Audience: Students; Grades: 9-12; Subject: Environmental Science. (2002) Describes the characteristics of grasslands and explores different types of grasslands, including the African savanna, California grasslands, intermountain grasslands, desert grasslands, shortgrass prairies, mixed prairies, and tallgrass prairies. Introduces the plant and animal life found in each environment. Includes a ten-question video quiz. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLfZ3pBMThCV3kxLVU&usp=sharing
Audience: Students; Grades: 9-12; Subject: Environmental Science (2002) Explores the characteristics of the desert biome, examining the role of climate and temperature in determining the nature of deserts. Introduces desert soils, plants, birds, mammals, reptiles and invertebrates. Visits the arctic tundra and alpine tundra biomes, which are similar to the desert biome in that they receive little precipitation. Explores the climate of the tundra and introduces the plants and animals that live there. Includes a ten-question video quiz. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLfZ3pBMThCV3kxLVU&usp=sharing
Audience: Students; Grades: 9-12; Subject: Environmental Science (2002) .Explores the characteristics of forest biomes, looking at the climate as well as the plants and animals that inhabit forests. Discusses the unique climate and ecology of coniferous forests, temperate forests and tropical forests. Includes a ten-question video quiz. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLfZ3pBMThCV3kxLVU&usp=sharing
Audience: Students; Grades: 9-12; Subject: Environmental Science (2002) Explores the general characteristics of aquatic biomes. Discusses ocean ecology, pointing out the different environments found in the intertidal zone, the neritic zone and the open ocean. Introduces estuaries and freshwater biomes, which include streams, rivers, lakes, ponds and swamps. Includes a ten-question video quiz. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLfZ3pBMThCV3kxLVU&usp=sharing
Audience: Students; Grades: 6-12; Subject Areas: Science. (2000) Explores the diversity of the plant world and explains what makes a plant a plant. Identifies the early history and origins of plants and highlights the defining characteristics of non-vascular and vascular plants. Discusses bryophytes, spore-producing plants, gymnosperms, and angiosperms. Includes a ten-question video quiz. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLfa2FaODVtbElIZzQ&usp=sharing
Audience: Students; Grades: 6-12; Subject Areas: Science. (2000) Explores the process of photosynthesis, focusing on how the products of the process, glucose and oxygen, are vital to the survival of plants and animals. Examines the structure of leaves and their role in photosynthesis and illustrates different plant responses to certain stimuli beyond photosynthesis. Investigates different plant tropisms, including phototropism, gravitropism, and thigmotropism as well as seed structure and the process of germination. Includes a ten-question video quiz. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLfa2FaODVtbElIZzQ&usp=sharing
Audience: Students; Grades: 6-12; Subject Areas: Science. (2000) Explores the general characteristics of plants, examining the structures and functions of roots, stems, and leaves. Describes the vascular tissues of plants, which include xylem, cambium and phloem and illustrates the differences between annual, biennial, and perennial flowering plants. Describes how plant structures are useful sources of food-building materials and the role plant structures play in plant survival. Includes a ten-question video quiz. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLfa2FaODVtbElIZzQ&usp=sharing
Audience: Students; Grades: 6-12; Subject Areas: Science. (2000) Describes how seedless and seed plants reproduce and examines the asexual and sexual forms of plant reproduction. Discusses the reproductive processes of bryophytes, gymnosperms and angiosperms, outlining their reproductive structures. Illustrates seed fertilization and development and the process of germination. Includes a ten-question video quiz. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLfa2FaODVtbElIZzQ&usp=sharing
Audience: Students; Grades: 9-12; Subject: Biology. (2010) From fertilization, to germination, to growth, to death, this video explores the life cycles of plants. The means by which plants respond to their environment is also highlighted. Specific attention is paid to development of seeds and the means by which plants grow and mature. Concepts and terminology include: fertilization, seed disposal, germination, meristem, primary growth, secondary growth, dormancy, photoperiodism, tropism, phototropism, gravitropism, thigmotropism, auxin, and allelopathy. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLfVzFpdHc3anZHQ3c&usp=sharing
Audience: Students; Grades: K-5; Subject Areas: Fine Arts. (1999) Mark draws a space shuttle while demonstrating the Renaissance words foreshortening and overlapping. He also reviews the painting "Boatmen on the Missouri" by George Caleb Bingham. Web Wizard introduces the NASA website. Animator Karen Johnson draws a Martian.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-5; Subject Areas: Fine Arts (1999). Mark draws numbers in different styles while demonstrating the Renaissance words contour and attitude. He also reviews the painting "The Art Jury" by Wayman Adams. Neon artist Gerald Martinez shows how neon signs are made.
