MILL VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT
IMC VIDEOS October 2002

ADVENTURES OF THE OLD WEST: The 49ers and the California Gold Rush (50 minutes
There is nothing like the power of gold. When hard-working carpenter James Marshall spotted “something shiny” in the American River on January 24, 1848, he felt the power. Soon, so did the rest of the country. Within weeks, thousands rushed to the land of glittering dreams. Young, old , white, Mexican, or Indian, gold fever gripped them all. The quest for instant wealth created just as many problems as it solved. Classic photographs and stories reveal the exciting tales of triumph, turmoil, strife, new-found wealth, and failure.

AFRICAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE (25 minutes) (American Cultures for Children Video Series)

ALL ABOUT CLIMATE & SEASONS (23 minutes) (Weather for Children)

ALL ABOUT ANIMAL ADAPTATION Grades K-4 (23minutes) (Animal Life for Children Series)

ALL ABOUT ANIMAL LIFE CYCLES Grades K-4 (25 minutes) + Teacher's Guide 

ALL ABOUT BUGS Grades K-4 (23 minutes) + Teacher's Guide (Animal Life for Children Series)

ALL ABOUT FOSSILS Grades k-4 (23 minutes) + Teacher's Guide (Earth Science for Children Series)
- Viewers will learn what fossils are and how they were formed over millions of years and more in this video.  See how paleontologist figure out the age of these ancient creations.  In a fun, hands-on activity, children will see how molds and casts are made, while a visit to the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science showcases how fossils are restored in order to be displayed in museum.  

ALL ABOUT PLANT POLLINATION: FRUIT, FLOWERS & SEEDS  Grades K-4 (23 minutes) (Plant Life for Children)
-Young scientist learn about the different parts of a flower through the use of microscopic photography and detailed diagrams.  See how a flower becomes pollinated when pollen lands on the stigma of the same type of plant.  Learn about the structure of seeds and how they develop inside fruit. Find out how seeds are dispersed and how the process starts all over again when a new plant begins to grow.  In a hands-on experiment, kids pollinate a flower themselves and then observe the development of its seeds and fruit.

ALL ABOUT PLANT STRUCTURE & GROWTH Grades K-4 (23 minutes) + Teacher’s  Guide (Plant life for Children)

ALL ABOUT STARS Grades K-4 (23 minutes)
Space Science for Children
- Key space science terms
- Historical milestones
- How space science relates to life on Earth
-Aspects of space technology
-The search for life throughout space

ALL ABOUT THE MOON Grades K-4 (23 minutes) + Teacher's Guide (Space Science for Children Series)
-Viewers will get a close-up look at the moon while answering key questions, including: Why does the moon appear different every night?  What does the moon look like up close?  What is it like to walk on the moon?  Could we live on the moon someday?  A fun, hands-on activity will teach the different phases of the moon, and they will learn why there are so many craters on the moon, but not on earth.

ALL ABOUT THE SENSES Grades K-4 (23 minutes) (Human body for Children Series)
-Explores and explains the basics of how our bodies work. Topics covered include cells, blood and heart, bones and muscles, the brain, and the senses. These programs will also provide viewers with basic information about good health, hygiene, nutrition and exercise.

ALL ABOUT WATER ECOSYSTEMS Grades K-4 (23 minutes) + Teacher's Guide (Ecosystems for Children Series) 
-Explores freshwater ecosystems such as ponds and rivers, as well as marine ecosystems like coral reefs and the open ocean.  Viewers will learn that the animal and plant life found in water ecosystems make up communities that are as complex as they are beautiful.  A hands-on-experiment demonstrates what happens when pollutants get into ponds and lakes, while a visit with a marine biologist examines the oyster population of the Chesapeake Bay.

AMERICAN REVOLUTION - Volume Four : The World at War (50 minutes)

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION grades 5-12 ( 35 minutes) (United States History Video Collection)

AMERICA’S EDUCATION REVOLUTION A report from the front

ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS Grades 6-12 (Each program 30 minutes)
1. The Beginning of the End - examines early civilizations that developed in the river valleys of China, India, Egypt, and Central America and explores Sumer, a region of Mesopotamia where humans may have first begun to farm and settle. (Neolithic Revolution)
2. Balancing the Budget - The discovery of agriculture and domestication of animals gradually led to economies based on trade. Ancient Egypt examined in detail. The Minoans and Phoenicians, who were great traders, are also studied.
3. Safekeeping - Examines ancient security systems and how they evolved into sophisticated governments and codes of law. Athens and Sparta are contrasted, and the Etruscans and Republican Rome are also studied.
4. On the Town - Explores the cultural achievements of the ancient past, including the Grecian contribution to democracy, India’s elaborate religious rituals, the birth of Buddhism, the effects of Confucianism on Chinese life, and the development of the Mayan calendar.
5. Legacies - Reviews the origins of many legacies from the ancient world, from the Greek contributions to modern sports and medical ethics to the theater, including Oedipus Rex and Lysistratat. Other influential civilizations profiled include Rome, Babylonia, Sumer, India, and China.
6. The End is the Beginning - This program explores factors that have weakened civilizations in India, Greece, Egypt, Italy, and Central America, including the failure to adapt to political and environmental changes.

ANIMAL ADVENTURES, Jack Hanna’s; Safari through the Masai Mara (20 minutes)

ANIMAL DISGUISES (30 minutes) (Amazing Animals Series)

ANIMALS OF THE RAINFOREST Grades 3-6 (25 minutes)

APE MAN: THE STORY OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

APOLLO COLLECTION
1. The Eagle has landed: the flight of Apollo 11
2. The time of Apollo
3. Apollo 16: nothing so hidden
4. 4 rooms Earth view

AQUATIC INSECTS see BUG CITY

ASIAN ART: GREAT TALES IN ASIAN ART (82 minutes)

ASTRONOMY 101 Beginners guide to the night sky (25 minutes)

AUDUBON: DANGER AT THE BEACH (Approx. 60 min.) Ted Danson takes a personal journey of discovery as he explores America’s 10,000 miles of coastline. Danson shows us the dimensions of our oceans’ crisis.

AVI: A talk with Avi

BABBITT, NATALIE Good conversation: a talk with Natalie Babbitt (20 minutes)

BACKYARD BUGS (15 minutes) + Teacher’s Guide National Geographic Society

THE BANANA SLUG STRING BAND - see DANCING WITH THE EARTH

BATS (22 minutes) Kids discover bats. Bat Conservation International

BEST FRIENDS
An elementary school program about dogs and responsibility for Grades K-6. Shows
how dogs work with and for people - blind, physically challenged and the elderly. Section on
proper care and training of pet. American Kennel Club

BIG CABLE BRIDGES How did they do that? Learn how big cable bridges are built . (30 min.)

THE BIG SPACE SHUTTLE (50 minutes) Blast off with the astronauts of the Space Shuttle on a real mission! Experience what it’s like to work and live in outer space.

BILL NYE (50 minutes each)
- Atoms - BN#15

- Blood circulation - BN#11

- Cells - BN#13

- Chemcial reactions - BN#1

- Digestion - BN#11

- Eyeball - BN#10

- Fish - BN#5

- Flowers - BN#7

- Forest - BN#12

- Heart - BN#10

- Light & color - BN#6

- Marine mammals - BN#5

- The moon - BN#4

- Motion - BN#15

- Oceanography - BN#3

- Outer space - BN#4

- Phases of matter - BN#1

- Planets - BN#14

- Plant - BN#12

- Powerful forces: all pumped up! - BN#9

- Skin - BN#13

- Sound - BN#6

- Spiders - BN#7

- The sun - BN#14

- Water cycle - BN#3
- Wetlands, rivers & streams - BN#2
BIODIVERSITY: WILD ABOUT LIFE Grades 7-12 (Each Program 15 minutes)
1. Biodiversity Rules! looks at the bald eagle, manatee, black-footed ferret, and Pacific yew to illustrate the importance of biodiversity to our own survival and quality of life.
2. Long Journeys looks at migratory animals such as the endangered whooping crane and hummingbird, which provide reasons for protecing habitats beyond our state and national boundaries.
3. Predators and People examines predators like the gray wolf and grizzly bear, which play an important role in healthy ecosystems.
4. Joining Forces for Nature features people who are forming partnerships to address problems they can’t resolve alone.

BLUEBERRIES FOR SAL (see THE SNOWY DAY AND OTHER CALDECOTT CLASSICS)

BOOM OR BUST: Mining and the Opening of the American West (22:11 minutes) Teacher’s Guide

BOYSTUFF (16 minutes) + Teacher’s Guide Intermediate Jr. High Life skills - health,
human sexuality

BUG CITY Grades 1-6 (23 minutes each) + Teacher’s Guides
- ANTS

- AQUATIC INSECTS

- CRICKETS, GRASSHOPPERS & FRIENDS

- FLIES & MOSQUITOES


CALDECOTT, RANDOLPH: THE MAN BEHIND THE MEDAL


CALIFORNIA HISTORY: ON LOCATION Grade 4 (Each program is 20 minutes)
1. California Recuerdo: Old Town in San Diego - A young Mexican-American girl arrives to spend Christmas with her godfather in San Diego. She discovers her heritage through watching Las Posadas, candle making, examining artifacts, and reading the recuerdo (memoir) of a woman whose life spans the Mexican period.
2. Sketches from the Capitol: The State Capitol in Sacramento - A class of school children tour the capitol, studying the symbols on the Great Seal of California and learning the rights and responsibilities of citizens in a democracy.
3. Island of Secret Memories: The Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay - A Chinese-American schoolboy comes face to face with the spirit of his deceased grandfather when he visits. He sees what life was like for Chinese immigrants waiting to learn if they were to be admitted to America.
4. Portraits in Gold - A youthful 49er tells the story of boom and bust in gold mining, examining the heritage of the California Gold Rush on economic attitudes. also presented are the issues of social and economic conflicts that arose in gold mining communities. Marshall’s Mill and Columbia State Historic Park are the settings for this program.




CALIFORNIA MISSION hosted by Huell Howser
1. California Missions #101
San Diego de Alcala
San Luis Rey de Francia
San Juan Capistrano
2. California Missions #102
San Gabriel de Arcangel
San Fernando Rey de Espana
San Buenaventura
3. California Missions #103
Santa Barbara
Santa Ines
La Purisima Concepcion
4. California Missions #104
San Luis Obispo de Tolosa
San Miguel Arcangel
San Antonio de Padua

5. California Missions #105
Nuestra Senora de la Soledad
San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo
San Juan Bautista
6. California Missions #106
Santa Cruz
Santa Clara de Asis
San Jose
7. California Missions #107
San Francisco de Asis
San Rafael Arcangel
San Francisco Solano
8. California Missions #108
Asistencia de San Antonio de Pala


CALIFORNIA MISSION: INSIDE “MISSING”
Part I: The first traces the history of the Catholic missions. Explains the reason why Spain developed the mission system with emphasis on the mission system and the Native American Indians. Art work, historic photographs, and numerious scenes of authentically restored mission, presidios, barracks, chapels and rooms convey what life at a California mission was like 200 years ago. (15 minutes)
Part II: is an extensive examination of each of the twenty-one missions. (43 minutes)

*CALIFORNIA’S GOLD “ (Grades 3-8) (30 minutes each)
401 Burried Treasures: Huell Howser travels to the coastal town of Guadaupe in northern Santa Barbara County to explore the site where Cecil b. DeMille filmed his silent film epic, The Ten Commandments. Beneath the shifting sands of Guadalupe lies the film’s spectacular set including, ten-story temple gates, 35-foot pharaoh statues and 21 concrete sphinxes.
402 Historic Horses: Huell Howser watches one of Southern California’s oldest and exciting
traditions at the W.K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Center at Cal Poly, Pomona, where for the past 66 years a monthly horse show features descendants from the oldest purebread Arabian horse breeding program in the country.
403 Islands: Annual Catalina Ski Race.
404 Joshua Tree: Joshua Tree National Monument
*CALIFORNIA’S GOLD “- continued
405 Our State’s Front Yard: Capitol Park, Sacramento.
406 Mariachi: The episode traces the history of thie popular Mexican folk music from its origins
in Jalisco to its present-day sounds in the streets of Los Angeles.
407 Golden Gate Bridge
408 Angel Island: The detention of Chinese immigrants in the early 1900’s .
409 World War II: Herman the German is the largest self-propelled floating crane in the world. It
was confiscated by American forces from Nazi Germany during WWII.
410 Amboy: Amboy is a tiny town on historic Route 66 which is in the Mojave Desert. This episode
is a desert adventure.
411 Hard To Get To:The Bristlecone Pines are the odlest, continuously living things on the
Earth.
412 Terra Cotta: Step back in time and discover the ageless beauty of terra cotta and the
history of america’s only remaining manufacturer of decorative architectural terra cotta.

