Media Library

Connect the Dots: How School Skills Become Work Skills (2006)

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Students often ask why they need to learn things that seem irrelevant to their futures in the workplace. This program helps answer that question by exploring the connection between what one learns in school and what employees do at work.

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

00:16

Connect the Dots: How School Skills Become Work Skills

Asleep at the Wheel: The Dangers of Drowsy Driving (2006)

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Sleep deprived teens today are facing serious and even fatal consequences when combining drowsiness with driving. Each year drowsy driving causes more than 100,000 car crashes and 1,500 deaths. Over 50% of the drivers involved in these crashes are teenagers and young adults in their early twenties. Real life accident victims reiterate chilling stories of the repercussions of drowsy driving.

Grade Level:

High

Length:

00:15

Asleep at the Wheel: The Dangers of Drowsy Driving

Portion Distortion: Seeing the Healthy Way to Eat (2004)

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This program teaches students how to choose the rights food portions and to avoid "supersizing" at fast food restaurants. Using easy-to-understand analogies, children learn how to visualize proper portion size. For instance, a protein portion should be about the size as the palm of your hand.

Grade Level:

Elementary

Middle

Length:

00:20

Portion Distortion: Seeing the Healthy Way to Eat

Fears and Phobias: Understanding Them, Defeating Them (2004)

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Tailored to teens, this program provides information about common fears and phobias and how the brain and the body (fight or flight response) function when teens are exposed to them. Explains the dividing line between normal fears and abnormal fears and explains when teens and young adults may need to get help.

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

00:22

Fears and Phobias: Understanding Them, Defeating Them

I Can't Do My Homework, Why? (2004)

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Follow four students as they try to figure out why their homework is so difficult to manage. Each students faces a different problem: One is overwhelmed by too much homework, another has too many after-school activities to juggle, another is a procrastinator, while the fourth student is having emotional troubles that makes it hard for her to concentrate.

Grade Level:

Elementary

Middle

Length:

00:20

Life (From the makers of Planet Earth) (2010)

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In Planet Earth, we brought you the world as you've never seen it before. Now, get closer with Life.

Grade Level:

Primary

Elementary

Middle

High

Length:

09:46

Charley Chapters in How to Behave in the Library (2007)

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Nathaniel has a tough assignment. He is supposed to write down all of the rules on how to behave in the library and why it is important to follow each rule. With the help of his good friend Emily, Charley Chapters and the library media specialist Ms. Bookley, Nathaniel tackles his assignment with enthusiasm.

Grade Level:

Primary

Elementary

Length:

00:11

Charley Chapters in How to Behave in the Library

The Police Wars (2004)

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Two programs:
The Cold War

Grade Level:

High

Length:

00:56

The Metric System (2006)

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Four 20-minute videos about the Metric system:

Grade Level:

Middle

Length:

01:20

Time Life's Lost Civilizations (1995)

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This set of 4 DVD's contains a collection of 10 programs spanning seven thousand years of history. Below are a list of the titles included and a synopsis of each.

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

08:20

Media Library

Connect the Dots: How School Skills Become Work Skills (2006)

Asleep at the Wheel: The Dangers of Drowsy Driving (2006)

Portion Distortion: Seeing the Healthy Way to Eat (2004)

Fears and Phobias: Understanding Them, Defeating Them (2004)

I Can't Do My Homework, Why? (2004)

Life (From the makers of Planet Earth) (2010)

Charley Chapters in How to Behave in the Library (2007)

The Police Wars (2004)

The Metric System (2006)

Time Life's Lost Civilizations (1995)

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