Visual Learning Systems
The Great Plains: Grasslands, Wildlife, and the Dust Bowl
This video provides a description of the Great Plains, a vast grassland region located in the central part of the United States and Canada. It discusses the two major groups of grasslands, the short Grass Prairie and the mixed Prairie,...
Visual Learning Systems
Sustainability and Natural Resources: Consumption of Natural Resources
This program serves as an introduction to resource sustainability, focusing on the key strategies of resource efficiency, recycling, reusing, and reducing. The long-term impacts of resource use on human health and the environment are...
Step Back History
The Pre-Columbian Peoples
Human history in America goes back over 10,000 years. In this first episode of Step Back's American History we look at the Pre-Columbian peoples and how they settled the western hemisphere.
Visual Learning Systems
Exploring Grassland Biomes: Introduction
Upon viewing the Exploring Grassland Biomes video series, students will be able to do the following: Describe some of the basic characteristics of grasslands: - grasslands receive 25 to 75 centimeters of rain a year - grazing by large...
Visual Learning Systems
Understanding Adaptations and Natural Selection
This video explains the concept of adaptation and natural selection in evolution. It uses examples of bison and finches to demonstrate how variations that help organisms survive in their environment are passed on to future...
Curated Video
In Real Life: Nature Divided
In this week's episode of "In Real Life," correspondent Sam Eaton shows how conservationists are trying to bridge a divide across fragile ecosystems. (Scripps News)
Curated Video
Wildlife 'tourons' put themselves and animals in danger
Accounts have popped up on social media documenting the phenomenon of people getting too close to wild animals. They are sometimes called "tourons. (Scripps News)
Curated Video
Fears for bisons with tighter borders
1. Tilt from trees to herd of European bison
2. Various, bison grazing
3. Various, forest
4. Wide shot, map of area on wall of office
5. Close shot, Bialowieza National Park on map
6. Various, fence running through forest on Belarus...