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Landscape with a single red train car on a set of train tracks in the foreground, next to a paved lot where three trucks and a car are parked. The sky is gray and the ground is damp, as if it has just rained, and a town lies in the far background.
Physical Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth
Episode 8
28 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Astronomy image. Digital artistic rendering of the Earth in outer space, with a viewpoint showing the tan desert areas and green regions of Africa, and parts of Europe and South America. Text reads, "Inventing the Tools of Geography."
Physical Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth
Episode 1
28 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Peaks of a mountain range emerge through a thick layer of white clouds. Text reads, "Landforms."
Physical Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth
Episode 3
28 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Landscape with a cloudy sky above many mountains, whose brown tops are dusted with snow, while other mountains in the far background are covered in snow. Text reads, "Layering the Planet."
Physical Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth
Episode 5
29 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
3D digital rendering that resembles an ancient Greek temple, with Doric columns that hold up the triangular pediment, which is decorated with sculptural depictions of humans and animals. Text reads, "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
Ancient geographical map illustrating of the Mediterranean Sea and the lands surrounding it, including Italia, Macedonia, Natolia, Dalmatia, Proventia, and others. Text reads, "Portraying the Earth."
Physical Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth
Episode 2
28 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Digital artistic astronomy rendering of the Earth in outer space, with a viewpoint showing South America and parts of North America and Africa, surrounded by blue oceans and seas. Text reads, "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
ASL
Shadowy screens reflect over a cracked surface behind text that reads, "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
ASL
Still image from: Pluto for Kids
4 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 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
ASL
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
ASL
We look out across dense treetops spotted with fog. Black text highlighted in green reads, "The Rainforest."
9 minutes
Grade Level: 4 - 8
ASL
Still image from: Ranger Hamza's Eco Quest: Puddles
Ranger Hamza's Eco Quest
Episode 8
14 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
ASL
Still image from: Ranger Hamza's Eco Quest: Tides
Ranger Hamza's Eco Quest
Episode 7
14 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
ASL
Still image from: Ranger Hamza's Eco Quest: Wind
Ranger Hamza's Eco Quest
Episode 4
14 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
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
ASL
Still image from: Rock Cycle
4 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 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
ASL
Still image from: Saturn for Kids
5 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
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
People on the deck of a ship, working on various equipment. Caption: probing the oil and gas plumes beneath them.
Science Nation
Episode 149
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 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: 4 - 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
Still image from: SciShow Kids: Be a Weather Watcher
SciShow Kids
Season 2016 / Ep 21
3 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Still image from: SciShow Kids: Build Earth From the Inside Out
SciShow Kids
Season 2016 / Ep 58
5 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Still image from: SciShow Kids: Could I Dig a Hole Through the Earth?
SciShow Kids
Season 2016 / Ep 47
3 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Still image from: SciShow Kids: Explore an Ice Cave
SciShow Kids
Season 2016 / Ep 2
3 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Still image from: SciShow Kids: Geysers--When Water Erupts
SciShow Kids
Season 2017 / Ep 71
4 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Still image from: SciShow Kids: How Does Water Get to Your House?
SciShow Kids
Season 2018 / Ep 15
3 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Still image from: SciShow Kids: How Glaciers Change the World
SciShow Kids
Season 2018 / Ep 2
4 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Still image from: SciShow Kids: How to Make a Paper Snowflake
SciShow Kids
Season 2015 / Ep 73
5 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Still image from: SciShow Kids: How Wildfires Help
SciShow Kids
Season 2016 / Ep 51
4 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Still image from: SciShow Kids: Know Your Globe
SciShow Kids
Season 2016 / Ep 11
4 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Still image from: SciShow Kids: Let's Learn the Ocean Zones
SciShow Kids
Season 2016 / Ep 31
3 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Still image from: SciShow Kids: Make Your Own Erosion
SciShow Kids
Season 2016 / Ep 56
3 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Still image from: SciShow Kids: The Deepest Part of the Ocean
SciShow Kids
Season 2017 / Ep 93
4 minutes
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Still image from: SciShow Kids: The Tallest Waterfall in the World
SciShow Kids
Season 2017 / Ep 53
2 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Still image from: SciShow Kids: Tsunamis--The Biggest Waves
SciShow Kids
Season 2017 / Ep 91
3 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Still image from: SciShow Kids: What Causes Thunder and Lightning?
SciShow Kids
Season 2015 / Ep 29
3 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Still image from: SciShow Kids: What's a Hurricane?
