Science

Sound (2001)

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This program helps students learn the principles of sound, the range of human hearing, and significant terms as they discover the science behind everyday sounds. Travel deep into the ocean and high into the skies in search of creatures who use echolocation.

Grade Level:

Elementary

Length:

00:14

Getting to Know Electricity (1998)

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Learn about electricity when Ben Franklin leaps out of the pages of a student's science textbook to help him with his homework. Using the latest computer graphics and experiments, Ben explains concepts such as lightning, static electricity, and simple, series, and parallel circuits.

Grade Level:

Elementary

Length:

00:15

DNA: Pandora's Box (2003)

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Nobel Laureate Jim Watson gives a guided tour of the future of genetic engineering. Looks at the eugenics movement and genetic selection for families with children that have disabilities. Discusses scientists that speak out in favor of to the manipulation of DNA to benefit humans, and those scientists who fear the risks of losing genetic variation and "playing God."

Grade Level:

High

Length:

00:57

DNA: Curing Cancer (2003)

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Tells the story of how a small group of scientists have developed radical new ways of treating cancer on the genetic level. Focuses on two pioneering efforts: one that isolated the gene linked to breast cancer, and the other which eventually lead to the anti-cancer drug Gleevec, used in the treatment of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia.

Grade Level:

High

Length:

00:57

DNA: The Human Race (2003)

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Examines the Human Genome Project and tracks the progress, including the scientific innovations which lead to its completion. Includes a discussion of its political and economic impact of the project. Includes interviews with scientists involved with the project.

Grade Level:

High

Length:

00:57

DNA: Playing God (2003)

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This program tells the story of genetic engineering's pioneers and the controversy surrounding it. Focuses on the race to synthesize insulin and genetically modified crops. Includes interviews with leading biochemists and molecular biologists.

Grade Level:

High

Length:

00:57

DNA: The Secret of Life (2003)

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Fifty years ago, two unknown scientists ran into an English pub shouting that they had found the secret of life. Jim Watson and Francis Crick were not exaggerating. Narrated by Jeff Goldblum, this series looks back on the achievements that launched a new era in biology and human life itself.

Grade Level:

High

Length:

00:57

Changes, Changes

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Changes, Changes begins with two wooden people building themselves a home with blocks. When one of the blocks catches on fire, the people use the blocks from the house to make a fire truck.

Author:

Pat Hutchins

Grade Level:

Primary

Elementary

Length:

00:06

All About the Planets (1999, 2003)

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What is a planet? We live on one, but there are others. Are they all like Earth? Is there life on other planets? All About the Planets takes children on a tour of the solar system, explaining vital statistics about each - size, distance fro the Sun, temperature and why some are rocky and solid while others are made entirely of gases.

Grade Level:

Primary

Elementary

Length:

00:23

Cells (2004)

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Provides an introduction into human and plant cells and looks at the primary functions and structure of the cell. Examines how the body repairs damaged cells.

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

00:26

Science

Sound (2001)

Getting to Know Electricity (1998)

DNA: Pandora's Box (2003)

DNA: Curing Cancer (2003)

DNA: The Human Race (2003)

DNA: Playing God (2003)

DNA: The Secret of Life (2003)

Changes, Changes

All About the Planets (1999, 2003)

Cells (2004)

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