CARLE, ERIC ERIC CARLE: PICTURE WRITER (27 minutes)

CASTLE Grade 6-7 Ancient Civilization/Middle Ages (Each program is 15 minutes)
1. The Early Middle Ages
2. The Development of Castles
3. Daily Life in the Middle Ages
4. Technology and Warfare

CHALLENGE TO AMERICA (Each program is 1 hour ) 4 programs

CHEMISTRY - PART 1 (2 hours, 10 minutes)

CHINESE NEW YEAR Grades K-4 (25 minutes)

CHINESE-AMERICAN HERITAGE (25 minutes) (American Cultures for Children Video Series)

CHINESE-AMERICANS Grades 4-10 (30 minutes) (Multicultural Peoples of North America Video Series)

CIRCLE OF WATER Lower elementary grades (17 minutes) + Teacher’s Guide (On nature’s trail) National Geographic Society
Young explorers follow their fantasies as they rise with morning fog, fly through clouds, fall with
rain and snow, and travel through underground caves to their local river, discovering the cycle of
water and the concept of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.

CITY & SUBURB 1: WHERE PEOPLE LIVE AND WORK (13 minutes)

CITY OF CORAL (60 minutes) NOVA

CLOSE, CHUCK - CHUCK CLOSE: A PORTRAI IN PROGRESS (57 minutes)

COLONIAL AMERICAN: LIFE IN THE MATURING COLONIES (1690-1765) (17 minutes) Britannica

COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG: Explore the historic capital of colonial Virginia in this look at an exciting outdoor museum which presents not only a wealth of restored and recreated eighteenth-century buildings, their furnishings, and their grounds and gardens, but also the activities of the people who lived and worked in Williamsburg’s homes and shops. (30 minutes)

COLONIZING NORTH AMERICA: EARLY SETTLEMENTS (18 minutes) Britannica

COLOR & LIGHT SCIENCE IN ACTION (18 minutes each) Colo
-What is color?
-Definition of primary colors
-Explanation of artifical light; both incandescent and fluorescent

COMING TO AMERICA: THE STORY OF IMMIGRATION by Betsy Maestro (14:14 minutes)

CONSERVING AMERICA: THE WETLANDS (Approx. 57 minutes) Explores our swamps and marshes through the stories of people working to protect the land they love. Alligator Annie, former trapper tuned tour guide, takes us on her boat through the spawning ground for half the nation’s seafood. We meet conservation hero Marjory Stoneman Douglas, 100+ year old author of the bestseller “River of Grass”, who has championed her beloved Florida Everglades for over 50 years. And in the Tensas region of Louisiana, a businessman, a game warden and a farmer celebrate the victorious saving of 70,000 acres of forest.

COVILLE, BRUCE: A talk with Bruce Coville (20 minutes)

CREATIVITY AND LEADERSHIP IN A LEARNING COMMUNITY Fritjof Capra April 18, 1997
(59 minutes)

CREEPY, CRAWLY CREATURES IN YOUR BACKYARD , THE UNLOVABLES (16 minutes) + Teacher’s Guide National Geographic Television
They sting. They stink. They bite. They dig up your garden, go through your garbage, and nest under your house. How could you possibly love them? Meet the creatures in your own
backyard: bees, earthworms, flies, moles, raccoons, rats, skunks & spiders

CREWS, DONALD, Author 8 minutes “Meet the Mentor” Series

CRICKETS, GRASSHOPPERS & FRIENDS see BUG CITY

DANCING WITH THE EARTH The Banana Slug String Band
Say hi; Butts up; Tidepool boogie; Water cycle boogie; Dirt made my lunch; Decomposition; Big red rap; I’m a tree; With people I like (40 minutes)

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF MIAO MIAO Grades 2-6 (21 minutes)
Share a typical day in the life of Miao Miao, a fourth grader in Beijing China

DEMONS OF THE DEEP: The world of sharks and barracudas (50 minutes) The Discovery Channel

DEPAOLA, TOMIE, Author & Artists 8 minutes “Meet the Mentor” Series

DEPAOLA, TOMIE A visit with Tomie dePaola









DESTINOS: AN INTRODUCTION TO SPANISH Grades 8-12 Spanish Language (Each Program is 30 minutes)
A wealthy partriarch, nearing the end of his life, reveals a secret which raises some important questions that must be answered before he dies. A young Mexican-American lawyer embarks on a search for those answers that take her to Spain, Argentina, Puerto Rico, then back to Mexico in 52 half-hour episodes.

While all characters speak only in Spanish, early episodes use both Spanish and English narration.

Selected vocabulary groups, grammar topics and language functions are singled out in each lesson. Each review is accompanied by sentences on screen.

DIFFERENT AND THE SAME: Grades 1-3 Life Skills (Each program is 13-15 minutes)
1. Sticks and Stones: (theme: Name calling/racial slurs, hurting others as a reaction to being hurt.) Several older kids make fun of Cat-a-lion by calling him names.
2. Cinderella and Me: (Theme: Exclusion from popular culture.) Audrey’s classmates decide she can’t play Cinderella in their play because she doesn’t look the part.
3. Long Distance: (Theme: Speaking a different language.) Francine thinks Bernardo is rude and stupid because he doesn’t respond to her questions. What she doesn’t realize is that he speaks only Spanish.
4. Play Ball: (Theme: Stereotyping.) Audrey tells Arthur he can’t play ball with her team because “kids that look like you are never good at baseball.”
5. The Club: (Theme: Standing up against prejudice directed at someone else.) Arthur excludes Francine from his new club because he doesn’t think she is “cool”.
6. Tug of War: (Theme: Choosing a friend across racial/ethnic lines.) Cat-a-lion feels torn between his friendship with Arthur and his buddies Jason and Lisa, who share his culture.
7. Proud to Be Me: (Theme: The pull between assimilation and maintaining a strong cultural identity.) Arthur thinks the medallion Cat-a-lion wears is “weird”.
8. I’m an American, Too: (Theme: Exclusion based on definitions of nationality.) Cat-a-lion accuses Francine of not being American because she wasn’t born in the U.S.A.
9. Words on the Wall: (Theme: Hate crimes.) Francine is upset and frightened because her family has received hate mail telling them to go back where they came from.

DIMENSIONS OF LEARNING (6 videos ) Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
1. Introduction (8 minutes)
2. Dimension 1: Attitudes and Perceptions (7 minutes)
3. Dimension 2: Acquire and Integrate Knowledge (7 minutes)
4. Dimension 3: Extend and Refine Knowledge (8 minutes)
5. Dimension 4: Use Knowledge Meaningfully (6minutes)
6. Dimension 5: Habits of Mind (9 minutes)


DR. SEUSS, The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, There’s a Wocket in My Pocket!, and Fox in socks

DR. SEUSS Who’s Dr. Seuss? Meet Ted Geisel - Meet the Author Series (14 minutes)

DOMINIC: A play written, directed and filmed by B.Kling’s 4th grade class 1994-95.

DROUGHT SURVIVAL IN CALIFORNIA: (15 minutes)
California Department of Water Resources: video shows how Californians survived the worst drought of the century by working together.

DRUG EDUCATION PARENT MEETING 4/17/97

DYNAMIC EARTH: CHANGES IN IT’S SURFACE (15 minutes) second edition

EARLY COLONISTS: a unit of study (Teacher’s guide and set of blackline masters)
1. Forging a New World (11 minutes)
2. Home Sweet Home: Daily life in Early Colonial America (12:30 minutes)

THE EDDIE FILES Grades 2-5 Mathematics (Each program is 20 minutes)
1. Welcome to Math: Gotta Start Somewhere - Who is Eddie and how did his files get started? It’s the first week of school in math teacher Kay Toliver’s class. The Assignment: find out about jobs that people have and how they use math. Along the way Eddie meets a doctor, a judge, a dancer, a restaurateur, a telephone technician, a sunglass designer, and a TV director.
2. Estimation: Going to the Dogs - It all starts when Eddie agrees to babysit Hector, his Aunt Rosa’s dog. If only he could help Eddie with his assignment estimating how many dogs there are in New York City. Eddie gets tips from professionals who use estimation, including a veterinarian, a professional bug farmer and a bat expert who has to deterimine how many millions of bats are in a single cave.
3. Geometry: Invasion of the Polygons - After a lesson about polygons in class, Eddie starts seeing them everywhere - the blackboard, notebooks, windows, and the clock. As he explores the subject, construction workers, an inventor, an engineer and an architect demonstate the ways polygons are used to create everything from skyscrapers to collapsible spheres.
4. Fractions: Any Way You Slice It - Kay Toliver’s story about the history of pizza sends Eddie on a trail that leads to the kitchen of a master chef and the studio of a renowned percussionists, where he discovers some surprising things about fractions.

EHLERT, LOIS; GET TO KNOW LOIS EHLERT (20 minutes) + Guide

EHLERT, LOIS; A VIDEO VISIT WITH LOIS EHLERT

ELEMENTARY ELECTRICITY (23 minutes) +Teacher’s Guide National Geographic Society

ELEMENTS, COMPOUNDS & MIXTURES (Physical Science in Action) (23 minutes)

ERIC CARLE: PICTURE WRITER (27 minutes)

EUREKA ! Grades 5-10 Physical Science ( Each programs is 5 minutes)
UNIT 1: FORCE AND ENERGY
1. Inertia - Introduces the first law of physics.
2. Mass - How it is measured: how it differs from size.
3. Speed - Force varies with mass and speed.
4. Acceleration I - Demonstates force = mass x acceleration.
5. Acceleration II - A locomotive shows how acceleration works and is calculated.
6. Gravity - Newton’s falling apple helps explain gravity and its measurements.
7. Weight vs. Mass - Differences of the two, here and on the moon.
8. Work - Circus performers show work = force x distance.
9. Kinetic Energy - BillIard balls illustrate the energy of motion.
10. Potential Energy - A teetering rock shows the energy of position.
UNIT 2: SIMPLE MACHINES
11. The Inclined Plane - Trading increased distance for decreased force.
12. The Lever - The longer the arm, the less force needed.
13. Mechanical Advantage and Friction - Friction reduces a machine’s advantage.
14. The Screw and the Wheel - Special cases of an inclined plane and a lever.
15. The Pulley - How pulleys reduce the force needed to move objects.
EUREKA !- continued ( Each programs is 5 minutes)
UNIT 3: HEAT AND TEMPERATURE
16. Molecules in Solids - The latticework structure of solids.
17. Molecules in Liquids - Molecules moving out of a solid structure.
18. Evaporation and Condensation - The movement of molecules in relation to heat.
19. Expansion and Contraction - What happens when matter gets hot or cools down.
20. Measuring Temperature - Invention of the Celsius thermometer and how it works.
21. Temperature vs. Heat - Mass and speed of molecules determine heat.
UNIT 4: THE CONDUCTION OF HEAT
22. Atoms - How atoms are arranged in different kinds of matter.
23. Electrons - Movement of electrons around the nucleus.
24. Conduction - How application of heat causes molecules or atoms to vibrate faster.
UNIT 5: CONVECTION OF HEAT
25. Volume and Density - The density of objects and how to measure their volume.
26. Buoyancy- The density of object vs. the density of a liquid determines buoyancy.
27. Convection - The rising of heated fluid and the sinking of cooled fluid.
UNIT 5: THE RADIATION OF HEAT
28. Heat as Energy - The nature and measurement of units of heat.
29. Radiation Waves - Heat energy moves in the form of waves
30. The Radiation Spectrum - The band or spectrum of heat energy waves.

EVENTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY Grades 7-12 (Each program is 15 minutes)
1. Apollo XI
2. Chernobyl: Lessons Learned
3. JFK Assassination: Transfer of Power
4. Lessons of the Holocaust
5. Martin Luther King: Civil Rights Movement
6. Return to Vietnam
7. Conversation with Rosa Parks
8. Return to Auschwitz

EVERY STONE HAS A STORY National Geographic Society (20 minutes )Teacher’s Guide

EVERYTHING IS SOMETHING (MATTER) (15 minutes) (Science Fact & Fun)

THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH (50 minutes) Understanding government

EYEWITNESS: (Each video is 35 minutes)
- APE
- ARCTIC & ANTARCTIC
- BEAR
- BUTTERFLY & MOTH
- DESERT
- MAMMAL
- MOUNTAIN
- OCEAN
- POND & RIVER
- PLANT
- PLANETS
- PREHISTORIC LIFE
- SEASHORE
- SHARK
- SHELL
EYEWITNESS: (Each video is 35 minutes
- SIGHT
- SKELETON
- TREE
- VOLCANO
- WEATHER

FANTASTIC FOOD PYRAMID see BUG CITY

FOOD PYRAMID (5:30 minutes)
Discovery Channel School - TLC the learning Channel, 2 page teacher’s guide

FOUNTAIN OF COLUMBIA 1857: “California Legacy 2000” series - Gold Rush town of Columbia

FOX, MEM see Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge

FREEDMAN, RUSSELL: Historian/Author (8 minutes) Meet the Mentor Video

FRESHWATER WETLANDS (26 minutes)

FROM THE MIXED-UP FILES OF MRS. BASIL E. FRANKWEILER (92 minutes)
Hallmark

GEOGRAPHY IN U.S. HISTORY Grades 5-12 (Each program is 19 minutes)
1. North vs South in the Founding of the U.S.: 1787-1796 - The first episode discusses the regional differences between the North and South that complicated efforts to establish a
workable constitutional government. It also explores the roles of Madison and Washington in this
process.
2. Jeffererson Purchases Louisiana: 1801-1813 - This program explores the history of the Louisiana Purchase and how it boosted the economis status and national security of the U.S.
3. Civil War & Social Change in Georgia: 1860-1870 - A look at the lifestyle of one
Southern family before, during and after the Civil War.
4. Clash of cultures on the Great Plains: 1856-1900 - This program demonstrates the
changes in the Native Americans’ way of life by showing how the Lakota people lived before,
during, and after the buffalo were destroyed.
5. Industrial Revolution In Pittsburgh: 1865-1900 - This program looks at the Pittsburgh steel industry to examine the subsequent urban growth that characterized the Industrial
Revolution.
6. Americans Build The Panama Canal: 1901-1914 - The development and impact of the
Panama Canal from the land acquisition to the canal’s completion in 1914 is explored.
7. Nation of Immigrants: Chinese-American Experience 1850-1990 - A look at
immigration to the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries with a focus on the westward movement by immigrants from China
8. Moving North to Chicago: 1900-1945 - This program explores the migration from the
rural South to urban areas in the North, and the struggles of African Americans to overcome racial
discrimination during the first half of the 20th century.
9. New Deal for the Dust Bowl: 1931-1945 - Illustrated the hardships brought on by the
Great Depression and the Dust Bowl and government intervention (the New Deal) to help the
farmers cope with these economic and environmental disasters.
10. Origin & Development of NATO: 1945-1991 - Describes the Cold War atmosphere
following World War II and the foreign policy responses of the U.S. and its allies to the Soviet
Union and its allies.

GEORGE, JEAN CRAIGHEAD - Meet the Newbery Author Series (16 minutes)

GIACOMETTI : FACE TO FACE WITH GIACOMETTI (55 minutes)

THE GINGERBREAD MAN by Eric A. Kimmel, illustrated by Megan Lloyd. (8 minutes)

GIRLSTUFF (17:50 minutes) second edition + Teacher’s Guide
Life skills, health, feminine hygiene
GLORIA LYON, HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR: MVMS 3/1/95 (MVMS use only)

GOLD RUSH AND THE SETTLEMENT OF CALIFORNIA (16 minutes) Britannica

THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE (50 minutes) The History Channel

GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS see THE SNOWY DAY AND OTHER CALDECOTT CLASSICS

GRAVITY IS ATTRATIVE - WHAT IS GRAVITY? (15 minutes)

HERE’S HOW Grades 1-3, Physical Science (Each program is 10 minutes)
1. Balls - A look at balls and ball games through history.
2. Bicycles and Pucks - A summary of the bicycle’s and hockey puck’s manufacture.
3. Crayons and Markers - A historical exploration of writing and drawing and the implements we use, followed by a visit to a factory where crayons and markers are made.
4. Balloons - Animated graphics and newsreel footage explore ballooning and airships.
5. Chewing Gum - A look at chewing gum and the manufacture of gum.
6. Elevators - This story of Elisha Otis’ invention features footage of elevator installation.
7. Peanuts - Kids observe the farming of peanuts.
8. Radio and Television - After visits to a radio station, television station and control room, children make a TV studio out of a cardboard box and put on a radio show.
9. Clocks and Watches - Viewers learn about the history of timepieces and visit clock factories.
10. Ice Cream and Popsicles - ×Kids learn about the “water ices” of the ancient Chinese and visit a plant that makes popsicles and ice cream.
HERE’S HOW - continued
11. The Postal Station - Explores the development of postal services and visits a huge postal station to show what happens to a letter after you drop it in a mailbox.
12. Lightbulbs - Describes the manufacture of incandescent and fluorescent bulbs.
13. Roads and Bridges - Compares old and new techniques of road building.
14. Tunnels - A history of tunnels and their builders, and a look at the Hong Kong subway.
15. Dolls - At a doll factory, kids see plastic and vinyl dolls being made.
16. Trucks - Shows the history of trucks and trucking. Featured footage shows the assembly of a Mack truck from the ground up.
17. Houses - Traces the development and construction of houses from early times. Children build a model neighborhood, then viewers see a modern subdivision.
18. Soup - At the Campbell’s Soup factory, viewers see how vegetable soup is made-from chopping vegetables to canning.
19. Printing a Newspaper - Viewers visit a big-city newspaper to see how the early-morning edition is laid out, printed and distributed.
20. Soap - Examines early soap-making and attitudes to bathing, then visits Colgate-Palmolive to see the complete modern soap-making procedure.



HIV/AIDS: A CHALLENGE TO US ALL Guide
1. Educating our children
2. A parent meeting

HOLIDAYS FOR CHILDREN VIDEO SERIES: Grades K - 4 (30 minutes each)
1. VALENTINE’S DAY
2. KWANZAA
3. CHINESE NEW YEAR
4. CINCO DE MAYO

A HOME FOR PEARL Grades K-5 Environmental Studies (each program is
15-20 minutes)
1. The Robin - examines the different needs of wildlife and domesticated animals. Regardless of where a wildlife species lives, it requires a particular kind of home or habitat that provides food, water, shelter, and space.
2. Habitat Diversity - compares the habitat requirements of different animals. In general, the more diverse or complex the habitat is, the more wildlife it will have. The type and number of different species in a habitat is regulated by a variety of limiting factors.
3. Predators - explains the ways in which humans affect wildlife habitats and identifies several predators. People can improve a habitat and attract more wildlife by increasing habitat diversity.
4. The Right Home for Pearl - identifies the habitat needs of bald eagles’ endangerment. Bald eagles have very specific habitat requirements and are protected in wildlife refuges.

HOUSEFLY; AN EVERYDAY MONSTER 45 minutes)

HOW COMMUNITIES ARE ALIKE AND DIFFERENT (14 minutes)

HOW DIFFICULT CAN THIS BE? (Understanding learning disabilities) The F.A.T. City Workshop. View the world through the eyes of a learning disabled child. (Program: 70 minutes)

HUNT FOR THE GREAT WHITE SHARK National Geographic Society (55 minutes)

I CAN MAKE FRIENDS (Pre-K through lower elementary grades) (15 minutes) + Teacher’s Guide National Geographic Society
A youngster, with valuable assistance from his talking dog, learns how to make friends with a
new neighbor and in the process learns valuable lessons about honest and trust.

I DIG FOSSILS A Real Life Adventure For Children of all Ages
Come along as Scott and his dad go on a real-life adventure to find 300 million year old fossils
just a few hours from their home.

IMMIGRATION - ISLAND OF HOPE, ISLAND OF TEARS (29 minutes)

IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES Grades K-4 (25 minutes) “American History for Children
Video Series”

IN CELEBRATION OF TREES The World’s Oldest Living Things (50 minutes) The Discovery Channel

IN THE COMPANY OF WHALES: Gentle giants of the watery realm (90 minutes) The Discovery Channel

INSIDE HAWAIIAN VOLCANOES (25 minutes) Smithsonian Institution Narrated by Roger Mudd

THE INSIDE STORY WITH SLIM GOODBODY Grades 3- 5 Life Science (Each program is 15 minutes)
1. Lubba Dubba: The Inside Story of Your Heart and Blood - Slim takes a tour of the circulatory system, discusses slow and fast heartbeats in animals and children, and presents an experiment with circulation.
2. The Breath of Life: The Inside Story of Respiration - With giant models of the diaphragm and lungs, Slim shows how breathing works. He traces the path oxygen takes from the air to the alveoli, capillaries and body cells.
3. Down, Down, Down: The Inside Story of Digestion - Slim’s step-by-step explanation of digestion features a duet with a giant set of teeth and a reenactment of pioneer doctor William Beaumont’s observations of digestion.
4. The Team That Hustles: The Inside Story of Your Bones and Muscles - Slim and a friendly skeleton chat about bones and their structure. Animation and a giant hand help him show different types of bones, joints and muscles and how they work together.
5. The Smart Parts: The Inside Story of Your Brain and Nervous System - Slim llustrates the major brain regions and how impulses flash through the nervous system. Slim also explains about voluntary and involuntary actions.
6. Sensational Five: The Inside Story of Your Senses - Slim uses models to show how the eye, ear, nose, mouth, and skin work with the brain to keep us in touch with the world.
7. The Little Giants: The Inside Story of Your Glands - Slim explores the electrical and chemical partnership between the brain and the endocrine system. He explains the functions and importance fo the thyroid, pituitary, adrenal, and sex glands.
8. The Body Symphony: The Inside Story of Your Whole Body - With models, Slim shows cell structure and how cells are grouped into tissues, organs and organisms.
9. Protection Against Infection: The Inside Story of the Immune System and AIDS - Slim explains how the immune system fights and overcomes most diseases that attack the body, and how AIDS attacks and defeats the immune system. Children ask questions as Slim talks about what does and does not cause AIDS.
10. Attention to Prevention: The Inside Story of Substance Abuse - Slim shows the short and long-term effects of drug abuse: discusses specific dangers of tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, and crack; and suggests effective responses to pressures to use drugs.

INTERGRATED SCIENCE: THE ENVIRONMENTAL SERIES Grades 5-8 (Each program is
15 minutes
5. The Environment - Examples from a southwest pine forest, the Smoky Mountains and other
ecosystmes illustrate the interdependence of ecosystems’ species.
6. Symbiotic Relationship - Three types of symbiotic relationship - commensal, mutal and
parasitic are explored through the examples of ants and plants, blueberry bees and parasites.
7. Endangered Species - Factors influencing a species’s survival are explored through the
examples of the Devil’s Hole pupfish in Nevada and various Amazonian species. Classification
of endangered, threatened and extinct species are distinguished.
8 Succession - The stages of an ecosystem’s succession from a pioneer to a mature, climax
community through examples from southeast U.S. pine forest, the Amazon rain forest and a clay
deposit that was once the seafloor.

IRISH AMERICANS Grades 4-10 (30 minutes) Multicultural Peoples of North America Video Series

ISHI, THE LAST YAHI (1 Hour)

ISLAND OF HOPE-ISLAND OF TEARS (28:30 minutes)
The story of Ellis Island and the American immigration experience. Produced by Guggenheim Productions

ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS (1 hour, 33 minutes)

IT FIGURES: Grades 3 - 4 Mathematics (Each program is 15 minutes)
1. Deciding when to use subtraction
2. Deciding how close to measure
3. Problem-solving: acting it out
4. Using estimation
5. Understanding place value
6. Deciding when to use multiplication
7. Using fractions
8. Problem-solving: drawing a picture
9. Looking at objects from different positions
10. Using mental computation
11. Using division
12. Problem-solving: making a table
13. Using multiplication and addition
14. Relating fractions and decimals
15. Predicting your change
16. Using bar graphs
17. Understanding remainders
18. Problem-solving: recognizing necessary information
19. Finding equivalent fractions
20. Finding area by covering
21. Making sense of a big number
22. Estimating when dividing
23. Comparing decimals
24. Using probability
25. Changing scale on a graph
26. Problem-solving: keep on trying
27. Problem-solving: many ways to go
28. Problem-solving: using a guide

IT’S ELEMENTARY! TELECONFERENCE 3-18-93 (60 minutes)

THE JAMES MARSHALL LIBRARY: see Marshall, James

JAMESTOWN Grades 3-7 (23 minutes) + Teacher’s Guide (Colonial Life for Children)
JAPAN (30 minutes) Rand McNally

JAPANESE-AMERICAN HERITAGE Grades K-4 (25 minutes) American Cultures for Children

JEFFERSON, THOMAS (2 - 90 minute videos)
A film by Ken Burns. Teacher’s guide and video index

JET PROPULSION LABORATORY:
1. Best of JPL
- The JPL Story
- Supernova II (1987 A)
- Tracking and Data Acquistion
- Space Flight Operations Facility
- Magellan: Exploration of Venus
- Galileo: Images of the Atmosphere of Venus (silent)
- Galileo: Earth/Moon Encounter 1
- Viking on Mars
- Galileo: The Jovian Laboratory
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY:
1. Best of JPL - continued
- Third Step to Jupiter
- Life and the Solar System: CRAF and Cassini Missions
- The Universe
2. Travels of Voyager

3. JPL Computer Graphics (Approx. 1 hour)
- JPL Solar System Visualization Project
- L.A. the movie
- Miranda the movie
- Earth the movie
- Mars the movie
- Alpha Regio (Venus)
- Sif Mons and Gula Mons (Venus)
- Western Istar Regio (Venus)
- Monterey: The Bay
- Voyager the Last Picture Show
- Jupiter Magnetosphere (older)
- Radar images of Asteroid 1989 PB
- SIRIT: The Space Infrared Telescope Facility
- Raw footage of the Galileo Animation (Silent)
4. Shuttle Collection
- Ed. Office Presentation Clip
- Eating and Sleeping in Space
- Shuttle Life is the World of Weightlessness
- Space Shuttle: Signal for the Hearing Impaired
- Sts 51-D Mission Highlights
5. Apollo Collection
- The Eagle has Landed: the Flight of Apollo 11
- The Time of Apollo
- 4 Rooms Earth View

JOHN HENRY (30 minutes) color
Told by Denzel Washington; illustrated by Barry Jackson; music by B.B.King

JOHNNY APPLESEED (30 minutes) color
Told by Garrison Keillor; illustrated by Stan Olson; music by Mark O’Connor

THE JUDICAL BRANCH (50 minutes)
Understanding government

KEATS, EZRA JACK: The Ezra Jack Keats Library (45 minutes) : The snowy day: Themes: Winter, Grade Level: Pre-K-1; 6 minutes, animated; Whistle for Willie: Themes: Growing Up/Pets, Grade Level: Pre-K-1, 6 minutes, animated; Peter’s chair: Themes:Families/Sibling Rivalry, Grade Level: Pre-K-3) 6 minutes, iconographic; A letter to Amy: Themes: Friendship/Love, Grade Level: K-2, 7 minutes, iconographic; Pet Show: Themes: Pets/Kindness/City Living, Grade Level: K-3, 7 minutes, iconographic; The trip: Themes: Moving/Friendship/ Imagination/Halloween, Grade Level: K-2, 6 minutes, iconographic with limited animation;
Getting to know Ezra Jack Keats.