Grades: All; Subject areas: Fine Arts. Guest artist Hiroki Morinoue teaches the use of texture through a project using tempera paint mixed with spackle. He paints shell designs on masonite boards to create texture tiles.
Grades: All; Subject areas: Fine Arts. Guest artist Maile Ka'ai defines value as the quality of light and dark. Using pencils, she instructs a drawing lesson emphasizing value.
Audience: Students; Grades: 6-12; Subject: Fine Arts. (2011) At beautiful Makapu'u on O'ahu, award winning artist Mark Brown shows how to create an "en plein air" painting at the cliffs of Makapu'u overlooking the scenic Waimamalo shoreline.
Tam discusses the influences that inspired him to become a landscape artist and his fascination with the dynamic forces of nature.
In sharing his paintings, Tadashi Sato explains how the ocean has inspired him and the influence Hawaii has had on his art.
FLASHPOINT - Brings together an accomplished group of Hawai'i based artists working under the theme of FIRE. Artworks in this exhibition depict the varied aspects of FIRE and are visual interpretations of flashpoints in time and place - in methods of fabrication and conceptual context.
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-12; Subject Areas: Sustainability, STEM. (2017) In this episode: Smart and connected cities, testing for radioactivity, Identifying birds on the go, catching counterfeiters, a look under the sea, the science of speed and much more!
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-8; Subject Areas: Math. (2006) Introduces the basic units of the metric system and how they compare with the English system of weights and measures. Explains the importance of mensuration and describes different types of physical measurements, including length, distance, volume and mass. Identifies the units of metric measure and discusses the methods of converting from one system to the other. Program concludes with a 10-question video quiz. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLffnlabkhzaEotSk5OUXdfZXNOZ3RFLXFkenFITVBvOGctN2s3dllyTjNvY1U&usp=sharing
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-8; Subject Areas: Math. (2006) Discusses the processes of measuring length and temperature using metric units of measure. Defines the concepts of length and distance and illustrates the tools used for these physical measurements. Compares the use of meters in metric measurement to standard units in the English system. Also introduces the Celsius thermometer and Kelvin scale, illustrating how temperature is measured using the metric system. Program concludes with a 10-question video quiz. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLffnlabkhzaEotSk5OUXdfZXNOZ3RFLXFkenFITVBvOGctN2s3dllyTjNvY1U&usp=sharing
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-8; Subject Areas: Math. (2006) Explores how the metric system is used to measure the properties of matter. Defines mass and volume and introduces the metric units used for mass measurement and cubic content. Illustrates how a triple beam balance is used to determine weight and how mass, volume and density are measured in grams, liters and centimeters. Program concludes with a 10-question video quiz. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLffnlabkhzaEotSk5OUXdfZXNOZ3RFLXFkenFITVBvOGctN2s3dllyTjNvY1U&usp=sharing
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-8; Subject Areas: Math. (2006) Illustrates how to convert English units of measurement to metric units. Begins by explaining how different units of metric measurement can be converted within the system itself and illustrates the formulae for determining mass, volume and density. Contrasts standard units of measure with metric units and illustrates the conversions for length and distance, mass, volume and temperature. Program concludes with a 10-question video quiz. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLffnlabkhzaEotSk5OUXdfZXNOZ3RFLXFkenFITVBvOGctN2s3dllyTjNvY1U&usp=sharing
Audience: Students; Grades: K-3; Subject Areas: Science. (2014) The use of tools, equipment, and instruments in science and engineering is vital to acquiring data. Students will learn how and why tools are helpful in science. Concrete examples of common, everyday tools help teach key concepts and use of tools in science.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-3; Subject: Math. (2005) Dr. Rock introduces the principles of addition as he prepares for a birthday party. Animated graphics are used to illustrate adding one-digit whole numbers, including sums equal to ten. Children are shown adding different objects and the mathematical symbols used in addition sentences are identified along with related facts for solving problems.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-3; Subject: Math. (2005) Dr. Rock explains the value of money and demonstrates the basic principles of counting money. He identifies the number of cents in a penny, nickel, dime, quarter, and dollar bill. Students learn how to combine coins to make a certain value and Dr. Rock illustrates the symbols associated with money, such as the dollar sign and decimal point.
