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Coral of various shapes and a range of colors. Caption: and these are the corals we call "super corals."
Super Corals
Episode 1
4 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person swimming over a coral reef in shallow water. Caption: of biology that exists on the coral reef.
Super Corals
Episode 3
3 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Ash from an eruption filling the air. Caption: An eruption could be the largest natural disaster
50 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person at a cash register in a store filled with people and produce. Caption: Local, sustainable, as always, everything is organic.
Green Careers
Episode 10
22 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person kneeling on the ground next to a pile of dark material. Caption: which sells fashion items made from recycled garbage.
24 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12
Black used Phantom model Rolls Royce is parked outdoors in a sandy area with a body of water in the background. Text on screen reads, "Phantom, Used. $225,000 times 500." An overlay of the Rolls Royce, R, R, logo and name appears next to the text.
Teen Kids News
Episode 1701
21 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
White text on black background reads, "Don't let your smartphone outsmart you." Below the text is a logo for the National Road Safety Foundation. N, R, S, F, showing a blue background, white road and gray dotted center line.
Teen Kids News
Episode 1705
21 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Profile view of a woman riding a scooter on a cement pathway along a sandy beach with the ocean in the background.
Teen Kids News
Episode 1719
21 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Game screenshot shows a smiling robot standing with pink, yellow, and blue boxes highlighting its legs, arms, and head. On the right panel is a selection of multicolored, interlocking shapes with various emoticon faces.
Teen Kids News
Episode 1913
21 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Kelly Clarkson wearing a sparkly teal sequined outfit, looking to the side as she sings into a microphone.
Teen Kids News
Episode 1921
21 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Life-size Star Wars X-Wing fighter, made from Legos, under a canopy, flanked on either side by Rebel fighters in orange jumpsuits and Stormtroopers in white armor.
Teen Kids News
Episode 2004
21 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2024)
Teen Kids News
Episode 2024
21 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 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
Person speaking while sitting in front of a light board displaying imaging results. Caption: The Asthma Center focuses on the interventions necessary
13 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Two cartoon characters. Biomagnification.
The Amoeba Sisters
Episode
7 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of a ship's bow surrounded by gray ocean. Title card reads, "The Arctic's Changing Climate and Economics."
28 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Woman wearing glasses looks at camera as she speaks. A grid of artwork forms the backdrop.
The Art Assignment
Season 6 / Ep 8
15 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Red earthworms. Caption: are more likely to develop resistance.
The Botany of Desire
Episode 8
9 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A farmer carries a small pouch in his field. Caption: Heath farms without using toxic chemicals.
The Botany of Desire
Episode 7
3 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A person holding a handful of mollusks that are tagged with unique ids. Caption: That's good for the future of that species
The Brain Scoop
Episode 42
8 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person holding a small insect. Inset of a picture of the insect. Caption: Necrophila Americana
The Brain Scoop
Episode 13
9 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Green leafy foliage partially covering the ground. Caption: was this carpet of baby Kankakee mallows.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 38
7 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 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
Two citizen scientists investigate an industrial site. One person carries a bucket while the other carries a file in the file. Caption: Citizen science, powered by disruptive technologies,
The Crowd and the Cloud
Episode 2
57 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Illustration of a boy pouring a bucket of water onto a small tree. Caption: Liam began to feel like a real gardener,
10 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 4
A tortoise with its head and feet pulled into its body. Caption: (Berry) The tortoise tells us so much
30 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Cartoon of a small, shrimp-like animal among a school of others. Caption: Pardon me, I'm a krill. We eat plankton!
3 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Indigenous person sitting in the bow of a canoe on the water with the jungle in the background. Caption: And that's when the whole thing started getting bigger and bigger,
9 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
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
Students and their teacher from the magic school bus standing in front of a landfill piled high with trash. Caption: (Wanda) How am I ever going to find my soldier in that mess?
