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Acid Mine Drainage and Precipitates In this video, environmental scientists measure the pH of water to detect acid mine drainage from an abandoned coal mine and then demonstrate how metals present in acid drainage fall out of solution as precipitates when a basic substance is added to the water. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Controlling Water Run-off This video shows how the environmentally friendly design of the Visitor Center at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest near Louisville slows down water run-off and helps to control non-point-source water pollution, conserve water, and prevent soil erosion Accessibility features: Caption	4-12	Video
Environmental Impact of Acid Mine Drainage This video shows how acid mine drainage from an abandoned coal mine has affected Wildcat Branch in Kentucky's Daniel Boone National Forest. Because the creek has a very acidic pH of 2.9, most organisms cannot survive there, and Wildcat Branch is essentially dead. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Reusing Wastewater This video demonstrates how peat filtration beds at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest near Louisville, Kentucky purify and conserve wastewater and eliminate one cause of non-point-source water pollution. Accessibility features: Caption	4-12	Video
The Geology of Coal In this video, a geologist describes how coal, a sedimentary rock, was formed when organic materials piled up in swamps millions of years ago. Over time, heat and pressure transformed the buried materials into forms of coal that cause acid mine drainage when exposed to oxygen. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
High-Sulfur Coal and Acidic Water In this video, a geologist measures the pH of water after high-sulfur coal from a Kentucky coal mine has been added to it. This test demonstrates that the sulfate salts found on the coal’s surface cause the water to become much more acidic. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Rain Gardens This video shows how a rain garden at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest near Louisville, Kentucky slows down the flow of water from the forest’s parking lot and helps prevent soil erosion. Accessibility features: Caption	4-12	Video
Mycoremediation This video explores the process of mycoremediation: planting fungi such as oyster mushrooms to mitigate non-point-source water pollution caused by oil, gasoline, and other toxic substances. Accessibility features: Caption	4-12	Video
Restoring Lower Rock Creek This brief video describes how Lower Rock Creek’s location between two National Wild and Scenic Rivers caused Kentucky environmentalists to choose the creek as a target for acid mine drainage remediation. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Acid Mine Drainage Remediation In this video, an environmental technologist visits an abandoned coal mine in Kentucky to talk about how a remediation system (a series of settling ponds and treatment cells) is neutralizing the acid drainage flowing from the mine and keeping it from damaging a creek downstream. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Applying the Scientific Method This video provides a real-life example of the scientific method: testing hypotheses about which plants will grow most successfully on a green roof in Kentucky. Accessibility features: Caption	4-12	Video
Results of Acid Mine Drainage Remediation In this video, a biologist visits Rock Creek in Pulaski County, Kentucky to show how acid mine drainage remediation has increased the stream’s pH from acidic levels to almost neutral. Although the ecosystem has not been completely restored, many species have returned to Rock Creek. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Stream Restoration This video explores how Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest near Louisville, Kentucky has restored a channelized or straightened stream to its original meandering path, thereby improving the stream’s water quality and creating a better habitat for wildlife. Accessibility features: Caption	4-12	Video
Aquatic Insects In this brief video, a biologist talks about the macroinvertebrates (typically aquatic insects) that form the basis of food webs in healthy Kentucky streams. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Detached Wetlands This video depicts a detached wetland, a small pool that forms beside a shallow meandering stream when it overflows its banks. These wetlands are important breeding grounds for the invertebrates that live in and beside streams Accessibility features: Caption	4-12	Video
1964 Alaska Earthquake This video adapted from the Valdez Museum & Historical Archive, explores what happened during the Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964 through original footage, first-person accounts, and animations illustrating plate tectonics. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
The 2008 Wall Street Bailout This video segment adapted from FRONTLINE: "Money, Power and Wall Street" traces the unprecedented decisions made by the U.S. government to intervene in the financial crisis of 2008. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Abolitionist Leader William Lloyd Garrison This video adapted from American Experience: “The Abolitionists” profiles William Lloyd Garrison, founder of The Liberator and a leader of the American Anti-Slavery Society, whose position on the slavery question generated strong and often violent resistance to the abolitionist cause. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
About Inspiring Middle School Literacy This professional development video from WGBH shows how teachers work with their students, using the self-paced lessons from the Inspiring Middle School Literacy collection, to improve content knowledge and literacy skills. Accessibility features: Caption	5-8	Video
Acids and Bases: Cabbage Juice Indicator In this video segment, the ZOOM cast demonstrates how to use cabbage juice to find out if a solution is an acid or a base. Accessibility features: Caption	3-8	Video
Acids and Bases: Making a Film Canister Rocket In this video segment, ZOOM cast members mix different amounts of baking soda and vinegar to see which combination produces the most carbon dioxide for launching a film-canister rocket. Accessibility features: Caption	K-5	Video
Acids and Bases: Testing Rocket Cars In this ZOOM video segment, cast members make bottle rocket cars using lemon juice and baking soda, and experiment with different ways of launching the cars. Accessibility features: Caption	3-8	Video
