Hi, what do you want to do?
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
Art Lesson| How to Create the Appearance of Stained Glass Flowers using Oil Pastels!
This is one of my FAVORITE middle school art projects! Results are vibrant and stunning! A favorite of my students and their parents.
I am using Sakura Cray-Pas Junior Artist Oil Pastels (set of 16) in t
his video.
If...
I am using Sakura Cray-Pas Junior Artist Oil Pastels (set of 16) in t
his video.
If...
Visual Learning Systems
Introduction to Arthropods
This video introduces the concept of arthropods and highlights their significance in the natural world. It explains that arthropods, such as horseshoe crabs, bees, and spiders, have common characteristics like an exoskeleton, jointed...
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Britannica Insights: What is the Murder Hornet?
Overview of the Asian giant, or murder, hornet, a predator whose main prey is honeybees.
Visual Learning Systems
Life Cycles: Insect Life Cycles
Upon viewing the Life Cycles video series, students will be able to do the following: Understand that living things go through changes in the course of their lives referred to as a life cycle. State that most living things follow a...
Visual Learning Systems
What Is an Insect?: Insects Everywhere
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.
Britlish
Vocabulary of Birds (no subtitles)
This English lesson looks at vocabulary associated with birds such as, feathers, wings, beak, eggs, plumage, vaned, down, duckling, grooming, keratin, raptor, webbed, talon, flying, thermal, flat, and chick. The narrator speaks in an...
Curated Video
Vertebrate
This live-action video program is about the term vertebrate. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word vertebrate through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and...
Science360
Science Now ep1
This first episode of Science Now explores extremes environments, an eco friendly ATM, and a new supercomputer called Yellowstone.. check it out.
Visual Learning Systems
Comparing Biodiversity: From Parking Lots to Forests
The video discusses the concept of biodiversity and how it can be used to describe different places. It features three different locations - an old parking lot, an abandoned farm field, and a forest - and compares their levels of...
Visual Learning Systems
What Is an Insect?: What Are Insects?
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.
Wonderscape
Science Kids: Camouflage in Animals, Insects and Plants
In this video, the teacher discusses the concept of camouflage in animals and plants. The teacher explains how different species have adapted to their environments through natural variations and favorable traits. The different types of...
Curated Video
Way Cool Science II: Seeds and Plants
Friendly and fun host, Max Orbit, asks questions about the world and searches for answers. This DVD series is designed to engage students while introducing scientific principles and concepts in a fun and entertaining way. In this program...
Nature League
What Are Invertebrates? - Lesson Plan
In this Nature League Lesson Plan, Brit introduces the invertebrates of Earth, including their names, relationships, forms, and awesomeness.
Science360
Mount St. Helens
The area of Southern Washington State around the Mount St. Helens Volcano has been nearly devoid of life since the 1980 eruption - making it a biology lab like no other as scientists observe it springing back to life. The regenerating...
Weird History
What Everyday Life Was Like for the Aztecs
You may have heard of their calendars, seen their temples, or admired one of their cool looking sculptural artifacts in a museum, but chances are you have no idea what life was really like for the Aztecs.
Be Smart
Orchid Mantis: Looks That Kill
Rather than hunting for food, the orchid mantis entices the prey to come to it. A cool video discusses this type of mimicry as part of a larger biology playlist. The orchid mantis appears like any typical orchid to us, but it stands out...
Curated OER
Spiders
There are more than 34,000 different species of spiders that roam our planet. Now that's a lot of legs! Watch this video to learn about spiders and how they differ from insects.
Curated OER
Giant Centipede
Want to get up close and personal with a giant centipede? Watch this video and you will! Learn about the giant centipede's daily living habits in this National Geographic video clip.
Curated OER
Termite World - Life in the Undergrowth
We walk on it everyday, but have you ever thought about what's beneath our feet? What's going on underground? Watch this video to learn about the underworld of termites. Viewers will learn how termites are able to live and breathe...
Curated OER
The Mosquito
Mosquitoes are responsible for more human deaths than any other living creature. How? Watch this video to learn why these tiny insects can be so deadly.
Bill Nye
Bill Nye The Science Guy on Insects
Queen Latifah makes a cameo in this Bill Nye episode on insects. The facts taught are that the queen bee is in charge of a bee colony, ants can dig tunnels, and exoskeletons support, strengthen, and protect the insect's body. While you...
TED-Ed
Mating Frenzies, Sperm Hoards, and Brood Raids: the Life of a Fire Ant Queen
The dramatic story of the life cycle of a fire ant queen is featured in a short video that details the queen's struggle to survive amid floods, fierce battles, and forage wars.
Scholastic
The American Museum of Natural History: A Virtual Field Trip with Brian Selznick
Author Brian Selznick takes scholars on a virtual field trip to New York City's American Museum of Natural History. Three stops to the Hall of North American Mammals, Mosquito Model, and Hall of Meteorites showcase prominent dioramas and...
TED-Ed
The Sexual Deception of Orchids
A plant engaged in sexual deception? Strange but true. Believe it or not, orchids have developed a range of sexual adaptations that permit them to attract pollinators. The narrator of a short video describes a variety of strategies used...