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Visual Learning Systems
The Biosphere: Aquatic Biomes
This program explores the major features of earth's amazing biosphere. Students are introduced to the biotic and abiotic components found in an ecosystem. Footage from throughout the world illustrates how ecosystems can change over time....
Curated Video
Biomes
This brief video introduces the viewer to the definition of a biome. It includes the six main types of biome and a discussion of different theories on how biomes should be classified.
Ancient Lights Media
How Some Ecosystems Have Responded To Climate Change
How Some Ecosystems Have Responded To Climate Change: This clip explains some of the ways that ecosystems have responded to Earth's changing climate.
EarthEcho International
STEM Career Closeup: A Day in the Life of a NASA Scientist
This video features a scientist from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who studies water resources and measures the water content in snowpacks and mountains for drinking, farming, and watering purposes. She talks about her love for water...
Visual Learning Systems
Water, Water, Everywhere: Freshwater
Upon viewing the Water, Water, Everywhere video series, students will be able to do the following:
List some of the ways they use water everyday in their lives.
Describe why water is important to plants and animals.
Explain the...
TED-Ed
Where We Get Our Fresh Water
This fresh resource explores the world's fresh water: where it can be found, and how humans use it. You might be surprised at the variety of domestic uses! Short, but sweet, this feature can be followed by a class discussion using the...
Curated OER
Thirsty Manatees
Manatees are dependent upon freshwater. Due to a shortage, these thirsty animals are putting themselves in danger. Watch this video to learn why.
Curated OER
Life Cycle of Salmon
After eight years of roaming in the ocean, salmon go back to the freshwater stream of their birth place to lay their own eggs. They jump, swim, and dive through obstacles to travel upstream. The salmon stop eating, lay their eggs, and...
Scholastic
Study Jams! Aquatic Ecosystems
Mia's friends are fish-sitting while she is away on vacation. Zoe divulges to Sam that different animals need different habitats, and that there are both freshwater and saltwater ecosystems. Examples of the kinds of organisms found in...
Be Smart
The Cosmic Origins of Earth's Water
Was Earth born as a Blue Planet? Discover where water came from with a video from an intriguing science playlist. The resource covers the three most likely origins of water, how scientists differentiate between comet and asteroid water,...
Crash Course Kids
Water Fix!
How do communities deal with the scarcity of water? Aqueducts, desalination, or recycling urine, are a few examples discussed in a video that focuses on the importance of water conservation.
Crash Course Kids
Water Fight!
What happens to humans when there is a limited supply of freshwater? This is the focus of a video that discusses the affects on communities of freshwater as a limited resource.
Crash Course Kids
A Fresh Future
If less than 1% of Earth's freshwater is available for use, and people are constantly using it up, what's being done to save it? This is the focus of a video that discusses the human impact on the hydrosphere.
Crash Course Kids
H2O-NO! - Fresh Water Problems
If the amount of freshwater in an ecosystem changes, in what way is the specific ecosystem affected? This is the focus of a video that discusses the importance of freshwater and how all ecosystems need freshwater to sustain life.
Crash Course Kids
Resources: Welcome to the Neighborhood
How do humans get what they need to survive? Through Earth's resources, of course! This is the focus of a video that explains what resources are and how we use them.
Crash Course Kids
Water Water Everywhere
How do different animals access the small amounts of freshwater on Earth, in order to survive? This is the focus of a video that discusses how animals must adapt to surviving off limited amounts of freshwater present in their habitat.
Crash Course Kids
The Basics of Freshwater
Most of the water on Earth is found in our oceans; however, humans cannot survive on salt water. Instead, we need freshwater. So, what is freshwater and where does it come from? This is the focus of a video that discusses the differences...
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.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Connection Between Water Desalination & Making Pickles
A video lesson combined with student group work about the desalination of seawater in areas where there is little access to freshwater.
Other
Worldviews Network: A Global Water Story
Learn about how Earth's water availability is changing as the climate changes, and what we as humans can do to keep a sustainable supply of this life-essential resource.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Shower Estimation
In this adapted ZOOM video segment, cast members calculate how much water they each use during a typical shower. They compare their results to their original predictions.
PBS
Pbs: Nova: Descent Into the Ice
PBS offers a rare opportunity to explore the glaciers on France's Mt. Blanc in this engaging interactive site. Fun activities for students include following the process a snowflake takes to become a glacier.
Crash Course
Crash Course Kids 33.2: A Fresh Future
In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks about a few different examples how some freshwater sources were good, then bad, then made good again. Also, Sabrina talks about parasites, fish, and dams! [4:10]
Crash Course
Crash Course Kids 14.2: Water Water Everywhere
Now that you know about freshwater and saltwater you know that there's not that much freshwater for us (and other life) to get to. So how do different animals deal with different amounts of water where they live? In this episode of Crash...