Amoeba Sisters
Plant Structure and Adaptations
Non-vascular plants, like moss, are able to survive on photosynthesis. A video explains plant structure for both vascular and non-vascular plants. It includes the parts of each plant and adaptations to various environments such as...
Amoeba Sisters
Food Webs and Energy Pyramids: Bedrocks of Biodiversity
How come we don't eat worms, but we eat fish that eat worms? A video features the food chain and explains why a food web is a better explanation for biodiversity. It includes explanations of producers, autotrophs, consumers,...
Scholastic
Study Jams! Food Chains
Rhinozilla is Mia's bearded dragon and the focus of this lesson on energy flow in an ecosystem. She uses him to explain the energy pyramid, from producers through third level consumers, and she likens the food chain to a video game. Mia...
Crash Course
Crash Course Film Production #6: Producers
What do Producers even do? It's a hard question to answer because there are so many different kinds of producers on a movie. In this episode of Crash Course Film Production, Lily Gladstone talks us through the different kinds of...
NOAA
Noaa: Estuary Education: Phytoplankton
Young students learn about plankton (in particular phytoplankton) and why it is vital to life on this planet. [9:59]
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Energy Flow in Ecosystems
Explains how energy flows in ecosystems. Energy enters via producers through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. Producers and consumers release the energy from food through cellular respiration. An explanation of gross primary...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ecology: Flow of Energy and Matter Through Ecosystems
Seeing how energy and matter flows and is recycled from primary producers (autotrophs) to primary, secondary and tertiary consumers. [10:25]
PBS
Pbs: Commodity Markets: Managing Risk With Cash Markets and Forward Contracting
Learn about the two methods that are commonly used by farmers and ranchers to market commodities and manage risk
PBS
Pbs: How Are Commodity Markets Regulated?
Learn how commodity markets are regulated by watching this video. [2:30]
Crash Course
Crash Course Biology #38: The Plants & the Bees Plant Reproduction
Hank gets into the dirty details about vascular plant reproduction: they use the basic alternation of generations developed by nonvascular plants 470 million years ago, but they've tricked it out so that it works a whole lot differently...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Living Organisms and Their Environment: Lesson 4
This lesson will discuss the interactions of and interdependence among living things. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Living Organisms and Their Environment."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: The Role of Plants in the Food Chain: Lesson 1
This lesson explains the role plants play in the conversion of inorganic materials into organic material to support living things. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "The Role of Plants in the Food Chain."