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-8; Subject Areas: Health. (2007) Highlights the six major essential nutrients: carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, and water. Also explores the digextive process and the nutritional benefits of certain foods. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLffkk2N3JQSHZRdmJEWnNGcTY0TnF1VFpjRkRsYzl2cFgwVk1iXzZQUXBmT0U&usp=sharing
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-8; Subject Areas: Health.(2007) Explores the USDA food pyramid, emphasizing the five major food groups and the nutritional benefits of each. Balanced diets are also explained. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLffkk2N3JQSHZRdmJEWnNGcTY0TnF1VFpjRkRsYzl2cFgwVk1iXzZQUXBmT0U&usp=sharing
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-8; Subject Areas: Health. (2007) Stresses the fundamental skills needed to plan, select, and prepare foods that make up a healthy diet. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLffkk2N3JQSHZRdmJEWnNGcTY0TnF1VFpjRkRsYzl2cFgwVk1iXzZQUXBmT0U&usp=sharing
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-8; Subject Areas: Health. (2007) Addresses a number of health issues including types of foods to avoid, healthy body weight, harmful substances, and the importance of regular exercise. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLffkk2N3JQSHZRdmJEWnNGcTY0TnF1VFpjRkRsYzl2cFgwVk1iXzZQUXBmT0U&usp=sharing
Grades: K-3; Subject Areas: Science.(2012) It is fascinating to explore the energy relationships between living things. This exciting video investigates the process of living things producing energy, consuming it, and breaking it down. Food chains and food webs visually illustrate these relationships. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLfVXlFcng4Y2pnOFk&usp=sharing
Audience: General; Grades: K-12; Subject Areas: Science. The video briefly recounts the eruptive history of Halema'uma'u and describes the formation and continued growth of the current summit vent and lava lake. It features USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists sharing their insights on the summit eruption: how they monitor the lava lake, how and why the lake level rises and falls, why explosive events occur, the connection between Kilauea's ongoing summit and East Rift Zone eruptions, and the impacts of the summit eruption on the Island of Hawai'i and beyond.
Quick, how to you spell sweetpotato? If you think we just did it wrong, think again ? that's the scientific way. And if you grow sweetpotatoes in North Carolina, that matters. And what North Carolina sweetpotato growers think matters because they grow more than two-thirds of the U.S. sweetpotato crop! How did one state become so dominant in a single industry? Believe it or not, tobacco played a role...
Tobacco was the crop that built not just North Carolina agriculture, but the entire state. It supported universities, hospitals and created opportunities for growth that have made North Carolina one of the fasted growing states in the nation. But as word spread about tobacco, that market went into a steep decline. Amazingly, sweetpotatoes like the same land, the same equipment, the same workers ? it was a natural transition. So much so that today North Carolina grows over two-thirds of the U.S. sweetpotato crop!
Grades: K-5; Subject Areas: Science. (2008) Nick explains that plants create green environments and that we need to keep our life-support system growing. Understanding what a plant needs helps us to preserve the green environment. Plants are solar powered and do their growing at night. Then chlorophyl turns sunlight into energy to keep our plants growing and give energy to us. Nick shows how celery absorbs water, and warns that we must all learn the conditions that plants need to grow. With his young visitors he plants wheat grass, provides the right environment, and watches the plants grow.
Grades: K-5; Subject Areas: Science. (2008) Nick explains that human beings are dependent on plants to survive. Shows how trees are turned into lumber and fuel; how cotton is produced and where wool comes from. Even explains that oil and gas come from dead plants. Introduces medicinal plants, vegetables and fruits. The activity is decorating wrapping paper with leaves and petals.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-3; Subject: Science. (2013) If you have ever torn up a piece of paper or seen ice melt, then you have witnessed physical changes. This fascinating program helps students understand some of the different ways matter changes physically. Vivid animations also illustrate various types of phase changes. Concepts and terminology: freezing, melting, condensation, boiling, and evaporation.
Audience: Students; Grades: 9-12; Subject: STEM. (2015) Zeros & Ones: The World of Digital Technology The way we process information has had a significant impact on both technology and communication in modern society. From natural analogue systems, we have witnessed the development of binary and digital information systems, and arrived at the massively complex technology that now dominates our daily lives.
