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Weekly New Releases - Science
Meet Teen Wild Guides at the Oakland Zoo and learn about its conservation efforts around the world. An avid mountain biker, Marilyn Price talks about her non-profit projects: Trips For Kids, The Re-Cyclery Thrift Shop and the Earn-A-Bike program. A group of Girl Scouts is helping restore a natural habitat for Coho Salmon. Endangered along the California Coast, the Coho Salmon spawn in the Lagunitas Creek. It's one of the few creeks remaining that still support the fish and these girls are working with the Salmon Protection and Watershed Network to keep it that way.
DVD / 2012 / (Junior High - Senior High) / 20 minutes
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Austin Hay is aspiring to live small. He's building his own "tiny house" that minimizes his footprint on the planet in both square footage and carbon output. Each spring, before the cover crops get mowed to prepare the ground for planting rice crops, Lundberg Family Farms bring kids together to scour the fields and gather up duck eggs saving them from destruction. And it's a very noisy process. The eggs go to Darrold Daly, the wildfowl rescuer. He incubates and hatches them, raises the ducks and releases them into the wild. It takes a lot of tender loving care and he loves doing it.
DVD / 2012 / (Junior High - Senior High) / 20 minutes
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Created by Teens Turning Green, Project Green Challenge helps teens go from a conventional lifestyle to a conscious lifestyle in 30 days. Rocket Farms in Salinas California is one of the largest flower growers in the country. In addition to growing many varieties organically, they run several sustainable operations. We recycle our printer paper, newspapers and cardboard. But, what happens to all it? Eco Company went to a recycled paper mill to see. Alec Loorz had created Kids vs Global Warming and the Sea Level Awareness Project. He had written a Declaration of Independence from Fossil Fuels, and he had been trained as a presenter for Al Gore's, "The Climate Project." Now he helps organize the iMatter March, an international movement.
DVD / 2012 / (Junior High - Senior High) / 20 minutes
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This special episode features the best of the teen videos from Planet Connect's annual video contest. The theme of the contest was 'Our Ocean Connection: How our actions can affect the environmental health of the oceans.' The videos highlighted in this show use a variety of creative approaches: from animations to dramatic presentations and even a little dance. Soda cans, plastic bottles, shopping bags and farm fertilizersˇXwe learn how simple things can contribute to pollution and destruction.
DVD / 2012 / (Junior High - Senior High) / 20 minutes
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Eco Company visits Connecticut and finds out what the state is doing to reduce its carbon footprint and to encourage clean energy development. Adam visits a Fuel Cell plant and finds out the technology is already being put to use. At Goodwin Technical High School students are being prepared for green jobs. They're constructing a green building from the ground up. In Portland's 'Neighbor 2 Neighbor' program, volunteers visit homes to conduct energy audits. They've switched out light bulbs to energy-efficient CFLs and offer advice on steps that will save even more energy and money.
DVD / 2012 / (Junior High - Senior High) / 20 minutes
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Identifies core physical science vocabulary for upper-elementary students and English language learners. The program covers how such concepts as force and motion are related to energy, gravity, inertia, and more.
DVD / 2012 / (Grades 3-5) / 19 minutes
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Defines and explores core physical science vocabulary for early elementary students and English language learners. The program introduces such key terms as energy, kinetic energy, chemical energy, force, acceleration, friction, and work.
DVD / 2012 / (Grades K-2) / 15 minutes
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Identifies core physical science vocabulary for upper-elementary students and English language learners in relation to matter. The program covers such terms as matter, state of matter, properties of matter, physical change, chemical change, and more.
DVD / 2012 / (Grades 3-5) / 24 minutes
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Identifies core physical science vocabulary for early elementary students and English language learners. The program covers such concepts as matter, states of matter, changes in matter, measuring matter, and more.
DVD / 2012 / (Grades K-2) / 17 minutes
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As mammals, humans and dolphins share a number of important biological characteristics. Both species are warm-blooded, have body hair, breathe air, give live birth and nurse their young. But is it possible that we have more in common? Do they like us? Can they reason and solve problems? Just how intelligent are these gentle marine mammals? In this program, join marine scientists from Florida to Hawaii who are trying to answer these and other questions about dolphins by studying how they live, learn and communicate. Comes complete with online teachers guide which includes subject matter revision and suggestions on how to present material, questions to ask students, career possibilities and class projects to help illustrate the key concepts.
DVD / 2012
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Sharks have inhabited our oceans for more than 400 million years. Their ability to adapt to their environment over time has classified them as one of the worlds most successful species. In this program, we dive into the ocean to take a closer look at these magnificent creatures and examine the qualities and characteristics that have enabled them to survive for millions of years. Comes complete with online teachers guide which includes subject matter revision and suggestions on how to present material, questions to ask students, career possibilities and class projects to help illustrate the key concepts.
