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Electricity and Magnetism

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Measurement device placed on a circuit powered by three AA batteries. Device shows 0.05 on the display. Caption: (Adabot) zero point zero five amperes.
Circuit Playground
Episode 1
3 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Person speaking. Illustration of a battery. Caption: A battery uses chemistry to create electricity.
Circuit Playground
Episode 2
7 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Illustration of a circuit board with a tubular object bridging two paths. Caption: In this circuit, I'm filtering power.
Circuit Playground
Episode 3
6 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Rectangular diagram with objects moving clockwise around the perimeter. Caption: Electrons flow through the diode in one direction,
Circuit Playground
Episode 4
2 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Machine labelled DS1052E Digital Oscilloscope with a wavy line across the screen and complex controls. Caption: We measure frequency in units called hertz.
Circuit Playground
Episode 5
5 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Person in a workshop holding a power cord with three prongs. Caption: The answer is these three-prong cables are grounded.
Circuit Playground
Episode 6
2 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Person and a robot in a workshop with a laptop in front of them. Caption: Hertz is how many times something happens per second.
Circuit Playground
Episode 7
3 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Closeup of a complex circuit board with capacitors and other structures. Caption: But ICs, well -- ICs can have lots of connections.
Circuit Playground
Episode 8
3 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Joules = force x distance. Caption: we multiply force and distance
Circuit Playground
Episode 9
3 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Person and a robot standing in front of shelves full of boxes. Caption: Kits? What's a kit?
Circuit Playground
Episode 10
5 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Robot and three LEDs. Caption: LEDs make much more sense now.
Circuit Playground
Episode 11
4 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Robot and bird with walkie-talkies in a workshop. Caption: It's not audio noise, it's electrical noise.
Circuit Playground
Episode 12
3 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
An illustration depicts a transistor, resistor, and an L E D. Caption: P C B stands for, printed circuit board.
Circuit Playground
Episode 14
3 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Diagram of a wall outlet. Caption: If the receptacle is itself properly grounded,
Electricity: A 3-D Animated Demonstration
Episode 8
26 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Sinuous wave falling above and below a center line. Arrow indicating the distance between the center line and the peak of the wave. Caption: The peak voltage is approximately 170 volts
Electricity: A 3-D Animated Demonstration
Episode 2
26 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Cartoon of three people and bird. The bird is holding a banana peel. Caption: Our solar power system is kaput!
Cyberchase
Season 9 / Ep 2
28 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
A reservoir of water with a dam at one end and water flowing out the other side. Caption: until it's needed by the electric plant.
Eco=Kids Explore
Season 2 / Ep 2
16 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Illustration of a measurement device attached to leads which surround a central core that is emitting a moving magnetic field. Caption: As long as the magnetic field moves
Electricity: A 3-D Animated Demonstration
Episode 3
19 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Illustration of an arm extended and energy cycling through the forearm. Energy continues out through the tips of the fingers. A wire intersects the hand, and an arrow indicates movement to the right. Caption: exerted on the conducting wire.
Electricity: A 3-D Animated Demonstration
Episode 4
17 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A circuit being powered by a large battery and causing a lightbulb to illuminate. Spanish captions.
14 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
City sidewalk with well-lit buildings lining one side. Spanish captions.
14 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Industrial claw with giant magnet descending on a pile of trash. Caption: Pass an electric current through the coil,
14 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Powerline tower with numerous powerlines. Caption: reaches our homes and schools over cables and wires…
17 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
Central sphere with arrows with equidistance arrows moving away from the center. Caption: and the distance between arrows
Electricity: A 3-D Animated Demonstration
Episode 5
20 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
e-= 1.60 x 10-19C elementary charge. Caption: is used to describe this single, smallest possible charge.
Electricity: A 3-D Animated Demonstration
Episode 1
31 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Linked hexagonal structures drawn on graph paper. Caption: Graphene is a single layer of carbon atoms
Fast Draw
Episode 2
3 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Cartoon owl at the controls of a vehicle. Caption: It is a free source of light.
Johan: The Young Scientist
Episode 8
13 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Two technicians inspecting an installation. Caption: And I am an indoor electrical wireman.
I Can Be Anything I Want to Be A to Z
Episode
3 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Person at a wall of controls. Caption: when atoms are either joined together or split apart.
26 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 12
Person holding a magnet above a pile of metal shavings. Some of the metal shavings are adhering to the magnet. Caption: that exert a force on metal objects when they're nearby.
Design Squad Nation
Episode 7
3 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 8
Black and white illustration on wrinkled white background. A generating station connects to power lines, some outlined with neon pink zig zags.
Into the Outdoors
Episode 35
7 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Man in hard hat and yellow vest stands in tall grass beside a truck. Row of transmission towers cascades behind him. Another man in yellow looks up at green and red-leaved trees at right.
