Learn all about rocks, minerals and geology. What are the similarities and differences between rocks and minerals? What are the properties used by scientists to identify minerals? What are the environmental conditions during the formation of sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks? What are the physical changes that occur in rocks and minerals as a result of weathering and erosion? How are rocks and minerals used in our everyday lives? The answers to all of these questions are covered in depth with detailed graphics, diagrams and exciting video. On-screen, multiple-choice reviews at the end of each segment reinforce important concepts and make learning fun.
Subjects: Earth Science
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Plate Tectonics
Learn about Pangaea and the continental drift theory. What evidence supports it? What are tectonic plates? What are the differences between convergent, divergent and transform boundaries? Find out, with the help of detailed graphics, diagrams and exciting video. On-screen, multiple-choice reviews at the end of each segment reinforce important concepts and make learning fun.
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Human Impact on Earth’s Systems and Global Warming
In this program, discover how human-driven activities have led to changes in animal populations and ecosystems, an increase in air pollution, a depletion of the ozone layer and global climate change. Learn what we can do to reduce the impact on Earth’s systems. On-screen, multiple-choice reviews at the end of each segment reinforce important concepts and make learning fun.
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Understanding Weather and Climate
Understand weather, climate, the greenhouse effect, the role that ocean plays in climate, and the effects of global warming. Detailed graphics, diagrams and exciting video, as well as on-screen, multiple-choice reviews at the end of each segment reinforce important concepts and make learning fun.
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Earth’s Materials And Systems
This program explores the characteristics of Earth’s four systems: Geosphere, Biosphere, Hydrosphere and Atmosphere. Understand how the Earth’s systems interact with each other. Detailed graphics, diagrams, and exciting video, as well as on-screen, multiple-choice reviews at the end of each segment reinforce important concepts and make learning fun.
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Wasted World
Gruesome greenhouse gasses and deadly toxic waste. Why do we recycle and what would happen if we stopped? Is global warming really bad news?
The team try and find out what’s going on with the climate, although the show nearly ends in disaster (again) when they discover there is a bear roaming free in the studio! Guest Star: Bear Grylls
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Real World Science: Trash and the Environment
What happens to buried garbage? How does garbage change? What problems does garbage cause? By taking a trip to a recycling center, landfill and town dump kids will come to understand what happens to trash and garbage after they throw it away. The program focuses on the environmental problems created by solid waste and offers suggestions for ways to alleviate the problem. Children will come to understand that through daily conservation methods, people can control the amount of waste they produce.
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Real World Science: Weather
Viewers take a trip above the earth’s atmosphere to learn about weather around the world. Students will come to understand the relationship between water, air and heat and how they interact to make weather happen. The terms atmosphere, condensation, evaporation and precipitation are explained through animated diagrams. This program also talks about meteorologists and the instruments they use to predict weather.
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Real World Science: Climates and Seasons
This live-action video program explores the different climates found on earth. Through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated graphics and labels, viewers will come to understand how weather, landforms and location affect climate in various places all around the world. Climate change and the effects of human behavior impacts climate.
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Real World Science: Earth Landforms
With HD footage from all over the world, this program shows students all the various types of landforms found on our planet. Animation segments demonstrate how land formations are created by movement of the earths plates, volcanoes, weather and erosion.