprised how many students had never seen this movie. You could connect a number of different vocabulary to this video; circuit breaker, short circuit, series and parallel circuits.
Daily Question: What happened?
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Electric Eels River Monsters-Electricity
Daily Question: Why are they wearing rubber gloves?
Friday, April 19, 2013
Washcloths in space Crazy
Daily Questions: What do you think will happen?
Absolutely unbelievable!
Thursday, April 18, 2013
JASON project
So today was the best experience ever!! We got to go to a Nautilus live training. They demonstrated 8 lessons we can do with our student to integrate Nautilus Live in our class. Look for links under my favorites. I plan on using what I learned today in my class tomorrow!
Monday, April 15, 2013
Tagging sharks Time Video
How do you catch a shark? I am giving a lesson on populations and marking. I am going to use this as an example of the problems facing the mark and release procedure.
Sunday, April 14, 2013
What's the Difference between Weather and Climate?
What's the Difference between Weather and Climate?
What a cool (pun intended) lesson plan on the difference between weather and climate! It even involves chocolate!
What a cool (pun intended) lesson plan on the difference between weather and climate! It even involves chocolate!
Hot Wheels Real life 2012 X Games
Inertia anyone? Friction? Gravity? There are several opportunities to work this one in.
Daily Question: Did you play with hotwheels when you were little? Or now? How does this work?
Seasons
Well, I don't teach the seasons in Physical Science but since I do have to review 6th grade science for our SOL, I couldn't resist this video. I found this on Pintrest. If you aren't pinning yet, you don't know what you are missing!
Daily question: What causes the seasons to occur here on Earth? What is your favorite season and why?
Daily question: What causes the seasons to occur here on Earth? What is your favorite season and why?
Dark Lightning (Electromagnetic Spectrum)
Dark Lightning! How cool is this. Be prepared for some serious conversations about radiation exposure.
I first thought this would go along with lightning and electricity, but I think it fits better in my Electromagnetic Spectrum unit. Nice clip of the Hulk doing his thing.
Daily question- Why is the Hulk big, green and mean?
Super slow motion lightning
Slow motion lightning! This is awesome. I am going to use this as an introduction to electricity this week.
Daily Question: Why does lightning occur? Draw a picture of the positive and negative charges.
Thursday, April 11, 2013
David Blaine and Giant Tesla Coil
The students really enjoyed this video. I was surprised to see how many of them didn't see this when he originally did it.
Daily Question: What is going on here? Why doesn't he get electrocuted?
Monday, March 25, 2013
Newton's cradle Mythbusters
Newtons cradle
If you have the time to show this whole episode to your students. I think it is worth it, except for the chicken on the car myth. I like the way they size up the models.
Daily question- what are Newtons three laws?
Relative Motion Ballerina and Volvo truck comercial
This is the craziest video!! This was on the NSTA website. Here is their summary of it-
This is an advertisement for a brand of truck, but it is also an excellent way to introduce relative motion. The two trucks, the rope, and the high-liner are all moving relative to the ground, but not moving relative to each other. To fully describe motion, it is essential clearly state your "frame of reference" so that others will know what "zero velocity" actually means.
Daily Question- What is relative motion? What is her velocity relative to the ground? Relative to the truck? Relative the the wire?
TED organization of the periodic table
If you are not familiar with TED you must check this out. TED is a collection of short lectures from some of the greatest minds of today. In their words, "Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world". The following link will take you to TED Ed which covers several subjects.
http://ed.ted.com/lessons
This video gives a nice history of the early theories of the elements and the periodic table.
http://ed.ted.com/lessons/solving-the-puzzle-of-the-periodic-table-eric-rosado
http://ed.ted.com/lessons
This video gives a nice history of the early theories of the elements and the periodic table.
Daily Questions: Who organized the periodic table in the format we use today?
Sound waves and fire
Although this is a little advanced for most middle schoolers, the idea of sound traveling in longitudinal waves is beautifully displayed using fire and music. He mentions rarefaction and compression in the first couple of minutes. After that it gets complicated quickly.
Daily question: Define rarefraction and compression. Draw a picture and label each.
Daily question: Define rarefraction and compression. Draw a picture and label each.
Sunday, March 24, 2013
TED How small is an atom?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQP4UJhNn0I&sns=em
I know my students always struggle with how small an atom is. This video does a nice job of illustrating the size of an atom.
Daily question- What are the three subatomic particles in an atom?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQP4UJhNn0I&sns=em
Rube Goldberg Honda commercial
One of my students first brought this to me and I love it. I don't spend nearly as much time on Rube Goldberg as I would like, but I always introduce him and check out a few of his original designs with my students when we start simple machines.
Daily question- List as many simple machines as you can in this clip.
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Science humor
Gotta love science.
Daily Question- Who are these guys? How does what they are saying help you figure it out?
Kinetic/ Potential Energy Wiley Coyote style
This video shows the usual encounter between Wiley Coyotoe and the Roadrunner but includes kinetic and potential energy labels. I haven't tried it yet, but I would like to have students make their own videos and caption it with kinetic and potential energy. Let me know if you have tried something like this, I would love to know what software/app you used.
Daily Question: What is kinetic energy? Potential energy?
Pressure/Friction/Melting point Ice Skating Mystery
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/science/weird-science-sci/idkt-ice-skating-science/
This is a quick clip that looks at the science behind ice skating. They do a nice demo of a wire on an ice cube.
Daily Question;
What effect does pressure have on the melting point of ice? Is melting point a physical or chemical property? What is the melting point of water?
This is a quick clip that looks at the science behind ice skating. They do a nice demo of a wire on an ice cube.
Daily Question;
What effect does pressure have on the melting point of ice? Is melting point a physical or chemical property? What is the melting point of water?
