Curated Video
Introduction and Construction of the Atlas Kasbah
This video is an exploration of eco-housing and the need for sustainable architecture, followed by a detailed look at the construction of the Atlas Kasbah in Morocco, integrating traditional methods with sustainable practices to create...
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Types of Natural Resources
Dr. Forrester teaches about renewable and nonrenewable natural resources.
Economics Explained
Why Is Everyone Getting Involved In The Niger? | Economics Explained
Niger's coup has set a lot in motion. It's rich in uranium which has gotten France involved, and China's belt and road initiative was set to draw oil from Niger, which could help grow their desperately poor economy, and somehow Russia's...
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Northeast Native Americans
Dr. Forrester discusses Native Americans living in the Northeastern part of the United States of America.
Curated Video
Power to the People
Dr. Forrester explains that we rely on natural resources for powering our cars, and heating our homes. Natural resources, also known as nonrenewable, include oil, natural gas, and coal. There are a variety of renewable energy sources...
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Geographers
Dr. Forrester describes the work of geographers and discusses landforms. She also explains that landforms are natural features of the land’s surface.
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Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources
Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources identifies the various types of natural resources available for human use by defining the terms renewable resource and nonrenewable resource and providing examples of each.
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Department of the Interior
Many government departments have a focused mission, but the Department of the Interior is known as the "Department of Everything Else." So what are its responsibilities and how does it keep our country in check?
Mazz Media
Let's Learn About Communities: People at Work
Community Workers takes students on a journey through their own neighborhoods. From firemen to dedicated postal workers, and from skilled mechanics to trusted bankers, this program sheds light on the crucial roles that community workers...
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Why I Recycle
Miss Palomine explains why recycling is so important. She explains that recycling saves trees. She also talks about other ways to protect natural resources.
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Productive Resources
Productive Resources explores various productive resources by reviewing human resources, capital goods, and natural resources.
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Specialization
Specialization evaluates how the availability of productive resources, including human, capital, and natural resources, promotes specialization that leads to trade.
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Spain and Portugal
Spain and Portugal discovers the similarities and differences between Spain and Portugal.
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Kinetic vs. Potential Energy
Kinetic vs. Potential Energy examines kinetic and potential energy by defining and providing examples of each.
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How Items are Reused and Recycled
How Items are Reused and Recycled explores how various items are reused and recycled and explains how waste may be appropriately disposed of to prevent unnecessary harm to the environment.
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The Inuit People of Alaska
The Inuit People of Alaska investigates how the physical characteristics of a place influence the daily life of the people who live there by examining the cultural characteristics of the Inuit people of Alaska.
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National Parks
The video “National Parks” discusses how national parks were established and highlights six important national parks located in the American West.
Curated Video
Human Impacts: How Do People Disrupt Ecosystems?
A video entitled “Human Impacts: How Do People Disrupt Ecosystems?” which examines biodiversity and how humanity and nature can negatively affect ecosystems.
Curated Video
Introduction to the Economic Problem: Scarcity and Choices
The video introduces the economic problem - the central issue that drives every economic system towards the type of economic activities that they undertake. The lecture explains the scarcity of resources and the choices that people have...
US Department of Agriculture
Hugh Hammond Bennett - The Story of America’s Private Lands Conservation Movement
USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) presents a documentary on soil conservation pioneer Hugh Hammond Bennett, the history of our agency and the birth of the private lands conservation movement in the U.S.
Visual Learning Systems
Sustainability and Natural Resources: Living More Sustainably
This program serves as an introduction to resource sustainability, focusing on the key strategies of resource efficiency, recycling, reusing, and reducing. The long-term impacts of resource use on human health and the environment are...
Visual Learning Systems
Investigating Earth's Natural Resources: Summing Up
Upon viewing the Investigating Earth's Natural Resources video series, students will be able to do the following: Define a natural resource as anything we take from the environment and use. List natural resources commonly used ....
Visual Learning Systems
Exploring Natural Resources: Exploring Natural Resources Summing Up
Everyday we use natural resources. This series of programs introduces students to the importance of natural resources in our lives. Renewable and nonrenewable resources are differentiated with examples illustrating each. The positive and...