Curated Video
IELTS Writing Task 1: Maps- How to score high!
IELTS throws maps into the equation for Writing Task 1. Not often, but it happens! Once in awhile, IELTS gives you a map to analyze for Writing Task 1. Many students are not well-prepared for this, because they only practice writing...
Wonderscape
Old Maps vs. Modern Maps: How Mapmaking Has Evolved
This video explores how maps have changed over time, from early inaccurate maps to today’s precise satellite imagery. Learn how old maps were shaped by limited knowledge and how modern technology, like satellite images and digital maps,...
Science ABC
Cave Paintings To Cartography: This Is How They Created Maps Before Satellites
In 1963, in Turkey, a cave painting was discovered that had been drawn around 6200 BC in Catal Hyük in Anatolia. This painting illustrated a town with streets, houses, and a volcano. Would you call this a cave painting or an attempt at...
NASA
NASA | The Changing Chesapeake
The Chesapeake Bay receives water from the 64,000 square miles of land surrounding the bay and Landsat satellites are a critical and invaluable tool for characterizing the landscape and mapping it over time. Landsat data provides a...
Curated Video
Cave Paintings To Cartography: This Is How They Created Maps Before Satellites
In 1963, in Turkey, a cave painting was discovered that had been drawn around 6200 BC in Catal Hyük in Anatolia. This painting illustrated a town with streets, houses, and a volcano. Would you call this a cave painting or an attempt at...
Curated Video
How to Score Highly in Vocabulary for IELTS Writing Task 1
Vocabulary is the third category you are scored on in IELTS Writing Task 1. In order to get a 7 or higher for vocabulary, you have to show the examiner interesting, idiomatic language. This means that you cannot use the same vocabulary...
NASA
NASA | Jupiter in 4k Ultra HD
New imagery from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is revealing details never before seen on Jupiter. High-resolution maps and spinning globes (rendered in the 4k Ultra HD format) are the first products to come from a program to study the...
National Geographic
How One Brilliant Woman Mapped the Secrets of the Ocean Floor | Short Film Showcase
Oceanic cartographer Marie Tharp helped prove the theory of continental drift with her detailed maps of the ocean floor. This animation by Rosanna Wan for the Royal Institution tells the fascinating story of Tharp’s groundbreaking work....
NASA
NASA | Landsat Tracks Urban Change and Flood Risk
Landsat data, which can identify areas of urbanization, are used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a key indicator of sites where the agency should further investigate the potential for flooding. With its archive of images...
NASA
How to View and Share Your Planet with Worldview
NASA's Worldview app lets you explore Earth as it looks right now or as it looked almost 20 years ago. Through an easy-to-use map interface, you can watch tropical storms developing over the Pacific Ocean; track the movement of icebergs...
NASA
NASA | Van Gogh Sun
A crucial, and often underappreciated, facet of science lies in deciding how to turn the raw numbers of data into useful, understandable information -- often through graphs and images. Such visualization techniques are needed for...
NASA
NASA | Mapping Mars' Upper Atmosphere
High above the thin Martian skies, NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft is carrying out a mission: determine how Mars lost its early atmosphere, and with it, its water. While previous Mars orbiters have peered down at the planet’s surface, MAVEN is...
XKA Digital
Give your team a compass not a map
Ben looks after the enterprise risk management strategy, culture, and process across BT's group functions, and also helps the company manage pan-business enterprise risks in the major non-UK regions in which BT operates (spanning over...
NASA
Tracking Amazon Deforestation
The NASA/USGS Landsat satellite mission is helping scientists study how the Amazon rainforest has changed over decades. The Amazon is the largest tropical rainforest in the world, but every year, less of that forest is still standing....
The March of Time
Poland map Poland taken over
MOT 1937: MAP: Poland Prussia Russia Ottoman Empire Austria. map changing to Germany Russia Austria-Hungary over Poland.
NASA
NASA | From the Cockpit: Arctic Sea Ice with Commentary
You've seen the great cockpit footage from Best of IceBridge Arctic '13, now go behind the scenes for 9 minutes of scientific commentary with Operation IceBridge Project Scientist Michael Studinger and NASA sea ice researcher Nathan...
Curated Video
Poland is pushing the EU into crisis
Poland’s far-right party is subverting democracy, and setting the country on a collision course with the EU. Help us make more ambitious videos by joining the Vox Video Lab. It gets you exclusive perks, like livestream Q&As with all the...
Curated Video
Designing a new settlement
Pupil outcome: I can design a new settlement that would be good for the future. Key learning points: - New settlements can be designed and built. - New settlements may need specific features to be fit for the future. - Geographical ideas...
NASA
Photon Phright-day: Ghost Islands
Remote, recently formed (via volcanic eruptions) oceanic islands in the deep ocean can be studied by satellite lidar altimetry as ICESat2 has been doing, but especially with the satellite lidar bathymetry of the shallows where even...
NASA
NASA | Exploring Energy: Hurricanes
This year's theme for Earth Science Week is "Exploring Energy." How do hurricanes get their energy? NASA hurricane scientist Dr. Jeff Halverson explains how hurricanes draw energy from the ocean surface. The video also provides an...
The British Museum
Rock Art in the Green Sahara
The Sahara is the world's largest hot desert, spanning the entire northern part of Africa. Yet it hasn't always been dry -- archaeological and geological research shows that it has undergone major climatic changes over thousands of...
Next Animation Studio
GRAIL mission: NASA twin probes to measure moon's gravity field
The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory mission, or GRAIL, consists of twin spacecraft in a polar orbit around the moon. GRAIL will map the moon's gravitational field by measuring changes in the distance between the two spacecraft...
NASA
NICER Charts the Area Around a New Black Hole
Scientists have mapped the environment surrounding a black hole that is 10 times the mass of the Sun using NASA's Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) payload aboard the International Space Station. NICER detected X-ray...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Juline Anquetin Rault - Teachers Make a Difference - Mr. Vaysse
Even as a child, Juline Anquetin Rault knew she wanted to become a teacher, but there was a time when she doubted whether her dream would come true. When she took the national exam to become a history and geography teacher, she ranked...