Peep and the Big Wide World: Making Boats
Making boats and floating them in a pool is fun. Sinking them is even more fun! The kids let their boats take on water and sink. They also make them sink by adding heavy cargo.
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Peep and the Big Wide World: The Whatchamacallit
Peep, Chirp, and Quack discover the thrill of zipping down a slide-quite accidentally!
Peep and the Big Wide World: Making Things Float or Sink
Some things float and other things sink. That's what the kids find out when they start putting stuff in the pool.
Peep and the Big Wide World: Peep Plants a Seed
Peep discovers a patch of sunflowers and decides to grow one for himself.
Peep and the Big Wide World: Exploring Small Places
Using sticks, kids make a small square and then look very closely to see what living things they can find inside the square.
Light Sources
Explore natural and human made light sources in the environment in this live-action video produced by WGBH. The video can help children observe and identify light sources and describe objects that are visible in the light’s path. Support materials include: Background Reading, Teaching Tips, and Dis
Communicating with Light
Observe a group of children using light to communicate over a distance in this live-action video produced by WGBH. Use the video to observe strategies for using light to communicate across a distance as well as to design a light signal code to help you communicate to solve a problem from different l
Precipitation on Earth
Observe how precipitation develops, evolves, and moves across the globe with this NASA animation. This resource can stimulate student curiosity and interest in global precipitation patterns and provide opportunities for students to ask scientific questions that can be researched. Support materials
Deep Ocean Volcanoes
Learn about underwater volcanoes and the discovery of the erupting deep-ocean volcano West Mata. The video provides students with the opportunity to visualize a phenomenon that is too dangerous and too remote to experience. Students view a visualization of the ocean floor as well as footage that cap
Clouds in Weather Patterns
Learn about factors, such as wind, moisture, temperature, and air pressure, at a regional level that help produce the weather that people experience locally. This video provides students with the opportunity to visualize a phenomenon that is too big and too remote to experience in a classroom. Stude
Daylight Hours and the Sun’s Apparent Path
Explore the duration of daylight and the Sun’s apparent path in the sky in a northern hemisphere location during the solstices with this adapted WorldWide Telescope video. This resource gives students an opportunity to observe differences in the Sun’s apparent path across the sky and make evidence-b
The Coriolis Effect Due to Earth's Rotation
Learn how Earth’s rotation causes the Coriolis effect, with this video from NOVA. Use this resource to visualize the abstract concept of the Coriolis effect and to provide opportunities for students to use evidence to support a claim about the influence of the Coriolis effect on hurricanes, jet stre