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Ecology

Brown lizard with red spots wearing a collar, standing on a rock. Caption: (Ms. Frizzle) Why, that's a collared lizard!
The Magic School Bus
Season 1 / Ep 107
25 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
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Cartoon character swinging a net while surrounded by butterflies. Caption: Oh! I can't see! Get your hands off! Aah!
The Magic School Bus
Season 2 / Ep 205
25 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
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People on the magic school bus wearing rain hats. Caption: Ahh. The sweet smell of swamp gas.
The Magic School Bus
Season 4 / Ep 405
25 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
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Students from the magic school bus underwater as mussels. Caption: (Ms. Frizzle) Now that you're mussels, act like mussels.
The Magic School Bus
Season 4 / Ep 403
25 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
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Students on the magic school bus. Caption: Two things make me sneeze -- pollen and pepper.
The Magic School Bus
Season 1 / Ep 111
25 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
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Cartoon of a person's face on a fish body. Caption: Eat and grow. Eat and grow.
The Magic School Bus
Season 3 / Ep 308
25 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
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Cartoon characters next to a pond with a frog on a lily pad. Caption: And lots of space to hop around in.
The Magic School Bus
Season 1 / Ep 105
25 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
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Cartoon of children in a classroom. One of them holds up a jar with a pickle in it. Caption: Kids of the jury, this is a pickle.
The Magic School Bus
Season 2 / Ep 207
25 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
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Cartoon characters with faces and the bodies of pigeons sitting on the window ledge of a high-rise building. Caption: We'd better get back to the others.
The Magic School Bus
Season 4 / Ep 412
25 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
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Students and their teacher from the magic school bus in standing in a jungle in front of a tree with white puffy blooms on the trunk. Caption: It's your cocoa tree, all right, Ms. Frizzle.
The Magic School Bus
Season 3 / Ep 311
26 minutes
Grade Level: 2 - 6
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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
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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
Graphic of a strand of DNA with the C-G-A-T protein sequences. Caption: A mutation is a change in the chemical letters
The Making Of The Fittest
Episode 1
10 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
 A large bird flying through the sky. Spanish captions.
The Making Of The Fittest
Episode 6
10 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Magnified view of red, spherical objects. Caption: Then he tested for the sickle cell character.
The Making Of The Fittest
Episode 3
14 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Blood cells flowing through a vein. Spanish captions.
The Making Of The Fittest
Episode 7
14 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Close up of a small, spiny, translucent fish. Caption: The fish absorb enough oxygen from the sea
The Making Of The Fittest
Episode 2
13 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Empty sand beach. Caption: When the Maori arrived to New Zealand in 900 AD it was one of the last places on earth to be settled by humans.
WildFIRE PIRE
Episode 10
7 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Closeup of several bright green leafy plants sprouting in soil.
16 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Children outside, near the Outsiders Club shed, working at a table with cut plastic bottles and other materials.
The Outsiders Club
Season 1 / Ep 11
21 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Close-up of a skillet toasting several small round sandwiches with a hand and a spatula flipping one.
The Outsiders Club (Spanish)
Season 1 / Ep 11
21 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Children talk to each other while standing next to a chain-link fence.
The Outsiders Club
Season 3 / Ep 4
19 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Young woman with her hair in a braid stands near a small pond in a park, with palms and tall trees in the background, as she speaks to someone off-screen.
The Outsiders Club (Spanish)
Season 3 / Ep 4
21 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Boy and girl hike while surrounded by cypress trees and roots, underneath a bright green canopy of leaves.
The Outsiders Club
Season 3 / Ep 2
19 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Children carrying backpacks and a walking stick talk amongst cypress trees and other plant life.
The Outsiders Club (Spanish)
Season 3 / Ep 2
21 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Two kids in yellow jumpsuits stand on either side of an adult as he unfolds a bright green fire shelter.
The Outsiders Club
Season 3 / Ep 1
19 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Man wearing sunglasses and a bright yellow button-down shirt shows a folded-up fire shelter to two kids who are clad in yellow jumpsuits. Behind them, a fire truck is parked on the grass.
The Outsiders Club (Spanish)
Season 3 / Ep 1
21 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Two kids walk through a trail bordered by palm fans and surrounded by trees. A thick tree limb in the foreground frames the top of the scene. Caption reads: "Lake Griffin State Park."
