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Polar Regions

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A woman against an illustrated background with penguins. Spanish captions.
Animapaka (Spanish)
Episode 20
13 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 3
A polar bear in a zoo setting. Spanish captions.
Animapaka (Spanish)
Episode 19
13 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 3
Mountain peaks and slopes covered in snow with blue sky in the distance. Caption. We just don't know what's under all that ice.
Continents Of The World
Episode 6
16 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 8
Herd of reindeer passes through a snowy clearing with tall trees in the distant background. Some reindeer lean down, pushing their snouts into the snow.
Eons
Season 3 / Ep 11
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Silhouette of 5 people looking out on a landscape with stormy skies and an active volcano in the distance. Text on image reads, "Fierce Earth. World's Coldest Places."
Fierce Earth
Season 1 / Ep 9
28 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Antarctica landscape with tents poking up through snow and an airplane taking off in distance. Caption. Heather as narrator. Camp is much less quiet when the wind blows.
19 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 12
Closeup of melting ice. Spanish captions.
Air: Climate Change (Spanish)
Episode 11
24 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Herd of caribou graze and rest in a snowy, blue-tinted landscape. Caption. Caribou have amazingly warm fur.
Inuit
Episode 1
13 minutes 43 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 9
Inuit woman with long braids smiles and leans forward as she carries child in hide pouch on her back. Caption. It was the same 50 years ago.
Inuit
Episode 2
13 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 9
Inuit man works inside hollowed out snow structure while a second person assists outside. Caption. Other people would place the bricks carefully.
Inuit
Episode 3
14 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 9
Blurry figure holds a paddle in a long canoe out on the water. Caption. He would also have to learn how to paddle a canoe.
Inuit
Episode 4
14 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 9
Color illustration of men moving supplies through snow beside a ship with a torn sail. Spanish caption. Al año, se esfumó todo esperanza.
Kool Books (Spanish)
Episode 62
12 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 5
Illustration of a ship with 3 masts underwater. Caption: A pirate ship that's sunk.
My Little Planet
Episode 25
5 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
An ice covered region. Caption: Svalbard Norway. Latitude, 74 degrees to 81 degrees North. Longitude, 10 degrees to 35 degrees East. Average W I.
Nature's Microworlds
Season 1 / Ep 6
29 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Inuk man wearing a fur coat walks away from a hunting shelter, hilly terrain covered in snow. Caption. Grandfathers. Are you ready, Nuligak?
24 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 8
Penguins on ice. Caption: at more than three feet tall and as much as 80 pounds.
10 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 6
A penguin jumping from ice.
4 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person working on a large vertical sheet of ice. Caption: For them, time on the ice is part of the job.
Science Nation
Episode 27
3 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Helicopter hovering over a rocky, snow covered landscape. Caption: Traveling by helicopter, plane, and snowmobile,
Science Nation
Episode 104
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Microscopic image showing web-like structures and C shaped tubular organisms. Caption: (narrator) The soil itself is home to a vast number of tiny microbes,
Science Nation
Episode 9
3 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Microscopic view of tubular structures. Caption: (Saros) They can be early indicators of environmental change.
Science Nation
Episode 87
3 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Computer screen displaying two uneven strands of light. Caption: that thrives where life would seem impossible.
Science Nation
Episode 184
4 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Person holding a cylindrical piece of ice. Caption: This one is based on the ratio of heavy to light hydrogen.
Science Nation
Episode 179
4 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Points of light spaced evenly across a surface. A rod with spheres extends down the center. Caption: It's a cubic kilometer full of sensors known as IceCube,
Science Nation
Episode 145
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Aerial view of ice breaking apart as it flows onto land from an ice shelf. Caption: Ice flows from the land over the fjord,
Science Nation
Episode 51
3 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Stacked shelves of cylindrical metal canisters. Caption: (Twickler) This freezer contains more than 10 miles of ice cores
Science Nation
Episode 64
2 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Three researchers in parkas with equipment on a sheet of ice. Caption: and a team are here to study algae,
Science Nation
Episode 24
3 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Small furry animal perched on two legs in woody scrub with no leaves. Caption: This is the Arctic ground squirrel.
Science Nation
Episode 16
3 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Cross section of a sheet of ice on a rock shelf. The ice has a pool of melted water that travels from the surface, down to the rock, and then to the ocean. Caption: for 100,000 years are now undergoing dynamic changes.
Science Nation
Episode 58
2 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of a ship's bow surrounded by gray ocean. Title card reads, "The Arctic's Changing Climate and Economics."
28 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Low closeup of an Eskimo woman with dark straight hair and a headband worn at the forehead. Caption. Body decoration and tattoos were also used by Eskimos.
22 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 12
The magic school bus on arctic ice with walrus outside. Caption: Don’t mean to be rude, but you're too heavy!
The Magic School Bus
Season 3 / Ep 302
25 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
Frigid water with ice floating in it buts against a sheet of ice. Spanish captions.
Air: Climate Change (Spanish)
Episode 8
24 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person in the open cockpit of a small plane. Caption: (narrator) The route stretches about 3,000 miles
Wild Chronicles
Season 2 / Ep 219
7 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
A pair of white bird with black head and back and an orange beak sit in on a mossy rock. Caption: returning to land in the spring to rear a single chick.
Wild Chronicles
Season 3 / Ep 335
4 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Person in a kayak next to glaciers reaching up towards the sheet of ice. Caption: (male) The Vatnajökull glacier covers about 10% of all of Iceland.
Wild Chronicles
Season 1 / Ep 140
5 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
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