Instructional Video2:51
Visual Learning Systems

Life Through Time: Life in the Paleozoic Era

3rd - 8th
This fascinating program takes students on a journey through time as the history of life on Earth is explored. From the dawn of life to the existence of advanced vertebrate animals, each of the major periods of life are investigated....
Instructional Video15:53
Cerebellum

Dinosaurs - Cretaceous period and Extinction

9th - 12th
How did dinosaurs get their names? What were the dinosaurs like? How long ago did they live? Can a dinosaur be created from DNA? Did they take care of their young? Why did they die out... or did they? In the Cretaceous Period! This is...
Podcast35:54
NASA

‎On a Mission: Season 3, Episode 9: Life Bound

Pre-K - Higher Ed
We hike in the Australian Outback with Abigail Allwood to visit the most ancient fossils on Earth, and track the imprint of life over space and time with David Grinspoon.
Instructional Video1:24
Next Animation Studio

Ozone depletion may have sparked prehistoric extinction event: study

12th - Higher Ed
Ozone depletion may have triggered a mass die-off of ancient fish and plants by ultraviolet ray exposure 358 million years ago.
Instructional Video1:32
Next Animation Studio

Meteor killed dinosaurs with dust, not wildfires, study finds

12th - Higher Ed
New research shows that the great dinosaur die-off was caused by airborne particles ejected directly from the crater made by the Chicxulub meteor
Instructional Video4:09
Science360

DRILLING INTO THE JURASSIC IN NEW JERSEY

12th - Higher Ed
One hour from New York City, where the suburbs of New Jersey give way to farms, a team of scientists are drilling for ancient rocks on the edge of a cornfield. The rocks hold clues about what the earth was like about 201 million years...
Instructional Video24:39
Wonderscape

Science Kids: The Sixth Mass Extinction

K - 5th
Learn all about mass extinctions, including the history of Earth’s five major mass extinctions, as well as the conditions of today’s human-caused sixth extinction, which is the loss of animals from the planet. Understand the history of...
Instructional Video5:13
Mazz Media

Biodiversity

6th - 8th
This live-action video program is about the word biodiversity. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word biodiversity through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and...
Instructional Video5:13
Curated Video

Biodiversity

K - 8th
In this live-action program viewers will learn that biodiversity refers to the variety and variability of all living organisms and the different ecological complexes in which they exist.

Students will come to understand that the...
Instructional Video2:38
FuseSchool

Extinction of Species

6th - Higher Ed
When a plant or animal species that once lived stops existing entirely, we say that that species has become extinct. Why do certain species of plants and animals sometimes become extinct? According to the theory of evolution, individuals...
Instructional Video11:07
PBS

The Age of Reptiles in Three Acts

6th - 12th Standards
Reptiles survived the largest extinction event on the planet and then they grew into the most dominant class of the Mesozoic Era. They quickly evolved into giants on land, sea, and air. In an episode of the PBS Eons series viewers learn...
Instructional Video10:10
PBS

Why Triassic Animals Were Just the Weirdest

6th - 12th Standards
Normally when two species look similar, they are closely related. However, this doesn't seem to apply to the Triassic animals. Learn why these familiar looking animals are not actually related to today's animals. Viewers come to...
Instructional Video33:43
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The Day the Mesozoic Died

9th - 12th
Solve the ultimate who dunnit mystery: the death of the dinosaurs. Viewers watch an engaging video that describes how the asteroid impact hypothesis came to fruition and the evidence supporting it. The video also explains how life...
Instructional Video4:46
TED-Ed

Why Do We Harvest Horseshoe Crab Blood?

9th - Higher Ed Standards
If you've ever had an injection, the horseshoe crab protects you from infection! Young marine biologists discover how scientists use the unique physiology of the horseshoe crab in medicine with a thought-provoking video. The narrator...
Instructional Video12:22
Crash Course

Why the Evolutionary Epic Matters: Crash Course Big History #203

9th - Higher Ed Standards
Imagine a world where the only animals roaming the earth are domesticated. One day, we might not have to imagine the scenario of no wild animals—and that day approaches faster than predicted. A video explains the evolution from...
Instructional Video4:20
TED-Ed

The Ferocious Predatory Dinosaurs of Cretaceous Sahara

6th - 12th Standards
What's not to love about dinosaurs? Lucky for us humans, we can love to learn about them from 100 million years away, especially a group of extra large predatory dinosaurs from the Cretaceous period. Watch a descriptive video that...
Instructional Video33:43
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The Day the Mesozoic Died

8th - Higher Ed Standards
A dynamic, three-part feature explores what caused mass extinction of the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period. Computer animations, interviews, and on-site footage from around the world divulge evidence that it was the K-T...
Interactive1:12
American Museum of Natural History

Living Large

6th - 12th
Get to know all about sauropods from a paleontologist, Jonah. Following an introductory video, scholars choose from five fossils to learn more about. Each fossil begins with a video, provides information from several different...
Instructional Video11:13
PBS

Why Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct

6th - 12th Standards
From the top of the food chain to extinction, follow the life of the megalodon! An episode in the PBS Eon series describes the evolution of the ancient species and its eventual extinction. The narrator discusses the fossil evidence and...
Instructional Video11:58
PBS

From the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Dying

6th - 12th Standards
Life before the dinosaurs was pretty amazing—and very fragile! Discover what Earth was like for Cambrian creatures, from the smallest ocean-dwellers to the first land animals. A video from an extensive biology playlist explores how early...
Instructional Video9:18
PBS

The Whole Saga of the Supercontinents

6th - 12th Standards
See the world as it was—and also how it will be! A riveting video from a vast biology and earth science playlist takes viewers back in time to see how supercontinents formed, broke apart, and formed again. The resource includes a sneak...
Instructional Video10:54
PBS

The Last Time the Globe Warmed

6th - 12th Standards
Global warming ... greenhouse gases ... climate change ... sounds familiar, right? What about palm trees in Wyoming, or swimming in the sea near Antarctica? Science scholars discover the unbearable conditions Earth experienced during its...
Instructional Video6:55
PBS

The Trouble With Trilobites

6th - 12th Standards
Trilobites survived on Earth for longer than mammals have, so what was their secret? From their evolution to diversity, they survived multiple large changes in the environment—and even flourished. Then, in the matter of less than a...
Instructional Video2:53
FuseSchool

Extinction of Species

9th - 12th Standards
Extinction: i's not just for dinosaurs! Young ecologists examine the alarming facts about the causes of mass extinctions by watching this engaging Fuse School Evolution video. Topics include previous extinction events, living fossils,...