Instructional Video
Crash Course

Crash Course Kids 38.2: Big Changes in the Big Forest

3rd - 8th
In this Crash Course episode, learn how humans change their environments simply by living in them. [4:38]
Instructional Video
Crash Course

Crash Course Kids 38.1: Big Changes in the Big Apple

Pre-K - 1st
Find out how humans have been changing our environments for a long time. [4:56]
Instructional Video
NOAA

Noaa: Estuary Education: Urban Estuaries: Living in a Toxic Soup

9th - 10th
Urban areas often expand around estuaries. Industrial development often leaves a legacy of pollution in these areas. This video looks at what kind of long-term pollution is found in the Duwamish estuary in Seattle, and how estuary life...
Instructional Video
NOAA

Noaa: Estuary Education: Hazardous Habitat

9th - 10th
Estuaries are important habitats for salmon, but development, deforestation, and human interaction have caused damage to these ecosystems. Learn how to mitigate this damage and restore the estuary. [3:32]
Instructional Video
Bozeman Science

Bozeman Science: Biodiversity & Humans

9th - 10th
In this video, Paul Andersen defines biodiversity and explains the impacts humans are having on the planet's biodiversity. Humans are impacting the variety of life on our planet through habitat destruction, invasive species, pollution,...
Instructional Video
Crash Course

Crash Course Ecology #10: 5 Human Impacts on the Environment

9th - 10th
Hank gives the run down on the top five ways humans are negatively impacting the environment and having detrimental effects on the valuable ecosystem services which a healthy biosphere provides. [10:38]
Instructional Video
NOAA

Noaa: Estuary Education: Urban Estuaries: Human Changes

9th - 10th
Often humans living in close contact with an estuary want to fix it. We learn about the changes humans made to the Duwamish Estuary in Seattle. and how many groups are seeking to reverse these changes. [9:55]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Oil Contamination Affects Food Web

9th - 10th
This video adapted from KTOO explores the impact of oil contamination on the herring population of Prince William Sound, Alaska, in 1999, 10 years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill.3m 03s
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Bullfrog Films: Gwich'in Tribe Protects Caribou and Culture

9th - 10th
Gwich'in Chief Evon Peter of Arctic Village, Alaska explains the importance of the caribou to his people and the tribes need to protect the herd from the effects of oil drilling. [5:43]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Steve Mac Lean: Conservationist

9th - 10th
In this video profile produced for Teachers' Domain, meet conservationist Steve MacLean, an Inupiaq from Barrow, Alaska, who works to preserve the health of the Bering Sea ecosystem. Site includes short essay, discussion questions,...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Ruff Ruffman: An Orange Dog Goes Green

2nd - 5th
Learn about being environmentally friendly with the help of technology, and the much-loved character Ruff Ruffman. [2 min, 44 sec]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Ruff Ruffman: Ask Ruff: The Green Edition

2nd - 5th
Hear advice from the much-loved character Ruff Ruffman on how to use media and technology to help the environment. [2:37]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ecology: Human Activities That Threaten Biodiversity

9th - 10th
Learn about the human activities that cause a loss of biodiversity. [12:51]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: 5 Human Impacts on the Environment

9th - 10th
In this Crash Course video, understand how the ecosystems is affected by human activity. [9:59]
Instructional Video
Science for Kids

Science Kids: Nature Videos: The Curiosity of Humans

5th - 8th
This video highlights human's curiosity with nature and explorin our environment. [4:24]
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Environmental Concepts: Lesson 2

9th - 10th
This lesson will define ecology, natural environment, ecosystem, and environmental deficit, while delineating the formula for calculating human impact on the environment. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Environmental Concepts."
Instructional Video
Other

Story of Stuff Project: Story of Bottled Water

9th - 10th
This video presents an argument for not using bottled water. Learn about the consequences that come from using the bottles for our environment. Also discussed is a comparison between tap and bottled water nutrients and taste. [8:04]