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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
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
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
Counting Neutrons on the Moon Find out how scientists are using a neutron detector onboard a satellite to try to find water on the Moon in this video adapted from NASA. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Drilling to Antarctica’s Rock Core In this video adapted from ANDRILL, find out how geoscientists get through more than a dozen football fields of ice and water in order to study the rock and sediment beneath Antarctica. Accessibility features: Caption	3-8	Video
Earth as a System This visualization adapted from NASA maps progressive global changes onto a rotating globe. Earth's atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and biosphere are shown to be dynamic and interconnected. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Earth's Cryosphere: Antarctica Learn about the different features of snow and ice in Antarctica using satellite imagery in this video segment adapted from NASA. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Earth's Cryosphere: The Arctic In this video segment adapted from NASA, take a tour of the cryosphere in North America and the Arctic using satellite imagery. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Earth System: Drought and Air Quality This video segment adapted from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center discusses how a drought can have negative effects locally, for example by increasing the number of forest fires, and also globally, for example by impacting air quality thousands of miles away. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
Earth System: El Niño This video segment adapted from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center describes El Niño, how it forms, and the chain reaction of consequences it triggers around the globe. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Earth System: El Niño's Influence on Hurricane Formation This video segment adapted from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center explains how hurricanes develop and why there are fewer hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean in strong El Niño years. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Earth System: Ice and Global Warming This video segment adapted from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center explains ice's role in the Earth system, highlighting the delicate balance that could be upset with a continued rise in temperature due to climate change. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Earth System: Satellites This video segment adapted from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center shows how integral satellites are to everyday life and describes the different types, including orbital and geostationary. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Engineering for the Red Planet In this video segment from NASA, robotics researcher Ayanna Howard uses engineering to improve the intelligence of robots in space exploration. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Europa Jupiter System Mission This video from NASA introduces a proposed mission to study potential habitable worlds around gas giants such as Jupiter. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
The Evolution of the Kuiper Belt This video from NASA explores how the structure of the Kuiper belt can provide insight into the formation of the solar system and indicate the presence of planets. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Evolution of the Moon This video from NASA looks at how Earth's moon has changed since its formation about 4.5 billion years ago. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Expedition 8 Crew Talks to Students in Japan In this video segment adapted from NASA, students in Matsuyama City, Japan, interview Expedition 8 Commander and NASA Science Officer Mike Foale and Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri about life and work aboard the International Space Station. Accessibility features: Caption	K-8	Video
First Spacecraft at Uranus Learn about some of the discoveries made by the Voyager 2 spacecraft during its 1986 trip to Uranus in this video from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Flood Plain and Higher Ground Habitats This video segment from NatureScene features the area of the Congaree Swamp where the high ground and the flood plain meet. Learn how a few feet of difference in elevation on a floodplain can yield drastic changes in what you’ll find living there. Accessibility features: Caption	3-8	Video
Galileo on the Moon Watch Apollo 15 astronaut David Scott perform Galileo's falling objects experiment on the Moon in this video segment from NASA. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
Geology of Death Valley This video segment from NatureScene examines the landforms of Death Valley and how they came to be. Accessibility features: Caption	3-8	Video
Geology of North Dakota Badlands See how the geology of the North Dakota badlands has changed over time in this video segment from NatureScene, featuring the landscape at Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Accessibility features: Caption	3-8	Video
Global Warming: Carbon Dioxide and the Greenhouse Effect This video segment adapted from NOVA/FRONTLINE demonstrates the physical property of carbon dioxide that causes the greenhouse effect. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Hubble Telescope: Looking Deep This video segment adapted from the Space Telescope Science Institute shows what the Hubble telescope found when it stared at a single, nearly empty spot in the sky for 10 days in 1995. The unexpected result was a picture of a multitude of galaxies stretching into the distance. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Infrared: More Than Your Eyes Can See In this video segment adapted from NASA, astronomer Michelle Thaller introduces the world of infrared light and demonstrates how infrared cameras allow us to see more than what the naked eye can perceive. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
Jupiter: The Largest Planet This video from NASA explores our solar system's largest planet, Jupiter, including its role in the evolution of the solar system. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
