Natural Resources Series
(Includes all 4 titles below)

Available in DVD or VHS. The complete series is on 1 DVD for instant access to the content chapters in all 4 videos. Extra features of the DVD include indexes, labeled slides, glossary, animations, English subtitles, and an iMovie project.

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Earth's Natural Resources

Everyday we use natural resources. This program introduces students to the importance of natural resources in our lives. Renewable and nonrenewable resources are differentiated with examples illustrating each. The positive and negative aspects of each category are stressed. Recycling, reuse, and resource alternatives are discussed. Other terminology includes: energy resources, solar energy, fossil fuels, mineral resources, recycle, reuse, scarce resources, pollution, and resource sustainability.
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Everyday Natural Resources

This video illustrates some of the many resources we utilize regularly. Some of the most important and vulnerable resources ­ air and water resources ­ are explored in detail. Nonrenewable geologic resources are discussed, as are renewable living resources. Examples of the ways we use these resources are cited through colorful footage. Finally, perpetual resources - solar and wind energy are investigated. Other terminology includes: environmental degradation, freshwater, fossil fuels, smog, acid rain, land use, soil, minerals, and extinction.
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Energy Resources

Hardly a minute goes by without using energy resources. This video program explores the wide range of energy resources including: crude oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear energy, moving water, biomass, solar energy, wind energy, and geothermal energy. The relative advantages and disadvantages of each energy resource are outlined. Additional terminology includes: sun, electricity, acid rain, greenhouse gases, global warming, gasoline, heating oil, alternative energy, turbines, radioactive waste, hydro power, passive solar, photovoltaic cells, and wind turbines.
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Sustainability and Natural Resources

This program serves as an introduction to resource sustainability, focusing on the key strategies of resource efficiency, recycling, reusing, and reducing. The long-term impacts of resource use on human health and the environment are assessed. The program focuses on things all of us can do to increase natural resource efficiency. Other important terminology includes: waste, inefficiency, incentives, waste reduction, throwaway society, recycling, hazardous waste, landfill, and resource contamination.
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