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Map of Alaska with Anchorage displayed. 1964 Epicenter indicated on coastline in bay adjacent to Anchorage. Caption: The epicenter was in Prince William Sound
11 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A group of people visiting an active volcano. Caption: scientists visited New Zealand's topol volcanic zone,
4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn't Hear About This Week
Episode 17
2 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A diagram illustrates certain traits recurring in a grain plant. Caption: Those traits remain the same generation after generation.
4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn't Hear About This Week
Episode 21
2 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Closeup of a crocodile with its mouth open. Inset of a blue, green and yellow infrared image at left.
4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn't Hear About This Week
Episode 32
2 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Aerial view of a rolling red rock landscape with a small arch formation in foreground.
4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn't Hear About This Week
Episode 41
3 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Earth floats in darkness as cracks in its surface emanate orange light.
4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn't Hear About This Week
Episode 43
4 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Yellow wildflower in foreground, low shrubs and dead trees in background. Boulder County Colorado Front Range. Caption: (Rother) This is a portion of the 2003 Overland Fire.
WildFIRE PIRE
Episode 1
3 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of hands holding a narrow, red tubular object. Caption: With a warmer climate, do we suspect to see more fire?
WildFIRE PIRE
Episode 8
9 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: A World Without Forests
A World Without
Episode 1
53 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Advanced Placement Human Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth--Agriculture and Rural Land Use
Advanced Placement Human Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth
Episode 6
28 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Advanced Placement Human Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth--Cities and Urban Land Use
Advanced Placement Human Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth
Episode 8
28 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Advanced Placement Human Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth--Political Boundaries
Advanced Placement Human Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth
Episode 5
29 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Advanced Placement Human Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth--Population Distribution and Migration
Advanced Placement Human Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth
Episode 3
27 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Advanced Placement Human Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth--Portraying the Earth
Advanced Placement Human Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth
Episode 1
27 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Advanced Placement Human Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth--The Tools of Human Geography
Advanced Placement Human Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth
Episode 2
28 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Advanced Placement Human Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth--Understanding Human Culture
Advanced Placement Human Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth
Episode 4
28 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Scuba diver swimming above a wooden ship submerged in shallow water. Caption: In the Baltic and Arctic, wooden ships are preserved.
Adventures of a Maritime Archaeologist
Episode 4
2 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Scuba diver swimming above a flat surface covered in ocean detritus. Caption: the oceans are a tremendous place to work.
Adventures of a Maritime Archaeologist
Episode 1
1 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Dry, brown grass and brush with crumbling rocks throughout and a flat-topped rocky hill in the background. Caption: punctuated by hills, badlands, and bluffs --
America's National Monuments: Legacy Of The Great Plains
Episode 1
8 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person walking through low hills of green and brown shrubs and rock strewn in red soil. Caption: through the Texas Panhandle.
America's National Monuments: Legacy Of The Great Plains
Episode 2
9 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Split image of bright sunny day and night sky with equal sign in the middle. Caption: because, at those times, the day is exactly equal to the night.
All About the Holidays
Episode 47
1 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
A tree in the four seasons - spring buds, green summer foliage, orange and yellow autumn leaves, and bare winter branches with snow. Caption: Why do we have seasons?
All About the Holidays
Episode 32
1 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Illustration of a man sitting at a desk, looking off into the distance at nothing. Caption: Maybe the continents drifted apart.
7 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A subduction zone. In a subduction zone oceanic plate dives beneath the continental plate. Contact at time equal zero. G P S at time equals zero. Caption: Megathrust earthquakes most commonly occur
Ask a Scientist
Episode 22
1 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Four mammals, one with short, curved horns, grazing on grass. Spanish captions.
11 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Still image from: Biomes and Ecosystems
10 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Cactus growing on a hill. Spanish Caption: va desde el sur del estado de Sonora
Bios: Nature and Society (Spanish)
Episode 7
29 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
People in full-body orange and black clothing with gear standing on ice in pockets of water. Caption: to trace where the black carbon is coming from.
2 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Bodies of Water
8 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
A construction sight beside a water body. Caption: In an attempt to save the threatened Aral Sea.
Butterfly Effect
Season 2 / Ep 13
25 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Lighthouse with outbuilding and trees as seen through dense fog. Caption: The old lighthouse shimmers in and out of view--
America's National Monuments: The Geologic West
Episode 11
13 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: California: Climate Change Impacts
California
Episode 5
29 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: California: Geography--Coastline, Mountain Ranges and Valleys
California
Episode 1
28 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of coral colored cactus blooms on a prickly sage colored cactus. Text on image reads, "Deserts, Rivers, Earthquakes and Human Geography."
California
Episode 2
29 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Rolling two-peaked hill and valley covered in trees. Caption: Inexplicably, Capulin Volcano is tree covered,
America's National Monuments: Legacy Of The Great Plains
Episode 3
11 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A tree lined river with steep banks on one side. Caption: you have groundwater that flows into the river
Career Connections
Episode 39
4 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Cation Exchange
5 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Rolling brown foothills ending in San Francisco Bay with the Golden Gate bridge in the foreground. Caption: This movement is called an earthquake.
11 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
An illustration depicts a robot talking to a bird. Caption: This one is my favorite; it's quartz.
Circuit Playground
Episode 15
4 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
A diver carries two oxygen cylinders and dives deep into the Floridian aqufier. Caption: It's the primary source of fresh, clean water.
19 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Evergreen trees covered in snow. Caption: We'll look at some factors that affect climate.
19 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
Still image from: Climate Zones
11 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Still image from: Climates
9 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Herd of bison grazes on dry grass. Text on image reads, "Core Biology. Environmental Sciences."
Core Biology
Episode 3
29 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Illustration from behind of a man shielding his face with his arm. A large, tattooed person with a gaff stands to his side with shadowy figure holding a gaff in the distance. Rain splashes down. Title card reads, "Moby Dick, Herman Melville."
32 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Green foliage in foreground overlooking basin with a lake surrounded by tree covered hills. Caption: The kinds of plants that came back were even more flammable.
