Instructional Video10:25
Curated Video

Developing Topics with Facts, Details, and Definitions

K - 5th
Writers develop their topics by adding information that explains and supports the big idea. Let's practice using facts, details, and definitions to give our readers more information about a topic.
Instructional Video3:26
Deep Look

What Happens When You Put a Hummingbird in a Wind Tunnel?

6th - 12th Standards
Hummingbirds consume their weight in nectar every day. The video explains their unusual flying abilities. From holding their bodies perfectly still while flapping their wings in mid air in order to get the nectar to shaking off water...
Instructional Video4:23
Curated OER

The Beauty Of Pollination

1st - 8th
Beautiful high-definition video footage by Louie Schwartzberg captures the flights of hummingbirds, butterflies, and bees up close. Fruits ripen with time-lapse photography and flowers bloom as these animals, along with bats, seek food...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: A Variety of Hummingbirds

9th - 10th
Learn about different traits and adaptations in various species of hummingbirds in this video from Nature. [2:50]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Little Brain, Big Journey

9th - 10th
This Nature video shows the migratory patterns and habits of the Rufous hummingbird. [2:41]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Evolving Ideas: How Does Evolution Really Work?

9th - 10th
The process of evolution through natural selection is the focus of this video segment from Evolution, which presents a field study of hummingbird speciation in Ecuador. [6:41]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Video: Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air

9th - 10th
Amazing footage highlights the magical world of hummingbirds, one of the smallest and fastest warm-blooded creatures on the planet. [0:30]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Birds of Kundha Kulam

9th - 10th
In this Nature video, learn about the extraordinary impact that birds have on the agriculture of a small Indian community. [2:47]
Instructional Video
Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Lucifer Hummingbird

9th - 10th
Watch a video of a Lucifer Hummingbird. [0:15]
Instructional Video
Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Lucifer Hummingbird

9th - 10th
Watch a video of a Lucifer Hummingbird. [0:27]
Audio
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Examining the Hummingbird Tongue

9th - 10th
Hummingbird tongues are long, forked, muscle-less and excellent at grabbing liquid.