DVD / 2012
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Take students on a mission to see what's being done to save the manatee, a marine animal sometimes known as a 'sea cow' because of its size and diet, which consists mainly of vegetation. We'll journey to points in Florida where the manatee lives and to the Sea World Aquarium in Orlando. There, you'll see how researchers and scientists are studying and protecting the peaceful manatee to ensure its survival. Comes complete with online teachers guide which includes subject matter revision and suggestions on how to present material, questions to ask students, career possibilities and class projects to help illustrate the key concepts.
DVD / 2012
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From museums to monster flicks, we are all pretty familiar with mummies. But how much do we really know about them? As it turns out, there is quite a bit of missing information -- particularly in regard to the actual process the Egyptians used some three thousand years ago to preserve their dead. In this compelling episode, Curiosity follows a team of scientists and experts as they attempt to crack the ancient and arresting recipe, and perform a modern-day mummification.
DVD / 2011 / (Grades 6-12) / 43 minutes
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New innovations have progressed the field of medicine into the 21st Century. Advance transplants, smart rooms, regenerative medicine, surgeries on children and fetuses, and new way for specialist to conference in to patients is advancing the field of medicine. It is changing lives and saving them. Learn how the doctors, nurses, and staff at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, UPMC, is changing the world of medicine and saving many lives that wouldn't have been saved a few years ago.
DVD / 2011 / (Grades 9-12) / 53 minutes
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MIGHTY SHIPS: THE MOST MAGNIFICENT SHIPS. Mighty Ships reveals the secret mechanics behind the world's most sophisticated vessels. Each episode provides unprecedented access to everything above and below deck, from the mechanics of modern sea-going to the human dramas facing seafarers. Mighty Ships is as much about what happens inside the ship as the journey each vessel makes.
MIGHTY SHIPS: CRISTOBAL COLON
Cristobal Colon, aka Christopher Columbus, the world's newest, largest hi-tech ocean dredger, like her historic namesake, heralds the beginning of a bold new era of ships that will make a global impact.
MIGHTY SHIPS: MV SOLITAIRE
This oil and gas pipelayer is as big as an aircraft carrier: 300m (984 foot) long with a state-of-the art on-board welding factory the size of four city blocks.
MIGHTY SHIPS: USS GRAVELY
She is brand-new and ready for battle. USS Gravely is the newest ship in the US Navy. Before she is deployed, the ship and her crew are put through their paces to prove they are ready for combat. Mighty Ships has exclusive access aboard USS Gravely during this crucial time.
MIGHTY SHIPS: G.O. SARS
Marine research vessel G.O. SARS uses advanced technologies to travel north of the Arctic Circle in search of new life forms living in extreme conditions beside toxic subsea volcanoes and hydrothermal vents.
MIGHTY SHIPS: OASIS OF THE SEAS
It took $1.4 billion to build the largest, most revolutionary cruise ship in the world... but will she live up to the hype? Go onboard the Oasis of the Seas for her maiden voyage, discover the space-age technologies that help her operate.
MIGHTY SHIPS: USS KENTUCKY In the arsenal of the world's most advanced superpower, one weapon is feared the most...the ballistic nuclear missile submarine. Get an unprecedented look at USS Kentucky. Virtually undetectable, she is capable of launching a surprise nuclear attack on any country in the world.
DVD / 2011 / 260 minutes
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More than 70 percent of the Earth's surface is covered by water. Use this DVD to impress upon your students the importance of the seven seas to people, the marine food chain, and the planet as a whole. Topics include the various kinds of currents and the forces that influence them, tides and waves (what they are, what causes them, and how they're classified), features of the seabed, and the formation and shaping of coastlines. A basic explanation of how oceans have been affected by human activity is also provided.
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Recommended by Science Books & Films.
DVD / 2006 / 21 minutes
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If Earth's entire history could be compressed into a single year, modern humans would've appeared just 23 minutes ago! Use this DVD to introduce your students to the concept of geological time (also called deep time); relative age dating of rock via the principles of stratigraphic superposition, original horizontality, and cross -cutting; absolute age dating by radioactive decay; the chemical elements, heavy and light, that make up the planet; and Earth's three main layers: crust, mantle, and core.
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Recommended by Science Books & Films.
DVD / 2006 / 22 minutes
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Studies of our planet's crust, or lithosphere, suggest that it's not a single solid layer at all. This DVD illustrates the process of scientific inquiry by studying the evolution of our understanding of plate tectonics, the dynamics of those ever -shifting slabs of earth we call solid ground. Beginning with Alfred Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift, the program discusses major and minor plates, types of plate boundaries, and the concepts of spreading and subduction. Earthquakes and volcanoes are also addressed.
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DVD / 2006 / 25 minutes
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Knowledge of the physics and chemistry of the planet's "bones" is essential to a complete understanding of Earth science. Ranging from the Mohs scale and specific gravity to silicates, carbonates, and halides, this video delves deeply into the composition, properties, and classification of rocks and minerals. An element of forensic-type analysis is also brought into play, since any stony formation represents a portion of the planet's history and local conditions.
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Recommended by Science Books & Films.
DVD / 2006 / 23 minutes
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