Health/Phys. Ed.

Advanced Driving Tactics (2005)

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Going beyond basic training, this video takes driving students into the real world where road conditions are not always favorable. NASCAR celebrity David Reutimann examines a wide range of environments containing potential driving hazards, including tunnels, bridges, mountain roads, rough or uneven terrain, and harsh weather.

Grade Level: 
High
Length: 
00:21
Advanced Driving Tactics

Typhoid Mary: The Most Dangerous Woman in America (2004)

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In 1906 in America it was first discovered that humans could transmit typhoid fever. This is a dramatization of the outbreak and a profile of Irish cook Mary Mallon, known as 'Typhoid Mary'. Quarantined against her will, the story reveals the newfound power of health officials to protect the masses, often at the expense of personal liberties

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
01:00
Typhoid Mary: The Most Dangerous Woman in America

Deconstructing Supper (2002)

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Documentary film that looks at the way modern food is produced through genetic modification and through organic farming in Canada, Europe, India, and United States. A gourmet chef, John Bishop, leads us on an investigation of various genetically modified food products and the leader in genetic engineering, Monsanto

Grade Level: 
High
Length: 
00:48
Deconstructing Supper

Doctor De Soto

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A hungry fox with a toothache begs a mouse dentist to relieve his pain in this modern-day fable. The dentist and his wife come up with a plan to protect themselves from the sly fox.

Author: 
William Steig
Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Length: 
00:10
Doctor De Soto

Harry the Dirty Dog (English and Spanish Versions)

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A dog named Harry hates bath time so much that he hides his scrubbing brush in the backyard and runs away from home. As Harry roams the city, he discovers lots of ways to get dirty.

Author: 
Gene Zion
Grade Level: 
Primary
Length: 
00:10
Harry the Dirty Dog (English and Spanish Versions)

The Great Lakes: Who Owns the Water? (2008)

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The fair distribution of water has long been a worldwide problem, and it is one that the United States may increasingly experience in the future. The Great Lakes contain 20% of the world’s fresh surface water, but that water is currently available to only a small portion of the U.S population.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
00:09
The Great Lakes: Who Owns the Water?

Restoring H2O Ecosystems: Saving Chesapeake Bay (2008)

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Polluted waters can have damaging economic and social effects as well as destroy wildlife habitats. Chesapeake Bay is one of the most polluted bodies of water in America, but local students are working with commercial crab catchers and scientists in the Baltimore area to help restore its health.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
00:09
Restoring H2O Ecosystems: Saving Chesapeake Bay

Cleaning Polluted Water: Pumped up for Peace (2008)

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Drinking polluted water can cause many deadly diseases, especially in children of poor countries around the world. We see the crystal-clear water in a flowing Peruvian rainforest river but are amazed to learn that it is unsafe, due to runoff entering the great connected network of tributaries that flow into the Amazon, the world’s largest source of fresh water.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
00:09
Cleaning Polluted Water: Pumped up for Peace

Surface Water: A Day in the Life of the Rio Grande (2008)

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The Rio Grande is one of our longest rivers, its Texas section forming the border between the U.S and Mexico. Competing human claims for it are viewed through the eyes of two young women: a whitewater rafting guide in upstream New Mexico and a teenager downstream near El Paso.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
00:09
Surface Water: A Day in the Life of the Rio Grande

Underground Aquifer Water: Precision Farming (2008)

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Despite its wonders, Earth's water cycle does not spread water evenly around the planet. The Ogallala Aquifer’s huge underground reservoir of water gives the relatively dry Central Plains states such as Nebraska a large but limited irrigation source. But the aquifer's water is being used up faster than it is beng replenished.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Length: 
00:09
Underground Aquifer Water: Precision Farming

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