Soliloquy
What is a Species?
The question âwhat is a species?â might sound like a simple one. We have evolved to categorise plants and animals into types, some safe like field mushrooms and other less safe like fly agaric toadstools. We have developed this idea into...
Science360
Butterfly species evolution in action
Scientists have found a population of tropical butterflies that may be on its way to splitting into two distinct species based on wing color and mate preference. Researchers describe the relationship between diverging color patterns in...
FuseSchool
Formation of New Species by Speciation
In this video you will learn how weird and wonderful animals are formed in the process of speciation and the formation of new species. Different selection pressures select for different characteristics. Over generations, the individuals...
Mazz Media
Biodiversity
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 word...
Science360
Evolution In Action
Professor Lawrence Gilbert and his team at the University of Texas at Austin have discovered a population of tropical butterflies that exemplify ""evolution in action,"" and a rare research opportunity. Gilbert says they may be...
Nature League
Exploring Evolution and Speciation - Lesson Plan
The first video in a five-part series on Evolution and Speciation introduces four types of evolution and addresses common misconceptions. In addition, viewers learn about topics current understanding of science does not fully explain.
Nature League
Nature + Engineering
Viewers observe many nature-inspired examples in technology, household items, and health care with the final video in a five-part series on Evolution and Speciation. The video focuses on human engineers inspired by earth's wonders.
Nature League
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, New Fish - De-Natured
Sometimes it seems like high-level journal articles speak a different language. The third video in the five-part series on Evolution and Speciation breaks down one recent article from a science journal. It explains what the researchers...
Nature League
Preserving Montana's State Fish - Field Trip
Many people know in cases with a lot of in-breeding, the species becomes weak and less likely to survive long term. Now learn about how out-breeding also leads to the same result. The second of five videos on Evolution and Speciation...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Anole Lizards: An Example of Speciation
What happens to a species when members become separated by changes in their environment? Present young biologists with the ultimate example species—the anole lizard. A brief video describes the origins of the multitude of anole species...
FuseSchool
Formation of New Species by Speciation
Why is Australia home to the world's only population of kangaroos? The answer? Speciation! Biology scholars discover the factors that cause new species to emerge through an engaging video as part of a Fuse School playlist on...
FuseSchool
How Are Organisms Classified?
Understanding classification takes a little imagination! Show your biology class why it is important to keep things organized using a simple video that is part of the Fuse School Evolution playlist. Topics covered include the creator of...
FuseSchool
What Is A Species?
What's so special about species? Junior zoologists delve into the science behind the classification with a Fuse School Evolution video. The narrator shows the accepted classification system and explains what conditions two organisms must...
Bozeman Science
LS2C - Ecosystem Dynamics, Functioning and Resilience
How do ecosystems react to change over time? Show your class how natural and man-made factors affect the organisms in an area using the guidelines in a video about standard LS2C. Topics include biotic and abiotic factors, biodiversity,...
Bozeman Science
LS4C - Adaptation
Learn how the study of adaptation progresses through grade levels. The narrator provides a curricular view of teaching adaptation complete with examples. Concepts range from simple trait adaptations to speciation and natural selection.
Teacher's Pet
Speciation
Darwin believed species came from other pre-existing species. Now we know it is more complicated than that. The video focuses on speciation and patterns of evolution.
Bozeman Science
Speciation and Extinction
Are we, as some scientists theorize, in the midst of the sixth mass extinction? Scholars explore speciation through adaptive radiation and extinction with a video that uses the three-spines stickleback in Alaska, and its current...
Bozeman Science
Speciation
Viewers see how reproductive isolation can lead to speciation as the narrator of a video focusing on speciation explains the steps to reproductive isolation and addresses both allopatric and sympatric speciation.
Crash Course
Speciation: Of Ligers and Men
Ligers grow at a rate of 2.2 pounds every second day, thus by the end of their first year, they can weigh up to 364 pounds. Ligers are the subject of a video the looks at hybrids and shows viewers how speciation can occur via...
Curated OER
The Origin of Species
Allow Mr. Anderson to assist you in describing how one species can become two through speciation and reproductive isolation. Intended for upper graders, this clip wonderfully explains several complex concepts in a way your class can...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Speciation
Learn about speciation, including allopatric and sympatric speciation and mechanisms of reproductive isolation. [10:46]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Speciation and Natural Selection: Lesson 1
This lesson discusses how and why plants and animals adapt to their surroundings over time. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Speciation and Natural Selection."
Crash Course
Crash Course Biology #15: Speciation of Ligers & Men
Hank explains speciation - the evolutionary process by which new biological species arise - in terms of finches, ligers, mules, and dogs. [10:25]
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Biointeractive: Anole Lizards: An Example of Speciation
This animation features the anole lizards as an example of how a single species can split and multiply into many different species with distinct traits. [2:38]