Instructional Video
Sea Studios Foundation

Shape of Life: Arthropods: Dragonfly Larva Hunts Newt

9th - 10th
A video that shows how a dragonfly larva hunts a newt. See how a dragonfly larva stalks prey underwater and catches a newt. [2:06]
Instructional Video
Sea Studios Foundation

Shape of Life: Arthropods: Dragonfly Metamorphosis

9th - 10th
See a dragonfly's metamorphosis with this video. Watch a dragonfly larva transform into a winged adult. [2:46]
Instructional Video
Sea Studios Foundation

Shape of Life: Arthropods: Horseshoe Crab

9th - 10th
Learn about how horseshoe crabs mate in the water but lay their eggs in sand. This video shows you how the crab allow their young develop safe from marine predators. [1:23]
Instructional Video
Sea Studios Foundation

Shape of Life: Bill Shear, Biologist: How Arthropods Left the Sea

9th - 10th
Follow Bill Shear as he investigates how arthropods made the transition to living on land by looking at microfossils preserved along with fossil plants. In this video watch as he extracts tiny fossils by dissolving the rock that they are...
Instructional Video
Sea Studios Foundation

Shape of Life: Arthropod Animation: Swiss Army Knife

9th - 10th
The blades of the Swiss army knife become the claws, legs, antennae and wings that arthropods evolved to survive on land. [0:52]
Instructional Video
Sea Studios Foundation

Shape of Life: Arthropod Locomotion: Engineering

9th - 10th
Robert Full is interested in the biomechanics of arthropod movement. Arthropods move low to the ground using their legs in a tripod fashion, which is inherently stable. Their skeleton provides local control over movement. But the secret...
Instructional Video
National Pest Managment Association

Pest World for Kids: Season 1: Episode 23

K - 1st
Three snippets about pests including back to school shell shopping for a spider, pavement ants' home sweet sidewalk, and Japanese Beetles. [3:05]
Instructional Video
National Pest Managment Association

Pest World for Kids: Season 2: Episode 2

K - 1st
Learn about a variety of interesting pests like three blind roof rats, a scary-big spider, and buggy make-up! [3:14]
Instructional Video
National Pest Managment Association

Pest World for Kids: Season 2: Episode 3

K - 1st
Learn about a variety of interesting insects like icky fly habits, scorpion stings, and baby sow bugs! [3:29]
Instructional Video
National Pest Managment Association

Pest World for Kids: Season 2: Episode 5

K - 1st
Learn about a variety of interesting animals like biting centipedes, hungry book lice, and traveling grape moths! [3:43]
Instructional Video
National Pest Managment Association

Pest World for Kids: Season 2: Episode 10

K - 1st
Learn about a variety of interesting pests like muddy bugs, busy bees, and skilled scorpions! [3:31]
Instructional Video
National Pest Managment Association

Pest World for Kids: Season 2: Episode 16

K - 1st
Learn about a variety of interesting pests like ants, traveling spiders, and the life of a mayfly! [3:30]
Instructional Video
National Pest Managment Association

Pest World for Kids: Season 2: Episode 17

K - 1st
Learn about a variety of interesting pest habits like spiders' web-spinning, millipedes' antics, and rats' powerful chompers! [3:35]
Instructional Video
National Pest Managment Association

Pest World for Kids: Season 2: Episode 21

K - 1st
Learn about a variety of interesting pests who like growing up underground, spitting spiders, and romantic singing spiders! [3:30]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Skeletal Structure and Function

9th - 10th
This video explores the structure and function of the human skeleton in-depth, as well as some animal skeletons. [6:52]
Instructional Video
Environmental Education for Kids

Eek!: Animals: Insects

3rd - 5th
Learn about insects with naturalist David Stokes. [8:10]