Secondary & College / Life Sciences

Animals and plants live in very different environments beneath the ocean. This film explores the adaptations that are found in animals that live in...
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The nomadic Masai of the highlands of East Africa lead lives shaped to a great degree by their environment. Grazing lands for their cattle are...
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Amphibians are familiar animals. This film uses close-up photographs, and micro-photography to illustrate a typical amphibian life cycle and to study...
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Animals that live in the Arctic tundra must be able to live in summer temperatures of 90°F, as well as in the extreme cold of long winters. In...
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For many animals, the interaction with their environment has resulted in colors and patterns that allow the animals protection from their enemies...
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In this revised edition, students learn that in order to live, animals inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide. Many small animals breathe directly...
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Every animal has feeding habits and physical features that enable it to eat particular kinds of food. Watching butterflies, hummingbirds, cows,...
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Distinguishing characteristics of fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals are explained, including reproduction, respiration and other...
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As the camera surveys numerous underwater creatures, the narrator introduces the animals' characteristics, body structures, and habitats. ...
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Full series includes: - Estuaries - Freshwater Wetlands - Freshwater - Marine
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Life in estuaries — the ecosystem formed when the fresh water of a river meets the salt water of the sea — is governed by the tides....
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The characteristics of each of the three major freshwater ecosystems — a swift stream, a slow river and a lake or pond — are determined, in part, by...
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