| The Happy Scientist

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Light as Air	video	atmosphere, mass, states of matter, critical thinking, properties, density, misconceptions, measurement, matter
Making a Density Column	video	mass, density, measurement
The Importance of Observation	video	senses, observation
Why is Foam White?	video	observation, refraction, model, reflection, light, structure and function, misconceptions, waves
The Rock Cycle	video, learnalong	erosion, volcanoes, cycles, classification, rocks, tectonics, geologic time
A Bouncing Water Balloon	video	states of matter, Variables and controls, atoms, inertia, properties, investigations and experiments, water, force and interactions
Calling a Woodpecker	video	Impact of humans, senses, critical thinking, observation, vertebrates, behavior, birds, information processing, sound, waves, animals
Quadrats and Population Sampling	video, ClosedCaptions	Impact of humans, ecosystem, information processing, measurement, investigations and experiments
A Walk in the Park	video	food web, growth and development, Impact of humans, invertebrates, adaptation, arthropods, observation, plant parts, vertebrates, behavior, ecosystem, reptiles, birds, fungi, plants, animals
Why I Decided to Become a Scientist	video, free, ClosedCaptions	critical thinking, investigations and experiments, hypothesis, theory, and law, fossils
A Watched Pot	video	solution, states of matter, observation, cycles, properties, thermal energy, density, mixture, physical-chemical change, water, matter
The Leyden Jar	video	static electricity, conduction, engineering, electricity, structure and function
Curves Illusion	video	senses, observation, nervous system
Floating Cups	video	newton's laws, Variables and controls, critical thinking, inertia, observation, engineering, friction, pressure, structure and function, misconceptions, investigations and experiments, hypothesis, theory, and law, force and interactions, energy
Stale Bread	video	critical thinking, physical-chemical change, water
Just a Suggestion	video	senses, behavior, information processing, nervous system, human body
Water in a Glass, part 2	video	surface tension, Variables and controls, critical thinking, engineering, pressure, gravity, investigations and experiments, water, force and interactions
Microscopes: Making a Hay Infusion	video, free, learnalong	cells, food web, observation, ecosystem, protist, microscope
Scientific Thinking and Creative Thought, part 3	video	Variables and controls, critical thinking, observation, reaction, combustion, thermal energy, engineering, pressure, expand/contract, investigations and experiments, physical-chemical change
Igneous Sugar	video	states of matter, Variables and controls, volcanoes, model, classification, minerals, rocks, investigations and experiments, crystals
What is Science?: Repeat and Replicate	video	Variables and controls, critical thinking, observation, information processing, misconceptions, investigations and experiments
Investigating Acid Rain	video	acid-base, weather, water cycle, investigations and experiments, indicator
When Sugar Isn't Sweet	video	senses, Variables and controls, critical thinking, observation, digestive system, nervous system, human body, investigations and experiments
Water in a Glass, part 3	video	surface tension, Variables and controls, critical thinking, observation, engineering, pressure, gravity, investigations and experiments, water, force and interactions
My Position on Science and Religion	video, free	evolution, hypothesis, theory, and law, geologic time, fossils
Relative Motion	video	critical thinking, observation, motion, measurement
Scientific Thinking and Creative Thought, part 2	video	Variables and controls, critical thinking, observation, investigations and experiments
Igneous Rocks	video, learnalong	volcanoes, cycles, classification, rocks
A Color You Can't See	video	electromagnetic spectrum, senses, engineering, light, information processing, misconceptions, waves
Bird Bones	video	growth and development, adaptation, circulatory system, observation, vertebrates, muscular system, birds, mammals, structure and function, skeletal system, animals, classification, human body, anatomy

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