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Science Video Vocab

Science Video Vocab

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This dynamic science series defines and helps students explore science terms. Each program is designed to reinforce and support students' comprehension and retention of these terms through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams, graphics, and labels. Viewers will see and hear the terms used in a variety of contexts, providing a model for how to use the words appropriately. Related words are also used and reinforced with visuals and text.

Billiard balls immediately after the first break. Caption: Acceleration is always the result of a force.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 1
2 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Asteroids floating through the galaxy. Caption: Asteroids range in size from pebbles to 600 miles across,
Science Video Vocab
Episode 2
4 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Basin of a volcano. Caption: Calderas are found all over the world.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 3
3 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Diagram of three phases of matter. Caption: If matter shifts from one of these phases to another,
Science Video Vocab
Episode 4
3 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
View of Earth from space. Caption: The other half of the Earth faces away from the sun,
Science Video Vocab
Episode 5
4 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
The nine planets orbiting around the sun. Caption: The shape of a planet's orbit is an ellipse.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 6
3 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 8
A hand pumping gas into a car. Caption: Chemical energy is in gasoline, and is used to power motors.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 7
3 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
People walking down a snowy street. Caption: The planet earth has many different kinds of environments.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 8
4 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Two children on a teeter totter. Caption: Fulcrums play an important role in the actions of a lever.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 9
2 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
The universe swirling and glowing. Caption: Everything in the universe has mass.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 10
4 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
An old tile floor. Caption: to understand the behavior of motion and forces.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 11
3 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
A chalkboard with math equations. Caption: and has not been disproved becomes a theory.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 12
4 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
A rocket preparing to launch into space. Caption: there is an imbalance, and the rocket takes off--
Science Video Vocab
Episode 13
3 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
A swirling galaxy. Caption: which is a part of your universe.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 14
5 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Ornate floor tile with a pendulum swinging above. Caption: A pendulum is an example of translational motion--
Science Video Vocab
Episode 15
3 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Field of grain like plants. Caption: such as ethanol and propanol.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 16
2 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
A sliding scale weighing something. Caption: The force of gravity gives every object weight.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 17
3 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Two sticks rubbing together. Caption: Friction is a contact force.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 18
3 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
A baseball being thrown. Caption: like this baseball, stays in motion
Science Video Vocab
Episode 19
4 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton. Caption: Isaac Newton was a scientist who observed motion,
Science Video Vocab
Episode 20
4 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
View of Earth from space. Caption: Antarctica is located at the south pole of the earth.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 21
3 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Comet shooting through space. Caption: forming a long dust tail behind it.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 22
5 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Comet shooting through space. Caption: First, meteoroids come from comets and asteroids.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 23
4 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Moon behind a hazy sky. Caption: The moon looks bright because it reflects light from the sun.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 24
6 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
The nine planets lined up behind the sun. Caption: Earth is the 3rd planet from the sun.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 25
7 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Constellations in the night sky. Caption: It's like a game of connect the dots.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 26
7 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
A caldera filled with water. Caption: A caldera is a large crater-like depression in the earth.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 27
3 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
All the continents pushed together. Caption: as one big land mass--the continent of Pangea.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 28
2 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Mouth of volcano mid explosion. Caption: over 1,500 active volcanoes in the world.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 29
3 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Lava cooling down. Caption: When lava cools down, it forms igneous rock,
Science Video Vocab
Episode 30
2 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
A large formation of ice. Caption: The temperature at which point a liquid becomes a solid
Science Video Vocab
Episode 31
2 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Splash of water. Caption: Water is categorized as a liquid.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 32
3 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Pot of boiling water. Caption: A liquid, like water, boils and becomes a gas.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 33
3 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Close up image of the sun with the Earth in the background. Caption: Earth orbits, or travels around, the sun
Science Video Vocab
Episode 34
5 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
The moon directly in front of the sun. Caption: Seeing a solar eclipse can be an unforgettable experience.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 35
3 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Diagram of Earth orbiting the sun. Caption: is called the summer solstice.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 36
4 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Calendar image of September 20th. Caption: The autumn equinox usually happens around September 20.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 37
3 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 8
Diagram of the moon orbiting Earth. Caption: As the new moon begins its orbit,
Science Video Vocab
Episode 38
6 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 8
Earth directly in front of the sun. Caption: This creates a lunar eclipse.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 39
4 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 8
View of Earth from the Sun. Caption: While the earth is revolving around the sun,
Science Video Vocab
Episode 40
3 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 8
Earth in space with the sun in the distance. Caption: of the earth around its axis.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 41
3 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 8
A man golfing. Caption: Potential energy is changed back to kinetic energy
Science Video Vocab
Episode 42
3 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Plants growing through the dirt. Caption: All plants use the sun's energy to make their own food.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 43
4 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
A crane demolishing a building. Caption: An object can store energy as the result of its position.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 44
2 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
A hand drum being played. Caption: Sounds are produced when an object vibrates.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 45
4 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
A needle scratching measurement onto paper. Caption: Earthquakes are measured on a seismograph.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 46
3 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Snowy field and mountain range. Caption: Polar climates are very, very cold, windy, and snowy.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 47
5 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Earthworm on top of soil. Caption: Plants and animals provide nutrients to the soil.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 48
3 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Child in a field smelling flowers. Caption: People breath air to get the oxygen they need.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 49
4 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
People climbing up a staircase. Caption: Inclined planes make it easier to move objects.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 50
2 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8