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All in the Family This video from the series Faces of America details the process of documenting family history and tracing lineage back through maternal and paternal lines. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Amphibian Research This short video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K explains how frogs help biologists study problems in the environment. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Amphibians This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K points out what it means to be cold-blooded. A frog's life cycle is revealed as well as why it croaks, why it hibernates, and how it catches its prey. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Arctic Summer See the many birds that spend their summer in the Arctic in this video segment from Nature. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
As the Crow Flies In this video from Nature researchers from the University of Washington conduct a long-term experiment to see if crows can pass information down from one generation to the next. Accessibility features: Transcript	8-12	Video
Bear Necessities This Nature video segment focuses on the four foods most important to the grizzly bears' survival, and it describes the threats to the supply of each of them. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
Bear Research In this video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K tag along with two biological researchers as they conduct their research project about bear movements. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Bears This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K shows bears' adaptations for eating. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Bears' Lunch Counter This Nature video segment explores how the relationship between humans and grizzly bears has changed over the course of American History, and it describes the closing of the Yellowstone National Park garbage dumps in the 1970s. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
Bears Don't Recognize Boundaries In this video segment from Nature, learn about the problems bears are creating on ranch land surrounding Yellowstone National Park. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
Bears in the Schoolyard Learn about the precautions humans must take in the face of a growing grizzly bear population in this video from Nature. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
Beavers This video segment explores the world of the beaver, including the biology of the species and, more importantly, its ability to transform an ecosystem for its own benefit. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	K-5	Video
Beyond the Present This video from The Human Spark provides a look at humans' unique ability to reflect upon events that have happened in the past and think about things that could possibly happen in the future. Accessibility features: Transcript	5-12	Video
Bird Migration This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K discusses the purpose of migration and shows researchers and students working together to study bird migration at the Idaho Bird Observatory. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Birds of Kundha Kulam In this Nature video, learn about the extraordinary impact that birds have on the agriculture of a small Indian community. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
Birds of Prey This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K defines birds of prey and explains what characteristics they have that identify them as a raptor and help them catch their prey. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Body Waste that Protects You This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K covers the body wastes that protect you: earwax, mucus, tears, sweat and vomit. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
The Brain This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K explores the anatomy of the brain and how your brain interacts with the rest of your body. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
The Brain in Action This video segment from The Human Spark observes the brains responses to a series of cognitive tests. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Challenges of Incubation This video segment from Nature examines American Eagles along the Upper Mississippi River and their struggle to protect their eggs from predators as well as from the cold, extreme weather. Accessibility features: Transcript	2-6	Video
Chimp Politics In this video from the PBS series The Human Spark, host Alan Alda and scientist Franz de Waal observe and compare two alpha-male chimpanzees’ different approaches to sharing at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Collapse of Sharks This video segment from Nature shows the destructiveness of the shark fin and shark cartilage industries. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
Cooperation Over Competition In this video from The Human Spark, scientists discuss what may be the uniquely “human spark” which separates us from animals: our ability to communicate, cooperate, and collaborate with others. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Coral Reefs This video segment from Nature explores the unique status of Cuba’s coral reefs. Accessibility features: Transcript	8-12	Video
A Cow’s Digestive System Learn how a cow eats and digests food in this video segment from Nature. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
Crime Scene Investigation This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K explores the tools and forensic science that crime scene investigators use to collect evidence to help solve crimes, and study animals, archaeology and paleontology. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
A Day in the Life of a Neanderthal In this video segment from The Human Spark, host Alan Alda looks at some of the similarities and differences between the Neanderthal way of life and that of modern humans. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Deep Sea Vents and Life's Origins Deep-sea vents are home to strange, luminescent life forms that thrive through chemosynthesis. This video segment from NOVA: "Volcanoes of the Deep" hypothesizes life's beginnings in this extreme environment. Accessibility features: Audio Description, Caption, Transcript	3-12	Video
Desert Biome This video segment from NOVA: "A Desert Place" describes the physical characteristics and organisms that define the desert biome. Accessibility features: Audio Description, Caption, Transcript	3-12	Video
Desert Habitat This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K defines warm and cold (high) deserts, and describes some of the plants and animals found there as well as their adaptations for living in each type of desert. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Desirable Breeding Traits in Cattle This video from Nature offers a description of desirable traits in beef and dairy cattle. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
Destructive Forces In this video segment from Nature, scientists question how animals mysteriously survive natural disasters. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
