Be Smart
Defusing the Population Bomb
With a human population of 7.6 billion and counting, how do we tackle the population problem? Examine the data using a video from an extensive science playlist. The resource explains why the human population began to increase rapidly,...
Amoeba Sisters
Biomagnification and the Trouble with Toxins
Our relationship with toxins is, well, a little toxic. Explore how harmful substances work their way throughout the environment with a video from an expansive biology playlist. Topics include DDT and mercury, trophic levels, and water...
American Chemical Society
Vertical Farming
Create a vegetation high rise! Scholars study the trend of vertical farming and the requirements needed for a successful crop. The lesson from the ACS Reactions series explores the advantages and disadvantages in relation to traditional...
Bozeman Science
ESS3C - Human Impacts on Earth Systems
The human impact on the earth's systems often has unintended consequences. A comprehensive video lesson builds a progression for teaching the standards ESS3C in elementary through secondary classrooms. Instruction focuses on the...
True Food TV
How Does it Grow? Pumpkins
Did you know pumpkins are a fruit? Discover how different varieties of pumpkins are grown for different purposes in a brief informational video.
MinuteEarth
MinuteEarth: The Story of Our Planet
Planet Earth has come a long way from its dramatic beginnings. How long did all of these changes take? Science sleuths unravel the often-tangled timeline of our progress from single-celled sea creatures to world-traveling homo sapiens in...
ABCmouse
Old MacDonald
Take a trip down to the farm with a music video featuring the classic children's song, Old MacDonald. Watch as captivating farm animals pop onto the screen, accompanying a kid-friendly farmer, and western-style letter E,...
Khan Academy
The Agricultural Revolution
Rather than simply define the agricultural revolution, invite your learners to consider the advantages and disadvantages that agriculture has brought to humanity as a whole. John Green begins this first episode of this series by...
Curated OER
Organic Farmer
Camp Joy Gardens, a small, non-profit, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm, runs classes for children and adults. The narrator of a short video about Camp Joy Gardens explains how CSA farms can work as a profitable business, as...
Curated OER
The Future of Food - Introduction
A highly informative, and thought-provoking video on the history of the growing and selling of food awaits your students. It's a topic not often covered in social studies classes, so this video could be a good addition to a unit on...
Curated OER
History of Farming
This student produced video is quite good! In three and a half minutes, she takes viewers through a brief history of farming on our planet. She also gets into early dwellings and early tools. Impressive!
Curated OER
A Day on the Wheat Harvest!
If you're doing a unit on farming in the Midwest, this video would be an entertaining show to present. With country music blaring in the background, the video takes you to a wheat field in Nebraska, and you watch as the variety of farm...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Flood: Farming and Erosion
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, scientists investigate how farming along the Mississippi River impacts floods and what can be done about it.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Gaining Catfish Aquaculture Skills
See how Mississippi high school students confront the uncertainty and untidiness of science and develop problem-solving strategies in the context of local catfish farming. [5:40]
PBS
Pbs Kids Clubhouse Adventures: Read Good Books!: Letters to Farmers
Clubhouse friends visit their local library to read and discover more about farming. In this segment kids, write letters to local farmers thanking them for the hard work they do. [2:04]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Young Explorers: Read Good Books!: Letters to Farmers
In this video, friends visit their local library to read and discover more about farming. In this segment, kids write letters to local farmers thanking them for the hard work they do. [2:12]
Other
British Nutrition Foundation: Food a Fact of Life: Food and Farming: Plants
Watch this short video clip on plants and how they are grown as food for humans. [1:09]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Where and Why Did the First Cities and States Appear?
Fueled by surplus crops, agriculture led to the formation of the world's first large-scale civilizations. [10:45]
PBS
Pbs: Career Connections: Farmer
A real farmer explains how he started with a 10-acre field and helped build a large family farm enterprise.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Transition to Agriculture
Craig Benjamin explains how agriculture drove change and why humans took the risk of abandoning foraging. [6:51]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Human Prehistory 101 Part 3: Agriculture Rocks Our World
Fourth in a series of videos that introduces human prehistory, this video describes the origins of agriculture and its far-reaching effects on human history. [7:00]
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Human Impacts on Earth Systems
In this video, Paul Andersen explains how humans are impacting the Earth through farming, mining, pollution and climate change. According to the NGSS wise management can reduce impacts on the planet. This will become more important as...