SciShow Kids
Season 2017 / Ep 54
3 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Still image from: SciShow Kids: Where Do Mountains Come From?
SciShow Kids
Season 2016 / Ep 43
3 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Still image from: SciShow Kids: Where Does Fog Come From?
SciShow Kids
Season 2018 / Ep 46
3 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Still image from: SciShow Kids: Why Do Floods Happen?
SciShow Kids
Season 2018 / Ep 29
3 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Still image from: SciShow Kids: Why Is the Sky Blue?
SciShow Kids
Season 2017 / Ep 52
2 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Still image from: SciShow: 4 Billion Years in Under 10 Minutes
SciShow
Season 2016 / Ep 307
9 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: SciShow: Brinicles--Icicles o' Death
SciShow
Season 2013 / Ep 156
2 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: SciShow: Limnic Eruptions--When Lakes Explode
SciShow
Season 2014 / Ep 194
3 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: SciShow: Weird Places--Australia's Bright Pink Lake
SciShow
Season 2012 / Ep 101
2 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: SciShow: What Is Wind?
SciShow
Season 2013 / Ep 166
2 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Sea Change: Changing Seas (Part 6)
Sea Change
Episode 6
4 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Sea Change: Diving Deeper (Part 2)
Sea Change
Episode 2
3 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Sea Change: Introduction (Part 1)
Sea Change
Episode 1
12 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Sea Change: Storm Warning (Part 4)
Sea Change
Episode 4
5 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
An illustration of hurricane recipe. On screen text, precursor storms + warm water + low wind shear. Iconic representations for all the three are depicted. Caption: Let's start with precursor storms.
Seasonal Science
Episode 3
3 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Raptors. Diagram of a raptor showing keen eyes, curved beak, talons, and a taste for prey. Caption: Raptors migrate south during the winter months
Seasonal Science
Episode 7
2 minutes 43 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Small cloud representing an average snowstorm compared to a larger angry cloud representing a thundersnow storm. Caption: separating ordinary snowstorms from thunder snowstorms,
Seasonal Science
Episode 6
2 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A diagram depicts circular waves with its center beneath the ground. Seismic waves. Longitudinal and transverse.
1 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Four newts swimming underwater. Caption: are among the most biologically diverse regions on Earth.
Mediterranean-Climate Ecosystems
Episode 2
7 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Person holding the fossilized skull of an animal. Caption: but there's still a liveliness and a connection
Shelf Life
Season 1 / Ep 2
4 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Two toads, one light brown, the other darker brown with light spots. Caption: Maybe temperatures got too warm for these toads.
Shelf Life
Season 1 / Ep 12
8 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Short Takes With Naturalist Rudy Mancke: Amethyst
Short Takes With Naturalist Rudy Mancke
Episode 6
1 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Shovel partially sunk into dark brown soil. Caption: and if you've ever seen soil in a lush forest,
10 minutes
Grade Level: K - 3
ASL
Still image from: Sparky and Caramela: Natural Transformations
Sparky & Caramela
Season 1 / Ep 12
6 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
Deep etched image of a piece of shale against a turquoise background. Title card reads, "Shale. From the late Devonian period about 420 million years ago. Formed from bottom of prehistoric sea."
Spot on Science
Episode 7
4 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Long shot of a marsh with the sun peeking through clouds in the distance. Title card reads, "Marsh."
Spot on Science
Episode 8
4 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person walking in the rain holding an umbrella, wearing shorts and a sleeveless shirt. Caption: In some places, it rains a lot in spring.
12 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
ASL
Still image from: States of Matter Interactive
5 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Blueberry plant with ripe berries. Caption: Many plants produce fruits and berries in summer.
12 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Ash from an eruption filling the air. Caption: An eruption could be the largest natural disaster
50 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Large tree in a densely wooded forest. Caption: They grow to be 300 feet tall and 23 feet around.
8 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Black and white photo of a building engulfed in flames. Caption: What happened here on the seventh of February, 1967,
WildFIRE PIRE
Episode 5
7 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Treetops in the foreground and rolling mountains in the distance. Caption: The atmosphere consists of a mixture of gases.