KILAUEA: CLOSE UP OF AN ACTIVE VOLCANO (30 minutes)

KILLER WHALES: WOLVES OF THE SEA National Geographic Society (60 minutes)

KING, JR., MARTIN LUTHER
(25 minutes) The speech that changed
the hearts and minds of a bitterly divided nation

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. A Picture Book of By David A. Adler (9:30 minutes)

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY (12 minutes)


LEARNING ABOUT LEARNING (20 minutes) from Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development


LEARNING WITH TECHNOLOGY: Merging onto the information highway; Schools of the future 2: putting the tools to the test.


THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH (50 minutes)
Understanding government


LENSES & MIRRORS SCIENCE IN ACTION (18 minutes each) Color
- Mirrors and Reflection
- Lenses and Mirrors
- Lenses and Mirrors in Action
Defines different types of lenses and mirrors and the ways light is refracted and reflected from lighthouses to telescopes.


LEXINGTON, CONCORD, AND INDEPENDENCE American History - Birth of a Nation, Grades Inter. - Jr. High (16 minutes)


LIFE IN A GOLD MINING CAMP 1850 (18 minutes)
From the time of the discovery of gold in 1848, prospectors ranged the West seeking new bonanzas. Mining towns sprang up and died as strikes were made and veins of gold ran out.


LOBEL, ARNOLD, Meet the Newbery Author Series (11.30 minutes)


MCCLOSKEY, ROBERT: The Robert McCloskey Library (55 minutes):
Lentil: Grade Level: K-2, 9 minutes, iconographic;
Make way for ducklings: Grade Level: Pre-K-2 ,11 minutes, iconographic; Blueberries for Sal: Grade Level:Pre-K-2, 9 minutes, iconographic;
Time of wonder: Grade Level 1-5, 13 minutes, iconographic;
Burt Dow deep-water man: Grade Level 1-4, 10 minutes, animated;
Getting to know Robert McCloskey.


MACHINES, ENGINES AND MOTORS (Research) (15 minutes) (Sciend Fact & Fun)
MAGIC SCHOOL BUS Grades K-4, Science (Each program is 30 minutes)
1. The Magic School Bus Blows its Top - Topic: Volcanoes MSB#1
2. The Magic School Bus Busasaurus- Topic:Dinosaurs MSB#2a , MSB#2b
3 The Magic School Bus Butterfly and Bog Beast - Topic: Butterflies MSB#3
4. The Magic School Bus Flexes Its Muscles - Topic: Body Mechanics MSB#4
5. The Magic School Bus for Lunch - Topic: Digestion MSB#5
6. The Magic School Bus Gets Ants in Its Pants - Topic: Ants MSB #6
7. The Magic School Bus Gets Eaten - Topic: Food Chain MSB#7
8. The Magic School Bus Gets Lost in Space - Topic: Solar System MSB#8a, MSB#8b
9. The Magic School Bus Getting Energized - Topic: Genergy MSB#9a, MSB#9b
10. The Magic School Bus Goes to Seed - Topic: Seeds MSB#10
11. The Magic School Bus Going Batty - Topic: Bats MSB#11
12. The Magic School Bus Hops Home - Topic: Habitat MSB#12
13. The Magic School Bus in a beehive - Topic: Bees MSB#19
14. The Magic School Bus in the Haunted House - Topic: Sound MSB#14
15. The Magic School Bus Inside Ralphie - Topic: Germs MSB#1, MSB#13
16. The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth - Topic: Geology Reading Rainbow Tape RR#14
17. The Magic School Bus Kicks Up a Storm - Topic: Weather MSB#15
18 The Magic School Bus Out of this World - Topic Space Rocks MSB#16
19. The Magic School Bus Plays Ball - Topic: Forces + Motion MSB#17
20. The Magic School Bus Ready, Set, Dough - Topic: Kitchen Chemistry MSB#18
21. The Magic School Bus Spins a Web - Topic: Spiders MSB#20
22. The Magic School Bus Taking Flight - Topic: Flight MSB#21

MAPPING YOUR WORLD National Geographic Society (17 minutes) Teacher’s Guide

MAPS: WHERE AM I? (11 minutes) Teacher’s guide

MARSHALL, JAMES: The James Marshall Library (42 minutes):
Wings: a tale of two chickens: Grade Level: K-4, 9 minutes, animated;
Goldilocks and the three bears: Grade Level: K-2, 8 minutes, animated;
The three little pigs: Grade Level Pre-K-1, 8 minutes, animated;
Red riding hood: Grade Level: K-2, 8 minutes, animated;
Getting to know James Marshall.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. A Picture Book of By David A. Adler (9:30 minutes)

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY (12 minutes)

MATH TALK Grades 4-6 Mathematics (Each program is 15 minutes)
PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS
1. Take a Chance! Exploring Probability - An unfair carnival game and quiz show about flipping a coin illustrate basic concepts of probability.
2. The Data Game: Using Graphs - Several sketches show how charts and graphs help represent data for easy analysis.
3. The Perils of Polling: Conducting Surveys - Learn why accuracy of a poll depends on having a valid survey group.
4. Whom Do You Ask? Understanding Surveys - Avoid faulty analysis by knowing how a survey group relates to the target population.
5. Don’t Jump to Conclusions: Interpreting Statistics - Are those statistics useful? Analyze carefully to see what statistics really mean.
NUMBER SENSE
6. Evening Things Out: Understanding Averages - Useful as they are, averages don’t tell you everything. Learn how to find an average and explore a variety of approaches to what averages really mean.
MATH TALK Grades 4-6 Mathematics (Each program is 15 minutes) - continued
7. Factor’Em In: Exploring Factors and Multiples - Matching up packages of hotdogs with packages of buns is one way this video relates numbers through multiplication.
8. Soaring Sequences: Thinking About Large Numbers - Start at a dollar a day and double a waitress’s salary each day. She’ll be a billionaire in less than a month! Large numbers are all around us; still, there is no largest number.
10. Both Sides of Zero: Playing with Positive and Negative Numbers - A clumsy athlete, several animations and a computer game powerfully illustrate arithmetic with positive and negative numbers.
MEASUREMENT
11. Measured Steps: Measuring Length - Can you help a bumbling innkeeper measure the length of a carpet for a flight of steps?
12. Scoping Out the Area: Measuring Area - Figure out how to measure the area of an odd- shaped lawn.

MATH VANTAGE Grades 5 - 9 Mathematics (Each program is 9-15 minutes)
1. Discovering Patterns - Introduces the use of patterns to explain, create and predict.
2. Patterns and Ten - Illustrates the use of patterns in base 10 place value, exponents, scientific notation, and the metric system.
3. Sequences and Ratios - Fibonacci Sequence and Golden Ratio are shown in the world around us.
4. Tessellations/Tranformations - Examines tessellations by using everyday examples and explores rotating, reflecting and translating shapes.
5. Networks, Paths and Knots - Focuses on math as evolving through experimentation and discovery. Ties Euler’s early work to recent use of network theory, as well as to topology and knot theory.
6. 2D Vision in a 3D World - Explores the spatial skills needed for visualizing, representing and interpreting objects and object drawing.
7. What’s Your Angle? - Investigates angles and parallel and perpendicular lines.
8. Trusing Triangles - Illustrates the use of triangles for structural support and as a means of measuring distance.
9. A World of Quadrilaterals - Explores perimeter, area and properties of certain types of four- sided figures.
10. Circles, Curves and Spheres - Car races and amusement park rides illustrate properties of circles, curves and spheres, including area and circumference problems.
11. Containers: Surface Area and Volume - The relationship between surface area and volume is explored using people, buildings and other types of “containers.”

MATH WORKS Grade 5 Mathematics (Each program is 15 minutes)
1. Measurement: Finding Area of Rectangles
2. Problem-Solving: Identifying the Problem
3. Mental Computation: Using Mental Computation For Addition
4. Decimals: Place Value in Decimals
5. Geometry: Exploring Geometric Shapes
6. Estimating: Estimating by Rounding
7. Problem-Solving: Simplifying the Problem
8. Decimals: Relating Fractions and Decimals
9. Measurements: The Difference Between Perimeter and Area
10. Problem-Solving: Using Tables
11. Fraction: Adding and Subtracting Fractions and Mixed Numbers with Like Denominators
12. Statistics: Sampling
13. Geometry : Exploring Movement of Objects in Space
14. Problem Solving: Looking for a Pattern
15. Decimals: Comparing Decimals
MATH WORKS Grade 5 Mathematics (Each program is 15 minutes) - continued
16. Problem-Solving: Using Diagrams
17. Mental Computation: Using Mental Computation for Subtraction
18. Place Value: Place Value of Large Numbers
19. Estimating: Other Estimation Strategies
20. Fractions: Adding and Subtracing Fractions and Mixed Numbers with Unlike Denominators
21. Statistics: Collecting Data
22. Problem-Solving: Using Graphs
23. Probability: Possible Outcomes
24. Decimals: Understanding the Placement of the Decimal Point
25. Measurement: Dividing Regions into Subregions for Finding Area
26. Statistics: Analyzing Data
27. Ratio: Forming Ratios
28 Problem-Solving: Using Maps

MATHEMEDIA Grades 7-9 Mathematics (Each program is 20 minutes long)
1. Data - Following a brief exercise session, students collect data on heart rates and use graphs to aid in the prediction of optimal rates.
2. Whole Numbers and Decimals - Students determine how prices change over a year’s time in a foreign country with rampant inflation.
3. Reasoning - Examines a series of logic puzzles that can be solved using Venn diagrams or logical reasoning.
4. Fractions - Examines how a commercial paper recycler uses fractions.
5. Measurement and Geometry - Show how a carpenter must measure perimeter to accurately determine how much molding is needed.
6. Integers - Engineers demonstrate how they keep track of river depth. Students use data tables to find average depths above flood stages (negative numbers)
7. Equation and Inequalities - Students create formulas showing how a bowler’s score is a function of the number of pins knocked down by each ball.
8. Ratio and Proportion - Examines ratios based on sports statistics.
9. Percent - The concepts of data analysis, fraction and ratio are used to construct charts to
10. Geometry of Size, Shape and Position - Using flags of different countries, this program examines shapes with specific geometric properties.
11. Area and Volume - By comparing the difference between indoor and outdoor sports, this program explores concepts of scale.
12. Probability - Using precipitation data, this program examines what it means to have a 30 per cent “chance of rain.”


MATHEMATICS WITH MANIPULATIVES Marilyn Burns (Each program is 20 minutes)
1. Base Ten Blocks
2. Color Tiles
3. Cuisenaire Rods
4. Geoboards
5. Pattern Blocks
6. Six Molds (Unifix Cubes, MultilinkCubes, Color Cubes, Tangrams, Attribute Blocks, and Two- Color Counters)

MATTER: BUILDING BLOCKS OF THE UNIVERSE (16 minutes)

MATTER - VOL. 2 (Color, Approx. 22 min) Dr. Science demonstrates easy to understand experiments. This volume explains the basic principles of matter : physical properties, states of matter, weight & mass, density, Boyle’s Law, Charles’ Law, and phase changes.

