Newton's Wagon: Understanding Motion

In this program, featuring a group of kids gathered in front of the periodic table for a series of experiments explaining Newton's Laws of Motion, students race toy cars over various surfaces to explore resistance and friction, use a balloon rocket to demonstrate unbalanced forces and enlist clacker balls to illustrate energy transfer. Essentially a brief review of three of Newton's most famous laws in the area of physics, this unremarkable little tape is neither moving nor restful, exerts little force on this reviewer's sense of inertia and warrants little in the way of action or reaction. Aimed at students in grades 4-8 (although grades 6-8 seem more likely), this video would serve as an adequate hands-on addendum to a unit on motion. Optional. Other titles in the Science FUNdamentals series include: Gravity Is Attractive: What Is Gravity?, Let's Form a Band: Understanding Sound and Getting Charged: Understanding Static Electricity. Aud: I, J, P. (R. Ray)