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Dear All I am the librarian at a boys' high school in Pretoria, South Africa and enjoy helping teachers find materials which can enrich their teaching practice. There is an enormous amount of "stuff" on the Internet, especially, but who has the time to trawl through all those News and Youtube channels?!? In any case, here are two clips which I think you might be able to use in your classrooms. Enjoy, Andrew [i]If you haven't [url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsooa4yRKGN_zEE8iknghZA]seen a TED-Ed animation[/url] you are missing out! Here's an excellent one which explains the threat of invasive species in a clear, succinct manner-perhaps useful to introduce the topic in class?[/i] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spTWwqVP_2s][size=4][color=#336666]The threat of invasive species - Jennifer Klos[/color][/size][/url] [img=429x240]https://i.ytimg.com/vi/spTWwqVP_2s/maxresdefault.jpg[/img] [url=https://www.youtube.com/user/TEDEducation][img=48x48]https://yt3.ggpht.com/-mnEpZE0uuus/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/SM5q4mSZgq4/s88-c-k-no-rj-c0xffffff/photo.jpg[/img] [/url]   [size=2]Massive vines that blanket the southern United States, climbing high as they uproot trees and swallow buildings. A ravenous snake that is capable of devouring an alligator. Rabbit populations that eat themselves into starvation. These aren’t horror movie concepts – they’re real stories. But how could such situations exist in nature? Jennifer Klos gives the facts on invasive species. [/size] [i](This clip from [url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvJiYiBUbw4tmpRSZT2r1Hw]the Science Channel [/url]was pretty amazing-check it out.)[/i] [size=3][url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMlOKY734TM]Dung Beetles Navigate Using the Stars[/url][/size] [img=341x214]http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/files/2013/01/dung-beetle.png[/img] [url=https://www.youtube.com/user/ScienceChannel][img=48x48]https://yt3.ggpht.com/-xAZHRrsBjd4/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/NrfKuS2oisA/s88-c-k-no-rj-c0xffffff/photo.jpg[/img] [/url]   [b]Published on Apr 15, 2016[/b] [size=2]To effectively feed their babies, dung beetles must push their dung balls in a straight line, up to 100 yards from where they first started. Since they don't have GPS, dung beetles use the stars to navigate.[/size]

Hi Folk-sorry, it seems my graphics and website addresses are all over the place! Here are those two URL's again, if you are interested:

The threat of invasive species - Jennifer Klos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spTWwqVP_2s

Dung beetles navigate using the stars:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMlOKY734TM

Hi Andrew, Thank you for the great resources! I will be forwarding these along to fellow teachers who I know cover these topics! These are awesome "Into" videos and I can see them really getting the students engaged in their "need to knows" for inquiry lessons. -Amanda

Thank you for posting this! It definitely got me engaged! I would love to use this information in the future!