Science

This is a video that discusses the importance of sharks in the ocean ecosystem.  The questions, "What if there were no sharks?" is explored.

Students have a difficult time actually understanding how big or small planets are or distances to and from planets compared to other terrestrial bodies in space.  This video does a great job comparing both size and distance and will help students with their spatial reasoning.  How small we are compared to the universe?

This video discusses how temperatures in lakes affect the flow of the lake's ecosystem.

In this online science activity, students get to take pictures of animals and plants and learn something about their adaptations that permit them to live inside a specific ecosystem.

This is a video that discusses what sound its, how it travels, and why we can or cannot hear it.  The video also discusses how the ear receives and translates the sound.

In this Study Jam video, students will learn about the water cycle.  The vocabulary used in the video is precipitation, evaporation, condensation, humid, transpiration, clouds, dense, and water vapor. 

In this Study Jam video, students will get a better understanding of biomes.  Vocabulary that is discussed is biome, ecosystem, habitat, climate, and precipitation.

A discussion of each of the biomes is also shown. 

Discover how air pressure generates wind in this Study Jam video. Students will learn key vocabulary terms such as air pressure, wind, barometer, convection, downdraft, updraft, high pressure, low pressure, Coriolis Effect, temperature, water vapor, and density. To access more worksheets, activities, videos, and educational resources, please visit http://EducationalResource.org.

In this Study Jam video, students will have a chance to learn about the concepts of air mass and weather front, as well as the differences between cold and warm fronts. The video will also cover some important cloud vocabulary related to weather. Don't forget to check out our website for more educational resources including worksheets, activities, videos and more at http://EducationalResource.org.

This Study Jam video does a great job demonstrating the differences between weather and climate.  It discusses how temperature and air pressure can change due to a change in elevation.

This video can also be used during reading units dealing with compare and contrast.