Curated Video
Energy from the Sun
Energy from the Sun describes how life on Earth depends upon energy from the sun by providing examples of dependence.
Curated Video
Types of Precipitation
Types of Precipitation distinguishes between the various forms of precipitation, including rain, snow, sleet, freezing rain, and hail.
Lingokids
Curiosity Time with Libby: Water Everywhere
Coach Libby helps Lisa discover where water come from before it enters a house and where it goes afterwards.
Curated Video
The Water Cycle
The Water Cycle identifies and illustrates each component of the water cycle.
Curated Video
The Hydrosphere
The Hydrosphere discusses the concept of the hydrosphere and highlights its importance by breaking down the four forms of water and how they all work together in the water cycle.
Curated Video
The Water Cycle and the Ocean
The Water Cycle and the Ocean explains the water cycle by describing the basic components of the water cycle, including the ocean’s important connection to Earth’s water reservoir.
Curated Video
Deforestation
Deforestation explains how cultural patterns and economic decisions influence the environment and daily lives of people by analyzing the causes and effects of and solutions for deforestation.
Curated Video
High Five Facts - Deforestation
This video explores five fun facts about deforestation.
Weatherthings
Pileus Clouds
Pileus Clouds are also known as Cap Clouds or Scarf Clouds. They form over fast-growing cumulus or Cumulonimbus Clouds, in quiet or stormy weather, as a wispy, smooth band of clouds, curved like a contact lens.
Weatherthings
Lenticular Clouds
Lenticular Clouds are also known as Lenticularis because they are shaped like a lens. They are common over mountains where air is forced to rise and sink, forming smooth clouds above the mountains and downwind of the mountains. They also...
Weatherthings
Great Miami Hurricane of 1926
The Great Miami Hurricane of 1926 was the second strongest hurricane to strike Miami at that time. It was a Category 4, landing on September 18, 1926, after battering the Bahamas. The tremendous impact in Miami and South Florida was not...
Weatherthings
Bomb Cyclone
A Bomb Cyclone is a middle-latitude low pressure storm system. It must have falling air pressure, measured by a barometer, losing at least 1 millibar per hour for 24 hours. When the pressure in a storm falls, the wind increases. You hear...
Weatherthings
Stratus Clouds
Stratus Clouds are part of the water cycle. They are stratified, with soft edges, wider than they are tall, and found at mainly 3 different heights in the atmosphere. They can be made of water droplets or ice crystals, and some create...
Weatherthings
Hurricane Ian
Hurricane Ian was a powerful, devastating and deadly storm, especially for Florida, in 2022. With wind over 150mph, rain over 20” in some areas, and storm surge over 12 feet, Ian impacted millions of people, while taking over 150 lives....
Weatherthings
Hurricane Andrew, 1992
Hurricane Andrew was one of the few hurricanes to strike the United States as a Category 5. At the time, in 1992, it was the most expensive natural disaster in the nation's history. After devastating Homestead, Florida, and surrounding...
Weatherthings
Cumulus Clouds
Cumulus Clouds can fill the sky, in any season, anywhere on Earth, in different sizes, shapes, colors, heights and combinations. They bubble upward, looking like cotton balls or cauliflower. Cumulus clouds accumulate water or ice, and...
Weatherthings
Atmospheric River
Moisture, or water vapor in air, that is concentrated in a narrow band more than several hundred miles wide, and extends across oceans or continents for sometimes thousands of miles, is known as an Atmospheric River. In the Pacific...
Weatherthings
Gulf Coast Hurricane of July, 1916
A Category 3 hurricane made landfall near the Mississippi-Alabama State line on July 5, 1916, with record wind and storm surge impact in Mobile, Alabama, and then inland flooding throughout several states. Newspapers reported, “The...
Weatherthings
Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900
The Hurricane of 1900 striking Galveston, Texas, is known as the deadliest weather disaster in the United States. An estimated 8,000 people were killed by a hurricane that arrived with little notice, leaving over 10,000 people homeless,...
FuseSchool
BIOLOGY - Environment - Water Cycle
Learn the basics about the water cycle as part of the environmental chemistry topic. This also features in the Biology course too.
Visual Learning Systems
What Is the Water Cycle?: What Is a Cycle?
This beautiful program illustrates the key components of the water cycle that occurs everywhere around us. Concepts and terminology: condensation, evaporation, precipitation, cloud, rain, snow, sleet, and hail.
Science360
Dead Trees & Dirty Water In The Rockies
The Rocky Mountains supply water to more than 60 million homes in the West, but this crucial water shed is in peril due to a tiny insect called the mountain pine beetle. Scientists Reed Maxwell of Colorado School of Mines and John...
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...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Oceanic Economics
At a time when the world faces a multitude of potential calamities ranging from climate change to water pollution and plastic pollution, to rapid population growth, the solution may well be in the sea around us. “It is water, the world’s...