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All About Heat (Energy for Children Series)
We know that boiling water is hot, but did you know that an ice cube also contains heat? Kids will learn that all objects have heat energy, it's just that some have more than others do. Kids will discover what heat energy is and how we use it, while the host's humorous antics help kids understand how heat moves through conduction, convection and radiation. Melting point and boiling point are explained with colorful footage and dynamic graphics, while memorable examples teach kids how adding heat causes most objects to expand, while removing heat makes most objects contract. An engaging demonstration helps children see convection in action. Young viewers will also learn how a thermometer works by constructing their own simple instrument. Grade Level: K-4
Running Time: 23 mins
Extras: Teacher's Guide
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All About the Transfer of Energy
Energy moves from place to place and object to object all the time. Without the ability to transfer energy, nothing would ever get accomplished! Kids learn about potential and kinetic energy, and how energy transfers between these two states. Bowling balls and rubber bands are used to demonstrate the transfer of energy, while divers and snowboarders provide exciting real-life examples. Also included is a fun, hands-on activity that shows students how increasing the height of an object increases its potential energy.
Grade Level: K-4
Running Time: 23 mins
Extras: Teacher's Guide
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All About the Uses of Energy
Kids will learn that electricity is what keeps our world running. The program invites young viewers to imagine what life was like before electricity and how different life would be without it, while emphasizing how the availability of electricity transformed the lives of people around the world. Find out how giant generators create electricity using the mechanical energy of wind and water, or the awesome power of nuclear energy. Alternative resources such as solar energy are discussed as promising ways to generate electricity for the future. Children discover how steam spins electrical generators and a fun, hands-on activity allows them to experience how the energy from steam can be put to work to turn a paddle wheel.
Grade Level: K-4
Running Time: 23 mins
Extras: Teacher's Guide
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What is Energy?
Humorous characters and engaging demonstrations combine to give kids a solid overview of what energy is and how we use it. See how a spinning pinwheel, a strumming guitar and a crackling fire all serve as great examples of energy at work. Dynamic graphics and fun examples teach kids how heat energy moves and how it affects atoms. Young viewers find out that the sun is the ultimate source of the Earth's chemical energy and that sound is a form of mechanical energy. The program also introduces other forms of energy, including electromagnetic and nuclear. Included is a fun activity that allows kids to try their hand at putting some different forms of energy to work.
Grade Level: K-4
Running Time: 23 mins
Extras: Teacher's Guide
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Matter and Energy
This live-action, Discover Channel program explores matter and energy. Designed to correlate with curriculum standards, the program takes a look into the three different states of matter, solid, liquid, and gas by examining the water cycle. Examines how pressure affects the human body under water, at high altitudes and in outer space. Finally, the program explores heat measurements, including Fahrenheit, Celsius and Kelvin.
Grade Level: 3-5
Running Time: 26 mins
Extras: Teacher's Guide
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Electromagnetic Energy (Energy in Action Series)
What do radios, microwave ovens and X-ray machines have in common? They all use different forms of electromagnetic energy to do work. Students learn that cosmic rays from space and visible light are also part of the family of energy waves known as the electromagnetic spectrum. Discover that electromagnetic energy travels in waves through space and can move through solid materials. Fast-paced visuals and dynamic graphics help explain that the size of the waves determines their position in the spectrum as well as how much energy they contain. A fun demonstration illustrates that magnetic and electric forces are different aspects of electromagnetic energy, while a hands-on investigation proves that a light bulb radiates both visible light and infrared waves.
Grade Level: 5-8
Running Time: 23 mins
Extras: Teacher's Guide
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Heat & Chemical Energy (Energy in Action Series)
What is heat energy, where does it come from and how does it relate to chemical energy? Students learn that heat energy comes from the motion of chemical atoms and chemical energy is stored in the bonds that link atoms together. Discover how chemical reactions can give off heat energy and how heat can help release the stored chemical energy in fuel. Learn how heat travels through engaging demonstrations that illustrate the methods of conduction, convection and radiation. Students investigate how scientists measure calories - the energy stored in food - by constructing a calorimeter and burning a peanut.
Grade Level: 5-8
Running Time: 23 mins
Extras: Teacher's Guide
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Mechanical Energy (Energy in Action Series)
Students learn how energy can be transferred from one object to another to make something move - like wind blowing on a sail. Discover that mechanical energy can exist in two states: moving, or kinetic energy; and stored or potential energy. A roller coaster is just one vivid example of how mechanical energy is constantly changing form - from potential to kinetic - and back again. Kids also discover that sound is mechanical energy, a concept that is explained visually through a fun demonstration. Simple machines are introduced as ways to use mechanical energy to make-work easier.
