Heat things up in your high school chemistry class with a instructional video on combustion reactions. Starting off with a brief explanation of combustion and the different chemicals involved, this resource walks step by step...

Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines! Explore the cumbustion reactions driving the world's automobiles and the chemical solutions used to keep their engines cool with this fun instructional video.

He doesn't usually talk life science, but here, Steve Spangler discusses the damage that the mountain pine beetle is causing in the forests. He shows cross sections of affected tree trunks where a fungus that the beetle introduces...

Do not try this at home! However, you may want to show the sensational demonstration to teach how water causes materials to cool as it evaporates. Dollar bills and handkerchiefs are soaked in a mixture of alcohol and water, and then fire...

Several concepts are explored with Steve Spangler on the Ellen DeGeneres show. Combustion, air pressure, and polymers demonstrations are done, but very little scientific explanation is offered. At the end of the year, your could have...

A teenaged Jack Spangler demonstrates how reducing air pressure in a bottle can pull a boiled egg inside. Then dad does a similar demonstration using liquid nitrogen to reduce the air pressure. Even though the result is the same, the...

If you douse a dollar bill in alcohol, you can light it with a flame and it won't burn up! Perhaps you can use this as a demonstration during a chemistry unit when discussing properties of matter or combustion. It's sure to ignite...

What's a fire and how does it burn? The narrator in this video describes the details of how fire is created. It is a great video to show during your science lesson.

Toyota shows you the components of a Dual VVT-i Engine with digital animation and how they work together. The narration is in Japanese. Show to a mechanics class or physics class to see the different parts of the engine.

A great video demonstration along with teaching notes that shows the release of energy and resulting byproducts when a gummy bear is oxidized when heated with potassium chlorate.

This lesson will show that a combustion reaction is a hydrocarbon burned in oxygen to form water and carbon dioxide. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Chemical Reaction Types: Combustion."

Narrated animation that shows how an engine uses flowing air to draw fuel into a cylinder causing a spark to ignite the combustible mixture. ( 30 sec) Uses Quicktime.

A video showing that a combustion reaction is an exothermic reaction that releases energy in the form of fire. Video explains and demonstrates the reaction that takes place between hydrogen gas and oxygen gas. [1:55]

Humans are thought to have mastered controlled fire in the middle of the Paleolithic era. Half a million years later, engineers Tadd Truscott and Dale Tree, of Brigham Young University, are trying to quantify it. Using high speed cameras...

View a four-stroke internal combustion engine and see how its different parts such as pistons, valves, and spark plugs work together to help get cars moving. [1:40]

This lesson will show that a combustion reaction is a hydrocarbon burned in oxygen to form water and carbon dioxide. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Chemical Reaction Types: Combustion."

A video [4:57] showing how to balance the combustion reaction of ethane.

A video explaining that fire is combustion or burning of substances that combine with oxygen in the air to give off bright light and heat. Video also gives a brief history of fire and its purposes in society. [1:45]

Watch a "Pharaoh's Serpent" reaction, which occurs during the combustion of mercury thiocyanate. [0:36]

Check out this video of an experiment illustrating combustion. What can be determined from the activity? [0:47]

In this video, Paul Andersen explains the importance of oxygen in accepting electrons. He begins with a brief description of combustion. He then explains the role of oxygen in aerobic cellular respiration. Do you speak another language?