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Curated Video
Living
This live-action video program is about the term living thing. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term living thing through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and...
FuseSchool
The Role of the Flower
Around a third of our global crops depend on animal pollination for their production. Almost all of these crops rely on flowers to attract animals to themselves and so, if flowers vanished, we would lose 35% of all our crops. That’s...
Curated Video
Hibernation
This live-action video program is about the word hibernation. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word hibernation through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and...
Curated Video
Understanding the Parts and Pollination of Flowers
This video explains the different parts of a flower and their functions. They differentiate between the male and female parts, discussing the filament and anther as the male parts and the stigma, style, and ovary as the female parts. The...
Mazz Media
Life Cycle
This live-action video program is about the term life cycle. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term life cycle through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and...
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Britannica Insights: The Threat of Biodiversity Loss
Learn more about the issue of biodiversity loss in this interview with Dr. Enrique Salmón.
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
Metallic Inked Insects
You can create beautiful, Iridescent Insects using metallic pens on black paper! Follow along with this short video to learn the process. If you don’t have pens, try using colored pencils instead! Have fun creating!
FuseSchool
Gas Exchange In Different Animals
Respiration is carried out by all living things. Animals need oxygen to carry out aerobic respiration and they need to get rid of the waste product called carbon dioxide. This is called gas exchange. Swapping one gas for another. Animals...
Visual Learning Systems
Introduction to Arthropods
This video introduces the concept of arthropods and highlights their significance in the natural world. It explains that arthropods, such as horseshoe crabs, bees, and spiders, have common characteristics like an exoskeleton, jointed...
Fun Kids
Letter I Song
Let's learn the letter I sound. Here's a fun phonics song to help you learn the letter I sound.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Britannica Insights: What is the Murder Hornet?
Overview of the Asian giant, or murder, hornet, a predator whose main prey is honeybees.
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.
Visual Learning Systems
Life Cycles: Insect Life Cycles
Upon viewing the Life Cycles video series, students will be able to do the following: Understand that living things go through changes in the course of their lives referred to as a life cycle. State that most living things follow a...
Visual Learning Systems
What Is an Insect?: Insects Everywhere
This fascinating program takes a look at the major characteristics of familiar and unusual insects that swarm the planet. Concepts and terminology: invertebrate, six legs, and exoskeleton.
Curated Video
Vertebrate
This live-action video program is about the term vertebrate. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word vertebrate through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and...
Visual Learning Systems
What Is an Insect?: What Are Insects?
This fascinating program takes a look at the major characteristics of familiar and unusual insects that swarm the planet. Concepts and terminology: invertebrate, six legs, and exoskeleton.
Fun Kids
Letter I Song Listen and Repeat
Do you know the letter I sound? Let's learn the letterI sound with this listen and repeat phonics song.
Curated OER
Spiders
There are more than 34,000 different species of spiders that roam our planet. Now that's a lot of legs! Watch this video to learn about spiders and how they differ from insects.
Curated OER
Giant Centipede
Want to get up close and personal with a giant centipede? Watch this video and you will! Learn about the giant centipede's daily living habits in this National Geographic video clip.
Curated OER
Termite World - Life in the Undergrowth
We walk on it everyday, but have you ever thought about what's beneath our feet? What's going on underground? Watch this video to learn about the underworld of termites. Viewers will learn how termites are able to live and breathe...
Curated OER
The Mosquito
Mosquitoes are responsible for more human deaths than any other living creature. How? Watch this video to learn why these tiny insects can be so deadly.
Bill Nye
Bill Nye The Science Guy on Insects
Queen Latifah makes a cameo in this Bill Nye episode on insects. The facts taught are that the queen bee is in charge of a bee colony, ants can dig tunnels, and exoskeletons support, strengthen, and protect the insect's body. While you...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Qrius: Adaptations Inside the Insect Zoo
This webcast relates the research being done to understand the adaptations insects and other arthropods make to survive in various conditions. [29:15]
PBS
Pbs Kids Clubhouse Adventures: Read Good Books!: Creating Insects
KIDS Clubhouse Adventures kids read and discover more about insects. In this feature, kids create their own insects based on the knowledge they gathered in entomology books using craft supplies to represent body parts and other defining...