PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Plate Tectonics: Further Evidence
This video segment [2:12] adapted from A Science Odyssey uses animation and archival footage to provide an overview of the theory of plate tectonics.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Plate Tectonics: Difference Between Crust and Lithosphere
The instructor explores the plates in the makeup of Earth's surface. Evidence and theories about plate tectonics are featured. [8:00]
Other
E How Education: School Projects on Plate Tectonics
A science teacher demonstrates a number of simple models that teachers can use, or have students make, when teaching about plate tectonics and earthquakes. [5:38]
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Plate Tectonics & Large Scale System Interactions
In this video, Paul Andersen explains how plate tectonics explains the large-scale system interactions on our planet. Large plates float on the mantle and interact to form the major landforms on the planet. Evidence for plate tectonics...
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Plate Tectonics
Mr. Andersen describes how plate tectonics shapes our planet. Continental and oceanic platers are contrasted and major plate boundaries are discussed.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Earth Revealed
To support or supplement a course in earth science or geography, Annenberg Media offers twenty-six Videos on Demand (VoDs). The topics coverd range from why Earth can sustain life, to plate tectonics, to rock types and landscape...
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Geology
Paul Andersen explains how rock is formed and changed on the planet. The video begins with a brief description of rocks, minerals, and the rock cycle. Plate tectonics is used to describe structure near plate boundaries. Hot spots and...
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Natural Ecosystem Change
Paul Andersen explains how the Earth's climate will natural change due to interactions between the Sun and Earth, volcanism, and plate tectonics. Species may go extinct leading to adaptive radiation or may move to a suitable climate....
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Earth and Space Science: Journey to the Earth's Interior
Material to begin an exploration of the Earth's interior. An hour-long video is accompanied by learning goals, an outline and overview, details on igneous rock, seismic waves, and the Earth's layers, and ideas for teaching this unit in...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Science Bulletins: Mapping the Heat Beneath
As seismic waves from earthquakes pass through the planet, their patterns can reveal hidden dynamics-hotspots, deep-diving rock, melting mantle-in Earth's interior. An array of seismometers that's being installed across the United States...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: A Land Born in Fire
In this Nature video, follow geologists as they retrieve samples from a fresh batch of Kilauea's molten lava. [5:25]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Creating an Island Paradise
In this video segment from Nature, learn the geological process by which the next Hawaiian island will be formed. [1:12]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Geology: Pacific Ring of Fire: Lesson 1
This lesson introduces and explores the Pacific Ring of Fire. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Geology: Pacific Ring of Fire."
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Qrius: Volcano Geochemistry Windows to Earth's Interior
Geologist Dr. Elizabeth Cottrell, describes why she considers volcanoes "lungs of the earth" in this webcast. [29:15]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: How to Build an Island From Scratch
Learn how the Hawaiian Islands were formed by a geothermal hotspot and resulting volcanic activity in this video segment from Nature. [0:43]
Science for Kids
Science Kids: Earth Videos: What Is an Earthquake?
Narrated animation explaining the forces inside the Earth that can lead to earthquakes. (Length: 1 min. 39 sec.)
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Geology: Pacific Ring of Fire: Lesson 2
This lesson introduces and explores the Pacific Ring of Fire. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Geology: Pacific Ring of Fire."