EXPLO.TV - Webcasts, Video Clips, and Podcasts from the Exploratorium

Iron Science Teacher: Rocks (Webcast)

Running Time:
1:04:26

In this zany competition teachers will have ten minutes to create a science activity from a special secret ingredient. This week: rocks!

Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All

Date: July 21, 2006
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics, General Science

Keywords: teachers, contest, experiments, activites, rocks, exploding volcanoes, crushing concrete, filtering water, coca-cola geysers, erosion

Real: 256K

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

Keywords: cocktails, liquor, density column activity, pickled eggs, naked egg chemistry, osmosis, diffusion, dollar bill activity, convection currents, surface tension

Real: 225K

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

Keywords: acids and bases, curdling milk, making cheese, surface tension, convection currents, blue sky activity, scattering, total internal reflection, ice cream, comets, make a comet activity

Real: 225K

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

Keywords: titan, atmosphere of titan, cassini spacecraft, gravity on titan demonstration, ice balloon activity, weathering, surface erosion, dendridic rivers, sounds of titan

Real: 225K

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

Keywords: cassini spacecraft, surface of titan, sapping, saturn,

Real: 225K

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

Keywords: teachers, experiments, activities, tinfoil into copper, density, aluminum foil boats, surface tension, bouyancy, hydrogen blimp model, electrical charge, electroscope model, static electricity, properites of aluminum foil, aluminum foil battery, activated charcoal,

Real: 225K

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

Keywords: atmosphere of venus, the surface of venus, sublimation, air blast craters, clouds on venus

Real: 225K

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

Keywords: refracting telescope, feautures of mars, surface of mars, james lick observatory, earth, mars

Real: 256K

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

Keywords: dick zare, bubbles, science of champagne, science of sparkling wine, air pressure, opening a champagne bottle, condensation, fog, gases, carbonation, carbonated beverages, gravity, air resistance, drag force, terminal velocity, surface tension, carbon dioxide, equilibriu

Real: 350K

Origins: Antarctica: Dry Valleys 2 with Paul (Webcast)

Running Time:
0:37:24

Join the Origins team as they travel to Antarctica. We sent Mary, Noel, Paul, and Julie to explore scientific wonders from McMurdo to the Pole. Learn all about the extreme science being conducted at the South Pole in a daily dispatch from Terra Australis Incognita!

Project: Origins: Antarctica - Scientific Journeys from McMurdo to the Pole | Browse All

Date: January 10, 2002
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science

Keywords: glacier research, glacier change, commonwealth glacier, mcmurdo dry valleys, glacier movements, glacier melting, glacier size, ice flows, taylor dry valley, glaciers in the desert, glaciers flow, wind erosion, katabatic wind, weather in antartica, life at extreme tempe

Real: 80K


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