MEET THE NEWBERY AUTHOR SERIES
1. Jean Craighead George (16:30 minutes)
2. Arnold Lobel (11:30 minutes)
3. Cynthia Rylant (10 minutes)
3. Who’s Dr. Seuss? Meet Ed Geisel (14:00 minutes)

MEXICAN AMERICANS Grades 4-10 (30 minutes) Multicultural Peoples of North America Video

MIRACLE OF LIFE (60 minutes) NOVA

MORA, PAT: Author (8 minutes) Meet the Mentor Video

MUFARO’S BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTERS see WHY MOSQUITOES BUZZ IN PEOPLE’S EARS

MULTICULTURAL PEOPLES OF NORTH AMERICA Grades 4-10 (30 minutes each)
1. CHINESE AMERICANS
2. IRISH AMERICANS
3. MEXICAN AMERICANS

MUSICAL FOREST March 22, 1995 Performance by three second grades at Tam Valley


NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE (25 minutes) American Cultures for Children

NATURE’S FURY! Witness the destructive power of tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, and floods. (60 minutes) National Geographic Society

NEIGHBORHOODS (Grades 1-3) (11minutes, 39 seconds) + Teacher’s Guide and set of Blackline
Masters (Where we live, work, and play)
What makes a nieghborhood unique? Who lived there in the past? Where do it residents shop?
Are there places to play? Children will have the chance to explore different neighborhoods and
compare them to their own.

NEWCAST FROM THE PAST Grades 7-12 Ancient Civilization (Each program is 15 minutes)
1. July 14, 1148 - News stories: Jerusalem falls to the crusaders - Peter Abelard convicted of heresy. Jury system begins in England - Thomas Becket flees to France - Aztecs conquer the
Toltecs.
2. June 15, 1215 - News stories: King John sign the Magna Carta - Ghenghis Khan invades
China - Children’s Crusade ends in disaster - Mayans perfect first accurate calendar - Catherdral
of Notre Dame built.
3. September 19, 1356 - News stories: 100 Year War - Mongols attach Beijing - Black Plague
strikes Europe - English and Flemish guild workers riot - Mali king pilgrimages to Mecca.
4. May 30, 1431 - News stories: Joan of Arc burned at Rouen - The Renaissance is born in
Florence - Spanish Inquisition begins - Gutenberg invents the printing press - Khmer
Empire moves capital to Phnom Penh.
5. April 18, 1521 - New stories: Martin Luther calls for a Reformation - Ming Chinese invade
Vietnam - Cortez invases Aztec empire - Copernicus reveals his theory of the solar system -
Christopher Columbus dies.
6. October 23, 1642 - New stories: English civil war begins at Nottingham - Slavery
legalized in Jamestown, Virginia - Catholic uprising begins in Ireland - Taj Mahal completed -
African Sultan of Kanem captures Bornu.

OCEANS ALIVE Grades 4-8 Life Science (Each program is 5 minutes)
1. Introduction - Describes the variety of life in the oceans with examples of animal adaptations.
2. Predation - Provides examples of a variety of ocean predators and examines adaptations for locating prey.
3. Cnidaria - Explores characteristics common to different types of corals, jellyfish and anemones.
4. Living Rock - Illustrates how individual coral polyps produce a reef and examines conditions for growth.
5. The Coral Jungle - Explores the variety of organisms that make their home in a coral reef.
Explores examples of symbiosis, commensalism, parasitism, and mutualism in the ocean environment.
7. The Clownfish and the Anemone - Examines the symbiotic relationship between the sea anemone and the clownfish.
8. Protection by Deception - Provides examples of mimicry, countershading, schooling, and disruptive contrast in marine fish.
9. Camouflage - Explores camouflage as a survival mechanism and explains how chromatophores enable organisms to change color and pattern.
10. Armed and Dangerous - Examines special adaptations, such as spines and nematocysts, that provide protection from predation.
11. Porifera - Illustrates how sponges have characteristics of both plants and animals.
12. Crustacea - Examines Characteristics of crustaceans with special emphasis on their external skeleton.
13. Echinoderms -Illustrates common characteristics of echinoderms such as sea cucumbers and starfish.
14. What is a fish? - Explores characteristics of bony and cartilaginous fish.
15. Fish Senses - Shows how some fish can smell, hear, taste, and touch in ways similar to humans.
16. Sharks and Ray - Explores the characteristics of cartilaginous fish and special adaptation of sharks and rays.
17. Respiration - Describes the ways respiration in fish differ from human respiration and examines the gill structure.
18. Undersea Eyes - Explores the variety of types of vision found in marine organisms.
19. The Deep Blue - Discusses factors that impact color perception underwater.
20. Reproduction - Explores a variety of reproduction mechanisms, including internal and external fertilization.

THE ONE YEAR (2nd edition) (23.5 minutes) Teacher’s guide
This comprehensive program helps girls and boys understand the new emotions and physical
changes taht occur during puberty
OPENING OF THE AMERICAN WEST ( Each program is 18 minutes)
1. Explorers and Fur Traders
2. The Oregon Trail

ORIGINS: A HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA Grades 5-11 U.S. History
(Each program is 30 minutes)
1. The First Nations - Traces networks of classical civilizations of the Americas to examine trade and politics of Native Americans. Examines the discovery of agriculture and the arrival of the Europeans.
3. The First Europeans - Dramatizes Europeans exploration, from the Viking arrival in 800 A.D. through the fifteenth century. Speculates about undocumented explorations to the Americas prior to the Vikings.
4. The Treasure Hunt - Highlights discoveries of explorers in the fifteenth century.



OUR SOLAR SYSTEM: THE INNER PLANETS (26 minutes)
1. Visit Mercury
2. Experience Venus
3. Contrast Earth
4. Encounter Earth’s moon
5. Meet Mars

OUR SOLAR SYSTEM: THE OUTER PLANETS (26 minutes)
1. Visit Jupiter
2. Experience Saturn
3. Encounter Uranus
4. Meet Neptune
5. Imagine tiny Pluto
6. Visit the Fascinating moons of the Giants

THE OUTSIDE STORY WITH SLIM GOODBODY Grades 3-4 Life, Physical & Earth Science (Each program is 15 minutes)
1. Our Living Planet - Explores the atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere.
2. The Air We Share - Discusses why oxygen and carbon dioxide are essential to life.
3. Our Watery World - Provides information on the hydrosphere, stressing the importance of conserving and preserving the fresh water that we have.
4. Treasurehouse Earth: Common Ground - Highlights the importance of energy conservation by examining the finite amounts of minerals, metals, and energy that are available to us.
5. The Family of Life - Discusses the relationships between the lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmoshere, and shows how changes in one causes changes throughout the biosphere.
6. It All Adds Up - Reduce, reuse, and recycle are the three key words for this program, which discusses how waste can be handled in an environmentally responsible way.

OWEN see THE SNOWY DAY AND OTHER CALDECOTT CLASSICS

OWL MOON AND OTHER CALDECOTT CLASSICS
- Owl Moon by Jane Yolen (8 minutes) a child and her father look for the Great Horned Owl.
- Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey (11 minutes) The Mallards find a home for their ducklings!
- In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak (6 minutes) A little boy dreams of a kitchen at night where bakers bake cakes and bread-dough airplanes fly.
- Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola (9 minutes) Big Anthony finds himself knee-deep in pasta
when he ignores Strega Nona’s warnings!

PAULSEN, GARY (24 minutes) Trumpet video visit: Gary Paulsen

PHYSICS (Part 1) (1 hour, 45 minutes)

THE PLANETS (51 minutes) narrated by Patrick Stewart

PLANT LIFE FOR CHILDREN VIDEO SERIES Grades K-4 (23 minutes each)
- ALL ABOUT PLANT POLLINATION: FRUIT, FLOWERS & SEEDS
- ALL ABOUT PLANT STRUCTURE & GROWTH





PLANT OR ANIMAL? (15 minutes) + Teacher’s guide National Geographic Society
This film helps us distinguish plants from animals. We see that animals move freely on land, through the air, and in the water, while most plants are held in place by their roots. A plant’s leaves may turn toward the sun, and its roots, stems, and leaves move as they grow; but otherwise a plant s immovile. Both plants and animals need food to grow and to survive, but while most plants make their own food, animals eat plants of other animals or sometimes both.

PLIMOTH PLANTATION - THE GODLY COMMUNITY: (20 minutes) Tells why and how the first pilgrim immigrants settled in Massachusetts. Presents the time line of major events from 1608 through 1633 - the Puritan’s religious conflicts in England, migration to Holland, back to England, then to the New World. Shows what daily Pilgrim life was like circa 1627 and how religious beliefs influenced Pilgrim life.

POINT BONITA LIGHTHOUSE Grades 3-11 (13 minutes)

POLAR PROWL (Really wild animals) (40 minutes) Activity Sheet, National Geographic Society

PORTUGUESE EXPLORERS
From the exploring the world series

THE POST OFFICE (Your Town) (15 minutes) + Teacher’s Guide National Geographic Society
Follow the early evolution of our postal service with the help of historical film footage as well
as accurate reenactments-from stagecoach and Pony Express to mail-carrying trains, ships and planes. Track a birthday card as it travels through today’s postal system, its journey expedited by such marvels of modern technology as culling machines, optical character readers, and letter sorting machines.

POWER OF THE PERIODIC TABLE

POWER UP?: ENERGY IN OUR ENVIRONMENT Grades 4-6 (23 minutes)

POWERS OF TEN: VOLUME 1 The films of Charles & Ray Eames (21 minutes)
An adventure in magnitudes, introduction narrated by Gregory Peck.

PQR - THE NEW PQR A POWERFUL TOOL FOR REFORM ETN/LACOE

PROJECT MATHEMATICS Grades 6-12 Mathematics (Each program is 22-30 minutes)
1. The Theorem of Pythagoras - Examines the hypotenuse and legs of a right triangle, area of a parallelogram, area of a triangle, shearing, and change of scale.
2. The Story of Pi - Asks “What is pi?” and examines its uses and early history, scaling, circumference, area, and ratio.
3. Similarity - Looks at the ratio of two numbes, shape and size, similar triangles, and polygons and solids.
4. Polynomials - Defines constant, linear, quadratic, cubic, quartic, and quintic polynomials.
5. Sines and Cosines I - Examines circular motion and sine waves, symmetry, and sine waves and sound.
6. Sines and Cosines II - Discusses fundamental properties, law of sines and cosines, and addition formulas.

PUMPKIN CIRCLE The story of a garden (20 minutes) (Ages 4 to adult)
Pumpkin Circle is a bug’s eye view and a birdf’s high view of the miraculous cycle of nauter unfolding in a backyard pumpkin patch.


RAINFOREST FOR CHILDREN VIDEO SERIES: Grades 3-6 (Each video is 25 minutes)
1. ANIMALS OF THE RAINFOREST
2. PEOPLE OF THE RAINFOREST
3. PLANTS OF THE RAINFOREST

RANDOLPH CALDECOTT: THE MAN BEHIND THE MEDAL

READING RAINBOW Grades K-5 Reading, Science, Social Studies (Each program is 30 minutes)

ABIYOYO by Pete Seeger - Rap music; music video; story-song; tell a story with dance; computer graphic interpretation of music. Tape: RR#18

THE ADVENTURES OF TAXI DOG by Debra and Sal Barracca - New York City taxicabs; “hailing” cabs; dogs helping physically challenged individuals. tape: RR#19

ALEJANDRO’S GIFT by Richard E. Albert - LeVar discovers the vast importance of water in California’s Indian Canyon desert. Tape: RR#34

ALISTAIR IN OUTER SPACE by Marilyn Sadler - Libraries and Library of Congress Division of Maps and Globes; book restoration; film library. Tape: RR#33

ALISTAIR’S TIME MACHINE by Marilyn Sadler - Building a time machine; meeting Thomas Edison; children’s inventions; failed inventions of the past. Tape: RR#19

ALWAYS MY DAD by Sharon Dennis Wyeth - Relationship between a young girl and her father whom she seldom sees. LeVar drops in on a “Family Day Picnic” . Tape: RR #35

AMAZING GRACE by Mary Hoffman - Amazing Grace is a little girl who wants to be Peter Pan and refuses to let narrow thinking stand in her way. Tape:RR#2

AND STILL THE TURTLE WATCHED by Sheila MacGill-Callahan, - this native American tale recounts the timeless message of our responsibility to nature and our environment. LeVar explores various ways that children and adults are working together to protect and preserve the earth. Tape: RR#1

ANIMAL CAFE by John Stadler - New York nightlife; bakery, fish market; flower market; bats. Tape: RR#6

APPELMANDO’S DREAMS by Patricia Polacco - Boy uses dreams to brighten the world; ways to spark creativity and imagination. Tape: RR#35

ARCHIBALD FRISBY by Michael Chesworth - Discover a scientific approach to winning games at an amusement park. Tape: RR #35

ARTHUR’S EYES by Marc Brown - Different ways of seeing things; using all your senses; color-blindness; reading with Braille; American Sign Language; mine. Tape: RR#15

BARN DANCE by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault - True bluegrass music and down-home dancing in the Tennessee hills; making fiddles; clogging lessons. Tape: RR#11

BEA & MR. JONES by Amy Scheartz - Self-image; dreams, trading places with someone; dressing up ; a 12-year-old librarian. Tape: RR#21, RR#28


BERLIOZ THE BEAR by Jan Brett - Musicians; behind the scenes at the Harlem Boys choir. Tape: RR#22, RR#37

BEST FRIENDS by Steven Kellogg - Sharing, raising and training seeing-eye dogs; grooming show dogs. Tape: RR#7

THE BICYCLE MAN by Allen Say - Tricks of free-style bicycling; riding a skateboard scooter and rollerblades; one-of-a-kind human-powered vehicles. Tape: RR#14

THE BIONIC BUNNY by Marc Brown and Laurence Krasny Brown - Inside a television studio; Star Trek; the Next Generation set; behind-the-scenes action; special effects. Tape: RR#26

BORED-NOTHING TO DO by Peter Spier - Flying radio-operated model airplanes; preparing a commercial airplane for flight. Tape: RR#16

BORREGUITA AND THE COYOTE by Verna Aardema - Mexican-American culture; fiestas; interviews with musical group Los Lobos. Tape: RR#27

BREAD IS FOR EATING by David and Phyllis Gershator - Explores making of a loaf of bread from seed to supermarket. LeVar makes a loaf of bread and discusses the history of bread. Tape: RR #38

BRINGING THE RAIN TO KAPITI PLAIN by Verna Aardema - Weather; weather prediction; thunderstorms, making rainbows. Tape: RR#21

BRUSH by Pere Claders - 3-D animation; parade floats and balloons; hand puppets. Tape: RR#11.

