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Visual Learning Systems
Rocks: Rocks From Melting
Upon viewing the Rocks video series, students will be able to do the following: Define rock as a solid, naturally-occurring mixture of minerals. Define minerals as solids with a definite chemical composition and crystal structure....
Science360
Kilauea: Up close and personal with red-hot science!
Hawaii's Kilauea volcano is one of the best places on Earth to study processes within basaltic volcanoes. Its high eruption frequency, easy access to lavas, and distinct geologic setting far from plate boundaries or continents allow...
Visual Learning Systems
Rocks and the Rock Cycle: Igneous Rocks
The rock cycle is illustrated in detail using easy-to-understand animations. Examples of the various types of rocks are introduced and the characteristics of different rocks are compared. Other terminology includes: rock cycle, igneous,...
Visual Learning Systems
Exploring Volcanoes
This video explores the eruption of a volcano in a small fishing village in Iceland in 1973. The video showcases the lava flow that engulfed the town and how the residents used fire hoses to cool and solidify the lava, creating a lava...
American Museum of Natural History
Field Trip Mars
Fly around the Martian surface. Pupils view a presentation on the planet Mars featuring a flyover that shows different views of the surface where rovers have landed and explored on different missions. As individuals watch the images, the...
PBS
Lava Lake Tectonics
Do you enjoy spending the day at the lake? Maybe not an active lava lake! Viewers watch the fascinating movement of crust on top of molten magma as part of a larger series exploring the story of Earth. Comparisons to tectonic plates...
Veritasium
Is Glass a Liquid?
Amorphous solid or slow-moving liquid? Learn about glass, pitch, and Earth's mantle through a video from the Veritasium playlist. The narrator describes the molecular structures of amorphous versus crystalline solids, shows examples of...
Crash Course
The Moon
A large amount of ice exists on the moon making colonization that much easier. The video discusses the creation of the moon and the materials and features on it. It also discusses the reasoning behind our moon being just one of...
Crash Course Kids
Landforms, Hey!
What are different types of landforms, and how are they formed? This is the focus of a video that describes how mountains, plateaus, mesas, buttes, volcanoes, deserts, islands, and deltas are made.
Curated OER
How to Make Lava
Learn how to make homemade lava with this short video. Casey and Rachel use household items to simulate lava in a volcano. This is a great video to teach density of liquids.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lava Sampling on Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, scientist Mike Garcia draws lava samples at the foot of the active Kilauea volcano to see if it is related to its neighboring volcano, Mauna Loa.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: A Land Born in Fire
In this Nature video, follow geologists as they retrieve samples from a fresh batch of Kilauea's molten lava. [5:25]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Creating an Island Paradise
In this video segment from Nature, learn the geological process by which the next Hawaiian island will be formed. [1:12]
SciShow
Sci Show Kids: All About Volcanoes
A video exploring all things volcanoes. Learn how they form and erupt. Also get information about the longest erupting volcano, Stromboli. [3:04]
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation: New Models to Explore Earth's Interior
NSF-funded researchers at Arizona State University have developed new simulations depicting the dynamics of deep earth. [0:30]
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Earth and Space Science: Journey to the Earth's Interior
Material to begin an exploration of the Earth's interior. An hour-long video is accompanied by learning goals, an outline and overview, details on igneous rock, seismic waves, and the Earth's layers, and ideas for teaching this unit in...
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Pacific Northwest Volcanism 55 Million Years to Present
Using map view in concert with cross sections, this animation steps the viewer through both volcanic and simplified tetonic processes. [5:11]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: How to Build an Island From Scratch
Learn how the Hawaiian Islands were formed by a geothermal hotspot and resulting volcanic activity in this video segment from Nature. [0:43]
Next Vista for Learning
Next Vista for Learning: How to Make Lava
A video giving a simple recipe for making lava. [1:08]