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Deep Look

How Do Sharks and Rays Use Electricity to Find Hidden Prey?

6th - 12th Standards
Sharks and stingrays use their sense of electricity to find prey. The video explains their tiny organs that detect electric fields produced by living creatures. It ends by highlighting the benefits of this sense and how much scientists...
Instructional Video4:50
Be Smart

What If There Were No Sharks?

6th - 12th
Humans kill 3.17 sharks per second. Sharks kill, on average, six humans per year. The video offers many facts based on real science and proven numbers. Not sensationalized or click bait, a refreshing change from a lot of what we see on...
Instructional Video4:35
TED-Ed

Why Are Sharks so Awesome?

7th - 10th
Sharks are amazing! They can heat their own blood, they can sense even the faintest of electrical currents, and their sense of smell is is acute. Rather than wanting to eradicate this species, class members can educate others as a result...
Instructional Video5:53
TED-Ed

Why No Aquarium Has a Great White Shark

7th - 12th
Are great white sharks too big for captivity? Why don't great whites survive in aquarium tanks? View this short video that explains why great white sharks have a history of dying in aquarium captivity.
Instructional Video2:16
Curated OER

Sharks vs. Dinosaurs

4th - 12th
A young reptile must use its natural speed to steer free from the shark. Watch this video to learn how another prehistoric animal keeps himself under the sea.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Sharks & Shorelines

9th - 10th
Discover what has been found out about coastal ecosystems by tagging sharks and other marine animals. [3:56]
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Collapse of Sharks

9th - 10th
This video segment from Nature shows the destructiveness of the shark fin and shark cartilage industries. [3:05]
Instructional Video
Other

Fast Focus Ocean Vision: Shark Feeding

9th - 10th
Resource showcases a video on the controversial practice of shark feeding dives. Requires Windows Media Player.
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Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: Rh Kids: Fact Tracker: Dolphins and Sharks

K - 1st
This video [0:53] checks information included in the fiction book entitled Magic Tree House #9: Dolphins at Daybreak by Mary Pope Osborne. The book Fact Tracker: Dolphins and Sharks, the nonfiction companion written by Will Osborne and...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Earth a New Wild: Sharks & Shorelines

9th - 10th
In this video, students learn about lemon sharks and how their grazing habits help keep mangrove ecosystems healthy. [3:57]
Instructional Video
Other

You Tube: Sea Animals

K - 1st
An educational science lesson with rare video of amazing sea animals. Kids learn interesting facts about penguins, giant octopus, sea horses, sharks, and many more ocean animals and will enjoy looking at real live animals in their...
Instructional Video
California Academy of Sciences

Ca Academy of Sciences: Science Heroes: John Mc Cosker, Sharks

9th - 10th
Go on a journey with John McCosker, Chair of the Department of Aquatic Biology, and learn how the oceans' top predator preys upon its victims. [1:40]
Instructional Video
Other

Shark Friends: Swim in Theatre

Pre-K - 1st
In order to completely access this site users will need QuickTime or Real Player. Site provides users with multiple videos about sharks and other sea creatures. Provides users with videos on Reef Sharks, Manta Rays, Moray Eels, Sea...
Instructional Video
PBS

Nature Video Podcast: Great White Shark

9th - 10th
See a short podcast video [2:20] on the hunting tactics and special anatomy that make it the most formidable predator in the ocean.
Instructional Video
Science for Kids

Science Kids: Animal Videos: Shark Attack Video

9th - 10th
Slow motion video of shark leaping out of water and biting into its prey. (Length: 21 sec.)
Audio
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Inside Insight: Clearing and Staining Fish

9th - 10th
Clearing and staining gobies, stingrays, and sharks has revealed to scientist Adam Summers critical data, as well as the beauty of each fish's unique form.