Visual Learning Systems
Exploring Grassland Biomes: the Amazing Tallgrass Prairie
Upon viewing the Exploring Grassland Biomes video series, students will be able to do the following: Describe some of the basic characteristics of grasslands: - grasslands receive 25 to 75 centimeters of rain a year - grazing by large...
National Parks Service
Everglades National Park - Sawgrass Prairie
Explore the dynamic sawgrass prairie habitat with Ranger Christeal.
Visual Learning Systems
The Tall Grass Prairie
Join us on a journey through the tall grass prairie, a remarkable grassland that once spanned across Iowa, parts of Illinois, Missouri, and Minnesota. In this video, we delve into the rich history, diverse plant and animal life, and the...
National Parks Service
Everglades National Park - Slough
Explore the slough habitat with Ranger Greg.
National Parks Service
Everglades National Park - Cypress Dome
Explore the cypress habitat with Ranger Yvette.
NASA
Snow Scientists in the Windswept Montana Prairie
NASA’s SnowEx ground and airborne campaign is a multiyear effort using a variety of techniques to study snow characteristics, and the team began their new field study year in January 2021. Not only is SnowEx learning valuable information...
Visual Learning Systems
Topography and the Earth: Plains
This program describes the major topographical features of Earth including mountains, plains, and plateaus. Footage from throughout North America takes students to the Rocky Mountains, the plains of Iowa, and the Colorado Plateau to...
Weird History
The Real Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder was a homesteader and author, famous for her Little House on the Prairie book series. Like Juana Maria, who inspired the book, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Wilder actually existed. Laura Ingalls Wilder was a real...
Visual Learning Systems
The Great Plains: Grasslands, Wildlife, and the Dust Bowl
This video provides a description of the Great Plains, a vast grassland region located in the central part of the United States and Canada. It discusses the two major groups of grasslands, the short Grass Prairie and the mixed Prairie,...
Mazz Media
Environment
This live-action video program is about the word Environment. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word Environment through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and...
Curated Video
Ecosystems and Biomes
Ecosystems and biomes takes students on a journey around the globe to tropical rain forests, deserts and the ocean. Live footage and colorful graphics teach students about regions and climates, and explain the impact environments and...
National Parks Service
Redwood National and State Parks - Redwood Ranger Minute: Barn Swallows
Ranger Liam explains why barn swallows are especially important visitors to the parks—and just about everywhere else they're found. You should thank them (i.e., the barn swallows)! CREDIT: NPS
Mazz Media
Exploring Our Past: Native Peoples of the Great Plains
Grammy Nominated, Native American singer-songwriter Joanne Shenandoah narrates this five part series on Native Peoples. The daily lives and cultures of America's Native Peoples come to life for students through reenactments recorded at...
Visual Learning Systems
Understanding Biodiversity and Ecosystems
This video discusses the concept of biodiversity and how it varies in different ecosystems. The video then compares the relatively low biodiversity of a cornfield to the high biodiversity of a wetland and mentions how rainforests are...
Curated Video
Way Cool Science II: Ecosystems and Biomes
The climate, animals, and plant life vary greatly in the different parts of the world. Students explore how wildlife and the environment work together in harmony. By viewing the program and engaging in activities, viewers will learn to...
Curated Video
Scientists are trying to eliminate invasive weeds
New ReviewSaskatchewan farmers are struggling with an invasive weed called kochia. Scientists are trying to eradicate the unwanted plant
Curated Video
Regina designates 22 hectares of city-owned land as grasslands biodiversity reserve
New ReviewAn area near the Caledonian Curling Club on Regina's west side will now be protected from development and maintained as a grasslands reserve.
Press Association
American Prairie goes on show at Kew Wakehurst, West Sussex
People view Wakehurst's American Prairie during a photocall for Summer Highlights at Wakehurst at Kew Wakehurst, in Haywards Heath, West Sussex. Now in its fifth year of blooming, the six-acre American Prairie has 75 individual species,...
Curated Video
Balmy Prairie winter
Winter seems to have disappeared in parts of Western Canada, CBC's Bonnie Allen reports
Curated Video
Landscape artist shrinks big skies to fit small show
Fibre artist Deanne Underwood typically crafts mountain scenes and sweeping prairie landscapes. We join Underwood in her Edmonton studio to see how she creates her work, which is part of the free Minutiae exhibit at the feature gallery...
Curated Video
Lingering drought forces ranchers to downsize herds
As dugouts go dry and fields thirst for moisture, some ranchers on the Prairies are making tough choices to sell off parts of their livestock to ensure there is enough water for the animals that remain.
Curated Video
American artist Maya Lin to bring new life to Glenbow Museum
Calgary’s Glenbow Museum is getting a facelift and its new terrace is being imagined by famous American designer Maya Lin — who’s behind the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Curated Video
Manitoba MP pushes for greener prairie economies as he battles cancer
"It's not good enough to gab," Manitoba Liberal MP Jim Carr told Power & Politics about his Building a Green Prairie Economy Act. "You have to say to Parliamentarians, we've been at this for a year and here's what we have done so far;...
Curated Video
Carr will listen to the Prairie West
Manitoba Liberal MP Jim Carr rejoins cabinet as the special representative to the Prairies.