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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
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
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
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
Cave with stalactites and stalagmites in light brown rock. Caption: and great cathedrals of rock
17 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 10
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
Still image from: Core Geology
32 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Illustration of Earth. Midlatitude jet stream (cool) at the top of the globe and Subtropical jet stream (warm) close to the equator. Both move clockwise. Caption: it is a powerful band of winds known for bringing winter storms
Core Meteorology
Season 0 / Ep 1
28 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12
Map of the United States with NE, IA, KS, MO, AR, OK, NM, and TX marked. Pawnee, OK is at the epicenter of a circle indicating an earthquake. Caption: A 5.6 magnitude earthquake northeast of Oklahoma City.
5 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 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
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
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
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
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
Still image from: Earth Science: The Branches of Earth Science (Module 1, Topic 1)
Earth Science
Episode 1
9 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Earth Time: Evolution And Human Memory
Time: The Story Of Existence
Episode 3
50 minutes
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Boiling orange-red magma. Caption: the most violent natural forces in our planet--
13 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 8
Still image from: Earthquakes & Mountains
14 minutes
Grade Level: 4 - 6
Still image from: Eons: How Volcanoes Froze the Earth (Twice)
Eons
Season 2 / Ep 29
10 minutes 28 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
Clear container full of water with red object dissolving in it. Caption: Carefully observe the movement of the warm colored water
6 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 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
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
Grass and wildflower covered field surrounded by evergreen trees and snow-capped mountains. Spanish captions.
9 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Aerial view of a string of islands. Light bluish green water surrounds the islands. Caption: The valley's called the Tongue of the Ocean.
56 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Fire and Ice
35 minutes
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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
Person with a pad of paper and pen kneeling next to a pond with ducks swimming. Closeup of a duck. Caption: with the impacts on the wildlife.
33 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
Manmade dam as seen from below. Caption: to create even more complicated structures.
Geography Principles
Season 0 / Ep 3
21 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 10
Stream of water running through soil. There is no plant life holding the soil in place. Caption: we typically identify as "soil erosion."
Geography Principles
Season 0 / Ep 4
19 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 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
Cross section of earth showing deep fissures. Caption: separated by huge cracks running deep into the crust,
How the Earth Was Made
Season 2 / Ep 13
44 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
View of the ground and lake partially covered by snow. Caption: But even that is just a fraction of the total flood
How the Earth Was Made
Season 2 / Ep 12
44 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Molten, glowing sphere being pelted by rocks. Caption: was the fledgling Earth.
How the Earth Was Made
Season 2 / Ep 3
44 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Several volcanoes oozing lava and emitting smoke. Caption: They were pushed back by these mountains of fire.
How the Earth Was Made
Season 2 / Ep 9
44 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Cross section of earth showing a bulge of magma sending streaks of magma up through cracks in Earth's crust to the surface where they exit as lava. Caption: the bulging crust bust open,
How the Earth Was Made
Season 2 / Ep 11
44 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Tall, snowy, and rocky mountain as seen from below. Caption: Is Everest shrinking or growing?
How the Earth Was Made
Season 2 / Ep 8
44 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Lava field in foreground with evergreen trees and snowy mountain in background. Caption: Southwest of St. Helens, he investigates an area
How the Earth Was Made
Season 2 / Ep 10
44 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Sand dunes. Caption: The wind that builds them also blows them away,
How the Earth Was Made
Season 2 / Ep 4
44 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Steeply sloping walls of layered, red sedimentary rock. Caption: the Grand Canyon remains the most famous of them all.
How the Earth Was Made
Season 2 / Ep 1
44 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Lava shooting into the air. Caption: pouring out of volcanoes all around the Ring of Fire.
How the Earth Was Made
Season 2 / Ep 7
44 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Illustration of a plate of Earth's crust being pushed beneath a second plate. Caption: (narrator) As the two plates moved towards each other,
How the Earth Was Made
Season 2 / Ep 6
44 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
A volcano emits ash and smoke, as seen from a city street. Caption: (narrator) It's the nightmare scenario that everyone fears.
How the Earth Was Made
Season 2 / Ep 2
44 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
A rocky sheer cliff with a river cascading down the face of it, as seen from above. Caption: is shaping this magnificent landscape.
How the Earth Was Made
Season 2 / Ep 5
44 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Closeup of fingers picking up a sliver of grayish rock. Caption: Gabbro is formed from the cooling of magma.
