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Minute Earth: The Secret Social Life of Plants

9th - 10th
Plants are more than just green, photosynthesis machines. They behave and adapt to their environmental cues much like animals do. [2:32]
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Minute Earth: Birds That Hibernate in Lakes?!

9th - 10th
Find out about the very unique journeys of birds, which humans have learned about in a variety of investigative manners. [3:12]
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Minute Earth: Why Do Rivers Curve?

9th - 10th
Find out the science behind how and why rivers begin to meander and curve over time. [2:57]
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Minute Earth: Poop Transplants!

9th - 10th
Animated video explaining what C. difficile is and how it affects the human gut. One treatment is to have a fecal transplant which can help the gut recover. Microbiota are also transplanted across ecosystems in agricultural and aquatic...
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Minute Earth: The Great North American Locust Plague

3rd - 6th
An animated look at the fascinating history of locust swarms in North America and how the Rocky Mountain Locust was made extinct by accident. [2:35]
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Minute Earth: Why Does Earth Have Deserts?

4th - 6th
An animated explanation of why the Earth has deserts. Discusses trade winds and Hadley cells. [2:28]
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Minute Earth: Trash vs. Garbage

2nd - 4th
An animated discussion of the different meanings of trash and garbage. [1:11]
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Minute Earth: The Hottest Place on Earth

2nd - 5th
An animated discussion of the hottest places on Earth and how the temperature is measured by scientists. [2:35]
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Minute Earth: How to Survive a Lightning Strike

3rd - 5th
Learn what you should do to protect yourself from lightning. [2:32]
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Minute Earth: Which Came First the Rain or the Rainforest?

3rd - 5th
Describes the relationship between rainfall and the rainforest, and how the loss of rainforests is affecting the world's climate and land surfaces. [2:47]
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Minute Earth: How Our Honey Is Made

K - 1st
The first minute presents an animated explanation of how bees make honey. The rest is an advertisement for MinuteEarth. [2:31]
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Minute Earth: Denizens of the Deep

3rd - 5th
An animated discussion of the creatures in the deep ocean that we know very little about and the extreme conditions they live under. They have been under threat from people doing commercial fishing as stocks of fish near the surface have...