Instructional Video5:02
SciShow

Mutant Mosquitos in Florida

9th - 12th Standards
Science ... sometimes it really is about life and death! Examine sharks and whales that live for a really long time, as well as mosquitoes designed to die young in the final installment in a 143-part video series. Biology scholars...
Instructional Video3:18
Deep Look

How Mosquitoes Use Six Needles to Suck Your Blood

6th - 12th
How exactly to mosquitoes bite people and what do the bites look like up close? Mosquitoes use six different needles with multiple jobs in order to bite mammals. The high-definition video covers the anatomy of mosquito mouth parts and...
Instructional Video2:41
MinuteEarth

How Humans Made Malaria So Deadly

6th - 12th Standards
Combine agriculture and an increase in population density in sub-Saharan Africa and what do you get? Malaria! Young immunologists explore malaria's deadly rise to fame in a video. The narrator discusses its beginnings as a hitchhiking...
Instructional Video6:49
Be Smart

Should You Be Worried About Zika?

6th - 12th Standards
In 2007, 73 percent of the population in Polynesia was infected with the Zika virus, and, like today, there was no vaccine. Viewers see the history of Malaria, dating back to Roman times and its relationship to the Zika virus....
Instructional Video5:45
Be Smart

What's the Deadliest Animal in the World?

6th - 12th
Do you know what animal causes more than one million deaths each year? This terrifying animal and how it causes so much death is the subject of a video that also shares how humans can avoid it and the research scientists have conducted...
Instructional Video10:21
TED-Ed

Cheese, Dogs, and a Pill to Kill Mosquitoes and End Malaria

9th - 12th Standards
This is a fantastic demonstration of how out-of-the-box science can serve the needs of mankind and save millions of lives. Bart Knois takes his audience through the step-by-step process of his research to kill mosquitoes and fight...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: American Experience: Lessons From Silent Spring for Controlling Disease: Rachel Carson

9th - 10th
Find out why, decades after the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's 'Silent Spring' exposed the unintended consequences of popular pesticides like DDT, some critics are connecting a renewed rise in malaria around the globe to Carson's...
Audio
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Controlling Mosquitoes With Bacteria

9th - 10th
Can a bacterial infection be a useful weapon in the fight against mosquito-borne illnesses?