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Here you'll find all the videos in the Science NetLinks collection aimed at middle-school students. Topics range from baseball umpires to catastrophic science to gardening for wildlife, so there's something for everyone.
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6-12 | Video
Immunizations are a positive tool for public and personal health. Two of every three alleged injuries related to them, including every single autism claim, have been dismissed over the past 30 years by the United States' vaccine court.
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3-12 | Video
Learn how to play Classify It!, the latest Android and iOS app from Science NetLinks.
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6-12 | Video
This episode of Speaking of Chemistry discusses the science behind astronomical aromas and celestial body odors.
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4-12 | Video
This video form the National Eye Institute provides a simple introduction to the science of optical illusions.
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6-12 | Video
This American Chemical Society video explains the science of movie explosions.
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6-12 | Video
Deployment of a Web cam at North Pole in 2002 provided the very first summer-long view of conditions at the North Pole. Includes narration with background information about the North Pole and the Web cams.
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K-12 | Video
This video from the National Wildlife Federation follows naturalist David Mizejewski as he discusses why it's important to plan gardens with wildlife in mind.
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3-12 | Video
This video provides a brief explanation of a watershed.
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6-12 | Video
A tour of a beef plant guided by Dr. Temple Grandin, Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University.
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3-12 | Video
This is a video of Vicki Cobb's acceptance speech of the 2012 SB&F Lifetime Achievement Award.
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3-12 | Video
In this segment of Science XPlained, Dr. Ainissa Ramirez discusses how the strings in a tennis racket--often made of synthetic or natural materials--make the important topspin shot possible.
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3-12 | Video
What is a watershed? Learn about watersheds with this clip from Surfrider Foundation's educational video "From Sea to Summit: A Journey through the Watershed."
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6-12 | Video
John P. Holdren at the May 13, 2010 AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy discusses why scientists can't determine more precisely how much oil is gushing from the Deepwater Horizon rig.
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6-12 | Video
Clips from the documentary The Last Speakers share snippets of interviews with speakers of endangered languages.
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6-8 | Video
This video provides a preview of the Book of Potentially Catastrophic Science by performing an experiment from the book. Using Issac Newton's third law, the experiment shows how Robert Goddard created the space age.
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6-12 | Video
This video from The Connecticut Forum features Temple Grandin sharing a funny story about her cowboy shirts.
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6-12 | Video
Ainissa Ramirez shows how ferrofluids, which are iron particles floating in a liquid, make weird shapes and increase in viscosity when a magnet is nearby.
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6-12 | Video
Ainissa Ramirez describes the science behind spiders making webs and walking on walls, which engineers hope will lead to materials that are bulletproof and robots that can climb the side of a building.
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K-12 | Video
In this short video from AAAS & Science NetLinks, you'll see the many ways science has impacted your life.
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6-12 | Video
Find out what inventing green means in this video from Science NetLinks. Hear from current inventors and learn about other green products, technology, and techniques.
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3-12 | Video
Learn how to turn your ideas into inventions through inspiration, education, and iteration.
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3-12 | Video
The video highlights the work of icons like astronaut and chemical engineer Mae Jemison, the first woman of color to go into space, as well as Percy Julian, a pioneer in synthesizing materials from plants, including a glaucoma drug from beans, a firefighting foam from soy protein, and an arthritis treatment still used to treat millions of patients today.
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6-12 | Video
Learn about the James Webb Space Telescope, the biggest, most complex, and most expensive science mission that NASA has ever attempted.
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3-12 | Video
Unlike whales and other ocean mammals, sea otters have no blubber. Yet they're still able to keep warm in the frigid Pacific waters. The secret to their survival? A fur coat like no other.
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K-12 | Video
This video takes a brief look three unsung women scientists, like the one who saved the U.S. space race.
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6-12 | Video
Each year, Science chooses a singular scientific development as Breakthrough of the Year. This year, the Rosetta mission took the crown! Meet this year’s Breakthrough and check out our nine amazing runners-up!
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6-12 | Video
Rebecca Lyland takes us on a GoPro adventure to study soil in the desert, grasslands, and pine forests of Arizona.
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3-12 | Video
This NASA documentary celebrates 50 years of extravehicular activity (EVA) or spacewalks that began in 1965 and continue to this day.
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6-12 | Video
An interview with Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator, about the upcoming Pluto encounter and what is next for his NASA spacecraft.
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6-12 | Video
Yale scientist Ainissa Ramirez describes the physics behind the game and what gives a football its speed, drag and spin in this video.
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6-12 | Video
In this video, Dr. Ainissa Ramirez demonstrates how the metal rivets that held the Titanic together became brittle in the frigid waters and broke apart on impact with the iceberg.
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6-12 | Video
Ainissa Ramirez demonstrates how to make ice cream using liquid nitrogen, describes why cold temperatures makes ice cream creamier, and shows how an understanding of ice cream helps us with avalanches.
