Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: A Variety of Hummingbirds

9th - 10th
Learn about different traits and adaptations in various species of hummingbirds in this video from Nature. [2:50]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Fusion Energy Advances

9th - 10th
In this report from the NewsHour, correspondent Spencer Michels reports on ongoing efforts to produce fusion energy to help fuel American energy independence. [6:27]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Capturing Carbon

9th - 10th
In this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, a scientist, inspired by his daughter's science fair project, develops a synthetic tree to remove excess carbon dioxide from the air. [5:23]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Geneticist Pardis Sabeti

9th - 10th
In this video profile adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, learn about geneticist and rock musician Pardis Sabeti, whose innovative insights into natural selection demonstrated how beneficial mutations spread quickly through a population. [5:04]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Nature's Kidneys

9th - 10th
In this video from WOSU Columbus, learn about the soil and water in wetland ecosystems and the chemical interactions that enable wetlands to cleanse themselves. [0:55]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Bubonic Plague

9th - 10th
In this video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey, learn about bubonic plague and how city officials in San Francisco tried to contain its spread in the early 1900s. [5:06]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Discovery of Penicillin

9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey tells the story of researcher Sir Alexander Fleming, whose luck and scientific reasoning led to the groundbreaking discovery of penicillin. [4:45]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: A Nanotube Space Elevator

9th - 10th
In this video adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, find out about the discovery of a new building material, the carbon nanotube, whose physical properties could theoretically enable the creation of a 22,000-mile elevator to space. [4:29]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Solar Paint Your Roof

9th - 10th
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, see how nanotechnology might be used to create a new, cheaper way to produce solar electricity for the home. [3:01]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Simple Justice 4: Arguing the Fourteenth Amendment

9th - 10th
This segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" explores the issue at the heart of Brown v. Board of Education: whether the Fourteenth Amendment applied to segregated schools. [5:50]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Simple Justice 3: The Trial Begins

9th - 10th
This segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" captures the legal issues and opening arguments in Brown v. Board of Education. [6:44]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Simple Justice 2: Social Science Evidence

9th - 10th
This segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" documents Dr. Kenneth Clark's "doll test," which became important social science evidence in Brown case. [5:44]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Simple Justice 1: A Handful of Lawyers

9th - 10th
This segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" profiles Charles Houston's strategy for attacking segregation and how he trained the legal team that eventually argued the Brown case.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Simple Justice 5: Marshall's Closing Statement

9th - 10th
This segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" reenacts Thurgood Marshall's closing statement in Brown v. Board of Education. [5:26]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Impact of Technology: Nylon

9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey looks at the invention of nylon. [3:51]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Galileo on the Moon

9th - 10th
Watch Apollo 15 astronaut David Scott perform Galileo's falling objects experiment on the Moon in this video segment from NASA. [0:47]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Density and Buoyancy: Mixing Hot and Cold Water

Pre-K - 1st
Watch warm water float on top of cold water in this video segment adapted from ZOOM. [3:22]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity

9th - 10th
What happens when you approach the speed of light? This video segment adapted from NOVA follows one of Albert Einstein's thought experiments and his quest to find the answer. [7:05]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Light Particles Acting Like Waves: The Uncertainty Principle

9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey uses a laser beam to demonstrate how light particles act like waves, illustrating Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. [2:07]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Melissa Franklin: High Energy Physics

9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from Discovering Women profiles Fermilab physicist and Harvard professor Melissa Franklin. [4:08]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Frontline: Radon Radiation

9th - 10th
The biggest source of environmental radiation might be in your home. Find out more in this video segment adapted from FRONTLINE: "Nuclear Reaction." [1:46]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Defy Gravity! Balancing Balls on Air

Pre-K - 1st
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members use a hair dryer to balance a ball in a stream of air, seemingly defying gravity. [3:21]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Surface Tension: Making Paper Clips Float

Pre-K - 1st
In this video segment, the ZOOM cast relies on the surface tension of water to make paper clips float. [2:20]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Density and Buoyancy: Making Eggs Float

Pre-K - 1st
Why does an egg float in salt water? Learn about density and buoyancy in this video segment adapted from ZOOM. [3:02]