11 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Snow covered plain with occasional evergreen trees and a mountain rising up in the background. Caption: At higher elevations, there is less oxygen in the air
20 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 9
Still image from: The Brain Scoop: Indiana Sand Dunes
The Brain Scoop
Episode
17 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A tock is placed on a table. In a close up, Emily Graslie halds the rock in her hand. Caption: I'm gonna go with, this is not a meterorite.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 60
13 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A man holds a transparent lid of a decorated container. Caption: That's actually quartz.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 68
13 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
An illustration of carbon emitted from factories. Caption: Black carbon was spewed into the air from coal factories.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 63
1 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A large ship is in the water piping fossil fuels. An expanded view from the ship depicts a man researching in a lab setup. Caption: What happens over the last 70 million years.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 66
12 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: The Electric Sheep: Earthquakes--Science and the Pulse of the Earth (Spanish)
The Electric Sheep (Spanish)
Episode 7
28 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Leaves and branches on a tree. Photosynthesis. Caption: In photosynthesis, trees take in carbon dioxide,
27 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
ASL
Leafy green trees reflect on a river below. Text reads, "The Four Seasons for Kids."
6 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
People pouring fluids from bottles into beakers. Spanish captions.
The House Of Science (Spanish)
Episode 10
21 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 5
Person pushing a button on a remote control. Spanish captions.
The House Of Science (Spanish)
Episode 11
21 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 5
Two people standing while one gestures at a globe. Spanish captions.
The House Of Science (Spanish)
Episode 6
23 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 5
Flock of large birds landing on the shore and in the water. Caption: the wildlife simply adapts to the new conditions.
23 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Three people walking through the woods. Caption: I think back to the project quite a bit.
WildFIRE PIRE
Episode 9
4 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Elephant reaching trunk into the foliage of a tree. Caption: And even here, life endures.
52 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
ASL
Magic school bus floating in lava. Caption: It's so hot, the Earth's crust is melting!
The Magic School Bus
Season 2 / Ep 201
25 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
ASL
Cartoon drawing of a flying superhero with a "W" on his chest. Caption: (Tim) "The adventures of Weatherman."
The Magic School Bus
Season 1 / Ep 113
25 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
ASL
Cartoon of a person wearing a hard hat, kneeling in the dirt and holding some in their hands. Caption: Look! Beautiful rich soil!
The Magic School Bus
Season 1 / Ep 106
25 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
ASL
Teacher outside the magic school bus wearing a rock outfit. Caption: Leave no stone unturned.
The Magic School Bus
Season 3 / Ep 312
25 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
Sunlight filtering through the leaves of a tree. Caption: can absorb or scatter radiant energy from the sun.
19 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
ASL
We gaze down at foamy ocean waves as they crash on a rocky shore. Text reads, "The Oceans."
8 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Cluster of diamonds in their raw form. Spanish captions.
14 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
illustration of igneous rocks. On screen text, rocks that form from magma or lava. Caption: from cooling magma or lava are called igneous rocks.
The Rockin' World of Geology
Episode 2
26 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Illustration of the layers of a rock. A portion of the rock contains Sodium, Potassium, and Aluminum. Caption: Felsic magma cools to form igneous rocks such as granite.
The Rockin' World of Geology
Episode 3
26 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
An illustration depicts a school of fish swimming past an underwater crater. On screen text, turbidite. Caption: on underwater marine slopes,
The Rockin' World of Geology
Episode 4
26 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Illustration of a glacier with rigid ice at the apex and pliable ice at the surface. Caption: The upper ice on the glacier stays rigid.
The Rockin' World of Geology
Episode 6
26 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Woman wearing a red New Mexico State T-shirt talks with someone offscreen, sitting at a lab bench, where sample tubes, various containers, and equipment can be seen.
The Science of Soil
Season 0 / Ep 7
3 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Logarithmic scale shows a horizontal line with equal-sized notched increments labeled 1, 10, 100, and 1,000. Notches between each point are spaced out differently to represent the scale difference. Between 100 and 1,000, the notches representing smaller numbers are labeled "far," while the notches representing the larger numbers are labeled "close."
The Science of Soil
Season 0 / Ep 1
8 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
White-haired woman with her hair in a braid talks while seated in front of many shelves of books.
The Science of Soil
Season 0 / Ep 3
5 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Landscape with trees and brush, and sharp mountains in the distance under a blue sky. A woman stands in the foreground wearing a protective hat.
The Science of Soil
Season 0 / Ep 4
4 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A brightly colored galaxy. Caption: In the middle of this huge whirlpool,
16 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Farmers working in a field. Caption: In humid regions, these are intensively cultivated.
26 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 12
ASL
Still image from: The Water Cycle for Kids
7 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
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