The Magic School Bus
Season 3 / Ep 313
25 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
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
Students from the magic school bus encased in raindrops. Caption: Water always falls out of the clouds, eventually.
The Magic School Bus
Season 2 / Ep 206
25 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
Boy wearing a headlamp speaks to us as he sits on the platform of a bronze statue of a man wearing work pants and boots, near a bright green forest.
The Outsiders Club
Season 3 / Ep 5
19 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Boy with a quizzical facial expression sits on the platform of a bronze statue of a man who wears work pants and boots.
The Outsiders Club (Spanish)
Season 3 / Ep 5
21 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Two puppets singing. Spanish captions.
The Parakeet Show (Spanish)
Episode 16
24 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
A puppet standing in a staged bathroom. Spanish captions.
The Parakeet Show (Spanish)
Episode 13
24 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Photo of bees near an artificial beehive.
6 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Line of horseshoe crabs on the beach. Caption: Horseshoe crabs are super helpful.
The Remarkable Horseshoe Crab
Episode 1
1 minutes 22 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
Sky filled with gray fluffy clouds. Caption: Clouds can block some of the sun's rays
The Science of Climate
Episode 3
5 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
View of Earth from space. Caption: for the thermohaline circulation system.
The Science of Climate
Episode 4
6 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Drawing of girl standing by the ocean. Caption: can expect a 1- to 4-foot rise in their lifetime,
The Science of Climate
Episode 6
4 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
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
Three old black and white images of men. Caption: (narrator) Roosevelt and Burroughs traveled to Yellowstone in 1903.
5 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Closeup of 2 hands cupping water under a running faucet.
1 hours 2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A large dam spanning across a lake. Caption: It's the world's largest hydroelectric dam.
22 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Slide shows green text on a dark background that reads, "Water conservation."
Toolbox Talks
Episode 18
1 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A walrus poking its head out of ice water. Caption: (female) It's neat to see something so big, so caring.
11 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Very close up view of microplastics. Caption: Microplastics that as less than five millimeters long--
Trash Talk
Episode 1
2 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Artwork of a bird and fish. Caption: animals often mistake plastic debris for food and eat it.
Trash Talk
Episode 2
1 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Artwork of plastic water bottle, trash bags, straws, and plastic bag. Caption: We find plastic everywhere,
Trash Talk
Episode 3
2 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Five people picking up trash. Caption: and participate in shoreline cleanups.
Trash Talk
Episode 4
1 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A net floating in water tangled in plastic. Caption: We call that derelict fishing gear,
Trash Talk
Episode 5
2 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
An illustration of a trash bin with its side on the road on a rainy day. Caption: rainwater can move the trash into storm drains.
Trash Talk
Episode 6
2 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Two trees, their branches creating human faces. Caption: I'm just a green-collar guy trying to get his job done.
2 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
A well-groomed woman in a hat. Caption: A million couldn't repay me for what I've lost.
1 hours 28 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 12
Closeup of a turtle with its head lifted and a Wild Adventure Girls label in the bottom corner. Title text reads, "The Great Turtle Rescue!"
3 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Closely spaced plants growing toward the water's surface. Caption: They grow in dense groupings, much like a forest on land.
3 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black and white photo of the aerial view of the hurricane. Caption: But it's not the increased wind speed.
5 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Trace holds reusable bottles and coffee mugs in his hands. Caption: I think reusable bottles might be bad for the environment,
Uno Dos of Trace
Episode
5 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
White background with gray grid lines. Title text in teal reads, "The electromagnetic spectrum." Underneath is a black line with waves getting tighter to the right, and a rainbow called, "visible light," highlighting a small portion of the line.
Untold
Episode 5
11 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Computer graphic of a sphere superimposed with an infrared heat signature on a black background. Most of the globe is bright green with the middle in dark blue and purple and small red spot with yellow shooting out toward the bottom center.