20 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 8
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
Still image from: Into the Outdoors: Decoding the Science of Crude Oil
Into the Outdoors
Episode 36
5 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Into the Outdoors: The Physics and Chemistry of Karst Topography
Into the Outdoors
Episode 23
6 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
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
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
11 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 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
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 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 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 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 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. 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 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
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 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 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 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
Person wearing a backpack and a headlamp moving through a narrow opening in a crouched position. Caption: Okay, I'm going down a slope. It looks a little slippery.
16 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Illustration of three round particles. Pyrite Particles. Caption: These tiny pyrite particles can travel a long distance away
News of the Day
Episode 3
2 minutes
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
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
Still image from: Physical Features of Earth
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A rock arch in Utah. Caption: of these spectacular geological landmarks.
Science Nation
Episode 244
3 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Still image from: Spot on Science: Interview With a Geologist
Spot on Science
Episode 7
5 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 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 holding a silvery rock with geometric chunks on top and white and silver crystalline structures on the bottom. Caption: So this one looks like pyrite, but it's called arsenopyrite.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 50
9 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Illustration of globular organisms with fine hairs projecting from their body. Caption: When they die, their shells become part of the sediment.
33 minutes 43 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Excavated preserved status of a person collapsed on the ground. Caption: And these are the last terrible moments of Pampeii--
8 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Elephant reaching trunk into the foliage of a tree. Caption: And even here, life endures.
52 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
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
An explosive volcano filling the air with ash. Caption: several miles into the upper atmosphere,
34 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Three people sitting on ground looking at rocks. Caption: Geologists divide sedimentary rocks into three main types…
20 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 10
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
Sun shining through machinery. Caption: because we get to look at something new in seismology.
3 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Laptop computer showing a split screen of a picture and a computer image. Caption: and build a digital elevation model of the lava dome.
Volcano Web Shorts
Episode 1
2 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Computer screen showing a dry riverbed with a rushing wall of wet debris. Caption: Debris flows are masses of rock and mud and water
Volcano Web Shorts
Episode 2
3 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Aerial view of billowing gray clouds of ash and smoke. Caption: One tool of volcano seismology is the seismic network.
Volcano Web Shorts
Episode 3
2 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Camera on a tripod next to other equipment, covered in ice and snow. Caption: We need instruments that survive and still transmit data
Volcano Web Shorts
Episode 4
3 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Aerial view of a volcano emitting a plume of ash and dust. Caption: Our objective is to keep people safe
Volcano Web Shorts
Episode 5
2 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Satellite image of Africa with two lines separating a portion of the southeast edge. Caption: and prepares to split Africa in two.
Voyage of the Continents
Season 2 / Ep 3
52 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Illustration of India and Asia to the north. A line of mountains separates the two. Caption: giving birth to the towering Himalayas.
Voyage of the Continents
Season 1 / Ep 4
51 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Coastline of two land masses with ocean in between. Caption: North America and Europe are moving away from each other
Voyage of the Continents
Season 1 / Ep 1
51 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Sparse vegetation on a rocky hillside. Caption: is the very first piece of the European continent.
Voyage of the Continents
Season 1 / Ep 3
51 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Sun setting between two rocky outcroppings over a body of water. Caption: Today the landscapes tell the story of Pangea's birth,
Voyage of the Continents
Season 2 / Ep 1
51 minutes
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Illustration of a globe with landmasses. Caption: on the fiery surface of the planet.
Voyage of the Continents
Season 1 / Ep 2
51 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Illustration of the globe with Africa highlighted. Caption: until forming the African continent we know today.
Voyage of the Continents
Season 2 / Ep 2
52 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A photograph of snow capped rocks. Caption: They come in all different colors, shapes, and sizes.
Way Cool Science
Episode 1
13 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Waterfall greenery in the background. Caption: Weathering occurs all around us.
19 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
Water erupting from the ground. Caption: there's something unusual about how they work.
4 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person in a reflective heat-protecting suit crouches next to a pit of glowing lava. Caption: (narrator) Protected now, he moves closer and fishes for fresh lava.
Wild Chronicles
Season 1 / Ep 101
5 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Aerial view of a steeply descending hillside that ends in water. A cruise ship in in the water at the foot of the hillside. Caption: But the Santorini volcano puts Vesuvius to shame.
Wild Chronicles
Season 2 / Ep 219
4 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Large, flat plain with mountains in the distance. Caption: It's called the Altiplano --
Wild Chronicles
Season 1 / Ep 135
5 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
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