This video provides historical footage regarding the importance of meteorological information obtained from NASA satellites for predicting and monitoring severe storms. Length: 15:00. Full description.

This educational video details how the sciences of astronomy and geography guided slaves to freedom in the 1800s, and how the technologies of satellites and geographic information systems are being used to locate and visualize the secret paths they traveled. Using the North Star as a compass, freedom-seeking slaves went from safe house to safe house along the Underground Railroad, an intricate network ... Full description.

This 28-minute video shows why the Milky Way appears as it does from the vantage point of the Solar System and explains how astrophysicists have arrived at their current understanding of its structure and composition. Full description.

Leonard Nimoy narrates this animated 13-minute video of NASA's Dawn mission, launched in October 2007. The movie features a look into the planning, instrumentation and technological challenges of this mission into the heart of the asteroid belt. Full description.

Students can view these television programs about a variety of ocean science topics right in their classroom. They are presented by real scientists and feature a call-in question and answer session to end the lesson. Teacher packets containing information pertaining to program topics, activities to do with students, pages for students' individual use, and vocabulary and reference lists, are available ... Full description.

The NOAA Ocean Exploration program strives to engage broad audiences to enhance America's environmental literacy through the excitement of ocean discovery. Increasing this literacy requires high-quality, effective collaborations between ocean explorers and America's teachers. NOAA is forming such collaborations to reach out in new ways to the public to improve the literacy of learners with respect ... Full description.

This site offers an introduction to sea turtle species and their behavior, including facts about nesting, incubation, and emergence as well as information about navigation and migration. Physical characteristics and classification are discussed, and information is available on habitat ranges and on threats and conservation. Full description.

This DVD and teacher workbook are built around interviews with scientists in laboratories at Michigan State, Princeton, and Indiana University who are working on water and gas samples they collected from deep gold mines in South Africa and the Canadian Arctic. The video supports and compliments the accompanying workbook lessons and activities and offers students and teachers insight into the Indiana-Princeton-Tennessee ... Full description.

These videos introduce middle- and high school-age learners to the electromagnetic spectrum. The product consists of 8 animations including an introduction to electromagnetic waves and one animation for each wavelength of the EM spectrum (Radio, Microwave, Infrared, Visible, Ultraviolet, X-Rays and Gamma Rays). Each wavelength of the EM spectrum offers a construct to illustrate and teach about NASA ... Full description.

This videotape was created to be a resource for helping to understand stratospheric ozone. The instruments aboard the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) and their measurements are described in the video and how they help in studying humankind's influence on ozone. The UARS satellite was launched in 1991 and completed its mission in 2005. The satellite was decommissioned and re-entered Earth?s ... Full description.