Visual Learning Systems
Water: Freshwater
Characteristics of various ocean zones, including variations in ocean temperature, salinity, and depth are discussed. The different groups of marine life and adaptations of plants and animals are highlighted. Estuaries and various...
Curated Video
Understanding and Mitigating the Impact of Floods
This video provides an overview of floods, including their causes and different types. It also highlights the potential impacts of prolonged flooding, such as damage to infrastructure and increased risk of waterborne diseases. The video...
Restoration Planet
Youth-led River Cleanup in Ecuador
This inspiring youth-led river cleanup takes place on the Rio Carrizal in Ecuador. These young and passionate environmentalists invited us to join them, kayaking down this small river near Ecuador's coast. Plastic that ends up in the...
TMW Media
Why Louisville is a tourist hotspot
We’re off to Louisville Kentucky on this episode home to the most famous horse race in the world, buckets of chicken and something called a hot brown. Saddle up, as we learn about Derby history at the Kentucky Derby Museum. We’ll give...
TMW Media
Inside the WW2 Battleship North Carolina
We’re taking you to a hotspot of family vacation fun and intrigue on this episode of Travel Thru History. Along the east coast of the United States there is a river that has struck terror in hearts of sea captains for centuries. It’s...
Weatherthings
Water Smart: Water on Earth - Quiz
Water on Earth focuses on water as most kids would think about it. We start with water in obvious locations such as oceans, lakes, and rivers. We quickly learn that water can change phase to remain a solid in glaciers. Many kids may be...
The Art Assignment
Art Assignment Marathon | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
This week we gathered some friends and challenged ourselves to an art assignment marathon - how many assignments can we complete in a day?
TMW Media
Restoring the Great Lakes Sturgeon population
This program explores the mysterious world of Wisconsin's only living fossil, the lake sturgeon. This prehistoric throwback that once faced possible extinction is a conservation success story with the restored populations in Lake...
Science360
Engineering Safer Drinking Water in Africa - Science Nation
Access to safe drinking water is a global problem for nearly a billion people. For approximately 200 million people, many in Africa, high levels of naturally occurring fluoride in the water causes disfiguring and debilitating dental and...
TMW Media
Use jigging to understand an ecosystem
Catching the elusive walleye is a challenge for many skilled anglers. Discover the biological secrets to finding this fish and the techniques to catch this popular sportfish all year round! Our youth leaders are tasked with preparing a...
Weatherthings
Hurricane Harvey - The Meteorology, and the Impact on Society
Hurricane Harvey rapidly strengthened in the Gulf of Mexico in 2017, before making landfall in Texas, as one the strongest hurricanes there in over 50 years. The high wind quickly faded after landfall, but the rain continued as the storm...
TMW Media
Inside the 200 year old Confedarate Fort Jackson
Join us as we head to “The Hostess City of the South, Savannah Georgia” on this episode of Travel Thru History. We’re going to a beautiful charming coastal city in the Southeast brimming with an interesting past and an exciting artistic...
Visual Learning Systems
Understanding Watersheds: Ponds, Lakes, and Water Flow
This video explains the formation and characteristics of ponds and lakes within a watershed. It highlights how water collects and forms bodies of standing water, with ponds being smaller examples and lakes being larger ones. Freshwater...
Weatherthings
Water Smart: Water as a Natural Resource - Pollution
In Water as a Natural Resource we are introduced to words such as habitat, ecosystem, watershed and estuary. Not only do kids learn that water exists everywhere on Earth, but that it is vital for life in plants, animals, and all other...
Science360
Critical Zone Observatories help U.S. plan for the future - Science Nation
From treetops to rivers to the bedrock below, there is constant activity going on in what we can think of as the “skin” of our planet. It’s called the critical zone, the active layer of the Earth where life-forms, from microbes to...
Next Animation Studio
Explainer: Simultaneous heat waves in Arctic and Antarctic
Earth's poles have been experiencing major heat waves simultaneously, alarming climate scientists.
Visual Learning Systems
Exploring Freshwater Biomes: Summing Up
Upon viewing the Exploring Freshwater Biomes video series, students will be able to do the following: List some of the ways fresh water is used in daily life. Understand how and why fresh water is so important to the lives of humans and...
Weatherthings
Water Smart: Water on Earth - Estuaries
Water on Earth focuses on water as most kids would think about it. We start with water in obvious locations such as oceans, lakes, and rivers. We quickly learn that water can change phase to remain a solid in glaciers. Many kids may be...
TMW Media
The terrifying history of Cape Fear and Fort Fisher
We’re taking you to a hotspot of family vacation fun and intrigue on this episode of Travel Thru History. Along the east coast of the United States there is a river that has struck terror in hearts of sea captains for centuries. It’s...
Flame Media
Real Future: Fixing broken cities
America is home to some of the biggest, most futuristic tech companies in the world. But America's infrastructure — its roads, bridges, sewers and tunnels — is stuck in the past, and falling apart, endangering millions of people. We go...
Weatherthings
Hurricane Sally
Hurricane Sally made landfall, only moving at 3mph, leading to tremendous rainfall, and an extremely long period of hurricane-force winds for southwest Alabama and northwest Florida, in 2020. The impact was far worse than most people...
History Hit
The Battle For North America: French natural and man-made defences
What was significant about Quebecs location? Was there a way to approach it? What were the man-made defences? Who was the French General in charge? Why did he not like Quebec? Why did he take the job of being a General? The Battle For...
Weatherthings
Hurricane Florence - The Meteorology, and the Impact on Society
Florence was a Category 4 storm in the Atlantic in 2018 but after it made landfall on the North Carolina coast as a Category 1 and weakened to a tropical storm it did most of its damage. This slow-moving storm left record rainfall and...
Weatherthings
Weather Things: Precipitation Types
The cycle of water from the air to the ground to the oceans and back to the air never ends. Water is found in the air, in the ground, in rivers and oceans, and it's found as gas, liquid, and solid. As it moves though phases and locations...