Instructional Video12:39
Be Smart

Is Earth's Most Important Ocean Current Doomed?

12th - Higher Ed
Ocean currents are our planet’s circulatory system, and they keep everything from ecosystems to the climate healthy. But we’re changing Earth in ways that threaten to disrupt and even break critical ocean currents like the planet-wide...
Instructional Video10:13
SciShow

Climate Change

12th - Higher Ed
In which Hank details the five scariest things that will likely happen because of climate change.
Instructional Video4:31
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: How do ocean currents work? - Jennifer Verduin

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Dive into the science of ocean currents (including the Global Conveyor Belt current), and find out how climate change affects them. -- In 1992, a cargo ship carrying bath toys got caught in a storm. Shipping containers washed...
Instructional Video10:28
SciShow

Climate Change

12th - Higher Ed
In which Hank details the five scariest things that will likely happen because of climate change.
Instructional Video4:09
Curated Video

Ocean Currents

3rd - Higher Ed
This video describes density differentiation between ocean surface currents and deep ocean currents, and how this difference affects global ocean current flow.
Instructional Video1:41
Next Animation Studio

‘Heat blob’ contributing to sea ice loss in Arctic

12th - Higher Ed
An underwater “heat blob” from the Atlantic is exacerbating the warming of the Arctic Ocean and contributing to the rapid disappearance of Arctic sea ice
Instructional Video5:20
TED-Ed

The Motion of the Ocean

6th - 12th Standards
What drives the ocean's motion? Get your class moving toward understanding by using this video. Viewers find that thermohaline circulation is caused by the concentration gradients of temperature and salinity. Using adorable animation in...
Instructional Video2:09
Bill Nye

Bill Nye The Science Guy on Ocean Currents

5th - 8th
Density drives the ocean currents. The difference in density is caused by the sun heating up the water and causing evaporation that leaves salt behind. The result? Thermohaline circulation! You could highlight this fine film in your...