Visual Learning Systems
Summer: Plants and Animals in the Summer
Live-action, colorful footage illustrates the exciting, natural highlights of summer. Activities of plants and animals during the summer season are explored. Additional concepts and terminology include: growth, development, seeds, food...
Curated Video
Making a Plan for Writing an Informational Text Using a Table of Contents
In this video, students learn how to make a plan for writing an informational text by using a table of contents. The teacher guides them through the process of identifying the main topic and details from a brainstorming web, determining...
Visual Learning Systems
Introduction to Adaptations
This video is an introduction to the Adaptations series. After viewing the Adaptations series, students will be able to do the following: define adaptations and camoflauge, understand how adaptations are passed down, provide examples of...
Visual Learning Systems
Adaptations for Obtaining Food in Living Things
In this video, we explore the various adaptations that living things have developed to obtain food. From herbivores like cows and deer with specialized teeth and body shapes for plant consumption, to carnivores like owls and tigers...
Mazz Media
What is Adaptation?
This live-action video program is about the word Adaptation. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word Adaptation through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and...
Visual Learning Systems
Adaptations and Animal Behavior
This video explains the concept of adaptations in animals, focusing on both physical characteristics and behavioral traits. The video also introduces the idea of stimuli and responses, emphasizing how animals react to changes in their...
Nature League
What Are Adaptations? - Lesson Plan
In this Nature League Lesson Plan, Brit discusses physical and behavioral adaptations of life on Earth and shares some of her favorites.
PBS
When the Book is Better than the Movie
Which is better, the book or the movie? From The Golden Compass to The Great Gatsby, from The Hobbit to Harry Potter and The Giver, we find ourselves wondering why adaptations of beloved stories tend not to live up to the source...
Visual Learning Systems
Adaptations Review
This video is a review of the topics covered in the Adaptations series. In this series, we explore the concept of adaptations in living things. We discuss how adaptations help organisms survive and reproduce, including examples of...
Curated Video
Is your favourite podcast headed for the screen?
A look at some of the hit podcasts getting adapted for film and television.
Curated Video
How the Prairies must adapt to meet the challenges of climate change
From flood planning to insurance coverage, meteorologist Christy Climenhaga looks at what climate adaptation might look like across the Prairies and Canada.
Getty Images
INTERVIEW: Douglas Kennedy on what to expect from his other adaptations
INTERVIEW: Douglas Kennedy on what to expect from his other adaptations at the The Big Picture Interview at London England. (Footage by WireImage Video/Getty Images Entertainment Video)
Getty Images
Crustaceans swim below the surface of a sea in a computer-generated animation.
Crustaceans swim below the surface of a sea in a computer-generated animation.
Getty Images
Kick-Ass UK Premiere
INTERVIEW Aaron Johnson on his experience of premieres, on wearing the green outfit for the first time, on why this comic book story is different from other comic book adaptations at the Kick-Ass UK Premiere at London England. (Footage...
Getty Images
INTERVIEW: David Hayman on the adaptations being better than he expected at the Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 2 Press Conference at London England. (Footage by WireImage Video/Getty Images Entertainment Video)
INTERVIEW: David Hayman on the adaptations being better than he expected at the Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 2 Press Conference at London England. (Footage by WireImage Video/Getty Images Entertainment Video)
Curated Video
Why Are Video Game Adaptations So Bad?
Though book adaptations do relatively well in the box office, the same cannot be said of video game movies.
Bloomberg
Bruegel's Papadia Sees Central Bank Independence Threats
Feb.27 -- Francesco Papadia, non-resident fellow at Bruegel and former director general for market operations at the European Central Bank, discusses central bank independence and when he sees the European Central Bank beginning...
Curated Video
California Outlines Plan For Reopening
Gov. Gavin Newsom says the four-stage plan will take place over the next several months.
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : The Hunger Games Catching Fire premiere
CLEAN : The Hunger Games Catching Fire premiere
Curated Video
The Video Game Market Is Spilling Into The Movie Industry
Given their increasing popularity, one would think video game movie adaptations would typically be wildly successful, but that's not the case.
Be Smart
Why Do More Species Live Near the Equator?
The tropics contain about 40 percent of the area on Earth. Viewers take a trip to Peru as an entrancing video from a larger biology playlist explores the region. It explains the facts and theories about the biodiversity near the equator....
SciShow
Tardigrades: Adorable Extremophiles
Tardigrades are microscopic organisms (0.5 mm long) with segmented bodies and four pairs of legs, each with four to eight claws. The narrator of this video explores tardigrades, organisms that can survive the most extreme environments...
Crash Course
Natural Selection
The peppered moth is featured in a video about natural selection. The narrator tells the story of Darwin's theory and then moves on to the principles behind natural selection and the different ways it works. Concepts covered include...
MinutePhysics
How to Turn Sound Into Light: Sonoluminescence
The conversion of sound into light is a fascinating phenomenon that is a side effect of pistol and mantis shrimp stunning their prey. It is known as sonoluminescence, and it is thoroughly delineated in this fascinating little video. Add...