Filter By Authors
Cole, Joanna.Filter By Series
Amazing planet Cambridge core science series Complete new releases curriculum library 2006 Core curriculum video libraries (Cambridge educational (Firm)) Core curriculum video library Earth story (Television program) Librarian special (Cambridge educational (Firm)) Physical science collection (New York, N.Y.) Planet earth, an explorer's guide Video clip collectionFilter By Authors
Cole, Joanna.Filter By Series
Amazing planet Cambridge core science series Complete new releases curriculum library 2006 Core curriculum video libraries (Cambridge educational (Firm)) Core curriculum video library Earth story (Television program) Librarian special (Cambridge educational (Firm)) Physical science collection (New York, N.Y.) Planet earth, an explorer's guide Video clip collectionSummary: This Science Screen Report looks at a clean and renewable energy source that is steadily gaining scientific acceptance: hot dry rocks, otherwise known as enhanced geothermal systems. The program shows how masses of heated granite approximately 3 miles underground can be accessed with advanced drilling and computer imaging techniques, and how water forced through fissures in the granite can...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
View online at AVOD
Summary: The Earth's surface is a fragile mask, and this Science Screen Report reveals the turmoil beneath it. A cutaway view of the planet depicts its layers-including its crust, hot mantle, and superheated core-and leads to an outline of plate tectonic theory. The Himalayas, the Matterhorn, and the Hawaiian Islands are analyzed as examples of tectonic and volcanic activity, while the core's...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
View online at AVOD
Summary: The map of the Earth is a flat picture of the Earth's surface; this BBC Horizon program presents the story of how Harold Wellman changed that picture. Hired by the New Zealand Geological Survey to map the underlying bedrock of the Southern Alps region, he noticed that there were invariably only two kinds of rock, granite and schist. His search for the boundary between the two led to the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
View online at AVOD
Summary: Through volcanic eruptions of molten rock, Planet Earth is forever giving birth to itself. But this engine of landmass creation is also a vehicle of cataclysmic destruction-particularly in the form of the super-volcano. This episode from the Amazing Planet series takes viewers backward into the dim reaches of geologic time and forward into the not-too-distant future to illustrate how magma and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
View online at AVOD
Summary: In this program a young environmental engineer takes viewers into the field for an in-depth look at the rock cycle and the geologic processes that occur within Earth's core, mantle, and crust. Using dynamic graphics to illustrate essential terms, the video covers the formation of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks; their physical and chemical properties; subgroups and examples of each;...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
View online at AVOD
Summary: It's often called the Big One-an earthquake so powerful it could flatten Los Angeles and drown it in the sea. This program shows what could actually happen if one of nature's most feared time bombs goes off. With the help of state-of-the-art computer scenarios, the video follows a potential quake moment by moment as it unleashes its phenomenal power on southern California. In an unexpected...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
View online at AVOD
Summary: When a volcano erupts, the earth is transformed. When the flow of lava stops, there is a dangerous new world to explore, another planet, so to speak-a land of spectacular craters, strange lakes of acid water, and glaciers melting from the inside out. This program follows a German photographer and researchers from the University of Nice as they document volcanic activity, as well as its effects,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
View online at AVOD
Summary: It was a geological cataclysm that revealed the courage, corruption, and evolution of a city. This program shows how the Great Quake of 1906 leveled San Francisco while giving birth to new knowledge that has impacted earthquake science and urban planning in every corner of the globe. Extraordinary digital animation and dramatic reenactments of personal stories give viewers an enriched...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
View online at AVOD
Summary: Any study of Planet Earth, with its surface area of approximately 200 million square miles, will obviously have a lot of ground to cover! Using high-quality film footage and detailed animations, this collection of 49 video clips (30 seconds to 2 minutes each) examines the history of Earth, the structure of Earth, tectonics and volcanism, water and the oceans, the evolution of landscapes, the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
View online at AVOD
Summary: When the USDA replaced MyPyramid with MyPlate, the goal was to simplify dietary recommendations by providing at-a-glance guidelines without having to weigh and measure at every meal. This program explores the key concepts of MyPlate and how it correlates to the more detailed Dietary Guidelines for Americans, including portion sizes, proportions, food group choices, and caloric balance. The...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
View online at AVOD
Summary: Plate tectonics is the movement of the super-continents as they split apart. They also collided and joined back together again. When they did, mountains, such as the Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau, were formed. These collisions also disrupted prevailing weather patterns and established new ones. See how 7 million years ago, as a result of India colliding with the Asian land mass, Africa...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
View online at AVOD
Summary: Using dramatic recreations and CGI, the program brings the May 20, 1883, volcanic eruption to life. The massive eruption reduced the Indonesian island of Krakatoa to a third of its former size and sent waves that reportedly topped 100 feet high crashing onto Asian shores, killing 36,000. Portions of the program tie the resulting tsunami destruction to the December 26, 2004, tsunami.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
View online at AVOD
Summary: Viewed from space, one of the remarkable features of our planet is that it has continents and oceans. The changing pattern of the continents and oceans is a very important characteristic of the earth, and the discovery of how this movement occurs is one of the most exciting scientific stories of modern times. The key to this understanding lay not in the continents at all, but in the oceans. The...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
View online at AVOD
Summary: Studies of our planet's crust, or lithosphere, suggest that it's not a single solid layer at all. This video illustrates the process of scientific inquiry by studying the evolution of our understanding of plate tectonics, the dynamics of those ever-shifting slabs of earth we call solid ground. Beginning with Alfred Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift, the program discusses major and minor...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
View online at AVOD
Cole, Joanna.
Summary: On a special field trip in the magic school bus, Ms Frizzle's class learn at first hand about different kinds of rocks and the formation of the earth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 1987