The Art Assignment
Conjure a studio. | Hope Ginsburg | The Art Assignment
INSTRUCTIONS 1. CONJURE A STUDIO: REAL OR IMAGINARY - Where do you like to work? - What do you like to do? - If you could do it anywhere (or with anyone), where would it be? 2. MAKE IT HAPPEN - Take over, transform, build a space... -...
Visual Learning Systems
Simple Animals: Exploring Sponges and Cnidarians
Upon viewing the Simple Animals video series, students will be able to do the following: Differentiate between and provide examples of vertebrate and invertebrate animals. Describe the basic body parts of a sponge (porifera). Explain the...
Science360
Chemistry professor Mircea Dincă discusses Alan T. Waterman Award
The National Science Foundation selects MIT chemistry professor Mircea Dincă as the 2016 winner of the 40th anniversary Alan T. Waterman Award. Dincă discusses the award and metal organic frameworks.
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Phylum Porifera
It provide information about the habit, Habitat, Morphology and Physiology of phylum Porifera.
Journey to the Microcosmos
There's More Than Coral at the Coral Farm
When you’re in the business of hunting for microbes, sometimes you have to send some weird emails. That’s why James, our master of microscopes, sat down one day to send his own strange request to the people at Coralaxy, a coral farm in...
Journey to the Microcosmos
Getting to Know Our Single-Celled Ancestors
Getting to Know Our Single-Celled Ancestors
Maddie Moate
Sea Turtle Conservation! (Baby Turtles!)| Maddie Moate
Greg and I visited the GILI MENO TURTLE SANCTUARY to learn more about what they do to help the turtles, why they are endangered and how we can help. Click on the links below for more information about Hawksbill Turtles, The Gili Meno...
Professor Dave Explains
Marine Ecologist Virginia Schutte (Get to Know a Scientist!)
When we think of a scientist hard at work, we usually picture them in a laboratory, with all kinds of glassware and solutions and high-tech gizmos all around them. But lots of scientists work in nature! Virginia Schutte is a marine...
Ancient Lights Media
Biological Classification - The Porifera & Cnidaria
Biological Classification Set: This clip introduces the phylum Porifera and the phylum Cnidaria.
Professor Dave Explains
Organization and Symmetry in Kingdom Animalia
How are the contents of animals organized? How does this differ from animal to animal? Are all animals symmetrical, and in the same ways? Just a bit more information to get through before diving into all the animal phyla, I promise!
Professor Dave Explains
Introduction to Zoology: What are Animals?
It's time to learn all about animals! And we aren't just talking about cats and dogs here, did you know that sea sponges and corals are also animals? It's a very diverse kingdom, that Animalia! It even includes us humans. So what defines...
Professor Dave Explains
Phylum Porifera: Sponges
It's finally time to start diving into individual animal phyla! First up is Porifera. This includes all the sponges. These are funky looking organisms, almost none of which exhibit any kind of symmetry, nor do they possess any tissues or...
Wonderscape
Science Kids: Exploring the World of Invertebrates
This video is a lesson on invertebrates, the largest group in the animal kingdom. It explains the two main groups of animals - vertebrates and invertebrates - and focuses on the characteristics and examples of invertebrates. The video...
Nature League
What Are Invertebrates? - Lesson Plan
In this Nature League Lesson Plan, Brit introduces the invertebrates of Earth, including their names, relationships, forms, and awesomeness.
Curated Video
Officials say Tropical Storm Debby likely to bring 'catastrophic flooding' inland
Tropical Storm Debby is supposed to hit Florida directly as a hurricane, but its worst impacts might be felt in Georgia and South Carolina. (Scripps News)
Bridgeman Arts
Magnifying glasses, microscopes and different materials used in scientific experiments. France, 1940s
Clip 1 from the 1940s French film 'Au Dela Du Visible', exploring scientific work undertaken at the Palais de la Decouverte (Discovery Palace) in Paris, and experiments relating to the theme of outer space. (1943-1944). Magnifying...
Nature League
What Are Invertebrates? - Lesson Plan
Insects, and other invertebrates outnumber vertebrates—segmented-legs down! The first in a five-part series of videos from an Invertebrates series introduces these organisms in all their spineless glory. Each invertebrate phyla takes the...
PBS
Sponge Animation: Wild Ride Through a Sponge
Sponges filter many times their body volumes in water every hour with no breaks. Viewers find themselves being swept inside a sponge to observe the filtering process from the inside. They view the canals, the feeding cells, the spicules,...
PBS
Sponge Animation: Spicules
Many people think of sponges as being soft, but that's not the case in the ocean. Viewers learn about the sponge skeleton made of hard crystal material. They observe the many unique shapes and understand how scientists use these shapes...
PBS
Cristina Diaz, Taxonomist: Sponge Biology
Scientists know of almost 10,000 different species of sponges. Listen to a passionate female scientists describe her work as a taxonomist for sponges. She demonstrates an experiment in the ocean off Indonesia and shares her passion for...
PBS
Sponges: Time-lapse of Sponge Cells Recombining
When broken down to a cellular level, sponges reassemble themselves. As the only known plant or animal with this behavior, scientists enjoy watching the process. Scholars view the rebuilding to gain a better understanding of sponges in...
PBS
Sponges: Filter Feeding Made Visible
Sponges must eat to live, yet they don't have mouths. A video series shares how sponges survive using filter feeding rather than traditional eating. It demonstrates how sponges filter water through their entire bodies to extract...
Crash Course
Simple Animals: Sponges, Jellies, and Octopuses
A video focusing on the evolutionary history of simple animals reveals some amazing facts. Did you know that some deep-water sponges can live to be more than 200 years old? The narrator of the film explains what simple animals...
Be Smart
The Oldest Living Things In The World
And the prize for oldest living thing on Earth goes to . . . In this video from PBS Digital Studios, viewers learn about the oldest living things on Earth, all over 2,000 years old, such as bristlecone pines, baobab, sea grass,...