Series

Science Max: Experiments at Large

25 episodes

Host Phil runs a science demonstration at classroom scale, then, as the title promises, maxes it out. A folded paper airplane becomes a glider big enough to ride in; a dry-pasta bridge becomes a huge one; a small drag racer becomes a rocket-powered car. Every 22-minute episode holds to one idea: friction, air pressure, elastic energy, static electricity, balance, electromagnets, simple machines, generating electricity. The oversized rebuild is what makes the physics visible, and it gives a class something to argue about before anyone touches a worksheet. Free on the show's official YouTube channel. Grades 2-6.

what this series covers

What Science Max: Experiments at Large covers

25 episodes in the library, tagged for 2nd–6th. Heaviest coverage: Science. Between them they line up with 16 distinct standards across 1 framework.

Episodes per grade

2nd: 8
3rd: 25
4th: 25
5th: 25
6th: 25

Episodes per subject

Science: 25

NGSS (Science) 16

3-PS2-1Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.
4-PS3-4Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.
4-PS3-2Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
3-PS2-3Ask questions to determine cause-and-effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other.
4-PS3-1Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object.
1-PS4-1Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.

+ 10 more

1-PS4-3Plan and conduct an investigation to determine the effect of placing objects made with different materials in the path of a beam of light.
2-PS1-1Plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties.
2-PS1-4Construct an argument with evidence that some changes caused by heating or cooling can be reversed and some cannot.
3-PS2-4Define a simple design problem that can be solved by applying scientific ideas about magnets.
4-PS4-1Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and that waves can cause objects to move.
4-PS4-2Develop a model to describe that light reflecting from objects and entering the eye allows objects to be seen.
5-PS1-1Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.
5-PS1-3Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.
5-PS1-4Conduct an investigation to determine whether the mixing of two or more substances results in new substances.
5-PS2-1Support an argument that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed down.