Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: An Unpredictable Environment

9th - 10th
Short video in which Inuit observers describe how their traditional understanding of weather patterns is being challenged by unpredictable weather behaviors. [3:10]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Hubble Telescope: Looking Deep

9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from the Space Telescope Science Institute shows what the Hubble telescope found when it stared at a single, nearly empty spot in the sky for 10 days in 1995.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Solar Wind's Effect on Earth

9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from NASA describes solar storms and their effects on Earth. Animations of coronal mass ejections and solar cycles help explain what we know, and what we can predict, about solar activity. [4:44]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Nature Scene: Geology of North Dakota Badlands

3rd - 8th
NatureScene video in which students learn about the North Dakota Badlands, its geologic history, and how it has been shaped by erosion. [4:07]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Reptiles of the Congaree Swamp

3rd - 8th
In this video segment from NatureScene, discover some reptiles in the swamp forest ecosystem at Congaree Swamp National Park. [2:53]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Timbuktu

9th - 10th
This video from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly features Timbuktu, one of the most remote and inaccessible places on the planet and a former thriving center of Islamic learning. [5:52]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Publishing Genome Research

9th - 10th
Watch how NJ high school students apply basic principles of molecular biology to solve real research probloms and publish their own genome research at GenBank, the international genomic sequence database. [6:12]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Unique Species of Kentucky's Green River

9th - 10th
This video from Kentucky's Last Great Places shows how the Green River has remained unusually clean and why it is home to several endangered aquatic species. [4:13]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Restoration of the American Chestnut

9th - 10th
This video segment from Kentucky Life describes how scientists control pollination of one of the few remaining American chestnut trees to develop blight resistant trees. [4:47]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Collapse of Sharks

9th - 10th
This video segment from Nature shows the destructiveness of the shark fin and shark cartilage industries. [3:05]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: To List or Not to List

9th - 10th
In this video from Nature, learn more about the ongoing debate regarding whether or not the grizzly bear population needs special protection. [1:37]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Desirable Breeding Traits in Cattle

9th - 10th
This video from Nature offers a description of desirable traits in beef and dairy cattle. [2:55]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Birds of Kundha Kulam

9th - 10th
In this Nature video, learn about the extraordinary impact that birds have on the agriculture of a small Indian community. [2:47]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Hungry Beasts

9th - 10th
Learn about the wildebeest and locusts on the move in this video segment from Nature. [2:47]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Stem Cells Breakthrough

9th - 10th
In this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, follow the scientific process that led to a revolutionary method for creating stem cells without the use of human embryos. [5:16]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Math: What's the Problem? Amazing Chase

9th - 10th
This video, which parodies a well-known reality TV show, will help high school students review and prepare for the Ohio Graduation Test in Mathematics by focusing on math mistakes students often make. This is one in a series of math...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Nature's Supermarket

9th - 10th
In this video from WOSU Columbus, learn about the types of communities of plants, animals, birds and fish that abound in wetlands. [1:25]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: What Is a Wetland?

9th - 10th
In this video from WOSU Columbus, learn about wetlands, their different varieties, and why we should care about them. [1:04]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Producing Penicillin

9th - 10th
In this video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey, follow two scientists and their Nobel Prize-winning efforts to cure bacterial infections using penicillin. [4:54]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Role of Genetics in Obesity

9th - 10th
In this video segment from NOVA scienceNOW, meet researchers who are studying obesity and trying to understand the role that hormones and genetics can play in regulating appetite. [3:25]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Density and Buoyancy: Experimenting With Club Soda

Pre-K - 1st
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, the cast discovers that gas-filled bubbles act like life jackets for raisins, making them buoyant. [2:06]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Zoom: Columns: Experimenting With Paper Cups

3rd - 8th
ZOOM video segment shows the cast experimenting to see if a several paper cups covered by a piece of cardboard can support the weight of a cast member. [3:03]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Liquid Assets: How Is a Watershed Polluted?

9th - 10th
The urban and rural activities of our complex social system aimed toward comfort and progress also have harmful side effects. This segment from a WPSU documentary Liquid Assets describes how the water resources of one city are suffering...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Liquid Assets: Watershed Protection

9th - 10th
Water is a resource precious to so many people for so many reasons. Reckless use and abuse of this treasure can leave all at the mercy of diseases and scarcity. This segment of a WPSU documentary Liquid Assets describes how the rule of...