The Wonder of Electricity, as narrated by Tom Baker, chronicles a century of timesaving devices, from the functional to the fanciful. You will be amazed at the sheer volume of electric products that impact our daily lives.
Grade levels: Upper Elementary (4-6)
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Inventions That Changed our Lives: Communication & Transportation
Thanks to visionaries like Alexander Graham Bell and Henry Ford, the areas of communication and travel have journeyed great distances in a short time. Narrator Tom Baker explores how Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone laid the foundation for today’s mega telecommunication industry. Watch how robotics and computers developed into everyday tools, fueling today’s communications and travel inventions and improving yesterday’s.
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Human Evolution in the Lower Paleolithic Age
Viewers are introduced to the first of our kind, humans in the genus Homo, and learn where they lived and how they survived and adapted. We meet the ancient species that predate modern humans, including an ancient people in Spain, dating back hundreds of thousands of years.
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Human Evolution in the Upper Paleolithic Age
Beginning in the late nineteenth century and throughout the twentieth century, geologists, archaeologists and paleoanthropologists have given the world evidence of the physical and cultural development of humans. Amazing discoveries continue into the twenty-first century, broadening our knowledge of our earliest ancestors and pushing the date of the first appearance of humans to millions of years before recorded history.
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Families in the Wild – 4 Pack
Families in the Wild tell the true story of Hyenas, Lions, Monkeys and Zebra is a 4 disc collection. Journey with these Families in the Wild.
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The Hyena Family
Families In the Wild: Hyenas tells the hyena’s true story. You’ll see why lions are the kings of the jungle and hyenas are the queens. Hyenas kill more of their own prey than lions do and they have stronger jaws than lions.
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The Lion Family
In the Families In the Wild: Lions, follow Tattoo and Kali, two lionesses who separately raise their cubs away from the pride. Tattoo and Kali live in a national park in Kenya called the Masai Mara Reserve.
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The Macaque Family
In Families in the Wild: Monkeys, you’ll see the monkeys’ favorite place to sleep and hang out. You’ll also watch the monkeys eat a delicious meal of fruit and bugs. (Yum!) These are just some of the interesting facts you’ll learn about in Families in the Wild: Monkeys. To find out any more about these fascinating monkeys, you’ll have to travel to Sri Lanka.
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The Zebra Family
Family is very important to these zebras. They stick together as they travel far and wide to find food. Journey with Families in the Wild: Zebras as these beautiful animals migrate from Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania over the Serengeti plains to the Masai Mara reserve in Kenya. Along the way, the zebras encounter joy as foals are born and fear as lions and crocodiles threaten to attack.
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Prehistoric Man – 3 Pack
The Prehistoric Man 3-part series takes viewers face-to-face with fascinating ancient creatures who looked something like apes but walked upright. We learn how they lived in their foraging societies, what their life may have been like, how they fashioned tools out of stone, wood and bone, and how scientists determine the age of the fossils that give us windows to their world. Moreover, we examine patterns that developed, which give us insight into human adaptation and evolution.