WildFIRE PIRE
Episode 2
3 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Aerial view of mountains with water-filled craters. Caption: I became curious what this was like in the past.
WildFIRE PIRE
Episode 6
4 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Narrow paved path spiraling to the top of a rocky conical structure. Caption: a great fissure opened up in Central Idaho
America's National Monuments: The Geologic West
Episode 5
10 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Whale fin breaking through the surface of the water. Caption: See nature, wildlife, glaciers."
Curiosity Quest
Season 6 / Ep 3
25 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Ominous gray clouds in the sky. Caption: This creates moisture in the air.
Danger Zone
Episode 6
2 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Four pictures of beaches, roads and bridges being washed away by stormy water. Caption: It can severely erode beaches and coastal highways.
Danger Zone
Episode 7
2 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Platform with large machinery and people on it floating in the water close to shore. Caption: NOAA's sentinels are water-level observing platforms
Danger Zone
Episode 13
2 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A large spiral shaped storm on Earth's surface as seen from space. Caption: Tropical cyclones extract heat from the ocean
Danger Zone
Episode 5
2 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Map of Earth with Africa, Australia, Europe and Asia in view. The water on the map shows large portions highlighted in orange. Caption: Tsunamis can strike any coastline in the world
Danger Zone
Episode 8
3 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Aerial view of the ocean. Caption: This disturbance causes a transfer of energy
Danger Zone
Episode 11
2 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Needle on paper resulting in jagged peaks and troughs with a sinuous wave overlaid. Caption: It detects tremors, calculates the epicenter,
Danger Zone
Episode 12
3 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person swimming in water. Caption: Even though Earth is spinning, we're not able to feel it.
10 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
A shaft of light streaming from a hole in the wall of a small, enclosed burrow illuminates a rodent. Caption: Kangaroo rats pass the days heat
Nature
Season 24 / Ep 5
28 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Depressions in the sea floor with noticeably different liquid in them. Caption: They're very similar to lakes and rivers on land.
Deep Sea Dive
Episode 6
2 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Long, spindly legs protrude from an extremely narrow body and other strange creatures. Caption: It's not like life like we're used to on the surface.
Deep Sea Dive
Episode 5
2 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Map of the Pacific Ocean and surrounding landmasses with the coastlines highlighted. Underwater images of craggy rocks and deep fissures. Caption: scientists have nicknamed the area the "Ring of Fire."
Deep Sea Dive
Episode 4
2 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Glowing lava and steam spew rocks under the water. Caption: how ocean islands and undersea volcanoes are born.
1 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
In foreground a flat, barren landscape with a large cloud of dust. In the background there are some out-of-focus hills. Caption: The sand forms gigantic dust carpets,
15 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Deserts of the World
11 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Close-up of planet Earth with swirling clouds and areas without clouds.
20 minutes
Grade Level: 4 - 10
A river with brush lining the banks winds down from a mountain through evergreen trees. Caption: Here there is no fancy visitor center.
America's National Monuments: The Geologic West
Episode 6
10 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Rock formation rises sharply from evergreen tree covered ground to end in a narrowed flat-topped peak. Caption: (male narrator) There's nothing quite like it.
America's National Monuments: Legacy Of The Great Plains
Episode 4
9 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Hands cupping plant detritus from the ground. Caption: it becomes dirt.
53 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person wearing a jumpsuit with a NASA logo holds a flame to an inflated balloon. Caption: that it takes the heat away from the skin of the balloon
DIY Space Classroom Activities
Episode 6
3 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Closeup of a person's hand pointing at a spot on a globe in east Russia.
Earth Science
Episode 11
13 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Split screen photos of a flat snowy area and the ocean. Text reads, Scientific methods. Step 1: Problem or Question. Why does the fresh water in ponds freeze before the salt water in oceans.
Earth Science
Episode 2
10 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Digital map of North America with a title overlay that reads, "Weather Map." A red letter L is visible near California, Washington, Mexico, Wyoming, and Mississippi. A blue H is visible near Texas, Missouri, and Tennessee.
Earth Science
Episode 8
11 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Digital map of Earth with an overlay illustration of a flat sphere shape. Text reads, "Robinson Projection."
Earth Science
Episode 9
6 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Digital heat map of the United States with title that reads, "Frequency of Damaging Earthquake Shaking Around the United States." The western U, S, is red, orange and yellow. The eastern U, S, is green, blue, and yellow.
Earth Science
Episode 10
5 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Cart ascending roller coaster track. Caption: What are the reservoirs for the carbon cycle?
Earth Science
Episode 8
28 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
Layers of red sedimentary rock forming the cliffs to the Grand Canyon. Caption: (woman) Question of the day: How was the Grand Canyon formed?
Earth Science
Episode 5
32 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
Map of Earth against starry sky with the tectonic plates outlined around the continents. Caption: is covered by ten major tectonic plates,
Earth Science
Episode 4
31 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
Illustration of the Earth. Caption: Noon is when the sun is highest in the sky.
Earth Science
Episode 1
31 minutes 43 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
Trees, water, mountains, desert, and plain with river. Caption: Biomes are like little kingdoms.
Earth Science
Episode 7
30 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
Earth with a thin halo labeled as greenhouse gases. Caption: Greenhouse gases are mostly water vapor and carbon dioxide.
Earth Science
Episode 6
26 minutes
Grade Level: 6 - 9
Two parallel peaks of rock with a line of magma rising between them. Arrows point to each of the peaks. Divergent boundaries occur on the sea floor. Caption: The magma quickly hardens and forms.
Earth Science
Episode 3
27 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
Matter - icons representing solid, liquid, and gas. Caption: of a solid, a liquid, or a gas,
Earth Science
Episode 2
29 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
Wide shot of an active volcano at night. Text reads, "Geology, the study of the origin of the Earth, along with its rocks, minerals, landforms, and all of the processes that have affected them over the course of Earth's history."
Earth Science
Episode 1
9 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Digital map of earth with longitudinal lines running all the way across. The time on the clock is labeled on bottom and the time differences are labeled on top. The middle section is labeled at 12:00 and 0 time difference.
