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Quirky Science Series
Quirky Science Series
Grades 6-12 2011 25 min ea Films Media Group
SPECIAL SERIES PRICE (13 Ɵ tles) – ONLY $1299.35- a saving of $130 Series Product #394446DV-A14
Individual Ɵ tles: $109.95 ea
For most, science is about discoveries by Ph.Ds in lab coats. But do we ever think or imagine that to get to where we are today,
science must have occasionally taken some very quirky direc ons? This 13-part series explores just exactly where science went
awry and led to new discoveries and inven ons. Each episode shows viewers that even though some past moments in science
may seem crazy to us today, they made perfect sense at the me—and vice versa! It also shows how these moments led either to
a breakthrough in understanding or to a new product, which ul mately turned out to be something we enjoy and perhaps take
for granted today.
Flight: Quirky Science Telephony: Quirky Science
This program charts the history of manned fl ight—from the This program profi les Alexander Graham Bell and his work on
kite made by the now famous Wright brothers, which became telephony. The big ques on is: what happens in that wire? Bell
the forerunner of the fl ying machine, to today’s commercial and his assistant ul mately proved that diff erent tones would
planes that can top 800 kmph. What is it that makes our vary the strength of an electric current in a wire. Eventually,
current planes fl y 12 mes faster? Advances in avia on led to the telephone—or be er said, its wiring—leads to the Internet
the Airbus A380, the largest passenger plane in the world, as and the wireless communica on of today. Looking to the
well as to the scramjet built by NASA. So what will be the next future, are we headed toward a “phoneless” call?
quirky discovery for fl ight? #394450DV-A14 $109.95: DVD
#394447DV-A14 $109.95: DVD
Plas cs: Quirky Science
Cool: Quirky Science This program inves gates the history of plas c: from the fi rst
This program discovers that you can’t create cold; you can only plas c—discovered when someone witnessed how Southeast
“move” temperature from one place to another. Learn how Asian farmers used the poop of a li le beetle, called shellac,
early refrigera on units used all sorts of chemicals that were to preserve wood—to DuPont’s development of nylon, the
harmful to the environment—and how new technology may fi rst synthe c material to replace silk. But plas c is made with
provide a solu on: cooling via the vibra ons of sound. That oil and is hard to break down. See how a U.S.-based company
does sound cool. is crea ng a bioplas c grown inside microorganisms. Plas c
#394448DV-A14 $109.95: DVD grown in the fi eld? Now that is quirky!
#394451 DV-A14 $109.95: DVD
Light: Quirky Science
When the laser was invented, people joked that the laser was Cures: Quirky Science
“a solu on looking for a problem.” And the future holds even This program traces the history of bacteria and an bio cs.
more discoveries, such as laser-light therapy that is conducted From Alexander Fleming to “super drugs” for superbugs,
by fl ashing the human brain have these cures led to bacteria becoming more resistant and
#394449DV-A14 $109.95: DVD harder to kill? What else will the future bring? A cure against
the fl u?
#394454DV-A14 $109.95: DVD
14 Visit www.mcintyre.ca - FREE on-line PREVIEWS!
science
Quirky Science Series
Quirky Science Series
Grades 6-12 2011 25 min ea Films Media Group
SPECIAL SERIES PRICE (13 Ɵ tles) – ONLY $1299.35- a saving of $130 Series Product #394446DV-A14
Individual Ɵ tles: $109.95 ea
For most, science is about discoveries by Ph.Ds in lab coats. But do we ever think or imagine that to get to where we are today,
science must have occasionally taken some very quirky direc ons? This 13-part series explores just exactly where science went
awry and led to new discoveries and inven ons. Each episode shows viewers that even though some past moments in science
may seem crazy to us today, they made perfect sense at the me—and vice versa! It also shows how these moments led either to
a breakthrough in understanding or to a new product, which ul mately turned out to be something we enjoy and perhaps take
for granted today.
Flight: Quirky Science Telephony: Quirky Science
This program charts the history of manned fl ight—from the This program profi les Alexander Graham Bell and his work on
kite made by the now famous Wright brothers, which became telephony. The big ques on is: what happens in that wire? Bell
the forerunner of the fl ying machine, to today’s commercial and his assistant ul mately proved that diff erent tones would
planes that can top 800 kmph. What is it that makes our vary the strength of an electric current in a wire. Eventually,
current planes fl y 12 mes faster? Advances in avia on led to the telephone—or be er said, its wiring—leads to the Internet
the Airbus A380, the largest passenger plane in the world, as and the wireless communica on of today. Looking to the
well as to the scramjet built by NASA. So what will be the next future, are we headed toward a “phoneless” call?
quirky discovery for fl ight? #394450DV-A14 $109.95: DVD
#394447DV-A14 $109.95: DVD
Plas cs: Quirky Science
Cool: Quirky Science This program inves gates the history of plas c: from the fi rst
This program discovers that you can’t create cold; you can only plas c—discovered when someone witnessed how Southeast
“move” temperature from one place to another. Learn how Asian farmers used the poop of a li le beetle, called shellac,
early refrigera on units used all sorts of chemicals that were to preserve wood—to DuPont’s development of nylon, the
harmful to the environment—and how new technology may fi rst synthe c material to replace silk. But plas c is made with
provide a solu on: cooling via the vibra ons of sound. That oil and is hard to break down. See how a U.S.-based company
does sound cool. is crea ng a bioplas c grown inside microorganisms. Plas c
#394448DV-A14 $109.95: DVD grown in the fi eld? Now that is quirky!
#394451 DV-A14 $109.95: DVD
Light: Quirky Science
When the laser was invented, people joked that the laser was Cures: Quirky Science
“a solu on looking for a problem.” And the future holds even This program traces the history of bacteria and an bio cs.
more discoveries, such as laser-light therapy that is conducted From Alexander Fleming to “super drugs” for superbugs,
by fl ashing the human brain have these cures led to bacteria becoming more resistant and
#394449DV-A14 $109.95: DVD harder to kill? What else will the future bring? A cure against
the fl u?
#394454DV-A14 $109.95: DVD
14 Visit www.mcintyre.ca - FREE on-line PREVIEWS!
