GREEN TEAM Virtual Library – Videos
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| Topic | Title | Format | Grade | Grades | Length | Source | Year | About | Link | Physical Copy |
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| Topic | Title | Format | Grade | Grades | Length | Source | Year | About | Link | Physical Copy |
| Climate Change and Renewable Energy | Simon Says Let's Stop Climate Change! | DVD | 'K', '1', '2' | K-2 | 30 min | Hippo Works | 2010 | Fun, musical movie that teaches younger children about climate change. | https://www.amazon.com/Simon-Says-Lets-Climate-Change/dp/B004KT6LJQ | |
| Climate Change and Renewable Energy | An Inconvenient Truth | DVD | '7', '8', '9', '10', '11', '12' | 7-12 | 96 min | Paramount Classics | 2006 | Former Vice President Al Gore’s documentary presents an overview of the impacts of global warming on our civilization and planet. It offers changes we can make to become part of the solution. | https://www.amazon.com/Inconvenient-Truth-Al-Gore/dp/B000ICL3KG | |
| Climate Change and Renewable Energy | Coal Country | DVD | '7', '8', '9', '10', '11', '12' | 7-12 | 84 min | Evening Star | 2009 | This documentary dives into the social and environmental consequences of the coal mining industry. | https://www.amazon.com/COAL-COUNTRY-VARIOUS/dp/B002L5GQDW | |
| Climate Change and Renewable Energy | Gasland | Online | '7', '8', '9', '10', '11', '12' | 7-12 | 107 min | International WOW Company | 2010 | This documentary explores the controversial process of hydraulic fracking. | http://watchdocumentaries.com/gasland/ | |
| Climate Change and Renewable Energy | The Story of Cap and Trade | Online | '7', '8', '9', '10', '11', '12' | 7-12 | 10 min | The Story of Stuff Project | 2009 | This movie examines the details and facts about the climate solution being discussed at Copenhagen and on Capitol Hill. | https://storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of-cap-and-trade/ | |
| Climate Change and Renewable Energy | Who Killed the Electric Car? | DVD | '7', '8', '9', '10', '11', '12' | 7-12 | 92 min | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment | 2006 | This documentary explores the slow development of a great technology, the electric car, featuring engineers, politicians, protesters, and petroleum spokespeople. | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489037/ | |
| Climate Change and Renewable Energy | The Greenhouse Gas Effect | Online | '8', '9', '10', '11', '12' | 8-12 | 2 min | EPA | 2015 | This animation uses narration and illustrations to explain the greenhouse effect and how it relates to climate change. | https://youtu.be/VYMjSule0Bw | |
| Climate Change and Renewable Energy | The Zero Waste Climate Solution | Online | '8', '9', '10', '11', '12' | 8-12 | 8 min | Ecocycle | 2015 | Explains how climate change is related to how we produce, consume, and dispose of our food and products. | https://youtu.be/_E2u_LbboKE | |
| Composting | Home Composting: Turning Your Spoils to Soil | Online | '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '10', '11', '12' | 4-12 | 17 min | State of Connecticut DEP | 1991 | Teaches home composting of household and yard waste. Suitable for teaching about gardening, recycling, and source reduction, as well as composting | http://www.ct.gov/deep/cwp/view.asp?a=2718&q=399598&deepNav_GID=1645 | X |
| Composting | Compost…Because a Rind is a Terrible Thing to Waste | DVD | '9', '10', '11', '12' | 9-12 | 37 min | Cornell Waste Mgmt. | 1996 | Shows source separation and composting operations at different businesses and institutions, as well as describing the benefits of a food scrap-composting program to decision-makers. | https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/11314 | X |
| Nature, Ecosystems and Conservation | Food, Inc. | DVD | '7', '8', '9', '10', '11', '12' | 7-12 | 91 min | Magnolia Home Entertainment | 2009 | This movie explores the environmental and health costs associated with the food system's priority of convenience. | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286537/ | |
| Nature, Ecosystems and Conservation | Story of Change | Online | '7', '8', '9', '10', '11', '12' | 7-12 | 6 min | The Story of Stuff Project | 2012 | This video argues that environmental and social change requires more than just buying more environmentally friendly products. | https://storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of-change/ | |
