Animals

Here is a gross video that your students may like to see.  What are the healthy and financial benefits of eating insects?  This video discusses how eating insects can be a good thing to do.

Honeybees create their honey-cone out of hexagons.  Why is this?  This video demonstrates how bees use math to maximize space and energy.

This is a neat animate video that discusses the difference between poisons and venoms.  

This is an animated video that discusses eels.  It discusses how they reproduce, a bit about the mystery behind an eel's migration, and how an eel changes as it swims toward fresh water.

Have you ever tried to teach your students that sleep is important?  Here is a video that discusses sleep importance and what happens when you don't get enough or too much sleep.

Learn about the incredible adaptations of butterflies in this fascinating video. Discover how these beautiful creatures have evolved to protect themselves and attract mates. From camouflage to mimicry, you'll see some amazing examples of adaptation in action. Keep exploring for more educational resources including worksheets, activities, and videos at http://EducationalResource.org.

Watch and learn how bats transmit diseases and viruses and why so many bats carry viruses.

Have you ever wondered why dogs pant?  This video would be great to show your students when you are talking about animal adaptations and how their unique characteristics help the organism.

The TED video is a feature of Sam who has Progeria, a genetic disorder that causes children to take on appearances of old age.  This would be a great video to show biology students during your unit on genetics.  Also, it would be great just to show a class how somebody with health issues can still be successful and happy.

How do scientists know the patterns of bird migration?  This video demonstrates how science over the years has evolved in its discovery of bird migration knowledge.  Crazy to think that some historical scientists believed that birds migrated to the moon.