Instructional Video9:58
PBS

That Time the American West Blew Up

12th - Higher Ed
How is it possible to have cataclysmic eruptions without any real cataclysm?
Instructional Video2:36
MinuteEarth

Why Continents Are High

12th - Higher Ed
Lots of geological forces need to come together for continents to form, but they all require one ingredient: water.
Instructional Video2:53
SciShow

The World's Next Ocean

12th - Higher Ed
A volcanic eruption and series of earthquakes in 2005 were important not because they did a great deal of damage to humans, but because they’re geologic evidence of where Earth’s next ocean will most likely pop up.
Instructional Video3:12
SciShow

The World's Next Ocean

12th - Higher Ed
A volcanic eruption and series of earthquakes in 2005 were important not because they did a great deal of damage to humans, but because they’re geologic evidence of where Earth’s next ocean will most likely pop up.
Instructional Video13:59
TED Talks

Karen Lloyd: The mysterious microbes living deep inside the earth -- and how they could help humanity

12th - Higher Ed
The ground beneath your feet is home to a massive, mysterious world of microbes -- some of which have been in the earth's crust for hundreds of thousands of years. What's it like down there? Take a trip to the volcanoes and hot springs...
Instructional Video11:04
Bozeman Science

Geology

12th - Higher Ed
In this video Paul Andersen explains how rock is formed and changed on the planet. The video begins with a brief description of rocks, minerals, and the rock cycle. Plate tectonics is used to describe structure near plate boundaries. Hot...
Instructional Video9:21
Bozeman Science

Plate Tectonics

12th - Higher Ed
Mr. Andersen describes how plate tectonics shapes our planet. Continental and oceanic platers are contrasted and major plate boundaries are discussed.
Instructional Video1:04
Curated Video

Subduction

6th - 12th
The process that takes place when two tectonic plates collide together, and one is pushed under another. A Twig Science Glossary Film. Key scientific terms defined in just 60 seconds using stunning images and concise textual definitions....
Instructional Video4:54
Curated Video

Plate Tectonics

3rd - Higher Ed
“Plate Tectonics” will look at the movement of tectonic plates, and how they have shaped our world.
Interactive4:26
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1
Scholastic

Study Jams! Earthquakes

5th - 9th
Have a seismic moment with your class as you show this animated video on earthquakes. Viewers find that quakes occur on faults and are caused by shifting of continental plates. They learn what properties are studied by seismologists and...
Instructional Video
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology

Iris: Gps Measures Deformation in Subduction Zone: Island Arc Setting

9th - 10th
This animation shows that GPS can record the movement of the leading edge of the overlying continental plate in a subduction zone. [0:48]
Instructional Video
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology

Iris: Gps Measures Deformation in Subduction Zones: Ocean/continent

9th - 10th
Animation shows how land jumps in an earthquake and how GPS can record the movement. [0:49]
Instructional Video
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology

Iris: Gps Records Variable Deformation Across a Subduction Zone

9th - 10th
Animation shows deformation in three zones above a subduction zone as recorded by GPS stations. [1:17]