Discover one of the last frontiers of true Georgia wilderness with GPB’s live exploration of the Okefenokee Swamp. Witness the power of the mighty alligator, hear from swamp experts as they answer questions from the audience, and test your knowledge of the Okefenokee with this hour-long program.
Learn about how animals utilize what’s in their habitat to build their homes—and how they construct their shelters to stay alive in this video from NATURE: Animal Homes. Using video, text-dependent questions, and teaching tips, students gain a deeper understanding about animal habitats around the world.
Learn about the natural defense mechanism of camouflage as the Kratt brothers explore how it's used by walking sticks and chameleons. Viewers learn that chameleons move in a jerking motion to look like a leaf blowing in the wind and that they have swiveling eyes, enabling them to spot predators and prey.
This video segment from IdahoPTV's Science Trek reveals the many adaptations that prey have to avoid predators, and that predators have to catch prey. Students will discover how both depend on each other.
This video segment from IdahoPTV's Science Trek defines wetlands (slough, swamp, bog, marsh, and riparian zones) by their 3 characteristics: water, hydric soil, hydrophytes. It stresses why wetlands are critical for wildlife survival.
Don Berryhill, science specialist with the Okefenokee Regional Education Service Agency, guides students in a canoe through the Okefenokee Swamp and points out many unique species in this specialized ecosystem. Bill Cribbs, a descendant of a farmer who came to the Okefenokee in the late 1800s, and park ranger Pete Griffin describe life in the swamp when people worked at the Hebard Lumber Company. Like any mysterious place, legends abound, Cribbs and Griffin have a few stories to tell.
This virtual field trip takes students on a journey throughout the state of Georgia, guiding them through twelve of the state’s physical features and explaining the relative location of each, as well as their environmental characteristics, historical connections, and much more. Students will visit several physical featutes, including the Okefenokee Swamp in southeast Georgia.
Wetlands exemplify the structure and functions of ecosystems and how ecosystems change over time. In these videos, students meet wetland scientist Dan Fink, who hosts the program and examines the types of communities of plants, animals, birds and fish that abound in wetlands, the process of photosynthesis, and the complex relationship between water and productivity.
In this lesson plan, students examine some of the behaviors and physical characteristics that enable organisms to live successfully in their environment.
Fire is the result of different chemicals interacting. It can start with lightning, lava or a match, and how it burns depends upon three key things. What it leaves behind can be surprising.
The Indian Mounds experience includes virtual field trips to Ocmulgee National Monument, Kolomoki Mounds State Park, and Etowah Indian Mounds Historic Site.
In this media-rich lesson, students use a systems thinking approach to explore the components and processes of ecosystems. They analyze both a hypothetical and a local ecosystem by identifying abiotic and biotic components and their relationships.
Katelyn and Blake are nuts about animals, especially reptiles! Katelyn is a junior volunteer at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science in her hometown of Jackson, Mississippi. She knows a lot about reptiles. Here's a good question: What makes a good home for alligators?
What's the difference between diversity in genees and species? Why are some species better than others at adapting to environmental changes? Learn more about specific levels of biodiversity, and see examples of plant and animal species and why they are important to each level.
See how seasonal changes drive patterns in animal behavior. Track the movement of two migratory birds of prey—ospreys and turkey vultures—as they travel between North and South America over a single calendar year.
To understand why Jekyll Island is such a great place for sea turtles, it'll help to understand what an ecosystem is. Learn more about ecosystems in this Teachable Moment.
How can mammals survive hibernation? We may not know as much as we think. There are several myths about hibernation that are corrected in this seasonal science video.
