PBS
Pbs Learning Media: This Is Their Land
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]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Bear Necessities
This Nature video segment focuses on the four foods most important to the grizzly bears' survival, and it describes the threats to the supply of each of them. [3:56]
Monterey Institute for Technology and Education
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Ocean Pollution
This learning module explores the effects trash, toxins, oil and sound pollution are having on our oceans. Includes two short videos along with a brief exploration and two interactives. A brief assessment follows each interactive.
CPALMS
Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Measuring Biodiversity to Evaluate Human Impact
A video to learn about the interactions of humans and the environment. Also, learn how the environment is impacted by humans. [4:40]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Earth a New Wild: Living With Sumatran Elephants
Students learn how elephants engineer the ecosystem to benefit humans and nature. [5:10]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Bears in the Schoolyard
Learn about the precautions humans must take in the face of a growing grizzly bear population in this video from Nature. [3:06]
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Qrius: Island Biodiversity Tracking Human Influences
How do inhabitants on islands alter the ecosystem over time? An archaeologist will identify specific changes over many years that occurred as a result of human arrival on islands. [29:16]
US Geological Survey
U.s. Geological Survey: Multimedia Gallery: Video: Desert Tortoises and Survival
A four-part series featuring the endangered Mojave Desert Tortoise and investigating the population decline of this species. [0:30]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Ecology: Pollution
Hank talks about the last major way humans are impacting the environment: pollution. Pollution takes many forms - from the simplest piece of litter to the more complex endocrine distruptors - and ultimately, humans are responsible for it...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Ecology: 5 Human Impacts on the Environment
Hank gives the run down on the top five ways humans are negatively impacting the environment and having detrimental effects on the valuable ecosystem services which a healthy biosphere provides. [10:37]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Oil Contaminants Hidden From View
This video adapted from KTOO explores why the beaches of Latouche Island and Knight Island, Alaska, contain remnants of an oil spill and discusses its resulting impact on the Alutiiq community of Chenega Bay.3m 37s
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: To List or Not to List
In this video from Nature, learn more about the ongoing debate regarding whether or not the grizzly bear population needs special protection. [1:37]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Bears Don't Recognize Boundaries
In this video segment from Nature, learn about the problems bears are creating on ranch land surrounding Yellowstone National Park. [3:01]
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Humans Change Earth
Realize the many ways in which humans affect the Earth system, including other living things on Earth. [4:57]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Environmental Concepts: Lesson 1
This lesson will define ecology, natural environment, ecosystem, and environmental deficit, while delineating the formula for calculating human impact on the environment. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Environmental Concepts."
Crash Course
Crash Course Kids 38.2: Big Changes in the Big Forest
In this Crash Course episode, learn how humans change their environments simply by living in them. [4:38]
Crash Course
Crash Course Kids 38.1: Big Changes in the Big Apple
Find out how humans have been changing our environments for a long time. [4:56]
NOAA
Noaa: Estuary Education: Urban Estuaries: Living in a Toxic Soup
Urban areas often expand around estuaries. Industrial development often leaves a legacy of pollution in these areas. This video looks at what kind of long-term pollution is found in the Duwamish estuary in Seattle, and how estuary life...
NOAA
Noaa: Estuary Education: Hazardous Habitat
Estuaries are important habitats for salmon, but development, deforestation, and human interaction have caused damage to these ecosystems. Learn how to mitigate this damage and restore the estuary. [3:32]
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Biodiversity & Humans
In this video, Paul Andersen defines biodiversity and explains the impacts humans are having on the planet's biodiversity. Humans are impacting the variety of life on our planet through habitat destruction, invasive species, pollution,...
Crash Course
Crash Course Ecology #10: 5 Human Impacts on the Environment
Hank gives the run down on the top five ways humans are negatively impacting the environment and having detrimental effects on the valuable ecosystem services which a healthy biosphere provides. [10:38]
NOAA
Noaa: Estuary Education: Urban Estuaries: Human Changes
Often humans living in close contact with an estuary want to fix it. We learn about the changes humans made to the Duwamish Estuary in Seattle. and how many groups are seeking to reverse these changes. [9:55]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Oil Contamination Affects Food Web
This video adapted from KTOO explores the impact of oil contamination on the herring population of Prince William Sound, Alaska, in 1999, 10 years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill.3m 03s
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Bullfrog Films: Gwich'in Tribe Protects Caribou and Culture
Gwich'in Chief Evon Peter of Arctic Village, Alaska explains the importance of the caribou to his people and the tribes need to protect the herd from the effects of oil drilling. [5:43]