Earth Science
Episode 12
5 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Boiling orange-red magma. Caption: the most violent natural forces in our planet--
13 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 8
Color illustration of rock and sediment layers of synclines and anticlines demonstrating plate tectonic, volcanic and earthquake influences on rock movement.
14 minutes
Grade Level: 4 - 6
Still image from: Earthquakes & Tsunamis
5 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Inside of industrial p0lant showing metal vats with complex metal tubing. Caption: We're liquefying the sugars out of the biomass.
15 minutes
Grade Level: 9 - 12
A sketch of a dinosaur, and a man is seen standing below. Caption: Argentinosaurus, 35 meters approximately equals 114 feet. 70 metric tons approximately equals 154,000 pounds.
Eons
Season 2 / Ep 51
9 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Slow moving current passes by a grouping of rocks partially covered with moss.
Eons
Season 3 / Ep 6
9 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Two rat like creatures are seen fighting. Caption: Illustration by Velizar Simeonovski, copyright Darin Croft. From horned armadillos and rafting monkeys: The fascinating fossil mammals of South America.
Eons
Season 2 / Ep 50
9 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Bright neon green waves crash to shore with text below that reads, "Harmful Algal Blooms."
Eons
Season 3 / Ep 5
8 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Computer rendering of a walrus perched on the shore, rearing is head back with mouth open, showing 4 long, thick teeth protruding from its gums on the top and bottom.
Eons
Season 3 / Ep 12
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Eons: How Volcanoes Froze the Earth (Twice)
Eons
Season 2 / Ep 29
10 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Dickinsonia fossil from the Ediacaran that is symmetrical and round with rib-like segments that are radially inclined towards the wide end from a central ridge.
Eons
Season 3 / Ep 8
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A geographical representation of Mediterranean sea, which is enclosed by land, on the north by Europe, on the south by Africa, and on the east by Asia. Caption: M S C recreation by Aaron Micallef, Daniel Garcia-Castellanos, Angelo Camerlenghi, University of Malta, Medsalt.
Eons
Season 2 / Ep 47
11 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A Wooly Rhino is grazing on the slope of a mountain.
Eons
Season 2 / Ep 23
13 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Eons: The Story of the Dino Stampede
Eons
Season 3 / Ep 13
10 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Eons: The World Before Plate Tectonics
Eons
Season 3 / Ep 10
9 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Computer rendering of how earth might have looked billions of years ago. It's mostly white and light gray with a fracture of blue down the middle along the horizontal axis.
Eons
Season 3 / Ep 3
11 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
An illustration depicts the earth of 50 million years ago, with a supercontinent Laurasia. Caption, Paleographic animation by C R Scotese.
Eons
Season 2 / Ep 38
11 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Computer rendering of a dinosaur skeleton depicting a creature with short front arms and a long tail that walks on its hind legs.
Eons
Season 3 / Ep 9
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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
A giant deer roams a grassland.
Eons
Season 2 / Ep 31
6 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A pair of Ichthyosaurs hunting prey in the sea.
Eons
Season 2 / Ep 27
9 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A painting of a flooded forest, and insects are seen crawling on the tree surface.
Eons
Season 2 / Ep 52
7 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A group of Hippos and Giraffes are grazing in a forest.
Eons
Season 2 / Ep 54
7 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A group of four legged terrestrial creatures. Caption: Synapsids.
Eons
Season 2 / Ep 26
10 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Rocky slope covered in scree. Caption: Weather and gravity are at work loosening soil and rock
8 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
Still image from: Everything Is Chemical
4 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Diagram of two plates of the Earth's crust causing an earthquake. The epicenter is at the junction point of the plates below the surface. Caption: Seismic waves - Waves that transmit the energy released by an earthquake.
4 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Graphic of peaks and valleys below the surface of the water. Caption: And satellites unveil the seafloor,
Exploration
Season 0 / Ep 2
42 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 12
Lava spewing from a crack in the Earth's surface. Caption: for scientists from the Hawaii Volcano Observatory
24 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 10
Light brown earth dotted with low lying shrub brush. Caption: (narrator) The typical desert seems to be hot and dry deserts,
17 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Grass and wildflower covered field surrounded by evergreen trees and snow-capped mountains. Spanish captions.
9 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Hand holding a leaf. Almost entirely camouflaged on the leaf is an insect. Caption: with lots of moss on tree trunks and leaves
1 hours 42 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
A field of burned grass with a tractor in the middle of it. Caption: As you can see, it's devastated the whole district.
WildFIRE PIRE
Episode 7
5 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Trees with partially bare branches and yellow and brown leaves. Caption: In fall, the days continue to get shorter.
10 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
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. Earthquakes."
Fierce Earth
Season 1 / Ep 5
28 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 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. Flooding."
Fierce Earth
Season 1 / Ep 10
27 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 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. Hurricanes."
Fierce Earth
Season 1 / Ep 1
28 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 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. Thunderstorms."
Fierce Earth
Season 1 / Ep 6
27 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 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. Tornadoes."
Fierce Earth
Season 1 / Ep 8
28 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 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. Tsunami."
Fierce Earth
Season 1 / Ep 4
27 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 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. Volcanoes."
Fierce Earth
Season 1 / Ep 7
28 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 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. Wildfires."
Fierce Earth
Season 1 / Ep 2
27 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 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
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 Hottest Places."
Fierce Earth
Season 1 / Ep 3
28 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Active volcano with plumes of white smoke billowing up into the air from a red river of lava encircling the base of the volcano.
35 minutes
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A diagram illustrates a fish.
5 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Aerial view of destroyed house and fallen trees. Caption: These can cause catastrophic damage as well.
22 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
Rolling hills lead into a wide valley. Caption: Known as Fossil Lake, Fossil Butte National Monument
America's National Monuments: The Geologic West
Episode 3
12 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Group of 4 kids work on a collaborative activity in a classroom setting while a teacher stands by to observe. Text on image reads, "Problem Solve Collaboratively."
