Curated OER
Fossil Record Mystery
Watch how paleontologists scour the Gobi Desert to find fossils that fill in a gap in the fossil record. How big did dinosaurs get during the Jurassic period? Get your class thinking about these questions and more with this short clip....
Curated OER
Evolution of Giant Whales
Did you know that there is a place in Egypt called The Valley of Whales? Bascilisaurs fossils can be found all over the Egyptian desert! They were over 12 meters long and evolved into the modern day whale. We see how animators and...
Curated OER
Ice Age People in Florida?
Spring breakers first gathered in Wakulla Springs, Florida, over 10,000 years ago! A video explains how geologists and archaeologists work together to uncover hidden artifacts from this time period.
Curated OER
Origin and Evolution of Life, Part 3
Continue your exploration of the origin of life with part three of this wonderful five-part series. This episode examines Precambrian fossils found in the Berges Shale. Watch this video to find out the value of this discovery to...
Curated OER
What is a Dino Mummy?
Excite your class with this clip that describes one of the most interesting dinosaur finds ever. Found by a high school student, a completely articulated mummified hadrosaur was uncovered in the high deserts of North Dakota. Why are...
Curated OER
Fossil Hunting
Ever wonder what a paleontologist does, or have a little learner yearning to know everything about fossil hunters? This comprehensive video shows what paleontologists do and why they do it. Get your kids thinking about the wonders of a...
Curated OER
Miracle Planet - Snow Ball Earth 3/5
Thermophiles and other microbes give hints as to how life can continue in extreme temperatures. Fossils in the Namibian Desert are relatively undisturbed and offer other keys to life. Your biology and earth science classes will want to...
Curated OER
Who Was Charles Darwin?
ItÕs one of those big Ideas that changes our view of the world and our place in it. DarwinÕs observations lead him to believe that species, including man, change or evolve over time. This short video focuses on his reluctance to publish...
Curated OER
Analyzing Dinosaur Fossils
Follow a scientist as she takes a dinosaur bone specimen from the field and into the lab to find data and evidence to help them determine facts about their find. This clip is short but may be a good way to start a class discussion or...
Curated OER
Digging Up a Dinosaur Graveyard
Travel with a team of paleontologists as they dig into the Gobi Desert to uncover new species of dinosaurs. They find several dinosaur graves containing a new find, Guanlong, or crested dragon, a never before seen species trapped in a...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Becoming a Fossil
This video segment describes how the Australopithecus afarensis skeleton known as Lucy could have been fossilized. Footage courtesy of NOVA: "In Search of Human Origins." [2:34]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Evolving Ideas: How Do We Know Evolution Happens?
This video from Evolution focuses on one of the several lines of evidence for evolution -- fossils, highlighting the evolution of whales from land-dwelling mammals to the aquatic creatures we know today. [6:58]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Permian Triassic Extinction
In this video segment from Evolution: "Extinction!", geologist Peter Ward discusses evidence for a Permian-Triassic mass extinction. [2 min, 20 sec]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Chronometric Revolution: Measuring Age on Earth
The revolutions of chronometry, the study of time, with respect to measuring time on Earth from forms of writing to radioactivity. [9:54]
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Qrius: Paleobiology Unearthing Fossil Whales
A webcast features a paleontologist who presents the data that can be collected by fossil whales. [29:15]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Grand Canyon: The Top Two Rock Layers
This brief video segment adapted from NOVA uses illustrations and the well-preserved footprints of a small reptile to portray the history of the Grand Canyon's top two rock layers.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: How We Proved an Asteroid Wiped Out the Dinosaurs
Geologist Walter Alvarez gets to the bottom of a scientific murder mystery. [7:28]
PBS
Pbs Kids Clubhouse Adventures: Clubhouse Expert: Geologist, Dr. Franek Hasiuk
In this video [2:05] you will meet expert Dr. Franek Hasiuk, a geologist who teaches kids about all kinds of rocks, minerals and fossils found on planet Earth. Kids will discover stalactites, amber and geodes.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Dinosaur Train: All About Fossils
In this Dinosaur Train clip, Mr. Conductor explains what fossils are and how they are created, and Dr. Scott the Paleontologist disuccses how paleontologists find, care for, and conduct research with the fossils they uncover. [2:06]
Sea Studios Foundation
Shape of Life: Paleontology: New Evidence Revises Thinking, Anomalocaris
It sometimes takes years and many mistakes to piece together an entire animal. Collins uses Anomalocaris as an example of the long complicated process. Several fossil pieces of Anomalocaris were originally identified as entirely...
Sea Studios Foundation
Shape of Life: Paleontology: Paleontologists Study Fossils
A single location, the Burgess Shale, in the Canadian Rockies has revealed thousands of fossils that tell a story of an ancient explosion of animal life, called the Cambrian Explosion. [5:05]
SciShow
Sci Show Kids: Dig in to Paleontology
A short video exploring how paleontologist use fossils to learn information about Earth's history and animals that once existed. [4:11]
Crash Course
Crash Course Biology #20: Evolution It's a Thing
Hank gets real with us in a discussion of evolution - it's a thing, not a debate. Gene distribution changes over time, across successive generations, to give rise to diversity at every level of biological organization. [11:44]
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Peering Inside Fossils
"A scanning device most commonly seen in hospitals is reshaping the science of paleontology by allowing researchers to peer inside irreplaceable fossils without damaging them." Find out what scientists are now able to see that they've...