Grade levels: Primary (1-3)

Reduce/Reuse/Recycle are meaningless words to students who do not have a clear understanding of the importance of Natural Resources. In this engaging production, students first learn about the three types of natural resources: inexhaustible, renewable, and nonrenewable. Next, we indentify the earth’s wide variety of natural resources – air, water, oil, coal, gas, forests/trees, soil, rocks, plants and minerals. Lastly we see how we use each of these natural resources in every day life. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections: (1) Introduction (2) Three kinds of resources (3) Inexhaustible resources (4) renewable resources (5) nonrenewable resources (6) Pollution (7) reduce, reuse, recycle (8) Conclusion.

Take a ride in a “traveling machine” to learn about the form and function of landforms. Appreciate the beauty and utility of the world’s natural features, and see how communities are made unique by the landforms around them. Highlights oceans, rivers, streams, mountains, hills, plains, valleys, plateaus, deserts, islands, and more! DVD features include interactive quiz, slide show, video “clips” aligned to standards, on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections: (1) Introduction (2) Mountains,(3) Hill (4) valleys (5) Bodies of water (6) lakes (7) Land near water (8) Desert Landforms (9) Plains (10) Review and Conclusion.

Students learn that water is essential to life. Discover many places that water can be found on Earth, and learn about the different forms of water in the ground and in the air. Follow the water cycle, and learn how clouds form. Understand many ways we use water including bathing, cooking, transportation, and food production. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections.

With the help from a Rock Wizard and a little imagination, students discover that the Earth is made up of rocks, and rocks are made of minerals. Discover the three ways rocks are formed and many of the properties of rocks and minerals – like size, shape, color, and texture. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections.

The rocks and minerals that form within the Earth are used to make many important materials. Watch how rocks are mined, processed, and then constructed into glass, cement, bricks, houses, roads, and other objects used in our everyday lives. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections: (1) Introduction (2) What is a rock? What is a mineral (3) building materials and glass (4) Transportation (5) Gemstones (6) History of Rocks and Minerals (7) How rocks and minerals are taken from earth (8) Rocks that don’t need to be processed (9) Rocks and minerals that have to be combined to be used (10) Mining (11) Review.

Students learn to care about their environment with the help of four animated characters as they take a tour of a landfill. Natural resources are identified and shown as students learn how important it is to conserve them. They also discover how reducing, reusing, and recycling benefit our environment, and how air and water pollution can hurt it. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections.

Discover that weather is the condition of the air outside, and learn the words we use to describe weather: sunny, cloudy, rainy, snowy, hot, and cool. Understand that the weather may change from day to day, but general trends in weather can be seen from season to season. Learn how the sun warms the Earth and other ways that weather forms and changes. See how tools like thermometers, weathervanes, and rain gauges measure and record these weather changes. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections: (1) Intro (2) Weather and earth (3) Temperature (4) How temperature works (5) Wind (6) Water.