Scholastic
Study Jams! Sound
Listen in as Mia and Sam expound on sound. It is caused by vibrations and travels in waves. It has the qualities of pitch, frequency, and volume. This hip animation displays a graph to depict the frequency and amplitude of sound waves....
TED-Ed
What is Color?
"To understand the phenomenon of color, it helps to think about light as a wave." This is a brief and very informative instructional video on what color is and why we are able to see it. Your young scientists will learn such terms as the...
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Wave Properties
Wave properties are fully explained in this easy to follow highly comprehensive video. Matt describes the differences and provides concrete examples of a pules, periodic wave, transverse wave, and longitudinal waves.
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Waves
The nature of waves is revealed through a tank of water and computer animations. Your physics learners will be illuminated by viewing this explanatory video.
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More Wave Properties
To continue his discussion of wave properties Matt, aÊcollege student, uses a slinky to demonstrate a wave frequency. He shows how to calculate this frequency using an algebraic formula where a period of time is divided by the number of...
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What is the Median of a Data Set?
Mean, mode, median? What's the difference? How do you find them? The teacher focuses on explaining median in this video. She gives a good explanation and shows several examples using different sets of numbers.
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How Do You Find the Mode of a Data Set?
What is the mode of a data set? Mean, mode, median. Get confused in remembering which is which? Mode is the number that appears the most times in a data set. So given a data set, arrange the numbers in numerical value from least to...
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STEMbite: Physics of a Toy Piano
Examine how the length of an object affects the resonant frequency of the sound wavelength when struck, resulting in a different pitch. Observe this occurrence in a toddler's xylophone, two kitchen pot lids, and a plastic straw. The...
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STEMbite: Standing Waves
The casual voice of the filmmaker explains standing waves using a linked chain bordering a neighborhood parking lot, a bucket of blue-colored water, and a rope tied to a fan blade. He uses the appropriate vocabulary (frequency,...