FSDB Pineapple PD
Episode 5
3 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT -
Still image from: Geology and Rocks for Kids
8 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
A glacier between two mountains covered in snow. Caption: (narrator) The last great Ice Age ended about 10,000 years ago.
Glacier
Episode 2
21 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A mountain covered in snow. Caption: (male narrator) They exist on every continent on earth except Australia.
Glacier
Episode 1
18 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Global Science: Nature--Discovering Our Planet
Global Science
Episode 3
52 minutes
Grade Level: 9 - 12
A river runs through the grand canyon. Caption: A ribbon of water cuts through the rock,
23 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A rodent peeking out of an underground tunnel. Caption: dig elaborate underground cities with dens, sleeping areas,
Essential And Endangered Biomes
Episode 1
24 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Dirt road surrounded by grassland and wildflowers. Road leads to a gentle hill in the distance.
45 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Person talking with an inset picture of a laboratory. Caption: People usually think science happens in the lab.
Green Revolution
Episode 2
5 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Sloped hills leading to a body of water. Caption: from which the Hagerman fossils have been excavated.
America's National Monuments: The Geologic West
Episode 1
9 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Dry, brown hilly terrain. Caption: The landscape and the vegetation changed rapidly.
How Climate Made History
Season 0 / Ep 1
51 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Streaks of dark and light. Caption: the climate was still unstable, particularly the spring of 536.
How Climate Made History
Season 0 / Ep 2
52 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Woman with shoulder-length brown hair and lips parted mid-speech. Title card reads, "How Wildfires Become Wildflowers."
9 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Hurricanes
8 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Still image from: Ice Age Mysteries: Prehistoric to Present
3 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
An illustration of an ice core with years labeled, from top to bottom, 0, 10, 100, 1000, 10000, and 100,000.
Ice Cores: Unlocking Past Climates
Episode 5
5 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A cartoon shows an example of a T V weather report, extra sunny or cloudy rainy.
Ice Cores: Unlocking Past Climates
Episode 4
5 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Igloos and tents are built on a glacier.
Ice Cores: Unlocking Past Climates
Episode 2
6 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
An illustration depicts different layers of an ice core. The layers may contain volcanic remains, dust, and pollen, from a corresponding period.
Ice Cores: Unlocking Past Climates
Episode 1
5 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Busy freeway with palm trees and high-rise buildings in the background. Caption: virtually identical to the San Andreas
26 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Black illustration on aqua blue background. Man in hard hat frowns and rests chin in hand while holding a conical flask in other hand. Question mark floats above him. Title card reads, "Serious Science. Decoding the Science of Crude Oil."
Into the Outdoors
Episode 36
5 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Black illustration. Cyclic diagram begins with a corn plant at the top. From there, arrows connect to an ethanol refinery, fuel pump, and person driving a car emitting a red puff cloud labeled, "C, O, 2." A green arrow labeled C, O, 2 points to the corn.
Into the Outdoors
Episode 39
8 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Aerial view of a landscape marked by patches of vegetation, a meandering waterway, and plots of dry earth.
Into the Outdoors
Episode 7
24 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Group of teenagers walk through forested area past a sign post that reads,"Ice Age National Scenic Trail."
Into the Outdoors
Episode 6
3 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Closeup of Upper Midwest map with a blue stain covering southwest Wisconsin and a large fuchsia stain on Missouri. Title card reads, "The Driftless," with an arrow pointing toward blue stain.
Into the Outdoors
Episode 3
26 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black line drawing on light blue background. Figure drives machine that distributes water above ground. Man with flashlight surveys water dripping underground. Title card reads, "The Physics and Chemistry of Karst Topography."
Into the Outdoors
Episode 23
6 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Interior of a dim ice cave with icicles hanging from ceiling. Man in background exits through brightly lit opening in cave.
Into the Outdoors
Episode 5
3 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Black illustration on light yellow background. Waterway changes from brown to green to blue as it runs from a cityscape, past a farm, and curves into a field.
Into the Outdoors
Episode 24
24 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Recently Added
Still image from: It's Okay to Be Smart: Extreme Microbes Are Eating the Titanic
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 6 / Ep 3
5 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A cartoon shows Benjamin Franklin sleeping on a bed. Sunlight pours into the room through an open window.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 8 / Ep 5
12 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A group of animals, a gorilla, a rhino, a lemur cat, and a scaled lizard.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 7 / Ep 10
5 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
The sample particles enter the mass spectrometer, which is accelerated, and then separated according to their individual mass of the particles by a magnet.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 7 / Ep 22
11 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: It's Okay to Be Smart: How Ocean Currents (And How We Are Breaking Them)
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 9 / Ep 5
12 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Man in glasses and cardigan holds palms together with lips parted in mid-speech. He stands before a green background with white scratches.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 5 / Ep 13
5 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: It's Okay to Be Smart: Why the Heck Is Glass Transparent?
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 8 / Ep 25
5 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
People standing on an overlook in a cave. Caption: Even the average tourist is an explorer in this cave--
America's National Monuments: Legacy Of The Great Plains
Episode 7
7 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Map of the northwest United States showing John Day Fossil Beds in Washington, Idaho, and Montana. Clarno Unit, Sheep Rock Unit, and Painted Hills Unit are in Oregon. Caption: preserve a continuous 40-million-year fossil record
America's National Monuments: The Geologic West
Episode 2
12 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Illustration of a person standing next to railroad tracks while ringing a bell. A cart full of people rolls down the tracks. Spanish captions.
Kool Books (Spanish)
Episode 64
13 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 5
Building on the banks of a river. A sensor is connected to machinery in the house and measures the river, sending information to a satellite. Caption: The stream gauges record the vertical rise or drop
12 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Still image from: Landforms
7 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Rock formations with straight sides rise above rocky red landscape dotted with trees. Spanish captions.
14 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Rough lava rocks with a few trees growing out of them. Caption: (male narrator) Laval Beds National Monument is all things volcanic.
