Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Natural Climate Change in Djibouti, Africa

9th - 10th
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, animations are used to illustrate how change in the tilt of Earth's axis produces dramatic climate change of what is now the Saharan nation of Djibouti. [3:48]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Trying to Breathe on Mount Everest

9th - 10th
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, climbers attempting to reach Mount Everest's summit must contend with the low levels of oxygen at high altitudes. [3:34]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Ozone Hole

9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center gives a detailed explanation of the catalytic chemical process that has led to the creation of the ozone hole. [5: 04]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Antarctic Ice: Sea Level Change

9th - 10th
What would happen if a portion of the Antarctic Ice Sheet were to melt? This video segment [3:19] adapted from NOVA uses animations to show the effect of a 6-meter sea-level rise on coastal cities across the world.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Solar Still Part Ii: Juice

9th - 10th
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members test their solar still to see if they can make fresh water from orange juice. [3: 55]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Diversity of Hardwoods at Congaree Swamp

3rd - 8th
In this video segment from NatureScene, observe some methods of plant identification with regards to the diversity of hardwoods at the Congaree Swamp. [3:47]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Carnivorous Plants of Cartwheel Bay

9th - 10th
In this video segment from NatureScene, explore Cartwheel Bay, a wetland in South Carolina, and learn about the variety of carnivorous plants native to this unique landform. [4:26]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Black Civil Rights Activist, Colonel Stone Johnson

9th - 10th
In this oral history from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Colonel Stone Johnson describes how civil rights activists were physically attacked for their work. [3:27]
Audio
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Excerpts From the March on Washington, Part 3

9th - 10th
Recorded live at the 1963 March on Washington, this audio segment captures the voice of SNCC leader John Lewis.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Diane Nash and the Sit Ins

9th - 10th
Diane Nash was a college student when she started leading sit-in demonstrations to protest discrimination. In this interview, recorded for Eyes on the Prize, Nash describes her role in the Civil Rights movement. [5:59]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Sonia Sanchez: The Meaning of Malcolm X

9th - 10th
Poet Sonia Sanchez, interviewed here for Eyes on the Prize, describes what the outspoken civil rights leader Malcolm X represented to African Americans in the 1960s. [1:52]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Segregated Schooling in South Carolina

9th - 10th
In this video segment, produced for the Levine Museum of the New South, Joseph De Laine Jr. and Ophelia De Laine Gona describe conditions in segregated South Carolina schools in 1950. [2:47]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Civil Rights Activist, Eileen Kelley Walbert

9th - 10th
Eileen Walbert was among the Concerned White Citizens of Alabama who took a stand for civil rights, as she describes in this oral history from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. [5:40]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Civil Rights Activist, Sheyann Webb

9th - 10th
Sheyann Webb was eight years old in 1965 when she marched for voting rights. In this interview, recorded for Eyes on the Prize, she recalls the events of the Selma march. [5:08]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Studying the Antarctic Sea Floor

9th - 10th
Studying life on the seafloor beneath Antarctica's thick ice is a major challenge for ecologists. Learn about a new device that can reach those icy depths in this video segment adapted from WomenInAntarctica.com. [4:39]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Studying Antarctic Seals

9th - 10th
Learn firsthand from a young Antarctic researcher about a long-term study on the reproductive history of Weddell seals in this video segment adapted from WomenInAntarctica.com. [3:33]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Environmental Public Health: Becoming Green Energy Experts

9th - 10th
See how Lansing, Michigan inner-city youth become community science experts in energy sustainability and environmental health topics in this student-centric after-school program. [5:07]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Students Study Urban Ecology

9th - 10th
See how Boston middle and high school students shape urban planning in their own neighborhoods, through place-based Bioacoustics and Urban Trees curriculum projects. [7:00]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: How the Ohio River Was Formed

9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from KET's Where the River Bends demonstrates how climate change and glacier movement during the Ice Ages destroyed the old Teays River and created the Ohio River, Kentucky's northern border.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Dragonflies in Kentucky

Pre-K - 1st
This video segment from Kentucky Life explains the differences between dragonflies and damselflies and explores their habitats. [3:32]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Peregrine Falcon

9th - 10th
In this video from Outdoor Nevada, Brian Wignall speaks with an ornithologist about the peregrine falcon, a majestic and endangered species that is one of the fastest animals in the world. [3:08]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Mining Minerals and Metals

Pre-K - 1st
In this video from the Science and Technology Chat series, take a tour of a re-created Nevada gold mine to learn about mining techniques.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Bears' Lunch Counter

9th - 10th
This Nature video segment explores how the relationship between humans and grizzly bears has changed over the course of American History, and it describes the closing of the Yellowstone National Park garbage dumps in the 1970s. [4:19]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: This Is Their Land

9th - 10th
Examine how the human/grizzly relationship has changed since the closing of the Yellowstone dumps, and also learn about the challenges posed to both humans and bears, in this video segment from Nature. [4:14]