Curated Video
Factors That Affect Water Quality
Factors That Affect Water Quality describes the physical, chemical, and biological factors that affect water quality in the environment.
Curated Video
High Five Facts - Sedimentary Rocks
This video explores five fun facts about Sedimentary Rocks.
Curated Video
Earth’s Shifting Landscape
“Earth’s Shifting Landscape” describes the processes of weathering and erosion, with a focus on how both change and create landforms.
Professor Dave Explains
Mineralogy of Sedimentary Rocks: Weathering and Diagenesis
Now that we know some general information regarding sedimentary rocks, let's examine their mineralogy. What kinds of minerals can be found in sedimentary rocks? How do these minerals change over time? What can we say about weathering,...
Professor Dave Explains
Characteristics of Sedimentary Rocks: Size, Provenance, and Composition
With igneous rocks understood, let's move on to the second type of rock, sedimentary rock. What are sediments, and how do they come together to form sedimentary rocks? What can we say about the size of such a rock? It's provenance, or...
Visual Learning Systems
Sedimentary Rocks: Fossils in Sedimentary Rock
This program outlines the classification system of sedimentary rocks. Specific attention is paid to the different ways sedimentary rock forms. The relationship between sedimentary rocks and the formation of fossils is investigated. Other...
Weatherthings
Water Smart: The Sun, Water Cycle, & Climate - Runoff
The Sun, Water Cycle, & Climate shows us how the sun produces heat to drive the water cycle. It's made clear that the water cycle continues in the absence of sunlight or heat. We learn how the two components of climate- temperature and...
TMW Media
The Everglades Ecosystem: Hamilton Disstons plan and the affects of a canal
What was Hamilton Disstons plan for the everglades? Did his plan work? What were the affects of building a canal? What were the affects after the canal was changed? The Everglades Ecosystem, Part 2
Weatherthings
Water Smart: The Sun, Water Cycle, & Climate - Precipitation
The Sun, Water Cycle, & Climate shows us how the sun produces heat to drive the water cycle. It's made clear that the water cycle continues in the absence of sunlight or heat. We learn how the two components of climate- temperature and...
Visual Learning Systems
Rocks and the Rock Cycle: Complexities of the Rock Cycle
The rock cycle is illustrated in detail using easy-to-understand animations. Examples of the various types of rocks are introduced and the characteristics of different rocks are compared. Other terminology includes: rock cycle, igneous,...
Visual Learning Systems
Sedimentary Rocks: Video Quiz
This program outlines the classification system of sedimentary rocks. Specific attention is paid to the different ways sedimentary rock forms. The relationship between sedimentary rocks and the formation of fossils is investigated. Other...
Visual Learning Systems
Exploring Fossils: Molds, Casts, and Imprints
Upon viewing the Exploring Fossils video series, students will be able to do the following: Explain that fossils are the ancient remains or traces of once-living things. Understand that fossils come in a wide range of shapes, sizes, and...
Journey to the Microcosmos
Life Without Oxygen Challenge Accepted
Slimy, a little smelly, maybe even a little gross, but to many organisms, the oxic-anoxic transition is a shifting chemical boundary that has created a challenge for life...a challenge it conquered.
Weatherthings
Weather Things: Carbon Dioxide
Climate is the average type of weather that a region has. It is defined by temperature and moisture. Proximity to oceans and large mountain ranges defines climate too, depending upon the prevailing wind. While climates change over...
Science360
Climate Change And Other Threats To World's Freshwater Goliaths
The Large Lakes Observatory (LLO) helps an interdisciplinary group of scientists use oceanographic research approaches to investigate the mysteries of large lakes, and that includes everything from large-scale reactions to climate change...
Next Animation Studio
Meteor killed dinosaurs with dust, not wildfires, study finds
New research shows that the great dinosaur die-off was caused by airborne particles ejected directly from the crater made by the Chicxulub meteor
Science360
Restoring the Mississippi River Delta - USA Science and Engineering Fest
Learn how experiments and computer models can help harness energy and restore free-flowing rivers. Assess the challenges and benefits of restoring lost wetlands in the Mississippi Delta.
Physics Girl
I found a Mud Volcano in California
Why are there holes all over the southern California desert? This area is a unique basin that should actually be 20,000 ft below sea level. So I traveled there and spent 4 hrs looking for muddy holes in the ground.
Next Animation Studio
Ice age cut massive channels under North Sea
A new study shows detailed 3D images of hundreds of channels carved into the bedrock under the North Sea.
Next Animation Studio
Conquistador anchors discovered off Mexico Gulf Coast
Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History have announced that two 500-year-old iron anchors could belong to the ships of Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés.
National Parks Service
Everglades National Park - Boating in Florida Bay
Video to help boaters navigate around Florida Bay.
Curated Video
The Evolution of Earth's Atmosphere
The video discusses how the Earth's atmosphere has evolved over the past 4.6 billion years, with a focus on the composition of gases present over different periods of time. It highlights the role of volcanoes, oceans, plants, and fossil...
Next Animation Studio
Newest rover set to launch its mini helicopter on Mars
Mars’ atmosphere is incredibly thin, only 1% of the atmospheric volume of earth, so getting a helicopter to fly in its thin air would be a very big deal.
NASA
NASA | The Changing Chesapeake
The Chesapeake Bay receives water from the 64,000 square miles of land surrounding the bay and Landsat satellites are a critical and invaluable tool for characterizing the landscape and mapping it over time. Landsat data provides a...