Weatherthings
Rip Current Safety: Introduction
This is the science of what, where, and how of rip currents. Most lifeguard rescues on ocean beaches in the United States are for rip currents. See how to avoid rip currents and learn safety from these killer currents on beaches. They...
US Department of Agriculture
Efforts To Improve A Great Lake's Water Quality
To help protect or improve the quality of water resources throughout the U.S. is just one of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s missions. One of our Nation’s Great Lakes has been in trouble for years, and USDA efforts to expand...
Mazz Media
Precipitation
This live-action video program is about precipitation. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated...
Science360
Nutrient Loading In Lake Erie
Part of the earth's largest surface freshwater system, Lake Erie is a vital source of drinking water for 11 million people. Researchers Anna Michalak, Tom Bridgeman, and Pete Richards are studying how farming practices and severe weather...
Weatherthings
Rip Current Safety: Summary
This is the science of what, where, and how of rip currents. Most lifeguard rescues on ocean beaches in the United States are for rip currents. See how to avoid rip currents and learn safety from these killer currents on beaches. They...
Weatherthings
Water Smart: Water on Earth - Glaciers
Water on Earth focuses on water as most kids would think about it. We start with water in obvious locations such as oceans, lakes, and rivers. We quickly learn that water can change phase to remain a solid in glaciers. Many kids may be...
Visual Learning Systems
Water: Freshwater
Characteristics of various ocean zones, including variations in ocean temperature, salinity, and depth are discussed. The different groups of marine life and adaptations of plants and animals are highlighted. Estuaries and various...
Weatherthings
Rip Current Safety: What is a Rip Current?
This is the science of what, where, and how of rip currents. Most lifeguard rescues on ocean beaches in the United States are for rip currents. See how to avoid rip currents and learn safety from these killer currents on beaches. They...
Weatherthings
Rip Current Safety: How Can You Stay Safe from Rip Currents?
This is the science of what, where, and how of rip currents. Most lifeguard rescues on ocean beaches in the United States are for rip currents. See how to avoid rip currents and learn safety from these killer currents on beaches. They...
Weatherthings
Water Smart: Water on Earth - Quiz
Water on Earth focuses on water as most kids would think about it. We start with water in obvious locations such as oceans, lakes, and rivers. We quickly learn that water can change phase to remain a solid in glaciers. Many kids may be...
Visual Learning Systems
Understanding Watersheds: Ponds, Lakes, and Water Flow
This video explains the formation and characteristics of ponds and lakes within a watershed. It highlights how water collects and forms bodies of standing water, with ponds being smaller examples and lakes being larger ones. Freshwater...
Visual Learning Systems
Exploring Freshwater Biomes: Summing Up
Upon viewing the Exploring Freshwater Biomes video series, students will be able to do the following: List some of the ways fresh water is used in daily life. Understand how and why fresh water is so important to the lives of humans and...
Weatherthings
Water Smart: Water on Earth - Estuaries
Water on Earth focuses on water as most kids would think about it. We start with water in obvious locations such as oceans, lakes, and rivers. We quickly learn that water can change phase to remain a solid in glaciers. Many kids may be...
Visual Learning Systems
Water: Ponds, Lakes, Swamps
Characteristics of various ocean zones, including variations in ocean temperature, salinity, and depth are discussed. The different groups of marine life and adaptations of plants and animals are highlighted. Estuaries and various...
Nature League
Searching for Mysis Shrimp - Field Trip
In this Nature League Field Trip, Brit joins researchers at the University of Montana Flathead Lake Biological Station to sample for freshwater invertebrates, including Mysis shrimp. Thanks to Dr. Jim Elser for being our field guide at...
Weatherthings
Weather Things: Precipitation Types
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Kurt Squire - Game-Based Learning
Kurt Squire is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Educational Communications and Technology division of Curriculum and Instruction and a research scientist a the Academic Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Lab....
Curated Video
Finland, Lake Saimaa biospheric area
Saimaa is a lake in southeastern Finland. At approximately 4,400 square kilometres, it is the largest lake in Finland, and the fourth largest natural freshwater lake in Europe. It was formed by glacial melting at the end of the Ice Age....
Mediacorp
Trouble on the Mekong: Negative Effect of Dams on the Mekong River
This video highlights the growing demand for power in the developing world, particularly in Asia, and the reliance on hydropower as a clean alternative to fossil fuels. However, it also explores the negative consequences of hydropower...
Visual Learning Systems
What Is a Fish?: Where Do Fish Live?
This lively video investigates the wide, colorful assortment of fish found on the planet. Concepts and terminology: saltwater, freshwater, cold-blooded, fins, backbone, eggs, scales, and gills.
Weatherthings
Weather Things: Tornado Statistics
Over a thousand tornadoes happen every year in the United States but only few dozen take lives. Most tornadoes are brief and weak but the tornadoes that are large and powerful can wipe homes off their foundations. Tornadoes only come...
Next Animation Studio
British scientists to explore Antarctica's Lake Ellsworth
A team of 12 scientists from Britain have begun a mission to explore Lake Ellsworth in the north west of Antarctica. The 14-kilometer long, three-kilometer wide, 160-meter deep lake is located 3.2 kilometers beneath a glacier and is...
Restoration Planet
Turbidity: family and community in the face of a mining disaster
The Restoration Planet team explores an environmental disaster very close to home, the Mount Polley tailings dam failure of August 2014. Turbidity is an intimate and poetic perspective on one of Canada's largest environmental disasters....
The Viral Fever
Water: Uros Island People, Peru
Humans cannot survive for more than a few days without water. We are made of 70% water, and so is the entire planet. For these reasons, human identity is forever linked to water, both fresh and salt. The Uru people have take "living with...