Science 1 - Energy Videos

Duration: 4:16

Synopsis: This video has some great emphasis on the left and right, but it should be noted that he repeats the term "down" without insinuating any type of downward movement, so if you believe this may confuse your students, you may want to explain this, or have them slowly move towards the floor as he sings this. 

Note: You may want to have this in the gym for the "Freestyle" section of the video!

Duration: 3:08

Synopsis: This video give lots of examples of objects on the left and right that would be appropriate for a Science 1 classroom. The chorus of this song even has a part where your students can sing the words "left and right" (although it slightly erks me that the lighting of each side and bass line are slightly out of time in the chorus). Overall, a great song for students to practice their left and right.

Duration: 2:23

Synopsis: What is nice about this video is that it really shows the students which hand/foot to be using in each line of the song. That, and even though appreciation of the accordion isn't isn't in the curriculum, this song may get your students asking what type of instrument is being played (with a slow polka style on beats two and four) with a piano to create this fine tune.

Duration: 8:08

Synopsis: This is a video, that along with pauses placed in the right locations for you to teach, can be an excellent way to introduce that basic directions of up, down, left, and right. Within the video, there are a few times where "behind" comes into context as well. 

Duration: 1:58

Synopsis: With the style of music sang in this one, it might not be a crazy hypothesis that this character was coloured blue to pay respect to the Blues Brothers, with a Southern Gospel genre of music here. Far more important than deliberating over that hypothesis is the fact that he sings of some great spatial opposites in this tune.

Duration: 2:34

Synopsis: While it could be argued that this song teaches more in the realm of jazz, with some incredible scat and a walking bass line that is second-to-none, the song certainly does go after lots of spatial opposites, which make up a good part of the curriculum in this unit.

Duration: 4:49

Synopsis: When looking at this section of the unit being titled "Directions, Movement, and Speed," it could be argues that there are few inventions that bring together all these factors into one device than a pinball machine. This video is a great video for students unfamiliar with a pinball machine, as it really talks about the basics of most machines, how they work, and why there is so much variation in speed. See the Science 1 Energy Websites for some online pinball simulators that you could bring into your class.

Note: As a note for content appropriate for Grade One Science, the one interviewee does say "hell" at 0:42-0:43; be sure to cough right at that moment.

Duration: 9:22

Synopsis: Though this video may seem a little long, what is really nice about it is it starts out with a human at walking speed and a comparison to slower animals, and then moves along past the speeds humans can achieve sprinting to other faster animals. If any students are at all curious about the numbers in the video, you can explain that this was likely originally created in Europe in a different language such as French or German that uses the comma for the decimal place. Along that line, I do wish the narrator spoke about the speeds in km/h, but it isn't too important that they speak of the speeds in mph with this video really being used for comparisons.

Duration: 6:46

Synopsis: Why the first minute or so of this video exists can honestly be questioned; unless you really want to watch a girl and her dog walk around a park, I'd suggest starting at about the 1:20 mark. This video is one that would integrate well with some of the geometric outcomes in the math curriculum. In this video there are a collection of geometric shapes, and the various shapes are then rolled and slid down a slide, with comparisons between the various shapes. 

Duration: 8:47

Synopsis: What better sport to really communicate the idea of sliding than curling? While there are a good number of videos that go over the basics of curling (such as this one or this comically animated one), this was a great one for repeatedly showing different examples of a curling stone sliding on ice at different speeds. This really will help your students to understand the association of curling stones with the term "sliding." If you find this video a little long, the introduction ends at about the three-minute mark.

Duration: 1:59

Synopsis: While the physics behind this video might be a bit much for your students to really question, this video does a great job of showing, in slow motion, how sliding and rolling can be combined to create a unique curved shape of motion.