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Life Science: Entomology

Resource Grade Level Media Type
Bee Navigation  

Bee Navigation
This video segment from NOVA: "The Mystery of Animal Pathfinders" explores honeybee communication and navigation.

6-8 QuickTime Video
Bt Corn  

Bt Corn
This video segment from FRONTLINE/NOVA: "Harvest of Fear" looks at corn that has been genetically modified to resist one insect pest, and the multiple concerns it raises.

9-12 QuickTime Video
Classical vs. Transgenic Breeding  

Classical vs. Transgenic Breeding
This video segment from FRONTLINE/NOVA: "Harvest of Fear" explains that genetic engineering and classical breeding both alter the genetic makeup of crop plants.

9-12 QuickTime Video
Dances with Bees  

Dances with Bees
This interactive feature from the NOVA "Tales from the Hive" Web site explores the methods honeybees use to communicate to their hivemates the location, quantity, and quality of nearby food sources.

6-8 HTML Interactive
Decomposers  

Decomposers
Without the work of decomposers, living organisms would eventually use up all the raw materials in the environment, and dead organisms and wastes would pile up. This video segment from Interactive NOVA: "Earth" describes the role of decomposers as the Earth's great recyclers.

K-5 QuickTime Video
Engineer a Crop: Transgenic Manipulation  

Engineer a Crop: Transgenic Manipulation
You're the geneticist now. In this interactive feature from the NOVA/FRONTLINE "Harvest of Fear" Web site, use the latest in genetic technology to engineer your own "supercrop" of tomatoes.

9-12 Flash Interactive
The Grand Canyon: Conservation and Development  

The Grand Canyon: Conservation and Development
This video segment adapted from NOVA explores the effects of the Glen Canyon Dam on the beaches, wildlife, and vegetation of the Colorado River.

3-12 QuickTime Video
Guess What's Coming to Dinner?  

Guess What's Coming to Dinner?
Browse through a table full of genetically modified (GM) foods to see what's available now and what's to come. From the FRONTLINE/NOVA: "Harvest of Fear" Web site.

9-12 Flash Interactive
Metamorphosis: Change of Plans  

Metamorphosis: Change of Plans
All animals develop and grow over time. The animals in this video segment, however, undergo very dramatic changes on their way to adulthood -- a developmental process known as metamorphosis.

K-5 QuickTime Video
Migration of the Monarch  

Migration of the Monarch
This video segment from NOVA: "The Mystery of Animal Pathfinders" explores the migratorial exploits of monarch butterflies.

3-8 QuickTime Video
The Reproductive Role of Flowers  

The Reproductive Role of Flowers
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, learn about the critical role of flowers in seed plant reproductive biology.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Robofly  

Robofly
Featuring slow-motion footage of insects in flight, this video adapted from NOVA explores the engineering challenge of designing a robotic aerial vehicle that flies like a bug.

6-12 QuickTime Video