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Curated Video
Volcano
This live-action video program is about volcanoes. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated graphics...
Visual Learning Systems
Minerals and Their Properties: Elements and Rocks
This video explains the formation and identification of minerals. Major mineral groups, basic crystal systems, the physical properties of minerals, and everyday uses of minerals are discussed. Other terminology includes: inorganic,...
Visual Learning Systems
Understanding Earthquakes
This video provides an explanation of what an earthquake is and how it occurs. The video also notes that while some earthquakes may not be felt, others can be powerful enough to cause significant property damage. Volcanoes and...
Next Animation Studio
Melting ice has warped Earth’s crust
The melting of Earth's polar ice is incrementally warping the planet’s crust both vertically and horizontally.
Next Animation Studio
Scientists find hidden layer in Earth’s inner core
Researchers from the Australian National University have found evidence of an additional layer inside the Earth’s inner core
Wonderscape
Science Kids: Exploring Tectonic Plates and Earth's Landforms
This video is an educational lesson about tectonic plates and their movements. It explains the Continental Drift Theory and provides evidence to support it. The video also discusses the formation of tectonic plates, their movements at...
Visual Learning Systems
The Atmosphere: the Hydrosphere and Lithosphere
Students will learn about the different layers of the atmosphere. The changes in the atmosphere are explained using examples of contemporary environmental conditions brought about by human behavior. The oxygen cycle and the carbon cycle...
Visual Learning Systems
Formation of Volcanoes
The video explains the occurrence of volcanoes in relation to the movement of the Earth's plates. The video also highlights examples of volcanoes located at plate boundaries, such as the Ring of Fire, as well as those located in the...
Next Animation Studio
Scientists shocked by size of Mars’ liquid core
NASA’s InSight mission marks the first time humans have managed to directly map the internal layering of a planet other than Earth.
Mazz Media
Earthquake
This live-action video program is about earthquakes. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated graphics...
Curated Video
Tectonic Plates
This brief video introduces the viewer to tectonic plates on Earth. The lithosphere and Subduction are discussed.
Khan Academy
Compositional and Mechanical Layers of the Earth, Cosmology and Astronomy
Sal details the chemical and mechanical composition of the Earth's crust, mantle, and core layers—a substantial addition to your geology or earth science lecture.
Khan Academy
Plate Tectonics: Geological Features of Divergent Plate Boundaries
Sal explains the mechanism of crust lift developing at hot spots. The density changes at that point, continuing to cause depressions. The depressions and thinner layers fill with water, resulting in a flooded rift valley.
Curated OER
Inside the Earth
Can you show the parts of the Earth in less than a minute? This 50-second clip set to classical music, shows a cut away version of the Earth, exposing the inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust. It's short, sweet, and makes for a...
Khan Academy
Plate Tectonics: Difference Between Crust and Lithosphere, Cosmology and Astronomy
Explore the tectonic plates that make up the surface of our Earth and their movement, as well as the terminology of the Earth's structure.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Collecting Data Below the Earth's Surface
This video segment adapted from Discovering Women demonstrates how scientists use sound waves to collect data about the structure of Earth's crust.
Other
Earth's Story Journey to the Center of the Earth Full
Earth's Story Journey to the Center Of the Earth HD Full DocumentaryWhat drives the tectonic plates as they glide over the Earth's surface? Scientists have probed our planet to its core. In this realm of unimaginably high temperatures...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Plate Tectonics: Difference Between Crust and Lithosphere
Get an introduction to plate tectonics with this video lecture. Video discusses the core, crust, and mantle as well as the difference between the crust and lithosphere [7:59]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Plate Tectonics: Compositional and Mechanical Layers of the Earth
Discover plate tectonics and the compositional and mechanical layers of the earth including: Crust, mantle, core, lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesosphere, outer core, inner core
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Layers of the Earth
This animation explores the 3 main layers of the Earth and tells how they were discovered, what they are, and how the crust differs from the tectonic (lithospheric) plates. [6:20]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Plate Tectonics: Structure of the Earth
Explains in more detail the different layers that make up the structure of the Earth. [9:33]
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Layers of the Earth What Is the Moho?
This animation discusses the history of the discovery of the Mohorovicic Discontinuity, as well as the logic behind it. Spoiler Alert: It is about Snell's Law. [9:22]
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Layers of the Earth
Earth's interior is broadly grouped into three main layers on the basis of chemical composition: crust, mantle, and core. An egg analogy is used to show relative thicknesses, and a Big Hunk analogy illustrates how a material of a single...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Mohorovicic Seismic Discontinuity
After an earthquake, Andrija Mohorovicic was the first one to realize that there are distinct layers to the earth. This video explains the seismic activity that can occur after earthquakes that led to this discovery. [6:12]