Visual Learning Systems
Needs of Living Things: Need for Proper Temperature
Upon viewing the Needs of Living Things video series, students will be able to do the following: Explain that living things have the following characteristics: they are made up of one or more cells, carry out movement, grow, and develop....
Visual Learning Systems
Adaptations Assessment
This video is a quiz on the topics covered in the Adaptations series. In this series, we explore the concept of adaptations in living things. We discuss how adaptations help organisms survive and reproduce, including examples of...
Visual Learning Systems
Understanding Overproduction and Natural Selection
In this video, the concept of overproduction in nature is explored using examples of ducks and dandelions. It explains how most species produce more offspring than can survive, and how factors like predators and competition can lead to...
Visual Learning Systems
Plant Structures: What Do Plants Need?
Students will explore the basic parts of a plant including the stem, roots, and leaves. The series of videos describes the functions of each of these plant parts using many real-world examples that students will recognize easily....
Wonderscape
Science Kids: Sharks
This video provides an overview of sharks, highlighting their characteristics, special skills, life cycle, and the threats they face. It emphasizes the importance of sharks in maintaining the balance of the ocean ecosystem and encourages...
Debunked
What Happens When Your Body Is Exposed To Space?
It's depicted in so many different ways on the TV and in movies but what really happens to the human body when it's exposed to the vacuum of space. Do your eyes pop out, does your blood boil, do you suffocate or do you explode? Let's...
FuseSchool
Microorganisms
Microorganisms | Genetics | Biology | FuseSchool Would you be surprised to hear that over 60% of life on earth is so small that it can only be seen with a microscope? We call all of these little things ‘microbes’ or ‘microorganisms’....
Next Animation Studio
Zika virus: How self-destructing genetically modified mosquitoes may be the answer
A British company Oxitec may have a way to fight Zika virus. They create genetically modified mosquitoes that produce offspring that will not survive into adulthood. The company uses a tetracycline repressible activator variant or tTAV...
Visual Learning Systems
Origin and Diversity of Plants: the Origin of Plants
The conquest of land by plants and their proliferation is an amazing biologic story. This vivid, colorful series of videos highlights the evolution of plants, while also describing the major groupings of modern-day plants. Concepts and...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Allison Kaufman - Animal Creativity and Innovation
Allison B. Kaufman, PhD is a research scientist with the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut, where she also teaches as a adjunct professor in the departments of Marine Biology and Psychology....
Visual Learning Systems
Evolution Quiz
This video is a quiz over the topics covered in the Evolution series. This series explores the theory of natural selection, highlighting the discoveries of Charles Darwin and the key components of this theory. It discusses concepts such...
Science360
Lizard species diverging to survive
Towering gypsum dunes span hundreds of square miles in New Mexico's White Sands National Monument, the largest gypsum dune field in the world. Hundreds of animal species thrive in this unique ecosystem, but it's the lizards, in...
Healthcare Triage
The Diet Soda Myth and Barriers to Good Research
A recent study had a lot of negative things to say about diet sodas, but how seriously should we take that study? Observational research can be powerful and useful, but it can also lead to shaky outcomes. So, what does this study tell us...
Primer
Simulating the Evolution of Aggression
Start exploring the evolution of behavior by seeing what happens when creatures can be either nice or mean.
Visual Learning Systems
What Do Living Things Need?: Video Review
All living things have basic needs that must be met in order to survive. This colorful, easy-to-understand program addresses the basic needs of organisms. By considering specific plants and animals, we see how living things need food,...
This Won't Hurt a Bit
Extreme Heat
Our bodies react differently to extreme heat depending on how much humidity is in the air. Heat index is a measure of how hot it feels outside, taking into account both air temperature and relative humidity. As the humidity rises, the...
The Backyard Scientist
Exploding Balloons filled with Propane Gas. Drones, Steel wool, and Underwater explosions! - SMS#4
I thought it would be fun to film propane balloons exploding in slow motion, and I tried popping them a bunch of different ways. I took some user suggestions like flying a drone with a sparkler attached into a balloon, and filling a...
PBS
Why it Was Illegal to be Ugly?
For nearly 100 years it was illegal to be "ugly" in America. Of course, "ugly" wasn't actually about physical attractiveness, it was a way to criminalize disability and disfigurement and it lead to the rise of the freak show. So how did...
Learn German with Herr Antrim
How to Read & Write Dates in German - Beginner German with Herr Antrim #17
In this video I teach you how to read and write dates in German. This video includes an overview of ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc) and how they are used with dates. It also explains the rules for using dates in sentences.
msvgo
Introduction to Kingdom Monera
The nugget describes the characteristic features of organisms belonging to Kingdom Monera. It also lists common examples of organisms belonging to kingdom Monera.
Curated Video
El Salvador's violent gang members are finding God in prison
18th Street and MS-13 gangs terrorise El Salvador, making it one of the most deadly places on earth. Leaving the gang is not easy—former gangsters face rejection from society and the threat of violence from other gang members and the...
FuseSchool
Generalists vs Specialists
Learn about the benefits and the drawbacks of adapting to very specific conditions (specialists) or a broad range of conditions (generalists).
Weatherthings
Wildfire Safety: Threats and impacts
How, when, and where wildfires happen, with a focus on safety. Wildfires need fuel and heat, so they can happen in any dry place. They are a natural part of Earth and they do have benefits. Most are caused by human activity. Wildfires...