| Nature, Ecosystems and Conservation | The Story of Solutions | Online | '7', '8', '9', '10', '11', '12' | 7-12 | 9 min | The Story of Stuff Project | 2013 | This video explores ways that the U.S. economy could move in a more sustainable direction. | https://storyofstuff.org/movies/the-story-of-solutions/ | |
| Solid Waste-Recycling | Garbage | Online | 'K', '1', '2', '3' | K-3 | 2 min | PBS | 2010 | A sphynx gives a boy the challenge of making a giant pile of garbage smaller. | https://mass.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/lpsc10.sci.life.garbage/garbage/?#.WiqtFkqnFdg | |
| Solid Waste-Recycling | Kids Talkin’ Trash | Online | 'K', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8' | K-8 | 14 min | Alameda County Waste Management Authority | 0 | Provokes thoughtful discussions and inspires children to recycle and make less garbage by practicing the 4 R’s- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Rot. | part 1: https://youtu.be/L9iNQucNaGI part 2: https://youtu.be/YKxCkqMgJQo | X |
| Solid Waste-Recycling | Recycle Rex | Online | 'K', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6' | K-6 | 10 min | Disney Ed. Productions | 1993 | An award winning Disney production that explains recycling in a way that children can understand. | https://youtu.be/gLbiwZi1t7w | X |
| Solid Waste-Recycling | Recycle. A little effort…A big difference. Recycling in Massachusetts - English and Spanish Versions | Online | 'K', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '10', '11', '12' | K-12 | 12 min | MassDEP with City of Lawrence | 2004 | Explains why recycling is important for our health, economy, and the environment in every community in MA, and how individuals can help. Shows how recycling provides jobs and products, saves money, and reduces the need for landfills and incinerators. | https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22MassDEP+and+the+City+of+Lawrence%22 | X |
| Solid Waste-Recycling | Your Recycling Efforts Won’t Go To Waste-Springfield Materials Recycling Facility | Online | 'K', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '10', '11', '12' | K-12 | 9 min | Springfield Materials Recycling Facility Advisory Board | 2003 | Take a virtual tour of the Springfield, MA Materials Recycling Facility and see how recyclables are sorted and prepared for delivery to manufacturers who reuse them to make new items. | https://archive.org/details/YourRecyclingEffortsWontGoToWaste-SpringfieldMaterialsRecycling_14 | X |
| Solid Waste-Recycling | Garbage | DVD | '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6' | 1-6 | 26 min | Bill Nye the Science Guy | 1993 | Disney explores garbage through a popular television series that children can relate to. | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0524632/ | X |
| Solid Waste-Recycling | Life After the Curb | Online | '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '10', '11', '12' | 2-12 | 20 min | Cornell Waste Mgmt. | 1990 | Shows the separations, processes, and end products for recyclable plastics, steel, aluminum, glass, and paper. | https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/11410 | X |
| Solid Waste-Recycling | Affluenza | DVD | '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '10', '11', '12' | 4-12 | 60 min | PBS | 1997 | Affluenza explores the high social and environmental costs of materialism and overconsumption. Affluenza is hosted by National Public Radio’s Scott Simon. A web site for teachers helps support the video. Please visit the web site for other support information | https://www.amazon.com/Affluenza-Scott-Simon/dp/B0009X3IDY | X |
| Solid Waste-Recycling | Pollution Solutions | Online | '4', '5', '6', '7', '8' | 4-8 | 26 min | Bill Nye the Science Guy | 1996 | Disney explores some of the solutions to pollution problems with this popular children’s series | https://youtu.be/AdauM3AzqKw | X |
| Solid Waste-Recycling | The Lorax (2012) | DVD | '4', '5', '6', '7', '8' | 4-8 | 86 min | Universal Pictures | 2012 | Updated full length feature based on the Dr. Suess book, which warns against mindless progress and the danger it poses to the beautiful earth's environment. | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1482459/ | |
