TOS Review: Go Science DVD

"For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing."-- Aristotle

"The issue is not to teach a child the science, but to give him the taste for loving it."- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Today I am reviewing Go Science DVDs from Library and Educational Services.

I have been a customer of Library and Educational Services for many years and just LOVE their products, so as you can imagine, I was quite excited to have the opportunity to review these Science DVDs.

If you are not aware, Library and Educational Services is a wholesale distributor that has been serving the community (including homeschoolers!) for 35 years.

This Science DVD series (a total of 7 DVDs available for purchase individually or as a set) contain the high-energy, educational and fun demonstrations of Ben Roy.  He is currently a professor of science methods at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and was the director of a television science program.

With his extensive knowledge and skills with children, he presents science demonstrations and phenomena in a way that is exciting and has students begging for more.  I LOVE when science is fun. When children tell me that science is boring, it saddens me, because when hands-on, when presented in a way like Ben Roy has done with these programs, it inspires kids and perhaps encourages them to take that love of science even further in their lives.

We received two DVDs in the series, Sound, Gravity and Space

and

Engineering, Design and Flight

Recommended for ages 4-12, these programs will even entertain and inspire older students.  Kiddo #1 was so intrigued by a challenge and experiment he saw on the Engineering DVD, that he just had to try it.

Ben Roy challenged his students (and viewers) to find a way to balance 10 nails on top of just 1 nail. Sounds pretty impossible, doesn't it?  The head of the nail is just so small.  How could it work?  Well, in engineering, many things are possible that seem to defy everything we know or understand.

Take a look!  Isn't that awesome!  They are all balancing on the one nail!

Here is another view

This is just the kind of experiment and challenge that is in each segment on the DVDs.  There are many of them and they are equally as fun, yet illustrate a scientific principle which he explains.  His audience on the DVDs are all children and they are chosen to help with each experiment.  It shows that kids can do and love science!

Each demonstration lasts 3-10 minutes and each DVD is about an hour long.

Examples of experiments on the Engineering, Design and Flight DVD include walking on eggs, flying rocket balloons and making a mini water pump with a straw (centrifuge), and our favorite, the Nail Balance.  There are so many more!

Some of the experiments on the Sound, Gravity and Space volume include Reuben's Tube, Simple Telephone and Screaming Pop Can.

Here is a video example of one of the experiments on sound:

Each video is available for $8.97 or all 7 for $59.82.  

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My children and I give these videos a thumb's up as a wonderful, fun, engaging and educational supplement to any science curriculum.  :-)

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