Series

Deep Look

193 episodes

Deep Look is short-form natural history shot in extreme macro, close enough that a flea leg or a slug slime trail fills the whole frame. Episodes run four to six minutes and each takes one small creature and one surprising mechanism: the dragonfly larva jaw that folds out and shoots forward to seize prey, the springy pad that launches a flea a hundred times its own height, an archerfish aiming a jet of water up through the surface, a coral spawning once a year. Vivid enough for older elementary students, and precise enough to anchor a structure-and-function or life-cycle unit.

what this series covers

What Deep Look covers

193 episodes in the library, tagged for 1st–6th. Heaviest coverage: Science and Technology. Between them they line up with 19 distinct standards across 2 frameworks.

Episodes per grade

1st: 1
2nd: 23
3rd: 134
4th: 192
5th: 192
6th: 170

Episodes per subject

Science: 193
Technology: 1

NGSS (Science) 18

4-LS1-1Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
3-LS1-1Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
4-LS1-2Use a model to describe that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways.
3-LS2-1Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive.
3-LS4-3Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.
3-LS4-2Use evidence to construct an explanation for how the variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing.

+ 12 more

2-LS2-2Develop a simple model that mimics the function of an animal in dispersing seeds or pollinating plants.
3-LS4-4Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the types of plants and animals that live there may change.
5-LS2-1Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.
1-PS4-1Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.
1-LS1-2Read texts and use media to determine patterns in behavior of parents and offspring that help offspring survive.
3-PS2-1Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.
4-PS4-2Develop a model to describe that light reflecting from objects and entering the eye allows objects to be seen.
3-5-ETS1-1Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
3-5-ETS1-3Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.
3-LS3-1Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variation of these traits exists in a group of similar organisms.
3-LS4-1Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the organisms and the environments in which they lived long ago.
4-ESS2-1Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation.