Science Videos Tips
Instructional Science Videos for Kids
Getting Started
- Video Teaching Guide
Science A-Z offers engaging instructional science videos for students that extend the core concepts of a unit, model real science in action, or serve as virtual field trips. Each video is accompanied by video discussion questions to foster critical thinking.
The SAZ Adventures video series shows how the important concepts students are studying in a science unit apply to the real world. These videos come with teaching tips that provide standards connections, key vocabulary, and other instructional support. Look for the symbol or use the filter to find these fun videos.
The Kitchen Science video series engages students with fun and simple science experiments they can do using everyday objects. Students can follow along with the Wise Family as they complete Science A-Z Process Activities. Use the symbol and the filter to locate these engaging videos.
Why Use Science Videos
Multimedia brings technology into the classroom and engages students, especially visual and auditory learners, with science content that might not otherwise be accessible.
Science A-Z's science videos also provide dynamic illustrations of complex processes that text and static diagrams cannot.
How to Use Science Videos
Start with the Video Teaching Guide to learn about tips or activities for before, during, and after showing science videos to students.
Use the Video Discussion Questions that accompany every video to foster discussion and critical thinking about what students watched. The five discussion questions per video target various Depth of Knowledge and Bloom's taxonomy levels to ensure students not only comprehend what they learn, but also analyze and evaluate it.
Life
Animals

A Day in the Life of a Sea Otter
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Adventures of the Atlantic Spotted Dolphin
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Monkeys Can Share, Too
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The Harbor Seal in Seaside Homebody
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The Killer Whale in Three of a Kind
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The Manatee in Destination: Warm Waters
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Wandering Seals
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Weird Animals: Blackspotted Puffer Fish
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Weird Animals: Giant Moray Eel
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Weird Animals: Manta Ray
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Weird Animals: Painted Flutemouth Fish
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Weird Animals: Sea Cucumber
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Living/Non-Living

Bacteria
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Grizzly Bears
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Is It Alive?
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Living or Non-Living?
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Soil
- Discussion Questions
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Plants

Kinds of Plants
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Plants Seeking Light
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Vampire Weeds
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Senses

Food Flavor Mystery Solved
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Let's Hear It For Ears
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What Color Is Spring for You?
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Earth & Space
Earth, Moon, and Sun

Days, Nights, Months, and Years
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Earth Orbits the Sun (no audio)
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Earth Today
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How Does a Lunar Eclipse Work?
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I Was Strolling on the Moon One Day
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Know Your Earth
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Patterns of the Moon
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Weather

From Space to You
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Hurricane Hunters
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What Are Seasons?
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Earth's Surface

Forest Elephants
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Greenland's Grand Canyon (no audio)
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The Grand Canyon
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The Ocean Floor
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Volcanoes Change the Shape of the Land
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What Is Ice?
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Physical
Doing Work

Air Hub
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Doing Work with a Wagon
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Forces
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Suspension Bridges
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What Is a Lever?
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Energy

Cow Power
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Pipe Dream by Animusic
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What is Electricity?
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Light

How Fast Is Light?
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I Can See a Rainbow
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Light and Shadows
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Reflected Light
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Shadow Puppets
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Properties

Does Toilet Paper Dissolve in Water?
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Paper Airplanes
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Sorting by Properties
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- Teaching Tips
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What Shape Are You Making?
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Magnets

All About Magnets
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Maglev Scooter
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Magnets
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Magnets in Everyday Objects
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Making Electromagnets
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Using Magnets
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Things Move

Pipe Dream by Animusic
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Slow-Motion Popcorn (no audio)
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What Is Friction?
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Life
Vertebrates

A Day in the Life of a Sea Otter
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Adventures of the Atlantic Spotted Dolphin
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Creatures of the Deep: Anglerfish
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Creatures of the Deep: Chimaera
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Dinosaur Bird Bones
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Dolphins at the Doctor
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Five Classes of Vertebrates
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Manatees in the Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge
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Open Rivers: Abundant Fish
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The Harbor Seal in Seaside Homebody
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The Killer Whale in Three of a Kind
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The Manatee in Destination: Warm Waters
- Discussion Questions
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Wandering Seals
- Discussion Questions
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Weird Animals: Blackspotted Puffer Fish
- Discussion Questions
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Weird Animals: Giant Moray Eel
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Weird Animals: Manta Ray
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Weird Animals: Painted Flutemouth Fish
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Invertebrates

Bees' Disease
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Coral Forests of the Deep
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Creatures of the Deep: Basket Star
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Creatures of the Deep: Sea Spider
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The Octopus and the Coconut (no audio)
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Weird Animals: Sea Cucumber
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Plant Life

Animal-Pollinated Flowers
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Plants in Space
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Rafflesia
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Vampire Weeds
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The Human Body

Body Clocks and Obesity
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Digestive System
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Inside the Human Body
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Kitchen Science: Lung Capacity
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Kitchen Science: Meter Stick Drop
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Medicines from the Sea
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Optical Illusions
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Tip of the Tongue Learning
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What's In Your Blood?
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Life Cycles

