r/ScienceTeachers • u/NegativeGee • 10d ago

Recommendation for Earth Science Film?

Trying to show a film (can be a documentary) for last day of classes related to Earth Science. Preferabbly something newish. Hope to find some guided questions for it too. Any recommendations? Thank you!!

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u/Several-Honey-8810 10d ago edited 10d ago

Giant Crystal Cave

95 worlds and Counting

Ultimate Tsunami/Ultimate Earthquake

The San Francisco Earthquake

There are a lot on tornados and tornado development

Anything on hurricanes.

Movies--

Twister-depending on time. They do not show Jo in the shower. You would skip over that anyway. There is a worksheet for it.

Apollo 13

Rocket Boys/October Sky

Make them read Jules Verne.

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u/VinnieMcVince 10d ago

Cosmos (the newer one), Episode 7 is fantastic. It details how we figured out the age of the earth, and the ensuing air quality problems the study revealed, which lead to legislative battles over leaded gasoline. It's rocks, it's climate, it's public health...fantastic episode.

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u/Latter_Leopard8439 9d ago

The Martian.

Although Matt Damon does say "I am going to have to science the shit out if this" or something like that.

Good lessons on what plants crave - and how Mars is way different than Earth.

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u/wyldtea 10d ago

I like to find NOVA videos

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u/Han_Ominous 10d ago

My 6th graders love that nat Geo documentary 'History of Earth's '. It's entirely CGI production of how earth formed and changed over its 4 billion years of existence. Its on YouTube.

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u/GTCapone 9d ago

My geology professor let up watch The Core and list things it got wrong as extra credit

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u/Several-Honey-8810 9d ago

What an awful movie. And I am not a Hillary Swank fan.

I will not get started on San Andreas and The Day After Tomorrow.

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u/pointedflowers 10d ago

It’s not that new but I like to show goodnight oppy to my earth science kids. If you have the ability to pause it it gives plenty of opportunities to talk about earth science related things. It also includes a fair bit of space science and I like the premise of designing a robot geologist and “starting over” geology-wise on a new planet. Also the NOVA ancient earth series can be ok.

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u/LebrontologicalArgmt 10d ago

Anything presented by Iain Stewart is awesome.

The How the Earth was Made series is also fun, especially if you pick something relevant to your region.

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u/stillbleedinggreen 8d ago

Second this. I use “Earth: The Biography” all the time.

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u/fanclubmoss 9d ago

The under see sea world of Jacques Cousteau and hand out decks of uno cards

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u/EduEngg 9d ago

We just showed Colliding Continents (15 years old, maybe?). It keeps the kids fairly engaged, since I preface it by telling the kids that the movie is going to show several different ways humanity is going to die.

There's a worksheet out there for it too.

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u/pikay93 8d ago

Anything from cosmos especially spacetime Odyssey

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u/LimeFucker 7d ago

The day after tomorrow is great if you can make fun of how innacurate it is, I love to hate that movie.

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u/Rseabeck 1d ago

Not a documentary, but my middle schoolers have enjoyed this short animated 5 minute film about the life of a rock over geological time and human civilization:

An Object at Rest

https://youtu.be/xJ1KfDzuAmc?si=5zrf7iiuu1ob2O3u