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Facts on Fire: Fireworks Safety (2006)

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This program points out that the majority of fireworks accidents/injuries are caused by rockets, small firecrackers and sparklers in that order and that teen and children aged 14 and younger are the usual victims. It lists several safety precautions when watching fireworks and identifies the states where all fireworks are banned except for professional shows.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Length: 
00:15
Facts on Fire: Fireworks Safety

Facts on Fire: Home Escape (2006)

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The leading cause of fire-related deaths is smoke inhalation. The program illustrates the proper techniques for exiting a burning home and discusses/demonstrates safety rules to use before a fire or during a fire. The importance of working smoke detectors is emphasized. [Timely Topics Collection]

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Length: 
00:15
Facts on Fire: Home Escape

Facts on Fire: School Escape (2006)

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This program illustrates and discusses the correct procedures and behaviors if "caught" in a school fire. It also explains the stop, drop and roll technique if a person's clothes catch on fire. [Timely Topics]

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Length: 
00:15
Facts on Fire: School Escape

The Written Word, Part 1: The Birth of Writing (2005)

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"Takes us to the Sumerian archaeological sites in present day Iran, Iraq, Syria, and elsewhere, to see the influence of cuneiform, the oldest known writing system in the world. It¶s development brought about a cultural renaissance. And Sumer¶s rise in the Mesopotamian region.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
00:30
The Written Word, Part 1: The Birth of Writing

Understanding How Stuff Works: Computers (2004)

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Compares the computer with the abacus, traces the invention of computers throughout the decades, identifies the main parts of the computer, meets the creator of the mouse, and speculates about the future uses of computers.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
00:10
Understanding How Stuff Works: Computers

M & C Part 1 (2005)

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A 4 DVD set containing approximately 44 segments showing various science demonstrations or illustrations of abstract concepts that a classroom teacher may not be able to do because of financial, time, safety or equipment concerns. Most demonstrations are followed by animations to illustrate and explain the abstract concepts.
This DVD includes:

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
00:30
M & C Part 1

M & C Part 2 (2005)

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A 4 DVD set containing approximately 44 segments showing various science demonstrations or illustrations of abstract concepts that a classroom teacher may not be able to do because of financial, time, safety or equipment concerns. Most demonstrations are followed by animations to illustrate and explain the abstract concepts.
This DVD includes:

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
00:30
M & C Part 2

M & C Part 4 (2005)

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A 4 DVD set containing approximately 44 segments showing various science demonstrations or illustrations of abstract concepts that a classroom teacher may not be able to do because of financial, time, safety or equipment concerns. Most demonstrations are followed by animations to illustrate and explain the abstract concepts.
This DVD incudes:
Making Aspirin

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
00:30
M & C Part 4

The Danger Zone: Steering Clear of Drugs (2004)

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Includes 3 15-minute programs. Part 1: "Alcohol, Tobacco, and Marijuana," Using animation as well as dramatic vignettes, this program focuses on the damage these these substances cause damage to the body and the brain.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
00:45
The Danger Zone: Steering Clear of Drugs

My Name is Mina

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Copies: 8

Mina loves the night. While everyone else is in a deep slumber, she gazes out the window, witness to the moon's silvery light. In the stillness, she can even hear her own heart beating. This is when Mina feels that anything is possible, that her imagination is set free.

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My Name is Mina

This Child, Every Child

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Copies: 7

Children make up one-third of the world's population. But who are these 2.2 billion children and what are their lives like? Author David J. Smith's search for answers takes readers around the world to meet children of all ages, nationalities and religions.

Lexile: 
1020L
This Child, Every Child

If the World Were a Village

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Copies: 7

At this moment, there are 7 billion people on the planet! It's hard to picture so many people at one time - but what if we imagine the whole world as a village of just 100 people?

In this village:
21 people speak a Chinese dialect
10 earn less than two dollars a day
14 cannot read or write
45 have a television in their homes
47 do not always have enough to eat

Lexile: 
840L
If the World Were a Village

Around the World Through Holidays

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Copies: 1

Around The World Through Holidays: Cross Curricular Readers Theatre includes scripts for twelve plays adaptable for any of the reading or performance methods of Readers Theatre presentation. Each play introduces students to a specific world culture by looking at holidays celebrated in that culture. The structure of the book introduces holidays chronologically throughout a calendar year—one play per month. The focus is on literacy and social studies, so the book is not tied to the traditional nine-month school calendar.

Around the World Through Holidays

Algebra: A Piece of Cake, Part 1 (2002)

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Algebra helps our engaging teenage hostess, as she calculates the amounts of recipe ingredients needed to cook for and then serve, a sizable party:
1. To avoid confusion, when we write a formula we leave out the multiplication sign “x”, and instead put the number, the constant, in front of the variable, which is “X” in this case.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
00:19
Algebra: A Piece of Cake, Part 1

Algebra: A Piece of Cake, Part 2 (2002)

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Continuing on from Part 1, more formulas are induced from patterns, this time concerning the number of trays needed to serve varying slices of pastries, that are more complicated than those in the first part. We combine formulas by adding and subtracting like terms. We call this simplifying the expression.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
00:13
Algebra: A Piece of Cake, Part 2

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