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Physical Science: Download and Share

Resource Grade Level Media Type
The Atom  

The Atom
In this interactive activity from ChemThink, take a closer look at atomic structure, properties, and behaviors.

6-12 Flash Interactive
Circular Motion  

Circular Motion
In this interactive activity featuring videos adapted from the Rutgers PAER Group, observe examples of circular motion. Can you find a common reason why the objects and people presented move in a circle?

6-12 Flash Interactive
Covalent Bonding  

Covalent Bonding
This interactive activity from ChemThink takes a closer look at a covalent bond—how it is formed and how the sharing of two electrons can keep atoms together.

9-12 Flash Interactive
Design Squad: Sound  

Design Squad: Sound
In this video segment adapted from Design Squad—a PBS TV series featuring high school contestants tackling engineering challenges—learn about the fundamentals of sound as student teams create percussive and stringed instruments for a local band.

3-12 QuickTime Video
Design Squad: Suspension Bridge  

Design Squad: Suspension Bridge
In this video segment adapted from Design Squad—a PBS TV series featuring high school contestants tackling engineering challenges—students employ the concepts of tension and compression to build a suspension bridge without the aid of power tools.

5-12 QuickTime Video
Design Squad: Truss Bridge  

Design Squad: Truss Bridge
In this video segment adapted from Design Squad—a PBS TV series featuring high school contestants tackling engineering challenges—students employ the concepts of tension and compression as they build a truss bridge without the aid of power tools.

5-12 QuickTime Video
Dissolving Salts in Water  

Dissolving Salts in Water
In this interactive activity adapted from Iowa State University, design and carry out an experiment: dissolve salts in water, see how different ionic compounds produce different reactions, and observe the resulting changes in temperature.

8-12 Flash Interactive
Dust Explosion  

Dust Explosion
In these videos adapted from the Journal of Chemical Education, observe how a material that is usually hard to ignite becomes very flammable when its particles are suspended in air.

6-12 Flash Interactive
Fusion: The Hydrogen Bomb  

Fusion: The Hydrogen Bomb
Just after World War II, nuclear scientists turned their attention from fission to fusion. This video segment adapted from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE looks at the beginnings of thermonuclear power generation.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Glass Breaking with Sound  

Glass Breaking with Sound
In this video adapted from the Encyclopedia of Physics Demonstrations, learn how a glass beaker vibrates at a specific frequency and how resonance can force it to shatter.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Graphing the Periodic Table  

Graphing the Periodic Table
This interactive activity from the American Chemical Society presents the properties and electron configurations for all the elements in the periodic table. Discover patterns by plotting the elements' properties according to their place in the table.

9-12 Flash Interactive
Heat Transfer  

Heat Transfer
In this interactive activity adapted from the Wisconsin Online Resource Center, learn how heat can be transferred in one of three ways: conduction, convection, and radiation.

5-8 Flash Interactive
Ionic Bonding  

Ionic Bonding
In this interactive activity from ChemThink, learn how ionic bonds are formed and how an ionic bond structure is represented by its formula.

9-12 Flash Interactive
Island of Stability  

Island of Stability
In this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, follow scientists in their quest to understand how stable elements are made and how to create the elusive element 114.

9-12 QuickTime Video
Laser Waterfall  

Laser Waterfall
In this video from the Encyclopedia of Physics Demonstrations, observe how a laser beam is trapped in a water jet because the light reflects against the surface of the water.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Lightning!  

Lightning!
This video segment adapted from NOVA explains the mysterious force of lightning.

3-12 QuickTime Video
Making Cortisone From Plants  

Making Cortisone From Plants
This video segment adapted from NOVA is a dramatized story of chemist Percy Julian’s work to synthesize cortisone. Find out how a biological process, not a chemical one, proved the key to producing cortisone in bulk.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Metals in Hydrochloric Acid  

Metals in Hydrochloric Acid
In this interactive activity adapted from Iowa State University, observe how hydrochloric acid dissolves some metals to form oxidized metal chlorides and hydrogen gas.

9-12 Flash Interactive
Molecular Shapes  

Molecular Shapes
In this interactive activity from ChemThink, learn about covalent molecules and how the VSEPR theory predicts the shapes of covalently-bonded molecules.

9-12 Flash Interactive
Particulate Nature of Matter  

Particulate Nature of Matter
In this interactive activity from ChemThink, examine the basic properties of matter at an atomic level and consider how various atoms affect the way a substance behaves.

6-12 Flash Interactive
Refraction of Light Demonstration  

Refraction of Light Demonstration
In this interactive activity featuring videos adapted from the Rutgers PAER Group, observe how light bends when it travels through a convex lens, a concave lens, and glass.

5-12 Flash Interactive
Rolling Ball Incline  

Rolling Ball Incline
In this video adapted from the Encyclopedia of Physics Demonstrations, learn how plotting the changes in an object's position on a graph can provide information about the object's motion.

8-12 QuickTime Video
Synthesizing an Alkaloid  

Synthesizing an Alkaloid
In this video segment, adapted from NOVA, learn how chemist Percy Julian revolutionized chemistry by synthesizing the alkaloid physostigmine from scratch—the first total synthesis of a chemical compound.

9-12 QuickTime Video
Synthesizing a Steroid  

Synthesizing a Steroid
This video segment, adapted from NOVA, tells the story of chemist Percy Julian's quest to make progesterone from a plant steroid, an important medical advancement of the 1940s.

9-12 QuickTime Video