Science World Video/PowerPoint Archive
This year, Science World is introducing PowerPoints, Slideshows, and video presentations to go along with select feature articles. They are perfect for use on SMART Boards, as well as on your school computer, or as handouts. Click here to download WHEN THE EARTH SHAKES, Science World's current video presentation.
Use the slide presentation before or after reading the accompanying Science World article as a way to introduce your students to the topics and to reinforce concepts.
We will be archiving Science World’s PowerPoint, Slideshows, and video presentations so you can refer to them all year long!
If you have a topic you would like to see us cover in a future PowerPoint presentation, click here to let us know.
- WHEN THE EARTH SHAKES: Start your lesson by showing this video, which will introduce your students to the recent earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, 2011 from the May 9, 2011 issue.
- CLIMATE CHANGE: Start your lesson by showing this video, which will introduce your students to climate change from the April 4-18, 2011 issue.
- UNLOCKING THE MYSTERIES OF MIGRATION: Start your lesson by showing this video, which will introduce your students to some animals that embark on amazing migrations from the March 21, 2011 issue.
- ROAD TO THE RED PLANET: Start your lesson by showing this video, which will introduce your students to exploration of Mars from the March 7, 2011 issue.
- BIONIC BODY PARTS: Start your lesson by showing this Slideshow Movie, which will introduce your students to the various bionic body parts in use today from the February 14, 2011 issue.
- ADVENTURE IN THE AMAZON: Start your lesson by showing this PowerPoint, which will introduce your students to Ed Stafford's trek along the entire Amazon River from the January 24, 2011 issue.
- FIRE IN THE SKY: Start your lesson by showing this PowerPoint, which will introduce your students to the eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano from the January 3, 2011 issue.
- MIXED-UP SPECIES: Start your lesson by showing this PowerPoint, which will introduce your students to the concept of hybrid animals from the December 6, 2010 issue.
- TAKING STOCK OF SEA LIFE: Start your lesson by showing this PowerPoint, which will introduce your students to a project by scientists to take a sea life census from the November 8, 2010 issue.
- ANIMAL MUMMIES UNWRAPPED: Start your lesson by showing this PowerPoint, which will introduce your students to Egyptian animal mummies from the October 18, 2010 issue.
- DRILLING FOR OIL: Start your lesson by showing this PowerPoint, which will introduce your students to offshore oil drilling and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill from the September 27, 2010 issue.
- LEAP FROM SPACE: Start your lesson by showing this PowerPoint, which will introduce Felix Baumgartner and his upcoming sky diving feat before reading the article from the September 6, 2010 issue.
- PREDATORS IN PERIL: Prime students with background knowledge on shark conservation before reading this article from the May 10, 2010 issue.
- SUPER NATURAL ADVENTURES: Check out photos from the new nature series starring the Jacobus brothers, featured in the April 19, 2010 issue.
- OCEAN OF THE FUTURE: Get students excited with these dramatic images before reading this article from the March 15-April 5, 2010 issue.
- RUBE GOLDBERG: Introducing concepts for "One Zany Machine," from the February 1, 2010 issue.
- STATES OF MATTER: To use with "Secrets of a Snowflake," from the December 7, 2009 issue.
- FOSSILS: How fossils form, and the different types of fossils as featured in the September 7, 2009 issue.