Into the Outdoors
Episode 37
8 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Men in yellow shirts and hard hats work at an electrical station. Cars, equipment, and grassy field occupy background.
Into the Outdoors
Episode 40
8 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Vague blue outline of North America is illuminated by flares of light.
Into the Outdoors
Episode 41
8 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Person placing a magnet to one side of the path directly in front of a ramp. A dotted line projects the path of an object that will move from the ramp and curve toward the magnet. Caption: Let's place the magnet somewhere to alter the marble's course.
Design Squad Nation
Episode 6
3 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 8
Diagram of a circuit. Spanish captions.
Invisible Science and Technology Surrounding (Spanish)
Episode 3
27 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Cartoon of a person straining to push a large log. Caption: You could supply the energy to push the log.
Elementary Energy
Season 0 / Ep 1
10 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 8
Cartoon character talking. Caption: Why is this compass and that magnet pointing here?
Johan: The Young Scientist
Episode 2
11 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Boat on the water. Caption: The bamboo battens also held the sail taut,
23 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Rectangular objects with one end labeled N and the other labeled O emitting half-ovals of wavelengths. Caption: or push each other away.
16 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Flat horseshoe magnet. Curved top is red with silver magnetic pole ends. One pole is labeled N.
17 minutes
Grade Level: K - 4
Underwater view of tangles of nets floating stationary. Caption: nets cause extensive damage to the ecosystem
2 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Tubing winding back and forth in front of a heat source heats cool water. Caption: which in turn drives a generator and results in energy.
54 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 12 -
Req=R1+R2+R3+…+Rn Caption: is this sum of the individual resistances
Electricity: A 3-D Animated Demonstration
Episode 6
24 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A magnet film is placed on the surface of an electronic device, which results in the appearance of a specific pattern on the magnet film.
Physics Girl
Season 4 / Ep 2
6 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Closeup of an incandescent lightbulb. Caption: a change in the wattage of the lightbulb
Electricity: A 3-D Animated Demonstration
Episode 7
34 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Cartoon of two characters sitting on a couch. Caption: It comes from an electric generator.
Johan: The Young Scientist
Episode 18
13 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Closeup of a circuit board. Caption: which is controlled by the circuit board.
25 minutes
Grade Level: 8 - 12
Circuit board with red and black wire. Resistor and LED with positive and negative polarity are displayed. A schematic shows a diagram of the red wire as 5v red row, black wire and black row. Caption: the positive side of my power.
Qualcomm Thinkabit Lab
Episode 2
14 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Two rectangular batteries with positive and negative leads. Caption: An automobile battery is an example of a wet cell.
Real World Science
Episode 5
20 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 9
Illustration of the Earth with a glowing aura and streaks of light. Caption: Today, we'll explore a strange and invisible force
Real World Science
Episode 9
15 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
A person working on a machine. Caption: in the presence of a large magnetic field,
Science Nation
Episode 247
4 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Computer screen showing a line graph of multiple measurements taken at different times. Caption: to add the ultra-fine layers of semiconducting materials
Science Nation
Episode 26
3 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Waves striking a man-made jetty of rock. Caption: could help solve the world's energy problems.
Science Nation
Episode 188
2 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Three blade wind turbine as seen from below. Caption: Wind turbines are mounted on high towers.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 140
3 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person holding a screw touching a paper clip. Caption: then this screw should be able to generate a magnetic field.
5 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Still image from: The Great List of Everything: The Light Bulb
The Great List of Everything
Episode 4
2 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person holding an object near a compass. The arrow on the compass points towards the object. Spanish captions.
The House Of Science (Spanish)
Episode 1
26 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 5
Outlet extender on a wall with several cords leading to it. 1 outlet has an additional 2-prong extender with a grounding receptacle plug that does not have a space to plug in.
13 minutes
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A large dam spanning across a lake. Caption: It's the world's largest hydroelectric dam.
22 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Man writing with a quill in a candle lit room. Caption: Matter of fact, he studied and studied and studied.
Timeblazers
Season 2 / Ep 13
24 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 9
Graphic of a dissected teal battery with a plus sign and text that reads, "positive electrode," at the top and a minus sign and text that reads, "negative electrode," at the bottom. Next to it is a green cylinder labeled, "electrolyte."
Untold
Episode 6
14 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Conductor hooked up to a battery. Spanish captions.
9 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Two brick magnets being pushed together. Spanish captions.
9 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Two conductors attached to objects. Caption: but conducts electricity when it's very hot.
Science Out Loud
Episode 14
4 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Illustration of a tube with some internal structures and a rod through the center. Caption: When you make the generator turn,
Elementary Energy
Season 0 / Ep 3
10 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 6
Random objects placed on a table. Caption: Let's experiment to see what'll stick to a magnet
Everyday Science for Preschoolers
Episode 8
1 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
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