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This Emotional Life: In Search of Ourselves...and Happiness (2010)

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This 3-part series represents what television does best. It opens a window into real lives, exploring ways to improve our social relationships, cope with emotional issues, and become more positive, resilient individuals.

Hosted by Daniel Gilbert, Harvard psychologist and best-selling author of Stumbling on Happiness.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Professional
Length: 
06:00
This Emotional Life: In Search of Ourselves...and Happiness

Drinking Water: Bottle or Tap? (2008)

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A huge bottled-water industry has recently emerged, with the U.S. its largest consumer. But is bottled water actually healthier, safer, or tastier than tap water? A water expert explains that bottled water does not meet the same strict standards in the U.S. as water from the tap, though tap-water quality can vary among communities.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Length: 
00:09
Drinking Water: Bottle or Tap?

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

The Fall of Freddie the Leaf (1985)

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Dramatizes Leo Buscaglia's parable of living and dying, telling the story of Freddie, a leaf that enjoys its life on a strong tree in the park, but becomes fearful when it is time to let go

Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Middle
High
Length: 
00:17
The Fall of Freddie the Leaf

North Carolina vs. Penn State: 2007 NCAA Division I Women's Field Hockey National Championship (2007)

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2007 NCAA Division I Women's Field Hockey National Championship. Despite another valiant effort, Nittany Lions fall to undefeated Tar Heels 3-0 in the National Championship Game. The Nittany Lions finish as national runners-up for the second time in school history.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
02:00
North Carolina vs. Penn State: 2007 NCAA Division I Women's Field Hockey National Championship

How to do Homework Without Throwing Up (2004)

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When procrastinators Jack and Skye are suddenly thrown from Trevor's sketchpad into the Amazon jungle, they begin to see their assignments in a whole new light. Laugh along with Jack and Skye's hilarious adventure as they learn good homework skills such as making a homework schedule, finding a homework helper, eating healthy snacks, doing the hardest homework first, and more!

Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
01:20
How to do Homework Without Throwing Up

Bullies are a Pain in the Brain (2004)

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Using humor, original music and a fast-paced storyline, Trevor Romain offers kids practical, easy-to-implement solutions for dealing with their own bully problems such as work on building your confidence, staying calm, giving bullies lots of space, telling an adult and more!

Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
01:20
Bullies are a Pain in the Brain

What on Earth do You do When Someone Dies? (2004)

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The death of a loved one is a traumatic experience for anyone, but it is especially difficult for kids. Using gentle humor, original music and a compassionate storyline, Trevor Romain uses his own experience to pass along practical, helpful advice for kids, such as - it's OK to cry, talk about death, grieve, and go on with life.

Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
01:20
What on Earth do You do When Someone Dies?

Cliques, Phonies & Other Baloney (2004)

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Using hilarious real life situations, Trevor helps kids understand the difference between a clique, or group of friends, and an exclusive or mean clique. Being part of a clique is okay, but excluding others and putting people down is not.

Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
01:20
Cliques, Phonies & Other Baloney

Taking the "Duh" Out of Divorce (2004)

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Divorce is painful and confusing for everyone involved, especially kids. Using gentle humor, original music and a compelling storyline, Trevor Romain uses Skye's experience to give kids practical, helpful advice for dealing with the pain of divorce - such as knowing that it isn't their fault, they shouldn't take sides, don't hide their emotions and talking to friends can really help.

Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
01:20
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