Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Permian Triassic Extinction

9th - 10th
In this video segment from Evolution: "Extinction!", geologist Peter Ward discusses evidence for a Permian-Triassic mass extinction. [2 min, 20 sec]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Chronometric Revolution: Measuring Age on Earth

9th - 10th
The revolutions of chronometry, the study of time, with respect to measuring time on Earth from forms of writing to radioactivity. [9:54]
Instructional Video
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: Qrius: Paleobiology Unearthing Fossil Whales

9th - 10th
A webcast features a paleontologist who presents the data that can be collected by fossil whales. [29:15]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Grand Canyon: The Top Two Rock Layers

9th - 10th
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.
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: How We Proved an Asteroid Wiped Out the Dinosaurs

9th - 10th
Geologist Walter Alvarez gets to the bottom of a scientific murder mystery. [7:28]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Kids Clubhouse Adventures: Clubhouse Expert: Geologist, Dr. Franek Hasiuk

Pre-K - 1st
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.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Dinosaur Train: All About Fossils

Pre-K - 1st
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]
Instructional Video
Sea Studios Foundation

Shape of Life: Paleontology: New Evidence Revises Thinking, Anomalocaris

9th - 10th
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...
Instructional Video
Sea Studios Foundation

Shape of Life: Paleontology: Paleontologists Study Fossils

9th - 10th
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]
Instructional Video
SciShow

Sci Show Kids: Dig in to Paleontology

3rd - 5th
A short video exploring how paleontologist use fossils to learn information about Earth's history and animals that once existed. [4:11]
Instructional Video
Crash Course

Crash Course Biology #20: Evolution It's a Thing

9th - 10th
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]
Audio
NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: Peering Inside Fossils

9th - 10th
"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...
Instructional Video
Sea Studios Foundation

Shape of Life: Paleontology: Paleontologists Study Tracks and Traces

9th - 10th
Jenny Clack visits a site with fossilized tracks of an early tetrapod. She and her assistant hypothesize about what the animal was doing around 370 million years ago. [8:22]
Instructional Video
Crash Course

Crash Course History of Science #20: Earth Science

9th - 10th
How did scientists figure out the age of the earth? Trace the history of Earth Science and the developments scientists made in determining the earth's geologic eras. Scientists asked such questions like, what's up with fossils? Are they...
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Evolution: Fossils: Rocking the Earth

9th - 10th
Use fossils, like clues buried inside of rocks, to unlock the history of life on our planet. Play the Evolution Lab: http://www.pbs.org/nova/labs/lab/evolution/
Audio
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Don Johanson Lucy's Legacy

9th - 10th
Ira talks with paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson, co-discoverer of the 'Lucy' fossil.
Audio
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Oldest Fossil Brain Discovered

9th - 10th
Scientists have found a 300 million year old fossil shark ancestor with an unusual feature -- fossilized brain tissue within the creature's skull.
Audio
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Largest Snake

9th - 10th
Researchers have found fossil remains of a species of snake that they say weighed 2500 pounds, and grew to 45 feet long.
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Fossils: Lesson 1

9th - 10th
This lesson will explain how fossils can be used to determine evolutionary relationships. It is 1 of 6 in the series titled "Fossils."
Instructional Video
Other

Science With Tom: Fossil Rock Anthem

3rd - 8th
Party Rock Anthem has been fossilized! Get some facts about fossils with this fun music parody. [3:15]
Instructional Video
Bozeman Science

Bozeman Science: Evidence of Common Ancestry & Diversity

9th - 10th
In this video, Paul Andersen describes several types of evidence for common ancestry. This evidence is contained in the fossils, embryos and molecules of living organisms. Even though life on our planet is incredibly diverse there are...
Instructional Video
Bozeman Science

Bozeman Science: Evidence for Evolution

9th - 10th
Paul Andersen lists major evidence for the existence of evolution. He begins with a discussion of Charles Darwin and the evidence that he presented in the Origin of Species, including biogeography, fossils, and homologies. He also...
Instructional Video
Bozeman Science

Bozeman Science: Evidence for Evolution Ii

9th - 10th
Paul Andersen describes pieces of evidence that Charles Darwin used to support the idea of evolution and his process of natural selection. He begins with the following evidence use in the Origin of Species; artificial selection,...
Audio
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: New Fossil Find

9th - 10th
New fossil finds shake up the human family tree.