The Outsiders Club
Season 4 / Ep 2
20 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Two kids walk through a trail bordered by palm fans and surrounded by trees. A thick tree limb in the foreground frames the top of the scene. Caption, in Spanish: "Parque Estatal Lago Griffin."
The Outsiders Club (Spanish)
Season 4 / Ep 2
21 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
A photo of the rose garden in the backyard of Buckingham palace.
The Queen's Garden
Episode 2
2 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
An aerial view of Buckingham palace.
The Queen's Garden
Episode 1
2 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
An explosive volcano filling the air with ash. Caption: several miles into the upper atmosphere,
34 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Through the Garden Gate: A Diary of the English Countryside
48 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Tree growing in the middle of a field. Spanish captions.
11 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: K - 2
Blue sea anemones with a small orange fish inside it. Caption: Other animals use anemone venom for defense in less subtle ways.
The Living Oceans Series
Episode 8
20 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 10
A herd of wild herbivores. Caption: Herbivores are animals that only eat plants.
Way Cool Science
Episode 5
20 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Close-up shot of a person squatting down and picking up a handful of dry debris of leaves and dirt off the ground, crumbling it in her hand.
Weathered
Season 1 / Ep 1
10 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Rocky streambed between snow covered banks. Caption: eventually causing them to split apart.
16 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Tall trees rising from standing water and mud. Caption: wetlands are harder to define than other biomes.
Essential And Endangered Biomes
Episode 3
26 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Moss hanging from tree branches. Spanish captions.
14 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Frigid water with ice floating in it buts against a sheet of ice. Spanish captions.
Air: Climate Change (Spanish)
Episode 8
24 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Multiple levels of freeway on and off ramps with vehicles. Spanish captions.
Air: Climate Change (Spanish)
Episode 2
26 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of pink flowers with water dripping from them. Caption: Plants also need water to survive.
10 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Deep cracks in dried out mud. Spanish captions.
Air: Climate Change (Spanish)
Episode 7
25 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Spots of greenery in between a wide, muddy channel. Spanish captions.
Air: Climate Change (Spanish)
Episode 12
25 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: What's Wild: Ants
What's Wild
Episode 9
4 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
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Still image from: What's Wild: Carnivorous Plants
What's Wild
Episode 3
5 minutes
Grade Level: 4 - 8
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Still image from: What's Wild: Carrion Beetle
What's Wild
Episode 1
5 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: What's Wild: Gopher Tortoise
What's Wild
Episode 10
10 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
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Still image from: What's Wild: Marshland Crabs
What's Wild
Episode 5
6 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
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Still image from: What's Wild: Red-Cockaded Woodpecker
What's Wild
Episode 7
5 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
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Still image from: What's Wild: Uncovering the Hidden Work of Mushrooms in SC
What's Wild
Episode 8
4 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
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Still image from: What's Wild: Webster's Salamander
What's Wild
Episode 4
4 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
White foaming waves crash on a rocky shore. Caption: Their activity ebbs and flows with the tides.
26 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
A tall evergreen tree as seen from below. Caption: You can grow all the trees you need.
9 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
Still image from: Why Should I Care? Invasive Species--Plants
Why Should I Care?
Episode 2
5 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Why Should I Care? Pollinators
Why Should I Care?
Episode 1
4 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Black and white bird with a red spot on its head holds a seed while standing on a branch. Caption: The trees are used as a storehouse for a quick meal.
Wild Chronicles
Season 3 / Ep 307
2 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
A herd of bison with a few young ones on a brown, grassy plain. Caption: A year later, the first offspring were born--
Wild Chronicles
Season 3 / Ep 310
5 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Aerial view of an industrial plant emitting pollution. Caption: and impacted by oil and gas exploration and activities.
Wild Chronicles
Season 3 / Ep 317
6 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Sand beach dotted with rocks. Caption: His next expedition is down to the shore to observe
Wild Chronicles
Season 3 / Ep 335
5 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Adult primate with a baby on its back swinging from the trees. Caption: The animals depend on the plants to survive,
Wild Chronicles
Season 3 / Ep 323
6 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Person walking in front of an oxen pulling a cart through a forest. Caption: Unwittingly, we may be consuming Borneo to death.