The Developing Brain This video from The Human Spark illustrates the difference between the brain growth of man’s early ancestors and today’s modern infant. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Different Breeds of Cattle In this video segment from Nature, learn about six different breeds of cattle. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
Dinosaurs This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K shows us what paleontologists think dinosaurs looked like, what they ate, and why they might have disappeared. We see paleontologists at work studying dinosaurs fossils. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Ecology This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K defines ecology and ecosystems and explains how all living and non-living things in an ecosystem interact and depend on the energy of the sun. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Elk This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K describes the yearly life cycle of elk and follows them from their winter habitat to their summer habitat and back. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Endangered Species This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K explores the many reasons why animals become endangered or become extinct. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Evolutionary Roots of Language This video excerpt from NOVA scienceNOW looks at how language and tool-making may have coevolved. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	6-12	Video
Extracting Mummy DNA This video segment adapted from NOVA explains how a DNA sample is taken from a 5,000-year-old mummy and what we can learn from it. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	6-12	Video
Extreme Measures This video adapted from Nature describes efforts to protect salmon by killing or relocating species that prey on salmon. Accessibility features: Transcript	8-12	Video
Falconry This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K defines falconry and shows some of the equipment used for training a falcon to hunt. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Feasting on the Salmon Run This video from Nature focuses on the annual “salmon run,” when brown bears descend on Alaska’s rivers to fish in rivers teeming with salmon swimming upstream to spawn. Accessibility features: Transcript	8-12	Video
Feeding Time In this video from Nature, watch how ravens’ smarts can be observed in many situations, such as when they hunt and store food. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
Fish Research This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K explains the Chinook salmon's life cycle in the Pacific Northwest and why it is an endangered species. A fisheries biologist takes students through some steps of fish research with explanations of the kinds of information biologists gather to perhaps help manage fish recovery. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Fledglings Witness eaglets begin to fly in this video segment from Nature. Accessibility features: Transcript	2-6	Video
Floral Arrangements Explore a few of the ways plants pollinate each other in this video segment from Sexual Encounters of a Floral Kind. Accessibility features: Audio Description, Caption, Transcript	6-12	Video
Food Is Fuel This video excerpt from NOVA scienceNOW examines the energy and nutrient content of a cupcake and a rat. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	6-12	Video
Food Web This short video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K illustrates how a food web works. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Forests This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K describes rain, temperate and boreal forests and some of the animals that live in them. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Fossils This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K explains how fossils are formed, discusses the Hagerman Horse fossil found in Idaho. It describes the tools Paleontologists use and why they study fossils. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Frenetic Genetics Students learn about the types of genetic information contained in the human genome – physical traits, behaviors, and propensity for diseases, in this video from Faces of America. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Germinator This ZOOMSci video segment teaches you how to germinate seeds in a plastic bag and helps you understand some of the factors that influence the germination process. Accessibility features: Audio Description, Caption, Transcript	K-8	Video
Growing Independent Watch young eagles learn to catch food in this video segment from Nature. Accessibility features: Transcript	2-6	Video
Growing Plants in Space Learn about the challenges and benefits of growing plants in space from plant biologist Dr. Ray Wheeler in this video from NASA. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Guess How Whales Hear! This video segment explores how one marine biologist used the scientific process to discover how whales hear. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	K-5	Video
Habitat This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K explains the 4 basic requirements of a perfect habitat and what a niche is within a habitat. You'll see videos of different animals in their habitats, such as; bear, moose, spiders and mountain goats, Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Hatching Learn about eagle parenting techniques in this video from Nature. Accessibility features: Transcript	2-6	Video
Hearing This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K describes the parts of the ear and the path a sound wave makes to your brain. It points out the role of the ear in maintaining balance and why and how to protect your ears. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Hook, Line and Sinker In this video from Nature learn how on the tiny, remote island of New Caledonia, crows are much smarter than anyone ever expected. Accessibility features: Transcript	8-12	Video
Horseshoe Crabs and Humans This video from Nature highlights the horseshoe crab and its immense value to humans. Accessibility features: Transcript	4-8	Video
Horseshoe Crabs and Red Knots This video from Nature describes horseshoe crabs as an essential source of nutrition for migrating birds. Accessibility features: Transcript	4-8	Video
How Cancer Cells Grow and Divide This animation from NOVA: "Battle in the War on Cancer: Breast Cancer" describes how oncogenes cause cancer and how cancerous cells can spread throughout the body. Accessibility features: Audio Description, Caption, Transcript	6-12	Video
How We Learn In this segment from The Human Spark, host Alan Alda observes experiments at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology which demonstrate how differently human children and orangutans learn how to complete tasks. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Human Nature This video segment from The Human Spark looks at the ways in which monkeys and apes are similar to humans, not just biologically but mentally and socially. Accessibility features: Transcript	5-12	Video
