Curated Video
What Ecological Adaptations Enable Life to Flourish in Harsh Desert Climates?
Life in deserts is hard due to the scarcity of food and water. However, plants, animals, and humans have adapted in various ways to survive in these challenging environments. This video explores the incredible adaptations that enable...
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Physical Adaptations of Animals
Physical Adaptations of Animals explores the physical characteristic adaptations of various animals by discussing how those adaptations enable them to survive in different environments.
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Environmental Changes and Animals
Environmental Changes and Animals compares the differences of animals that die or relocate to animals that survive and reproduce when their environment changes.
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What Does Sunlight Do?
“What Does Sunlight Do?” discusses the warming effects of the sun.
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Mathematical Musings
Famed scientist and writer Freeman Dyson, Institute for Advanced Study, muses on Mathematical Platonism, choosing the analogy of Daniel Hillis' Songs of Eden to speculate that mathematics might have played a similar role for science that...
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Photosynthesis/Photosynthesis
Learn about Photosynthesis with this fun educational music video and parents. Brought to you by KLT. Don't forget to sing along.
Australian Children's Television Foundation
The Tasmanian Giant Freshwater Crayfish
Season 3, Platypus part 3 Known locally as lobsters, these large and impressive creatures were a tasty dinner for people in the past but today are on the protected species list. After the brief crayfish encounter, Kayne and Kamil learn...
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Climate Change
“Climate Change” introduces possible causes and effects of climate change along with potential actions that could mitigate the problem.
One Minute History
072 Monkeys in Space - One Minute History
1948 - The United States begins to send monkeys into space to test the biological effects. Albert I reaches sub-space, but does not survive. Albert the 2nd becomes the first monkey to make it into space, but dies after a parachute...
Professor Dave Explains
Scales of Ecology Part 1: Organisms and Populations
The best way to start a study of ecology is to look at the scales of ecology, from the smallest things the field studies, to the biggest. On the small end, ecologists can study individual organisms, as well as populations of those...
Professor Dave Explains
Scales of Ecology Part 2: Communities
Moving on from organisms and populations, the next tier on the scales of ecology is communities. These involve all the populations of organisms of different species that live in an area. How do they interact? How is the community...
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Amazing Camouflage
The video “Amazing Camouflage” explains how animals use forms of camouflage to survive in their habitats.
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Basic Needs of Living Things: Part 2
Dr. Algae shows examples of how different living things receive the food, air, and water that they need to survive.
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Basic Needs of Living Things: Part 1
Dr. Algae explains why all living things need food, air, and water to survive.
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Parts of a Plant: Part 1
Dr. Algae introduces the parts of a plant and explains the importance of each one.
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Life on Earth and Beyond
“Life on Earth and Beyond” discusses the origins of life on Earth and explores how scientists classify a thing as “living.”
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The Population Puzzle
“The Population Puzzle” examines the exponential increase of Earth’s population, as well as the complications and concerns that have resulted from that increase.
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Water: What If You Did Not Have Access to It?
“Water: What If You Did Not Have Access to It?” focuses on the many important uses of water and the number of ways life-forms depend on it.
Teaching Without Frills
Economics for Kids: Needs and Wants
In this economics video, you will learn the difference between needs and wants!
Schooling Online
Art Spiegelman's Maus - Volume 1, Chapters 5-6 Summary
Despite Vladek and Mala’s hectic marital problems, Art continues to record his father’s story. In these chapters, Vladek describes what it was like for Polish Jews in the 1940s. Crafty hiding places, the terror of getting caught, narrow...
Schooling Online
Art Spiegelman's Maus - Volume 1, Chapters 3-4 Summary
It’s 1939 and Vladek Spiegelman must join the Polish army to fight the Germans. But it’s not long before the Germans overwhelm the Polish forces and capture Poland. Vladek is taken as a prisoner of war but makes a daring escape. Sadly,...
Nature League
Is Oxygen Necessary?
In their very first episode of "From A to B", Adrian asks Brit about the relationships between oxygen and life on Earth.
Curated Video
Would Titanic Have Survived If It Had Collided Head-On With The Iceberg?
If the Titanic were to collide with the iceberg – a stationary, mammoth object – most of the energy of the impact would have to be absorbed by the ship, which would have only made matters worse. An abrupt stop would have thrown people...
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What Have Sunflowers Got To Do With Nuclear Disasters?
Sunflowers are the international symbol for nuclear disarmament. You will most likely find sunflowers around areas where nuclear disasters have occurred in the past. Following the 1986 meltdown at the Chernobyl Power Plant in Ukraine,...