BUGS by Nancy Winslow Parker and Joan Richards Wright - Insect World at The Cincinnati Zoo; caterpillar into butterfly; Monarch butterfly migration to Mexico. Tape: RR#4

A CHAIR FOR MY MOTHER by Vera B. Williams - Teamwork; putting together a song-and- dance routine; fire engines and firefighters school. Tape: RR#13

CHICKENS AREN’T THE ONLY ONES by Ruth Heller - Chicken farm; other animals that lay eggs; turtle eggs hatching on the beach. Tape: RR#10.

COME A TIDE by George Ella Lyon - Dramatic weather; stories of people who have survived spring floods and hurricanes. Tape: RR#24

THE DAY JIMMY’S BOA ATE THE WASH by Trinka Hakes Noble - Caring for farm animals; livestock show. Tape; RR#5.

DESERT GIANTS: THE WORLD OF SAGUARO CACTUS by Barbara Bash - Adaptation of plants and animals to life in Arizon’s Sonoran Desert. Tape: RR#32

DIGGING UP DINOSAURS by Aliki - Fossils, Dinosaur National Park; dinosaur jokes. Tape: RR#23

DINOSAUR BOB AND HIS ADVENTURES WITH THE FAMILY LAZARDO by
William Joyce - Oakland A’s spring training; batting and pitching instructions. Tape: RR#16

DIVE TO THE CORAL REEFS by Elizabeth Taynton, Paul Erickson, and Les Kaufman - Scuba diving in the coral reefs in Key Largo, Florida. Tape: RR#16

DUNCAN AND DOLORES by Barbara Samuels - Lions and tigers at Marine World Africa USA in Vallejo, CA; behind the scenes at the Broadway musical Cats. Tape: RR#11

FEELING by Aliki - Exploring various feelings; Koko’s kitten and communication. Tape: RR#25

FLORENCE AND ERIC TAKE THE CAKE by Jocelyn Wild - MovieLand Wax Museum in Buena Park, CA; cake bakers. Tape: RR#14

FLY AWAY HOME by Eve Bunting - Interviews with children and families explore homelessness. Tape: RR#36

FOLLOW THE DRINKING GOURD by Jeanette Winter - Based on the song; Underground Railroad; history; heroes, stories and music of the African-American culture which emerged from slavery. Tape: RR#1

FOX ON THE JOB by James Marshall - LeVar goes to work on some household chores; young entrepreneur, dog walking. Tape: RR#20, RR#39

THE FURRY NEWS: HOW TO MAKE A NEWSPAPER by Loreen Leedy - Ins and outs of creating a newspaper; interview with cartoonist Ray Billingsley. Tape: RR#21

GALIMOTO by Karen Lynn Williams - creating a “Galimoto”; wire art; wire’s role in circus acts; and the world’s longest tramway. Tape: RR#20

GERMS MAKE ME SICK by Melvin Berger - Observing microorganisms with a microscope; what germs are and how they are spread; organic farming. Tape: RR#18

GIFT OF THE SACRED DOG by Paul Goble - Contemporary and traditional Native American ways; Crow family pow wow; “If you could choose a new name for yourself...” , Indian names for places (song). Tape: RR#5

GILA MONSTERS MEET YOU AT THE AIRPORT by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat - Moving; new experiences; Arizona Biologists; animal tracks; Arizona animals. Tape: RR#13

GIVING THANKS: A NATIVE AMERICAN GOOD MORNING MESSAGE by Chief Jake Swamp. We learn that the earth provides everything we need in order to live: air, water, and food. LeVar visits a Native American family that makes pottery, a cranberry farm, kids in NYC that are planting trees. Tape: RR#34

GREGORY THE TERRIBLE EATER by Mitchell Sharmat - San Diego Zoo; animal diet; animal restaurant. Tape: RR#18

HAIL TO THE MAIL by Samuel Marshak - Tracing the journey of a letter through the mail system; behind the scenes of postal service; interview with postal staff. Tape: RR#28

HILL OF FIRE by Thomas P. Lewis - Volcanoes; volcanology; animated volcano cycle; raku pottery. Tape: RR#12

HIP CAT by Jonathan London - We learn about “jazz” and what it means to “improvise.” Tape: RR#36, RR#39

HOT AIR HENRY by Mary Calhoun - Ballooning; history of flying (machines). Tape: RR#3

HOTEL ANIMAL by Keith Duquette - Explores math from an amusing point of view. LeVar’s imagination takes him on a topsy-turvy ride when he explores size relationships and proportions. Tape: RR #38

HOW MUCH IS A MILLION? by David M. Schwartz - LeVar explores creative ways of counting to a million; uses grouping and estimating to solve problems. Includes a visit to the Crayola factory and New Jersey’s Giants Stadium. Tape: RR#38

HOW TO MAKE AN APPLE PIE by Marjorie Priceman - LeVar is cooking in the kitchen with
chef Curtis Aiken. Chef Aiken shows the basics of cooking and retaining natural flavors and
vitamins in food. Tape: RR#42

HUMPHREY THE LOST WHALE: A TRUE STORY by Wendy Tokuda and Richard Hall - Whale watching; rescue of pilot whales; whales songs. Tape: RR#31

IF YOU GIVE A MOUSE A COOKIE by Laura Joffe Numeroff. LeVar takes viewers to a bowling center where he tries to master the chain reactions involved in the game of bowling. Tape: RR#23

IMOGENE’S ANTLERS by David Small - Zoo animals with horns and other special features; mummers parade in Philly: music/choreography/animal costumes. Tape: RR#25, RR#30

IS THIS A HOUSE FOR HERMIT CRAB? by Megan McDonald - Takes a light-hearted look at animal habitats and shows LeVar building a house for his favorite flying friend in his backyard. Tape: RR#1

JACK, THE SEAL AND THE SEA by Gerald Aschenbrenner - Discovery voyage in San Francisco Bay; studying bay life; cleanup efforts of the Exxon-Valdez oil spill. Tape: RR#14

JUNE 29, 1999 by David Wiesner - A Science project apparently gone awry propels views into a whimsical world of science fiction - or is it fact? Tape: RR#3

KATE SHELLEY AND THE MIDNIGHT EXPRESS by Margaret K. Wetterer - LeVar travels up the California coast; train history; a tour of the engineer’s cab. Tape: RR#20, RR#32

KEEP THE LIGHTS BURNING by Peter and Connie Roop - Early and modern lighthouse keeping; sailing; making a ship in a bottle. Tape: RR#26

KNOTS ON A COUNTING ROPE by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault - Conquering fear; a Native American tale about a young blind boy; camping alone in the wilderness. Tape: RR#11

LADY WITH A SHIP ON HER HEAD by Deborah Nourse Lattimore - Join LeVar as anchor of a wild and wacky news report, Headline News - all the news from the neck up!Tape: RR#37

THE LEGEND OF THE INDIAN PAINTBRUSH by Tomi dePaola - Pueblo Indian art and dance; natural art materials; a Taos pueblo. Tape: RR#19

LIANG AND THE MAGIC PAINTBRUSH by Demi - Calligraphy; Chinese art; computer art: Chinese cooking; Lion dance in Chinatown. Tape: RR#8, RR#23

THE LIFE CYCLE OF THE HONEYBEE by Paula Z. Hogan - Beehives; beekeeping.
Tape: RR#26

LITTLE NINO’S PIZZERIA by Karen Barbour - Homemade pizza; fireworks. Tape: RR#33

THE LOTUS SEED by Sherry Garland - Vietnamese woman must flee country but brings a lotus seed as a reminder; traditions and heritage; immigration experience. Tape: RR#27

LOUIS THE FISH by Arthur Yorinks - New England Aquarium; dolphins; animated segment on
the world of books; “If you could be anything in the world ..?” Tape: RR#2

LUDLOW LAUGHS by Jon Agee - Reading Rainbow bloopers; comedy makeover; old and current slapstick comedians. Tape: RR#9

THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS INSIDE THE EARTH by Joanna Cole - Exploring California Caverns in Calaveras; stalagmites, stalactites, crystal formations, and spelunking. Tape: RR#14

MAMA DON’T ALLOW by Thacher Hurd - An alligator farm; Mississippi riverboat; New Orleans jazz; mouth sounds. Tape: RR#3, RR#14

MARTHA SPEAKS by Susan Meddaugh - Viewers get a dog’s - eye view of life and get to meet some incredible canine daredevils. Tape: RR #36

MATH CURE Based on a book entitled “Math Curse” by Jon Scieszka - LeVar spends the day helping a friend in a factory, using math to organize the day. Tape: RR#40

MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH by Trinka Hakes - Old West; cowboy life; stuntwoman. Tape: RR#7

THE MILKMAKERS by Gail Gibbons - From the cow to the supermarket; dairy nutrition (animated); cheese-making; caring for calves. Tape: RR#5

MISS NELSON IS BACK by Harry Allard - A treasure hunt; theatrical monster makeup; Blackstone the Magician; making costumes. Tape: RR#2

MRS. KATZ AND TUSH by Patricia Polacco - LeVar celebrates the beauty and value of cross- cultural relationships as he visits his very own “Bubee” and learns to make challah. Tape: RR#17

MUFARO’S BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER By John Steptoe - Central Park in New York city celebrates African culture. Tape: RR#31

MY LIFE WITH THE WAVE by Octabio Paz - explores the beauty and fascination of water, and the rhythm and the energy of waves. Endangered sea life. Tape: RR#40

MY LITTLE ISLAND by Frane Lessac - Monserrat Island in the West Indies; appreciating other cultures; native foods; frogs and iguana. Tape: RR#10

MY SHADOW by Robert Louis Stevenson - Light and shadows; where they come from and how they work; use of light to tell time; shadow puppets. Tape: RR#28

MYSTERY ON THE DOCKS By Thacher Hurd - Mystery; waterfront sights/sound/smells; harbor equipment and vehicles; singing message. Tape: RR#3

NOSEY MRS. RAT by Jeffrey Allen - Investigation and discovery; interview with primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall. Tape: RR#27

ONCE THERE WAS A TREE by Natalia Romanova - Relationship between living things; human dependence on trees for food, shelter and air; life cycle of trees. Tape: RR#27

OPT: AN ILLUSIONARY TALE by Arline and Joseph Baum - Optical illusions; a painter who specializes in art that tricks the eye. Tape: RR#32

OWEN by Kevin Henkes - LeVar reminisces about being a little boy and growing up with his
mother. The program includes vignettes about LeVar parting with his favorite blanket, and being
jealous of his baby sister getting all the attention: Tape: RR#42

OX-CART MAN by Donald Hall - A visit to Sturbridge Village; daily life in 19th century New England. Tape : RR#4

THE PAPER CRANE by Molly Bang - Japanese culture; vegetable carving; origami; Japanese dancers. Tape: RR#10.

