Bill Nye the Science Guy: Probability

This review is a reflection of all the Bill Nye videos in general, not necessarily any video in the series in particular. I can assure the reader, I own more than 15 of the Bill Nye science videos, so I am posting general comments and a particular criticism that may or may not be applicable the video in which this review is published.I am a home-schooling parent who practices applied science (I design integrated circuits) and want my children to be jazzed about science. And in my opinion, Bill Nye has produced some of the best videos that keep my 6-9 yo children (both boys and girls) totally engrossed. My kids want to watch the videos 2 or 3 or 4 times in one sitting. The age-appropriateness of the videos are for grade school level thru junior high and involve experiments that are often easily repeated at home.Having been raised in Seattle, its also fun for me to see some of the old "Almost Live" co-stars Bill uses in the video....as well as the sites from around Seattle where the video is taken.My only criticism of the series is that the series is accompanied (peppered) with a bit of scientism sub or pseudo-scientific claims by the scientific "establishment" that are not substantiated by experiment or observation....and young minds will not able to differentiate.For another great video series see the best of Beakman's world....great for grade-school aged children.

Bill Nye series are great for introducing kids to science in a fun way and sparking their interest in study of nature. Bill talks about how nature works with many jokes, stunts, and other entertaining ways.They are not for teaching formal science literacy of issues such as how to set up and experiment, how to gather data, derive conclusions from results, basically not about how you think about stuff as a scientist.Bill is now the head of the Planetary Society trying to promote space exploration. I don't know if he still makes these DVDs.

Bill Nye does a great job in explaining how the heart works. I especially enjoyed his demonstration about how blood clots and cholesterol form in blood vessels and the dangers they pose. We were studying the human body in fourth grade science and the heart was not part of our curriculum, but I decided to use it for Valentines Day as a "heart connection" and since then my students have mentioned various points that were made in the DVD.

Purchased these for my nephew who loves "documentaries" at the age of 6. So we decided to introduce him to Bill Nye. He was very excited to open them up. As my sister is a home school mom, these fit in with her science "class" and are a good school tool as well. I believe the DVD's are a little pricey if you want to own them all. But they are very well done.

My third graders loved this! Especially the part about the dice. They had me pull out the dice to see if they could replicate this part of the experiment.

My 7 year old daughter can watch this over and over, learning something new every time. This movie is definitely a hit in my book and worth every penny. It's awesome!

Bill Nye is always awesome.

I had students ask to watch this one twice. And it wasn't just to get out of doing other work because they had to answer the study questions that came with the DVD. This was such a fun way to preview and review the materials. And for me, the teacher, it's so much fun watching the black-and-white classic clips from early TV years.

I teach high school and use this DVD as a review for my lesson plans on the six nutrients, etc. My students always enjoy Bill Nye. Great DVD!