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Curated Video
Developing Topics with Facts, Details, and Definitions
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.
Deep Look
What Happens When You Put a Hummingbird in a Wind Tunnel?
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...
Curated OER
The Beauty Of Pollination
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: A Variety of Hummingbirds
Learn about different traits and adaptations in various species of hummingbirds in this video from Nature. [2:50]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Little Brain, Big Journey
This Nature video shows the migratory patterns and habits of the Rufous hummingbird. [2:41]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Evolving Ideas: How Does Evolution Really Work?
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]
PBS
Pbs Video: Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air
Amazing footage highlights the magical world of hummingbirds, one of the smallest and fastest warm-blooded creatures on the planet. [0:30]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Birds of Kundha Kulam
In this Nature video, learn about the extraordinary impact that birds have on the agriculture of a small Indian community. [2:47]
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Lucifer Hummingbird
Watch a video of a Lucifer Hummingbird. [0:15]
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Lucifer Hummingbird
Watch a video of a Lucifer Hummingbird. [0:27]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Examining the Hummingbird Tongue
Hummingbird tongues are long, forked, muscle-less and excellent at grabbing liquid.