Nature Conservancy
Nature Works Everywhere: Meet the Scientist: Yu Jie
A video clip of scientist Yu Jie. She will explain the importance of restoring forests in China. [1:08]
Nature Conservancy
Nature Works Everywhere: Meet the Scientist: Jonathan Hoekstra
One of the leaders of the Nature Conservancy, Jonathan Hoekstra, is featured in this brief science minute. Find out what motivated him to get into conservation. [1:04]
Nature Conservancy
Nature Works Everywhere: Meet the Scientist: Sophie Parker
How did Sophie wind up working at the Natural Conservancy? She explains her passion and expertise in this brief video. [1:09]
Nature Conservancy
Nature Works Everywhere: Meet the Scientist: Zachary Prusak
An important role at the Florida Nature Conservancy is the fire manager. Meet Zachary Prusak and discover his role in helping the conservancy. [1:28]
Nature Conservancy
Nature Works Everywhere: Meet the Scientist: Bill Toomey
Bill talks about his deep-rooted interests in the environment and has made a career out of it. Check out this brief video to find out exactly how he's made a career out of his passion. [1:16]
Nature Conservancy
Nature Works Everywhere: Meet the Scientist: Judy Haner
Based in Alabama, Judy Haner describes her role with The Nature Conservancy in a brief video. Find out how she works on several restoration projects along the coastline of the Gulf. [1:25]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Shower Estimation
In this adapted ZOOM video segment, cast members calculate how much water they each use during a typical shower. They compare their results to their original predictions.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Making Recycled Paper
In this adapted ZOOM video segment, cast members get hands-on in the recycling process by using old newspapers to make new paper.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Pitch: Super Sounding Drums
This video segment, adapted from ZOOM, explores sounds made by homemade drums of different sizes, shapes, and materials. [3:41]
PBS
Pbs Kids Clubhouse Adventures: Clubhouse Theme: What Is Nature?
See examples and nonexamples of nature and learn they can help take care of the Earth through conservation and recycling. [1:28]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Ecology: Conservation and Restoration Ecology
Hank wraps up by taking a look at the growing fields of conservation biology and restoration ecology: protecting ecosystems and to cleaning up the messes that we've already made. [10:12]
University of California
Conversations With History: Natural Capitalism
An exchange between Harry Kreisler, the host of Conversations with History and Amory Lovins, the Rocky Mountain Institute co-founder, chairman and chief scientist, regarding natural capitalism and the environment. Focusing on the...
Other
Unep: Action Now for Life on Earth
A video of still images that discusses biodiversity and our need to preserve it. [5:09]
Crash Course
Crash Course Kids 36.2: Water Fix
How can we fix water shortages? Shortages are a problem because a resource has been limited, and that can cause competition. [5:28]
NOAA
Noaa: Estuary Education: The Nerrs System Wide Monitoring Program
Learn about the SWMP Program (System Wide Monitoring Program) and see how high-tech underwater equipment helps keep track of conditions in the estuary at all times. [8:25]
NOAA
Noaa: Estuary Education: Drop by Drop to the Sea
Follow rain running off parking lots and roads in central North Carolina on a journey to the estuary hundreds of miles away. Good footage showing runoff from areas of development and beautiful estuary montage at the end. [7:30]
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Energy & Matter: Flows, Cycles and Conservation
Paul Andersen explains how matter and energy flow and cycle through systems. He starts by explaining how energy and matter input and output will always be conserved. He addresses the many misconceptions surround energy and matter...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: A Coral Catastrophe?
A third of the world's reef-building coral species are vulnerable to extinction, a group of researchers says. We'll talk with one of the authors of a report about the plight of corals, and discuss whether anything can be done to turn...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sound and Solids: Stereo Hangers
This video segment, adapted from ZOOM, explores how sound waves travel differently through solids than through air, in this case, a metal clothes hanger. [1:14]
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Nature Cat: Let's Save the Marsh!: Grade 3
Nature Cat and friends visited the marsh in the story segment Muck Amok. Learn along with them as they discover more about marshes and conservation. Discover the challenges of pollution with Daisy, explore the muck beneath the surface...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Conservation: Rene Magritte, 'The Menaced Assassin,' 1927
In this video [2:35] This is Rene Magritte's Menaced Assassin from 1927. In preparation for the exhibition, we did some treatment, and also some technical examinations. One of the techniques we used for examining the painting was...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Conservation: Rene Magritte, "The Portrait," 1935
This video [2:59] In preparation for the Magritte exhibition, they began examining The Portrait, from 1935. What started as a fairly routine conservation treatment uncovered some very interesting details about Magritte's painting.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Conservation: Picasso's Guitars
In this video [3:15] photography helps MoMA conservators determine how to treat Picasso's 1913 Cubist sculpture, Still-Life with Guitar. To learn about how art changes over time, enroll in one of MoMA's courses online. Created by The...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Conservation: Paik, 'Untitled,' 1993
To learn more about the history of sound, video and performance art, enroll in our online courses, including Five Puzzles of Contemporary Art.