life sciences

Students will learn the structure of plant cells and how plant structures form systems to support plant growth.

Introduction to plant reproduction includes a discussion of the environments necessary for different plants to reproduce, the structures involved in pollination, and the development of seeds and fruit.

Explains and illustrates the interdependent relationships between plants and animals that enable their survival. Discusses out how plants and animals interact, cooperate and compete and shows the constant exchange of nutrients and gases that assures their interdependency. Explores why animals are vital to the reproductive process of many plants and how animals rely on plants for food and shelter. Concludes with an experiment that explores how plants depend on animals for pollination and whether or not a flower's color is responsible for reproductive success.

Explores plant diversity, explaining how plant species have evolved in every habitat on the planet. Looks at the differences between nonvascular and vascular plants and the development of seeds. Also identifies the differences between cone-bearing gymnosperms and flowering angiosperms. Examine the structures different plants have developed to adapt in their environment and explore the effects of climate on plant biodiversity using a hands-on experiment.

Text and graphic art format explore life on the mountainside.

Critically analyzes the most prominent ethical and philosophical debates over scientific issues in the twenty-first century. Explains the science and politics behind each controversial topic.

Describes the habits of hedgehogs, bats, moray eels, mink, and kiwis.

Includes sections on test strategies, the nature of science, life's organization, life processes, maintaining equilibrium, reproduction and heredity, biotechnology, evolution, human biology, ecology, humans and the environment, and laboratory skills.

In the first program, Bill Nye demonstrates how to tell pseudoscience from science; in the second program, he presents a variety of experiments the viewer can perform at home on a variety of topics.