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Instructional Video13:58
Learning Mole

What do Insects Eat?

Pre-K - 12th
This episode will take students through what insects eat and the different eating habits of different types of insects
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Instructional Video11:41
Learning Mole

How Do Insects Communicate?

Pre-K - 12th
This video will take students through the ways in which insects communicate with each other. It explores the unique methods of communication and the senses they use.
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Instructional Video11:06
Learning Mole

Insects Around the World

Pre-K - 12th
This video will explore different insects from around the world and look at how unique they really are!
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Instructional Video13:55
Learning Mole

Insect Growth and Breeding

Pre-K - 12th
This video will take students through how insects breed and reproduce.
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Instructional Video13:58
Learning Mole

How do Insects Move?

Pre-K - 12th
This video will take students through how insects move their limbs in different ways to humans.
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Instructional Video11:58
Learning Mole

What is an Insect?

Pre-K - 12th
This video will take students through exactly what an insect is and will act as a perfect introduction to this series.
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Instructional Video12:23
Learning Mole

Where do Insects Live?

Pre-K - 12th
This video will take students through where insects live and house to make their homes and why.
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Instructional Video10:08
Learning Mole

Insect Ecology

Pre-K - 12th
This video will take students through how insects fit into their environments. It explores their habitats and the way they live.
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Instructional Video11:19
Learning Mole

Why are Insects Important?

Pre-K - 12th
This video will take students through the importance of insects to our earth and to us.
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Instructional Video11:38
Learning Mole

Insects and Humans

Pre-K - 12th
This video will take students through the relationship that humans have with insects, and how we affect each other.
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Instructional Video3:27
SciShow

Why Aren't There Giant Insects

12th - Higher Ed
Hank and physiologist Jon Harrison discuss the question of insect size and major theories that attempt to explain why there is a limit to how large insects can get with current conditions on Earth.
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Instructional Video12:03
SciShow

8 of the Worst Stinging Insects

12th - Higher Ed
Generally, humans try to avoid getting stung by insects. However, in the name of science, the betterment of humanity, and pure curiosity, there are brave people out there who willingly subject themselves to the business end of the most...
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Instructional Video4:43
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Why are there so many insects? - Murry Gans

Pre-K - Higher Ed
If insects suddenly morphed into large beings and decided to wage war on us, there's no doubt that humans would lose. There are an estimated 10 quintillion individual insects on earth, outnumbering humans by more than a billion to one....
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Instructional Video4:06
TED-Ed

TED-ED: A simple way to tell insects apart - Anika Hazra

Pre-K - Higher Ed
There are nearly a million known insect species in the world, but most have one of just five common types of mouthparts. Why is this information useful to scientists? Anika Hazra explains how the features of an insect's mouthparts can...
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Instructional Video4:23
TED-Ed

TED-ED: Why the insect brain is so incredible - Anna St_ckl

Pre-K - Higher Ed
The human brain is one of the most sophisticated organs in the world, a supercomputer made of billions of neurons that control all of our senses, thoughts, and actions. But there was something Charles Darwin found even more impressive:...
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Instructional Video2:49
SciShow

CSI Special Insects Unit: Forensic Entomology

12th - Higher Ed
Michael Aranda walks you through the crime-fighting science of forensic entomology, the study of insects used in criminal investigations. As if you needed more reasons to love bugs. But be warned: You might not want to watch this during...
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Instructional Video4:58
TED-Ed

The world's most painful insect sting | Justin Schmidt

Pre-K - Higher Ed
One of these three creatures is thought to possess the world's most painful insect sting: there's an ant that forages in rainforest canopies, a bee that protects a hive of delectable honey, and a wasp that paralyzes tarantulas. So which...
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Instructional Video3:29
SciShow Kids

Inspect An Insect

K - 5th
There are more insects in the world than any other kind of animal! In this episode of SciShow Kids, Jessi and Squeaks show you how to identify an insect, in three easy steps!
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Instructional Video9:27
TED Talks

TED: The fascinating physics of insect pee | Saad Bhamla

12th - Higher Ed
Scientist Saad Bhamla is on a mission to answer a question most people don't think to ask: How do insects pee? Taking inspiration from the incredible "butt flickers" of the glassy-winged sharpshooter, Bhamla presents a fascinating study...
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Instructional Video9:32
TED Talks

TED: Are insect brains the secret to great AI? | Frances S. Chance

12th - Higher Ed
Are insects the key to brain-inspired computing? Neuroscientist Frances S. Chance thinks so. In this buzzy talk, she shares examples of the incredible capabilities of insects -- like the dragonfly's deadly accurate hunting skills and the...
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Instructional Video11:58
TED Talks

Marlene Zuk: What we learn from insects' sex lives

12th - Higher Ed
In this enlightening, funny talk, Marlene Zuk shares just some of the ways that insects are truly astonishing -- and not least for the creative ways they have sex.
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Instructional Video5:51
SciShow

These Insects are Smaller than a Single Cell...How?!

12th - Higher Ed
Fairies do exist! Well, sort of...meet the fairyfly, the smallest insect on Earth that specializes in the magic of miniaturization!
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Instructional Video12:50
SciShow

3D Printing and the Northern Walking Stick Insect: SciShow Talk Show #18

12th - Higher Ed
Today on the SciShow Talk Show, Ben Malouf shows off some of his 3D printed designs and talks with Hank about how he got into the world of 3D printing. Then Jessi from Animal Wonders joins in to share Holmes and Watson, the northern...
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Instructional Video15:21
TED Talks

Beau Lotto + Amy O'Toole: Science is for everyone, kids included

12th - Higher Ed
What do science and play have in common? Neuroscientist Beau Lotto thinks all people (kids included) should participate in science and, through the process of discovery, change perceptions. He's seconded by 12-year-old Amy O'Toole, who,...

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