Visual Learning Systems
The Cell: the Cell Theory
Students will learn about the discovery of cells, the development of the cell theory, and the differences between animal cells and plant cells, Animations illustrate the different parts of a cell. Other terminology includes: organelles,...
Visual Learning Systems
Food Chains and Food Webs in Ecosystems
This video explains how ecologists use diagrams to illustrate the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem. It introduces the concept of a food chain and highlights the complexity of natural ecosystems by introducing the...
Visual Learning Systems
Biotic Ecosystem Components
The video is about the different components of an ecosystem, specifically the biotic components, which include all living things in an area. The video provides examples of different populations and communities, such as monarch and tiger...
Visual Learning Systems
The Biosphere: Change in Ecosystems
This program explores the major features of earth's amazing biosphere. Students are introduced to the biotic and abiotic components found in an ecosystem. Footage from throughout the world illustrates how ecosystems can change over time....
Ancient Lights Media
The Effects of Disturbances on Ecosystems
The Effects of Disturbances on Ecosystems: This Clip gives examples of how disturbances - both large and small - affect ecosystems and their reestablishment.
Visual Learning Systems
The Cell Theory: From Hooke to Virchow
This video provides a brief history of the cell theory, including developments by Robert Hooke's, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Theodor Schwann, and Rudolf Virchow. This video is part of the 7-part series, Cells.
Visual Learning Systems
Photosynthesis: Overview of Photosynthesis
Almost all life either directly or indirectly depends on one of the most important biological processes on the planet - photosynthesis. Through easy-to-understand graphics and colorful animations, the complex chemical process of...
Curated Video
Entomologist 'Dr. Buggs' on why eradicating mosquitos might not be a bad thing
Are mosquitoes really as bad as they're made out to be? Entomologist Sammy Ramsey — aka "Dr. Buggs" — explains. (Scripps News)
Curated Video
Should mosquitos be eradicated?
Entomologist Sammy Ramsey, also known as "Dr. Buggs," usually talks about conservation efforts when it comes to bugs, but he says mosquitos are the exception because of the problems they cause. (Scripps News)
Bridgeman Arts
Scientists working with microscopes and close-ups of organisms. France, 1940s
Clip 3 from the 1940s French film 'Au Dela Du Visible', exploring scientific work undertaken at the Palais de la Decouverte (Discovery Palace) in Paris, and experiments relating to the theme of outer space. (1943-1944). Scientists...
Curated Video
Side effects of antidepressants on marine life
Minute traces of antidepressants which escape into water from human waste can make shrimp subdue their natural behaviour raising their risk of being eaten by predators.
Scientists say experiments recreating aquatic conditions in the...
Curated Video
RR7338B USA REGENERATING THE LAND WITH GARBAGE
The oil-rich city of Odessa in West Texas has given
the go-ahead to Dr. Geoffrey Stanford, an Englishman
working at Texas University School of Public Health,
to use the city's garbage and sewage as fuel to restore
the arid countryside...
Curated Video
Coffee mushroom farming from the daily grind
It's a regular weekday morning in the English seaside town of Brighton - and at Small Batch Coffee the espressos are flowing thick and fast.
The bins, however, are already groaning under the weight of used coffee grounds.
But Jon Coombs...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN: Pacific oyster farmers see global warming in poor harvest
CLEAN: Pacific oyster farmers see global warming in poor harvest
Bozeman Science
Environmental Matter Exchange
Why did carbon marry hydrogen? They bonded well from the minute they met. Here is a video that focuses on the essential chemicals for life: water, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus. It relates each of these to macromolecules and the way...
Bozeman Science
Cladograms
No, a cladogram is not a new mass measurement beyond kilo. In the video, scholars watch as a simple cladogram is constructed consisting of seven organisms with shared characteristics. From this, the instructor asks where a new organism...
Bozeman Science
Secret of Life
Explore how DNA, genes, and proteins are tied together to make life. Scholars learn about the central dogma, connecting DNA, which is inherited, to RNA and then to proteins, all which make the diversity of life today.