Humans and Salmon In this video from Nature, learn about the adverse impact humans have had upon salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest. Accessibility features: Transcript	8-12	Video
Human vs. Chimp Thinking This video segment from The Human Spark features a discussion about how human thought differs from that of chimpanzees. Accessibility features: Transcript	5-12	Video
Hungry Beasts Learn about the wildebeest and locusts on the move in this video segment from Nature. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
Idaho Fish This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K introduces Idaho's native fish species, and discusses why some populations are doing fine while others are struggling with declining numbers. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
If It Ain't Broke Archaeologist John Shea explains the context and construction of one of the early humans' first tools--the stone hand ax. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Insight and Imagination Get an overview of how insight and imagination distinguish humans from others in this segment from The Human Spark. Accessibility features: Transcript	5-12	Video
Investigating Neanderthals This video excerpt from NOVA scienceNOW looks at how head shapes of Neanderthals and modern humans differ. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	6-12	Video
Language Development On his journey to discover the human spark, Alan Alda speaks with Dr. Elizabeth Spelke from Harvard University and Professor Neville from the University of Oregon about the development of language in this video from The Human Spark. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Lava Landscapes Learn how volcanic activity affects the surrounding land in this video from Nature. Accessibility features: Transcript	2-6	Video
Learning Right and Wrong Through scientific research, this video from The Human Spark illustrates how a child’s views of what is right and wrong can be shaped by others. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Liberty Lands In this What's Up In The Environment? video segment, learn how a contaminated plot of land in Philadelphia was recycled into a beautiful public park called Liberty Lands. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-8	Video
Life and Death of Salmon This video adapted from Nature explores the life and death of wild salmon in the Pacific Northwest. Accessibility features: Transcript	8-12	Video
Life in Florida's Spring In this video segment from Nature, get a close up look at life in the warm Florida springs and the numerous predators supported by the abundant life. Accessibility features: Transcript	4-8	Video
Life in the Water Supply Take a close look at life in one town’s water supply in this video segment from Nature. Accessibility features: Transcript	4-8	Video
Life's Basic Ingredients This video excerpt from NOVA introduces the basic ingredients of life. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	6-12	Video
Life's Extreme Environments This video excerpt from NOVA explores microbes thriving in extreme environments. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	6-12	Video
Links in the Evolutionary Chain In this segment, Alan Alda, host of The Human Spark, explores some of the characteristics that distinguish different branches of the hominid “family tree,” such as brain and face size, ability to make tools, and location.. Accessibility features: Transcript	5-12	Video
Little Brain, Big Journey This Nature video shows the migratory patterns and habits of the Rufous hummingbird. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
The Living Fossil In this video from Nature, learn about the horseshoe crab, a creature that has survived for 350 million years. Accessibility features: Transcript	4-8	Video
Masters of Disguise In the face of danger, what's a spineless animal to do? This video segment introduces the concept of camouflage -- how animals achieve it and how this form of disguise benefits both predators and prey. Footage from NOVA: "Animal Impostors." Accessibility features: Audio Description, Caption, Transcript	K-12	Video
A Matter of Size Learn about the brains of a rat, monkey, chimp, and human and why some brains are bigger than others in this video from The Human Spark. Accessibility features: Transcript	5-12	Video
Metamorphosis: Change of Plans All animals develop and grow over time. The animals in this video segment, however, undergo very dramatic changes on their way to adulthood -- a developmental process known as metamorphosis. Accessibility features: Audio Description, Caption, Transcript	K-5	Video
Microbial Life in Antarctica This video excerpt from NOVA shows life thriving in Mars-like conditions. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	6-12	Video
Migration of the Monarch This video segment from NOVA: "The Mystery of Animal Pathfinders" explores the migratorial exploits of monarch butterflies. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	3-8	Video
Migration Sensations This video segment from Faces of America details the process of human migration through haplogroups and shows the haplogroups of some of the series’ guests. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Monarch Migration This video from Nature features the start of the monarch butterfly’s northward trek. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
Monkey See, Monkey Do Through experimentation, scientists at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta demonstrate how chimps faithfully transmit learned behaviors from one chimp to another. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Monkey See, Monkey Take In this video segment from The Human Spark, an experiment is done that indicates monkeys have a working notion of other minds. Accessibility features: Transcript	5-12	Video
Mountain Goat This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K introduces us to life of mountain goats on high rocky peaks. It describes the adaptations mountain goats have for living on rocks. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Nutrition This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K defines the 6 nutrients, explains what each one does for our body and demonstrates the path food takes in our bodies Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Owls This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K discusses the physical adaptations of owls for hunting their prey. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Patterns in Nature In this video segment from Cyberchase, a plant expert shows Bianca the patterns and symmetry found in nature. Accessibility features: Transcript	3-6	Video
A Piece of the Pie This video from the series Faces of America covers what DNA can tell us about our ethnic identities that regular genealogy might not. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
The Pigeon Express This video segment from Nature profiles a small business in which homing pigeons play a central role. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
Planetary Moves This video segment from Nature offers an introduction to four species’ migratory patterns. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video