Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Gorongosa's Water Cycle
Gorongosa National Park holds a fascinating and ever-changing landscape. What makes the water cycle in the park so special? Travel to Mozambique to learn more about the park using a short video. Content includes rainy season in the park,...
Numberphile
Pi Me a River
What do rivers have to do with pi? Scholars view a video in the Numberphile Pi playlist that explains how pi relates to the sinuosity of rivers. On average, dividing the meandering length of the river by the straight-line...
MinuteEarth
Why Do Rivers Have Deltas?
What determines the shape of the shoreline where a river meets an ocean? The video explains many causes for delta formation, including human activities and climate change. Also included are examples from around the world and throughout...
MinuteEarth
Why Do Rivers Curve?
Rivers flow downhill, but why are there so many curves? The video explains how a straight river with only a tiny change begins to curve. It introduces the patterns all curving rivers follow all over the planet and other planets.
Crash Course Kids
What on Earth
How do the geosphere and hydrosphere interact with one another to support life? This is the focus of a video that describes how the geosphere supports the hydrosphere and vice versa.
Crash Course Kids
The Basics of Freshwater
Most of the water on Earth is found in our oceans; however, humans cannot survive on salt water. Instead, we need freshwater. So, what is freshwater and where does it come from? This is the focus of a video that discusses the differences...
Curated OER
Water's Journey - The River Returns
This interesting video introduces a film called "Water's Journey - The River Returns," which focuses on an in-depth study of the St. John's river and its entire watershed. The history of the river, its inhabitants, and the stresses that...
Curated OER
Meandering Rivers
This "old school" video is of a teacher using a chalkboard (imagine that!), to illustrate how meandering rivers are created, and how they flow. The teacher does a good job of describing how the meandering river bed changes over time due...
Curated OER
White Water Rafting on the Zambezi River
An amazing, and exciting video on whitewater rafting down the Zambezi river is here for your class. The rafting adventure begins at the base of Victoria Falls, and goes through quite a few class five rapids. Your students should love...
Curated OER
Four Seasons - Time Lapse
A river is transformed throughout the seasons using time-lapse photography. Classical music plays soothingly in the background. Show students the change of seasons in a beautiful way.
Curated OER
Physical Geography - Running Water: Erosion & Deposits
Here is a good video that describes the main types of "flow" associated with rivers; laminer, turbulent, and shooting flow. They are all aptly described and accompanied by excellent video footage shot in Yellowstone National Park. A...
Curated OER
Colorado River in Arizona
The Arizona Fish and Game Department has produced this introductory video on the Colorado River. During its length, quite a bit of information is passed along, such as the fish who live in the river, the variety of people who use the...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Kid Vision: Amazon Field Trip
Visit the "Amazon Voyage" exhibit at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science. Learn about maps, experience the river underwater, see how real stingrays and anacondas camouflage themselves, and celebrate at a fish festival!...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Unique Species of Kentucky's Green River
This video from Kentucky's Last Great Places shows how the Green River has remained unusually clean and why it is home to several endangered aquatic species. [4:13]
Minute Earth
Minute Earth: Why Do Rivers Curve?
Watch and learn here about the course and unchanging stream of why and how rivers bend and curve. [2:56]
Crash Course
Crash Course Kids 17.1: Landforms, Hey!
If you look out your window, you'll probably notice a bunch of things; houses, streets, hopefully a tree. But beyond that you'll see things like mountains, rivers, volcanoes - well, hopefully not a volcano. These are landforms and they...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Rivers of Destiny
Observe how rivers meander and how the water deposits rocks and pebbles on the inside of each curve. Watch kids use the scientific method to find out how rivers affect the earth's surface.