Science

Science (X) - Environmental Protection (X)

Taking Care of our Earth (1999)

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With the help of animated landfill characters, students learn about their environment. Natural resources are identified and shown as students learn how important it is to conserve them. They also discover how reducing, reusing, and recycling benefit our environment, and how air and water pollution can hurt it.

Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Length: 
00:17
Taking Care of our Earth

Environmental Ethics: Examining Your Connection to the Environment and Your Community (2004)

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Profiles a diverse group of Goldman Environmental Prize winners who have made it their duty to protect their local environments. The inspiring stories pose questions about how to weigh the needs of modern life with the reality of its impact on the environment. Demonstrates many ways that regular people can become environmental heroes.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
01:02
Environmental Ethics: Examining Your Connection to the Environment and Your Community

Fossil Fuel (2006)

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Power Play Series Part 3

The western world has built its affluence on fossil fuels. Our addiction to coal and oil is no longer healthy neither for mankind nor the planet. So the question is, how do we replace fossil fuels?

Grade Level: 
High
Length: 
00:52
Fossil Fuel

Erin Brockovich

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A real woman. A real story. A real triumph. Julia Roberts stars as Erin Brockovich, a feisty young mother who fought for justice any way she knew how. Desperate for a job to support herself and her three children, she convinces attorney Ed Masry (Albert Finney) to hire her, and promptly stumbles upon a monumental law case against a giant corporation. Now, Erin's determined to take on this powerful adversary even though no law firm has dared to do it before. And while Ed doesn't want anything to do with the case, Erin won't take "no" for an answer.

Grade Level: 
High
Length: 
02:12
Erin Brockovich