Curated Video
The Day Henry Met…A Parachute
Henry meets a Parachute in an aeroplane hanger/flight school. it looks like a little duffle bag with a rip cord attached. Henry learns all about skydiving, parachutes and how they work. Parachute wants to do the worlds highest skydive...
Wonderscape
Exploring the Layers of a Tropical Rainforest
This video provides an educational tour through the different layers of a tropical rainforest, explaining the unique environments and diverse wildlife found in each layer. It highlights the emergent layer, canopy, understory, and forest...
Curated Video
From the Forest to the Plains
Dr. Forester explores the tropical rainforest, grasslands, taiga, marine, and freshwater biomes.
Curated Video
Layers of a Rainforest
Rainforests are amazing places. Learn about what rainforests are and the different layers of a rainforest.
Science360
SCIENTISTS CREATE ICE STORMS TO STUDY NATURE'S CHILLY RESPONSE
Anyone who has ever driven in freezing rain knows all too well the potential hazards of an ice storm. These powerful winter weather events are also capable of catastrophic ecological and socio-economic impacts on forest ecosystems,...
Brave Wilderness
Red Eye vs Gliding Tree Frog!
On this episode of Breaking Trail, Coyote catches both a Red Eye and Gliding Tree Frog! Seizing the opportunity to compare these two often misidentified amphibians this is also the first time Coyote and the crew have ever seen the...
National Parks Service
Redwood National and State Parks - 2nd Grade - Adaptations - Lesson 1 of 2. Redwood Trees.
Lesson 1 of 2. Redwood Trees. CREDIT: NPS
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Elijah Anderson - The Cosmopolitan Canopy
Elijah Anderson is the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology at Yale University. He is one of the leading urban ethnographers in the United States. His publications include Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral...
Michigan Radio
Japanese Knotweed's Invasive Superpowers
Even beautiful plants can sometimes be detrimental to the environment. This public radio story takes place in Michigan where the sale of Japanese knotweed has been outlawed following unchecked growth of the large ornamental plant....
Curated Video
Umbrellas: Practical and Fashionable
Umbrellas are folding canopies supported by outward protruding ribs, providing protection against rain and sunlight. They have been around for thousands of years, with early versions made of palm leaves or silk fabric. Over time,...
The March of Time
1964: BREEDLOVE SPEED RECORD: VS Truck smoothing Bonneville Salt Flats, speed recorder being set, WS United States Auto Club mobile office, VS People taking photographs, Craig Breedlove putting on goggles, walking flats, VS 'Spirit of America'
MOT 1964: BREEDLOVE SPEED RECORD: VS Truck smoothing Bonneville Salt Flats, speed recorder being set, WS United States Auto Club mobile office, VS People taking photographs, Craig Breedlove putting on goggles, walking flats, VS 'Spirit...
NASA
NASA Surveys Hurricane Damage to Puerto Rico’s Forests
On September 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria barreled across Puerto Rico with winds of up to 155 miles per hour and battering rain that flooded towns, knocked out communications networks and destroyed the power grid. In the rugged central...
National Parks Service
Everglades National Park - Tropical Hardwood Hammock
Explore the shady habitat of the Tropical Hardwood Hammock with Ranger Jenny.
National Parks Service
Redwood National and State Parks - Redwood Ranger Minute: Forest Canopy
Ranger Jim describes the complexity and diversity high in the ancient coast redwood forest canopy. You won't believe what's going-on up there! CREDIT: NPS
NASA
NASA's Laser Mission to Measure Trees
The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) is a lidar instrument that sends laser pulses down to Earth, where they penetrate the globe's temperate and tropical forests. The laser beams ricochet off the first thing they hit, which...
Maddie Moate
How Do Rainforests Make Clouds? | Maddie Moate
We were lucky enough to get early access to THE WORLD'S LARGEST INDOOR TROPICAL RAINFOREST at The Eden Project. Whilst playing on the awesome cloud bridge we thought what better question to tackle than...How do Rainforests Make Clouds?!...
Visual Learning Systems
Forests: Tropical Forests
Using vivid footage filmed on location around North America, this video explores the characteristics, locations, and inhabitants of the three main types of forests - deciduous forests, coniferous forests, and rainforests. Additional...
FuseSchool
What Is A Niche?
You may have heard the word "niche" before, but what does it mean when we talk about an organism's niche. Learn in this video from the "Adapting and Living Together" chapter within the Ecology and Environment topic school level Biology.
Earth Rangers
Forests are Big Ecosystems
Forests provide much more than public spaces for exercise, relaxation, and enjoying nature. They are complex ecosystems characterized by biodiversity. Forests are vital to Earth’s water cycle and ensure the survival of all living things...
Mazz Media
Bailey's Big Back Yard: Rainforest Adventure
Bailey is an adventurous and inquisitive kid whose curiosity leads him to explore the world with the help of his two friends, Boggs, a mischievous Frog, and Maggie the magical magnifying glass. This program opens with Bailey exploring...
Mazz Media
Tropical Rainforest
This live-action video program is about Tropical Rainforests. 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...
Getty Images
Woodland looking up at canopy, track forward, Summer, UK (part of lapse time seasonal series)
Woodland looking up at canopy, track forward, Summer, UK (part of lapse time seasonal series)
Getty Images
Woodland looking up at canopy, track forward, spring (part of lapse time seasonal series)
Woodland looking up at canopy, track forward, spring (part of lapse time seasonal series)