PATCHWORK QUILT by Valerie Fournoy - Making quilts; folk traditions; family and passing on traditions. Tape: RR#12

PAUL BUNYAN by Steven Kellogg - Forest rangers; fire fighting; reforestation; conservation; lumberjack skills; “What would you do if you were as tall as Paul Bunyan?” animated library sequence on Tall Tales. Tape: RR#7

PERFECT THE PIG by Susan Jeschke - Pigmania; origin of piggy banks. Tape: RR#25

THE PIGGY IN THE PUDDLE by Charlotte Pomerantz - The art of clay animation; sculpting characters; frame “claymation” filming. Tape: RR#24

THE PURPLE COAT by Amy Hest - Imagination; New York garment district; Fashion Institute of Technology; life-sized papier-mache sculptures. Tape: RR#33

RACCOONS AND RIPE CORN by Jim Arnosky - Wildlife watching; recognizing animal tracks and teeth marks. Tape: RR#32

RECHENKA’S EGG by Patricia Polacco - Appreciation for the egg; traditional Ukranian egg- painting art. Tape: RR#21, RR#43

REGINA’S BIG MISTAKE by Marissa Moss - This episode discusses how to be creative. Tape: RR#34, #39

ROBBERY AT THE DIAMOND DOG DINER by Eileen Christelow - Slinging hash at a real diner; how pasta is made. Tape: RR#4

RUMPELSTILTSKIN by Paul O. Zelinsky - A Renaissance Pleasure Faire: reenactments of medieval daily life; spinning wool from sheep to cloth. Tape: RR#6

RUNAWAY DUCK by David Lyon - New England waterfowl in a wildlife refuge: duck carving; duck calls (New England fall colors). Tape: RR#6

RUTH LAW THRILLS A NATION by Don Brown - A trip through time to explore unsung heroes of aviation; Bessie Coleman; modern aviation; teenage pilot. Tape: RR #35

THE SALAMANDER ROOM by Anne Mazer - there’s more to creating an animal habitat than meets the eye. LeVar guides us through “Jungle World” a simulated rainforest at the Bronx Zoo, and shows us how this incredible environment was created. Tape: RR#8

SAM THE SEA COW by Francine Jacobs - An up-close look at manatees. Tape: RR#20

SATURDAY SANCOCHO by Leyla Torres - Math concepts of classifying, estimating, trade- value, money, bartering, trading, and collecting are demonstrated throughout the episode. Tape: RR#40

SEASHORE SURPRISES by Rose Wyler - Beachcombing in southwestern Florida; plant and animal life at the shore. Tape: RR#22

THE SIGN PAINTER’S DREAM by Roger Roth - Go behind the scenes in an ad agency to witness the creation and placement of a neon sign in Times Square. Tape: RR#37

SILENT LOTUS by Jeanne M. Lee - A deaf girl is blessed with the talent to communicate with her world through dance. LeVar opens the door to a vast and expressive world of non-verbal communication and even tries his hand at sign language. Tape: RR#8

SIMON’S BOOK by Henrik Drescher - Stories from doodles; interview with author Henrik Frescher; book printing/making; animated history of writing. Tape: RR#7

SNOWY DAY: STORIES AND POEMS edited by Caroline Feller Bauer. - Viewers will
experience a variety of ways to beat winter’s chills and enjoy all of its snowy thrills - Tape: RR#39

SOMEPLACE ELSE by Carol P. Saul - LeVar takes viewers to explore the places we all call home. Tape: RR #38

SOPHIE AND LOU by Petra Mathers - Overcoming shyness; dance around the world. Tape: RR#24
SPACE CASE by Edward Marshall - Cliffs of Carmel, CA; Lick Observatory’s giant telescope; world’s largest radio-telescope in Puerto Rico. Tape: RR#1

SPORTS PAGES by Arnold Adoff - An interview with a a top-ranking gymnast; setting goals in sports; championship figure skating. Tape: RR#12

STAY AWAY FROM THE JUNKYARD! by Tricia Tusa - Garage sales; making art from junk. Tape: RR#31

STELLALUNA by Janell Cannon - Nocturnal animals; slumber and dreams. Tape: RR#28

SUNKEN TREASURE by Gail Gibbons - A treasure hunt at “Pirates Cove” in California; using science and technology to explore the Titanic. Tape: RR#19

TAR BEACH by Faith Ringgold - A tribute to the George Washington Bridge; a pigeonkeeper; a rooftop gardener. Tape: RR#24, #33

THREE BY THE SEA by Edward Marshall - Sea chanties; sand sculpture; storytelling.
Tape: RR#15

THREE DAYS ON A RIVER IN A RED CANOE by Vera A. Williams - Knot-tying: outdoor cooking; camping. Tape: RR#5

A THREE HAT DAY by Laura Geringer - Horse races; hockey teams; collecting things. Tape: RR#6.

THROUGH MOON AND STARS AND NIGHT SKIES by Ann Turner - Adoption; the ups and downs of family life. Tape: RR#22

TIGHT TIMES by Barbar Shook Hazen - A pet show, “Check it Out” song & dance in the library; games and activities created without spending money. Tape: RR#2

TOOTH-GNASHER SUPERFLASH by Daniel Pinkwater - LeVar works on his car; wild, custom-designed cars; an auto factory and a solar-powered car race. Tape: RR#12

THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE by Janet Stevens - Bicycle race; getting in shape; trying your best and not giving up; “Have you ever tried really hard at something?” karate school. Tape: RR#4

TY’S ONE MAN BAND by Mildred Pitts Walter - Roller skating to music; synthesizer music; Ben Vereen singing and dancing; street music. Tape: RR#10

by Margaret King , Program includes a profile of a gospel group.Tape: RR#40

THE WALL by Eve Bunting - Walls as a way to pay tribute to those who have gone before; the Vietnam Veterans Memorial; Mount Rushmore. Tape: RR#23

WATCH THE STARS COME OUT by Riki Levinson - Immigrants to Ellis Island; first impression of America from recent immigrants; ethnic festivals. Tape: RR#25

WHEN AUNT LENA DID THE RHUMBA by Eileen Kurtis-Kleinman LeVar sets out to see a Broadway show matinee. Boys Choir of Harlem Tape: RR#41

THE WONDERFUL TOWERS OF WATTS by Patricia Zelver - LeVar goes into the neighborhood and talks to the residents about what the city means to them and how it can be improved.Tape: RR #36

WORK SONG by Gary Paulsen - This episode explores a wide variety of jobs. Tape: RR#41

ZIN! ZIN! ZIN! A VIOLIN by Lloyd Mess - Explores the melodious, rhythmical patterns and instruments that make up an orchestra. Members of New York City’s Juilliard School of Music orchestra give a few tips on playing the timpani. Tape: RR#37

REAL SCIENCE I Grades 5-10 Science/Career Education (Each program is 20 minutes)
1. Animal Lovers - Career Focus: Veterinary Science/Marine Biology - The Chief Veterinarian at Marine World Africa USA examines killer whales, dolphins, elephants, an orangutan, a baby opossum and a wallaby. A marine biologist from the University of California Santa Cruz is joined by a student host to help tag elephant seals and collect blood samples for experimentation.
2. Mysteries of the Past - Career Focus: Astronomy/Archaeology - An Astronomer at the University of California Santa Cruz works all night using a 120-inch telescope on Mount Hamilton. An archaeologist in Colorado works at a research site excavating an Anasazi kiva.
3. Jurassic Jobs - Career Focus: Paleontology/Computer Science - A paleontologist at Dinosaur National Monument examines dinosaur fossils and discovers dinosaur footprints. A computer engineer explores research on computer graphics and videoconferencing.
4. Black holes - Career Focus: biology/Space Science - A wildlife psychologist gives a tour of the research facilities at the Univeristy of California Berkeley where she is attempting to breed endangered kangaroo rats in captivity. A physicist at NASA Ames Research Center studies rocks from Antarctica, which are similar to rocks found on Mars.

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5. Cutting Edge - Career Focus: Medical Science/Physics - The Chief of Surgery at the Valley Medical Center in San Jose is joined by a teen host who observes the doctor during a gall-bladder operation. A physicist working at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory explains how fusion can create energy.
6. In Your Genes - Career Focus: Molecular Biology/Forensic Science - A biochemist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory takes viewers on a tour of the Human Genome Project Laboratory. A Molecular biologist at Genentech explains how DNA is cloned and how genetic research may lead to cures for cancer and AIDS.

REAL SCIENCE II Grades 5-10 Science/Career Education (Each program is 20 minutes)
1. On the Water - Watch a herpetologist in Everglades National Park capture and study alligators
before releasing them back into the wild. Go to sea with an oceanographer who is taking water
samples for later analysis in a lab.
2. Weathering the Storm - Our teen reporter spends the day with a TV meteorologist at KRON-
TV and finds out how to use technology to predict the weather. They, another reporter hikes
around Lassen Volcanic National park with a ranger/geologist, who explains about the active
hydrothermal vents in the park and the historic 1917 volcanic eruption
3. Eyes of the Skies - A visit to NASA’s Goddard Space Center in Maryland, where our teen
reporter meets with a space meterorolgist who is using satellites to study tropical storms.
In the second segment, the teen guide visit the SETI Institute ot meet an astronomer who searches the skies for extraterrestrial intelligence using radio telescopes. The segment
continues in Australia at Parlkes Observatory as the scientist prepares a search for radio signals.

REAL SCIENCE III Grades 5-10 Science/Career Education (Each program is 20 minutes)
6. Trailblazers - Hit the trails in Glacier National Park with Montana geologist Lex Blood to
learn how modern cartographers use computers to make mapes. In the final segment, our
report visits Sea World in San Diego to meet a mammologists who is blazing a new trail in
treatment of marine animals

7. Computer Dreams - Teen reporter, Damian Taylor takes nap for science at the Stanford Sleep Center. Then neurologist Rafael Pellayo analyzes Samian’s sleep patterns brain waves. In the
next segment, our reporter spends the day with Rachel Bellamy from Apple computers to find
out how they design new software programs for schools.
8. Rad Cad - This show looks at three engineers who use CAD design systems in their work.
Then cameras travel from the top fo the San Francisco Bay Bridge to the MIT artificial
intelligenc laboratory to a NASA wind tunnel to find out the lastest inventions in engineering.
9. Fueling the Future - Find out how Toyota trucks are designed and manufactured at the NUMMI car factory in Fremont, CA. In the next segment, we look at the fuels of the future with
a chemist at Catalytica.
10. High Flyers - Take off on an adventure in the skies with the world famous hurricane hunters at
Keesler air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi. They spend the day with an engineer from McDonnell Douglas who is designing the space station.
11. Swamp Story - Head into Louisiana marsh on an airboat with an ecologist from the Nationial
Biological Service. Then check in at the San Jose Water Company to find out how scientists
test our drinking water. Finally, learn how computer engineers at PIXAR made the animated film
“Toy Story.”
12 Getting Physical - Get physical with a trainer from the San Francisco 49ers football team and
find out how they help players recover from injuries. Then travel to the San Diego zoo to learn about the monitor lizard breeding program with Physiologist Lori Jackintell.
13. Blast from the Past - The crew vistis the site of a historic Jamestown plantation slave site and
digs for artifacts with an archeologist from the University of Virginia. Then take a spin on the Indiana Jones ride at Disneyland with one of the engineers who designed this exciting new
attraction.

REAL SCIENCE IV Grades 5-10 Science/Career Education (Each program is 20 minutes)
12. Nature’s Predators - Gresta Binford is an entomologist at the Unveristy of Arizona, Tucson.
In the Santa Catalina Mountains near Tucson, she sets out to capture orb weaver spiders with help
from reporter Zach Hubble. Back at the lab, Zach assists Greta in extracting the venom from the
spiders for later analysis and research. Wildlife ecologists examine the interrelationship of wildlife
and their environments, and develop plans for dealing with problems arising from such interactions.
13. Flight Deck - Instructor Pilot Lieutenant Brad Mack works for the U.S. Navy at LeMoore
Naval Air Station, located in LeMoore, CA. He flies sophisticated and deadly warplanes that are
prepared to defent the U.S. in the event of war. Brad flies FA-18 Hornet aircraft on and off
aircraft carriers that patrol the oceans. He also depends on advanced computer-based flight
simulators for much of his pilot training. Aerospace engineer Christina Sipiora works for Aerojet of Sacramento, CA. Christina builds rocket engines for the purpose of transporting payloads into
outer space.

REAL SCIENCE V Grades 5-10 Science/Career Education (Each program is 20 minutes)
1. Conversation Close-Up - First it’s off to Florida to take a look at efforts the Miami Seaquarium
is making to save the gentle but endangered West Indian manatee. Then, discover what science has to do with art and learn about the ancient craft of art conservation in a rare, behind-the- scences visit to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.


REAL SCIENCE V - continued
2. It’s a Wild Life - First, it’s off to Florida, for a hair-raising boat ride through the Everglades in
search of the diamondback terrapin, an aquatic turtle that thrives in brackish water. Next up is a
hike through the Salinas Dunes of Central California in pursuit of the elusive, black legless
lizard.

3. Generations of Science - Scientists explore past and future generations. Discover how
science is changing modern-day zookeeping and captive breeding programs. Then find out
how the dead actually do tell tales and what anthropologists are learning form the remains of an
important African American burial ground in New York City dating from the late 18th Century.

4. Competitive Edge - Can science give athletes a competitive edge? An insider’s tour of Taylor
Made Golf in Carlsbad, California, reveals the amazing amount of scientific research behind
today’s newer and better golf clubs. Then, at Nike’s biomechanics lab in Oregon, discover how researchers can measure, with astounding accuracy, how a body responds to physical stress.

5. Rocks and Shocks - The science of shocks, rocks, and gems. Check out the grueling, computer-created stress-tests that shock absorbers must go through before they ever make it
onto a mountain bike. Then, a visit to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural
Specimens and offers a behind-the-scenes tour of the newly renovated Hall of Gems and Minerals.