Untold
Episode 8
12 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Computer screen showing a satellite map with population data. Caption: We can identify the number of people
Volcano Web Shorts
Episode 6
2 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Factory workers wearing neon vests and hard hats look down at a conveyor belt as garbage moves by.
10 minutes
Grade Level: 3 - 6
A swiftly moving river. Caption: more demand for water, greater impacts,
Green Careers
Episode 12
20 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
Tires, plastic bags, and other trash float or land at the bottom of an underwater habitat while fish swim through. Text reads, "Water Pollution."
7 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
A bear in a river.
16 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A group of people inspecting a waterbody.
10 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Girl looks up proudly as she holds a feather while the wind blows through her hair. Outlines of people holding hands stand on hills in the background. Title reads, "We Are Water Protectors."
7 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Two cars are partially submerged in flood water.
43 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Rocky streambed between snow covered banks. Caption: eventually causing them to split apart.
16 minutes 22 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
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
Closeup of a frog. Caption: The bullfrog has turned out to be just an eating machine.
Wild Chronicles
Season 1 / Ep 130
6 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Pile of dark substance with eyes on the ground next to a bus stop. Caption: what's left of you, you're about 2/3 carbon.
Wild Chronicles
Season 2 / Ep 242
8 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Large fish with a white underbelly and gray upper body. Caption: known as the underwater panda of China.
Wild Chronicles
Season 3 / Ep 303
5 minutes 18 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
Bird with wings spread on a nest. Caption: The parent will care for that chick up to three years.
Wild Chronicles
Season 3 / Ep 302
3 minutes 48 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
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
Seal breaking the surface of the water and diving downward. Caption: with less than 600 seals remaining in the wild.
Wild Chronicles
Season 3 / Ep 333
6 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Person in a small wooden boat with a large fish across the width of the boat. Caption: It is a beast, and has been known to weigh over 600 pounds.
Wild Chronicles
Season 1 / Ep 125
5 minutes 20 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 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
A bison eats from a pile of hay. Caption: The animals will be the foundation of a herd.
Wild Chronicles
Season 1 / Ep 116
5 minutes 53 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
Forest fire burns trees. Overlaid text tells about different fires in the U,S and Canada and how many acres each one burned.
56 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person crouching and checking the air pressure on the tire of a vehicle. Caption: Keep your tires properly inflated.
14 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 9
Still image from: World Oceans Day
3 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Animal Coexistence
Xploration Awesome Planet
Season 4 / Ep 11
22 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Surfer rides a massive wave in a deep blue ocean.
Xploration Awesome Planet
Season 5 / Ep 3
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
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
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
Zoomed-in map of the terrain of Europe, with Slovenia highlighter in orange at the center. The surrounding countries of Italy, Austria, Hungary, and Croatia are featured and labeled, with their borders highlighted in bright green.
Xploration Awesome Planet
Season 6 / Ep 5
21 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Student leans over an open laptop on a desk while typing.
Xploration Awesome Planet
Season 5 / Ep 5
22 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
In the desert, a cloud darkens rows of solar panels lined up as far as the eye can see.
Xploration Awesome Planet
Season 6 / Ep 4
22 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Teenage student crouches next to an orange bucket, holding a sample bottle. Her classmate works behind her along the rocky landscape.
Xploration Awesome Planet
Season 6 / Ep 9
22 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Futuristic compact teardrop-shaped green vehicle on three wheels drives on the street amongst traffic.
Xploration Earth 2050
Season 3 / Ep 4
21 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
From above, we see a simple white tennis shoe on a dark-colored carpet.
Xploration Earth 2050
Season 4 / Ep 10
22 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
At a recycling center, two people stand in front of a conveyor belt that transports plastic waste.
Xploration Earth 2050
Season 4 / Ep 3
22 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Inside a lab, we see a scientist working with a green plant.
Xploration Earth 2050
Season 3 / Ep 10
22 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Xploration Life 2.0: Ark of the Future
Xploration Life 2.0
Season 2 / Ep 11
22 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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