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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
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
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
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
Atrazine Affects the Water Supply In this video segment featuring live-action animation, adapted from Big River: A King Corn Companion, see how the agricultural pesticide atrazine impacts both crops and human health. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Automatic Door Opener In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, watch the design process in action as cast members create automatic door openers to open their bedroom doors while still lying down. Accessibility features: Caption	3-8	Video
Avalanche Town The impact of natural disasters is made vivid in this video segment adapted from NOVA. A small town in Iceland, prepared for recurrent avalanches, is devastated when one takes a new and damaging path. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Backyard Birdfeeders This video from WPSU’s series Outside suggests how to feed birds in winter, a hobby that can foster awareness, care, and respect for birds. Accessibility features: Caption	3-6	Video
Backyard Turtles In this video from the WPSU’s series Outside, learn about backyard turtle habitats, their favorite foods, and why they don’t make good pets. Accessibility features: Caption	3-6	Video
Balloon Brain: Designing a Helmet In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members are challenged to design protective headgear for a water balloon using what they know about the properties of the materials available. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	K-8	Video
Bats of the Southwest This video segment from the Nevada Department of Wildlife looks at various species of bats and how they impact the environment. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	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
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
Bee Navigation This video segment from NOVA: "The Mystery of Animal Pathfinders" explores honeybee communication and navigation. Accessibility features: Audio Description, Caption	6-8	Video
Beneath the Waters of Cocos Island The nutrient-rich waters surrounding Cocos Island set the stage for astounding predator-prey interactions, as seen in this video segment from NOVA: "Island of Sharks." Accessibility features: Audio Description, Caption	6-8	Video
Bighorn Sheep This video segment from Outdoor Nevada explores the adaptations that help desert bighorn sheep survive in their habitat. Accessibility features: Caption	K-12	Video
Bioengineering Body Parts In this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, scientists discuss their attempts to grow human body parts in a jar. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Biomedical Technician Training In this video adapted from ATETV, hear from a medical electronics engineering technology student about how she is improving her math, science, electronics, and communications skills in her community college program. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Biotechnology: Production Support Associate Learn how a community college degree in biotechnology led one woman to a career in helping to treat cancer, in this video excerpt from Pathways to Technology. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Biotechnology Student Profile Follow a high school student who is exploring the field of biotechnology by taking community college classes and job shadowing in this video segment adapted from Pathways to Technology. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Biotechnology: Training & Careers Learn what biotechnology is and what careers are available in the field, in this video excerpted from Pathways to Technology. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Biotechnology: Upstream Processing Associate In this video excerpted from Pathways to Technology, watch how one woman happily spends her days looking for a protein to help treat cancer, thanks to her community college degree in biotechnology. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	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 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
Blood Vessels Help Tumors Grow In this video segment, adapted from NOVA, Dr. Judah Folkman uses the scientific method to discover how cancer cells induce the formation of new blood vessels, which in turn nourish those cancer cells. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	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
Booming Sands This video segment, adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, presents basic concepts of physics behind "booming" sand dunes. See how surface tension affects potential and kinetic energy and how it all works together to create sound. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	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
Brain Trauma Find out how serious head concussions can be in this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Bubonic Plague In this video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey, learn about bubonic plague and how city officials in San Francisco tried to contain its spread in the early 1900s. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Building a Dam Like a Beaver In this video segment from PEEP and the Big Wide World, children make a dam with dirt, sticks, and stones to try to stop the flow of water. Accessibility features: Caption	K-2	Video
Building Simple Machines: A Glass of Milk, Please In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, the cast shows how the 34 steps in their Rube Goldberg invention use everything from gravity to carbon dioxide gas in order to accomplish one simple task: pouring a glass of milk. Accessibility features: Caption	3-8	Video
Building Simple Machines: Plant Quencher In this video segment from ZOOM, Jillian explains how her simple machine uses marbles, levers, flowing sand, and a spinning wheel to water a plant. Accessibility features: Caption	3-8	Video
Building the Alaska Oil Pipeline This video segment adapted from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE tells the story of how environmentalists, Alaska Native peoples, and engineers concerned about the effects of permafrost challenged plans for the Alaska oil pipeline. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Building the Channel Tunnel How do you build a tunnel 32 miles long -- under water? This video segment adapted from Building Big, follows the construction of the Channel Tunnel (nicknamed "Chunnel"), the engineering wonder that connects England to France. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
Burrowing Owl In this video segment from Outdoor Nevada, learn about burrowing owls, yearlong residents of open, dry grassland and desert habitats, and the only owls that nest underground and are active both day and night. Accessibility features: Caption	K-12	Video
Butterflies This video from Vegas PBS features colorful insects known as butterflies, and looks at the coloration, species, life cycle, and migration habits within their habitat. Accessibility features: Caption	K-8	Video
Can Organic Farms and Mosquito Control Coexist? Learn about one town's conflict over the issue of spraying pesticides to combat disease-carrying insects, in this video segment from Greater Boston. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
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
Capturing Carbon In this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, a scientist, inspired by his daughter's science fair project, develops a synthetic "tree" to remove excess carbon dioxide from the air. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Carbon-Fiber Car of the Future In this video segment adapted from NOVA, find out how cars made of a material stronger than steel and half the weight can help combat climate change. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Careers in Plastics Learn about opportunities for working in the growing field of plastics, including the emerging area of "green" technologies, in this video segment adapted from Pennsylvania College of Technology and WVIA. 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 Bay In 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
The Causes of the 2008 Financial Crisis This video segment adapted from FRONTLINE: "Money, Power and Wall Street" explores the changes in the U. S. financial market that ultimately led to the 2008 financial crisis. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Cave Formation: Kane Cave This video segment adapted from NOVA describes a simple experiment that confirmed the idea that microbes can accelerate the biogeochemical process of cave formation. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Caves: Extreme Conditions for Life This 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 Differentiation In 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
Center of Gravity: Pencil Balance Watch the ZOOM cast learn about center of gravity by trying to balance a pencil on their fingers and noses. Accessibility features: Caption	3-8	Video
Changes in the Ozone Layer This video segment produced by ThinkTV demonstrates how ozone is created in the upper atmosphere, explains its beneficial role, and explores the problem of ozone depletion. Accessibility features: 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
Changing Views of Pluto See images from the Hubble Space Telescope that show evidence of seasons on Pluto, in this video adapted from NASA. Accessibility features: Caption	5-12	Video
Characteristics of the Sun This video segment adapted from NASA describes the basic characteristics of our star, the Sun. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
Chasing Tornadoes In this video segment adapted from NOVA, scientists are on the hunt for tornadoes. Using Doppler radar, they gather data in the hopes of solving the mystery of how tornadoes form. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Chemical Risks to a Fetus Learn 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 Drennan In 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