Acids and Bases: Testing Rockets What happens when you mix baking soda and lemon juice? Watch the ZOOM cast launch a rocket using kitchen chemistry. Accessibility features: Caption	3-8	Video
Active Teaching and Learning Watch this professional development video from Getting Results, to see how strategies such as hands-on activities or participation in group work increase student understanding and confidence. Accessibility features: Caption	11-12	Video
Adopting Sustainable Food Practices Hear about how respect for Earth can help us attain a more sustainable lifestyle in the face of climate change in this video segment adapted from United Tribes Technical College. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Agricultural Runoff and the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone This video segment adapted from Big River: A King Corn Companion shows how agricultural chemicals from the Midwest that travel downstream in water runoff create a vast marine "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Agricultural Technology Student: Farming & GPS/GIS Learn how agricultural technology is changing farming, and one student's life, in this video adapted from Pathways to Technology. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Agricultural Technology Student: Water Management & GPS/GIS See one adult student's experience attending community college, studying agricultural technology, and discovering career opportunities, in this video adapted from Pathways to Technology. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Air Power: Experimenting with Balloons In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members experiment with the amount of air expelled first from a balloon, then through a straw attached to it, and see how both affect a balloon's behavior. Accessibility features: Caption	3-8	Video
Alaska Native Pilots In this video adapted from Storyknife Productions, Alaska Native pilots share how they use traditional knowledge to read the landscape and predict the weather. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
Alaska Native Teens Help Researchers In this video adapted from KUAC-TV and the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska Native students contribute to research on how their environment is changing as a result of global warming. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Allison Bolinger: Spacewalk Flight Controller and Trainer In this video from Design Squad Nation, NASA spacewalk flight controller and trainer Allison Bolinger teaches astronauts how to work outside their spacecraft. Accessibility features: Caption	4-8	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
An Alaska Native Community Helps Seals This video from First Alaskans Institute spotlights the Alaska Native community of St. Paul and its hands-on commitment to care for the land and animals on which it depends. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
An Ancient Legend Teaches Climate Change Adaptation Today’s unsustainable use of natural resources is compared to the legend of the giant Uab, in this video adapted from the Secretariat of the Pacific Community. Accessibility features: Caption	3-8	Video
The Angle on Pool Find out how angles and symmetry come into play in the game of pool in this video adapted from Annenberg Learner’s Learning Math: Measurement. Accessibility features: Caption	8-12	Video
Anglerfish This video segment from NOVA: "Animal Imposters" shows the lightning-fast strike of the anglerfish. Accessibility features: Audio Description, Caption	6-8	Video
Antarctica's Dry Valleys In this video segment produced by ThinkTV with the Byrd Polar Research Center, a young scientist describes her journey to the remote Dry Valleys of Antarctica and her search for life under some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Antarctica: A Challenging Work Day What happens when the ground under your feet is ice and it's moving? This video segment adapted from NOVA features some of the dangers faced by scientists conducting research in Antarctica. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
Antarctica: Sea Ice This video segment adapted from NOVA uses microwave images to reveal how sea ice doubles the size of Antarctica each winter. Rare footage shows how sea ice crushed the famous ship Endurance in 1914. Accessibility features: Caption	K-12	Video
Antarctic Ice: Sea Level Change What would happen if a portion of the Antarctic Ice Sheet were to melt? This video segment adapted from NOVA uses animations to show the effect of a 6-meter sea-level rise on coastal cities across the world. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Archaeology This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K looks at some of the objects found in King Tutankhamun's tomb. An Egyptologist discusses the significance of the objects and why the tombs exist. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Arch Bridge This video segment adapted from Building Big illustrates the strength of the arch in bridge design and construction. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
Arctic Climate Perspectives This video, adapted from material provided by the ECHO partners, describes how global climate change is affecting Barrow, Alaska. Accessibility features: Audio Description, Caption	6-9	Video
Are Teens Addicted to Texting? In this resource featuring video segments adapted from Wide Angle Youth Media: “Textaholic,” a teenager explores the role of texting in her life and speculates on whether teens are addicted to texting. Accessibility features: Caption	5-12	Video
Ask an Engineer Explore some of the wonders of modern engineering in this video from the Sciencenter in Ithaca, New York. Hear a diverse selection of engineers explain how things work. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
Assessing Teaching and Learning Watch how one teacher conducts formative assessment as part of her statistics class, in this professional development video from Getting Results. Accessibility features: Caption	11-12	Video
ATE Internships and Co-ops In this video adapted from ATETV, learn how Bristol Community College promotes internships and co-ops to prepare students for work in technology-related careers. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Atoms: The Space Between This video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey takes a look at the scale of the atom and the tremendous amount of space between the electrons and the nucleus. If all this empty space exists in matter, how can any substance be solid? Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video