Wild Chronicles
Season 1 / Ep 106
5 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Closeup of ants swarming over a beetle. Caption: And they also kill each other in battles over turf.
Wild Chronicles
Season 3 / Ep 325
3 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Green plant growing underwater. Caption: Hydrilla is an invasive species on a path of destruction.
Wild Chronicles
Season 3 / Ep 342
3 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
A pair of white bird with black head and back and an orange beak sit in on a mossy rock. Caption: returning to land in the spring to rear a single chick.
Wild Chronicles
Season 3 / Ep 335
4 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Closeup of a jaguar. Caption: Jaguars need wilderness, safe territory,
Wild Chronicles
Season 1 / Ep 102
5 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Items such as broken lighters, bottle caps, plastic pieces, and other unidentifiable debris arranged in a circle. Caption: (female) I took everything in Shed Bird's stomach and arranged it.
Wild Chronicles
Season 1 / Ep 124
5 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
A horse with patchy fur, visible ribs, and a short mane grazing in a field. Caption: They were severely emaciated and debilitated
Wild Chronicles
Season 3 / Ep 342
4 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Closeup of a partially translucent frog on a leaf. Caption: We need to understand a lot more about biodiversity.
Wild Chronicles
Season 1 / Ep 111
7 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Many iguanas sunning themselves on rock outcroppings next to the ocean. Caption: Some of the hatchlings stay together
Wild Chronicles
Season 3 / Ep 327
3 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Microscopic view of an oval-shaped organism. Caption: But for the microbes that live here,
Wild Chronicles
Season 2 / Ep 218
5 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
A nutria crouching in a pile of brush and eating. Caption: and they're wreaking environmental havoc.
Wild Chronicles
Season 2 / Ep 227
5 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
A kayak is about to go over a small waterfall on a river lined by lush greenery. Caption: The kayaking is phenomenal.
Wild Chronicles
Season 1 / Ep 111
5 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
People walking through green bushes with a building in the background. Caption: (female) this is a place where wildlife reigns.
Wild Chronicles
Season 1 / Ep 124
6 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
A sloth hangs from a tree. Caption: They survive by moving slowly and sleeping a lot,
Wild Chronicles
Season 1 / Ep 104
4 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
A yellowish-green bird sits on a branch surrounded by foliage. Caption: Suddenly, these birds are being found in the lowland forest
Wild Chronicles
Season 2 / Ep 235
6 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Person kneeling next to a covered cage. Caption: they're after the black-footed rock-wallaby, or warru--
Wild Chronicles
Season 2 / Ep 223
5 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
A flat, spotted fish blends in almost perfectly with the ocean floor. Caption: As a result, the flounder population is recovering.
Wild Chronicles
Season 3 / Ep 342
6 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Closeup of a large black spider covered in light brown hair. Caption: (male narrator) For many, tarantulas inspire fear.
Wild Chronicles
Season 1 / Ep 138
4 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Artist sits in front of a painting that depicts a globe split in two. The right side shows an industrial scene with smoke pluming from stacks. On the left, an eagle flies in front of a mountain while orca whales swim in the waters beneath.
Xploration Awesome Planet
Season 4 / Ep 2
22 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Carolinas
Xploration Awesome Planet
Season 3 / Ep 7
22 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Deserts
Xploration Awesome Planet
Season 2 / Ep 2
21 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Glacier National Park
Xploration Awesome Planet
Season 3 / Ep 9
22 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Ominous shark swims amongst a school of fish in the ocean.
Xploration Awesome Planet
Season 5 / Ep 1
22 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Insects
Xploration Awesome Planet
Season 3 / Ep 8
22 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person holds the invasive black and white tegu lizard up in a presentation.
Xploration Awesome Planet
Season 6 / Ep 7
22 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Microscience
Xploration Awesome Planet
Season 3 / Ep 13
22 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Wide river with white rapids rushes away from us, lined by green bushes.
Xploration Awesome Planet
Season 6 / Ep 8
22 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Yosemite
Xploration Awesome Planet
Season 2 / Ep 1
21 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A bear in a cage with hay on the back of a trailer. Caption: Come on! Let's go!
Nature
Season 23 / Ep 3
29 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12