Visual Learning Systems
Adaptations for Obtaining Food in Living Things
In this video, we explore the various adaptations that living things have developed to obtain food. From herbivores like cows and deer with specialized teeth and body shapes for plant consumption, to carnivores like owls and tigers...
Kids Learning Videos
Names of Dinosaurs - Learn about Dinosaurs for Kids
Names of Dinosaurs Learn the names of different dinosaurs with this fun and educational video. Children love learning about dinosaurs and this is a simple and helpful video to teach the names of many different dinosaurs. Thanks for...
FuseSchool
Food Chain
In this video, we are going to look at a food chain and the different roles within that. So we will discover exactly what each of these words mean: food web, food chain, trophic level, producer, consumer, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore,...
Mazz Media
What is the Food Chain?
This live-action video program is about the term food chain. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term food chain through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and...
Scholastic
Study Jams! Food Webs
Rhinozilla is back to take your lesson plan on trophic levels a step higher! After showing the video on food chains (available through the See All Related Jams button), add to it by showing this one. It deals with omnivores and food...
PBS
The Time Terror Birds Invaded
Like something from a low-budget horror movie, terror birds ruled the roost in South America millions of years ago. Things didn't go as well when they headed north! With an intriguing video, biology scholars explore the massive migration...
TED-Ed
How Did Teeth Evolve?
Tooth be told, your class is gonna love this video! Science scholars look beyond simple cell types and enter the world of teeth. The narrator describes how we think teeth evolved to their present form, how form dictates function, and how...
American Chemical Society
How Worms Turn Garbage into Compost
Worm feces is gold to gardeners and farmers. Earthworms have a special enzyme that allows them to break down the cellulose found in plant materials. An episode of a longer science playlist explores this process, which creates...
Teacher's Pet
Energy Transfer in Trophic Levels
Learn more about food chains, the food web, and the concepts relating to them. It focuses on consumers, producers, decomposers, energy transfer, and energy loss across trophic levels.
Crash Course
Community Ecology II: Predators
The first examples of mimicry we have found date back to before flowering plants. The video goes in depth on predators at the community ecology level. It includes discussions of herbivores, parasitism, adaptations, cryptic coloration,...
Crash Course Kids
Feed Me: Classifying Organisms
How do different types of living things get the energy they need? This is the focus of a video that describes how carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores get the energy they need to live.
Crash Course Kids
Gotta Eat!
Why do we eat? We eat because we need energy, and humans need energy to grow. This is the focus of a video that explains why organisms need food to live.
Curated OER
Tell Me Why - Environment and Ecosystems
All of the species in our world are part of what is called a trophic level. Basically, it determines an organism's position in the food chain. Introduce your learners to the basic levels and have them identify more organisms that could...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Dinosaur Train: Living Together in an Ecosystem
In this Dinosaur Train clip, Mr. Conductor explains to the Pteranodon kids that all creatures have their own part to play in an ecosystem. This resource teaches students that all organisms in an ecosystem are connected, and the...
Crash Course
Crash Course Kids 1.2: Feed Me: Classifying Organisms
FEED ME! In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina has a chat with us about what living things eat to get energy. What makes something an omnivore, or a carnivore, or an herbivore? And just exactly how do plants fit in to all of...