Instructional Video
SciShow

Sci Show Kids: Fireflies: Nature's Baffling Blinkers

5th - 8th
This video explains how fireflies are actually beetles! Also learn about the metamorphosis the fireflies go through as well as what gives them the ability to be bioluminescence. [4:22]
Audio
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Video Pick of the Week: Bioluminescence

9th - 10th
Organisms that can light up the night.
Audio
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: What Pulled the Plug on the Bioluminescent Bay?

9th - 10th
The glowing bioluminescent bay near Fajardo, Puerto Rico went dark for more than a week in November.
Instructional Video
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Bacterial Quorum Sensing

9th - 10th
An explanation of how Vibrio harveyi, a marine bacteria, functions as a signaling molecule that turns on genes that produce bioluminescence.