America's National Monuments: The Geologic West
Episode 7
10 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Rocky coastline. Caption: Life learned to use sunlight to develop
15 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Sand dunes with sparse grass. Caption: Maritime forests are important for coastal resilience.
1 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 11
Central point of light surrounded by nebulous cloud-like structures and glowing light. Caption: The intense light of a supernova travels outward,
55 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Dry, brown grasses dotted with wildflowers wave in the wind. Caption: Hot, arid summers tend to parch vegetation.
Mediterranean-Climate Ecosystems
Episode 3
8 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Evergreen plants in shades of green from light to dark cover the landscape. Caption: Shrubby, evergreen plants are widespread in all five areas.
Mediterranean-Climate Ecosystems
Episode 4
12 minutes
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Somewhat rocky soil with cactus and scrub-like plants give way to cultivated rows of plants and buildings in the distance. Caption: These areas as known as Mediterranean climate reasons.
Mediterranean-Climate Ecosystems
Episode 3
7 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Photograph of Charles Richter. Caption: who was the first to make measurements of ground motion
EarthScope Chronicles
Season 0 / Ep 2
2 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
3D computer model showing structures with elevation information. Range is from 3 to -3km Caption: We also use physics to study deep inside the earth.
EarthScope Chronicles
Season 0 / Ep 4
4 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Ship with industrial equipment and a crane lowering something into the water. Caption: There are two seismometers named after me
EarthScope Chronicles
Season 0 / Ep 1
2 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Aerial view of a wide canyon cut through reddish-brown rock. Caption: When you live there, when you're from there,
EarthScope Chronicles
Season 0 / Ep 3
4 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Debris filled water carries buildings and cars over cultivated fields. Caption: A ten-meter high wall of water surges ashore.
45 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Puffy white clouds. Cumulus clouds. Caption: Cumulus, Latin for "heap,"
15 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Low elevation mountains with pockets of snow. Caption: The northern polar region includes Greenland,
26 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 12
Adult curls around two baby animals. Caption: Some of the ways animals enter a long sleeplike state
10 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Illustration of water with an arrow indicating a current moving through the water parallel to the surface. Caption: There are two types of marine currents.
Moko
Episode 24
5 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Map of the Eurasian continent and pacific islands, as well as the Indian and Pacific oceans. Caption: (narrator) A monsoon is the name for a meeting of winds
Moko
Episode 29
5 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of trees growing on a mountain. Caption: Some of these forests grow on mountains.
Moko
Episode 48
5 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of rain falling on a rock. Caption: It is a very slow process that happens over millions of years.
Moko
Episode 1
5 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of two people walking, one wearing a knapsack with an iguana on their head. Caption: "We have got to warn my village. The mountain is angry.
Moko
Episode 2
5 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a small single-sail boat dwarfed by a menacing wave. Caption: "about your tornados, winds, and currents.
Moko
Episode 3
5 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a stream of water being heated by underground magma. Caption: In its heated state, the water wants to escape the spring
Moko
Episode 4
5 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of low, round huts with a person walking through them. Caption: Arriving home, Moko saw that the moon was there in the sky.
Moko
Episode 5
5 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a rainbow against the sky. Caption: What a surprise, the rainbow was back!
Moko
Episode 6
5 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a tree with a few leaves on the branches. Caption: This bark can be very thin, or quite thick.
Moko
Episode 7
5 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a stream of water falling down the side of a mountain. Caption: Waterfalls are often stronger during spring,
Moko
Episode 8
5 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of cold air near the ground and warm air at higher elevation. Caption: Winds are born between these air zones.
Moko
Episode 9
5 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a river and tree partially obscured by grayish-white thin clouds. Caption: When we can see through the cloud, we call it a mist.
Moko
Episode 10
5 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Two people in a hammock, suspended above the ground. Caption: A low, rumbling sound, muffled and far away,
Moko
Episode 11
5 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of heat rays moving from the Sun towards the Earth. Caption: Thus, the climate will change during the course of a year.
Moko
Episode 13
5 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of mountains and the night sky with a crescent moon reflected on water. Caption: No plant or animal can survive for long in these salt deserts.
Moko
Episode 14
5 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a large chunk of ice floating in the water. Caption: It floats and drifts on the ocean.
Moko
Episode 15
5 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a pocket of water below the earth's surface. Caption: The water tables are nourished by the seeping-down rains.
Moko
Episode 16
5 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of clouds in the sky. Caption: (narrator) Thunderstorms occur when it's hot and humid near the ground,
Moko
Episode 17
5 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a bird's head over a landscape with a winding river and some hills. Caption: you'll arrive back where you started, having circled it all."
Moko
Episode 18
5 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a mountain with snow on the peak starting to melt down one side of the mountain. Caption: Some floods are triggered by mountain snows melting
Moko
Episode 19
5 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a map of the world centered on South America. Caption: The Amazon Forest is a region of great ecological importance
Moko
Episode 20
5 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a cloud with ice particles floating above a frozen landscape. Caption: tiny pieces of ice, called ice nuclei,
Moko
Episode 21
5 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of brightly colored coral and plant life with tropical fish swimming through it. Caption: Coral reefs look like giant, underwater gardens
Moko
Episode 22
5 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of the Sun and planets closest to it, including Earth, shedding bits of bright light. Caption: Solar wind is very hot and blows across all the planets
Moko
Episode 23
5 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of the Sun, moon, and Earth. Caption: and the moon circles around the earth.
Moko
Episode 25
5 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of water with a circular shape outlined beneath the surface. Caption: (narrator) Blue holes are deep, underwater wells.
Moko
Episode 26
5 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a map of the world. Caption: Cenotes are found in North America and Central America,
Moko
Episode 27
5 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of rough water with a dark, funnel shaped cloud touching the surface. Caption: Ocean tornadoes move very rapidly.
Moko
Episode 28
5 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a barren landscape with rain falling. Caption (narrator) In tropical climates, there are only two seasons:
Moko
Episode 30
5 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a person laying down in a boat as the boat runs aground on a beach. Caption: Slowly, his boat came to rest on a familiar beach.
