Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Kids: Animations: How Does a Blimp Float?

3rd - 8th
Narrated animation that visually explains how the air displaced by a blimp causes a buoyant force that gives the blimp lift. (30 secs)
Instructional Video
PBS

Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wide World: The Way Things Move: Water Levels

Pre-K - 1st
Join these children as they discover what happens when rising water can move objects. [1:26]
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Buoyancy

9th - 10th
This lesson will describe how buoyant forces allow objects to float.
Instructional Video
Sea Studios Foundation

Shape of Life: Molluscs: Nautilus Regulates Its Buoyancy

9th - 10th
A nautilus' shell, when x-rayed, reveals the many chambers, which the nautilus uses to regulate buoyancy as it moves up and down in the ocean. Observe this process with this video! [1:54]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Hot Air Balloons

3rd - 8th
Watch kids use the scientific method to figure out why hot air can lift things. Discover how a hot air balloon works.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Pour Air Into Water Experiment

Pre-K - 1st
This video segment adapted from ZOOM offers a clever demonstration of buoyancy by showing how to pour a cup of air into a cup filled with water. [1 mim, 42 sec]