With this video you can easily start off a class on genetics or reproduction. Simply propose the age old question, "Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Discuss this a little bit with your class and see what they have to say. How much to they understand the theory of evolution and natural selection? Then watch the video as an excellent explanation unfolds.
In this video pedestrians pedestrians in a park are asked why a hard drive
and a book sitting at the same temperature have a different temperature feel to it. The hard drive feels colder than the book. He then takes an aluminum plate and a plastic plate to see which plate melts ice quicker. Even though the aluminum plate feels colder, it melts the ice quicker. This is a good experiment to try with your students.
This video takes you on a journey to find out how a tree can get water all the way to its top when so many other scientific factors and laws support such an impossible possibility. Scientists explain how this tree sucking phenomenon is possible.
In this short National Geographic science video, we get to take a look at how deadly and awesome some eagles can be. This eagle enjoys reying
on sea snakes. The video's footage is awesome showing how the eagle scans the ocean for prey with it's excellent vision, and then in a single swooping attempt it can pull the snake right out of water. This would be an excellent video to show during a unit on predator and prey relationships.
A quick video that will describe erosion found in the mountains and show beautiful scenery, then you have found a good one. This video shows scenery from high up in the Oregon mountains and has excellent footage of erosion.
This is an introduction to population distributions. It talks about the three different population distributions: aggregated, uniform, and random. The video contains neat footage of animals and plants living in different locations of the world.
In this educational video, scientists from Arizona State University, discuss a little bit about the red planet, what we know about it, and how we go about studying it. Great introductory video for those studying Mars.
If you are teaching about how predators and prey interact then this video is awesome. It shows a monitor lizard and a cobra fight and defend themselves while trying to eat eggs. Great introductory video.
This scientific video from BBC is really neat. It shows a few different types of fish that use luminescence to attract prey and obtain their food.
This is an interesting video that describes some problems with the aquatic food web that contains certain types of trout.