Moko
Episode 12
5 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a mountain in heavy rain with darker earth running down one side of it. Caption: (narrator) Mudslides are very fluid, and flow very, very quickly.
Moko
Episode 31
5 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of the Earth and other planets with a belt of floating rocks between them. Caption: Our planet is surrounded by a belt of asteroids
Moko
Episode 32
5 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a dry, brown landscape and an orange sun. Caption: These areas are very dry and semi-arid,
Moko
Episode 33
5 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of water running up against a rocky cliff. Caption: (narrator) As you've probably noticed, ocean water is salty.
Moko
Episode 34
5 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of sand dunes. Caption: Water on the surface of the ground evaporates quickly
Moko
Episode 35
5 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of sand with an arrow moving from the sky across the image. Caption: This is called quicksand.
Moko
Episode 36
5 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Image of a layer of ice above liquid water. Caption: This is called sea ice.
Moko
Episode 37
5 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of mountains with a raincloud over the valley between them. Caption: Lakes provide not only drinkable water and water to spray crops,
Moko
Episode 38
5 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a ring of islands surrounded by a thin line of sand and shallow water. Caption: They can only be found in warm seas.
Moko
Episode 39
5 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a cluster of green plants in the middle of a dry landscape. Caption: That's what we call an oasis.
Moko
Episode 40
5 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of stars on a deep blue background. Caption: It's inside these clouds that stars are born.
Moko
Episode 41
5 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a strong wind blowing leaves across a hilly landscape. Caption: The stronger the wind, the louder the sound.
Moko
Episode 42
5 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a large amount of snow sliding down a hillside. Caption: It's not a very rapid avalanche, but it's very solid.
Moko
Episode 43
5 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a steep sand dune. Caption: We call these dunes singing dunes.
Moko
Episode 44
5 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a person on a hilltop facing a series of bigger mountains. Caption: (narrator) This phenomenon is called an echo.
Moko
Episode 45
5 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a high mountain with a channel in the middle worn away and a river of water on the bottom of the channel. Caption: We call this phenomenon erosion.
Moko
Episode 46
5 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of earth against space. Earth has a line through the north and south pole, but the line is not vertical. It is tilted. Caption: But it doesn't spin completely straight; it is slightly tilted.
Moko
Episode 47
5 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of water against a curved shoreline. Caption: The tides vary in strength in different places on Earth.
Moko
Episode 49
5 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a few trees as seen through extremely thick snow. Caption: During a blizzard, winds can exceed 40 kilometers per hour.
Moko
Episode 51
5 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of heavy rain and a dark sky with a large funnel shaped cloud over water. Caption: (narrator) Cyclones, hurricanes, and typhoons are harsh
Moko
Episode 52
5 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of an island breaking the water line with a larger volume of the island under water. Caption: These are called volcanic islands.
Moko
Episode 50
5 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Still image from: Museum Access: American Museum of Natural History
Museum Access
Season 4 / Ep 10
28 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
The front of a large building with animal scenes carved into the cement at the top of it. In front of the staircases leading up to the entrance is a gray statue of 2 large cats crouching with text underneath that reads, "La Brea Tar Pits and Museum."
Museum Access
Season 3 / Ep 10
26 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Illustration of drops of water with faces. Caption: Look at this, Hanna.
My Little Planet
Episode 1
5 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 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
Trees and brush on the shoreline of a calm body of water. Caption: The water cycle involves the process of evaporation,
20 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 10
Still image from: Natural Resources
9 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Large waterfall. Spanish captions.
12 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Rolling hillside spotted with evergreen trees. Caption: lodgepole pine, that was introduced from North America
WildFIRE PIRE
Episode 3
3 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Illustration of Antarctica with a current moving in an oval along one coast with branches moving out towards the rest of the ocean. Caption: Did you know there's a massive Southern Ocean current
News of the Day
Episode 5
1 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Aerial view of a large airplane in flight. Sensors dot the outside of the plane. Caption: (male narrator) Hurricane hunting is not for the faint at heart.
NOAA Ocean Today
Episode 2
2 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Lightning branching across the sky. Caption: (female narrator) Lightning is a rapid discharge of electrical energy
NOAA Ocean Today
Episode 1
1 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Person at a bank of computer screen showing maps shaded in various colors. Caption: the development of El Niño and La Niña.
1 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Beach at sunset with waves lapping on the shore. Caption: it nurtured life itself on this planet,
One Ocean
Episode 1
43 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Earth spinning on its orbit, the equator of earth is tilted downward and eastward.
Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey
Episode 1
48 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A photo depicts the earth spinning in its orbit, where the equator and tropic of cancer are highlighted. Caption: June
Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey
Episode 2
49 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Earth spinning on its orbit, the tilt of earth's central axis along the vertical axis is highlighted.
Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey
Episode 3
49 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Domed, dripping rock structures line the wall of a cave. Caption: but only one that is a marble cave.
America's National Monuments: The Geologic West
Episode 10
16 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Planet Earth with nebulous green and blue light coming towards it. Caption: except that they travel at different speeds
14 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Bear in a river on all fours with a fish in its mouth. Caption: animals live in and around lakes and rivers.
15 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 5
Skeleton of a dinosaur head with large teeth. Caption: Like the dinosaur age or the age of fishes
15 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Solar panels tilted toward the sky. Caption: can be used to create electricity
10 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 7
Still image from: Overview: Can Dynamite Save You From An Avalanche?
Overview
Season 1 / Ep 11
8 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Overview: Climber's Paradise Is the Last Refuge for an Ancient Species
Overview
Season 1 / Ep 5
8 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Overview: How a Mind-Blowing World of Ice Gets Made
Overview
Season 1 / Ep 9
7 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Cartoon of two characters, eyes wide. Caption: (both) Ranger Bob!
Johan: The Young Scientist
Episode 26
12 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Wide landscape of a highway passing through a landscape with several red sandstone rock formations.
