TED-Ed
The Nurdles’ Quest for Ocean Domination
Nurdles aren't the cute characters of a new children's cartoon, they are the tiny plastic pellets slowly polluting the world's water supply. Learn all about these little trouble makers with this short video that explores the impacts...
TED-Ed
The Coelacanth: A Living Fossil of a Fish
It was just another day of fishing at the local pier when a man unknowingly reeled in a fish thought to be extinct for 65 million years. This short video explains how scientists were surprised to discover that this 360 million year...
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Water Quality in South Slough Reserve
Learn how to measure and test for water quality with simple tools. We discuss the need for constant measurement and testing and learn about the status of water quality in South Slough Estuary Reserve. [7:17]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Water Quality Specifics: Measuring Nitrogen
See how students use classroom tools to measure estuarine water quality. Students sample estuary water for nitrogen using the Colorimeter. [3:03]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Water Quality Specifics: Using a Hydrometer
Learn how students can use classroom tools to measure estuarine water quality. Students sample ocean, estuary and tap water for salinity using the Hydrometer. [5:09]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Urban Estuaries: Water Quality Testing
Students measure water quality in the NY-NJ Estuary using simple tools. Scientists explain the importance of good water quality and talk about what causes water quality declines. [5:44]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Water Quality Specifics: Using a Colorimeter
Watch students use classroom tools to measure estuarine water quality. Students sample estuary water for salinity and dissolved oxygen using a low-end colorimeter. [2:21]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Creatures of Brackish Water
Find out how the salt composition in the waters of the estuary affects the organisms living there. [7:44]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Wetlands: A Cautionary Tale
High School students perform a short skit describing the fragile nature of estuaries, while others demonstrate the value of wetlands using a water table. [3:10]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Louisiana Levees
Interview with Windell Curole, Levee Manager, South Lafourche Parrish one year before Hurricane Katrina. He discusses living in and around the estuary, and how the levee system affects the water quality there. [7:06]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: The Nerrs System Wide Monitoring Program
Learn about the SWMP Program (System Wide Monitoring Program) and see how high-tech underwater equipment helps keep track of conditions in the estuary at all times. [8:25]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Saving the Tijuana Estuary
The estuary stands as the last barrier between the Pacific Ocean and pollution. Its mix of plants and silt acts as a filter that purifies contaminated inland rain and flood waters before they reach the ocean. [3:47]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Salinity Stratification Experiment
Learn a little about salinity differences in the estuary and watch a really cool but simple experiment to demonstrate salinity stratification. You can try this at home! [9:33]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Cornucopia of Crabs
Learn about the wide variety of crabs found in the Oregon waters, including the estuaries and other marine ecosystems. [4:33]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Watersheds of Galveston Bay
Meet a soil conservationist known as the Dirt Doctor, and learn about the function of the watersheds of the Galveston Bay. [7:23]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Plants (Circle of Life)
A segment from the film Waters of Life takes a look at the role of plants in the estuary, and the cycle of life that depends on them. [3:27]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Saving Lives
Life on the Edge: Saving Lives looks at the work of the Coast Guard as they patrol the waters around South Slough Estuary. [5:00]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Watershed Demo
A quick, by necessity, discussion of watersheds with a great demo using a very good watershed model (Enviroscape) plus a couple of student tips. [10:04]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Urban Estuaries: Restoration
Students and citizen groups seek to restore and reclaim damaged, changed, or polluted estuaries. [6:52]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Combined Sewer Overflow
A quick overview of how a combined sewer overflow system works, and why heavy rains can be bad for estuaries. [1:42]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Drop by Drop to the Sea
Follow rain running off parking lots and roads in central North Carolina on a journey to the estuary hundreds of miles away. Good footage showing runoff from areas of development and beautiful estuary montage at the end. [7:30]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Urban Estuaries: Toxic Legacy
Pollution in urban estuaries is a serious problem. Cleaning up this toxic legacy is a long-term and expensive proposition. [7:05]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Black Skimmers
Footage of Black Skimmers fishing on an estuarine creek in North Carolina. This clip shows, in slow motion, how the birds skim from the surface of the water to get their food. [1:03]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Stormwater Psa
What if stormwater pollution was rubber duckies? Be informed by this humorous PSA on the importance of keeping toxins out of our stormwater. [0:48]