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PREHISTORIC TREASURE FOUND?!
On this episode of Beyond Dinosaurs, Coyote and Mario have teamed up with PaleoCris and Fossil Rick for one epic adventure! They're headed to a top secret location in Florida and dividing into two teams to search for some Prehistoric...
Visual Learning Systems
Listening and Speaking in Science: Active Listening
Key components to communication in the field of science are listening and speaking. This program demonstrates and models basic listening and speaking skills. Special emphasis is given to these skills in science as outlined in the ELA...
Visual Learning Systems
Understanding the Importance of Fossils
This video discusses how fossils provide valuable information about the history of life on Earth. By studying fossils, scientists have learned about extinct animals, past climates, and changes in Earth's climate. Fossils part 3/12
Visual Learning Systems
Fascinating Fossils: How Fossils Help Us
Fossils are windows to the past. This fascinating program takes a look at how fossils are formed and preserved. Special attention is given to the meaning, significance, and use of fossils in telling us about past life on Earth.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Our Earth - Fossils
A fossil is a trace of a living thing left in rock. Fossils offer a three-part challenge - first to reconstruct the organism itself, then to reconstruct the world it lived in, then to understand its place in time and evolution.
Curated Video
Fossil Fuel
This live-action video program is about fossil fuels. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated...
Weatherthings
Weather Things: Ocean Influence
Climate is the average type of weather that a region has. It is defined by temperature and moisture. Proximity to oceans and large mountain ranges defines climate too, depending upon the prevailing wind. While climates change over...
Visual Learning Systems
Fascinating Fossils: Types of Fossils
Fossils are windows to the past. This fascinating program takes a look at how fossils are formed and preserved. Special attention is given to the meaning, significance, and use of fossils in telling us about past life on Earth.
Science360
The need for speed! Check it out in NSF Science Now 53!
In this week’s episode we discover a new species of titanosaurian dinosaur and how airline boarding procedures might be making you sick; we explore a compact mass spectrometer for use in the field; and finally, we learn how vertebrate...
Weatherthings
Weather Things: Past Climate Change
Climate is the average type of weather that a region has. It is defined by temperature and moisture. Proximity to oceans and large mountain ranges defines climate too, depending upon the prevailing wind. While climates change over...
Weatherthings
Weather Things: Climate Change
Climate is the average type of weather that a region has. It is defined by temperature and moisture. Proximity to oceans and large mountain ranges defines climate too, depending upon the prevailing wind. While climates change over...
Wonderscape
Science Kids: The Fossil Record and Evolution of Life
This video is a lesson on paleontology and the study of fossils. It discusses how fossils are formed, the fossil record, and the information scientists can gather from studying fossils. The video also explores the different eras of...
FuseSchool
How Do Fossils Form
Fossils are the preserved remains of an animal or plant in a rock. Many of the fossils discovered so far are the ancestors of organisms that are alive today. The study of fossils is called paleontology. Much of what we understand about...
Visual Learning Systems
Introduction to Paleontology
This video provides a brief introduction to fossils and paleontology. It explains the difference between a fossil, which is the remains or traces of once-living things, and a rock like granite. It also highlights the significance of...
Visual Learning Systems
The Law of Superposition and Index Fossils
In this video, the concept of the law of superposition is explained, which states that younger rock layers are found on top of older rock layers in sedimentary rocks. Additionally, the video introduces the concept of index fossils, which...
Weatherthings
Weather Things: Climate Defined
Climate is the average type of weather that a region has. It is defined by temperature and moisture. Proximity to oceans and large mountain ranges defines climate too, depending upon the prevailing wind. While climates change over...
Visual Learning Systems
Exploring Fossils: Fossils
Upon viewing the Exploring Fossils video series, students will be able to do the following:
Explain that fossils are the ancient remains or traces of once-living things.
Understand that fossils come in a wide range of shapes, sizes, and...
TED-Ed
Digging for Humanity's Origins
"Is this a good evolutionary adaptation, or is it going to lead us to being the shortest lived hominid species on planet earth?" Listen as Kenyan paleontologist Louise Leakey discusses our evolution from common ancestry and her work in...
Other
Science Now: What Tiny Marine Fossils Reveal About Extinction
Scientists study many fossils of all sorts of past creatures and plants. What do these fossils share about their history? [30:00]
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Qrius: How Fossils Explain the Rise of Dinosaurs
Find out how this paleontologist believes dinosaurs rose to higher grounds following a mass extinction hundreds of thousands of years ago. [36:38]
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Qrius: Global Change Reading Ocean Fossils
In this webcast, Dr. Brian Huber, paleontologist, explains why tiny organisms called foraminifera are great indicators of changes in global environmental conditions. [29:16]
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Qrius: What Tiny Fossils Explain About Big Dinosaur Ecosystems
A webcast presents a way to dig deeper into the ecosystems from dinosaur eras based on data gathered from small fossils versus what big dinosaur bones may reveal. [36:40]
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Fossil Record of Stickleback Evolution
A close-up look at the fossil records of the stickleback fish. [1:26]
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Great Transitions
This series of three videos from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute explore major transitions in the history of life on earth. Videos cover the evolution of fish, reptiles that evolved to birds, and the origin of humans.