The Media Library of Genesee Valley BOCES

Introduces viewers to concepts and terminology concerning climate and weather including, temperature, moisture, pressure, and wind. Students learn the difference between short-term conditions of weather and long-term conditions of climate. Discusses clouds, storms, landforms, different climates- from polar to tropical, hurricanes, glaciers, and global warming

Explains climatic regions, as well as geological and geographical information

Reviews the evidence of climatic change and introduces scientists who are working to answer the many questions that remain

This video will help students understand how and why temperatures and climate vary on the earth's surface

Examines the world's six primary climate regions and their relationship to latitiude, altitude, topography, water, and wind. The phenomena of El Nino and La Nina are discussed, as well as the importance of water and climate in the study of geography

Introduces students to basic concepts and terminology including: altitude, latitude, climate zone, topogragphy, prevailing winds, climate zone, polar zone, temperate zone, and tropical zone. Includes 15-question video review and teacher's guide

The Science Guy travels to a desert in Saudi Arabia and a rain forest in Costa Rica to show why areas have different climates. There's an experiment that creates rain inside a jar. VHS or DVD format. DVD includes Spanish sountrack option

Introduces students to concepts and terminology regarding the Earth's seasons. Discusses climate, weather, meteorologists, the equator and tropical zones, North and South poles, rotation of the Earth on its axis and around the sun

The Science Guy travels to a desert in Saudi Arabia and a rain forest in Costa Rica to show why areas have different climates. There's an experiment that creates rain inside a jar. VHS or DVD format. DVD includes Spanish sountrack option

Includes four 20-minute videos, animations, index, glossary, slides, teacher guides and student activities in PDF format. Program 1: The Atmosphere - covers conduction, convection, radiation, lithosphere, hydrosphere, ozone, smog, greenhouse effect, stratosphere, mesophere, and more. Program 2: The Nature of Weather includes conduction, convection, radiation, barometer, thermometer, air pressure, anemometer, trade winds, jet streams. Program 3: Climate: Includes topography, prevailing winds, altitude, latitude, climat zone, temperate and tropical zones.