Hands on Science:
IDEAS AND INVENTIONS --- CIMC Resources
Videos:
#1 Rubbings:
Leaf Venation
581 LEA
1 leaf model. Grade Level: K - 12
Exhibits six common leaves of different venation. Includes a leaf skeleton.
Labeled.
#2 Carbon Printing:
Look What I Found: Making Codes and Solving Mysteries
500 LOO
1 VHS videocassette 45 minutes.
Demonstrates science projects that use simple materials and tools. Projects:
fingerprints, tin can telephones, periscopes, and codes. Includes related book
lists and activities.
#3 Color Writing:
Mr. Wizard's World: Chemical Tests
540 MRW
1 VHS videocassette 26 minutes, 1 ditto, 1 teachers guide.
Activity segments: What Makes a Candle Burn?; Testing for Hydrogen; Kitchen
Chromatography; Cabbage Juice Indicator; Starch Iodine Test; Iodine Clock
Reaction. Recommended: Kitchen Chromatography, Cabbage Juice Indicator.
#4 Reflecting:
Riddle of Wizard's Oak: Symmetry
510 RID
1 VHS videocassette 15 minutes, 1 teachers guide.
Students solve geometry riddles by examining lines, reflectional and rotational
symmetry as found in nature and mirrors.
Shape Up!
510 SHA
1 Macintosh 3.5" disk, 1 teachers guide notebook.
Provides 2D and 3D environments for exploring geometric shapes, patterns, and
pictures, including reflection, rotation, similarity, congruence, symmetry,
tesselations, and area estimation.
Tenth Planet: Geometry Level 2
510 TEN
3 hybrid CD-ROMs, 1 quick-reference card, 2 lesson books, 2 teachers guides
Investigates shapes within shapes and mirror symmetry using themes of origami,
quilts, African masks, and kites. Optional Spanish language.
Inventions Extensions:
Gizmo
608 GIZ
1 VHS videocassette (76 minutes)
A tribute to unusual inventions and inventors. Includes original footage from
early 1900's to the present.
Reading Rainbow: Alistair's Time Machine
F REA
1 VHS videocassette 30 minutes, 4 hardback books, 1 teachers guide.
Story about a boy who builds his own time machine. Meet a wacky woman inventor
from the Stone Age, Thomas Edison, and a clever machine from the future that has
its own surprises for LeVar. Students look at amusing inventions from the past
that never quite made it into today's lifestyle.
Book title: Alistair's Time Machine; What Does it Do?; Many Lives of Benjamin
Franklin; Find Waldo Now.
Reading Rainbow: Galimoto
E REA
1 VHS videocassette 30 minutes, 3 hardback books, 2 teachers guides
Story of a young African boy who uses his wits to search for scraps of wire to
make his own galimoto. Explores the many practical uses of wire in our everyday
world.
Book titles: Galimoto; Little Pigs' Puppet Book; My First Activity Book.