PBS
The Ocean: A Driving Force for Weather and Climate
What's behind Earth's wild, wonderful, and sometimes weird weather? A lesson from PBS's Weather and Climate series takes viewers on a worldwide trek to examine the many interactions between Earth's atmosphere, oceans, and land masses....
Crash Course
Water and Classical Civilizations: Crash Course World History 222
Humans cannot survive without water, and neither can civilizations. A brief history of ancient civilizations and their dependence on—and management of—water demonstrates how states either flourish or flail based on the availability of...
Crash Course
Drought and Famine: Crash Course World History
Who is to blame for widespread famine? Crash Course World History guides high schoolers through a video about droughts, famines, and whether the weather or human activity is at fault for each.
Be Smart
El Niño and Why It's so Hard to Predict the Weather
Learn how conditions in the Pacific Ocean result in El Niño, how El Niño changes weather patterns, and why it's difficult to predict what effect El Niño will have in any given year. Welcome to Chaos Theory.
NASA
Nasa: Lifecycle of a Hurricane
A brief video that describes how hurricanes form (2:03). Learn how hurricanes begin as storms and the effects that El Nino may have on developing hurricanes.
NASA
Nasa: Global Effect of El Nino
Watch this video clip and learn what El Nino is and how it impacts our global system (4:14). Learn how trade winds divert from their normal direction and the influences this has on our weather.
NASA
Nasa: Linking Earth System Events
This video segment shows how some geographical regions are interrelated (1:06). This video examines hurricanes, drought, human activity, and El Nino in relation to each other.