BSCS Science Teaching Video Library

Preservice teacher educators have an urgent need for high quality science classroom videos. To respond as rapidly as possible, BSCS Science Learning has made some of our best K-12 videos available for free streaming. In this collection, you’ll find 19 videos featuring elementary physics and Earth science. We also provide transcripts, lesson plans, and other supporting documents.

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SOUND

FORCES & MOTION

EARTH'S CHANGING SURFACE

WATER CYCLE

ELEMENTARY SOUND

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Sound: What makes sound, and how does it travel? - student interview

In this interview prior to instruction, a first grade student describes his initial ideas about what makes sound and how sound travels.

Info

Grade: 1
Subject: Sound
Full Lesson: No
Length: 4:37 minutes

Accompanying Documents

Transcript, Common Student Ideas, Teacher Content Background

What is Sound?

This is the beginning of Lesson 1 from the Sound Unit. Students describe their initial definition of sound and how they to know if something is making a sound.

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Info

Grade: 1
Subject: Sound
Full Lesson: No
Length: 7:38 minutes

Accompanying Documents

Transcript, Lesson Plan, Scope and Sequence

Finding Evidence of Vibration

This clip is from the second lesson in a unit on sound. The students use a variety of sound makers to make nosie (e.g.; clucker, voices, and tuning fork) and look for evidence that something is vibrating to make a sound.

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Info

Grade: 1
Subject: Sound
Full Lesson: No
Length: 6:06 minutes

Accompanying Documents

Transcript, Lesson Plan

Interpreting a Model of Sound Waves

This clip comes from the third lesson in a unit on sound. Students are engaged in a large group discussion to interpret the observations they made and generate of model of moving sound waves.

Sound Interpreting a model of sound wave

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Info

Grade: 1
Subject: Sound
Full Lesson: No
Length: 4:25 minutes

Accompanying Documents

Transcript, Lesson Plan

ELEMENTARY FORCES AND MOTION

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Forces and motion: What causes objects to move?

Lesson 1 of 6 in a 3rd grade unit on forces and motion. Students discuss their ideas about what might cause something to start moving.

Info

Grade: 3
Subject: Forces and Motion
Full Lesson: No
Length: 4:26 minutes

Accompanying Documents

Transcript, Lesson Plan, Scope and Sequence

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Forces and motion: Using different objects to probe student ideas about movement

Lesson 1 of 6 in a 3rd grade unit on forces and motion. Students experiment with a number of moving objects and describe their initial ideas about what causes objects to start to move.

Info

Grade: 3
Subject: Forces and Motion
Full Lesson: No
Length: 3:14 minutes

Accompanying Documents

Transcript, Lesson Plan, Common Student Ideas

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Forces and motion: Experimenting with different forces applied to a chair

Lesson 2 of 6 on forces and motion. In this activity, students are pushing a chair with a weak, medium and strong force, and using arrows to represent the size and direction a force.

Info

Grade: 3
Subject: Forces and Motion
Full Lesson: No
Length: 3:10 minutes

Accompanying Documents

Transcript, Lesson Plan, Teacher Content Background

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Forces and motion: What caused the objects we tested to move?

Lesson 1 of 6 in a 3rd grade unit on forces and motion. The teacher supports students in summarizing and synthesizing their ideas after experiementing with moving objects.

Info

Grade: 3
Subject: Forces and Motion
Full Lesson: No
Length: 2:40 minutes

Accompanying Documents

Transcript, Lesson Plan

ELEMENTARY EARTH'S CHANGING SURFACE

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Earth's changing surface: The land looks different in different places

The teacher elicits ideas from a small group of students and probes their ideas about land and things on the land.

Info

Grade: 2
Subject: Landforms
Full Lesson: No
Length: 2:00 minutes

Accompanying Documents

Transcript, Lesson Plan, Scope and Sequence

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Earth's changing surface: What is a landform? - small group discussion

Teacher sets up the lesson with a focus question and then elicits student ideas about landforms in different places based on the places that students have visited.

Info

Grade: 2
Subject: Landforms
Full Lesson: No
Length: 1:34 minutes

Accompanying Documents

Transcript, Lesson Plan, Common Student Ideas

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Earth's changing surface: Students use relief maps to learn about landforms

Teacher explains the activity using the relief maps and then goes from group to group to work with students. In small groups, students identify the landforms they see if specific places.

Info

Grade: 2
Subject: Landforms
Full Lesson: No
Length: 1:28 minutes

Accompanying Documents

Transcript, Lesson Plan, Teacher Content Background

Earth's changing surface: Identify landforms - small group

Students use relief maps to learn about landforms in different places.

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Info

Grade: 2
Subject: Landforms
Full Lesson: No
Length: 2:03 minutes

Accompanying Documents

Transcript, Lesson Plan

Earth's changing surface: Patterns in landforms

The teacher and students are using the relief map to think about patterns they see in landforms.

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Info

Grade: 2
Subject: Landforms
Full Lesson: No
Length: 2:40 minutes

Accompanying Documents

Transcript, Lesson Plan

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Earth's changing surface: How has the Mississippi River Delta changed?

Based on a short reading, a small group of students discuss what change they might see in a river delta over time and how fast the change is occurring.