Disney Educational - Bill Nye The Science Guy - Computers
In this episode, Bill Nye, the standup scientist, brings Al Gore on to help explain how computers work, including how they turn electrical pulses into information. The Science Guy relates to young students by using their language, and filling his shows with parodies of rock songs and jokes. The devices help viewers remember important points of the scientific concepts covered in each program.
Disney Educational - Bill Nye The Science Guy- Communication
Bill Nye is an expert at communication, and that is the topic in this episode of the award-winning series, Bill Nye the Science Guy: Communication. Nye connects with kids by adding jokes, contemporary music parodies, and strange camera angles to the science content. His method of science education as entertainment is very effective. In this program, he points out the different ways in which humans and animals exchange information.
The Science Guy talks about the barrage of objects from space in Bill Nye the Science Guy: Comets and Meteors, part of his popular series aimed at young science students. Bill Nye bombards his audience with hard facts about comets, meteors, and smaller debris that slam into the Earth, other planets, and their moons throughout the solar system. He discusses the theories that a meteor impact caused the death of the dinosaurs and that a comet brought life in its most primitive form to Earth.
To persuade students that science is a cool subject, Bill Nye will go to extremes, as he continues to provide scientific instruction in this series. Bill Nye the Science Guy: Climates offers a discussion about variation in climates, and how they affect plants, animals, and humans. Naturally, the program is filled with a large amount of science content interspersed with music videos, bad jokes that are usually pretty funny, and bizarre graphics that will appeal to young students.
It's a very chemical world, and some of it involves explosive results, as some students will be happy to discover in Bill Nye the Science Guy: Chemical Reactions. Bill Nye continues his popular series of science programs that presents scientific concepts in an entertaining way. His methods have won him many awards, and the loyalty of educators, who admire how he can hold the attention of young students. In this episode, Nye explains how everything is made of chemicals, and gives the signs that indicate a chemical reaction is occurring.