| Solid Waste-Recycling | The Lorax (original) | Online | '4', '5', '6', '7', '8' | 4-8 | 30 min | Dr. Suess | 1972 | Classic short video based on the Dr. Suess book which warns against mindless progress and the danger it poses to the beautiful earth's environment. | https://youtu.be/FSSrYnc1yQs | X |
| Solid Waste-Recycling | Taking Back our Trash II: Putting Waste to Work | Online | '6', '7', '8', '9', '10', '11', '12' | 6-12 | 28 min | Alameda County Waste Management Authority | 2000 | Illustrates the changes seen in waste management and recycling while giving information about the past. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw9RicLQ6No | |
| Solid Waste-Recycling | Tapped | DVD | '7', '8', '9', '10', '11', '12' | 7-12 | 76 min | Disinformation | 2010 | This award-winning documentary depicts the bottled water industry, including plastic production and pollution. | https://youtu.be/Bw9RicLQ6No | |
| Solid Waste-Recycling | The Story of Electronics | Online | '7', '8', '9', '10', '11', '12' | 7-12 | 8 min | The Story of Stuff Project | 2011 | This video investigates the environmental and health impacts of electronic waste. | https://storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of-electronics/ | |
| Solid Waste-Recycling | The Story of Stuff | Online | '7', '8', '9', '10', '11', '12' | 7-12 | 22 min | The Story of Stuff Project | 2007 | This video connects environmental issues to the life cycle of material goods we consume and dispose of. | https://storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of-stuff/ | |
| Solid Waste-Recycling | Waste Deep | Online | '7', '8', '9', '10', '11', '12' | 7-12 | 6 min | PBS | 2012 | This video highlights a landfill in South Jersey while discussing the issue of food waste in America. | https://mass.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/930d15c4-5137-46f3-a9d8-39b8cd8d27f9/930d15c4-5137-46f3-a9d8-39b8cd8d27f9/#.WiqyZkqnFdg | |
| Solid Waste-Recycling | Recycling: Conserving Natural Resources | DVD | '7', '8', '9', '10', '11', '12' | 7-12 | 19 min | American Educational Products | This movie discusses how recycling is becoming an increasingly important source of material for new products and how it reduces resource extraction. | https://www.teachersupplysource.com/product/64457/recycling-conserving-our-natural-resources-dvd/ | ||
| Solid Waste-Recycling | Toss It Baby | Online | 'K', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5' | K-5 | 4 min | Santee Cooper | 2013 | This is a fun music video about single-stream recycling. The song is in the tune of Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen. | https://vimeo.com/52493067 | |
| Water Conservation and Pollution | Blue Gold: World Water Wars | Online | '7', '8', '9', '10', '11', '12' | 7-12 | 90 min | PBS | 2009 | This documentary explores the environmental and political implications of the world's water management, emphasizing its need to change. | https://youtu.be/pJD1TsiM6KY | |
| Water Conservation and Pollution | Flow: For the Love of Water | DVD | '7', '8', '9', '10', '11', '12' | 7-12 | 83 min | Oscilloscope Pictures | 2008 | This award-winning documentary investigates the politics, pollution, and human rights issues of the world water crisis. | https://youtu.be/TvtnVQPxmzM | |
| Water Conservation and Pollution | Our Water, Our Future | Online | '7', '8', '9', '10', '11', '12' | 7-12 | 8 min | The Story of Stuff Project | 2016 | This documentary follows advocates fighting against a proposal to sell bottled water from the Columbia River Gorge. | https://storyofstuff.org/movies/our-water-our-future/ | |
| Water Conservation and Pollution | The Story of Bottled Water | Online | '7', '8', '9', '10', '11', '12' | 7-12 | 8 min | The Story of Stuff Project | 2010 | This video explores then environmental impacts of the bottled water industry. | https://storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of-bottled-water/ | |
| Water Conservation and Pollution | The Story of Cosmetics | Online | '7', '8', '9', '10', '11', '12' | 7-12 | 9 min | The Story of Stuff Project | 2010 | This video investigates the environmental and health impacts of personal care products. | https://storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of-cosmetics/ | |
| Water Conservation and Pollution | This Land is Our Land | Online | '7', '8', '9', '10', '11', '12' | 7-12 | 5 min | The Story of Stuff Project | 2015 | This documentary looks at the impact of a company drawing water from the San Bernadino National Forest. | https://storyofstuff.org/movies/nestle/ |
