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Experimenting With Echoes
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Audience: Educators and StudentsGrades: K-8
Year: 2000
This NASA video segment explores the speed of sound. The segment is part of the NASA SCIFiles program, which features the Tree House Detectives, a group of young students who work together to solve everyday problems. In this segment the detectives and a class of students perform an experiment to determine the speed of sound.
Experimenting With Echoes
Duration: 3 minutes 39 seconds
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This video clip is part of the NASA SCIence Files™ The Case of the Barking Dogs DVD that may be ordered from the Central Operation of Resources for Educators, or CORE →.
Other video learning clips in this series:
The Case of the Barking Dog, Episode 1
The Case of the Barking Dog, Episode 2
The Case of the Barking Dog, Episode 3
The Case of the Barking Dog, Episode 4
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