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6-12 | Video
Using an egg and bubble wrap, Ainissa Ramirez shows how football helmets are designed to reduce skull fractures, but are poor at preventing brain injuries (or concussions).
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6-8 | Video
Sy Montgomery talks about her book Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World, winner of the 2013 SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books in the Middle Grades category.
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6-12 | Video
This video is from the "Science of the Summer Olympics" series, produced by NBC and the National Science Foundation. U.S. runner Jenny Simpson relied on new treadmill technology to help rehabilitate from a stress fracture as she trained for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
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6-12 | Video
This video, from Science in Seconds, looks at what it means to be a citizen scientist.
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6-12 | Video
A panel discussion for middle schoolers about careers in space science.
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6-8 | Video
In this video, Len Bari describes how to call balls and strikes as a baseball umpire.
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K-12 | Video
Bob Hirshon interviews Dr. Michael Raupp, an entomologist, about the 2013 emergence of the Brood ii 17-year periodical cicadas.
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K-12 | Video
When invasive plants threaten to upset critical natural habitat, who can you call? Jamie Evans, National Park Service biologist at Rocky Mountain National Park.
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K-12 | Video
In this video, we see kids play "Literary Roulette."
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K-12 | Video
In this video, a student from Baker University discusses tardigrades (water bears) and their unique features.
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K-12 | Video
In this video, middle-school students work with entomologists to find desert insects that are attracted to light.
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K-12 | Video
In this video, AAAS's Bob Hirshon talks with a team from the University of Arizona who are hunting for fungi that spend their entire lives inside plants.
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K-12 | Video
In the first of a series of live 2011 BioBlitz BobCasts, host Bob Hirshon explains what the BioBlitz is all about.
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K-12 | Video
In this final BobCast video, we hear from a group of college students who collect and identify marine algae, better known as seaweed.
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K-12 | Video
A Biscayne National Park Ranger working at the 2010 BioBlitz takes us on a tour of mangrove trees.
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K-12 | Video
AAAS's Bob Hirshon and a small team of volunteer “fish counters” head out on a boat trip to a turtlegrass bed and coral reef.
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K-12 | Video
AAAS' Bob Hirshon talks with John Francis of National Geographic about the 2010 BioBlitz and what participants experience there.
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K-12 | Video
In the first of a series of live 2010 BioBlitz BobCasts, host Bob Hirshon arrives at the BioBlitz staging area and provides a short video tour of the people gathering there.
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6-12 | Video
This video was made by Danielle Balistrieri, a college student who participated in grasslands research in California.
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6-12 | Video
This video was made by Danielle Balistrieri, a college student who participated in grasslands research in California, and discusses the results of their research.
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3-12 | Video
John Dabiri, a biophysicist at the California Institute of Technology, discusses jellyfish, submarines, blood flow, and wind farms.
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6-12 | Video
This video is from the "Science of the Summer Olympics" series, produced by NBC and the National Science Foundation. An electrical engineer at Georgia Institute of Technology explains why Olympic timekeeping technology must be able to measure an athlete's performance with both accuracy and precision.
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6-12 | Video
Studying the science of tsunamis will hopefully provide better understanding and a better warning system
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6-8 | Video
Author Sandra Markle reads from her 2012 AAAS/Subaru Prize winning book The Case of the Vanishing Golden Frog at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Vancouver.
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K-12 | Video
This time-lapse video takes a look at the 17-year life cycle of the magicicada.
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6-12 | Video
In this video, your students will gain an understanding of the processes of plant identification and why the discipline is important in scientific research.
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3-12 | Video
Michael Benson discusses the Planetfall art exhibition.
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6-12 | Video
This video provides a short chronological history of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space flights.
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6-12 | Video
Photojournalist Adam Nadel offers insights into his exhibition, "Malaria: blood, sweat, and tears," which was featured in the AAAS Gallery in 2012.
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3-12 | Video
This video features Loree Griffin Burns reading a chapter from her book, Citizen Scientists.
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3-12 | Video
This video features an interview with author Loree Griffin Burns at the 2013 AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.
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6-12 | Video
Artist Michael Benson and planetary scientist Dr. Nancy Chabot discuss the intersection of art and science at the opening of the Planetfall art exhibition.
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6-12 | Video
Learn about sand prairies, which are a type of grassland ecosystem. The video specifically focuses on those in and around La Crosse, Wisconsin.
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6-12 | Video
Relive the nail-biting terror and joy as NASA's Curiosity rover successfully landed on Mars the night of Aug. 5, 2012, PDT (morning of Aug. 6 EDT).
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3-12 | Video
Astronomer Michael Brown discusses the solar system's bodies and his role in the demotion of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet.
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6-12 | Video
This video from Science Magazine takes a brief look at scientists studying how a parrot flies.
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6-12 | Video
The ability to recognize strings of letters as words, also known as orthographic processing, is a key component of reading.
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6-8 | Video
This video features an interview with Brian Gratwicke, a scientist studying the problem of the vanishing Panamanian golden frog.
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