Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: When Is a Moth Like a Hummingbird?
Understand how the hawk moth keeps a precise position in the air, with a UNC Chapel Hill biomechanist's study using high speed cameras. [4:06]
The Kid Should See This
Tksst: Why Do Carrots Taste Sweeter in the Winter?
Listen as Molecular Biologist Liz Roth-Johnson explains why cold weather makes carrots taste sweeter. [1:02]
Other
Fuse School: What Is Adaptation?
Investigate how organisms adapt to their environments through this to-the-point video. [1:22]
Crash Course
Crash Course Kids 41.1: Living Things Change
Learn about some examples of how and why living things change because of changes in their environments. [4:36]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Natural Selection and the Owl Butterfly
Find out how the "Owl Butterfly" may have gotten the spot on its wings. [13:29]
The Kid Should See This
Tksst: Deep Look: What Gives the Morpho Butterfly Its Magnificent Blue?
Take a look into structural coloration, the physics of light, and how it is possible that the Morpho butterfly's wings appear to be blue, despite their containing no blue pigment at all. [3:03]
Other
Flocabulary: Adaptation
Students will learn how plants and animals develop cool tricks for surviving amid different climates, predators and more. [2:49]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Cam Plants
A video investigating CAM plants and how they fix carbon at night. Learn how they minimize opening their stomata during to day to preserve water. [8:37]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Night Vision and Dna
Why do some animals have much better night vision than others? We'll talk about new research tracing the root of improved night vision to the architecture of the DNA inside the photoreceptor rod cells of the animals' eyes.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: The Smell of Death
A specific blend of fatty acids signal death or injury to a variety of animals, providing a warning to others of the species.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Organisms: Adaptations to Environment: Lesson 2
This lesson discusses how living things adapt to survive changing environments. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Organisms: Adaptations to Environment."
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Adaptation
In this video, Paul Andersen defines adaptations and explains how organisms can become better adapted to there surroundings using the process of natural selection. Specific examples of adaptations, like coat color in rock pocket mice, as...