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Instructional Video1:48
DoodleScience

Renewable Energy Resources: Part 1

For Students 9th - 12th
Non-renewable resources will not last forever, so what are the next steps when it comes to energy? Luckily, renewable energy resources exist to create our electricity. The video explains how wind and water energy can be transferred to...
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Instructional Video5:55
TED-Ed

Can 100% Renewable Energy Power the World?

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
If renewable energy sources are the best option, why aren't they used on a global scale? Junior environmentalists explore the benefits and problems associated with energy sources such as solar, wind, and biomass with a short video and...
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Instructional Video3:38
Curated OER

Alternative Energy Sources

For Teachers 6th - 12th
With a variety of video clips and diagrams, the narrator acquaints the audience with three sources of alternative energy: the sun, the wind, and water. This is a homemade video created as a homework assignment, but it is well-done and...
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Instructional Video0:53
NASA

The Water Cycle: Watering the Land

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
The oceans contribute 37 trillion tons of water to land masses in the form of rain and snow. The third in a four-part series from NASA show satellite animations highlighting the precipitation on Earth. The videos show the movement of the...
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Instructional Video6:16
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TED-Ed

Cambridge Ideas - How Many Lightbulbs?

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Humans have become addicted to fossil fuels. From pumping oil into our cars, to burning natural gas to heat our water, or using coal to create electricity that lights our homes, we are constantly relying on these nonrenewable resources....
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Instructional Video0:53
NASA

The Water Cycle: Steaming the Air

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
How does water vapor move from point A to point B? The second installment in a series of four on the water cycle allows scholars to analyze satellite images to answer this question. The satellite animations show how evaporation and wind...
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Bonneville

How to Build a Turbine

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Here is a six-minute video of a pair of electrical engineers that illustrate how to build a wind turbine. A list of materials is provided, along with general guidelines for your class. Use this to introduce turbine design to your...
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Instructional Video5:35
TED-Ed

Dark Matter: The Matter We Can't See

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
It's looking like the dark side is bigger than we thought! Physicists speculate that perhaps 96% of the universe consists of invisible dark matter and dark energy, while only 4% is what we can view with the aided eye. This flabbergasting...
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Crash Course

The Hydrologic and Carbon Cycles: Always Recycle!

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Introduce biogeochemical cycles and goes into detail about the hydrologic and carbon cycles. A scientific video engages learners and teaches them at the same time.
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Instructional Video1:16
PBS

Global Ocean Currents

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
What forces drive the ocean's currents? Science scholars observe global ocean currents at different depths to explore their characteristics and patterns. Part of PBS's Weather and Climate series, the resource includes teaching...
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Instructional Video4:35
PBS

The Ocean: A Driving Force for Weather and Climate

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
What's behind Earth's wild, wonderful, and sometimes weird weather? A lesson from PBS's Weather and Climate series takes viewers on a worldwide trek to examine the many interactions between Earth's atmosphere, oceans, and land masses....
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Instructional Video1:10
PBS

Global Sea Surface Currents and Temperature

For Students 9th - 12th
Get lost at sea amid colorful ocean currents! Learners discover the patterns of movement and temperature in the North Atlantic's currents through a simulation, part of PBS's Weather and Climate series. The resource contains background...
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Instructional Video3:32
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

How We Get Our Skin Color Interactive

For Students 6th - 12th
I can see your epidermis. A short video shows how we get our skin color. It explains how melanocyte cells in the epidermis produce melanin, and that the type and amount of melanin controls skin color.
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Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Designing Future Cities: Alternative Energy

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, visit a class as they design a city of the future that will use solar, wind, and water power to fuel its economy. [2:12]
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Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Ecology: The Hydrologic and Carbon Cycles: Always Recycle!

For Students 9th - 10th
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....
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Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Arctic Haze

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Instructional Video
Crash Course

Crash Course: Ecology #8: The Hydrologic and Carbon Cycles: Always Recycle!

For Students 9th - 10th
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....
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Instructional Video
Bozeman Science

Bozeman Science: Weather & Climate

For Students 9th - 10th
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...