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Agriculture

Three men walking through a cultivated field of green plants. Caption: Six generations of Romingers have been farming this land
9 Billion Mouths to Feed: The Future of Farming
Episode 2
10 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Sunflowers in foreground, modern multi-story buildings in the background. Caption: (narrator) Sustainability -- that's what it comes down to.
9 Billion Mouths to Feed: The Future of Farming
Episode 2
10 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Person in a lab holding a pipette behind a plexiglass shield and working. Caption: scientists are able to create seeds that solve problems.
9 Billion Mouths to Feed: The Future of Farming
Episode 4
10 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Two people working on an irrigation channel. Caption: to better protect the land that he loves to farm on.
9 Billion Mouths to Feed: The Future of Farming
Episode 3
10 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Person driving a large piece of industrial farm equipment. Caption: towards managing agricultural systems
6 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Blurry product label as seen through clear film. Caption: Naphthalene doesn't occur naturally in ground water.
45 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
ASL
Closeup on a beehive with worker bees entering and exiting through the opening at the bottom.
Career Connections
Episode 6
3 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
Low shot of a flying helicopter with a farm duster attached to its base.
Career Connections
Episode 29
4 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Exterior of 2-story buildings in a rural area. Caption. Da Meize. Southwestern China.
19 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of a stout cylindrical cactus with long, sharp spines. Caption: They're drought-tolerant, don't require much water,
Curiosity Quest
Season 3 / Ep 9
25 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Mostly red cranberries coming out of a chute into a large bin. Caption: They're red, ready to come off the vine,
Curiosity Quest
Season 4 / Ep 2
25 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Two men surrounded by plants. Both wear gloves and cowboy hats, one holds a plastic crate. Caption: Is it true about you waking up before the sun rises?
Curiosity Quest
Season 7 / Ep 4
25 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
Two people pick oranges off an orange tree. Caption: Four or five hundred oranges per tree.
Curiosity Quest
Season 5 / Ep 7
25 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Corner of Wall Street in dim light with 2 N, Y, P, D squad cars parked at the corner while several people in suits walk by in the background. Several American flags are displayed on a building on the right. Caption. But things are different now.
What We Eat
Season 0 / Ep 11
24 minutes
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Black and white frame of 2 men, 1 woman and 2 teenage girls. Teenagers are speaking to the man. Caption. More about your truck than you did?
40 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Closeup of red drawers with gold, round handles in a row. One in the bottom center has a pink and gold label that reads, "S. Santon." Caption. Every medicine used during the Black Plague contained sugar.
What We Eat
Season 0 / Ep 6
25 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Overhead view of a a large assembly line with tan boxes being moved along conveyor belts. Several people with white hard hats and uniforms are working in various stations. Caption. For the milk they were producing on their farms.
What We Eat
Season 0 / Ep 1
25 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Man walking and looking at trees. Caption: (narrator) Compared to many crops, trees are slow growers.
Science Nation
Episode 208
2 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Person handling a partially ripe strawberry still on the vine. Caption: "What can we plant? What's the rotation strategy?"
Science Nation
Episode 23
2 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 10
SupraSensor measuring tool. Caption: to detect nitrate fertilizer in soil.
Science Nation
Episode 209
3 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Two young girls looking at plants. Caption: teaching students hydroponic farming
Science Nation
Episode 215
3 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black and white image of a man holding a rifle in 1 hand and an animal carcass on his lap. Caption. Before agriculture, people hunted or gathered their food.
Social Studies Video Vocab
Episode 1
2 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 9
Straw roofed hut stands in a dry field surrounded by trees. Caption. Permitted unprecedented growth of human population.
Social Studies Video Vocab
Episode 6
3 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 9
Woman with gray hair wearing a green shirt talking. White text on bottom of screen reads, "Barbara Ketcham Wheaton. Culinary historian, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University." Caption. Due to political disruption in Asia.
What We Eat
Season 0 / Ep 7
24 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Man with white hair and a beard wearing a red shirt and navy jacket talks while standing on the deck of a wooden ship. Several brown ropes and open ocean are in the background. Caption. By the early fifteen hundreds, there were shops that sold coffee.
What We Eat
Season 0 / Ep 2
25 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Black and white photo of several people wearing white uniforms using tools to work in a field with waist-high plants. Caption. So as they came and as the people were brought.
What We Eat
Season 0 / Ep 5
24 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12