Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Seismic Waves and How We Know Earth's Structure: Seismic Waves

For Students 9th - 10th
Video lecture explores S-waves and P-waves. [8:38]
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Collecting Data Below the Earth's Surface

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from Discovering Women demonstrates how scientists use sound waves to collect data about the structure of Earth's crust.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Astronomy: The Earth

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn all about planet Earth, from the composition of its internal structure and core, to its shifting continental plates, and placement in the solar system. We take a tour of Earth's inner and outer core, the origins of the planet's...
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Plate Tectonics: Structure of the Earth

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains in more detail the different layers that make up the structure of the Earth. [9:33]
Instructional Video
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Earth and Space Science: Journey to the Earth's Interior

For Students 9th - 10th
Material to begin an exploration of the Earth's interior. An hour-long video is accompanied by learning goals, an outline and overview, details on igneous rock, seismic waves, and the Earth's layers, and ideas for teaching this unit in...
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Structure of the Earth

For Students 9th - 10th
Structure of the Earth - crust, mantle, core
Instructional Video
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology

Iris: Determining and Measuring Earth's Layered Interior

For Students 9th - 10th
In this instructional sequence, students examine seismic evidence to determine that the Earth must have a layered internal structure and to estimate the size of Earth's core.
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Minute Earth

Minute Earth: The Biggest Organism on Earth

For Students 9th - 10th
Blue whales are the biggest creatures on Earth, but they are not the biggest "thing." Learn here about the California Redwood and the Pando Aspen tree and their intricate root systems. [2:50]
Instructional Video
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology

Iris: Layers of the Earth

For Students 9th - 10th
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]
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NASA

Nasa: Interconnection of Earth's Systems

For Students 9th - 10th
This video clip explains what a system is and what happens when one part of a system is changed or altered (1:22).
Instructional Video
Minute Earth

Minute Earth: Why Do Some Species Thrive in Cities?

For Students 9th - 10th
Urban development can be tough on wildlife. But some plants and animals are adapting to our cities in surprising ways. [3:21]
Instructional Video
Bozeman Science

Bozeman Science: Geology

For Students 9th - 10th
Paul Andersen explains how rock is formed and changed on the planet. The video begins with a brief description of rocks, minerals, and the rock cycle. Plate tectonics is used to describe structure near plate boundaries. Hot spots and...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Ingredients for Life: Carbon

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from NOVA illustrates why carbon is at the center of life on Earth. It also asks whether carbon-based life might exist on other planets. [1:38]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Protein Synthesis in the Cellular Factory

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a tour of where protein synthesis happens in this video. Learn about RNA's history and how it has evolved since the origin of life on Earth. [3:56]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Mohorovicic Seismic Discontinuity

For Students 9th - 10th
A video lecture discussing the Mohorovicic Seismic Discontinuity which is the boundary between crust and mantle. [6:13]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Why S Waves Only Travel in Solids

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains why S-waves will only travel in solids.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Astronomy: The Moon

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a tour of the moon, the closest astronomical object to Earth. Learn theories of the moon's formation, understand its surface features and how they formed, like the highlands and maria, and the moon's internal structures. [9:47]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Chemistry: Polar & Non Polar Molecules

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video, you'll learn that molecules need to have both charge asymmetry and geometric asymmetry to be polar, and that charge asymmetry is caused by a difference in electronegativities. You'll also learn how to notate a dipole...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Inclusion Conclusions

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn where diamonds originate, and how inclusions trapped within diamonds help geologists determine their age, in this video segment from Nature. [1:45]
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Diamonds Everywhere

For Students 9th - 10th
This Nature video offers an introduction to the socio-economic value of diamonds. [1:45]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Capturing Carbon

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, a scientist, inspired by his daughter's science fair project, develops a synthetic tree to remove excess carbon dioxide from the air. [5:23]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Tree of Life: Agriculture Rocks Our World

For Students 6th - 8th
A video showing how change in the Earth's climate 14,000 years ago led to the development of agriculture. Learn how this development provided more food to feed a larger population, changed the social structure of communities, led to the...
Instructional Video
Science for Kids

Science Kids: Nature Videos: Great Barrier Reef

For Students 5th - 8th
Did you know the Great Barrier Reef is made up of about 2900 individual reefs and home to billions of organisms? This video will explore the largest living structure on Earth known as the Great Barrier Reef. [4:06]

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