Food Farmer Earth
Corn Chronicles: A Farmer's Passionate Pursuit of Heritage Varieties
Highlighting a farmer's journey into cultivating diverse corn varieties, this narrative explores the deep connection between agriculture and heritage through the lens of corn farming. It touches on the aesthetic appreciation and...
Curated Video
The History and Recipe of Muffin
Muffins are a form of bread that is often eaten for breakfast or as a snack. There are two common types of muffin: the American muffin and the English muffin. Learn about the differences between the two and try making English muffins!
Curated Video
Are You Eating Something Red?
Foods come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. There are red foods like tomato, strawberry, apple, and watermelon. And yellow foods like corn, summer squash, pineapple, and banana. Purple foods include grapes, eggplants, plums, and...
Curated Video
Thanksgiving Hidden Picture Game
Let's play a Vocabulary Game about Thanksgiving vocabulary words. This is a Hidden Picture Game where you have to guess what the hidden picture is before it's fully revealed. This Thanksgiving Game is perfect for use in the classroom, in...
Curated Video
Myths and Legends About Maize in the Americas
Where did maize come from? There is a scientific answer to that question and there are the more creative and intriguing stories. This video covers some of the myths and legends of maize in the Americas. Maize part 3/5
ACDC Leadership
Production Possibilities Curve Review
In this video I explain how the production possibilities curve (PPC) shows scarcity, trade-offs, opportunity cost, and efficiency. This is the first graph you are going to learn in your economics class. Thanks for watching.
Curated Video
The Nutritional Value of Popcorn
Popcorn is a snack made from a unique type of corn that pops when heated. Its three main components - the endosperm, germ, and pericarp - work together to create that satisfying popping sensation that people love. With its low calorie...
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.
ACDC Leadership
Price Ceilings and Floors- Micro Topic 2.8
In this video I explain what happens when the government controls market prices. Price ceilings are a legal maximum price and price floors are a minimum legal price. Make sure that you can draw each of them on a demand and supply graph...
PBS
Why Do We Eat Popcorn at The Movies?
Why do we eat popcorn at the movies? And what does the Great Depression and farm subsidies have to do with it?
Ancient Lights Media
The Geography and Culture of Ukraine
This clip looks at the physical features, climate and culture of Ukraine.
Science360
Green Gasoline
Like everyone else, George Huber knows money doesn't grow on trees. But, ask him where gasoline comes from and he won't just tell you, he'll show you. To fully understand, Science Nation recently went with Huber to a local lumber yard in...
Mazz Media
Exploring Our Past: Native Peoples of the Southwest
Live-action video, archival photos and colorful animated graphics will help your students learn how the Pueblo, Hopi, Navajo, Pima, and Apache peoples thrived in the barren lands of the Southwest. The program explores the foods they ate,...
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...
Curated Video
Should we keep eating Soul Food?
As our culture evolves so does our food. What was once eaten out of necessity has become celebratory, all the while being the topic of constant debate. Evelyn & Hallease explore the new and inventive ways our generation is honoring and...
Next Animation Studio
How biodegradable corn plastic is made
This video illustrates how plastic is made from corn. Corn plastic is a kind of polylactide, or PLA, plastic. Polylactides are made from the resin of corn and other plants. Polylactides are biodegradable but also more fragile and...
Science360
Biofuels - Science of Innovation
A new approach to producing biofuels that uses a marine bacterium called Saccharophagus degradans that left otherwise alone, is mostly known for its damaging impact on the environment. Provided by the National Science Foundation & NBC Learn
Wonderscape
High-Frequency Nouns for First Grade
This video teaches high-frequency nouns, such as "flower," "children," "farmer," "letter," etc. Join host Julianna, who explains what high-frequency nouns are, and enthusiastically presents each word, sounds it out slowly and uses it in...
Food Farmer Earth
Hybrids and Seed Monopolies: Shaping the Future of Agriculture
The emergence of hybrid crops, characterized by their fleeting genetic combinations stable for only one generation, revolutionized plant breeding by enabling rapid improvements in yield, protein, and oil quality. However, this innovation...
TMW Media
ASL - Food pop quiz
Excellent for every American Sign Language (ASL) student as well as teachers, parents and professionals learning ASL to be able to communicate clearly, naturally and start signing with the deaf community and people with hearing loss....
Weird History
What Everyday Life Was Like for the Aztecs
You may have heard of their calendars, seen their temples, or admired one of their cool looking sculptural artifacts in a museum, but chances are you have no idea what life was really like for the Aztecs.
Curated Video
How a $76M grain terminal expansion will help farmers in southwestern Ontario and beyond
New ReviewA massive expansion at Windsor's port worth tens of millions of dollars will help connect local farmers to the rest of the world.The CBC's Chris Ensing has the story.
Curated Video
'Obsessed with corn': Here's what it takes to rehab bear cubs for the wild
New ReviewThe Alberta Institute for Wildlife Conservation is seeing a record number of animals arrive at its rehabilitation facility north of Calgary. Among them are three orphaned black bear cubs being prepared for release in October. (Photo...