Six DVD Titles
and a Library of Chapter Stops

Reviews by National Science Teachers Association, School Library Journal, American Library Association (Booklist), and Library Journal.Featuring Leading

Scientists from Harvard, Tufts, MIT, National Geographic and the New England Aquarium, along with Teens and Student Art.

HURRICANES and Our Future
Missing Link in Earth's Climate System?
Full length 89 minutes, menu of 57 video clips

Climate Change and Our Future
Full length 90 minutes; menu of 24  video clips

Thin Ice: Earth in the Time of Climate Change
Full length 90 minutes with interviews; menu of 40 video clips

Freeze, Freeze, Fry:
Climate Past, Present, and Future
Full length 90 minutes with interviews; menu of 47 video clips

UnEarthing Life:
The Deep History of a Living Planet 
Full length 55 minutes; menu of 27 video clips

UnEarthing Life: On Mars?
Full length 70 minutes with interviews; menu of 55 video clips

1)       Why Climate Change Matters and How We Know
Things are Changing? (1:26)
2)       The Earth's Climate System (2:09)
3)       The One Constant of Climate is Change (1:18)
4)       What Natural Forces Affect the Climate System? (1:00)
5)       How Are People Affecting the Climate? (0:44)
6)       What is the Evidence for Human-Caused Climate Change? (2:34)
7)       The Keeling Graph of Atmospheric Change (3:01)
8)       Temperature and Rainfall Changes (5:41)
9)       Fossil Air, Ancient Thermometers, and Modern Temperature (6:05)
10)    Looking into the Future (6:33)
11)    Major Indicators of Current Climate Change (8:40)
12)    A Long Term Problem (1:29)
13)    Solutions (6:46)
14)    What Human Activities Cause Global Warming? (1:04)
15)    Extreme Weather Events - A Bigger Problem? (1:05)
16)    Global Warming vs. Ice Ages (2:57)
17)    Can Carbon Dioxide Levels Become Normal Again? (1:01)
18)    Is There a Chance We Can't Go Back? (1:44)
19)    Is it Possible to Tap Energy from the Heat Already in the Atmosphere? (1:05)
20)    Plants as an Energy Source (4:43)
21)    What About Methane Hydrates? (3:45)
22)    Who Polices International Agreements? (0:58)
23)    Climate, Energy, and National Security (4:02)
24)    Who's Leading the World on Climate Action? (7:44)
25)    Dr. Moomaw's Impression of the Students (0:40)
26)    Credits and Thank Yous

Thin Ice:
Earth in the Time of Climate Change

The Classroom Encounter

1)       Unintentional Human Climate Experiment (7:00)
2)       Why is Earth So Warm When Space is so Cold? (2:30)
3)       Climate Balance - Incoming and Outgoing Radiation (1:15)
4)       The Color of Earth - What is Albedo? (1:15)
5)       Why Do We Have Ice Ages?  How "Feedback" Exaggerates a Small Climate Effect (4:30)
6)       Have Humans Survived Greenhouse & Ice Ages? Notes on the Human Species  (5:00)
7)       What Effects Do Currents have on Climate? The Gulf & Jet Streams (5:00)
8)       How Fast Will the Water Rise If the Greenland Ice Sheets Melt?
A Look at the Larsen Ice Shelf (4:00)
9)       If the Earth is Covered in Ice, What Reverses the Albedo Runaway?
The Role of Plate Tectonics.  (4:00)
10)    How Weathering & Volcanoes Control the Temperature. (3:00)
11)    How Weathering Reactions Increase with Temperature (1:00)
12)    Do the Gases in the Air Change During an Ice Age? (3:00)
13)    If Earth is Covered with Ice, How Does Carbon Dioxide Get into the Atmosphere to Start Warming? (2:00)
14)    Can Anything Stop Plate Tectonics? (1:00)
15)    Could Life Survive If There Were a Snowball Earth Today? (4:00)
16)    With the Natural Albedo of Winter, How Does the Earth Ever Have Summers? (1:20)
17)    What Are the Lasting Effects of Snowball Earth? (4:30)
18)    Ever Hit a Dead End in your Research? Hard-Sell Scientific Theories. (1:00)
19)    Are There Theories That Contradict Snowball Earth? (1:30)
20)    How Could Earth Ever Get Cold Enough for an Ice-Albedo Runaway Event? (2:00)
21)    Can Earth Go Back and Forth From Snowball to Hot House to Snowball? (2:00)
22)    Can We Measure How Much Carbon Dioxide Comes from Volcanoes? (1:45)
23)    How Long Would It Take Snowball Earth Ice to Melt? (2:30)
24)    How Do We Know There Was Ever So Much Ice? (3:30)
25)    Looking at the Rock Evidence (4:30)
26)    Does More Melt Water Help an Ice Age Occur? (2:30)
27)    What Causes Ice Ages to End? (2:00)

