Curated Video
I WONDER - How Hot Is Lightning?
This video is answering the question of how hot is lightning.
Curated Video
Why Fire and Rain Are Enemies: an African Folktale
Once upon a time, there was a chief who had a daughter so beautiful that she drew the attention of both Fire and Rain. She wanted to marry Rain, but her father agreed to marry her off to Fire. This led to an epic competition between the...
Curated Video
20 Common English Phrases for Describing Things | Common English Similes
Learn 20 common English phrases for describing things using common English similes. Feel free to write your own similes in the comments section below.
NASA
Warmer Ocean Temperatures May Decrease Saharan Dust Crossing the Atlantic
Every year millions of tons of dust from the Sahara Desert are swirled up into the atmosphere by easterly trade winds, and carried across the Atlantic. The plumes can make their way from the African continent as far as the Amazon...
NASA
NASA Has Eyes On The Atlantic Hurricane Season
NASA has a unique and important view of hurricanes around the planet. Satellites and aircraft watch as storms form, travel across the ocean and sometimes, make landfall. After the hurricanes have passed, the satellites and aircraft see...
NASA
NASA | OLYMPEX Successfully Grabs the Rains
NASA finishes campaign to study extreme rain, snow and winds of the Olympic National Forest. Scientists Walt Petersen of NASA Marshall and Robert Houze of the University of Washington narrate this inside look at the Olympic Mountain...
NASA
NASA | GPM: The Trouble with Irene
NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement mission, or GPM, a joint NASA/JAXA mission, will provide rainfall data on storms and hurricanes like Irene that move out of the tropics. The data will be available when the GPM Core Observatory...
NASA
NASA | GPM's Journey to Japan
Built at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., the GPM spacecraft travelled roughly 7,300 miles (11,750 kilometers) to its launch site at Tanegashima Space Center on Tanegashima Island, Japan, where it is scheduled for...
Englishing
Complicated ENGLISH: All, Every & Each (DIFFERENZE tea ALL, EVERY & EACH)
This video is about Confusing words in English: #all, #every and #each. All is used when you are thinking of a collection as a whole rather than its individual items. Every is used to refer to each individual item. We use each of (not...
Curated Video
A1 English Listening Practice - Weather
This video serves as English listening comprehension practice for beginner students. In this video, a native English speaker talks slowly and clearly about the topic of weather. The subtitles are included at the bottom of the screen to...
Curated Video
Making Promises and Predictions: Intermediate English Grammar Lesson
This is an intermediate English grammar lesson about making promises and predictions in English.
Visual Learning Systems
People and the Environment: Air Pollution
Students will explore the notion of resource conservation, and identify the differences between renewable and non-renewable resources. Some of the ways our environment may be harmed via pollution, deforestation, species extinction, and...
NASA
NASA | Katrina Retrospective: 5 Years After the Storm
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast. Five years later, NASA revisits the storm with a short video that shows Katrina as captured by satellites. Before and during the hurricane's landfall, NASA...
NASA
NASA Looks at the North American Monsoon
North America experiences a yearly monsoon weather system in late summer as moisture comes up from the west coast of Mexico and enters the southwestern U.S. The seasonal weather pattern brings both much of the region's precipitation but...
NASA
NASA | TRMM at 15: The Reign of Rain
TRMM Project Scientist Scott Braun looks back at the legacy of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission and a few of the major scientific milestones the satellite has helped achieve.
NASA
NASA | Observing the 2015 El Niño
People the world over are feeling, or soon will feel, the effects of the strongest El Niño event since 1997-98, currently unfolding in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. New satellite observations are beginning to show scientists its...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
From Anxious to Excited
Mikki vs the World is a creative, funny, and factual series designed to help teens get a grip on what’s happening inside their heads. Mo's friend helps Dr. M convert her anxiety into excitement. And Mo comes up with a new, less stressful...
Nature League
The Threats Facing Forests - Field Trip
In this Nature League Field Trip, Brit gets a first-hand look at the challenges facing forests in the Rocky Mountains, including fires, drought, climate change, and pine beetles. Special thanks to Professor Diana Six at the University of...
Curated Video
Anaerobe
This live-action video program is about the word anaerobe. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word anaerobe through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful,...
AllTime 10s
10 Cities That Could Be Wiped Out By 2020
As time goes by, the risk of natural disasters is getting higher around the world. From LA to Manilla, here's 10 Cities That Could Be Wiped out by 2020.
The March of Time
1943: ALEUTIAN ISLANDS CAMPAIGN: UNITED STATES ARMY: VS U.S. Army control tower at air base in Amchitka, Alaska, various P-40 Warhawk fighter airplanes & Douglas B-18 Bolo bombers landing on airstrip w/ water, risky landings. WWII, Pacific Front
MOT 1943: ALEUTIAN ISLANDS CAMPAIGN: UNITED STATES ARMY: VS U.S. Army control tower at air base in Amchitka, Alaska, various P-40 Warhawk fighter airplanes & Douglas B-18 Bolo bombers landing on airstrip w/ water, risky landings. WWII,...