TED Talks
TED: A reality check on renewables | David MacKay
How much land mass would renewables need to power a nation like the UK? An entire country's worth. In this pragmatic talk, David MacKay tours the basic mathematics that show worrying limitations on our sustainable energy options ... and...
Crash Course
What is a Map Crash Course Geography
From navigating a cross-country road trip (or just finding the nearest coffee shop), to analyzing election results (or the latest meme on K-pop group popularity), maps play a huge role in how we interpret the world! Today, we're going to...
Curated Video
What is a map?
A broad introduction maps and their purposes. People and places -Mapping - What is a map? Learning Points Cartographers make maps. A map key explains what the colours and symbols on a map represent. Most maps are drawn to scale. Maps can...
Curated Video
Islands
How do factors such as remoteness and population density affect the lives of island communities? People and places -Physical geography - Islands Learning Points Population density is used to count the number of people in an area. Islands...
Wonderscape
Exploring Communities: Urban, Suburban, and Rural
This video explains the different types of communities—urban, suburban, and rural—based on population size and land use. Learn about how people live and work together in each type of community, and how resources like lakes can shape the...
Learning Mole
Insects and Humans
This video will take students through the relationship that humans have with insects, and how we affect each other.
msvgo
Population Ecology- An Introduction
It describes the role of biological agents for controlling pests. It describes genetically modified organisms (using Bt microbe) and their uses as biocontrol agents.
Global Health with Greg Martin
The Next Pandemic - How bad might things get? How should we prepare?
Pandemic preparedness is a hot topic. Why might the next pandemic be much worse that the COVID-19 pandemic? To answer that question, we need to consider the epidemiological factors like disease transmission, immunological response and...
Getty Images
Urban scene of Amman, Jordan
Amman from Al-Qasr site - Capital of Jordan. View from the citadel of the city, in the middle of the 124-meter-high flag. (slowly rotating in panning right)
Getty Images
Time lapse of people and vehicles at pedestrian crossing intersection on busy road
Time lapse of people and vehicles at pedestrian crossing intersection on busy road
Getty Images
Hamilton Heights neighborhood in Harlem, New York City, USA.
Hamilton Heights neighborhood in Harlem, New York City, USA.
FuseSchool
Selective Breeding
Did you know that selective breeding is behind the food we're eating? Discover the agricultural practice that changed humans from foragers to farmers using an insightful video that is part of the Fuse School playlist on Evolution. Young...
MinuteEarth
How Humans Made Malaria So Deadly
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...
Bozeman Science
Logistic Growth
A video on logistic growth begins with a review of exponential growth before moving on to limiting factors. This naturally leads to a decrease in the growth rate and a discovery of carrying capacity.
Crash Course
Population Ecology: The Texas Mosquito Mystery
While 80 percent of people with West Nile Virus show no symptoms, in severe cases, it causes death by infecting the membranes around the spinal cord and brain. The video starts by making population ecology relevant. It includes density...
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Introduction to Populations
What are the characteristics that define populations? What causes populations to grow or decline? In the following video you will learn how a population is a group of individuals of the same species living within a designated area at one...
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Population Ecology
In the following video, Evan Seimann, PhD, defines key terms and concepts of ecology, basic characteristics of populations, population age structures and densities, and explains the dynamics of growth models within a population. [22:59]
PBS
Nova: World in the Balance: Human Population and Global Trends
A companion site to Nova's film that examines "human populations and environments." Find some fascinating facts in the interactive slide shows "Human Numbers Through Time," and "Global Trends Quiz."
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Crash Course World History: Globalization Ii Good or Bad?
John Green asks whether globalization is a net positive for humanity. While the new global economy has created a lot of wealth and lifted a lot of people out of poverty, it also has some effects that aren't so hot. [13:54]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Agriculture and Human Population
Thinking about how we get calories from the land limits human population densities. [12:59]
Other
Youtube: Population Distribution & Density
Where do most people live? What do nations do in an effort to understand their own population distribution? This short video introduces the concepts of population distribution and density. [1:04]