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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