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Next Vista for Learning: Terminal Velocity: The Physics of I Fly

9th - 10th
A video explaining that terminal velocity exists when the force of gravity equals the force of drag on an object. Video shows how terminal velocity exists in a wind tunnel. [4:08]
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Next Vista for Learning: Reading a Fault Line

3rd - 8th
A video that helps you identify whether a fault is a normal or reverse fault. Video will teach students how to identify a foot wall and a hanging wall to help name the type of fault. [1:48]
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Next Vista for Learning: Balancing Chemical Equations

9th - 10th
A video giving step-by-step instructions on how to balance chemical equations. [1:35]
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Next Vista for Learning: The Water Cycle

3rd - 8th
A video poem describing the path water takes as it travels through water cycle as it evaporates, condenses and turns into precipitation. [1:50]
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Next Vista for Learning: Cohesion

9th - 10th
A video investigating how water sticks together to form droplets, lakes, bays, and pool. Understand the property of cohesion which allows water to stick to each other by hydrogen bonds.[1:22]
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Next Vista for Learning: Water Around Us

3rd - 8th
A video showing an experiment to find out the reason why water collects on the outside of a cold glass. The experiment concludes that the water must come from the water vapor in the air. [1:44]
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Next Vista for Learning: Tsunami

3rd - 8th
A video exploring how tsunamis form, the damage they cause, and the fact that they cannot be prevented. Also learn that tsunamis form on convergent boundaries. [0:56]
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Next Vista for Learning: Plate Tectonics

3rd - 8th
A video giving a short description of the different type of plate boundaries. [1:17]
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Next Vista for Learning: Angular Velocity Vectors Right Hand Rule

9th - 10th
A video showing how you can find angular velocity vector by using the right hand rule. Video gives example with a wheel. [1:36]
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Next Vista for Learning: How a Tsunami Forms

3rd - 8th
Watch a video with a student explaining the five steps on how a tsunami forms. [1:35]
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Next Vista for Learning: The Scientific Method

3rd - 8th
A video explaining how the scientific method was used in an experiment to see if Mentos in coke makes an explosion. Steps of the scientific method are explained in the context of the problem trying to be solved. [1:39]
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Next Vista for Learning: How We Hear Sound

3rd - 8th
This video explains how sound is processed by the ear. [1:20]
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Next Vista for Learning: Newton's Laws of Motion

3rd - 8th
A video explaining Newton's Laws of Motion. Laws are defined with examples to help students understand the law. [1:38]
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Next Vista for Learning: Music's True Form

3rd - 8th
A short video explaining that music is a sound produced by oscillations of pressure through a solid, liquid, and gas with a frequency within range of hearing. [1:30]
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Next Vista for Learning: Newton's Three Laws of Motion

3rd - 8th
Review Newton's Laws with this short video which explains the laws and shows an example of each. [1:00]
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Next Vista for Learning: Identifying Birds

3rd - 8th
A short video giving step-by-step instructions on how to identify birds in nature. Video also explores how to use a field guide to help with identification as well as an online resource. [2:28]
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Next Vista for Learning: How Electricity Works

3rd - 8th
A video demonstration showing how to construct a series circuit with batteries, a light bulb, and wire. [1:18]
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Next Vista for Learning: The Metric System

4th - 8th Standards
A video explaining the metric system with the ladder method. Also given is an example of how to convert between units. [1:02]
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Next Vista for Learning: Salmon

3rd - 8th
Review the different type of salmon found in Alaska with this short video. Video gives description of salmon both in picture and words. [1:24]
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Next Vista for Learning: Isaac Newton's First Law of Motion

3rd - 8th
Learn about what would happen to a ball thrown in space with this short video. Video explains Newton's First Law of Motion with examples. [0:46]
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Next Vista for Learning: Rate of Work

3rd - 8th
A video showing how to calculate the rate of work of two painters. [1:07]
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Next Vista for Learning: The Atomic Model

3rd - 8th
Learn the three sub-particles that make up an atom in this video. Video gives a visualization to what an atom, the basic building of matter, looks like. [1:15]
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Next Vista for Learning: Binoculars

3rd - 8th
A short video investigating how to use and focus binoculars to see objects far away. [1:58]
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Next Vista for Learning: How to Make Lip Gloss

3rd - 8th
A simple "how-to" video explaining how to make lip gloss at home with household materials. [1:01]