Visual Learning Systems
Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks: Identifying Igneous Rocks
This video explains how heat, pressure and chemical reactions may transform one type of rock into another. The formation and classification of metamorphic and igneous rocks is highlighted. Other terminology includes: extrusive rock,...
Mazz Media
Rocks and the Rock Cycle: Why is the Study of Rocks Important
This program helps students to understand what a rock is and how rocks are formed. Using real world footage, the video shows and identifies examples of minerals with crystalline structures and then shows the same minerals in common rock....
Visual Learning Systems
Rocks: Changed Rocks
Upon viewing the Rocks video series, students will be able to do the following: Define rock as a solid, naturally-occurring mixture of minerals. Define minerals as solids with a definite chemical composition and crystal structure....
Visual Learning Systems
Minerals: Identifying Minerals
Upon viewing the Minerals video series, students will be able to do the following: Define minerals as naturally occurring solids that have a definite chemical makeup and crystal shape. Explain that a crystal is made of particles that...
Curated Video
Feature Your Impressive Vocabulary with Today’s High Scoring Tips
Today I’ll teach you the difference between feature, characteristic and aspect for IELTS. He asked what the difference is between the words feature, characteristic and aspect. So what is the difference between these 3 words? Feature has...
Mazz Media
Unconformities
In this video students will learn about unconformities and how they help geologists to discover episodes of volcanism, uplift, erosion and deposition that provide evidence for plate tectonics during Earth's history. Through video and...
Professor Dave Explains
Mineral Luster and Color
Color and luster are two important macroscopic characteristics of minerals. How can we identify and classify minerals using these characteristics? And why do the same metals show up as different colors in different minerals? Macroscopic...
Curated Video
Fossils & Evidence For Evolution
The theory of evolution states that individuals within a species show wide degrees of variation, and those individuals with characteristics best suited to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce. This theory grew from...
Curated Video
Matlab 👩💻 Cell Arrays
Cell arrays are like regular arrays but you can use them to store different data types in a sequence. The format for this method of storing values is curly brackets {}. After you assign the cell array a name, you can enter values and...
Curated Video
Go with the Flow
Miss Palomine shows examples of three types of matter – gas, liquid, and solid. She then describes the differences among them. She focuses on the properties of liquids, and asks the student to help her identify liquids from a list of...
Curated Video
Is It a Solid?
Miss Palomine shows examples of three types of matter: gas, liquid, and solid. She then describes the differences among them. She asks the student to help her identify solids from a list of pictures.
American Museum of Natural History
Identification Day On May 6, 2017
The American Museum of Natural History's annual Identification Day will take place on Saturday, May 6, 2017 from noon - 4:00 pm in the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall. Bring your shells, rocks, insects, feathers, bones, and artifacts to...
Curated Video
Fossils & Evidence For Evolution | Evolution | Biology | FuseSchool
The theory of evolution states that individuals within a species show wide degrees of variation, and those individuals with characteristics best suited to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce. This theory grew from...
Curated OER
Identifying Types of Rocks
A teacher is videotaped while lecturing to his class regarding the three different types of rocks found on Earth's surface. The focus of the lecture is how to determine what kind of rock you may have picked up in your backyard, in the...
Curated OER
Identifying Metamorphic Rocks
Another short video from the Colorado School of Mines. The narrator gives a quick description of how metamorphic rocks are actually rocks that have been transformed due to exposure to weathering, temperature changes, and/or changes in...
Curated OER
Identifying Igneous Rocks
If you're looking for a short video that focuses on igneous rocks, this one is for you! The narrator is from the Colorado School of Mines, and she does an excellent job describing how igneous rocks are formed, where they are found, and...
Curated OER
Identifying Minerals
A teacher is videotaped while lecturing to his class regarding properties of minerals. He explains that the things geologists look for when identifying minerals is the color of the mineral itself, the "streak" color a mineral makes when...