Hands on Science:
VARIABLES --- CIMC Resources to Order
#1 Swingers:
#2 Lifeboats:
Bill Nye Physical Science: Pressure/Bouyancy
530 BIL
1 VHS videocassette 52 minutes, 2 teachers guides. Grade Level: 4 - 9
Pressure - 26 min - discusses force, vacuums, and holograms. Bouyancy - 26 min - discusses displacement, neutral bouyancy, and how shape and pressure affect an object's bouyancy.
Three-Two-One Contact: Forces and Motion
531 THR
3 VHS videocassettes (56 minutes), 5 dittos, 1 teachers guide.
Titles: Gravity - 11 minutes; Buoyancy in Water - 10 minutes; Buoyancy in Air - 14 minutes; Human Forces - 10 minutes; Forces at the Circus - 11 minutes.
# Plane Sense:
Water Rockets
530 WAT
3 VHS videocassettes (169 minutes), 1 teachers guide, Tape 1 only recommended
Tape I (53 min.) introduces water rocket activities and includes safety, building launch pads, and investigating variables. Tape II (67 min., intermediate) discusses mass, velocity, acceleration, kinetic energy, and applied trigonometry. Tape III (49 min. advanced) discusses a smart pulley/computer interface, Hooke's Law accelerometer, air resistance, and variable nozzle diameter.
#4 Flippers:
Scientific Process and Related Math:
Data collection
372.7 DAT
1 videocassette, 15 minutes.
Students will explore methods for collection and organizing data, interpret various representations of data, design and create graphs.
Don't Jump to Conclusions : Interpreting Statistics
519.5 DON
1 videocassette, 15 minutes.
Discusses how to draw reasonable conclusions and predictions from data.
Gathering and graphing data
510 GAT
1 DVD, 23 minutes, includes teacher's guide.
English and Spanish language tracks available on DVD.
Kids use data to identify and solve problems as well as interpret information in different kinds of graphs. Includes reading and interpreting pictographs, Venn diagrams, and bar, circle and line graphs.
Scientific Method
500 SCI
1 VHS videocassette 20 minutes, 1 teachers guide. Grade Level: 4 - 12
Introduces students to the scientific method process. Follows the work of a chemist, biologist, and a geologist, and their use of the scientific method.
3-2-1 Contact: How do You Know? Collect the Data
500 THR
1 VHS videocassette 15 minutes, 1 ditto, 1 teachers guide.
Students meet scientists collecting data deep in the woods and deep underwater.
3-2-1 Contact: How Do You Know? Experiment
500 THR
1 VHS videocassette 15 minutes, 1 ditto, 1 teachers guide.
Shows students why and how to set up a controlled experiment.
Graph Club
510 GRA
1 hybrid CD-ROM, 1 teachers guide notebook. Grade Level: K - 5
Explores how the same data can be graphed and represented differently. Uses tables and picture, bar, line, and circle graphs.
Graphers
510 GRA
2 Windows 3.5" disks, 1 teachers guide notebook.
Investigates 6 types of graphs: pictograph, bar graph, circle graph, loop, grid plot, and line graph.
Science Court: Statistics
510 SCI
1 hybrid CD-ROM, 1 teachers guide.
Interactive program discusses data collection and analysis, random samples and bias, and how to use graphs and charts.
Tabletop, Jr.
510 TAB
1 Windows 3.5" disk, 1 teachers guide notebook. Grade Level: K - 6
Explores data analysis, logic and graphing methods using attributes, place value, and plotting with Venn diagrams, bunches, stacks, grids, and graphs.
Used Numbers: Real Data in the Classroom
510 USE
6 paperback books, 2 hardback books
Designed to develop skills in how to collect and analyze real-world data: counting, sorting, measuring, data gathering, predicting and sampling, and calculating the mean. Includes children's literature books with a math connection.
Widget Workshop
500 WID
1 Windows CD-ROM, 1 installation guide, 2 teachers guides, 1 wood top, 3 straws, 1 magnifier, 1 compass, 1 thermometer, 2 rubber bands.
Experiments with various science principles using physics, math and logic. Topics include weather, space, gravity, human body, sound, light, and number puzzles.