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Antarctica: A Challenging Work DayWhat 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. |
3-12 |
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Are We Alone?This video segment adapted from NOVA features a variety of scientific perspectives on the age old question, "Are we alone in the universe?" Animations make vivid the improbability that we could intercept a radio wave signaling extra terrestrial intelligence. |
6-12 |
Video |
Becoming a FossilThis video segment describes how the Australopithecus afarensis skeleton known as Lucy could have been fossilized. Footage courtesy of NOVA: "In Search of Human Origins." |
6-12 |
Video |
Cave Formation: Biogeochemical CyclesThis video segment adapted from NOVA chronicles the discoveries that led to a radical new theory in which living organisms, not just geological processes, play an active role in cave formation. |
6-12 |
Video |
Energy Flow in the Coral Reef Ecosystem This video segment, adapted from NOVA, describes the energy flow in a coral reef, including its food web.
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3-12 |
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Finding LucyThis Evolution video segment depicts the landmark hominid fossil finds by Don Johanson and his team in Ethiopia. |
9-12 |
Video |
The Grand Canyon: Evidence of Earth's PastIn this video segment adapted from NOVA, a fossil found among the Grand Canyon's rock layers reveals the existence of a shallow sea that once covered most of western North America. |
6-12 |
Video |
The Grand Canyon: The Top Two Rock LayersThis brief video segment adapted from NOVA uses illustrations and the well-preserved footprints of a small reptile to portray the history of the Grand Canyon's top two rock layers. |
3-12 |
Video |
Homo Sapiens Versus Neanderthals This video segment, adapted from NOVA, explores reasons why Homo sapiens had an advantage over Neanderthals in the pursuit of territory and natural resources.
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6-12 |
Video |
Laetoli FootprintsThis Evolution video segment describes how the famous track fossils known as the Laetoli footprints might have been formed and what they can reveal about the creatures who left them. |
6-12 |
Video |
Life Before OxygenThis Interactive NOVA: "Earth" video segment looks at ancient organisms that lived anaerobically, the origins of photosynthesis, and the new forms of life this process made possible. |
3-12 |
Video |
Mammals Get Their ChanceIn this video segment adapted from NOVA, animations of an asteroid hitting Earth are used to illustrate this widely accepted theory of dinosaur extinction and the resulting conditions that favored mammals. |
K-5 |
Video |
Secrets in the SaltThis video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW describes a team of scientists searching for evidence of ancient life within a salt deposit that formed 250 million years ago. |
6-12 |
Video |
Tiktaalik: A Fish Out of WaterIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn that transitional fossils provide scientists with evidence to establish how major animal groups are related to one another. |
5-12 |
Self-paced Lesson |
Tiktaalik: Evolution of a "Fishapod"In this media-rich lesson, students learn about transitional fossils and explore the similarities and differences between the structures of different animals. They focus particularly on Tiktaalik, a transitional fossil between aquatic and terrestrial vertebrates. |
9-12 |
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When Did the First Americans Arrive?In this video segment adapted from NOVA, recent archeological evidence leads scientists to revise existing theories about human migrations into the Americas around the time of the last ice age. |
6-12 |
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