Bees' Disease
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Blue Butterfly Life Cycle
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Butterfly Life Cycles
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Comparing Life Cycles
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Moms Who Listen
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Plant Life Cycles
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Habitats/Environment

Coral Forests of the Deep
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Deep Ocean
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In the Zone
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Marine Protected Areas
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Open Rivers: Abundant Fish
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Teens, Frogs, and Climate Change
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Earth & Space
The Solar System

A Guided Tour of the Moon
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Asteroids
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Earth's Sister Planet--Venus
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First Spacecraft at Uranus
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How Does a Lunar Eclipse Work?
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Hubble's Eye on the Universe
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Interstellar Voyager
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JunoCam in Jupiter's Orbit (no audio)
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Jupiter's Moons
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Mars Rover Anniversary
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Mars Rover Curiosity
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Mars in a Minute: How Do You Get to Mars?
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Mars in a Minute: Is Mars Really Red?
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Our Dynamic Sun
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Saturn Moon Ballet
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Spirit Looks Back
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Sun Grazer
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The Solar Cycle
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What Is a Solar Eclipse?
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Clouds, Wind, and Storms

From Space to You
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Hearing Hurricanes
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Hurricane Survival
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Jet Stream Shifting
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Rainy Days and Weekdays
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Water, Water, Everywhere!
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Minerals, Rocks, and Soil

Classification of Rocks
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Deep-Ocean Volcanoes
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Extracting Gold
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Greenland's Grand Canyon (no audio)
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How Limestone Forms
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How Water Affects Mountain Landscapes
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MLK Fountain (no audio)
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Mineral-Rich Salt
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Physical
Machines

A Rube Goldberg Machine
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FlipperBot
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Materials Engineer
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Using Weights to Balance a Lever
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Heat Energy

Gallon of Gas
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Kitchen Science: Build a Thermometer
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Yellowstone Geyser (no audio)
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Sound

Ears and Hearing
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Kitchen Science: Water Music with Soda Bottles
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Pipe Dream by Animusic
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Seeing Through Sound
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The Power of Sound
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Solids, Liquids, and Gases

Describing States of Matter
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Freezing and Melting
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How Does a Hot-Air Balloon Work?
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States of Matter
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What is a Reaction?
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Process
Hypotheses (Skills)

FlipperBot
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Life
Food Chains

A Bear Down Under (no audio)
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Grizzly Bears Compete with a Wolf
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In the Zone
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Marine Food Web (no audio)
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The Ocean's Green Machines
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Worms Are Decomposers (no audio)
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Adaptations

City vs. Country Birds
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Creatures of the Deep: Anglerfish
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Deep Ocean
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Deep-Ocean Volcanoes
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Glowing Ocean Life
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The Octopus and the Coconut (no audio)
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Food and Nutrition

Body Clocks and Obesity
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Digestion
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Food Chains
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Kitchen Science: Comparing the Fat Content of Foods
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Inside Living Things

Cats, Kids, and Asthma
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Dolphins at the Doctor
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Kitchen Science: Lung Capacity
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Medicines from the Sea
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Sea Unseen
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Earth & Space
Outside the Solar System

A Supernova Produces a Black Hole (no audio)
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Evolution of the Universe
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Fifty New Exoplanets
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Interstellar Voyager
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Kepler Discovers Its First Rocky Planet
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NASA for Kids: Introduction to Engineering
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Planetary Evolution
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Planetary Studies
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Radio Telescopes Zoom into a Black Hole's Jets
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The Andromeda Galaxy
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The Big Bang (no audio)
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The Milky Way Galaxy
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Atmosphere and Climate

From Space to You
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Hurricane Hunters
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Keeping Up with Carbon
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Melting Ice (no audio)
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Space Balloon
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Changing Landforms

Deep-Ocean Volcanoes
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Greenland's Grand Canyon (no audio)
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MLK Fountain (no audio)
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Tsunami Strike: Japan
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Water

In the Zone
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Melting Ice (no audio)
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Show Me the Water
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Tsunami Strike: Japan
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Water Harvesting
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Water, Water, Everywhere!
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Physical
Force and Motion

Braking and Friction
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Effects of Friction
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FlipperBot
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Force and Motion in Kickball
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Gravity, the Moon, and Tides
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Slow-Motion Popcorn (no audio)
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The Science of Skis
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Energy Resources

Oil Spills and Pom-Poms
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Oil Spills: Causes, Effects, and Solutions
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Yellowstone Geyser (no audio)
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Light Energy

Perceiving the Visible Spectrum
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Wearing Red: An Olympic Advantage?
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Mixing Matter

Elemental Atomic Weights
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Food Flavor Mystery Solved
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Language of Chemistry
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Weight of a Solution
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Electricity and Magnetism

Conductors and Insulators
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Current Strength Affects Electromagnets
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Discovering Solar Energy
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Human-Powered Generator
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Kitchen Science: Electromagnets
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Process
Hypotheses (Skills)

FlipperBot
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