Gravity Bungee jumping
Bungee jumping.
This video includes the history of bungee jumping.
Daily question- Define gravity. Draw a picture of a person jumping off a bridge or mountain. What are the forces acting on the jumper? Is this something you would want to do?
Water pressure
This is a neat video about underwater diving and water pressure. Short and Sweet!
Daily Question: Define water pressure.
Manatees,National Geographic
Manatees, Manatee Pictures, Manatee Facts - National Geographic
Great for a lesson on density and buoyancy.
Daily Question:
How come the manatee which weighs 440-1200lbs manage to look so graceful underwater
Great for a lesson on density and buoyancy.
Daily Question:
How come the manatee which weighs 440-1200lbs manage to look so graceful underwater
Physics and the NHL
This is a great resource from NBC. All of these videos are extremely high quality and well done. The subjects vary and include kinematics, velocity, density and friction. I am going to included a couple of my favorite videos with daily questions, but I highly recommend this whole site. It is worth taking a closer look at.
https://www.nbclearn.com/portal/site/learn/science-of-nhl-hockey
https://www.nbclearn.com/portal/site/learn/science-of-nhl-hockey
Acid versus Base
This one demonstrate how destructive strong bases and strong acids can be.
Daily question: What is the ph of an acid? A base? What is the ph of a weak acid and a weak base?
Periodic table video coke cans ( There is a mistake on this video- or at least a confusing camera angle where the Base and Acid are mixed)
Daily question: What is the ph of an acid? A base? What is the ph of a weak acid and a weak base?
Periodic table video coke cans ( There is a mistake on this video- or at least a confusing camera angle where the Base and Acid are mixed)
Friday, March 22, 2013
Parkour and friction
The students love these videos. Parkour is a popular form of urban sport where a person must get from one point to another in a creative and fast manner. Whenever I show the Parkour video I also show the fails video. The professionals make it look so easy, the fails bring kids back to reality and I think it is less likely for students to Parkour down the hallways and stairs. The music is very hip hop and may not be appropriate for everyone, you may want to mute it. As always with You Tube, you need to check the area around the video for inappropriate ads.
Daily question: What are the four types of friction? What type of friction do the runners use to stay on the walls or bars? During the fails video what the of friction is causing the injuries?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX7QNWEGcNI&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Fails video
Daily question: What are the four types of friction? What type of friction do the runners use to stay on the walls or bars? During the fails video what the of friction is causing the injuries?
Fails video
Decomposition Chemical Changes
Time release video of a hamburger decomposing. If the hamburger is too gross, another option is the fruit. The different types of hamburgers does stir up a lively conversation.
Daily question-
What type of change is occurring? Physical or chemical? How do you know?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uHxRwQqWFo&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Daily question-
What type of change is occurring? Physical or chemical? How do you know?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uHxRwQqWFo&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Air pressure and change of state
I like a lot of the Steve Spangler videos, but this has to be my all time favorite. It takes the can crushing demo to a whole new level. He crushes 55 gallon drums! It has the can demo at the beginning so show this after any in class demo. You don't want him stealing your thunder. This video is 14 minutes long. I think it is worth the class time, but if you want a shorted clip the link to a 2 minute video is below.
Daily Question:
Draw a picture of the forces acting on this can. Draw a picture of the molecules in the can before the warm water and after.
Daily Question:
Draw a picture of the forces acting on this can. Draw a picture of the molecules in the can before the warm water and after.
Two minute clip
Bernoulli's Principle Twister and We've got cows
This one is the clip from the movie Twister where the cow is circling the truck in the tornado. The faster the fluid flows-the lower the pressure goes.
Daily question: What is happening to the cow and why?
Daily question: What is happening to the cow and why?
Air Resistance- Transformers 3
This is one of my favorite clips. It is a behind the scean look at the Squirel Suit or Wing Suit jumpers, jumping off the Sears Tower in Chicago. This is a great clip for gravity, air resistance or fluid friction.
Daily Question: Draw one of the jumpers and label the forces. Include the words, gravity, air resistance, fluid friction and awesome.
Daily Question: Draw one of the jumpers and label the forces. Include the words, gravity, air resistance, fluid friction and awesome.
Buoyancy the Dead Sea
This clip is 6 minutes long and demonstrates a 14 lb bowling ball floating in the Dead Sea.
Daily Question: Draw a picture of the bowling ball in the Dead sea. Label the forces acting on the ball.
Daily Question: Draw a picture of the bowling ball in the Dead sea. Label the forces acting on the ball.
Buoyancy Killer Quicksand
This is a nice clip for buoyancy. It is only a few minutes long and summarizes the whole experiment.
Jamie and Adam test the movie image of killer quicksand. The kind that sucks you under.
Daily Question:
Why didn't Jamie sink in the quicksand? Why is his buoyancy different in quicksand vs. water?
Jamie and Adam test the movie image of killer quicksand. The kind that sucks you under.
Daily Question:
Why didn't Jamie sink in the quicksand? Why is his buoyancy different in quicksand vs. water?
Bernoulli's Principle
This is a clip from Finding Nemo. It is the scene where Marlin (Nemo's father) wakes up on the shell of Crush the sea turtle cruisn' the EAC. (East Australian Current)
This is a great video for Bernoulli's Principle. The faster the fluid flows, the lower the pressure goes.
http://www.movieweb.com/movie/finding-nemo/the-eac
Daily Question:
What is the EAC? How does it relate to Bernoulli's Principle?
This is a great video for Bernoulli's Principle. The faster the fluid flows, the lower the pressure goes.
http://www.movieweb.com/movie/finding-nemo/the-eac
Daily Question:
What is the EAC? How does it relate to Bernoulli's Principle?
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