Disney Educational - Bill Nye The Science Guy - Bones & Muscles
The Science Guy uses comedy and music to convey important scientific concepts to students, and it seems to work very well. Even adults find his programs entertaining, because he always provides instruction in a wildly irreverent fashion. In Bill Nye the Science Guy: Bones & Muscles, he talks about the skeletal and muscle systems and illustrates them with kid-pleasing effects and graphics.
Disney Educational - Bill Nye The Science Guy: Motion
In this episode, Bill Nye once again takes a science concept and clarifies it for young science students. Despite the complexity of some of his subject matter, Nye manages to bring the explanations down to a level to which kids can relate, complete with silly references and jokes. In Bill Nye the Science Guy: Motion, he talks about inertia and the forces that act upon it. He discusses Newton's three laws of motion and illustrates relative motion by asking students to picture sitting on a bus that is backing up.
Dictionary of Food Science and Technology, 2nd Edition
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Knowledge of the basic ideas and principles of science is fundamental to cultural literacy. But most books on science are often too obscure or too specialized to do the general reader much good.
ScienceWorks for Kids: Simple Machines, Grades 1-3
For hands-on activities about force, work, wheels, pulleys, and inclined planes that connect science with real life, choose Simple Machines. This book, designed with good science and easy teaching in mind, covers these concepts:
- work is done when a force is used to move something over a distance
