What happens to buried garbage? How does garbage change? What problems does garbage cause? By taking a trip to a recycling center, landfill and town dump kids will come to understand what happens to trash and garbage after they throw it away. The program focuses on the environmental problems created by solid waste and offers suggestions for ways to alleviate the problem. Children will come to understand that through daily conservation methods, people can control the amount of waste they produce.
Languages: English
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Real World Science: Being Safe and Successful in the Science Lab
“””Being Safe and Successful in the Science Lab is a video program designed to assist teachers in creating a safe and successful learning environment in the high school laboratory setting. The video includes fifteen video segments each designed to inform and instruct students about appropriate procedures and behaviors in the science classroom laboratory.
The topics covered include wearing proper personal protective equipment, chemical safety, handling spills, working with hot plates and Bunsen burners and other issues to make students aware of the need for safety. In addition, the program covers topics such as controls and variables, accurate measurements, how to prepare and observe microscope slides.
This video is the perfect compliment your existing safety and laboratory instruction lessons. “””
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Real World Science: Ecosystems and Biomes
Ecosystems and biomes takes students on a journey around the globe to tropical rain forests, deserts and the ocean. Live footage and colorful graphics teach students about regions and climates, and explain the impact environments and living organisms have on each other. By viewing this program, students will come to understand biomes, how plants and animals coexist, climates and regions.
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Real World Science: Electricity
Electricity makes our lives easier every day. We use electricity in our work and play. Because electricity is virtually unseen, it is often difficult to understand just where it comes from and how it works. By watching the video and discussing the concepts presented, children will enhance their knowledge about electricity. The video presents general information about electricity, as well as concepts regarding static and current electricity, atoms and electromagnetism.
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Real World Science: Food Chain
This live-action video program is about food chains. The program is designed to reinforce and support a students comprehension of food chains and the relationship between plants and animals. Through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated graphics and labels, viewers will come to understand how that the food chain represents the continuous exchange of energy among organisms.
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Real World Science: Forces
Real World Science: Force is one of a series of videos that encourages children to explore the world of science in their immediate surroundings. Through observation and experimentation, students will learn properties of forces, Newtons Laws of Motion and how pressure affects the world around them. This program encourages students to explore their surroundings and to discover the fascinating impact forces have on their everyday lives.
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Real World Science: Fossils and Dinosaurs
The age of dinosaurs comes alive as viewers take a trip back in time. State-of-the-art animatronic dinosaurs help to create what life was like 60 million years ago. In this program students will learn the names and distinctive features of many of the most common dinosaurs. They will discover how fossils are formed and come to understand that fossils can give us clues about how dinosaurs lived and died.
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Real World Science: Habitats
Why are habitats important? Live-Action footage of animals and colorful animation help students discover the answer. This program takes viewers around the world to explore the tundra, desert, grasslands, forests and waterways of the world, and learn about the plants and animals that live there.
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Real World Science: Magnetism
Magnets can be found in many objects that we use everyday. Not only are they located in man-made objects, but magnetic materials can be found in nature as well. In fact, the mineral, magnetite, was found to have magnetic properties long before humans learned how to make magnets on their own. By viewing the video and discussing the concepts presented, students will enhance their knowledge about magnetism. The video presents general information about magnetism, as well as concepts about atoms, and the relationship between electricity and magnets.
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Real World Science: Matter: Solids, Liquids and Gases
Matter. It is all around us. Everything on Earth is made of matter. Learning about the different properties of matter will allow students to understand how environmental and human factors affect the changing world we live in. By viewing the video and discussing the concepts presented, students will enhance their knowledge about solids, liquids and gases.