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Portion Distortion: Seeing the Healthy Way to Eat (2004)

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This program teaches students how to choose the rights food portions and to avoid "supersizing" at fast food restaurants. Using easy-to-understand analogies, children learn how to visualize proper portion size. For instance, a protein portion should be about the size as the palm of your hand.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
00:20
Portion Distortion: Seeing the Healthy Way to Eat

Fears and Phobias: Understanding Them, Defeating Them (2004)

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Tailored to teens, this program provides information about common fears and phobias and how the brain and the body (fight or flight response) function when teens are exposed to them. Explains the dividing line between normal fears and abnormal fears and explains when teens and young adults may need to get help.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
00:22
Fears and Phobias: Understanding Them, Defeating Them

I Can't Do My Homework, Why? (2004)

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Follow four students as they try to figure out why their homework is so difficult to manage. Each students faces a different problem: One is overwhelmed by too much homework, another has too many after-school activities to juggle, another is a procrastinator, while the fourth student is having emotional troubles that makes it hard for her to concentrate.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
00:20
I Can't Do My Homework, Why?

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

Lincoln

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This inspiring and revealing drama focuses on the 16th President's tumultuous final four months in office as this visionary leader pursues a course of action to end the Civil War, unite the country and abolish slavery. Complete with never-before-seen footage featuring Steven Spielberg and the cast, who take you deep inside the making of the movie, Lincoln sheds light on a man of moral courage and fierce determination.

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Steven Spielberg
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Middle
High
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02:30
Lincoln

Charley Chapters in How to Behave in the Library (2007)

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Nathaniel has a tough assignment. He is supposed to write down all of the rules on how to behave in the library and why it is important to follow each rule. With the help of his good friend Emily, Charley Chapters and the library media specialist Ms. Bookley, Nathaniel tackles his assignment with enthusiasm.

Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Length: 
00:11
Charley Chapters in How to Behave in the Library

The Weeping Werewolf

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Moongobble and Edward are off on another Mighty Task, even more dangerous than the first. Urk the toad, Fireball the dragon, and the Rusty Knight are coming along too, of course. This time their adventures will lead them right into the fearsome Forest of NIght. They're expecting danger. They're expecting adventure. What they aren't expecting is a discovery that will change Edward's life forever!

What I Call Life

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When Cal Lavender's mother has an unfortunate "episode" in the library, a police officer takes Cal to the "Pumpkin House"—a group home where Cal must stay until her mother is able to care for her again. Stranded with four hurt, troubled girls and an eccentric old woman known as "the Knitting Lady", Cal thinks this can't possibly be her real life. Or can it?

Stop the Train!

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On March 23, 1889, President Benjamin Harrison signed a proclamation opening two million acres of Oklahoma land to settlement. A month later, with a teeming crush of pioneers, the Oklahoma Land Rush was on.

Disappearing Act

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What do you do when your mother disappears and a strange man starts stalking you? If you're Kevin and Holly Kidd, you try to lose yourself in the wacky world of Venice Beach, California, where boardwalk entertainers do everything from juggling watermelons to telling fortunes as they try to make a living. Soon Kevin and Holly are making a new home among these larger-than-life characters. But just when Holly seems set to achieve her dream of starring in an opera, their stalker reappears, more menacing than ever. What is he after? And how can Kevin save the show—and his sister?

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