FEATURES & DETAILS:
- Copyright: 2000
- Language: English, Spanish
- Live Action
- MARC records, Catalog Card Kit and Single Main Entry Cards are available
- Features: Chapter Select, Discussion Questions & Activities, Investigation Data Sheet
- Technical: Single Layer, Single Sided, Full Screen
- DVD Region: ALL
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PRODUCT SUMMARY
In What Is Energy? humorous characters and engaging demonstrations combine to give kids a solid overview of what energy is and how we use it. See how a spinning pinwheel, a strumming guitar and a crackling fire all serve as great examples of energy at work. Dynamic graphics and fun examples teach kids how heat energy moves and how it affects atoms. Young viewers find out that the sun is the ultimate source of Earth's chemical energy and that sound is a form of mechanical energy. The program also introduces other forms of energy, including electromagnetic and nuclear. Included is a fun activity that allows kids to try their hand at putting some different forms of energy to work. Part of the Energy for Children DVD Series. A Teacher's Guide is included and available online.
EDITORIAL REVIEWS
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...kid-friendly...solid informational content...Highly Recommended."- Video Librarian"This series clearly explains basic facts about energy and would be a valuable addition to science collections."- School Library Journal
"…very strongly recommended for all grade school science teachers and homeschooling parents…no elementary school library should be without… [this] superbly produced and thoroughly “kid friendly” series…"- Midwest Book Review (June 2006)
FULL REVIEWS
Video Librarian (May 2001)
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""Energy is eternal delight," the mystic poet William Blake wrote, but those looking for a less metaphysical definition for classroom use are advised to pick up What is Energy?, one of five titles in the Energy for Children series, instead. Combining animated figures, graphics, and live action, the kid-friendly format explores the various kinds of energy--heat, chemical, mechanical, electromagnetic, and nuclear--illustrating the ways we use energy with a wide range of neat examples, including robots, radio-controlled toys, and a giant electromagnet in a junkyard. Presenting solid informational content in an entertaining manner ("you'll have to use your own energy," in addition to the electromagnetic energy of a vacuum cleaner to clean your room, the narrator notes at one point, showing a typical child's room strewn with clothes and books and papers), this program also includes review segments regularly spaced throughout to reinforce learning. The video concludes with a demonstration of the first four types of energy by an appealing multicultural group of young students. Highly recommended. The other titles in the series are: All About Heat, All About the Conservation of Energy, All About the Transfer of Energy and All About the Uses of Energy.
School Library Journal (April 2001)
K-Gr 4-Part of the Schlessinger Science Library, this live-action series focuses on energy. The female narrator guides viewers as a "silent film" actor, cartoon character, and multiethnic cast of children illustrate the points being taught. Transfer of Energy discusses potential and kinetic energy and energy transfer between them. Conservation of Energy focuses on saving energy and includes information on recycling and composting. Uses of Energy asks where energy comes from and how it is used, including future possibilities. What Is Energy defines energy as the ability to do work and concentrates on heat, chemical, mechanical and electromagnetic energy. All About Heat talks about aspects of heat and cold including ways we measure heat (Fahrenheit and Celsius), convection, radiation, conduction, expansion, contraction and states of matter. Each video includes reviews of what has been learned as well as several simple scientific experiments. New terms are defined in context. A wide range of energy sources is explored, while it is clearly stated that the sun is the ultimate source of most of our energy. There is some overlap between videos, which helps to reinforce key concepts. This series clearly explains basic facts about energy and would be a valuable addition to science collections.
Copyright 2001 School Library Journal. Used with permission.