Summary: Bill Nye illustrates how various types of transportation utilize friction, from traction in trains and the "roll" of ball bearings in skateboards and automobiles, to the lack of friction in a hovercraft.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILSummary: "Did you know that nothing can move or stop by itself? In Motion, Bill Nye shows how everything needs a push or pull, a force, to make it move or stop. Sometimes an object might seem to be at rest even when it is actually in motion. Confused? It's all relative, relative motion, that is."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILSummary: Bill Nye The Science Guy talks about the atmosphere, its five different levels, and how it protects the Earth. Bill also soars into the heavy topic of atmospheric air pressure and radio waves.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILSummary: Bodies of water surrounded by land on all sides are called lakes if they're large and ponds if they're small. Where does all that water come from? Bill Nye ponders this and many other freshwater questions in this exciting program.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILSummary: Bill Nye shows all kinds of unexpected places where magnets can be found. In fact, the Earth itself is a huge magnet! Find out how to make a compass and why opposites attract.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILSummary: Bill Nye will check out this important muscular pump's function in the body by pulling nine 'Gs' with the United States Navy's Blue Angels and chatting with Seattle Mariner Edgar Martinez.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2009
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD BCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILSummary: Have a blast watching the explosive examples Bill Nye uses to explain that everything is made of chemicals. Guest star Candace Cameron shares the lab with Bill and shows that fire is actually a chemical reaction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILSummary: "Did you know that genes determine everything from hair and eye color to whether or not you can roll your tongue? It's all in the genes you inherited from your mother and father. Join Bill in Genes, as he explores the chromosomal world of DNA."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILSummary: Bill Nye delivers hot sand from Saudi Arabia and bananas from humid Costa Rica, all to explain how different climates are created and how they affect our planet.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILSummary: "Bill Nye checks out a millipede that crawls by coordinating the movement of its 200 feet, and reveals other creatures who move around without a leg to stand on."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2009