Instructional Video1:33
Visual Learning Systems

The Importance of Biodiversity

9th - 12th
The video is a short educational piece that explains the importance of biodiversity and its impact on the health of the planet. The video also highlights some of the causes of species extinction, such as habitat destruction and...
Instructional Video3:43
FuseSchool

BIOLOGY - Environment - Endangered species

6th - Higher Ed
You can probably name quite a few endangered species - polar bear, blue whale and black rhino are just a few. But there are many more that don’t get so much attention - there are currently around sixteen and a half thousand animals and...
Instructional Video4:14
Nature League

What Are Adaptations? - Lesson Plan

6th - 8th
In this Nature League Lesson Plan, Brit discusses physical and behavioral adaptations of life on Earth and shares some of her favorites.
Instructional Video2:23
Visual Learning Systems

People and the Environment: Species Extinction and Exotic Species

3rd - 8th
Students will explore the notion of resource conservation, and identify the differences between renewable and non-renewable resources. Some of the ways our environment may be harmed via pollution, deforestation, species extinction, and...
Instructional Video9:19
Curated Video

Using Specific Vocabulary Words in Writing

K - 5th
The video teaches how to use specific vocabulary words to help readers understand and learn more about a topic. It provides examples of specific words and how to incorporate them into writing to make it more informative and precise. The...
Instructional Video3:33
Visual Learning Systems

Examples of Environmental Problems

9th - 12th
In this educational video, we delve into the pressing environmental issues of pollution, global warming, and extinction. We explore the concept of pollution, its various forms, and how it contaminates our air, water, and land. Discover...
Interactive3:28
Scholastic

Study Jams! Population Growth

6th - 9th Standards
Along came a spider, who sat down beside her. She screamed, but RJ wouldn't smash it because spiders are a limiting factor for other insects in an ecosystem. In this video, other common limiting factors for populations are listed....
Instructional Video
Science for Kids

Science Kids: Dinosaur Videos: Stegosaurus v Allosaurus

9th - 10th
See a confrontation between Stegosaurus and Allosaurus with amazing CGI effects that bring the long extinct dinosaurs to life. [2:40]
Instructional Video
Science for Kids

Science Kids: Dinosaur Videos: When T Rex Attack!

9th - 10th
Amazing CGI footage shows a T-Rex on the attack, killing its prey and sharing the catch with her Tyrannosaurus chicks. [3:00]
Instructional Video
Science for Kids

Science Kids: Dinosaur Videos: The Age of Dinosaurs Begins

9th - 10th
Watch in wonder as dinosaurs begin to make their mark on the world. [2:03]
Instructional Video
Science for Kids

Science Kids: Dinosaur Videos: Dangerous Life of Dinosaurs

9th - 10th
See how the environment changed during the late Cretaceous Period, the last days of the dinosaurs. [3:59]
Instructional Video
Science for Kids

Science Kids: Dinosaur Videos: Dinosaur Extinction Video

9th - 10th
Find out about some of the theories of how the dinosaurs became extinct. [2:02]
Instructional Video
Science for Kids

Science Kids: Dinosaur Videos: How Dinosaurs Moved

9th - 10th
Follow the making of the BBC documentary 'Walking with Dinosaurs' and learn how experts developed an understanding of dinosaur movement by following the movements of large animals alive today such as elephants. [5:17]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs News Hour: Here's What Contributed to the Extinction of the Ivory Billed Woodpecker

9th - 10th
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed moving 23 animals and plants off the endangered species list, declaring them extinct. Perhaps the most well-known of the species deemed gone forever is the ivory-billed woodpecker. These...
Instructional Video
Science for Kids

Science Kids: Dinosaur Videos: Recreating Dinosaurs

9th - 10th
See how scientists use fossils, bones, skeletons and even skin impressions to model the probable appearance of dinosaurs with ever improving accuracy. [3:43]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Mass Extinction

9th - 10th
Presentation of an emerging theory that explains the mass extinction of life that occurred at the end of the Permian period. [4:51]
Audio
NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: A Guinea Pig the Size of a Horse

9th - 10th
This site is provided for by National Public Radio. A seven foot tall rodent that weighs nearly one ton seems like something out of the movies, but researchers have found a skeleton of a rodent the size of a horse. Read about this...