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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.

A man using a pulley. Caption: The other end of the rope is left free to be pulled on.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 51
3 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
A large screw drilling into the snow. Caption: Screws are handy when it comes to making holes in objects.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 52
3 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
Large machinery scooping dirt. Caption: Machines make it easier to do work.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 53
4 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
A knife on a cutting board chopping onions. Caption: A knife is a type of wedge.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 54
2 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
Close up of a bicycle tire. Caption:  A wheel and axle help to move objects.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 55
3 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
Children on a teeter totter. Caption: A 1st class lever is where the fulcrum is in the center,
Science Video Vocab
Episode 56
3 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
A clean science classroom. Caption: This instrument, called a dynamometer.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 57
2 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
A magnet picking up paperclips. Caption: that attracts metal objects by pulling on them.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 58
3 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
A man dribbling a basketball. Caption: Their hand pushes the ball down to the ground.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 59
3 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
A semi-truck driving on a road. Caption:  A load is any object or objects being moved.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 60
2 minutes 43 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Oil being poured out of a container. Caption: Another way to reduce friction
Science Video Vocab
Episode 61
4 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Woman swimming in pool. Caption: For every force, there is a reaction force,
Science Video Vocab
Episode 62
3 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Diagram of the nine planets with the sun in the background. Caption: Distance is a very important aspect of gravitational force.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 63
4 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Man balancing soccer ball on his head. Caption: Newton's laws of motion are the basis for dynamics.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 64
4 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
View of Earth from space. Caption: They tell us how nature does behave.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 65
4 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Diagram describing water. Caption: It uses arrows to emphasize the connections
Science Video Vocab
Episode 66
3 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Bright sun surrounded by stars. Caption: Physicists also research phenomena
Science Video Vocab
Episode 67
3 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
An orange cut in half. Caption: Another good word for balance is symmetry.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 68
3 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Three books stacked on a table. Caption: Balanced force results in no motion.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 69
2 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Swirling red galaxy. Caption: Galaxies are divided in three basic types
Science Video Vocab
Episode 70
5 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
The center of a black hole. Caption: If light cannot escape a black hole, nothing can.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 71
4 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Asteroids moving through space. Caption: It has a large number of irregularly-shaped asteroids.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 72
4 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Math equations written on a clear board. Caption: the motion of objects in the world.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 73
4 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
A sliding scale weighing something. Caption: Weight is a scalar.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 74
2 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Small airplane midflight. Caption: Momentum is the same direction as velocity.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 75
3 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Speedometer. Caption: Velocity is a vector quantity.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 76
2 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Speedometer. Caption: Velocity is often confused with speed.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 77
3 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Woman looking into a microscope. Caption: Chemistry is the link between all of the different sciences.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 78
4 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Three diamonds. Caption: is the diamond form, which creates a structure.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 79
2 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Hummingbird hovering in the air. Caption: And they get this energy by eating and digesting food.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 80
4 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Close up of an atom. Caption: Each element is atomically individual,
Science Video Vocab
Episode 81
2 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Baseball and tennis ball next to each other. Caption: But a baseball is more dense.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 82
4 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Diagram of three states of matter. Caption: The matter in liquids is more flexible,
Science Video Vocab
Episode 83
5 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Ducks swimming in the water. Caption: Other omnivores have to hunt or find food in their habitats.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 84
3 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 4
Frogs partially submerged in shallow water. Caption: Amphibians live in different habitats.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 85
4 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 4
Herd of elephants in natural habitat. Caption: Animals are living things.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 86
4 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 4
Elephant, frog, crocodile, eagle, fish. 5 classes of vertebrates. Caption: There are 5 subgroups of vertebrate animals.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 87
3 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 4
Field of sunflowers. Glucose. Caption: The food they produce is called glucose.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 88
3 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 4
Cycle showing evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection. Caption: Let's explore each stage.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 89
3 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 4
Black salamander with yellow spots crawling on the ground. Caption: to survive in a specific habitat is a structural adaptation.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 90
5 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 4
Flock of sheep grazing in a pasture. Caption: Grazers are animals that eat grasses and small plants.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 91
4 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 4
A large brown bird perched on a dead branch. Caption: Some birds are carnivores too.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 92
3 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 4
Herd of cows grazing in a green pasture. Caption: All living things need energy to grow, change and move.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 93
4 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 4
Large spotted shark with a white belly. Caption: The largest fish in the ocean is the whale shark.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 94
3 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 4
Lizard on a rock. Caption: Reptiles live in different habitats all over the world.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 95
3 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 4
Formations of red rock in desert scrub brush. Caption: Rocks are non-living things.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 96
3 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 4
Industrial plant with smokestacks emitting pollutants. Caption: Disease and human activity also cause extinction.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 97
3 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 4
Closeup of tendrils. Caption: There are 8 groups of invertebrates.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 98
3 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 4
Zebras in natural habitat. Caption: which means they can control their body temperature.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 99
4 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 4
A black caterpillar with orange stripes and hair crawling on a tree branch. Caption: Insects live in different habitats
Science Video Vocab
Episode 100
4 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 4