Student Interview

1)       What Inspired You to Become a Scientist? (1:30)
2)       What's So Interesting About Rocks in Namibia, Africa? (2:00)
3)       What Do You Do as a Field Geologist in Namibia? (2:30)
4)       Why Should Anyone Care About Past Climates? (4:30)
5)       What is it Like to Be a Field Geologist? (3:00)
6)       Why Did You Come to Our School? (0:25)
7)       What Did You Hope to Accomplish? (2:00)
8)       When People Disagree With You, What Happens? (2:00)

Teacher Interview

1)       The Value of Direct Scientist Contact (0:50)
2)       The Most Important Thing to Teach Students (0:25)
3)       How Do You Keep Curiosity Going? (2:40)
4)       What Did You Think of the Questions (0:20)
5)       Did You Learn Anything? (0:20)

1. Intro (1:19)
2. Carbon Dioxide & The Keeling Graph (2:21)
3. The Greenhouse Effect: Venus vs. Earth (1:06)
4. What is Albedo? How it Controls Climate (2:45)
5. Earth’s Thermostat – Solving the Faint Young Sun Problem (2:52)
6. The Carbon Cycle (8:15)
7. Reconstructing the Past: Ocean Cores and Oxygen Isotopes (8:45)
8. Back to the Eocene – Crocodiles in Greenland (1:24)
9. In and Out of Ice Ages – The Vostok Ice Core Data (3:59)
10. Hot House Earth: When Was CO2 This High in the Past? (0:53)
11. Could We Recreate the Eocene? (0:30)
12. Predicting the Future? Terrifying Experiment (0:54)
13. How Do We Know: Is Climate Change Really Happening? (3:56)
14. Global Winds and the Ocean Conveyor Belt (7:40)
15. More Intense Hurricanes? (4:14)
16. Earth’s Tipping Point: How Long Before Greenland Melts? (7:32)
17. Coral Reefs – What They Tell Us (0:45)
18. Climate Archives: Coral Reef, Ice Cores, Ocean Sediments… (0:30)
19. Energy and Solutions (1:08)
20. What Can We Do? (2:27)
21. What’s a Dangerous CO2 Level? (1:48)
22. Coal, Carbon, and Sequestration (7:36)
23. How To Investigate Past Climates (0:52)
24. Why Climate Change Science Rocks! (1:01)
25. How Scientists Help Each Other (1:04)
26. Best Past Climate Records (0:35)
27. Portrait of a Paleoclimatologist (1:17)
28. If People Knew More, Would It Help? (1:21)
29. A View of Politics (0:56)
30. The Earth as a Whole System (1:04)
31. What’s Most Rewarding to You? (0:50)
32. The Most Interesting Place (1:13)
33. Chemistry: From Hate to Passion (1:18)
34. What’s Your Life Like Day to Day? (0:54)
35. What Are You Working On Now? (1:08)

Student Interview

36. Effects of Climate Change on Humans (1:16)
37. How Will Ecosystems Be Affected? (2:05)
38. What Can People Do? (2:27)
39. Will There Be An Alternative Energy Future? (1:10)
40. What’s Your Best Advice to Students? (5:04)
41. About Carbon Sequestration (1:58)
42. Favorite Memory from High School Science (2:00)
43. What Are Important Qualities for a Scientist to Have? (1:32)

Teacher Interview

44. The Most Important Thing to Instill in Students (1:43)
45. How to Integrate the Sciences When We Teach (5:34)
46. Science as a Career Choice (1:01)
47. The Scientist as Teacher (1:00)

