Visual Learning Systems
Gymnosperms and Angiosperms: Characteristics of Gymnosperms
Everyday we use products or eat foods derived from vascular seed plants. In this series of videos the wide variety of non-flowering seed plants, gymnosperms, are described and characterized through vivid footage gathered from around the...
Visual Learning Systems
Plant Reproduction: Pollination and Fertilization
This engaging video program uses colorful animations and on-location footage to illustrate some of the amazing ways plants reproduce. The reproduction processes in bryophytes, ferns, gymnosperms, and angiosperms are highlighted....
Maddie Moate
What is Propolis (and mummified mice!) Beekeeping with Maddie
Did you know that bees mummify animals just like the Egyptians?! Earlier this summer, Mum and I went to investigate the hives and check on the bees. There wasn't quite enough honey to take but I did get the chance to chat you about...
Maddie Moate
Feeding Bees Christmas Cake?! | Beekeeping with Maddie #7
We've been experiencing some very odd honey bee behaviour for this time of year which has resulted in us feeding them some special christmas treats!
Visual Learning Systems
What Is an Insect?: Insects Are Helpful
This fascinating program takes a look at the major characteristics of familiar and unusual insects that swarm the planet. Concepts and terminology: invertebrate, six legs, and exoskeleton.
SWPictures
Climate Change Threatens Food Production in Senegal
This video highlights the impact of climate change on food production in Senegal and how the Africa Rice Center is developing rice varieties that can cope with more hostile conditions.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australia on Fire - Fire Bees
The combination of drought and fire is having a devastating impact on honey production.
Earth Rangers
Powerful Pollinators
Pollinators are animals that help plants reproduce by carrying pollen from one flower to another. Many plants that benefit from the help of pollinators bear fruit or nuts, providing healthy foods for people and other animals to eat. A...
Englishing
Lesson on ADJECTIVES (modifying nouns and do not change gender and number)
This is the first episode of a new series called "What you don't know about...". There are many rules in English, but a myriad of exceptions. In this episode, Mr. P./Marc will talk about all the points and exceptions you don't learn when...
Healthcare Triage
Hay Fever and Allergies Can Lower Student Test Scores
Health issues can negatively affect people's lives in an astoundingly wide array of ways. Recent studies indicate that students who suffer from allergies may perform worse on tests when testing occurs on high pollen count days. So how...
Weatherthings
Weather Things: Weather Cycles
The orbit of Earth on a tilted axis around the sun leads to the seasons. The resulting change of angle of the sun, and length of day controls how warm we get at different times of the year. With those changes in seasons come changes in...
NASA
NASA | Feeling the Sting of Climate Change
NASA's Wayne Esaias sees honeybees as important data collectors to help us understand our changing climate. Read about this story:Or get tweeted by NASA:
Curated Video
I WONDER - What Is An Allergy?
This video is answering the question of what is an allergy.
Journey to the Microcosmos
How Brownian Motion Helped Prove the Existence of Atoms
We’re going to see a type of motion over and over again because it’s all over the microcosmos, found in and around many different types of organisms. And this kind of random motion may seem almost too trivial to discuss, but this motion...
Food Farmer Earth
Call of the Honeybees
An entomologist offers an impassioned voice speaking on behalf of the honeybees, and the threat posed by the Colony Collapse Disorder.
Curated Video
Creepy Crawlies
Butterflies, bees, locusts, misquitos, snakes, cockroaches, flies and snails.
Journey to the Microcosmos
How Do Protozoa Get Around?
If you were a protozoan, how would you zoom zoom zoom all around the microcosmos? From false feet to microtubules, find out how these single-celled eukaryotes make their way through the universe.
Stories Podcast
Timeless Tales: What You Sow
The expression “being neighborly” may call to mind giving away a cup of sugar or watching over neighbors’ homes while they are out of town. Actions such as these are bound to produce good relationships between neighbors. But, what if a...
NASA
NASA | The Smog Bloggers
Has pollen got you sneezing? Wondering what's causing that mysterious afternoon haze? How do you find out what's in the air you are breathing? For the thousands of people who visit the University of Maryland Baltimore County's "Smog...
Ancient Lights Media
Introduction to Flowers and Flowering
Plant Reproduction Set: 6. This clip offers a very simple introduction to the role of flowers in the sexual reproduction of angiosperm plants.
msvgo
Fertilisation in Flowering Plants
It describes the events starting from pollination to formation of fruit.
Curated Video
Understanding Fertilization and Seed Formation
This video explains the process of fertilization and how it results in the formation of seeds and fruit. It describes how male and female gametes fuse to form a zygote and how pollination and fertilization occur. The video also...
Ancient Lights Media
Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants: The Development of Pollen
Plant Reproduction Set: 3. This clip explains the step by step process of pollen formation in flowering plants.
Professor Dave Explains
Angiosperms: Flowering Plants
We just learned about gymnosperms, and the incredible evolutionary advantages they had over their ancestors. But the next leap forward for plants was even more impressive. Angiosperms are flowering plants, so any plant with flowers or...