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Grade levels: Senior High (10-12)

  • Hunt For A Super Comet

    Hunt For A Super Comet

    This Discovery Channel Canada Special Presentation chronicles the journey of Comet ISON, an incredible relic from the outer solar system that has just ended its perilous journey towards the sun, where it met a deadly fate, leaving behind decades worth of unprecedented science.

    Hunt for a Super Comet will take viewers on a dramatic journey from Comet ISON’s beginnings to its eventual demise.

    We track this super comet with the world’s leading experts as they race against time, using the latest in technology and space science to launch balloon missions, sounding rockets; airborne observatories and assets on other planets to hunt for this super comet. It is hosted by Daily Planet’s Dan Riskin, on location at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona.

  • Landing on a Comet: The Rosetta Mission

    Landing on a Comet: The Rosetta Mission

    This program is the pinnacle of a multi-decade quest. It is the journey of two tethered beings in the deepest reaches of space. It is the story of Rosetta and Philae – a spacecraft and her lander, both on a daring and historic journey to visit and land on a comet, sending back to Earth, clues to life’s beginnings.

  • The Idea of Marketing in the Total Access, Real-Time Marketplace

    In the past, marketing was essentially a broadcast activity: a limited, unidirectional casting-out of your message into the world. Now, thanks to the Internet and other interactive media, computers are handling many marketing functions, gathering data as well as providing customer care. Such transactions provide valuable feedback, rich with information that you can use to hone your brand and boost customer loyalty. But in order to use this technology to your best advantage, Regis McKenna explains that you need to create an infrastructure that responds and innovates, and use it to establish a dialogue that gets and keeps customers. This expands the responsibilities of marketing to everyone in the enterprise, and makes the customer a partner in long-term value creation. Regis McKenna is a well-known marketing consultant who advises high-tech, industrial, consumer, transportation, healthcare and financial firms in the United States, Japan, and Europe. He is the author of four books, including Total Access: Giving Customers What They Want in an Anytime, Anywhere World.

  • The Greenhouse Effect: Climate Change and Global Warming

    What exactly are greenhouse gases? Are they really causing climate change? Global warming has suddenly become the hottest environmental issue, and this program clearly explains the science of greenhouse effect and the evidence that we are causing climate change. The DVD contains an advanced version for senior students, with in-depth analysis of greenhouse gases and their effects. In addition there are fascinating extras including ice core research in Antarctica, how warming threatens coral reefs, and how carbon capture and storage work.

  • The Greenhouse Effect: Climate Change and Global Warming (US)

    What exactly are greenhouse gases? Are they really causing climate change? Global warming has suddenly become the hottest enviornmental issue, and this program clearly explains the science of greenhouse effect and the evidence that we are causing climate change. The DVD contains an advanced version for senior students, with in-depth analysis of greenhouse gases and their effects. In addition there are fascinating extras including ice core research in Antarctica, how warming threatens coral reefs, and how carbon capture and storage work.

  • The Biology Classics: Paramecium, Hydra, Planaria, and Daphnia

    Understanding the amazing phenomena of life requires an intimate acquaintance with living things. This program introduces students to four organisms we call the Biology Classics, classics not only because they are featured in science textbooks, but because studying them broadens our concept of what it means to be alive. In this program students will study and observe the following organisms: Paramecium, Hydra, Planaria, and Daphnia.

  • Stem Cells: The Ethical Issues

    This program comes to grips with the ethical issues raised by one of the most contentious areas of contemporary science: embryonic stem cell research. A range of viewpoints are presented, and speakers include: Professor Alan Trounson, prominent stem cell scientist;
    Father Norman Ford, an ethics commentator; Patients with life-threatening medical conditions. They clearly explain what they believe the important issues to be, and the reasons for their viewpoints. Each section is introduced with relevant facts explained in simple terms. Also includes two segments exploring moral/ethical questions raised by related areas of medical science: IVF; genetic testing of IVF embryos (known as PGD, or ‘pre-implementation genetic diagnosis’).

  • Women at War

    Women at War

    They laboured in the factories and enlisted in the services, often serving overseas. They made a significant contribution to the War effort, and their lives were changed and would never be the same – they thought. While the horrors of war and the loss of loved ones are remembered, many working women also recall this as period of unparalleled freedom and camaraderie. And yet when the war ended, career expectations and hopes were discouraged. The jobs they had done so well were given back to the men, while they and other women were strongly encouraged to return to the traditional roles of mother and wife.

  • Out of Sight, Out Of Mind

    Out of Sight, Out Of Mind

    Multiculturalism, civil rights during wartime, discrimination and citizenship are explored as four Canadian citizens of Japanese origin remember their forced relocation to remote ghost towns and detention camps after Pearl Harbour. The shattering effects on the lives of the 22,000 interned are recalled- the pain of separation; shame of confinement; loss of property without compensation, and the long campaign for justice culminating in the Federal Government’s apology.

  • Home and Away

    Home and Away

    “The Rock,” as Newfoundland is affectionately known by inhabitants and expatriates alike, not only refers to a physical entity, but also to a strong identity and a thriving culture. This program traces the lives of four Newfoundland seniors, and the culture that bound them and other Newfoundlanders together, and, depending on their point of view, their memories and feelings about the threat and/or promise posed by the prospect of their beloved province joining Canada.