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...
Curated Video
Firefighters learn lessons from catastrophic wildfire season
More than half a billion dollars in damage was done, and experts are predicting a similar wildfire season this year.
Curated Video
Are pheromones the future of pine beetle control?
Pine beetles use pheromones to mate, but the chemicals could also be used to say “stay away.” University of Alberta professor Nadir Erbilgin brought pheromone samples into the CBC Edmonton studio and shared the love that could be the key...
Curated Video
Nova Scotia hopes this B.C. beetle can save its hemlock trees
Nova Scotia's hemlock trees are under threat of being wiped out by an invasive insect but scientists are hoping a beetle from British Columbia that eats the insect could hold the key to saving the tree species.
Curated Video
B.C. beetles to the rescue! Saving Nova Scotia hemlock trees
Nova Scotia's hemlock trees are under threat of being wiped out by an invasive insect but scientists are hoping a beetle from British Columbia that eats the insect could hold the key to saving the tree species.
Curated Video
Japanese beetles are in N.L. Here's why they're destructive — and what you should do if you see one
Newfoundland and Labrador is seeing increased numbers of an invasive pest called the Japanese beetle. The centimetre-long insect can cause a lot of damage to gardens and crops. The CBC’s Heather Gillis talks to St. John’s...
Curated Video
Winnipeggers line up to catch a whiff of 'disgusting' flower
A foul-smelling curiosity has people following their noses to Sage Garden Greenhouses in Winnipeg. Their rare corpse lily is now in bloom, giving off a pungent aroma that reminds some people of rotten meat.
Curated Video
Dozens of giant live beetles disguised as Japanese snacks intercepted at LAX
The live beetles were seized and will most likely be donated to local zoos that can care for them properly. (Scripps News)
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
Glowing bacteria used to catch superbugs
At the Bioluminescent Superbugs Laboratory (BSL) in Auckland, glow-in-the-dark bacteria are being used in the search for new and more efficient treatments for antibiotic resistant diseases.
These bugs are doing more than just spelling...
Press Association
Artist creating 100 ceramic beetles to highlight insects as objects of beauty
Harrogate artist Anna Whitehouse has engaged with more than 2,000 people worldwide, and closer to home, to help her sculpt a beetle a day for 100 days. The creative challenge has seen her followers from Australia, Canada, USA, Singapore,...
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...