TED-Ed
When Will the Next Mass Extinction Occur?
Normal background extinctions and mass extinction events are examined in this short video that suggests that environmental change, naturally occurring and change caused by humans, is the key factor in such events.
TED-Ed
Why Is Biodiversity So Important?
There are millions of plant and animal species on the planet, but why do we need so many? Follow along with this short video as it explains how biodiversity helps strengthen ecosystems, allowing them to adapt to change so that life...
Curated OER
Biomes : Freshwater
About 70% of the earth's surface is covered in water, but how much of this water is fresh? Show this video to introduce your conservationists to the freshwater biome and the species that live there.
Curated OER
Biomes : Wetlands
Can you guess which biome used to be considered useless? Because of our ignorance, we destroyed it for development and agricultural purposes. Wetlands were viewed as wastelands until recently, when preservationists started to realize the...
Curated OER
Alala Ð An Endangered Species
What is an Alala? It is a crow native to the Hawaiian Islands, and it's endangered. Learn about what the Alala eats, when it breeds, and the startling fact that there are only 12 left in the world.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Population Ecology
In the following video, Evan Seimann, PhD, defines key terms and concepts of ecology, basic characteristics of populations, population age structures and densities, and explains the dynamics of growth models within a population. [22:59]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Ecology: Human Population Growth
Hank is here to tell us the specifics of why and how human population growth has happened over the past hundred and fifty years or so, and how those specifics relate to ecology. [10:53]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Ecology: 5 Human Impacts on the Environment
Hank gives the run down on the top five ways humans are negatively impacting the environment and having detrimental effects on the valuable ecosystem services which a healthy biosphere provides. [10:37]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Splash & Bubbles: Lu the Explorer
Splash takes his pals to go see his friend, Lu, a fearless explorer in the deep. He has met Lu in his travels, and she has been an inspiration for Splash. Lu turns out to be a female football fish (the "Lu" stands for "bio-LU-minescent")...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Kid Vision: A Day With a Marine Biologist
Miss Penny and the KidVision Kids visit Gumbo Limbo Nature Center to learn about the role of a Marine Biologist. Learn about protecting sea turtle nests, watch a sea turtle examination, and feed a stingray! Included are links to...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: American Experience: Building the Alaska Oil Pipeline
Short AMERICAN EXPERIENCE video tells the story of how environmentalists, Alaska Native peoples, and engineers concerned about the effects of permafrost challenged plans for the Alaska oil pipeline. [5:19]
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Humans Change Earth
Realize the many ways in which humans affect the Earth system, including other living things on Earth. [4:57]
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Ecosystem Ecology
Paul Andersen explains how ecosystems function. He begins with a description of how life on the planet is ordered from large to small in biomes, ecosystems, communities, population, and individuals. He describes the major terrestrial and...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Environmental Concepts: Lesson 1
This lesson will define ecology, natural environment, ecosystem, and environmental deficit, while delineating the formula for calculating human impact on the environment. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Environmental Concepts."
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Biosphere 2
Audio story presents information on the Biosphere 2 project, an attempt to replicate the world's biospheres in a controlled environment. Includes a map of the facility.
Crash Course
Crash Course Ecology #4: Community Ecology: Feel the Love
Interactions between species are what define ecological communities, and community ecology studies these interactions anywhere they take place. Although interspecies interactions are mostly competitive, competition is pretty dangerous,...
TED Talks
Ted Ed: Feedback Loops: How Nature Gets Its Rhythms
Learn how positive and negative feedback loops work in nature and how they support the balance of an ecosystem. [5:10]
Crash Course
Crash Course Biology #40: Ecology Rules for Living on Earth
Hank introduces us to ecology - the study of the rules of engagement for all of us earthlings - which seeks to explain why the world looks and acts the way it does. The world is crammed with things, both animate and not, that have been...
Crash Course
Crash Course Ecology #12: Conservation and Restoration Ecology
Hank wraps up the Crash Course on ecology by taking a look at the growing fields of conservation biology and restoration ecology, which use all the kung fu moves we've learned about in the past eleven weeks and apply them to protecting...
Crash Course
Crash Course Ecology #11: Pollution
Hank talks about the last major way humans are impacting the environment in this penultimate episode of Crash Course Ecology. Pollution takes many forms - from the simplest piece of litter to the more complex endocrine distruptors - and...
Crash Course
Crash Course Ecology #7: Ecosystem Ecology Links in the Chain
Hank brings us to the next level of ecological study with ecosystem ecology, which looks at how energy, nutrients, and materials are getting shuffled around within an ecosystem (a collection of living and nonliving things interacting in...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Introduction to Conservation Science
Consider the future of the biosphere in this video that discusses the field of conservation science. [6:44]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ecology: Ecology Introduction
Ecology is the study of how living things interact with each other and their environment. This includes living things (biotic factors) and non-living things (abiotic factors). [9:48]
PBS
Pbs: Migrations, Grades 3 and 5
Students will learn about Wyoming's pronghorn population and the challenges it faces from human activity.