LIDAR 3D Mapping See how researchers create 3-D maps of planets by using LIDAR (light detection and ranging) instruments in this video adapted from NASA. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Living from the Land and Sea In this video segment adapted from the Alaska Native Heritage Center, discover the connections between Alaska Native subsistence culture and the natural cycle of the seasons. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Losing Permafrost in Alaska In this video segment adapted from Spanner Films, learn how Alaska Native communities that rely on hunting and fishing are threatened by rising temperatures and melting permafrost. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Lunar Eclipse Essentials In this video from NASA, learn how the path of the Moon through Earth's shadow creates lunar eclipses. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Mapping Magnetic Fields This video adapted from NASA explains how a magnetometer determines magnetic fields around planets. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Mars Streambed Learn why rounded pebbles discovered by Curiosity rover are evidence that streams once flowed on Mars in this video from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Mercury's MESSENGER Reveals Mysteries Explore what makes Mercury so mysterious and what scientists are learning from NASA’s first Mercury mission in 30 years in this video from NASA eClips. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Methane on Mars This video from NASA looks at recent discoveries on Mars, such as water ice and methane plumes, that could indicate it is geologically or biologically active. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Mining Minerals and Metals In this video from the Science and Technology Chat series, take a tour of a re-created Nevada gold mine to learn about mining techniques. Accessibility features: Caption	K-8	Video
Missions to Comets: Stardust and Deep Impact These videos from NASA take a look at two missions to study comets—Stardust and Deep Impact—which collected valuable data about the nature of comets. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Nisqually Glacier at Mount Rainier Observe the Nisqually Glacier at Mount Rainier in this video segment from NatureScene. Accessibility features: Caption	3-8	Video
Ocean Temperatures and Climate Patterns This animation from The New Media Studio illustrates how the atmosphere and ocean together shape wind, current, and rainfall patterns in the tropical Pacific. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Ozone Hole This video segment adapted from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center gives a detailed explanation of the catalytic chemical process that has led to the creation of the ozone hole. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Possible Ice Volcano on Titan In this video from NASA, learn how features derived from Cassini radar data indicate a possible ice volcano on Saturn's moon Titan. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Satellites Orbiting Earth This animation adapted from NASA shows the orbital paths of spacecraft in NASA's Earth Observing Fleet that are a source of wide-scale, primary research about Earth. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
Saturn’s Stunning Double Show This video from NASA looks at the northern and southern aurorae of Saturn and explains how they are produced. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Soaring Over Mars Tour three Martian landscapes and find out how erosion and water affected the surface of Mars, in this video adapted from NASA. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Solar Eclipses What is a solar eclipse and why are they only visible in some parts of the world? In this video segment adapted from NASA, astronomer Susan Stolovy uses animations to provide an answer to these questions. Accessibility features: Caption	3-8	Video
Solar Power This video segment from Vegas PBS shows the largest solar power system to date in the U.S. and explains how solar power can serve the needs of large-scale facilities and benefit the environment. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
The Solar System's Boundaries Discover what happens at the outer edges of our solar system, where the solar wind interacts with interstellar space, in this video adapted from NASA. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Solar System Dynamics: Orbits and Kepler's Laws In this video from NASA, learn about Kepler's laws of planetary motion, and explore how human understanding of planetary orbits has changed throughout history. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Solar Wind's Effect on Earth This video segment adapted from NASA describes solar storms and their effects on Earth. Animations of coronal mass ejections and solar cycles help explain what we know, and what we can predict, about solar activity. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
Space Rock Census Learn about the ongoing tally of space rocks and comets amassed by NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), including groupings of asteroids gravitationally anchored to Jupiter, in this video from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Swift and Hubble Probe an Asteroid Crash In this video from NASA, explore how the Swift satellite and the Hubble Space Telescope helped scientists investigate a collision of two asteroids. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Swift: Gamma-Ray Bursts In this video segment adapted from Penn State Public Broadcasting's Swift: Eyes Through Time, learn about the Swift satellite — a NASA mission with international participation — and how it is collecting data about gamma-ray bursts that may yield important discoveries about the Universe. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Total Solar Eclipse Animation This brief animation adapted from NOVA illustrates how total solar eclipses form and explains the stages from first contact to totality. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
Tour of the Moon In this video from NASA, take a tour of Earth's moon and explore lunar surface features such as craters, rocks, mountains, basins, and valleys. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
What Hubble Taught Us about the Planets This video from NASA describes some observations from the Hubble Space Telescope that have helped scientists learn about the solar system. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
What Is a Dwarf Planet? In this video from NASA, learn how planets and dwarf planets are defined, and explore how new discoveries challenge classifications. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
What Is a Planet? This video segment, adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, presents the ongoing debate over the definition of a planet, including the status of Pluto. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
Why Doesn't the Moon Fall Down? In this animated video segment adapted from NASA, astronomer Doris Daou explains how the forces of speed and gravity keep the Moon in a constant orbit around Earth. Accessibility features: Caption	3-8	Video