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Middle (X) - Nature (X)

Patterns (1998)

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Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill Nye the Science Guy is here to talk about patterns.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
00:23
Patterns

Planet Earth (2007)

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From the stunning creators of Blue Planet: Seas of Life comes this epic 5-disc series celebrating the Earth as never before. With an unprecedented production budget, using high definition photography and revolutionary high-speed cameras.

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Elementary
Middle
High
Length: 
11:40
Planet Earth

The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009)

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THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA'S BEST IDEA is a six-episode series produced by Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan and written by Dayton Duncan.

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Middle
High
Length: 
12:30
The National Parks: America's Best Idea

Life (From the makers of Planet Earth) (2010)

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In Planet Earth, we brought you the world as you've never seen it before. Now, get closer with Life.

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Primary
Elementary
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High
Length: 
09:46
Life (From the makers of Planet Earth)

Never Cry Wolf: The Incredible True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves

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Copies: 30

Hordes of bloodthirsty wolves are slaughtering the arctic caribou, and the government's Wildlife Service assigns naturalist Farley Mowat to investigate. Mowat is dropped alone onto the frozen tundra, where he begins his mission to live among the howling wolf packs and study their ways. Contact with his quarry comes quickly and Mowat discovers not a den of marauding killers but a courageous family of skillful providers and devoted protectors of their young.

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Never Cry Wolf: The Incredible True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves

My Side of the Mountain

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My Side of the Mountain, based on the book by Jean George, is the unique adventure of thirteen-year-old Sam Gribley. Sam's hero is naturalist poet Henry David Thoreau, so Sam writes a note for his folks, packs up and leaves home for the challenge of wilderness living. Realizing his dream, Sam feeds himself, builds a makeshift home and learns to live in harmony with nature - miles from civilization.

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Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
01:40
My Side of the Mountain

Half a Chance

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Copies: 7

Lucy's family has just moved to an old house on a New Hampshire lake, and her dad, a famous photographer, is already leaving on another business trip.

Maybe it's because she misses him. Maybe it's because she wants to show him that she's talented too. So when Lucy discovers that her dad is judging a photography contest, she decides to enter. Is her eye for photography really something special? Now, at last, she might find out.

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690L
Half a Chance

Animals Welcome: A Life of Reading, Writing, and Rescue

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Copies: 7

Peg Kehret has long been known to her readers as the author who loves animals.

In this loving memoir, she recounts the joys and challenges of her life on a small animal sanctuary.

She rescues a mother cat and her kittens who were shot with a pellet gun, and discovers a black bear on her porch, staring at her through the window. She studies the animals and birds she encounters, attempting to improve the lives of band-tail pigeons and starving deer.

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950L
Animals Welcome: A Life of Reading, Writing, and Rescue

The Wolf Wilder

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Copies: 6

Wolves, like children, are not born to lead calm lives.

Feo's live is extraordinary. She and her mother train domesticated wolves to fend for themselves in the snowy wilderness of Russia. She loves working with the wolves, especially the three that have been wilded but refuse to leave Feo. They're half-wild, not pets.

The Wolf Wilder