6. Forest Through The Trees - Offers new insights into trees -- some of the oldest living things
on earth. High above the banks of the Columbia River Gorge, scientists are using new and
revolutionary ways to study treetops in the forest canopy. then take a 25-mile cruise up the
Sacramento River for a look at efforts to restore, preserve, and maintain one of the last truly
wild stretches of this California waterway.


REFLECTING ON THE MOON National Geographic Society (15 minutes)
Teacher’s Guide

REMAKING SOCIETY IN THE NEW NATION (21 minutes) Britannica

ROCKS & MINERALS t; SCIENCE IN ACTION (18 minutes each) Color
- The Origins of Rocks and Minerals
- Secrets in Stone
- Rocks and Minerals in our daily lives
Illustrated the 3 basic rock formations (sedimentary, igneous, metamorphic) the rock cycle, and how rocks and minerals are used in our daily lives

RYLANT, CYNTHIA Meet the Picture Book Author Series (10 minutes)

THE SALEM WITCH TRAILS (30 minutes) + 4 page teacher’s guide
Discovery Channel School - Assignment Discovery - rediscovering America. The newly
settled Puritan town of Salem, Mass., erupted in 1692 with accusations of witchcraft and devil
worship.


SCIENCE IS ELEMENTARY Grades K-3 Science (Each program is 15 minutes)
1. Let’s Explore Plants - Looks at how plants grow, change and relate to their environment
2. Let’s Explore Animals - Examines animal groups and growth, and the importance of animals to humans.
3. Let’s Explore Water - Defines the properties of water, why objects float and sink, and how humans use water.
4. Let’s Explore Light and Shadows - Illustrates how light creates and alters shadows.
5. Let’s Explore Sound - Defines sound and looks at how vibrations can make music.
6. Let’s Explore Tools and Work - Analyzes the movement and function of simple machines and how they make work easier.
7. Let’s Explore Magnets - Examines the basic Properties and functions of magnets.
8. Let’s Explore Air - Considers the atmosphere, its properties and its usefulness to humans.
9. Let’s Explore Weather and Seasons - Discusses the different kinds of weather and how it changes through the seasons, and ways we can measure wind and rain.
10. Let’s Explore Soil and Rocks - Looks at different kinds of rocks, soil formation and human use of these resources.

THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD (20 minutes) Teacher’s guide (Elementary Science) National Geographic Society
Shows work by a chemist, a biologist, and a geologist to demonstrate how the scientific method-
observation, hypothesis, experimentation, and conclusion-helps scientists organize and define
their research.


SECRETS OF THE BAY : A Celebration of San Francisco Bay’s Hidden Wildlife (30 minutes) color

SEE HOW THEY GROW (30 minutes each)
- DESERT ANIMALS (Tarantula, Gerbil, Tortoise & Gecko)
- FARM ANIMALS (Chickens, Pigs, Calves & Lambs)
- FOREST ANIMALS (Owl, Mouse, Ant, & Chipmunk)
- POND ANIMALS (Dragonfly, Frog, Duck & Salamander)
- SEA ANIMALS (Ray, Pipefish, Cuttlefish & Hermit Crab)
- TREE ANIMALS (Chameleon, Stick Insect, Fruit Bat & Buzzard)

SELMA, LORD SELMA Selma, Alabama, 1965 (89 minutes)

SENDAK, MAURICE, The Maurice Sendak Library (35 minutes): One Was Johnny, Themes: Counting, Grade Level: Pre-K-!, 3 minutes, animated; Pierre, Themes: Manners, Grade Level: Pre-K-1, 6 minutes, animated; Alligators All Around, Themes: Alphabet/Humor, Grade Level: Pre-K-1, 2 minutes; Chicken Soup With Rice, Themes: Months of the year, Grade Level: Pre-K-1, 5 min., animated; Where the Wild Things Are, Themes: Imagination/Feelings, Gr. Level: Pre-K-2, 8 min, animated; In the Night Kitchen, Themes: Dreams/Imagination, Grade Level: Pre-K-1, 6 minutes, animated.

THE SENSES (10 minutes) + 2 page teacher’s guide
Discovery Channnel School - TLC Learning Channel

SETTLING THE OLD NORTHWEST (18 minutes) Britannica

SEUSS, DR. Who’s Dr. Seuss? Meet Ted Geisel, Meet the Author Series, (14 minutes)

THE SHADOW OF HATE: A history of intolerance in America (40 minutes) Teacher’s Guide

SHAKESPEARE FROM PAGE TO STAGE Grades 9-12 (Each program is 30 minutes)
1. Romeo and Juliet
2. The Taming of the Shrew
3. Twelfth Night
4. As You Like It
5. The Tempest

THE SHADOW OF HATE: A HISTORY OF INTOLERANCE IN AMERICA (40 minutes)
Teacher’s guide. A film by Charles Guggenheim (Teaching Tolerance)

SHUTTLE COLLECTION
1. Ed. Office Presentation Clip
2. Eating and Sleeping in Space
3. Shuttle Life is the World of Weightlessness
4. Space Shuttle: Signal for the Hearing Impaired
5. STS 51-D Mission Highlights

THE SHADOW OF HATE : a history of intolerance in America ( 40 minutes) + Teacher’s guide
Produced by three-time Academy Award winner Charles Guggenheim, The Shadow of Hate
spans three centuries to examine the country’s ongoing struggle to live up to its ideals of liberty,
equality and justice for all. Through documentary footage and eyewitness reports, viewers are given a powerful perspective on historical events form the ordinary people who lived through them.

SIERRA IN PERIL Grades 5-10 (67 minutes)
This program explores the environmental issues concerning the Sierra Mountains, America’s
longest unbroken mountain range, running 430 miles along the eartern bounday of California.
The program is divided into 11 topics: ozone, Owens Lake, Mono Lake, Lake Tahoe Basin,
cattle, damaging watersheds, and streams, the spotted owl, forest habitat/old growth trees,
Sequoia National Forest, fire, and people.



THE SNOWY DAY AND OTHER CALDECOTT CLASICS: The Snowy day by Ezra Jack Keats (6 minutes); Owen by Kevin Henkes (9 minutes); Goldilocks and athe three bears by James Marshall (8 minutes)


THE SOLAR SEA (57 minutes) #5 of Planet Earth Series
“Peel bak the visible surface of our sun and peer inside the star tht gives Earth life... experience
the amazing effect of solar wind raging through the cosmos at a million miles per hour. Look down from outer space at the fiery ring of gases known as aurora borealis. Bear witness to the awesome power of the solar sea’s sunspots and flames in the most dazzling light show ever seen...”


SOLID, LIQUID, GAS National Geographic Society (15 minutes) Teacher’s Guide


SOLVE IT Grade 6 Mathematics (Each program is 15 minutes)
1. Estimation: Reasonableness of Answer - Demonstrates how to check answers quickly with estimation.
2. Mental Computation: Using Mental Computation for Multiplication - Emphasizes strategies for different problems
3. Ration/Proportion/Percent: The Meaning of Percent - Emphasized percent in everyday application.
4. Problem-Solving: Drawing and Interpreting Tables - Examines when and how to use a
5. Measurements: Precision and Estimation - Measuring requires a balance between
accuracy and estimation.
6. Statistics: Understanding Mean, Median, and Mode - Interprets data differently by use of mean, median, and mode.
7. Fractions: Multiplications with Fractions and Mixed Numbers - Gives graphic representations of the product of mutiplied fractions.
8. Decimals: Ordering Decimals - Develops the concept of place value and comparing decimals.
9. Geometry and Measurement: Measuring Volume - Presents formulas for measuring volume.
10. Estimation: Estimation Strategies for Multiplication - Uses ballpark figures in determining the reasonableness of results.
11. Problem-Solving: Solving a Simpler Problem - Shows how to break problems into steps by using small numbers and simple models.
12. Statics: Sampling - Shows how a small group is related to the larger group, and how to determine bias in a sample.
13. Fractions: Subtacting Mixed Numbers - Demonstrates subtraction of fractions with like and unlike denominators.
14. Estimation: Estimation Strategies for Division - Explores various estimation strategies; including rounding numbers, using front-end numbers and selecting numbers that can be easily manipulated.
15. Problem-solving: Guess-Check-Revise - Uses guessing as an active, non-algorithmic strategy.
16. Geometry and Measurement: Measuring Angles - Demonstrates real-life applications measuring angles.
17. Problem-Solving: Using Logical Reasoning - Shows how organizing information carefully can avoid jumping to conclusions.
18. Ratio/Proportion/Percent: Scale Drawing and Models - Uses scale as a ratio and examines consideration in making a scale drawing or model.

SPACE FACTS Just the Facts Learning Series (50 minutes)
Among the subjects covered are: The Mercury Astronauts, the first woman in space, the Gemini program, the race to the moon, Apollo 13, Skylab, the Viking and Voyager probes, the Space Shuttle and the discovery of possible life-form remains in a meterorite from Mars

SPLENDID STONES National Geographic Society (60 minutes)

SPINELLI, JERRY A Talk with Jerry Spinelli

SPINELLI, JERRY: Author (5 Minutes ) Meet the Mentor Video

SPRING WILDFLOWERS OF MARIN California Native Plant Society

STARS AND CONSTELLATIONS National Geographic Society (25 minutes ) Teacher’s Guide

STEAL AWAY: THE HARRIET TUBMAN STORY National Geographic Society (28 Minutes) Teacher’s Guide

STEAMING UP TAMALPAIS (25 minutes) Scenic Railway - “The Crookedest Railroad in the World”

STEIG, WILLIAM, The William Steig Library (52 minutes):
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Themes: Family/Magic, Grade Level: K- 2, 11 minutes; The Amazing Bone, Themes: Friendship/Magic/Nature, Grade Level: K-3, 11 minutes; Doctor DeSoto, Themes: The Dentist/Problem Solving, Grade Level: K-4, 10 minutes; Brave Irene, Themes: Relationships/Courage/Heroism, Grade Level: K-3, 12 minutes; Getting to Know William Steig.

STORIES FOR THANKSGIVING
Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message by chief Jake Swamp (8 minutes)
Thje Pilgrims of Plimoth by Marcia Sewall (26 minutes)

A STORY A STORY see WHY MOSQUITOES BUZZ IN PEOPLE’S EARS AND OTHER CALDECOTT CLASSICS

STRANGER ABDUCTIONS (48 minutes) KBHK Looking Out for Our Kids (LOOK)
The real facts about stranger abductions. The LOOK Project Special with hosts
Jan Yanehiro and Alex Teicheira is part of KBHK’s effort to inform both kids and their
parents of the dangers of stranger abductions and how to prevent them.

STRUCTURES Science First Hand: Models in Physical Science -

SUPER BRIDGE (2 hours) Clark Bridge - Alton, Illinois

SWINGING SAFARI (44 minutes) National Geographic Society (Really wild animals)



TADPOLES AND FROGS (11 minutes) + Teacher’s Guide National Geographic Society


TEACHING READING Marilyn Adams (43 minutes)

THANK YOU, MR. FALKER Written and narrated aby Patricia Polacco (22:40)

THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD (50 minutes) (The History Channel)


THE TRAVELS OF VOYAGER (8-91)
- VOYAGER HIGHLIGHTS TAPE (PRE-NEPTUNE)
- NEPTUNE ENCOUNTER HIGHLIGHTS TAPE

TREES FOR LIFE (17 minutes + Teacher’s Guide ) (On Nature’s Trail)
Youngsters explore the profusion of life that can live in a single tree and follow their imaginations
to a tropical forest, an old growith forest, and an underwater forest ot learn how important trees
are to life on earth.


TRIPPING WITH TERWILLIGER : Five Nature Education Programs for K-6 Elemenary School Classrooms
1. Bay Tidelands (15 minutes.)
2. Redwood Forest, Stream, Ocean Beach & Monarch Butterfly Trees (15 minutes)
3. Grassland, Chaparral and Fresh Water Pond (15 minutes)
4. Oak Woodland (15 minutes)
5. Sights & Sounds of the Seasons (22 minutes)

THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY Grades 5-9 (25 minutes)
Teacher’s guide

Understanding Government Series
THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH
THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
THE JUDICAL BRANCH


UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION (50 minutes)


U.S. GEOGRAPHY: FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA - MIDDLE ATLANTIC REGION
U.S. GEOGRAPHY: FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA - MIDWEST AND GREAT PLAINS
REGION
U.S. GEOGRAPHY: FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA - MOUNTAIN WEST REGION
U.S. GEOGRAPHY: FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA - NEW ENGLAND REGION
U.S. GEOGRAPHY: FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA -PACIFIC WEST REGION
U.S. GEOGRAPHY: FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA - SOUTH CENTRAL REGION
U.S. GEOGRAPHY: FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA - SOUTH EAST REGION


VALLEJO, MARIANO GUALUPE: THE NORTHERN FRONTIER (22 minutes)

VISION OF THE DEEP National Geographic Society (12 minutes)
Features unique footage as a lobster shedding its shell, bat rays mating, and blue whales feeding. Teacher’s Guide
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