Exploratorium home Exploratorium home Explo.tv
Browse media archive by:
Search 
Found 0 - 10 results of 19 programs matching keyword "surface tension"
Iron Science Teacher:  Alcohol (webcast)
Running Time:
12:44:38
This special edition of Iron Scence Teacher is part of our celebration of the Teacher Institute's 21st birthday. Watch as the best teachers on the planet battle it out for the title of Iron Science Teacher. In this zany competition teachers will have ten minutes to create a science activity.

Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All

Date: October 22, 2005
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Everyday Science
Iron Science Teacher:  Milk (webcast)
Running Time:
1:11:41
Watch as the best teachers on the planet battle it out for the title of Iron Science Teacher. In this zany competition teachers will have ten minutes to create a science activity. This week’s “secret” ingredient: Milk!

Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All

Date: July 15, 2005
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science, Physics
Saturn:  How Far Have We Gone? (webcast)
Running Time:
00:46:28
After a week of analyzing the data from the Huygens probe, do scientists think of Titan differently? What were the unexpected findings? Which hypotheses were wrong? Which were correct? Join us as we talk to mission scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and get the latest on this enigmatic moon.

Project: Saturn: Jewel of the Solar System | Browse All

Date: January 22, 2005
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science
Saturn:  What Do the Pictures Mean? (webcast)
Running Time:
00:31:54
After yesterday's historic mission to the surface of Titan, what happens next? What do the new pictures of Saturn's largest moon tell us, and what does it mean for our understanding of earth?

Project: Saturn: Jewel of the Solar System | Browse All

Date: January 15, 2005
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science
Iron Science Teacher:  Aluminum Foil (webcast)
Running Time:
00:59:28
Watch as the best teachers on the planet battle it out for the title of Iron Science Teacher. In this zany competition teachers will have ten minutes to create a science activity. Tee off with this week’s “secret” ingredient-aluminum foil!

Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All

Date: August 6, 2004
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science, Physics
Transit of Venus:  The Strange Atmosphere of the Planet Venus (webcast)
Running Time:
00:34:10
A series of sometimes fiery demonstrations shows what the pressure and composition of Venus’s atmosphere are like. This program was presented in conjunction with the Exploratorium’s webcast of the 2004 transit of Venus.

Project: The Rarest Eclipse: Transit of Venus | Browse All

Date: June 8, 2004
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science, Chemistry
Return to Mars:  Red Planet: Up Close and Personal (webcast)
Running Time:
00:37:05
We stayed up with Exploratorium scientist Ron Hipschman at the Lick Observatory in San Jose, California, for the best view we've had of Mars in a long, long time. At midnight on August 27, Earth and Mars passed closer to one another than they have in 60,000 years. Astronomers were on hand to tell us all about our nearest neighbor—its geography, orbit, and why both NASA and the European Space Agency have chosen this time to launch robotic missions to Mars.

Project: Return to Mars | Browse All

Date: August 27, 2003
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science
Science of Cooking:  Sparkling Science: Champagne (webcast)
Running Time:
00:52:14
Learn how sparkling wine is made, what makes it different from still wine, and where all those little bubbles come from! We reveal how to open a bottle without touching the cork, as well as the best way to keep the bubbles in the bubbly. Join our special guests, Stanford chemistry professor Dick Zare, and French enologist Michel Salgues, winemaker at Roederer Estates in California, as we explore the science of tiny bubbles.

Project: Accidental Scientist: Science of Cooking | Browse All

Date: December 28, 2002
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Chemistry
Iron Science Teacher:  Soap (webcast)
Running Time:
1:03:28
Watch as the best teachers on the planet battle it out for the title of Iron Science Teacher. In this zany competition teachers will have ten minutes to create a science activity. This week’s “secret” ingredient: soap!

Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All

Date: July 14, 2000
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science
La Nina Summit:  Symmetry (webcast)
Running Time:
1:55:23
Exploratorium Senior Scientist Mary Miller presents audio dispatches from the "Review of the Causes and Consequences of Cold Events: A La Nina Summit" held in Boulder, Colorado. The workshop was presented by The United Nations University, The National Center for Atmospheric Research, and the United Nations Environment Program.

Project: La Nina Summit | Browse All

Date: July 16, 1998
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
 1  2NEXT