Science Resources for Science & Language Arts Classes

Sheet music for science songs

Zoology Songs

All earth science songs pdf

Section 1 Basic Chemistry

for the study of life sciences such as zoology and botany

The most basic chemistry videos are at the bottom of this list.

Section 2: Introduction to Biology

Characteristics of Living Organisms

What characteristics do all living things share?

“Biological Levels in Biology: The World Tour”

What is the simplest unit in a living organism and what are the increasing levels of complexity?

Amoeba Sisters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtWknf1gzKo&list=PLwL0Myd7Dk1F0iQPGrjehze3eDpco1eVz&index=9 s 5 minutes

Properties of Water- or water is weird!

How do the special or weird properties of water make life on our planet possible?

Amoeba Sisters “Properties of Water” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jwAGWky98c 7 minutes.

Section 3 - Animal Husbandry Science

Antibiotic Resistance

Section 4 Zoology- study of the animal kingdom

Plant and Animal Cell Structure and Function

Zoology… Invertebrates

Overview of Invertebrate Diversity by Craig Savage

Phyla: Cnidarian (corals, anemones, hydras, jellyfish) or

Phlya: Poriferan (sea sponges)

Phlya: Mollusca (mollusks - snails, slugs, octopi, clams, oysters, squids, cuttle fish…)

Phlya: Platyhelminthes (Flat Worms)

Phyla: Nematoda

Phyla: Annelida

(includes the segmented worms you are most familiar with such earth worms, composting worms, but also includes other creatures such as leeches, segmented marine worms)

Phyla: Anthropoda — largest phylum in the animal kingdom!

Zoology… Vertebrates Introduction

Which animals belong in phylum chordata? (basic 4 minutes video by Moo Moo Math and Science)

Vertebrate Diversity: Introduction (15 minutes by Craig Savage)

Zoology… Ectothermic chordata - cold blooded vertebrates

Amphibians

Reptiles

Vertebrate Diversity: Reptiles (15 minutes by Craig Savage)

Fish

Vertebrate Diversity: The Fish! (15 minutes by Craig Savage)

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Fish Anatomy

Zoology… Endothermic chordata - warm blooded vertebrates

Aves - Birds

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Bird Anatomy

Bovine - Cows

Reproduction

Section 4 Taxonomy— how are living organized into groups?

Non-vascular plants

Algae

(algae are NOT classified as plants anymore even though they can photosynthesize— they are dumped in the catch all/gray area kingdom: protists)

There are currently 4 kingdoms: Protists, Fungi, Plants, Animals

  • What are algae and how did they evolve? by the Algal Microbiome

  • What are protists (protists are the catch all category for organisms that aren’t quite plant, animal or fungi.) This is an Amoeba sisters video which also introduces fungi which are an entirely different kingdom

Ecology

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Introduction to Ecology

The study of relationships between living organisms, each other and their environment

  1. Watch the Amoeba Sisters “Auto-trophs & Heterotrophs” ecology video. Take a few notes for tickets.

  2. Watch Amoeba Sisters “Food Webs & Chains: Producers, Consumers, Decomposers”

  3. Watch Amoeba Sisters “Ecological Relationships” mutual, commensalism, parasitic etc.

  4. Crash Course Ecology #1- The history of life on earth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjE-Pkjp3u4

  5. Crash Course Ecology #2 – Population Ecology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBOsqmBQBQk&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNdTKZkV_GiIYXpV9w4WxbX&index=3

  6. Watch Crash Course “Ecology: Rules for Living on Earth”

Biomes

  1. Biomes of Earth by Geodiode

  2. Short video HS level on ecosystems, biomes, nutrient cycles: What Are Ecosystems? Crash Course Geography #15.

 

The Nitrogen Cycle

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Carbon and Nitrogen Cycle” on Amoeba Sisters

Summary of the nitrogen cycle by Crash Course Ecology #9: Nitrogen & Phosphorus Cycles

How humans influence the nitrogen cycle on our planet: created by USC science students

Aquaponics system expert Dr. Nate Stone explains nitrogen cycle and how to create a habit for nitrification bacteria in your pond/aquaculture system to live— this is a complicated explanation :

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Carbon & Water Cycle

Crash Course Ecology #8: Water & Carbon Cycles

Carbon and Nitrogen Cycle” on Amoeba Sisters

Earth Science Videos

Earth Science Videos

To get the most out of Earth science videos, be an active learner.

  • Pause the video and draw diagrams with labels

  • Take notes

  • Rewind to listen to parts you didn’t understand at first

The Geosphere

  1. New Research on an innermost core at the center of the earth within the core: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/science/earth-core-seismic-waves.html

  2. Volcanoes

    Take notes on one or more of these videos; you can pause the video to write things down. Remember to draw diagrams. Show me your notes for ELH ticktes.

  3. Plate Tectonics & Volcanoes: Learn about the eruption on Hawaii! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/03/science/mauna-loa-volcano-eruption-hawaii.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article

  4. Plate Tectonics…. How do heat and gravity cause plates to move?

  5. Preview of how earth’s landforms are made from Crash Course Geography#20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gMU7zfDqfg

  6. Plate Tectonics: Watch this 10 minute Crash Course Geography video “Plate Tectonics Revolution: CC Geography #19” to review what we learned in class. Then pat yourself on the back because you know nearly all of this (high school level) content! (For extra tickets- add to your classroom notes as you watch the video).

  7. Optional EXTEND YOUR LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES for extra tickets:

    • Take notes and draw a picture from this 2 minute video on WHY the plates move from Minute Earth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwfNGatxUJI&list=PLElB7nLNHZvhfuBhJ73p1hnol3e3NBV5n&index=10

    • If you want to see more evidence of sea-floor spreading, which is itself evidence of plate tectonics, watch this video called “Sea Floor Spreading” (lists of evidence start on minute 4. There’s a fourth piece of evidence which we did not disc: magnetic markers in the rocks on the sea floor which switch back and forth and are records of the earth’s polarity switching back and forth. Wegener wouldn’t have known about that when he was making his observations so those wouldn’t have been clues to him.)

    • Or to get ahead, you can watch the CC on volcanoes What Are Volcanoes? Crash Course Geography #21 (take notes for extra tickets)

  8. Earth Science in the News: Read about how the January Tongan undersea volcanic eruption affected the stratosphere by turning the sea water to steam! “The Tonga Volcano Shook the World. It May also Affect the Climate.” Take notes for tickets.

  9. EARTH SCIENCE: Mass Movement - Watch this amazing video of coastal bluff failure at Blacks Beach here in San Diego.

The Hydrosphere

The Atmosphere

  1. EXTEND YOUR LEARNING

    Here are science videos on air pressure, wind, air pressure and possibly escape velocity you want to extend your learning. If you take notes on any video you may earn up to 5 ELH tickets per video.

  2. Get a head start on understanding CLOUDS (which are also part of the hydrosphere) by watching some of these videos

  3. Layers of the atmosphere, composition and function

Basic

Learning Junction

Layers of Atmosphere 4 minutes (note: this video isn’t amazing but it’s hard to find a simple explanation of the layers of the atmosphere. This is the best easy one I can find.)

Intermediate

Crash Course Earth Science

6.1 Four Spheres part 1 (4 minutes)

6.2 Four Spheres part 2 (3 minutes)

No info on different layers of the atmosphere, just the 4 spheres in the Earth System

The atmosphere National Geographic: 4-minutes National Geographic Video: Reveal Earth’s Atmosphere

Advanced

Crash Course Geography

#6 “What does the Atmosphere Do?”

Super detailed and fairly complicated explanations. The first half will be easiest for our students to follow.