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Have you ever wondered why dogs pant?  This video would be great to show your students when you are talking about animal adaptations and how their unique characteristics help the organism.

Find out why the sky is blue in this SciShow video.  The video discusses the way light reflects colors and the fact that you really have to be human to see blue.

Demonstrate how magma is more buoyant than the surrounding earth material.  Volcanoes erupt simply because the melted rock rises up through cracks in the crust.  This science experiment will easily demonstrate this concept.

This animated video describes the formation of minerals particularly the mineral quartz and how that quartz becomes sand.  The video will discuss the concepts of mineral formation, sand dune formation, river deposition, and erosion.

How do scientists know the patterns of bird migration?  This video demonstrates how science over the years has evolved in its discovery of bird migration knowledge.  Crazy to think that some historical scientists believed that birds migrated to the moon.

This animated "Clearly Stated" video does a great job describing and showing what DNA actually is. It goes furth discussing how the RNA leaves the nucleus and enters a ribosome in order to create proteins.  Vocabulary used are:  Amino Acids, DNA, Proteins, Cells, Tissue, Organs, Organism, Nucleus, and RNA.

This animated video discusses force and motion.  Inertia, Mass, Gravity, Force, Friction, Newtons, Energy are all discussed in this StudyJam film.

This video is a simple demonstration of the different types of matter: gas, liquid, and solid. This video also has worksheets and activities that go with it.

This is an animated video about the states of matter from StudyJams.  They do an excellent job explaining the different states: solids, liquids, and gasses. Condensation, Evaporation, and Melting point are other terms used in the video.

Experience an authentic space shuttle launch with this video, and make sure to play it loud with a high-quality sound system so that your students can feel the vibrations and hear the sounds as if they were present there. This video captures the shuttle launch without any added sound or music.

Remember to check http://EducationalResource.org for more educational resources such as worksheets, activities, and videos.