People live, work, and have fun together in many different kinds of communities. With the help of three children, students learn about the likes and differences of neighborhoods in the city, suburbs, and rural communities. We join each child as they show us what it is like to live in his/her neighborhood. Schools, stores, and play-time activities are presented in each type of neighborhood. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections: (1) Types of Communities (2) Life in the City (3) Life in the Suburb (4) Rural Communities (5) Compare and Contrast.
Countries: US
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Transportation in and Between Communities
Extraordinary footage helps students see transportation as a means of bringing the different communities of the world together. Students learn how people and goods are moved from one location to another. Different modes of transportation are presented, and we learn that transportation can be used not just for work but also for fun, such as in canoes or on roller skates! The use of different means of transportation in different rural and urban communities is explained. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections: (1) What is transportation (2) History of transportation (3) Cars (4) buses (5) public transportation (6) Trains (7) Trucks (8) Garbage trucks (9) Airplanes (10) Boats (11) Emergency vehicles (12) Transportation home (13) Other forms of transportation.
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Predators of the Shallows
While engrossed in observing the food capturing and feeding methods used by predatory flatworms, the Cyclops crew becomes trapped by the tentacles of Hydra where they receive a visible lesson in the process of digestion.
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White Water Adventure
Trying to return to duck weed base, the Cyclops is channeled into the pond outlet, where they tumble into a rapidly flowing stream and discover a world of aquatic insects adapted for life in flowing water–even waterfalls.
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Discovering a Forest Microcosm
Washed onto a sandbar, the Cyclops crew assembles their terra-rover and discovers a world dominated by bacteria, fungi, and tiny invertebrate animals–a forest floor community on which the trees and other plants depend for processing nutrients needed for plant growth.
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Backyard Biodiversity
The micronauts discover that gardens support an amazing community of small life including herbivorous and predatory insects, pollinating insects and giant earthworms. They tour the worm’s innards while developing theories on the vital roles earthworms play in terrestrial ecosystems.
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The Biology of Lakes, Ponds, Streams, and Wetlands
This program introduces students to organisms that live in weedy shallows, open water, bottom debris, stream habitats and wetland habitats. The observations include the classical organisms studied in biology. Download free guide from our website.
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The Biology of Seashores
The Biology of Seashores modular approach makes it ideal for teaching concepts of life science and ecology by focusing on intertidal ecology and the diversity of life found at the seashore. The program can be used as an introduction or review of a general unit on ecology, animal biology, or marine studies, or a unit that concentrates on seashore studies. Download free guide from our website.
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Life’s Three Great Branches: Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya
Modules: Self-Replicating Molecules Evolve, The Archaeans, Earth’s First Inhabitants, The Rise of Bacteria, Photosynthesis and Oxygen, Eucarya, the Domain of Nucleated Cells Gets Its Start, The Evolution of Mitochondria, The Domains of Life.
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The Eukaryotic Cell Evolves
Modules: Motor Proteins Get Cells Moving, Mitosis assures Genetic Continuity, Plastids Evolve Through Endosymbiosis, The Red, Brown and Green Lines of the Photosynthetic, Life Branch Out, The Invention of Sex, The Origins of Multicellular Ogranisms, Conclusion.