Instructional Video4:38
Weatherthings

Weather Things: Water on Earth

6th - 8th
The cycle of water from the air to the ground to the oceans and back to the air never ends. Water is found in the air, in the ground, in rivers and oceans, and it's found as gas, liquid, and solid. As it moves though phases and locations...
Instructional Video1:00
Weatherthings

Water Smart: Water on Earth - Wetlands

6th - 8th
Water on Earth focuses on water as most kids would think about it. We start with water in obvious locations such as oceans, lakes, and rivers. We quickly learn that water can change phase to remain a solid in glaciers. Many kids may be...
Instructional Video1:30
Weatherthings

Water Smart: Water as a Natural Resource - Summary

6th - 8th
In Water as a Natural Resource we are introduced to words such as habitat, ecosystem, watershed and estuary. Not only do kids learn that water exists everywhere on Earth, but that it is vital for life in plants, animals, and all other...
Instructional Video5:16
Weatherthings

Water Smart: The Sun, Water Cycle, & Climate - Evaporation

6th - 8th
The Sun, Water Cycle, & Climate shows us how the sun produces heat to drive the water cycle. It's made clear that the water cycle continues in the absence of sunlight or heat. We learn how the two components of climate- temperature and...
Instructional Video1:18
Weatherthings

Water Smart: Water on Earth - Groundwater

6th - 8th
Water on Earth focuses on water as most kids would think about it. We start with water in obvious locations such as oceans, lakes, and rivers. We quickly learn that water can change phase to remain a solid in glaciers. Many kids may be...
Instructional Video5:03
Weatherthings

Water Smart: Water in the Air - Clouds

6th - 8th
Water in the Air reveals the varied phases of water that surround us, fall on us, travel in air, and serve as a crucial component of the water cycle. Emphasis is on the fact that water in air can be vapor or solid, visible or invisible,...
Instructional Video2:24
Weatherthings

Water Smart: The Sun, Water Cycle, & Climate - Quiz

6th - 8th
The Sun, Water Cycle, & Climate shows us how the sun produces heat to drive the water cycle. It's made clear that the water cycle continues in the absence of sunlight or heat. We learn how the two components of climate- temperature and...
Instructional Video3:48
Weatherthings

Weather Things: Stratus

6th - 8th
Clouds manifest moisture condensed in the air. In this program they are appreciated and pondered. Clouds give clues to wind direction, humidity levels, weather patterns, and they just make pretty sights. We look at the basic type of...
Instructional Video2:36
Weatherthings

Contrails

6th - 8th
A fun music video featuring airplane condensation trails, also known as vapor trails. These common man-made clouds form behind high-flying aircraft as skinny lines but then they may spread out to merge with natural cirrus clouds.
Instructional Video2:11
Weatherthings

Water Smart: The Sun, Water Cycle, & Climate - Condensation

6th - 8th
The Sun, Water Cycle, & Climate shows us how the sun produces heat to drive the water cycle. It's made clear that the water cycle continues in the absence of sunlight or heat. We learn how the two components of climate- temperature and...
Instructional Video3:45
Curated Video

Water Cycle

K - 8th
This live-action video program is about the term water cycle. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word water cycle through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and...
Instructional Video10:47
Bino and Fino

Where Did My Puddle Go?

Pre-K - K
Bino and Fino learn about the water cycle
Instructional Video3:23
Weatherthings

Clouds, Rain and the Water Cycle: value of rain, ice crystals

6th - 8th
A rainy day spent inside helps a little boy learn about clouds and the water cycle from his mother. He sees the value of rain to plants, animals, people and the planet, even when the rain is not convenient for him. As the rain...
Instructional Video0:31
Weatherthings

Clouds, Rain and the Water Cycle: Weather jokes and credits

6th - 8th
A rainy day spent inside helps a little boy learn about clouds and the water cycle from his mother. He sees the value of rain to plants, animals, people and the planet, even when the rain is not convenient for him. As the rain...
Instructional Video1:19
Weatherthings

Water Smart: The Sun, Water Cycle, & Climate - Summary

6th - 8th
The Sun, Water Cycle, & Climate shows us how the sun produces heat to drive the water cycle. It's made clear that the water cycle continues in the absence of sunlight or heat. We learn how the two components of climate- temperature and...
Instructional Video5:10
Weatherthings

Water Smart: Water as a Natural Resource - Ecosystems

6th - 8th
In Water as a Natural Resource we are introduced to words such as habitat, ecosystem, watershed and estuary. Not only do kids learn that water exists everywhere on Earth, but that it is vital for life in plants, animals, and all other...
Instructional Video3:00
Curated Video

Water Cycle (Simple English)

K - 8th
This live-action video program is about the term water cycle. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word water cycle through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and...
Instructional Video5:21
Weatherthings

Weather Things: Air

6th - 8th
The 3 simple ingredients of sun, air and water lead to every type of weather on Earth. The atmosphere is constantly trying to balance heat from the sun with water vapor and air to create a dynamic planet. The unique properties of the...
Instructional Video3:32
Weatherthings

Weather Things: Fog

6th - 8th
Clouds manifest moisture condensed in the air. In this program they are appreciated and pondered. Clouds give clues to wind direction, humidity levels, weather patterns, and they just make pretty sights. We look at the basic type of...
Instructional Video2:45
Weatherthings

Clouds, Rain and the Water Cycle

6th - 8th
A rainy day spent inside helps a little boy learn about clouds and the water cycle from his mother. He sees the value of rain to plants, animals, people and the planet, even when the rain is not convenient for him. As the rain...
Instructional Video11:23
Khan Academy

Chilling Water Problem, States of Matter and Intermolecular Forces, Chemistry

7th - 10th
Sal continues this short series on specific heat and vaporization. The situation he poses uses 500 grams of liquid water at 60 degrees Celsius to get the water to zero degrees Celsius. The ice he adds to the water comes out at -10...
Instructional Video18:04
Khan Academy

Vapor Pressure, States of Matter and Intermolecular Forces, Chemistry

7th - 10th
Vapor pressure is the focus of this chemistry video. Sal explains that when molecules are "sticking together," a substance takes on a liquid or solid form. However, when kinetic energy increases, the molecules are forced apart, allowing...
Instructional Video16:02
Khan Academy

Vapor Pressure Example, Chemistry

7th - 10th
A problem from a chemistry textbook is posed on the screen. Sal solves the problem, which attempts to calculate vapor pressure using the Ideal Gas Law. The rate of evaporation of water given a specific volume, temperature, and pressure...
Instructional Video4:39
American Chemical Society

The Universe in a Cup of Coffee

9th - Higher Ed Standards
Connect the chemical aspects of coffee to the world in which we live! Scholars consider the molecules within coffee and how they interact with the environment as they view an episode of the ACS Reaction series. From caffeine as a...