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Polar Regions

Within Geography
Still image from: The Arctic's Changing Climate and Economics
28 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 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
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
Still image from: Nuligak's Light
24 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 8
Illustration of Earth centered on the North pole. Caption: Once considered an inaccessible and pristine wilderness.
43 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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
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