21 minutes
Grade Level: 4 - 9
Still image from: Physical Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth--Geographical Regions
Physical Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth
Episode 6
28 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Physical Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth--Human Impacts on the Natural Environment
Physical Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth
Episode 8
28 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Physical Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth--Inventing the Tools of Geography
Physical Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth
Episode 1
28 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Physical Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth--Landforms
Physical Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth
Episode 3
28 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Physical Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth--Layering the Planet
Physical Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth
Episode 5
29 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Physical Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth--Physical Geographic Influences on the Development of Human Societies
Physical Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth
Episode 7
29 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Physical Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth--Portraying the Earth
Physical Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth
Episode 2
28 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Physical Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth--The Ever Changing Planet
Physical Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth
Episode 4
28 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Forested hillside with a sign "Welcome to Pinnacles National Monument National Park Service Department of the Interior" Caption: is a place of great surprises.
America's National Monuments: The Geologic West
Episode 4
13 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Illustration of Earth with a large landmass in the central part of the globe. Caption: in a large supercontinent called Pangaea,
21 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
Still image from: Plate Tectonics
7 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Map of the Earth with the continents and underlying tectonic plates outlined. Caption: is made up of many tectonic plates
16 minutes 43 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 large circular storm on Earth's surface, as seen from space. Caption: the forecasters categorize them by wind speed.
Hurricane, the Anatomy
Episode 1
49 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Vehicle driving along a dirt road towards mountains on a barren plain. Caption: We cannot stop these volcanoes from erupting,
17 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
The wing of an airplane in the clouds. Caption: (narrator) The best way to study the atmosphere is to be there.
Profiles Of Scientists And Engineers
Episode 4
5 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Flooded suburban street with water reaching up nearly to the top of the garage doors.
25 minutes
Grade Level: 5 - 12
A person washing a window with a sponge. Caption: What's the weather outside your window today?
Real World Science
Episode 2
14 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Iceland as seen from above. Mostly green with a few central patches of ice and snow. Caption: Iceland is an oceanic island
Real World Science
Episode 3
16 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Person hiking up a rock trail with mountains behind and tropical flowers along the path. Caption: That's because ecosystems are all around us.
Real World Science
Episode 4
18 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Giraffe eating foliage from a treetop. Caption: Every habitat is different.
Real World Science
Episode 8
15 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Illustration of the Earth with a section cut away showing the crust as a thin layer and the mantle as a thicker layer beneath the crust. Caption: Rocks found in the mantle are pressed tightly together,
Real World Science
Episode 12
16 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Earth as seen from space. Caption: However, such changes take place gradually.
Real World Science
Episode 17
20 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Illustration of the Earth and the layers of the atmosphere. In order from closest to farthest: Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere. Caption: and the top layer is called the exosphere.
Real World Science
Episode 14
16 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Tall, thin trees choked with brush. Caption: Fire is a landscape process.
WildFIRE PIRE
Episode 4
4 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Ducks floating in the water. Caption: aquatic birds, such as ducks and geese, are common.
Essential And Endangered Biomes
Episode 2
25 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
River with a few boats, a dense city along the banks. Caption: is that area generally covered by running water.
24 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Sedimentary rock (erosion) is turned into metamorphic rock (heat and pressure); metamorphic rock changes to igneous rock; igneous (magma) rock can go back to metamorphic rock or can change to sedimentary rock. Caption: They can be broken down again and become sedimentary.
4 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Glowing lava as seen from above. Caption: Where exactly magma exits and turns into solid basalt
53 minutes 18 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
Bolt of lightning arcing from cloud to ground. Caption: we all want up-to-the-minute information.
Science Nation
Episode 5
3 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Lava spewing from a crevasse while smoke and ash rises around it. Caption: how long the ash will linger and when the skies will be clear
Science Nation
Episode 83
2 minutes 43 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Dam with no water being released. Caption: (male narrator) Time can take a toll on a dam.
Science Nation
Episode 115
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Computer screens with color-shaded images of a spiral shaped storm. Caption: study hurricanes, tornadoes, and blizzards from the inside.
Science Nation
Episode 1
3 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A lattice-work ladder leading to a platform. Instruments and cables are placed on the lattice and platform. Caption: to study an earthquake at ground zero.
Science Nation
Episode 118
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Top view of a helipad at the top of a skyscraper. Caption: vulnerable to earthquakes, like in Downtown Los Angeles.
Science Nation
Episode 238
3 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Concrete building with open walls. Wiring, cables, and other instruments are attached. Caption: with their shake test plans in mind.
Science Nation
Episode 112
3 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
City with closely placed buildings almost entirely destroyed, very few still standing. Caption: new design standards and building codes.
Science Nation
Episode 47
2 minutes 43 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Computer screen showing east coast of United States with color gradient showing a band of storms parallel to the coastline. Caption: almost 200 tornadoes had occurred
Science Nation
Episode 113
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Person drawing a straight line down the side of a metal cylinder. Caption: Cores like this are nature's archives.
Science Nation
Episode 173
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Platform in a warehouse holding a building suspended by struts. Caption: This shake table is the largest in the world,
Science Nation
Episode 196
4 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Cooling lava turning into stone. Caption: Kilauea is one of the longest currently-erupting volcanoes.
Science Nation
Episode 213
5 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Circular turbines stacked two-high. People walk in front of them. Caption: designed this 15-foot-tall wall of wind, nicknamed, "WOW."
Science Nation
Episode 74
2 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 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
Volcano billowing smoke and ash. Caption: (male narrator) Mount St. Helen's eruption in 1980 wasn't a surprise.
Science Nation
Episode 144
2 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
People walking on a trail among burned trees. Caption: to study the fire's impact on the ecosystem.
Science Nation
Episode 86
2 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Graphic of streets outlined in various colors with letters and numbers assigned to the individual streets. Caption: to construct a street-by-street view of Sandy's devastation.
Science Nation
Episode 77
2 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A rock arch in Utah. Caption: of these spectacular geological landmarks.
Science Nation
Episode 244
3 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A water body. Caption: More people and more buildings mean more strain on the system.
