Mazz Media
Let's Talk Geography: Maps & Globes
Let's Talk Geography: Maps & Globes helps students to understand and identify the different parts of maps and globes. Through colorful, animated maps children will learn about lines of longitude and latitude and how to locate different...
Mazz Media
Discover the World: Locating Places
This program helps students to hone their map skills. Using colorful graphics and animation, students will come to understand the uses of map grids and the compass rose. In addition, viewers will learn how to locate any location on earth...
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...
NASA
Why Observe?: Land Cover
Nearly every aspect of our lives is fundamentally tied to the land on which we live. Citizens using GLOBE Observer can observe land cover in much greater detail and more frequently than scientists can using satellite data alone. But why...
Wonderscape
Understanding Geography: How It Shapes Communities
This video introduces geography, the study of the natural environment, and how it influences communities. Learn about landforms, bodies of water, and how geography affects daily life, from the food we eat to the jobs we have. Discover...
Jabzy
Belgian Colonial Plans - Stuff That I Find Interesting
In this video, Jabzy brings us historical tidbits and unknown facts about the Belgian Colonial Plans
NASA
Landsat 9 At Work
Landsat 9, which NASA is launching in September 2021, will collect the highest quality data ever recorded by a Landsat satellite, while still ensuring that these new measurements can be compared to those taken by previous generations of...
Curated Video
A guide to using diagrams
Drawing diagrams is a very different type of communication than most of us are used to, but it allows us to think in new ways and encourages us to approach problems differently. The Open University's Simon Bell and Kevin Collins explain...
Curated Video
Project Fear
We are victims of fear. Project Fear has been with us for hundreds of years. So far, we have made little attempt to map fear or understand how it is used. In this short film The Open university's Simon Bell examines the way which fear is...
Curated Video
Gaia and the Killer Asteroids - 60 Second Adventures in Astronomy (14/14)
How do you take a census in space? Find out how it is possible to produce a 3D map of the galaxy, with a little help from the new Gaia Spacecraft and a whole heap of measuring. (Part 14 of 14) Playlist link -...
Curated Video
Taking a Galactic Census - 60 Second Adventures in Astronomy (13/14)
How do you take a census in space? Find out how it is possible to produce a 3D map of the galaxy, with a little help from the new Gaia Spacecraft and a whole heap of measuring. (Part 13 of 14) Playlist link -...
Curated Video
Will artificial intelligence put us out of work?
Evan Davies, presenter of Dragon's Den, Newsnight and The Bottom Line examines the impact new technology might have on business in the future, and what it could mean for us. Third party Creative Commons assets: Optimization of Parenthood...
NASA
Lights of Human Activity Shine in NASA's Image of Earth at Night
NASA scientists have just released the first new global map of Earth at night since 2012. This nighttime look at our home planet, dubbed the Black Marble, provides researchers with a unique perspective of human activities around the...
Curated OER
Flat Maps and Globes
Flat maps and globes are described in this short video. Students share the differences between the two using helpful props and demonstrations.
Curated OER
Longitude and Latitude
Pinhead Patty takes us around the globe and explains what latitude and longitude are in this entertaining video. The author uses an orange to demonstrate the line measurements on a sphere.
TED-Ed
How Magellan Circumnavigated the Globe
Circumnavigate means to go around something completely, particularly the world. This is exactly what Ferdinand Magellan did in the late 1400s. Watch a video that explains the wonders and tough times of this magnificent journey.
PBS
Global Winds
Blow budding scientists away with a lesson that'll put wind in their sails! Scholars study the pattern of global winds using an interactive from PBS' Weather and Climate series. Detailed simulations help viewers study upper-level winds...
Orange County Water Atlas
Location, Location, Location…
Young geographers discover not only how to read and recognize coordinates on a map, but also gain a deeper understanding of latitude and longitude and how climate changes can vary significantly across latitudes.
NASA
The Water Cycle: Following the Water
Water that leaves the oceans must eventually return. The animations in the final lesson of the four-part NASA series show the complex path water can take across landforms before returning to the ocean. Approximately one-third of the...