Loading...FILTER RESULTS
Add/remove filters to refine your search
Video
Caption
Browse results: Life Science
| RESOURCE | GRADE LEVEL | MEDIA TYPE |
|---|---|---|
Can We Slow Aging?In this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, scientists discuss a family of genes called FOXO that can significantly extend life span in worms—and in humans. Accessibility features: Caption |
9-12 |
Video |
Carnivorous Plants of Texas In this video adapted from Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, learn about carnivorous plants that act as both producers and consumers in an ecosystem. See sundews and blatterworts capture and digest insects.
Accessibility features: Caption |
K-12 |
Video |
Carnivorous Plants of Cartwheel BayIn this video segment from NatureScene, explore Cartwheel Bay, a wetland in South Carolina, and learn about the variety of carnivorous plants native to this unique landform. Accessibility features: Caption |
3-8 |
Video |
Caves: Extreme Conditions for LifeThis video segment adapted from NOVA raises the provocative idea that if life can exist in the most extreme environments on Earth — such as in dark, toxic caves — then perhaps living things can also survive in harsh environments on other planets. Accessibility features: Audio Description, Caption |
6-12 |
Video |
Cell DifferentiationIn this video segment from The Secret of Life school video, "Sex and the Single Gene" follow as a single fertilized egg cell divides, differentiates, and assembles into the tissues and organs of a new organism. Accessibility features: Audio Description, Caption |
6-12 |
Video |
Changing Arctic Landscape In this video adapted from the Arctic Athabaskan Council, learn how warmer temperatures in the Arctic are transforming the landscape, triggering a host of effects such as permafrost thawing and insect infestations.
Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
Video |
Chemical Risks to a FetusLearn about the risks environmental contaminants pose for a developing fetus, in this video adapted from Contaminated Without Consent. Accessibility features: Caption |
9-12 |
Video |
Chemist and Biologist Catherine DrennanIn this video produced for Teachers' Domain, learn about MIT professor Cathy Drennan's research into microorganisms that remove carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, from the atmosphere. Accessibility features: Caption |
9-12 |
Video |
Chicken Waste and Water PollutionIn this video segment adapted from FRONTLINE: “Poisoned Waters,” learn how unregulated waste from large-scale chicken farms contributes to water pollution. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
Video |
Choosing Foods for Your HealthThis resource includes two video segments adapted from Living With MyType2 and features diabetic teenagers Misty and Tim explaining how they carefully choose the foods they eat. Accessibility features: Caption |
5-12 |
Video |
Classical vs. Transgenic BreedingThis video segment from FRONTLINE/NOVA: "Harvest of Fear" explains that genetic engineering and classical breeding both alter the genetic makeup of crop plants. Accessibility features: Caption |
9-12 |
Video |
Climate and Human EvolutionIn this video segment adapted from NOVA: "Becoming Human," learn how the analysis of rock layers and ocean sediments supports the theory that rapid climate change may have jump-started human evolution two million years ago. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
Video |
Climate Change Threatens Pacific ParadiseLearn how climate change has impacted food and freshwater resources on the Carteret Islands of Papua New Guinea, in these two videos adapted from UNU-IAS Traditional Knowledge Initiative and Pacific Black Box, Inc. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
Video |
Comets Bombard the Early EarthVisualize how comets carrying chemicals necessary for life could have made their way to Earth billions of years ago in this video segment adapted from NOVA. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
Video |
Comets Deliver Amino Acids to EarthAmino acids, essential ingredients for life, may have been delivered to Earth by comets billions of years ago, as visualized in this video segment adapted from NOVA. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
Video |
The Common Genetic CodePaul Nurse describes his research that showed that humans share some genes with organisms as different from us as simple brewer's yeast. Footage from Secret of Life: "Immortal Thread." Accessibility features: Caption |
9-12 |
Video |
Common Past, Different PathsThis time-lapse microphotography of developing embryos shows the common ancestry of all vertebrates. Footage from NOVA: "Odyssey of Life." Accessibility features: Audio Description, Caption |
K-8 |
Video |
Conserving a Unique Ecosystem in MicronesiaLearn about the steps that the people of Kosrae, Micronesia, are taking to protect their natural resources, in this video adapted from the Micronesia Conservation Trust. Accessibility features: Caption |
9-12 |
Video |
Contaminants in the Arctic Food Chain The levels of contaminants found in particular animals vary widely depending on where they fit into the Arctic food chain, as described in this video segment adapted from LOKE Films and the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme.
Accessibility features: Caption |
5-12 |
Video |
Contaminants in the Arctic Human Population In this video segment adapted from LOKE Films and the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme, learn how human populations in the Arctic are affected by industrial contaminants in the food chain.
Accessibility features: Caption |
5-12 |
Video |