Science Nation
Episode 250
3 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 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
Model building being pounded by waves. Caption: And when engineers pounded it with a mini-tsunami,
Science Nation
Episode 187
2 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A giant funnel cloud moving toward a house. Caption: You really have to just step back and have great respect
Science Nation
Episode 181
4 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Computer simulation of a fire moving through a forested area. Caption: to really mimic the real spread of the fire.
Science Nation
Episode 201
5 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
A rapidly moving river with trees on the bank. Caption: (male narrator) Water, a precious resource for sure.
Science Nation
Episode 116
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Color gradients showing the amount of water vapors over a map of the earth. Caption: showing the total amount of water vapor in the atmosphere.
Science Nation
Episode 85
2 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Child in a field smelling flowers. Caption: People breath air to get the oxygen they need.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 49
4 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
View of Earth in space. Spanish captions.
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 44
4 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Green treetops looking over a lake with puffy clouds in a blue sky. Caption: First, moisture is needed to form clouds and precipitation.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 114
3 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Basin of a volcano. Caption: Calderas are found all over the world.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 3
3 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Basin of a volcano filled with water. Spanish captions.
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 107
3 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Mouth of a cave. Caption: Caves exist all over the world and come in many sizes
Science Video Vocab
Episode 137
3 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
People standing in the mouth of a large cave. Spanish captions.
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 125
3 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Snowy field and mountain range. Caption: Polar climates are very, very cold, windy, and snowy.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 47
5 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
View of Earth in space. Spanish captions.
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 42
5 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Green patchwork fields with a mountain rising in the background. Clouds cover most of the blue sky. Caption: Clouds can form at any height above the ground.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 119
3 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Aerial view of snow-and-ice-covered rock surrounded by icy water. Caption: Glaciers and icecaps are frozen year round,
Science Video Vocab
Episode 117
3 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Desert with low scrub and red rock formations rising in the distance. Caption: There are hot deserts and cold deserts.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 121
4 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Desert with a tree in the foreground, low scrub and red rock formations rising in the distance. Spanish captions.
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 109
4 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
A patch of dried, cracked, mud. Caption: There are three types of drought…
Science Video Vocab
Episode 138
2 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Closeup of light brown mud drying out so that cracks are forming along the edges. Spanish captions.
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 127
2 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Land and ocean as seen from above with tectonic plates outlined. Caption: The tectonic plates naturally move along their edges
Science Video Vocab
Episode 120
3 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Land and ocean as seen from above with tectonic plates outlined. Spanish captions.
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 110
3 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Cement cracked and broken down the center. Caption: Earthquakes cause rapid movement of the Earth's crust,
Science Video Vocab
Episode 142
4 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Muddy water rushing through a rocky channel. Caption: Floods are the most common and expensive natural disasters.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 123
3 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Aerial view of a city with muddy water filling the streets. Spanish captions.
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 113
3 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Forested mountain side. Caption: Forests grow all over the world and are very important
Science Video Vocab
Episode 125
4 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Green clearing in a forest. Spanish captions.
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 114
4 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Derrick pumping oil. Caption: The oil is then pumped out of the ground.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 124
4 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Steep rocky mountain partially covered in snow and ice. Caption: As the glacier grows, the ice flows down the mountain
Science Video Vocab
Episode 127
3 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Steep rocky mountain partially covered in snow and ice. Spanish captions.
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 115
3 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Map of the world with parts highlighted in green. Caption: Grasslands are found on every continent
Science Video Vocab
Episode 133
2 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Bison standing in dry grass. Spanish captions.
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 116
2 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Industrial plant with smokestacks emitting pollutants. Caption: Increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 128
2 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Closeup of a plant growing up through a patch of melting snow. Spanish captions.
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 117
2 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Rough ocean water covering beach and surrounding areas. Caption: Hurricanes are huge storms that are given names
Science Video Vocab
Episode 132
3 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
A hurricane's waves flooding a road. Spanish captions.
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 118
3 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Landslide on the side of a mountain. Caption: Sometimes landslides are small, and hardly noticeable.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 138
2 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Large rock rolling downhill. Spanish captions.
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 126
2 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
A caldera filled with water. Caption: A caldera is a large crater-like depression in the earth.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 27
3 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
A caldera filled with water. Spanish captions.
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 22
3 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
All the continents pushed together. Caption: as one big land mass--the continent of Pangea.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 28
2 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
All the continents pushed together. Spanish captions
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 23
2 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Closeup of a fern leaf with water dripping from it. Caption: Precipitation is a major part of the water cycle
Science Video Vocab
Episode 130
2 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
People walking through a city while it's snowing. Spanish captions.
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 120
2 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Earthworm on top of soil. Caption: Plants and animals provide nutrients to the soil.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 48
3 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Man riding a tractor in a field. Spanish captions.
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 43
3 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Two planets directly in line with the sun. Spanish captions.
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 30
3 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Aerial view of small islands covered in greenery with the water between them dotted in plants. Caption: The Everglades is the largest remaining subtropical wilderness
Science Video Vocab
Episode 122
2 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Aerial view of small islands covered in greenery with the water between them dotted in plants. Spanish captions.
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 111
2 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Tornado swirling in the middle of a field. Caption: The most violent tornadoes are capable of tremendous damage,
Science Video Vocab
Episode 136
2 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Funnel cloud descending from a cloud-covered sky. Spanish captions.
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 122
2 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Illustration of a tropical rainforest. Caption: Scientists divide the tropical rainforest into five layers
Science Video Vocab
Episode 129
4 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Illustration of a tropical rainforest. Spanish captions.
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 121
4 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Lava from a volcano cooling as it hits a body of water. Caption: Volcanic eruptions can also cause tsunamis.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 135
2 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Rolling ocean waves. Spanish captions.
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 124
2 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Lava cooling down. Caption: When lava cools down, it forms igneous rock,
Science Video Vocab
Episode 30
2 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Mouth of volcano mid explosion. Spanish captions.
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 25
2 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Mouth of volcano mid explosion. Caption: over 1,500 active volcanoes in the world.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 29
3 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Diagram of lava flow underneath Earth's surface. Spanish captions.
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 24
3 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8