Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Energy Consumption
Paul Andersen explains how humans have consumed energy through history and may consume energy in the future. Sources of energy have included food, animals, wood, wind, coal, oil, and natural gas. However non-renewable energy source...
PBS
Pbs: Energy Lab Videos
NOVA labs presents this series of 8 videos that focus on energy consumption, and smarter ways to transport, store, and use energy.
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation: Green Revolution: Wind
Kathryn Johnson, an electrical engineer, studies large utility-scale wind turbines, and looks at how to make the turbines more efficient in order to capture as much of the wind's energy as possible. Other scientists are working with...
PBS
Pbs: Nova Labs: Wind Power
A good argument for the use of wind power lays out both the benefits and the challenges of using this alternative energy source. [2:33]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Wind Power
How can we make wind power available for all communities? This video explores how windmills can generate electricity for our society. [2:33]
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Talks: William Kamkwamba: How I Harnessed the Wind (Asl Translation)
In his TED Talk, young inventor William Kamkwamba of Malawi discusses how he created a windmill in order to provide power and energy to his community during a time of famine. This American Sign Language translation is 10 minutes, 42 seconds
Science for Kids
Science Kids: Physics Videos: Wind Energy
Learn about wind generators before you make a model windmill for yourself, watch it in action and then calculate its power output. [9:56]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Solar Wind and Storms
Did you know that sun is constantly giving off a huge amount of matter and energy? Learn about how solar winds and storms create space weather in this video. [2:48]
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Renewable Energy
Paul Andersen discusses the technology, advantages and disadvantages of six sources of renewable energy; biomass, hydroelectric, solar, geothermal wind, and hydrogen. He also explains how changes in the storage and flow of energy in our...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course World History: Humans and Energy
Join substitute host Stan Muller to learn about energy and humanity, featuring ideas put forth by Alfred Crosby in his book Children of the Sun. Historically, almost all of the energy that humans use has been directly or indirectly...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Psu Center for Sustainability: Energy Systems
This short video illustrates the alternative forms of energy used by the Center for Sustainability at Penn State University to generate electric power: solar, wind, and biodiesel. [1:58]
Crash Course
Crash Course Engineering #30: Engineering Challenges of Renewable Energy
Do you know why renewable energy sources are so important? Investigate hydropower, wind, geothermal, and solar power with this video. Also learn about some of the challenges with these energy sources, and how engineers are working to...
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation: The Road to the New Energy Economy: Wind Energy
The National Science Foundation and Discover Magazine hosted a congressional briefing series examining what steps must be taken to ensure clean, abundant wind, solar, biomass and geothermal energy for America's future. [40:53]
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation: Green Revolution
Videos on different forms of alternative energy and various green initiatives, e.g., green roofs.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Solving the Storage Problem
Although we've found ways to generate electricity from renewables, storing energy for future use isn't so easy. Why is this, and what strategies are engineers using to solve the storage problem? [2:26]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Different Types of Weather
Watch this series of videos highlighting different types of weather. Learn how four factors- temperature, wind, precipitation, and sunlight and clouds- are present in different types of weather. Included in this resource are teaching...
Other
You Tube: Natural Resources Song
A song about natural resources introducing vocabulary terms such as coal, wind, trees, non-renewable and renewable energy. [1:49]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Arctic Haze
In this video segment adapted from KUAC, find out why the horizon in Alaska is sometimes shrouded in pollution and what it means for climate change in the Arctic.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Different Types of Weather
Learn how four factors -- temperature, wind, precipitation, and sunlight and clouds -- are present in different types of weather in this video gallery from WGBH. Weather factors are always changing and each unique combination of factors...
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Weather & Climate
In this video, Paul Andersen describes both weather and climate. Weather refers to the day-to-day conditions on the Earth's surface, including temperature, wind, humidity, air pressure, and precipitation. Climate means the long-term...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Ecology: The Hydrologic and Carbon Cycles: Always Recycle!
Hank introduces us to biogeochemical cycles by describing his two favorites: carbon and water. The hydrologic cycle describes how water moves on, above, and below the surface of the Earth, driven by energy supplied by the sun and wind....
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation: Profiles of Scientists and Engineers: Civil Engineer
Meet Ken Maschke, a civil engineer at Thornton Tomasetti in Chicago. He shows us some of the challenges he faces, such as the wind force on top of tall buildings and the importance of green energy, and talks about some of the projects he...
Crash Course
Crash Course: Ecology #8: The Hydrologic and Carbon Cycles: Always Recycle!
Hank introduces us to biogeochemical cycles by describing his two favorites: carbon and water. The hydrologic cycle describes how water moves on, above, and below the surface of the Earth, driven by energy supplied by the sun and wind....
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr Videos: Skunk Bear: Building a Probe That Will Survive a Trip to the Sun
The Parker Solar Probe is going to go closer to the sun than any spacecraft has come before. It will take seven years to fly 93 million miles to reach the sun's corona, its outermost atmosphere. The probe will withstand temperatures up...