Scientific exploration is more than collecting facts--it's fun too! This series is designed to help six to nine-year-old students approach everyday experiences in a scientific way. Each program begins with a question to capture a child's curiosity. What follows is a demonstration of some of the fundamental skills, methods, instruments, and tools they can use to pursue their questions. Each program comes with a Teacher's Guide.
All the tapes in this section are licensed for public exhibition for educational purposes and are distributed exclusively by Discovery Education of Evanston, Illinois. Please contact them directly to order.
Science: Fact & Fun |
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Making Sense of It(Using Your Senses) |
Viewers are encouraged to discover the world by using their senses and observing, investigating, and studying. Classifying and identifying are explained as students are taken to a forest to study the plant and animal life by using their senses--seeing, touching, hearing, smelling and tasting. |
Machines, Engines & Motors(Research) |
Explore machines, engines, and motors, and learn how they work. Simple machines are shown, including the lever, wheel, axle, pulley, wedge, and inclined plane. Energy is defined, and then shown making machines work. |
What's In A Shadow?(Finding Directions) |
The shadow in relation to the sun's position is explained, and how knowledge of the sun's position helps in finding directions is shown. The earth's rotation and the earth-sun relationship is illustrated to explain the rising and setting of the sun. This program lays the groundwork for an introduction to maps and directions. |
Everything Is Something(Matter) |
By examining a bicycle and the materials it's made of, viewers learn how the properties of materials can change solid to liquid to gas. The effect of temperature on various materials is demonstrated, and chemical reaction$ are shown. The atom is introduced as the building block for all matter. |
How Much Does The Earth Weigh?(Measurement & Mass) |
Weight and mass are defined, and the concept of gravity is introduced. Density and its relation to weight is explained, and examples from a child's world are presented. Finally, the scientific method of determining the mass of the earth is explained in simple terms and used to weigh objects and calculate mass. |
What's In A Rainbow?(Making Scientific Models) |
Viewers learn the unusual circumstances necessary to create a rainbow, and explore other ways to make one. Young people are shown creating a scientific model of a rainbow, and the role of the sun is explained. The program includes a demonstration of how to measure the angle of a rainbow, and shows how prisms create rainbows as well. |
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