Grade Level: 5-8
Running Time: 23 mins
Extras: Teacher's Guide
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Nuclear Energy (Energy in Action Series)
Kids will discover the incredible power stored inside the tiny atom! The key concept is that huge amounts of energy can be released when the forces that hold the nucleus of an atom together are disturbed. That can happen through fission, the splitting of an atom's nucleus, or fusion, the combining of protons and neutrons from two different atoms. Pioneering scientists Lise Meitner and Marie Curie are introduced, and students learn how their research led to a greater understanding of the atom. Kids also learn that although nuclear energy is a clean, almost inexhaustible energy resource, there are safety issues that must be addressed. Includes an exciting hands-on demonstration to help explain nuclear chain reactions and the energy they release.
Grade Level: 5-8
Running Time: 23 mins
Extras: Teacher's Guide
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Potential & Kinetic (Energy in Action Series)
Students discover that kinetic energy is related to objects in motion while potential energy is stored, just waiting to be put to use. Explore how increasing potential energy translates to more kinetic energy with compelling, real-life examples. Fast-paced visuals illustrate how these forms of energy are related and how stored energy is continually converted to moving energy and back again. In a fun experiment, students investigate the effect of gravity on a potential energy of an object and learn how to measure the energy of objects by determining their mass, speed and position.
Grade Level: 5-8
Running Time: 23 mins
Extras: Teacher's Guide
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Energy Resources: Use & Conservation (Energy in Action Series)
Students learn that we can harvest the power of nature from a variety of sources all around us: the sun, wind and water, the atom, energy stored in fossil fuels and the very heat of the planet itself! Discover what life was like before people learned to harness electrical energy and how energy-rich fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas helped fire the Industrial Revolution. Learn why these powerful energy resources are nonrenewable and in jeopardy of being used up as global energy consumption continues to rise. Students are encouraged to play an active role in energy conservation and harness energy from the sun by creating their own solar-powered oven.
Grade Level: 5-8
Running Time: 23 mins
Extras: Teacher's Guide
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Transfer of Energy, The (Energy in Action Series)
Aspiring scientist Sylvie uncovers some compelling examples of how energy is never lost - it just changes form as it moves through the universe. Discover that without energy transfers, there could be no life on Earth! Colorful, fast-paced visuals help students learn that heat energy from the sun is transferred to the Earth's surface and among objects in three different ways: conduction, convection and radiation. Find out that the sun's energy is also continually being transferred into different forms that we depend on to live and grow. A fun experiment with golf balls and ping-pong balls allows kids to see an energy transfer in action. James Watt's steam engine is an excellent historical example of how heat energy can be harnessed to do work as it changes form.
Grade Level: 5-8
Running Time: 23 mins
Extras: Teacher's Guide
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Energy (Textbook Tape Series)
Love may "make the world go 'round," but it is energy that keeps the universe humming. In this video lesson, students learn that energy transfer always accompanies a chemical, physical or nuclear change. Emphasis is placed on the differences in the nature of these changes. We note by experiment, that sometimes energy is absorbed, sometimes it is released. The concept of kinetic versus potential energy is explored.
Grade Level: 6-12
Running Time: 20 mins
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Science of Energy (Part 1), The (Energy, The Pulse of Life Science Series)
This videotape, part one of the ENERGY, THE PULSE OF LIFE series, uses original songs and animated classics along with documentary and archival footage to describe the physics and biology of energy. The program describes the scientific history of energy from Galileo to Einstein, examines the different forms of energy and their interrelatedness, and discusses the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics. The accompanying teacher guide covers activities in biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics, and technology. As well as interviews with experts to discuss the effect of energy on the environment.
Grade Level: 8-12
Running Time: 23 mins (Part 1)
Extras: Teacher's Guide
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Energy & Chemical Reactions (Science Lab Investigations)
Students will investigate and explain how chemical reactions release or absorb energy. Students will put this information to use as they employ the scientific method to perform a lab investigation in which they study the effect of temperature and limiting reagents on the rate of a chemiluminescent reaction.
Grade Level: 9-12
Running Time: 23 mins
Extras: Teacher's Guide
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