1. Intro (3:51)
2. Three Places That Reveal Earth’s History (3:19)
3. How Do You Go About Finding Fossils? (0:30)
4. How Long Does It Take To Find Fossils? ((0:39)
5. In What Types of Rock Can You Find Fossils? (0:49)
6. How Well Preserved Are the Rocks/Fossils? (0:45)
7. In What Kind of Rocks Are Fossils Found? (1:39)
8. The Cambrian Explosion (1:19)
9. Upstream of the First Location – An Even Earlier Look (1:36)
10. Comparative Biology, Molecular Signatures, Web of Life (2:29)
11. Spitsbergen: Test Case for Early Single-Cell Life (4:02)
12. Microbial Tracks and Trails: Textures in Rocks (1:09)
13. Microbes Give Rocks Texture: Chert and Stromatolites (1:40)
14. What are the Black Strips in Chert? (1:47)
15. Biochemical Fossil – Cholesterol (1:16)
16. Bacteria Changes the Chemistry of Sea Water (1:34)
17. Why Does Life Prefer C-12 to C-13? (0:57)
18. Darwin Partially Right – How Far Back Does Life Go? (2:17)
19. Spitsbergen vs. the Grand Canyon (0:43)
20. Definition of a Microbial Reef (2:07)
21. How Long Does It Take to Build a Reef? (1:06)
22. Proof of Ancient Life 3.5 Billion Years Ago (1:13)
23. How Do We Know the Age of Rocks? (1:24)
24. What Makes Red Lines in Rocks? Rust Without Oxygen? (1:14)
25. Can All Rocks Be Dated? (1:31)
26. What Triggered The Cambrian Explosion?  (1:53)
27. Conclusions (2:49)
28. Credits and Thank Yous

The Classroom Encounter

1.        Introductions (0:48)
2.        “Would You Like To Be On a Mars Mission?" (1:33)
3.        How Many Scientists Are Involved? (1:17)
4.        Do Scientists Argue? (1:34)
5.        Could Mars Have Been Habitable? (1:56)
6.        If Mars Had Water, Why Isn’t Life There?  (1:32)
7.        How Long is a Day On Mars?  (0:58)
8.        Do All Surfaces of Mars Look the Same? (0:21)
9.        How Do You Search for Life on Mars? (2:21)
10.     If No Life, From Where Did The Oxygen Come? (1:07)
11.     Can the Rovers Return With Samples? (0:49)
12.     What Makes Mars Different From Earth? (1:41)
13.     Radioactive Elements on Mars?  (1:17)
14.     What is the Life Span of the Rover? (0:51)
15.     What Will Earth Be Like in the Future?
16.     Do We Expect Life on Mars to Be Like Life on Earth? (1:27)
17.      Can Water Be Extracted From Rust on Mars? (1:13)
18.     Atmospheric Recipe For Life (1:26)
19.     How Much Oxygen or Nitrogen Would Mars Need to Create a Lasting Atmosphere? (2:00)
20.     Could We Contaminate Mars With Earth Bacteria? (2:12)
21.     Can the Rover Identify Rocks? (2:48)
22.     How Does A Rover Get Onto Mars’ Surface? (1:08)
23.     Controlling the Rover from Earth (0:42)
24.     How Would We Get Samples Back to Earth? (2:08)
25.     Where "Opportunity" Landed and What Was Seen  (1:20)
26.     Without Plate Tectonics, How Are There Hills on Mars? (1:25)
27.     How Does the Rover Deal with Martian Storms? (0:28)
28.     Martian Volcanoes and Differences With Earth (1:01)
29.     Why Are Mars and Earth at Different Stages? (2:01)
30.     Why Are Mars and Earth Different Sizes? (2:20)
31.     New Discoveries – New Solar Systems (1:40)
32.     How Can You Tell the Size of a Far-Away Planet? (0:39)
33.     The Punch Line: Mars and Earth Have Always Been Different (2:18)
34.     Could There Be Life Under the Surface? (3:19)
35.     Credits and Thank Yous

Student Interview

1.        Is Finding Fossils Still Exciting? (0:23)
2.        What’s It Like Not Knowing What To Expect At Work Everyday? (0:27)
3.        Why the First 3.5 Billion Years? (0:50)
4.        How Old Were You When You Decided To Become a Paleontologist? (1:06)
5.        Who Helped You Become a Paleontologist? (0:34)
6.        What Fossil Made You Want To Become a Paleontologist? (0:51)
7.        Are Your Current Students as Interested As You Were? (0:52)
8.        How Do You Like Traveling the World for Your Job? (0:50)
9.        If You Could Do It Over, Would You Do Anything Differently? (0:46)
10.     How Did You Find Out About Your Profession? (1:20)
11.     What Advice Do You Have For Students Who Want to Go Into Science?  (1:37)

Teacher Interview

1.        What's the Most Important Thing a Science Teacher Can Instill in Students? (0:30)
2.        Examples of “Fascinating Phenomena” Teachers Can Use to Teach Students (0:57)
3.        How Can Teachers Do a Better Job of Connecting the Sciences? (0:52)
4.        What Did You Observe About Today’s Students?  (0:35)
5.        What Are Strengths and Weaknesses in Today’s College Students? (0:59)
6.        Was There a Teacher Who Made a Difference in Your Life? (0:52)
7.        If You Could Reach the World With One Message, What Would It Be?  (1:09)