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Nature League
Adaptations at Animal Wonders - Field Trip
In this Nature League Field Trip, Brit joins Jessi Knudsen Castaneda at Animal Wonders Montana to discuss defensive adaptations across the animal kingdom. Animal Wonders is an organization dedicated to adopting displaced wildlife and...
Nature League
What is Biodiversity? - Lesson Plan
In this Nature League Lesson Plan, Brit explains the levels, dimensions, and values associated with biodiversity.
Visual Learning Systems
Review of Biodiversity
This video reviews concepts covered in the Biodiversity series. The speaker discusses how places can be described in terms of biodiversity. The video also highlights the variation of biodiversity from place to place and the importance of...
Visual Learning Systems
The Importance of Biodiversity
The video is a short educational piece that explains the importance of biodiversity and its impact on the health of the planet. The video also highlights some of the causes of species extinction, such as habitat destruction and...
Visual Learning Systems
Biodiversity on Earth
The video explores the concept of biodiversity and how it differs between different types of environments. It starts by showcasing a tropical rainforest, then contrasts this with the tundra, a cold and dry environment with much lower...
Visual Learning Systems
Understanding Biodiversity and Ecosystems
This video discusses the concept of biodiversity and how it varies in different ecosystems. The video then compares the relatively low biodiversity of a cornfield to the high biodiversity of a wetland and mentions how rainforests are...
FuseSchool
Human impacts on Biodiversity
Biodiversity is the variety of life. There are thought to be 8.7 million species on planet Earth. And, as we saw in this video, biodiversity is of utmost importance to humans. The loss of one key species can have a detrimental impact on...
Nature League
What Are Adaptations? - Lesson Plan
In this Nature League Lesson Plan, Brit discusses physical and behavioral adaptations of life on Earth and shares some of her favorites.
FuseSchool
BIOLOGY - Environment - What is organic farming
As populations have grown, farming practices have become more intensified to maximise crop yields and ensure we can feed the ever growing population. Fertilisers and pesticides are used on crops, and animals may be kept inside in more...
Visual Learning Systems
Introduction to Biodiversity
The video invites the viewer to think about the living things they observe in their surroundings, such as plants and animals. It highlights that different places on Earth have different types of living things and explores how these...
Visual Learning Systems
Comparing Biodiversity: From Parking Lots to Forests
The video discusses the concept of biodiversity and how it can be used to describe different places. It features three different locations - an old parking lot, an abandoned farm field, and a forest - and compares their levels of...
Visual Learning Systems
People and the Environment: Species Extinction and Exotic Species
Students will explore the notion of resource conservation, and identify the differences between renewable and non-renewable resources. Some of the ways our environment may be harmed via pollution, deforestation, species extinction, and...
Nature Conservancy
Coastal Peru: The Amazing Biodiversity of a Coastal Ecosystem
Peru's coastal ecosystem is only one of the country's amazing features. But travelers don't need passports, expensive plane tickets, or heavy suitcases to examine the biodiversity of coastal Peru. Armed with a field trip log and graphic...
Be Smart
Why Do More Species Live Near the Equator?
The tropics contain about 40 percent of the area on Earth. Viewers take a trip to Peru as an entrancing video from a larger biology playlist explores the region. It explains the facts and theories about the biodiversity near the equator....
Bozeman Science
Biodiversity
"The one process ongoing that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by destruction of natural habitats" - E.O. Wilson. Here is a video that discusses biodiversity at multiple levels from...
Curated OER
Biodiversity
Jaguars feed on 87 different species, making it a keystone species. What happens when such a critical link of the food chain goes missing? Mr. Andersen identifies different keystone species according to ecosystem, and he explains the...
American Museum of Natural History
Ask a Scientist About Cuba's Biodiversity
In a video interview Ana Luz Porzecanski, a conservation biologist with the American Museum of Natural History, answers questions about her work Cuba's biodiversity.
American Chemical Society
Why Are Birds Different Colors?
Above all else, a bird's color is what sets it apart from other birds. Learn what creates their unique plumage in an installment of a video series. The video presents the physical and chemical reasons for the variation in colors as well...
Nature League
Biodiversity and Complex Life Forms - From A to B
When determining intelligence in animals, scientists use a variety of tests that reveal the animal's ability to use tools, recognize themselves, and communicate. The final video in the Biodiversity series explores why some species, such...
Nature League
What is Biodiversity? - Lesson Plan
The first video in a four-part series on Biodiversity addresses the three levels of biodiversity from genes to ecosystems. Then, it details the three dimensions and the three uses for biodiversity.
Nature League
Biodiversity and Extinction Vulnerability - De-Natured
Science benefits everyone, so why is the language in journal articles so difficult to understand? The third video in the four-part series on Biodiversity breaks down a journal article so everyone understands the content. The article...
Nature League
Everyday Biodiversity - Field Trip
Many pupils associate biodiversity with the rain forest or coral reefs, but there is so much more to learn. Join a virtual field trip into a pharmacy to explore the importance of biodiversity in all forms. The second video in a four-part...
California Academy of Science
Why Protect Pollinators?
Would you rather having biting flies or chocolate? The question may seem absurd, but cocoa trees rely on pollination from biting flies. Viewers come to understand the importance of pollinators to our food supply, flowers, and entire...
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...