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Biomes Series (2002)

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This DVD contains 4 - 20 minute videos:

Grasslands
Terminology and concepts discussed in the program include: savanna, grassland, grass, prairie, nutrients, and bison.

Grade Level: 
Middle
Length: 
01:20
Biomes Series

Rocks & Minerals Series (2001)

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This DVD contains 4 - 20 minute videos:

Minerals and Their Properties
Some of the terminology and concepts conveyed in this video include: inorganic, luster, streak, color, cleavage and fracture, specific gravity, hardness, Mohs scale, ore, metals, and gemstones.

Grade Level: 
Middle
Length: 
01:20
Rocks & Minerals Series

Great Transformations & Extinction! (2001)

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Great Transformations - 60 minutes

From the development of the four-limbed body plan, the journey of animal life from water to land and the emergence of humans, Great Transformations focuses on the evolutionary changes that triggered the earth's incredible diversity.

Extinction! - 60 minutes

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
01:20
Great Transformations & Extinction!

The Evolutionary Arms Race & Why Sex? (2001)

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The Evolutionary Arms Race - 60 minutes

Survival of the fittest: Is it raw competition, a level of cooperation indispensable to life, or both? Explore our own spiraling arms race with microorganisms - the only real threat to our existence - and trace the alarming spread of resistance among pathogens that cause disease.

Why Sex? - 60 minutes

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
01:20
The Evolutionary Arms Race & Why Sex?

The Mind's Big Bang & What About God? (2001)

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The Mind's Big Bang - 60 minutes
Between 100,000 and 50,000 years ago, something happened that triggered a creative, technological and social explosion, allowing humans to dominate the planet. What forces may have contributed to the emergence of the modern human mind?

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
01:20
The Mind's Big Bang & What About God?

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2001)

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Progam 1: The Metropolitan Museum Of Art (60 min.): Sister Wendy Beckett introduces the museum and looks at a fragmentary sculpture of an Egyptian queen, Islamic art and a page from the Koran, Watteau, porcelain figures from the Commedia dell'Arte, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, art from New Guinea, Balthus, Medieval Art and the Cloisters, Velazquez, Egyptian art, women as artists, Marie-Denise Vill

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
02:00
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2001)

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Program 1: Kimble Art Museum (60 min.): Sister Wendy Beckett introduces the Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth and looks at several artists and works including Maillol, a terracotta head of a Nigerian king, Cezanne, Hindu scultpture, Piet Mondrian, a Japanese screen, Caravaggio, George de la Tour, Caspar David Friedrich, Standing Maitreya Bodhisattva from Thailand, sculpture from Pakistan, Ercole d

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
02:00
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; Los Angeles County Museum of Art

The Art Institute of Chicago; The Cleveland Museum of Art (2001)

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Program 1: Art Institute of Chicago (60 min.): Sister Wendy Beckett looks at American Gothic by Grant Wood, Chimu (pre-Incan) art from Peru, Joan Mitchell, Edward Hopper, Picasso, 18th century ceramic art, a West-African drum, Manfredi, pre-Columbian art from Central America, Manet, Marc Chagall, Renoir, Chinese sculpture, 12th century Korean pottery, George Innes, Puryear, Georges Seurat.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
02:00
The Art Institute of Chicago; The Cleveland Museum of Art

Living Rock An Introduction to Earth's Geology (2002)

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Introduces geology concepts such as geologic time, continental crust, plate tectonics, volcanic activity, earthquakes, subduction zones, erosion, and glaciers.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
01:00
Living Rock An Introduction to Earth's Geology

Human Body Series (2003)

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This four-part video series presents a detailed review of the important concepts in middle school life science relating to the following: skeletal system, muscular system, circulation, respiration, digestion, excretion, endocrine system, and nervous system.

Grade Level: 
Middle
Length: 
00:20
Human Body Series

Into the Arms of Strangers (2000)

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Academy Award-winning documentary uses archival footage and interviews to tell the story of the rescue operation that transported ten-thousand Jewish children from Nazi Germany and certain death, to Great Britain just prior to World War II.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
01:57
Into the Arms of Strangers

Standard Deviants: Learning Spanish - The Basics (2001)

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DVD format- broken into chapters that include alphabet, pronunciation, vocabulary, accents, counting, greetings, and more.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
01:30
Standard Deviants: Learning Spanish - The Basics

Standard Deviants: Learn To Speak Spanish - Beyond The Basics (1997, 2002)

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Includes chapters on vocabulary, numbers, multiples. expressing time and date, verbs, adjective, seasons, months, and more.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
01:36
Standard Deviants: Learn To Speak Spanish - Beyond The Basics

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

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The hysterically funny, best-selling book comes to life in this smash-hit family comedy! Greg Heffley is headed for big things, but first he has to survive the scariest, most humiliating experience of any kid's life - middle school! That wont' be easy, considering he's surrounded by hairy-freckled morons, wedgie-loving bullies and a moldy slice of cheese with nuclear cooties!

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Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
01:32
Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

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Greg Heffley, the kid who made "wimpy" cool, is back in this sidesplitting sequel based on the second installment of the best-selling book series! Having rid himself of the Cheese Touch, Greg enters the next grade with his confidence and friendships intact, and an eye on the new girl in town, Holly Hills. But at home, Greg is still at war with his older brother, Rodrick, so their parents have handed down the toughest "punishment" imaginable - forcing the boys to spend quality time with each other!

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Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
01:39
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

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