Visual Learning Systems
Geography of Deserts
This video explores the characteristics of major deserts around the world, including the Sahara, and focuses on the North American deserts such as the Chihuahuan, Mojave, and Sonoran. This video is part of the 11-part series, Deserts and...
Weatherthings
Weather Things: Water on Earth
The cycle of water from the air to the ground to the oceans and back to the air never ends. Water is found in the air, in the ground, in rivers and oceans, and it's found as gas, liquid, and solid. As it moves though phases and locations...
Curated Video
Way Cool Science II: Ecosystems and Biomes
The climate, animals, and plant life vary greatly in the different parts of the world. Students explore how wildlife and the environment work together in harmony. By viewing the program and engaging in activities, viewers will learn to...
Visual Learning Systems
Survival Strategies of Desert Animals
In this video, we learn about the challenges that large animals face in surviving in the desert. By understanding these adaptations, we gain insight into how animals thrive in the hot and dry desert biome. This video is part of the...
Visual Learning Systems
Contrasting the Deciduous Forest and Desert Biomes
This video discusses the concept of biomes and focuses on the major difference in climate between deciduous forests and deserts. It highlights that while deserts are commonly associated with heat, they can also be cold and experience...
Visual Learning Systems
The Biosphere: Terrestrial Biomes
This program explores the major features of earth's amazing biosphere. Students are introduced to the biotic and abiotic components found in an ecosystem. Footage from throughout the world illustrates how ecosystems can change over time....
Weird History
How The Egyptian Pyramids Were Built
The Great Pyramid – the largest of several Egyptian pyramids found at Giza – is the only surviving wonder of the ancient world. With such a fantastical past, it has long been debated how those pyramids were built without the help of...
Ancient Lights Media
Atlas of Africa: Geography and People of Northern Africa
This program examines the geography, climate and people of Northern Africa
Mazz Media
Exploring Communities and Geography
Whether students live near an ocean, the mountains or the desert, this exciting program will show them how the geography shapes and molds the daily life and economics of a community. Students will learn about land formation as well as...
Weatherthings
Water Smart: Water in the Air - Clouds
Water in the Air reveals the varied phases of water that surround us, fall on us, travel in air, and serve as a crucial component of the water cycle. Emphasis is on the fact that water in air can be vapor or solid, visible or invisible,...
Hip Hughes History
Ancient Chinese Civilization Explained
A basic overview of the beginnings of Chinese Civilization.
Visual Learning Systems
Soil and Rocks: Soil Differences
Many of the things we eat and enjoy are grown in soil. This engaging program explores the soil and rocks importance of soil while taking a look at how soil is formed. Different types of soil and their characteristics are explored.
Visual Learning Systems
Comparing Ecosystems: Desert vs Swamp
In this video, the teacher compares and contrasts a desert and a swamp, highlighting their differences in terms of dryness and wetness. The concept of an ecosystem is introduced, explaining that it encompasses all living and nonliving...
Visual Learning Systems
Adaptations of Desert Plants
This video provides a brief overview of the unique characteristics and strategies that desert plants employ to thrive in their harsh environments. This video is part of the 9-part series, Exploring Desert Biomes.
Mazz Media
Way Cool Science II: Habitats
Max Orbit asks questions about the world and searches for answers. This DVD series is designed to engage students while introducing scientific principles and concepts in a fun and entertaining way. In this program viewers will travel the...
Curated Video
Biomes
This brief video introduces the viewer to the definition of a biome. It includes the six main types of biome and a discussion of different theories on how biomes should be classified.
Visual Learning Systems
Introduction to Ecosystems
The video explores the different environments on Earth. The video also introduces the concept of an organism's environment, which includes all living and nonliving things it interacts with. Ecosystems part 1/8
Curated Video
Heavy Rains Trigger Desert Flower Explosion | Rare Bloom Transforms Atacama Desert
New ReviewUnusually heavy rains in Chile’s Atacama Desert have triggered a rare natural spectacle known as the "desert bloom," where vibrant wildflowers cover the typically barren landscape.
Curated Video
Syria, Turkey, Jordan to restore Hejaz railway
New ReviewThere are few train journeys that linger in the imagination quite like the Hejaz Railway. Over a hundred years ago, it carried pilgrims, soldiers, and traders across deserts, cutting through empires and connecting Damascus to Medina....
Curated Video
Turkey plans new highway linking Istanbul to the Red Sea
New ReviewThere are few train journeys that linger in the imagination quite like the Hejaz Railway. Over a hundred years ago, it carried pilgrims, soldiers, and traders across deserts, cutting through empires and connecting Damascus to Medina....
Curated Video
Canarsie woman working to open movie theater
New ReviewA mural at the site of the historic Jerry Building on Rockaway Parkway will be used to show movies on a projection screen, where the audience will be able to sit and watch.
Curated Video
Mojave Desert-Raised Organic Hemp Coming This Year, Says Cadiz CEO
Southern California will soon be home to Mojave Desert-based organic hemp production through a newly created joint venture between natural resources company Cadiz Inc. and cannabis cultivator Glass House Farms.
Curated Video
Trump's border wall: Bulldozers threaten unspoiled park
US-Mexico border wall will go along southern edge of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument - an area of exceptional beauty.
Curated Video
Great green wall: Villagers' defence against desert
Al Jazeera meets Senegalese in a race against effects of climate change.