Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Plate Tectonics: Difference Between Crust and Lithosphere
The instructor explores the plates in the makeup of Earth's surface. Evidence and theories about plate tectonics are featured. [8:00]
Other
E How Education: School Projects on Plate Tectonics
A science teacher demonstrates a number of simple models that teachers can use, or have students make, when teaching about plate tectonics and earthquakes. [5:38]
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Plate Tectonics & Large Scale System Interactions
In this video, Paul Andersen explains how plate tectonics explains the large-scale system interactions on our planet. Large plates float on the mantle and interact to form the major landforms on the planet. Evidence for plate tectonics...
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Plate Tectonics
Mr. Andersen describes how plate tectonics shapes our planet. Continental and oceanic platers are contrasted and major plate boundaries are discussed.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Science Bulletins: Mapping the Heat Beneath
As seismic waves from earthquakes pass through the planet, their patterns can reveal hidden dynamics-hotspots, deep-diving rock, melting mantle-in Earth's interior. An array of seismometers that's being installed across the United States...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: A Land Born in Fire
In this Nature video, follow geologists as they retrieve samples from a fresh batch of Kilauea's molten lava. [5:25]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Creating an Island Paradise
In this video segment from Nature, learn the geological process by which the next Hawaiian island will be formed. [1:12]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Geology: Pacific Ring of Fire: Lesson 1
This lesson introduces and explores the Pacific Ring of Fire. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Geology: Pacific Ring of Fire."
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Qrius: Volcano Geochemistry Windows to Earth's Interior
Geologist Dr. Elizabeth Cottrell, describes why she considers volcanoes "lungs of the earth" in this webcast. [29:15]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: How to Build an Island From Scratch
Learn how the Hawaiian Islands were formed by a geothermal hotspot and resulting volcanic activity in this video segment from Nature. [0:43]
Science for Kids
Science Kids: Earth Videos: What Is an Earthquake?
Narrated animation explaining the forces inside the Earth that can lead to earthquakes. (Length: 1 min. 39 sec.)
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Geology: Pacific Ring of Fire: Lesson 2
This lesson introduces and explores the Pacific Ring of Fire. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Geology: Pacific Ring of Fire."