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Nature Knows Best

Nature Knows Best

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This series takes a look at the fun and clever ways scientists and innovators are copying nature to create some of the world’s most amazing advancements. Join host Danni Washington as she uncovers the world of biomimicry.

Show's intro montage with Danni Washington in the middle, the show's title card, and an airplane overlayed in the back like it's coming into frame.
Nature Knows Best
Season 1 / Ep 1
22 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Two men wearing hard hats stand on a mechanical lift, coating a building's exterior in a layer of white paint. Protective plastic covers the glass doors, windows, and railings.
Nature Knows Best
Season 1 / Ep 2
22 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Bird with white spots on its black wings perches on a tree. Overlaying this photo is a 2-D animation of a silhouetted swarm of flying birds and dozens of neon green dots.
Nature Knows Best
Season 1 / Ep 3
22 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Bald man wearing a T-shirt on a boat in the sea looks over to the right.
Nature Knows Best
Season 1 / Ep 4
22 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Just below the surface of the water, a whale is in the process of rolling over itself on its side.
Nature Knows Best
Season 1 / Ep 5
22 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Danni Washington looks at us, standing in front of a green field, as the show's animated title emerges onto the screen.
Nature Knows Best
Season 1 / Ep 6
22 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Close-up of a golden dragonfly holding onto a stem amid a backdrop of green leaves.
Nature Knows Best
Season 1 / Ep 7
22 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Bearded man wears a metal apparatus strapped to his chest, gesturing with a gloved hand as he talks.
Nature Knows Best
Season 1 / Ep 8
22 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Microscopic imagery compares bacteria cells in neat rows on a sharklet surface versus clusters of bacteria cells on a standard surface starting to spread.
Nature Knows Best
Season 1 / Ep 9
22 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Danni Washington walks outside along a sunny, paved lot.
Nature Knows Best
Season 1 / Ep 10
22 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Close-up of a pile of oyster shells. Logo text reads, "Nature Knows Best."
Nature Knows Best
Season 1 / Ep 11
22 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Danni Washington stands on the grass, talking with a man in what appears to be a park next to a parking lot.
Nature Knows Best
Season 1 / Ep 12
22 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
View of a workshop studio where three mechanical creatures lay on separate tables, in various stages of construction, with materials including metals, tubes, plastic, and wood.
Nature Knows Best
Season 1 / Ep 13
22 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Group of young children wearing athletic clothes play joyfully on a field, appearing to block one child from getting past them.
Nature Knows Best
Season 2 / Ep 1
22 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Man wearing a light blue polo shirt working in a workshop with a wall stacked with surfboards behind him.
Nature Knows Best
Season 2 / Ep 2
22 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Danni Washington addresses us with her hands clasped, in front of a sun-dappled patch of grass and an old building.
Nature Knows Best
Season 2 / Ep 3
22 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Man wearing glasses and a white lab coat speaks while looking at a machine, as Danni Washington watches him with curiosity.
Nature Knows Best
Season 2 / Ep 4
22 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Danni Washington listens to a man as they stand in a laboratory next to a shelf holding aquariums and equipment.
Nature Knows Best
Season 2 / Ep 5
22 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Close-up of light-colored soft coral, slightly resembling a head of cauliflower, under deep blue sea.
Nature Knows Best
Season 2 / Ep 6
22 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Man standing in a grassy area holds a robotic device with plastic wings spread out like a bird in flight as Danni Washington looks on with a warm smile.
Nature Knows Best
Season 2 / Ep 7
22 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Danni Washington stands at a desk in a science lab with a man and a woman who are using mycelium and kombucha, held in beakers and glass containers, to demonstrate the growth of fungi and bacteria.
Nature Knows Best
Season 2 / Ep 8
22 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Overhead view from the top of an incline showing a conveyor belt full of coal coming out from a mine. On the land above ground, heavy work vehicles drive on blackened ground.
Nature Knows Best
Season 2 / Ep 9
22 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Man shows Danni Washington a green vining plant as they stand next to a black dress form with a white-patterned garment on it.
Nature Knows Best
Season 2 / Ep 10
22 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Danni Washington looks off to the side with interest and a slight smile at something offscreen.
Nature Knows Best
Season 2 / Ep 11
21 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
We look from above into a fishbowl holding two spiky sea urchins with black and pink spines.
Nature Knows Best
Season 2 / Ep 12
22 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Two pigs, one pink and one brown, stand on a grassy field near us while other pigs congregate in the background, near a large piece of farming equipment on wheels.
Nature Knows Best
Season 2 / Ep 13
22 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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