Visual Learning Systems
Energy and Natural Resources
This video explores how energy and fuels are derived from natural resources. Special attention is given to how these energy resources affect the enviornment. In this activity students will investigate and describe energy resources. They...
Visual Learning Systems
Investigating Earth's Natural Resources: Energy Resources
Upon viewing the Investigating Earth's Natural Resources video series, students will be able to do the following: Define a natural resource as anything we take from the environment and use. List natural resources commonly used ....
Visual Learning Systems
Investigating Earth's Natural Resources: Natural Resource Sustainability
Upon viewing the Investigating Earth's Natural Resources video series, students will be able to do the following: Define a natural resource as anything we take from the environment and use. List natural resources commonly used ....
Visual Learning Systems
Investigating Earth's Natural Resources: Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources
Upon viewing the Investigating Earth's Natural Resources video series, students will be able to do the following:
Define a natural resource as anything we take from the environment and use.
List natural resources commonly used...
Visual Learning Systems
Investigating Earth's Natural Resources: Natural Resource Problems
Upon viewing the Investigating Earth's Natural Resources video series, students will be able to do the following: Define a natural resource as anything we take from the environment and use. List natural resources commonly used ....
Visual Learning Systems
Investigating Earth's Natural Resources: Introduction
Upon viewing the Investigating Earth's Natural Resources video series, students will be able to do the following: Define a natural resource as anything we take from the environment and use. List natural resources commonly used ....
Visual Learning Systems
Investigating Earth's Natural Resources: Summing Up
Upon viewing the Investigating Earth's Natural Resources video series, students will be able to do the following: Define a natural resource as anything we take from the environment and use. List natural resources commonly used ....
Visual Learning Systems
Natural Resources: You and Natural Resources
Everyday we use many natural resources from Earth. This engaging program highlights some examples of ways we use natural resources. Differences between renewable and nonrenewable resources are also investigated.
Curated Video
Renewable energy
Energy from natural resources that replenish or renew themselves, or we can consider inexhaustible, such as sunlight, wind, tidal and wave power. A Twig Science Glossary Film. Key scientific terms defined in just 60 seconds using...
Bozeman Science
ESS3A - Natural Resources
In this video Paul Andersen explains how the resources required for survival come from the Earth. The resources are not evenly distributed on the planet and neither are the humans. According to the NGSS we need to limit the use of...
Visual Learning Systems
Investigating Earth's Natural Resources: Types of Natural Resources
Upon viewing the Investigating Earth's Natural Resources video series, students will be able to do the following: Define a natural resource as anything we take from the environment and use. List natural resources commonly used ....
Visual Learning Systems
Investigating Earth's Natural Resources: Video Assessment
Upon viewing the Investigating Earth's Natural Resources video series, students will be able to do the following: Define a natural resource as anything we take from the environment and use. List natural resources commonly used ....
Visual Learning Systems
Natural Resources: Renewables and Nonrenewables
Everyday we use many natural resources from Earth. This engaging program highlights some examples of ways we use natural resources. Differences between renewable and nonrenewable resources are also investigated.
Visual Learning Systems
Investigating Earth's Natural Resources: What Is a Natural Resource?
Upon viewing the Investigating Earth's Natural Resources video series, students will be able to do the following: Define a natural resource as anything we take from the environment and use. List natural resources commonly used ....
TED Talks
Michael Pawlyn: Using nature's genius in architecture
How can architects build a new world of sustainable beauty? By learning from nature. Michael Pawlyn describes three habits of nature that could transform architecture and society: radical resource efficiency, closed loops, and drawing...
TED Talks
TED: Can we stop climate change by removing CO2 from the air? | Tim Kruger
Could we cure climate change? Geoengineering researcher Tim Kruger wants to try. He shares one promising possibility: using natural gas to generate electricity in a way that takes carbon dioxide out of the air. Learn more -- both the...
TED Talks
TED: This country runs on 98 percent renewable energy | Ramón Méndez Galain
Fifteen years ago, Uruguay was experiencing an energy crisis brought on by its reliance on fossil fuels; today, the nation produces 98 percent of its electricity from renewable sources (and even exports extra energy to neighboring...
Curated Video
Energy Animated
Energy is all around us. It makes things move, heats things up, and makes things glow. But where does energy come from? Some energy comes from deep within the ground in the form of oil, gas, coal, and uranium. Some energy comes from the...
Curated Video
Living Green - Episode 21 - Wave & Tidal Energy
Along with energy from the sun and wind, it is thought that other natural forces, such as wave and tidal energy, could be harnessed in a bid to reduce the world s pollution and use of resources such as oil and coal. A bed has been...
NASA
NASA | Tracking Agricultural Water Use From Space
Water managers in 15 states across the U.S. use Metric technology to monitor and track agricultural water consumption. Nebraska has 23 natural resource districts and more than 10 major river basins, making this satellite-based technology...
SciShow
5 Ways Biology Is Transforming Buildings
Throughout history humans have come up with lots of different ways to build shelters for themselves. But sometimes, inspiration for better construction materials comes from nature, in structures you might not expect — like the scales on a
FuseSchool
Green Chemistry Principles - Renewable Feedstocks
Learn the basics about the renewable feedstocks principle of green chemistry, as a part of environmental chemistry. Many plastic products are derived from crude oil, which is a non-renewable resource. It takes millions of years for dead...
Curated Video
Energy Resources and Their Advantages and Disadvantages
This video is a lecture on energy resources, explaining where the energy that humans use in their everyday lives comes from. The video first presents the energy consumption statistics of the world in 2016, detailing the percentage of...
TED Talks
Al Gore: What comes after An Inconvenient Truth?
At TED2009, Al Gore presents updated slides from around the globe to make the case that worrying climate trends are even worse than scientists predicted, and to make clear his stance on "clean coal."