Crash Course
Complex Animals: Annelids and Arthropods
Introduce your class to the importance of segmentation in evolutionary history with a video that explain how segmentation permitted the development of complex animals. The narrator analyzes examples of annelids and arthropods in...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Wild Kratts: Saving Worms and Making Dirt
In this episode of the Kratt brothers, we learn about worms. We learn that we should protect them after a rain because they are important for composting and for breaking down soil. [2:28]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Wild Kratts: Worm Alert!
In this animated clip, the Kratt brothers teach us about the danger a worm faces when the sun hits it, causing its slimy coating to dry out. [2:12]
NC State University
Ncsu: Earthworm Animation
Site provides a realistic animation of an earthworm digesting its food. [1:00]
SciShow
Sci Show Kids: Worms Are Wonderful
This video is dedicated to all information about earthworms. Learn about the habitat of the earthworm called burrows, how they breathe, their anatomy, their diet, and how they help our soil better. [4:33]
Sea Studios Foundation
Shape of Life: Annelids: Powerful and Capable Worms
An animation focusing on annelids and their segmented bodies, with both a nervous and circulatory system and a one-way gut. They have mastered the art of digging and live in an incredible diversity of habitats. Tube-dwelling worms live...
Sea Studios Foundation
Shape of Life: Annelids: Lumbricus, Earthworm
A video showing how earthworms burrow in soil feeding and processing through their gut. This brings leaf debris and its nutrients into the soil, benefiting many organisms. [3:28]
Sea Studios Foundation
Shape of Life: Flatworms: An Invasive Flatworm Hunts Earthworms
A predatory terrestrial flatworm catches an earthworm in this video. [1:53]
Sea Studios Foundation
Shape of Life: Damhnait Mc Hugh, Ecologist: Annelid Ecology
Damhnait McHugh wants to understand how annelids have adapted to such a wide variety of habitats in this video. She takes her students into the field, to mudflats and to gardens. McHugh explains how earthworms' digging and eating debris...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Wild Kratts: Worm Slime!
In this animated clip, the Kratt brothers teach us about the anatomy of a segmented worm. [1:11]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Bill Nye the Science Guy Answers: Why Do Earth Worms Like Rain?
Watch and learn as Bill Nye the Science Guy discusses why earthworms are everywhere after it rains. [0:37]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Worm Farm
Explore how worms decompose organic waste. Watch a kid use the scientific method to find out how much and how fast worms eat.