Crash Course
Ecosystem Ecology: Links in the Chain - Crash Course Ecology
Hank brings us to the next level of ecological study with ecosystem ecology, which looks at how energy, nutrients, and materials are getting shuffled around within an ecosystem (a collection of living and nonliving things interacting in...
Crash Course Kids
The End Is Only The Beginning
It's the end of this first year of Crash Course Kids and we've learned so many things. In this episode, Sabrina takes us on a tour of some of the ideas we've talked about and how they fit into our lives. Also, what all of these ideas...
Crash Course Kids
The Dirt on Decomposers
We've talked about food chains and how energy moves through an ecosystem, but let's take a step back and see how everything starts... and ends. Decomposers! This first series is based on 5th grade science. We're super excited and hope...
TED Talks
TED: The real danger lurking in the water | Romulus Whitaker
The gharial and king cobra are two of India's most iconic reptiles, and they're endangered because of polluted waterways. Conservationist Romulus Whitaker shows rare footage of these magnificent animals and urges us to save the rivers...
Crash Course Kids
Fabulous Food Chains
Everyone eats, right? But how does that food get the energy to power you? In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks about the way energy moves, or flows, through an ecosystem and how that movement forms Food Chains! This first...
Bozeman Science
Ecosystem Ecology
In this video Paul Andersen explains how ecosystems function. He begins with a description of how life on the planet is ordered from large to small in biomes, ecosystems, communities, population, and individuals. He describes the major...
Crash Course Kids
Climate Change
How does climate change? And what happens to environments and ecosystems when it does? In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina shows us the effects that climate change can have and how one small change in an ecosystem can throw...
Bozeman Science
Ecosystems
Paul Andersen explains how ecosystems interact with biotic and abiotic factors. He explains and gives examples of food chains and food webs. He shows how limiting factors eventually leads to logistic growth. Real data from Yellowstone...
Curated Video
Plastics and Your Health
New ReviewA video entitled "Plastics and Your Health" which talks about how plastics move up the food chain.
Curated Video
Why Crocodiles Are Thriving in the Shadow of A Nuclear Plant
New ReviewFlorida’s native crocodiles have found an unexpected sanctuary in the cooling canals at Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant. This fortunate happenstance, along with tireless conservation efforts, are helping these once endangered predators...
Wonderscape
The Critical Role of Insects in Ecosystems: Threats and Solutions
New ReviewScience Kids Climate Change Causing Insect Relocation The video explores the critical role of insects in ecosystems and the potential consequences of their decline due to factors like climate change and invasive species. It highlights...
Curated Video
Insectageddon | People & Power
Humanity relies heavily on insects to pollinate the crops that feed the world, but have pesticides, intensive farming and climate change wrought irreparable damage on that crucial ecosystem?
Curated Video
How Much of the Fat in Fish Is Good?
Howcast - Learn how much of the fat in fish is good fat from nutrition expert Alex Jamieson in this Howcast video.
Curated Video
5 Ways to Make Your Diet Eco-Friendly
Howcast - Learn five ways to make your diet eco-friendly in this Howcast video featuring Alegre of Green and Greener.
Curated Video
Predators and prey in a food chain
Pupil outcome: I can identify and name predators and prey in food chains. Key learning points: - An animal that eats mostly meat or the flesh of other animals is a carnivore. - A predator is an animal that hunts, kills and eats other...
Curated Video
Comparing different food chains
Pupil outcome: I can create my own food chains and use scientific language to compare them with others. Key learning points: - A food chain includes a producer and consumers, including predators and prey. - Food chains can be compared by...
Curated Video
Understanding small-scale ecosystems
Pupil outcome: I can understand the natural processes that occur within a small-scale ecosystem in the UK. Key learning points: - An ecosystem is a natural system in which plants, animals and their non-living environment interact. -...
Curated Video
Forms of Energy
“Forms of Energy” explains how potential energy, kinetic energy, and heat energy change into other forms of energy.
Visual Learning Systems
Food Chains
In this video students will learn how living things and nonliving things interact in ecosystems. Specific attention is given to identifying producers, consumers and decomposers. Vivid, live-action video shows these relationships in...
Visual Learning Systems
Ecosystems and Food Chains
In this video students will learn how living things and nonliving things interact in ecosystems. Specific attention is given to identifying producers, consumers and decomposers. Vivid, live-action video shows these relationships in...
Visual Learning Systems
Summing Up
In this video students will learn how living things and nonliving things interact in ecosystems. Specific attention is given to identifying producers, consumers and decomposers. Vivid, live-action video shows these relationships in...
Curated Video
Pyramid of numbers
A diagram used to represent the number of individual organisms occupying each feeding level of a food chain. A Twig Science Glossary Film. Key scientific terms defined in just 60 seconds using stunning images and concise textual...
Curated Video
Trophic level
The position an organism occupies within a food chain. A Twig Science Glossary Film. Key scientific terms defined in just 60 seconds using stunning images and concise textual definitions. Twig Science Glossary Films reinforce abstract...