Amoeba Sisters
Animals: Tour of 9 Phyla
Join the Amoeba Sisters in exploring some general animal characteristics, major vocabulary used in classifying animals (such as symmetry, protostome vs deuterostome, cephalization, and coelom), and take a general tour of 9 major animal...
Professor Dave Explains
Organization and Symmetry in Kingdom Animalia
How are the contents of animals organized? How does this differ from animal to animal? Are all animals symmetrical, and in the same ways? Just a bit more information to get through before diving into all the animal phyla, I promise!
Visual Learning Systems
Simple Animals: Understanding Echinoderms
Upon viewing the Simple Animals video series, students will be able to do the following: Differentiate between and provide examples of vertebrate and invertebrate animals. Describe the basic body parts of a sponge (porifera). Explain the...
Visual Learning Systems
Simple Animals: Exploring Sponges and Cnidarians
Upon viewing the Simple Animals video series, students will be able to do the following: Differentiate between and provide examples of vertebrate and invertebrate animals. Describe the basic body parts of a sponge (porifera). Explain the...
Visual Learning Systems
Simple Animals: Worms
Upon viewing the Simple Animals video series, students will be able to do the following: Differentiate between and provide examples of vertebrate and invertebrate animals. Describe the basic body parts of a sponge (porifera). Explain the...
Visual Learning Systems
Simple Animals: Investigating Mollusks
Upon viewing the Simple Animals video series, students will be able to do the following: Differentiate between and provide examples of vertebrate and invertebrate animals. Describe the basic body parts of a sponge (porifera). Explain the...
Visual Learning Systems
Simple Animals: Video Assessment
Upon viewing the Simple Animals video series, students will be able to do the following: Differentiate between and provide examples of vertebrate and invertebrate animals. Describe the basic body parts of a sponge (porifera). Explain the...
Visual Learning Systems
Simple Animals: Arthropods Around Us
Upon viewing the Simple Animals video series, students will be able to do the following: Differentiate between and provide examples of vertebrate and invertebrate animals. Describe the basic body parts of a sponge (porifera). Explain the...
Visual Learning Systems
Simple Animals: Introduction
Upon viewing the Simple Animals video series, students will be able to do the following: Differentiate between and provide examples of vertebrate and invertebrate animals. Describe the basic body parts of a sponge (porifera). Explain the...
Visual Learning Systems
Simple Animals: Summing Up
Upon viewing the Simple Animals video series, students will be able to do the following: Differentiate between and provide examples of vertebrate and invertebrate animals. Describe the basic body parts of a sponge (porifera). Explain the...
Visual Learning Systems
Simple Animals: What Are Simple Animals?
Upon viewing the Simple Animals video series, students will be able to do the following: Differentiate between and provide examples of vertebrate and invertebrate animals. Describe the basic body parts of a sponge (porifera). Explain the...
Crash Course
Animal Development: We're Just Tubes - Crash Course Biology
Hank discusses the process by which organisms grow and develop, maintaining that, in the end, we're all just tubes.
PBS
How the Starfish Got Its Arms
The story of how the starfish got its arms reminds us that even animals that might be familiar to us today can have incredibly deep histories - ones that stretch back almost half a billion years.
Nature League
What Are Invertebrates? - Lesson Plan
In this Nature League Lesson Plan, Brit introduces the invertebrates of Earth, including their names, relationships, forms, and awesomeness.
Wonderscape
Science Kids: Exploring the World of Invertebrates
This video is a lesson on invertebrates, the largest group in the animal kingdom. It explains the two main groups of animals - vertebrates and invertebrates - and focuses on the characteristics and examples of invertebrates. The video...
Nature League
Exploring Invertebrates | Compilation
Brit looks back on our third month on Nature League, when we explored the theme of invertebrates.
TED-Ed
The Science of Symmetry
No matter which way you slice it, the definition of symmetry might not be clear. The narrator of the video reflects on its true meaning as shapes, plants, and animals dance onstage for a captivated cartoon audience. Your class will be...
Crash Course
Animal Development: We're Just Tubes
All humans begin as one cell and through mitosis, develop into an organism made of millions of cells, each specialized to keep people alive. The narrator of this short video explains the process by which embryos grow from a morula to a...
Nature League
What Are Invertebrates? - Lesson Plan
Insects, and other invertebrates outnumber vertebrates—segmented-legs down! The first in a five-part series of videos from an Invertebrates series introduces these organisms in all their spineless glory. Each invertebrate phyla takes the...