Neil Armstrong Links

We sometimes watch youtube videos that go along with what we're learning.  This is the list I found on the FIAR Facebook page from another homeschooler. We used this list in our unit studies. Please read the blog about Neil Armstrong to see what other activities we completed with this book.

Neil Armstrong Links

Chapter 1 

Ford Tri-Motor airplane video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWPMoHHtEmg

Some history of Ford-Trimotor and aviation in 1920s (to 3:28)  - one inappropriately used word:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4DTOw12QAI

Small amount of info on 1936 Canadian census:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Canadian_Census

Unveiling of the Vimy Ridge Memorial in 1936:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAyu6NeoUP0

Dionne Quintuplets 2 1/2 yrs. Old:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXx26hL58IA

Story of Dionne Quintuplets:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-QBGau6lTc

Canada at the 1936 Olympic games:
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/canada-at-the-1936-olympic-winter-games

1936 Heat wave:
http://web.archive.org/web/20140412032055/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/en/article/heat-wave/

Chapter 2

Wright Brother's biography for kids:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt3pry6cWJM

Footage from the first flight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfyvspnko04

Great video on how planes fly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg0TXNXgz-w

Good video on how planes fly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuQW8NA47pM

Longer video on how airplanes fly (only if time):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F077WDnB8P8

Chapter 4

How rubber is made from plantations (no words 7 + mins. Long):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iTz9yN4v4k

How rubber bands are made:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TIXDbxtzMY

First part of Prussian History till just after Napoleon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3rMBoMTCyo

Second part of Prussian History from Napoleon to end of WWI:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq91I3TnWu4 

Chapter 5
South Pacific slide show by groupings:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5Y_aeY6Zk8

Song to remember some of the islands in the south pacific:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5i6Y1C1orU

Chapter 6:

3 Types of campfire video (no Swedish):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z449g63oP-Q

Other styles of campfires:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZnRt8vU-g0

Swedish log fire:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjQRLQTNsJo

Chapter 8:

Heat transfer song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUEPGMnRqGs

Chapter 9:

Intro to the milky way, galaxies, etc.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RubnGwhcT6E

How big the milky way galaxy is in light years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX3PIkbTQwQ

Animation of the observable universe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cqsbtmg96w

Evolutionary explanation of the size of the universe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OGhGZbCku0

Discuss – why do they think that?  What do we really know?  What about initial conditions?

Size of space with discussion of Hubble telescope:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYQ3O8U6SMY

Chapter 11:

Timeline of Canada in the Korean War:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_in_the_Korean_War#Timeline_of_Canadian_involvement_in_Korea

Review video of the beginning of the Korean War:
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/history/korean-war/land-morning-calm

Follow the links in the table of contents in the above link to watch various aspects – like propaganda, etc.

Footage of the prime minister asking for volunteers to go to Korea:
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/canada-calls-for-volunteer-soldiers

NFB footage and documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a68q4aPF_tk

Good video with maps to show Canadian battles, etc.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EthgdO1DiIE

Chapter 13

Isaac Newton – BrainPop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQke--UHwug

SciShow kids Isaac Newton:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_HnEZf7BB4

Gravity in space:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwfbdPyzgDo

Chapter 14

All about rockets:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI-HeXhsUIg

More details on propellants, etc.: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEoWoQ_Nyaw