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-5; Subject: Science. (2006) Describes the process of the Earth's orbit and rotation. Examines how these movements cause day and night, leap years, and the changing seasons. Also explains the reasons for the summer and winter solstice and the spring and vernal equinox. Concludes with a 5-question video quiz. For a teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLfdnZsQXFZdUNqV00&usp=sharing
Audience: Students; Grades: 9-12; Subject Areas: Science. (2015) On today's episode of "NASA X," we'll look back at some of those earlier missions and also explore the latest mission to monitor the ozone called SAGE III. We will follow the SAGE III team through the test phase to better understand how this mission will work and what we can expect when it is launched. We'll also get a better understanding of our fragile atmosphere and what we need to do to safeguard it for future generations.
Audience: Students; Grades: 9-12; Subject Areas: Science. (2014) Coming up on this episode of "NASA X," we will follow members of NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate's UAS Integration into the NAS project team as they tackle the major hurdles of integrating these types of vehicles into our daily lives. We'll see how researchers are solving technical challenges as well as concerns around human factors in an effort to one day allow these vehicles to safely integrate into our society.
Audience: Students; Grades:4-5; Subject: Science. (2013) This practical program stresses some of the fundamental essentials to maintaining body health. Everyday examples of healthy habits teach students how they can prevent sickness, and other health problems. Special emphasis is placed on life-long hygiene practices. Concepts and termionology: disease, sickness, hand-washing, germs, teeth brushing, sleep, nutrition, and annual physical. For Guide go to: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B9ZT7PYcIjLfMlZJSUdySHdVNWM?usp=sharing
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-12; Subject Areas: Sustainability, STEM. (2017) In this episode: Smart and connected cities, testing for radioactivity, Identifying birds on the go, catching counterfeiters, a look under the sea, the science of speed and much more!
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-8; Subject Areas: Math. (2006) Introduces the basic units of the metric system and how they compare with the English system of weights and measures. Explains the importance of mensuration and describes different types of physical measurements, including length, distance, volume and mass. Identifies the units of metric measure and discusses the methods of converting from one system to the other. Program concludes with a 10-question video quiz. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLffnlabkhzaEotSk5OUXdfZXNOZ3RFLXFkenFITVBvOGctN2s3dllyTjNvY1U&usp=sharing
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-8; Subject Areas: Math. (2006) Discusses the processes of measuring length and temperature using metric units of measure. Defines the concepts of length and distance and illustrates the tools used for these physical measurements. Compares the use of meters in metric measurement to standard units in the English system. Also introduces the Celsius thermometer and Kelvin scale, illustrating how temperature is measured using the metric system. Program concludes with a 10-question video quiz. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLffnlabkhzaEotSk5OUXdfZXNOZ3RFLXFkenFITVBvOGctN2s3dllyTjNvY1U&usp=sharing
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-8; Subject Areas: Math. (2006) Explores how the metric system is used to measure the properties of matter. Defines mass and volume and introduces the metric units used for mass measurement and cubic content. Illustrates how a triple beam balance is used to determine weight and how mass, volume and density are measured in grams, liters and centimeters. Program concludes with a 10-question video quiz. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLffnlabkhzaEotSk5OUXdfZXNOZ3RFLXFkenFITVBvOGctN2s3dllyTjNvY1U&usp=sharing
Audience: Students; Grades: 4-8; Subject Areas: Math. (2006) Illustrates how to convert English units of measurement to metric units. Begins by explaining how different units of metric measurement can be converted within the system itself and illustrates the formulae for determining mass, volume and density. Contrasts standard units of measure with metric units and illustrates the conversions for length and distance, mass, volume and temperature. Program concludes with a 10-question video quiz. For the teacher's guide go to: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ZT7PYcIjLffnlabkhzaEotSk5OUXdfZXNOZ3RFLXFkenFITVBvOGctN2s3dllyTjNvY1U&usp=sharing
Audience: Students; Grades: K-3; Subject Areas: Science. (2014) The use of tools, equipment, and instruments in science and engineering is vital to acquiring data. Students will learn how and why tools are helpful in science. Concrete examples of common, everyday tools help teach key concepts and use of tools in science.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-3; Subject: Math. (2005) Dr. Rock introduces the principles of addition as he prepares for a birthday party. Animated graphics are used to illustrate adding one-digit whole numbers, including sums equal to ten. Children are shown adding different objects and the mathematical symbols used in addition sentences are identified along with related facts for solving problems.
Audience: Students; Grades: K-3; Subject: Math. (2005) Dr. Rock explains the value of money and demonstrates the basic principles of counting money. He identifies the number of cents in a penny, nickel, dime, quarter, and dollar bill. Students learn how to combine coins to make a certain value and Dr. Rock illustrates the symbols associated with money, such as the dollar sign and decimal point.