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In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to grow plants with Sid the Science Kid. Sid the Science Kid is a half-hour PBS Kids series. To begin, viewers will need a cup filled with soil. Users will be planting a lima bean. Push the lima bean deep into the soil and add some water. Now take the cup and put it at a window sill to receive sunlight. ...
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PBSKids teaches you, via Sid the Science Kid, how to investigate vision. You can have a few pairs of glass, some with clear glass, some with blurry and others with a grey color. You can also use a regular drinking glass if you don't have the access to seeing glasses. You then look through them and try to see a picture on a piece of paper. You ta...
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In this video, Sid the Science Kid shows us how to use a magnifying glass. When you first grab it, look at your hands through the glass, and then your friends! Look at their hands, eyes, skin and explore the world around you. Look around at everything around you and notice if it makes things larger. Look at small insects like roly-polies, to see...
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In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to observe a decaying pumpkin with Sid the Science Kid. Begin by drawing some observations of the pumpkin. Then get an adult to cut open the pumpkin to see and make observations from the pumpkin's inside. Put on some rubber gloves and feel the pumpkin. Now compare the new pumpkin to a decayed pumpkin. Ob...
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In this tutorial, Sid the Science Kid shows us how to measure using our bodies! This is best to do with a kindergarten class in a classroom. Each child should lay down and you can place blocks where the feet are and where the head is. After this, you can count the room by how many blocks there are. You can also make a paper body by tracing an ou...
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In this video of Sid the Science Kid, the process of melting the ice is shown to the children. A teacher brings a frozen box full of fruits. The children then touch the box and understand how it feels to touch the ice. It feels cold, wet and hard. The children then draw an illustration of the frozen box. The teacher then asks them to break the i...
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PBSKids with the help of Sid the Science Kid helps you investigate smells. You take 4 red cups, place an item inside and cover with a lid. Puncture the lid a bit to let the smell come out. You should try to guess what the item in the cup is and then draw or write that on a piece of paper. Once you're done with one cup, pass it around and really ...
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Sid the science kid demonstrates how to make a snack chart. By drawing a picture of yourself for the poster board. By putting your picture onto the chart, using this for the first column for the snack chart. By showing your snack to your group of friends you compare and contrast your snacks. Draw a picture of the snack each person brought and pl...
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This is demo of how to investigate sounds and symphony. The usage of sense of hearing are mentioned here for different sounds. The sounds produced when two plastic objects are rubbed together is different from wooden things. Its again different from metal objects make. You can make sound by objects that are made of same materials or objects made...
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Just wiping your hands clean with a dry paper towel doesn't really get your hands clean. They may look clean but if you look closer you will see that the dry paper towels left a lot of dirt on your hands. To get them really clean wash your hands with warm water and soap. To make sure that you wash them enough to get them really clean, sing the e...
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This is a demo showing the different types of teeth in your mouth. The front teeth are called incisors. Next to your incisors are sharp canines. Look at the teeth at the back. Those are called as molars. Now, lets explore our teeth and find out the different jobs of different teeth. If you need to eat something soft like a banana, the teeth you ...
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To make applesauce, you start by peeling some apples and then cut them up and put them into a bowl. Add some cinnamon and water to the cut up apples. Use a potato masher and mash up the apples and mix the ingredients all together. Mashing up the apples is hard, so you have to have perseverance. Once you've mashed them up, pour them into a pot an...
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This is a cute 3D animation of a little yellow boy with purple hair and his friends by Jim Henson's Studios and PBS (Public Broadcasting System). Sid wants to know why his shoes are shrinking, and his Dad explains that they are not shrinking; he is in fact, growing. Shows some interesting morph photography of seedlings to fully grown plants and ...
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In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to evaluate texture by going on a texture hunt. You will need to do this task in a group. Begin by going around the room and finding a texture that you like. Touch all kinds of things to feel the texture. When you found your texture, bring it back to the group and evaluate it. You will compare and contra...
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This video is a tutorial on how to eat healthy foods. The video shows children organizing their lunches into food groups. The food groups are dairy, meat, fruits and vegetables, and bread. Each child has a packed lunch. One at a time, they take turns putting each lunch item onto a plate that corresponds with that food group. All the children par...
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In this Family video tutorial you will learn how to make a lava lamp as a cool science experiment for kids. For this project you will need food coloring, water, vegetable oil and antacid pills. Take a bottle and fill quarter of the bottle with water. Fill up the rest of the space with oil. The water and oil will remain separate. Now drop food co...
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Playing with magnets can be a fun activity for many young children out there willing to learn about science. This tutorial gives those science hungry kids a cool little trick on how they can make their own electromagnet from scratch. The supplies are easy to get and will take only a few minutes to prepare. So sit back and find out what it takes....
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C For Chemistry delves into the chemistry of science experiments. This chemist knows what he's talking about. These chemistry experiments are not only fun, but very educational for all of those interested in scientific chemical reactions and properties.
This video tutorial will show you how to oxidize gummy bears with molten potassium chlorat...
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If you want to make some electrodes for electrochemistry, titanium strips are the way to go. It's rather interesting metal, and it's really hard, but can be cut with standard metalworking tools. Titanium filings are highly flammable, just like iron filings. But not everything is what it seems… this quick video on titanium and passivation electro...
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Smash glow? What the heck is that? That's exactly what you'll find out… watch this science video tutorial from Nurd Rage on how to make smash-glow crystals (triboluminescent crystals) with Dr. Lithium.
Triboluminescence is the phenomena where light is generated when something is rubbed or fractured. The exact mechanism by which triboluminesce...
