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Animal upon Animal

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The animals want to show how good they are at making tall pyramids! Players must be steady and precise. Who will position the penguin on top of the crocodile, the sheep on top of the penguin, the serpent on the sheep?

Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Middle
Content Area: 
Health/Phys. Ed.
Special Education
Play Time: 
10 min.
Animal upon Animal

The Digestive and Excretory System (2002)

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This colorful video uses graphic sequences to illustrate the journey of a pizza slice as it travels through the human body. Each major organ of the digestive and excretory systems is profiled and shown in action. In addition, the program explains how the body uses fats, carbohydrates, proteins and other nutrients.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
00:15
The Digestive and Excretory System

The Respiratory and Circulatory System (2002)

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In this informative program, students explore two key body systems: the respiratory and circulatory systems. Beginning with the respiratory system, the complex process of breathing is explored.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
00:15
The Respiratory and Circulatory System

The Brain and Nervous System (2002)

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From sipping hot chocolate to remembering a phone number, this creative video shows how everyday situations are controlled by the brain and nervous system. Various organs and components of both the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system are explored.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
00:15
The Brain and Nervous System

The Skeletal and Muscular Systems (2002)

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This program explores the characteristics and functions of the bones and joints in the human skeletal system. How the muscles, tendons, and ligaments work in conjunction with the skeletal system to provide movement for the body is shown through the use of live action demonstrations and animated sequences.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
00:15
The Skeletal and Muscular Systems

Healthy You (2011)

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Childhood Obesity Initiative | WXXI Public Broadcasting is committed to the serious issue of child obesity and wellness. It's easy to learn how to become a "Healthy You." Just check out these short videos from WXXI. The Healthy You initiative includes television and online segments on nutrition, fitness and heart health.

Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Middle
Healthy You

SportsCamp: Soccer (2005)

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Sportscamp Soccer is seven dynamic sessions offering expert training for young players, their parents and coaches. From dribbling to goal keeping, passing to shooting and every trick, tip and technique in between, these in-depth training sessions are taught by MLS coaches. Teaches: Ball control, dribbling shooting, goalkeeping, passing and head balls.

Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Middle
High
Professional
Length: 
00:52
SportsCamp: Soccer

SportsCamp: Baseball (2005)

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Sportscamp Baseball is nine hard-hitting, expert training sessions for young players, their parents and coaches. From hitting and pitching to fielding and bunting, these in-depth lessons are taught by three-time American League All-Star and two-time World series Champ Bucky Dent and MLB coaches Larry Hoskins and Wally Horsman.

Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Middle
High
Professional
Length: 
01:00
SportsCamp: Baseball

SportsCamp: Basketball (2005)

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Sportscamp Basketball is six engaging sessions offering training for young players, their parents and coaches. From offense to defense, rebounding to shooting, dribbling to passing, these in-depth training sessions are taught by Bob Hurley, coach of one of the nation's top high school basketball teams and WNBA star Becky Hammon.

Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Middle
High
Professional
Length: 
00:54
SportsCamp: Basketball

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?

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