Tumble Science Podcast for Kids
Colorful Butterfly Wings
The eye-popping colors and designs on butterfly wings are not just for show, but are an important adaptation that helps the insects fend off predators. Some butterflies have wings containing toxins, signaling danger to birds and other...
Michigan Radio
Japanese Knotweed's Invasive Superpowers
Even beautiful plants can sometimes be detrimental to the environment. This public radio story takes place in Michigan where the sale of Japanese knotweed has been outlawed following unchecked growth of the large ornamental plant....
Curated Video
Understanding Communities and Key Terms
The video is a lecture presentation on communities and the relationships between organisms within them. It uses an example of a community that includes an owl, a snake, a shrew, a frog, a beetle, grasshopper, and grass living in a wooded...
FuseSchool
What Is Environmental Sampling?
From this video you will learn that ecologists are interested in the distribution of organisms within habitats, and use transects and quadrats and other sampling methods to collect quantitative data. They take unbiased and representative...
EarthEcho International
STEMExplore: A Day in the Life of a Marine Biologist
The video features Rachel Cartwright, who studies humpback whale mothers and calves in Maui. She spends her days on the water, observing and collecting data, and then spends six months analyzing that data. The project aims to ensure that...
Curated Video
Abiotic Factors and Their Effect on Communities
The video is a lecture presentation on abiotic factors. It defines what abiotic factors are and how they can impact the number and type of organisms within a community. The presenter discusses different abiotic factors such as light...
FuseSchool
Animal Conditioning
Conditioning affects an animal's behaviour. Learn about classical and operant conditioning in this GCSE / K12 Ecology video from the Virtual School.
Curated Video
Measuring Populations: Investigating the Distribution of Daisies with Distance from Trees
This video is a lecture presentation on measuring populations. The presenter explains how to investigate the distribution of daisies in a field and how it varies with distance from a line of trees. The hypothesis is formulated based on...
Wonderscape
Science Kids: Lions, Tigers and Other Big Cats
This video explores the world of big cats, including lions, tigers, leopards, cheetahs, jaguars, mountain lions, and more. It discusses their habitats, hunting strategies, and the importance of protecting these endangered species. The...
Maddie Moate
We Found Them! Searching for Beavers (Part 2)
Last time Greg and I took to the river we found ourselves surrounded by beavers in the water BUT it was too dark for us to film them! This time we were better prepared and were so excited to capture them on camera for you! Beavers are...
Next Animation Studio
Mauritius declares emergency after oil spill threatens coral reefs
Mauritius has declared a state of emergency after a stricken tanker began spilling tons of fuel, causing an ecological disaster among the reefs to the southeast of the island nation.
Curated Video
Biotic Factors: How Living Things Affect Ecosystems and Communities
This video is a lecture presentation on biotic factors. The presenter defines biotic factors and explains how they can affect communities and ecosystems. The focus is on living factors, such as availability of food, arrival of new...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Fernando M. Reimers - Teachers Make a Difference - Madame Chirick
Dr. Fernando Reimers is the Director, International Education Policy Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is the Ford Foundation Professor of the Practice of International Education and Director of both the Global Education...
Curated Video
Measuring Populations: Estimating Daisy Populations in a Given Area
This video is a lecture presentation on how to measure populations using an experiment that estimates the population of daisies in a given area. The experiment is conducted by randomly placing a quadrant, a square wire frame that has...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
From Invasive Species to Essential Oil - The White Cyprus Pine
Movin' to the Country is a series that celebrates the entrepreneurs, innovators and dreamers transforming Australia's beautiful regional areas in surprising new ways. Now that Phil, Cherie, and others are working hard to fight invasive...
Next Animation Studio
Flesh-eating centipedes hunt and eat baby birds alive
Australia’s charming Norfolk Island is just a short boat ride away from a small island called Phillip Island, where you’ll find hundreds of giant, monstrous centipedes that eat small birds for dinner.
FuseSchool
Learned Behaviour
What is 'learned behaviour'? Where does it feature in the environment? And how does it compare to 'innate behaviour? In this Ecology GCSE / K12 video learn all of the answers to these questions.
NASA
NASA | Seeing Photosynthesis from Space
NASA scientists have discovered a new way to use satellites to measure what's occurring inside Earth's land plants at a cellular level. During photosynthesis, plants emit what is called fluorescence -- a form of light invisible to the...
Curated Video
Effects of Land Use and Pollution on Environment and Biodiversity
This video presents an overview of the impact of human activities such as land use, infrastructure, farming, quarrying, and waste disposal on the environment, particularly on biodiversity. The narrator discusses how the global human...
Weatherthings
Praying Mantis vs. Fly
Follow a praying mantis on the hunt and capture of a fly, which became a meal.
Food Farmer Earth
Carlo Petrini The Earth Is Not An Infinite Resource
From the archives: part 2- Agriculture too, has natural built-in limitations. Slow Food founder, Carlo Petrini, warns that we have learned how to circumvent those limits and as a result are paying the price.
FuseSchool
Mating & Courtship Behaviour
Animals behave in strange ways when trying to attract a mate. Learn all about mating and courtship behaviour in this GCSE / K12 Ecology video from The Fuse School.
FuseSchool
What Is Urban Ecology?
Ecology is the relations of organisms with one another, and with their physical surroundings (the planet). As such, ecology is very broad in scope and encompasses an incredible variety of research questions. Research in ecology...
EarthEcho International
STEM Career Closeup: A Day in the Life of an Ecologist
Lou Toth is an ecologist with the South Florida Water Management District who manages vegetation in stormwater treatment areas to contribute to the restoration of the Everglades. He shares his passion for ecology and encourages others to...