Curated Video
Amazing Adaptations: The World of Beetles
Beetles, the resilient and adaptable insects, have been thriving on Earth for 270 million years. With over 12,000 species in the United States and 300,000 worldwide, they can be found in diverse habitats across the globe. Their ability...
Curated Video
Beetles
Different beetles flourish in different climates. British researchers have used this knowledge to dig into climate change history. Earth Science - Human Impacts - Learning Points. Climate proxies, such as tree rings or dead beetles, can...
Curated Video
Invading Animals: The Cane Toad
In the early 20th Century, the South American cane toad was introduced to Australia to eat beetles which were destroying the sugar crop. But once in the wild the toads did more harm than good. Biology - Ecosystems - Learning Points. The...
Curated Video
Food chains – Did you know?
Did you know that dung beetles decompose waste products, making them an important part of the food chain? Life processes - Living things in their environments - Food chains Learning Points Decomposers break down organic material and...
Curated Video
Fairy wasp
A spellbinding case study of one of nature's most unusual parasites. Life processes - Living processes - Life cycles Learning Points Life cycles can be very short whilst others can take hundreds of years. Parasites use other animals or...
Curated Video
Cane toads
There are many ways to deal with pest problems, but some of them can create unexpected outcomes. People and places - Environmental awareness and care - Science and the environment Learning Points Biological control uses natural predators...
Professor Dave Explains
Energy Flow and Nutrient Cycling in Autotrophs and Heterotrophs
The biosphere is an extremely dynamic system, with energy flowing from one group of organism to another at all times. How does this flow operate? How do nutrients cycle? What is biomass? What are gross and net primary productivity? Let's...
Curated Video
Inspect That Insect
Miss Palomine introduces insects to the student. She explains which animals are classified as insects. She then gives several examples of various kinds of insects and their habitats.
Learning Mole
Why are Insects Important?
This video will take students through the importance of insects to our earth and to us.
Curated Video
Using Plural Nouns to Make Writing Precise
In this video, the teacher explains how writers use plural nouns to show more than one person, place, or thing. The students are guided through examples and given practice exercises to make their writing more precise by adding an S to...
Curated Video
Carrion Flowers: Nature's Disgusting Beauties
This video discusses carrion flowers, which are classified as flowers but emit disgusting and repulsive smells. The video explores the unique characteristics and challenges of these rare and difficult-to-cultivate flowers, offering...
Mazz Media
Omnivore
This live-action video program is about the term omnivore. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term omnivore through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful,...
Curated Video
Levels of Organization in a Community or Ecosystem
The video discusses the concept of a community in an ecosystem and the levels of organization within it. It covers the role of photosynthetic organisms in producing biomass, the different types of consumers (primary, secondary, and...
Brave Wilderness
PINCHED! by a Giant Beetle!
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to get pinched by a GIANT Beetle?! Well Coyote Peterson has and right now he’s about to show you! While on location in Costa Rica Coyote finds a large Mallodon Beetle just outside of his room...
Mazz Media
What is an Omnivore?
This live-action video program is about the word omnivore. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word omnivore through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful,...
NASA
NASA | Wildfire and Pine Beetles
Mountain pine beetles are native to Western forests, but in recent years their numbers have skyrocketed. As they damage more trees and kill whole regions of forest, some worry that the dead forest left behind has become a tinderbox ready...
Mazz Media
Insect
This live-action video program is about the word insect. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word insect through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful,...
Curated Video
Understanding Trophic Levels in an Ecosystem
The video is a lecture presentation on trophic levels in ecosystems. The presenter defines trophic levels as feeding levels in a community or ecosystem and explains how they can be used to organize feeding relationships. The concept of a...
Curated Video
Solving 2-Step Word Problems with Equations
In this video, students learn how to solve 2-step word problems by writing equations. The teacher explains that an equation is like a balance scale, where both sides are equal. Using the example of ants and beetles in a zoo, the teacher...
Press Association
Artist's beetle challenge helps fans reconnect with nature
Quotes from Harrogate artist Anna Whitehouse who has engaged with over 2,000 people worldwide, and closer to home, to help her sculpt a beetle a day for 100 days.
Curated Video
Call to world leaders to protect the planet's rare plants
This is the seed of a rare mandrake plant.
It once grew wild on Spain's Balearic Islands.
Now it's one of over thirty thousand different types of seeds held in the UK's Millennium Seed Bank (MSB).
The bank was set up a decade ago, an...
Curated Video
Mexican farmers use fireflies to save forest
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLYSHOTLIST:AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLYNanacamilpa - 21 July 2016++NIGHT SHOTS++ 1. Tourist walking with the last light of sunset among fireflies2. Tourist trying to photograph emerging fireflies4....
Curated Video
RR0248/B Canada: Forensic Bugs
Vancouver, Canada/south western Afghanistan/Boksburg, South Africa/north east Bosnia (recent/file):
South western Afghanistan (APTN FILE: 12/01/2002): mass grave site; person digging; skull being lifted from grave site; shoe found at...
Curated Video
Scientists in race against time to find cure for deadly bat disease
AP Television
Perryville, Missouri - March 8, 2012
1. Close, zooms out of hibernating bat in Missouri cave
2. Wide biologists taking samples from cave and bats
3. Close biologist swabbing hibernating bat
4. Close Tony Elliott taking...