In July 1991, Corina Saebels, a devoted single mother of two, sees a huge spaceship hovering over her home in Aldergrove, British Columbia. When she learns from her friend that she disappeared for more than 45 minutes, time she can’t account for, she reports the sighting to UFO BC and discovers 15 people witnessed a similar craft. Corina faces her life’s biggest challenge when her daughter reports seeing an alien in her bedroom. The incident triggers a haunting childhood memory and sparks a series of flashbacks that expose Corina to the aliens who are after her and her family. Corina moves her family from Aldergrove to protect her daughter, but can how long can she hide?
Grade levels: Adult
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Rendlesham Forest
On Christmas night in 1980, US Airmen Jim Penniston and John Burroughs venture into England’s Rendlesham Forest to investigate a probable downed airplane. What they see defies description – is it a glowing orb, a classified military craft, or a UFO from a distant galaxy? The two men are even more mystified when they discover missing time and their memories don’t match up. Two nights later, while haunting visions keep Penniston awake at home, Burroughs and a team of men return to Rendlesham forest and discover more strange lights they can’t explain. The airmen report their findings to their superiors and are instructed to hush up their accounts. When a series of mysterious physical ailments turn Pennsiton and Burroughs to hypnotherapy for answers, they discover an unearthly explanation that pushes the boundaries of time and space.
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Bucks County
When her dog’s frantic barking wakes her up in the middle of the night in 2008, Buck’s County resident Denise Murter fears an intruder has entered her house. A backyard check reveals something much more exceptional – a large spaceship hovers nearby with the capacity to vanish instantly. Against her husband’s wishes, Denise reports the sighting to the Mutual UFO Network and learns someone else in the area saw a similar craft. Weeks later, the ship returns to Denise’s backyard and she manages to capture physical evidence. When Denise reports a third sighting, this one even more spectacular than the others, the community mocks her story and investigators start to doubt her credibility. That is, until an incredible witness surfaces with a firsthand account that helps prove Denise is telling the truth.
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Kecksburg UFO
On December 9, 1965, with the sun setting on the quiet town of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, Bill Bulebosh notices a brilliant fireball streaking across the sky and landing in nearby woods. Within hours, the State Police and the US Army surround the area. No one is allowed near the crashed object. As confusion reigns, locals are left to wonder what exactly fell in the Kecksburg woods. When the Air Force releases an official statement that nothing landed in the area, witnesses emerge to challenge the claim, prompting local resident Stan Gordon to delve into an intense investigation littered with cover-ups, a mysterious coded message, alien microbes and deadly Nazi secrets. Gordon’s determination pays off when a witness comes forward ready to share a dangerous secret.
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Cozmo Coding AI Robot
Cozmo is the Coding A.I. robot that utilizes block pgramming for K-8 and high-level programming SDK for high-school and post-secondary classes. Cozmo comes with free android/iOS/Amazon Kindle apps and charging platforms. An incredibly diverse programming tool, with a personality that will enage any age level.
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Legal Highs
A documentary exploring the recent rise in Legal Highs available in Britain and the effect these new substances are having on our Youth and Society. With content from young users of these drugs and Scientists and Therapists we explore every angle of this growing pastime and rapidly growing problem.
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Transgender Parents
TRANSGENDER PARENTS is about love, life and kids after a gender transition. It shares the struggles and strengths of several trans women and trans men navigating different stages of parenting: from pregnancy, through raising infants, toddlers and teenagers. Some, who transitioned prior to founding their families, experience fertility clinics and hospital births; others, who transitioned in the presence of their kids work to renegotiate their identity and relationships within their families. All are openly out in the world as trans and as parents in ways that weren’t possible 20 years ago.
Syrus and Nik, both in their 30s, live in downtown Toronto. We follow their story from Syrus’s pregnancy to the 2nd birthday of young Amélie as they make their way in the world as black gay trans men with a blond blue-eyed daughter.
Aiyyana is a Haudenosaunee grandmother who was born male and has journeyed through genders and considers herself a transformed woman. An accomplished writer and award-winning theatre artist, Aiyyana is building a home on her childhood reserve along with one of her adult children.
Originally, from Alberta, Jenna is a 30-year-old trans-mother-to-be who runs an organic farm with her partner near Montreal. We earn about her path to motherhood, and witness the hours following the arrival of her baby.
Stefonknee is a trans woman of 45 who came out when her 7 children were almost all teenagers. The process of finding herself and going public has been too much for most of her family to bear. She has moved to Toronto from rural Ontario where she is a speaker and activist. We follow her on a visit to her hometown as she tries to heal broken connections.
Hershel, a Jewish trans man in his late 60s, is a psychotherapist whose son was 19 years old when he transitioned. We witness their loving and at times difficult relationship as both speak candidly about their experiences as parent and child over the last fifteen years.
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The Saviour of Ceylon – The story of Leonard Birchall
All wars produce heroes but rarely in a global conflict do the actions of one man affect the direction and possibly even the result of the whole war. In Leonard Birchall’s case that is precisely what happened. The young Canadian Squadron Leader from St. Catherines, Ontario, on patrol in the Indian Ocean in April, 1943, spotted a Japanese fleet on its way to attack the British base at Ceylon, now Sri Lanka. Birchall, knowing he would be shot down, radioed a description of the makeup of the task force back to base. He was plucked out of the ocean by the Japanese, and endured three and a half years of captivity serving as Senior Allied Officer in four Japanese prison camps. Leonard Birchall kept a detailed record of that experience in diaries which he buried – these were dug up after the war and formed the basis for a number of successful war crime trials. Winston Churchill, even before he knew Leonard Birchall’s name, or that he had survived, called him “The Saviour of Ceylon.”
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Focusing on Early Years
This video resource looks at various aspects of the Early Years Setting from the basics of Health and Safety to areas of employment within this rewarding industry. The topics of Preventing Accidents, Controlling Infections, and Types of Early Years Settings are highlighted as well as Career Pathways and the roles of workers in different Early Years Settings. This video resource has additional support notes with questions and answers for your students and includes interviews with personnel working in the industry which shows a true reflection of life working in the Early Years Sector.
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Farm to Fork: Primary and Secondary Processing
How does food get from the farm to our table? In this program we trace the route cereals, fruits, vegetables and dairy products take to get from the point of origin to the consumer. We also explore why there are often several processing steps in between before it can reach your plate.