Curated Video
How Pathogens and Poor Nutrition Affect Honey Bees
This segment delves into how pathogens, particularly the Deformed Wing Virus transmitted by Varroa mites, detrimentally affect honey bee health and their critical role in ecosystems. It illustrates the compounded risks bees face from...
Curated Video
Pesticides, Pests, and Pollinators: A Delicate Balance
This segment examines how pesticides used in agriculture to combat pests like aphids can harm honey bees, essential for pollination. It explains the dilemma farmers face: needing to protect crops while preserving beneficial insects...
Curated Video
Buzzing Bees: The Important Role of Bees in Our Ecosystem
This video provides a fascinating glimpse into the world of bees, showcasing the diverse types of bees from honey bees to solitary bees like Carpenter bees. It explores the intricate social structure within a hive, highlighting the roles...
Curated Video
Exploring the Dependence of Plants on Pollinators and Seed Dispersal
Pack your bags, today we are travelling with seeds! How do seeds travel, you might ask? In this video, we learn how plants reproduce and create new plants using pollination and dispersal. Seeds travel in many different ways: wind, water,...
Curated Video
I WONDER - Can The Weather Help With Pollination?
This video is answering the question of can the weather help with pollination.
Curated Video
I WONDER - Are Bees Good Pollinators?
This video is answering the question of are bees good pollinators.
Curated Video
I WONDER - Why Is Pollination Important?
This video is answering the question of why is pollination important.
Curated Video
I WONDER - What Is Pollination?
This video is answering the question of what is pollination.
Nature League
Exploring Invertebrates | Compilation
Brit looks back on our third month on Nature League, when we explored the theme of invertebrates.
Visual Learning Systems
Plant Activities: Quiz (Plant Activities)
Several important plant activities including photosynthesis, reproduction, growth and germination are investigated in this series of videos. Students will learn how these processes are related to the structure of plants. Important...
Visual Learning Systems
Plant Activities: Summing Up (Plant Activities)
Several important plant activities including photosynthesis, reproduction, growth and germination are investigated in this series of videos. Students will learn how these processes are related to the structure of plants. Important...
Nature League
Sex Cells and Inherited Trauma - De-Natured
In this De-Natured segment of Nature League, Brit breaks down a recent scientific journal article about the effects of childhood trauma on adult sperm cells of mice and men. Article citation: Dickson, D.A., Paulus, J.K., Mensah, V., Lem,...
Nature League
Sex Safari - Field Trip
In this Nature League Field Trip, Brit goes on a Montana safari at the National Bison Range and shares some local stories of how species have persisted over time via reproduction.
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....
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.
Curated Video
The History and Attributes of Spelt
This video provides an informative overview of the history, cultivation, and characteristics of spelt, a ancient grain that originated from the Fertile Crescent. Spelt part 1/5
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...
Curated Video
I WONDER - Why Are Bats Important?
This video is answering the question of why are bats important.
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:
Food Farmer Earth
Cherry Orchards in Full Bloom
Mike Omeg's family has farmed in The Dalles, Oregon area for five generations. As Omeg explains in the video, at one time the farm was a diversified operation with cattle, wheat, and the big cash crop in the early 1900's: watermelons. In...