Life on Earth and Air Quality
Biology 184-00 Life on Earth and Air Quality – Fall 2019
Videos, DVD’s or websites to watch for extra 4th hour credit – or Activities
10 papers needed BEFORE FINAL CLASS!
write 1- 2 paragraphs on main subject of video and critiques of the videos, or summarize a lecture you attended or – for other activities, write up what you did
I. Videos/DVD in Trexler Library
Name and Subject
1) Keeping the Earth – Union of Concerned Scientists and Religious Coalition on the Environment*
2) Dimming the Sun –WGBH – climate change
3) Aldo Leopold: A Prophet for All Seasons
4) Are You Swimming in a Sewer – damage to the ocean
5) ) Arctic Quest – Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
6) Can Polar Bears Tread Water – global warming
7) Can Tropical Rainforests Be Saved?
8) Chernobyl: the Taste of Wormwood – nuclear plant accident
9) Hot Enough for You? Global warming – WGBH Boston
10) Jungle Pharmacy – natural compounds as sources of medicines
11) Life in the Trees – evolution of primates
12) In our Children’s Food – pesticides
13) Microcosmos – insects
14) Mystery of the Animal Pathfinders – migrations
15) Pointless Pollution – water
16) Saving the West: Protecting Open Space
17) Secrets of the Wild Panda
18) The Shaman’s Apprentice – document historical use of healing herbs
19) Subdividing the West: Implications for Population Growth
20) Blue Planet – 4 volumes 1 ocean, frozen sections 2 open and deep ocean
3 seasonal and coral seas 4 tidals seas, coasts
21 Year of the Wildebeest – migration and predators
22) Secrets of the Ocean Realm – 5 parts
1) Cathedral in Sea, survival 2) Venom, creatures of darkness 3) Great whales, sharks
4) City in the Sea 5) Mountains in the Sea
23) City of Coral – coral reef – Nova
24) Planet Earth – 5 volumes : 1) mountains, freshwater 2) caves, deserts, frozen places
3) Plains, forests, jungles 4) shallow seas, wide, deep ocean 5) future predictions
25) National Geographic Strange Days on Planet Earth – 2 discs
26) An Inconvenient Truth – global warming
27) Priceless$ agriculture and energy
28) Silkwood – fight against plutonium contamination
29) Toxic Trespass – toxins in humans
30) Galapagos: Islands that changes the world
31) Down the Shore – WHYY, Philadelphia – waste dumping in ocean
Videos, DVD’s or websites to watch for extra 4th hour credit (cont.)
DO NOT PAY FOR ANY NOVAS OR NATURES _ THERE ARE PLENTY AVAILABLE FREE! Videos available free may change
II. Pbs.org Nature – watch full length videos on Web –
PBSnature.org pbs.org/wnet/nature/
Video Title
My Congo
Super Humming Birds
India’s Wandering Lions
Animal Reunions
Moose: Life of a Twig Eater
Soul of the Elephant
The Sagebrush Sea
Mystery Monkeys of Shangri-La
Animal Homes
The Last Orangutan of Eden
Invasion of the Killer Whales
A Sloth Named Velcro
The Mystery of Eels – where do they reproduce?
What Plants Talk About
Giant Zebra Exodus – migrations
Private Life of Deer – white tailed deer
Honey Badgers: Masters of Mayhem
Leave it to the Beavers
Snow monkeys
My bionic pet
Ireland’s Wild River
Meet the Coywolf
Touching the Wild
Parrot Confidential
Cold Warriors: Wolves and Buffalo
Spy in the wild (4 episodes)
Snow chick
Jungle animal hospital
My Congo
Snowbound: Animals of Winter
??Find others that you can watch for free
III Pbs.org Nova full length videos on Web-free I hope
Secrets of Noah’’s Ark
Mount St. Helen’s
Return to Mt St Helen’s
Lethal Seas
Becoming Human
Secrets Beneath the Ice
Inside Animal Minds
Evolution – What about God?
Bigger than T. Rex
Tales from the Hive
Origins: Earth is born
The Impossible Flight – the solar airplane
The Last Great Ape
The Miracle of Life
Dimming the Sun
IV Selected National Geographic videos
Subject – the Environment
V “Blog” on important and interesting invertebrates
http://southwhitehall.patch.com/users/marten-edwards/blog_posts
VI. Frontline
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/the-spill – BP oil spill
VII. http://www.biointeractive.org/theguidemozambique
Conservation in Mozambique
VIII Observing chipmunks and squirrels on campus, see post on Canvas
IX. . Other activities for 4th Hour Credit- check with professor
Various other videos or certain lectures on campus
Various activities on or off campus, including community garden, environmentally oriented activities near your home
X You tube
Wolves responsible for changes in Yellowstone National Park
How wolves change rivers
