Intro
Week 1: The Song of Nature - Overture
Week 2: The Song of Nature, theme 1: ORGANISMS
Week 3: The Song of Nature, theme 1: ORGANISMS
Week 4: The Song of Nature, theme 1: ORGANISMS
Week 5: Interlude - To Know Nature
Week 6: The Song of Nature, theme 2: STORIES
Week 7: The Song of Nature, theme 2: STORIES
Week 8: The Song of Nature, theme 2: STORIES
Week 9: Interlude - To Experience Nature
Week 10: The Song of Nature, theme 3: ENVIRONMENT
Week 11: The Song of Nature, theme 3: ENVIRONMENTS
Week 12: The Song of Nature, theme 3: ENVIRONMENTS
Week 13: Interlude - To Love Nature
Week 14, Finale - The Naturalist
Appendix #1 - Natural History Books
Appendix #2 - Index of Nature Poems
Appendix #3 - Selected Outlines of Living Things
Day 2: Invertebrates
Words
For the last pondlife episode we’ll transition from moss to the things that live in there, such as small invertebrate animals.
Video (scroll to bottom of the page): “Pondlife 3 – What Lives In Moss (Sally Warring + Michael Tessler)” (11:38)
Microscopic but still animals! Ecdysozoans.
Video: “Tardigrades – The Most Resilient Animals in the Universe” (7:41)
Insects are the largest group of animals, by far. Here we have one video, one audio program, and one paper on the first animals to conquer the air.
Video: “Life of Insects (BBC Life in Undergrowth)” (5:10; low res)
Audio: “Bee (BBC Natural Histories)” (27:42)
Reading: “Milkweeds and Monarchs (Ohio DNR)”